Fenris

Interesting.  Lachlan Murdoch (who's just taken over the reins at Fox) has just arrived in Kyiv.
https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/very-important-signal-zelensky-welcomes-fox-news-chief-lachlan-murdoch-s-visit-to-kyiv-20231121-p5elhn.html
Hopefully signals a more helpful tone on Fox in the US.

Interesting.  Lachlan Murdoch (who's just taken over the reins at Fox) has just arrived in Kyiv.
https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/very-important-signal-zelensky-welcomes-fox-news-chief-lachlan-murdoch-s-visit-to-kyiv-20231121-p5elhn.html
Hopefully signals a more helpful tone on Fox in the US.

Interesting.  Lachlan Murdoch (who's just taken over the reins at Fox) has just arrived in Kyiv.
https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/very-important-signal-zelensky-welcomes-fox-news-chief-lachlan-murdoch-s-visit-to-kyiv-20231121-p5elhn.html
Hopefully signals a more helpful tone on Fox in the US.

This is a very strange time for Armenia to be disarming itself. I'd wait for confirmation.

I imagine tactical glasses or goggles doing augmented rather than full virtual reality could be helpful.  Have to keep the HUD very simple, compass at the top of the viewed area, red dots show range/direction of enemies etc.  Most games have stuff like this already so no need to re-invent the wheel.  I wouldn't be surprised if we see things like this is our lifetime with a human operated drone per squad to start with and then eventually autonomous drones and finally drone networks doing precision weapon guidance at range with human infantry only moving in to mop up.
Edit to add - the precision weapons will include swarms of available killer drones waiting to strike, like the allies did with the cab rank system after Normandy.  The beginnings are here, I'll just link this, the second clip is longer and includes the first.  It's graphic footage of drones striking infantry as seen from another surveillance drone.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1725921479882101234
 

I imagine tactical glasses or goggles doing augmented rather than full virtual reality could be helpful.  Have to keep the HUD very simple, compass at the top of the viewed area, red dots show range/direction of enemies etc.  Most games have stuff like this already so no need to re-invent the wheel.  I wouldn't be surprised if we see things like this is our lifetime with a human operated drone per squad to start with and then eventually autonomous drones and finally drone networks doing precision weapon guidance at range with human infantry only moving in to mop up.
Edit to add - the precision weapons will include swarms of available killer drones waiting to strike, like the allies did with the cab rank system after Normandy.  The beginnings are here, I'll just link this, the second clip is longer and includes the first.  It's graphic footage of drones striking infantry as seen from another surveillance drone.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1725921479882101234
 

President Zelenskyy thanks Finland for its support.

Training of mobile groups - hunters of "Shaheds". It is interesting to note that, as the fighter states in the video, the ZPU-2 anti-aircraft guns on pickup trucks sent by the Czech Republic have thermal imaging sights, which greatly simplifies aiming. Also spotted were pickup trucks with MG-3 machine guns installed in their bodies and, of course, improvised twin installations of Maxim 1910 machine guns.

The Netherlands continues to impress.
Source: Netherlands to provide extra €2 bn in military aid for Ukraine in 2024 (EuromaidanPress)

Very interested in what our Polish friends have to say.

Germany’s aid for Ukraine will be “massively expanded” next year, the foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock, has said. She said: “We will not only continue our support for Ukraine, we will continue to expand and increase it, especially on the part of the Federal Republic of Germany, not only with a view to the winter defence for the coming weeks and months, when it is clear that the Russian president will once again exploit the needs of the people in the cold winter. “Our support will also be massively expanded, especially for the coming year.”  Source  UK Guardian

Imagine how angry the Russian delegation would be if the President of Kazakhstan greeted them in Ukrainian. 😄
 

Having been born in Moscow and raised in the culture, this is where my message is coming from; we on this forum have been taking a very logical and almost mathematical approach to calculating Russia's damage and preconcluding it's fate. We need to understand that, while certainly not limitless nor supernatural, there is a certain character of stubborn will and seemingly senseless perseverance in the face of opposition that can be conjured in the collective "Russian" when the circumstances are right. We've talked about it here before. As the war has continued Putin and the state are doing a fair job of galvanizing the public to rally around their identity, but its not all "master strategist Putin" pulling the strings. Microeconomies are popping up, local Russians are manufacturing their own cheese to replace imports, companies are cleverly outmaneuvering sanctions, entrepreneurs are exploiting openings, industries are slowly, painfully adapting and gaining confidence. And as all that goes on the average Russian begins to settle into the "us against them" mentality of besiegement. Early in the war western media called this "Putin's war" and blamed the Russian government. Slowly the messaging has changed, and now we believe every Russian to be responsible for what is happening. While I agree that this is true in a spiritual and philosophical sense, it also drives Russians deeper inward, hardening their resolve and pushing people to close ranks. Unfortunately the more defensive ordinary Russians feel, the more difficult it will be for them to mentally separate the state from the greater identity.
Young people are not excluded from this phenomena, including the bright minds. I can imagine some of the brights coming back home to Russia after living in an undignified mode of "otherness" and "humiliation" in places like Georgia, Armenia, Germany, Turkey, Kazakhstan etc. Having heard the call to return to family and rodina, sprung by the excitement of building something new at home while affirming their identities and standing up with dignity against their opponents.
Your reply to my points on Russian economic recovery make sense, though it's worth pointing out that macroeconomics is one of the lesser precise "sciences". I leave room for fated chance, unintended consequences and human ingenuity to change what looks like a logical outcome to us at the moment.
Of course we've discussed Russia being a pressure cooker and how everything can come crashing quite dramatically, but that's not the feeling in the air that I'm catching at this moment. Excuse me for this post that was less factual and more like pseudo-shamanic reading of my own tea leaves.
Slava Ukraini
 

Long thread with many still shots of RU losses from the Avdiivka attacks over the past few weeks.
https://twitter.com/OSINTua/status/1719405791428440462
 
And another example of an AFV column being picked apart.  Can't be 100% sure it's all the one action but it's put together that way.
 

Seen these?  Difficult to really see the outcome, obviously damage was done to a fairly large RU formation.  Lots of riders visible at the 0:15.
More destroyed vehicles. 
 

Bit OT - in relation to the mob at the airport in Dagestan, Visegrad posted this meme which gave me a laugh.

Be that as it may, I can say that times have changed. compared to last year. I had a development project. But because of the war, I decided that civilian projects would not benefit my country and decided to join the Ukrainian armed forces. Moreover, recently chronic diseases are not considered an obstacle to recruitment

Appears to be an example of effective use of cluster rounds
 

Appears to be an example of effective use of cluster rounds
 

Appears to be an example of effective use of cluster rounds
 

Pretty impressive counter battery work of a sort - track a GRAD to it's base.  Then destroy everything that's there - vehicles, ammo, personnel.
 

Pretty impressive counter battery work of a sort - track a GRAD to it's base.  Then destroy everything that's there - vehicles, ammo, personnel.
 

Pretty impressive counter battery work of a sort - track a GRAD to it's base.  Then destroy everything that's there - vehicles, ammo, personnel.
 

Pretty impressive counter battery work of a sort - track a GRAD to it's base.  Then destroy everything that's there - vehicles, ammo, personnel.
 

Pretty impressive counter battery work of a sort - track a GRAD to it's base.  Then destroy everything that's there - vehicles, ammo, personnel.