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The tops of Russian bombers were not painted in camouflage to confuse drones, after all: https://t.me/milinfolive/105941

Last night's ISW report mentioned that the head of the Institute for US and Canadian Studies, Valery Garbuzov, was recently fired from his job for this opinion piece in the Russian Nezavisimaya Gazeta newspaper. It has some wonderful quotes, but the whole piece is a good read: https://www.ng.ru/ideas/2023-08-29/7_8812_illusions.html Background info on the institute: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_US_and_Canadian_Studies

Russian telegrammer Rybar claims Germany has already delivered Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine: https://t.me/rybar/51423

https://t.me/rabotyno/130

This is a pretty interesting listen about the training of Ukrainians "in country" by westerners:

This is what the Ukrainian Mashovets said this morning: https://t.me/zvizdecmanhustu/1171

This Means War Podcast Manoeuvre theory is in a coma https://sites.libsyn.com/420071/manoeuvre-theory-is-in-a-coma

Interesting, if true: https://www.kp.ru/daily/27549/4816537/ https://t.me/RVvoenkor/52337 https://tass.ru/proisshestviya/18624579

https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3509116/biden-administration-announces-additional-security-assistance-for-ukraine/

Likely not, the authority to do this expires at the end of the fiscal 2023 budget year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine_Democracy_Defense_Lend-Lease_Act_of_2022

It seems anything that can be delayed, will be delayed.

Time to denigrate the importance of capturing Rabotino: https://t.me/SolovievLive/205513

Russia report on the Rabotino sector: https://t.me/SolovievLive/205338

Large update from the Ukrainian Konstantin Mashovets. Here's a small excerpt: https://t.me/zvizdecmanhustu/1155 And another excerpt from his ending thoughts:

There was another article from yesterday on this: https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2023/08/25/to-blow-up-russias-s-400-battery-in-crimea-ukraine-tweaked-its-cruiser-sinking-neptune-missile/?sh=5a4b39d57d3d

From Mashovets' update today, you get the feeling that the Russians have a particular vulnerability in the Tokmak direction at the moment, compared to other portions of the front. Perhaps they were overconfident at that location? https://t.me/zvizdecmanhustu/1153

Reportedly, Ukrainians reached the first defense line. Whether they were really destroyed when they reached it as the Russians say, time will tell: https://t.me/RVvoenkor/51974

From the daily summary of Russian telegrammer Two Majors: https://t.me/dva_majors/24256

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/ukrainian-pilots-receive-f-16-training-us-2023-08-24/

https://t.me/grey_zone/20163

Reportedly, the capture of the Mi-8 helicopter was a planned operation. https://t.me/operativnoZSU/111288