dan/california Posted September 7, 2022 Share Posted September 7, 2022 1 minute ago, Seminole said: Probably nothing to it, but... All Russian telegrams simultaneously posted that there isn't any panic in Balakiya This is a military intelligence test. I suspect the penalty for flunking it is severe. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sburke Posted September 7, 2022 Share Posted September 7, 2022 Ukraine’s latest weapon in the war: Jokes (msn.com) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elmar Bijlsma Posted September 7, 2022 Share Posted September 7, 2022 28 minutes ago, Seminole said: Probably nothing to it, but... All Russian telegrams simultaneously posted that there isn't any panic in Balakiya That really does call to mind Darth Putin's "Do not believe anything until the Kremlin denies it". 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan/california Posted September 7, 2022 Share Posted September 7, 2022 He lived, so this very funny, instead of very tragic. He will also feature in training films in 17 languages. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan/california Posted September 7, 2022 Share Posted September 7, 2022 This has to be the opening reel for at least a campaign, if not the entire next game. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongLeftFlank Posted September 7, 2022 Share Posted September 7, 2022 (edited) 1. Great 'CM Level 5' overview of hasty Russian field fortifications (Snihurivka). No bang bangs, just recce, good quality video, few jump cuts. Scenario design material. 2. Also, great source material for a future CMBS 'squalor' mod. If only I had the time, sigh.... 3. In occupied Ukraine, mine step on YOU! 4. And at the far opposite end of situational awareness: a Level Zero (Russian) grunt's eye view -- the awful isolation of the battlefield, can't see the enemy, only your squadmates dead and dying.... Edited September 7, 2022 by LongLeftFlank 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billbindc Posted September 7, 2022 Share Posted September 7, 2022 (edited) This, by Orlando Figes, isn't a military article in any way but just about the best and most balanced roundup of how Russia got where it is today: https://www.ft.com/content/6153f76e-eb8c-494b-8f81-123617f5dddb Kind of off topic but also very much on. Edited September 7, 2022 by billbindc 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Battlefront.com Posted September 7, 2022 Share Posted September 7, 2022 Ukraine thinks that Russia is down to just 50 of its hypersonic "V Weapons" because they can't get components for them: https://www.businessinsider.com/microchip-sanctions-russia-dwindling-weapons-supply-report-2022-9 Steve 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Battlefront.com Posted September 7, 2022 Share Posted September 7, 2022 Hilarious if this is what the tag says it is, which is Russian made video that made the rounds of Russian blogger groups. What did the video show? A bunch of supposedly dead Ukrainian SF guys who died trying to take Zaporizhzhia nuke plant by river crossing. https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarRoom/comments/x7kqj4/recently_a_video_went_around_russian_groups/ If these guys look like they are playing dead, instead of being dead, watch until the end where one of them gets up. Now, this could just be a Ukrainian unit "taking the piss" out of the Russians, not Russians making a very bad propaganda video. I suspect that's the real story. Either way, it apparently made the rounds amongst the Russian propagandists and it is definitely fake. Steve 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sburke Posted September 7, 2022 Share Posted September 7, 2022 12 minutes ago, Battlefront.com said: Hilarious if this is what the tag says it is, which is Russian made video that made the rounds of Russian blogger groups. What did the video show? A bunch of supposedly dead Ukrainian SF guys who died trying to take Zaporizhzhia nuke plant by river crossing. https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarRoom/comments/x7kqj4/recently_a_video_went_around_russian_groups/ If these guys look like they are playing dead, instead of being dead, watch until the end where one of them gets up. Now, this could just be a Ukrainian unit "taking the piss" out of the Russians, not Russians making a very bad propaganda video. I suspect that's the real story. Either way, it apparently made the rounds amongst the Russian propagandists and it is definitely fake. Steve nah just proof UA is zombie nazi army right? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Battlefront.com Posted September 7, 2022 Share Posted September 7, 2022 Evidence that M113s are being used in the Donbas in the Pisky area. I wonder if this is a newly deployed unit or if it is part of the 56th Separate Motorized Brigade that has been in the area for a months now. Steve 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Battlefront.com Posted September 7, 2022 Share Posted September 7, 2022 This is a great meme for the people who insist that sanctions aren't working because Russia hasn't surrendered yet. Because, apparently, that is what sanctions were supposed to do all on their own 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grigb Posted September 7, 2022 Share Posted September 7, 2022 4 hours ago, cesmonkey said: The "KP" correspondent, Alexander Kots, still disputes the Ukrainians are having success in the Kharkiv region. Читайте на WWW.KP.RU: https://www.kp.ru/daily/27441/4643885/ Google translation: It is funny how they blame UKR channels but I read mostly RU channels (80%). Almost everything you see here is from them. Panic started from RU channels due to unexpected UKR attack that resulted in capture of Arsenal - means Balakley is almost encircled. At some point RU channels got directive to shut up and panic changed to statement: there is not panic UKR did not penetrated deep enough, we stopped them. They are claiming everything is fine The problem is: At least UKR recon reached Arsenal UKR reached Yakovlivke at the Volokiy Yar-Balakleya road - RU main supply road RU Nats with links to local troops reports Balaklya is operationally encircled So, the current situation most likely looks like this: UKR controls the majority of Verbovka and contest north of Balaklya including Arsenal, RU control Balarklya itself (south of Arsenal) but they are present only in some parts of Balaklya. Ru still have road to East to escape but the issue is there are rumors UKR reached Savyntsy (actually a few more settlements nearby as well). If true, then RU indeed encircled. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grigb Posted September 7, 2022 Share Posted September 7, 2022 4 hours ago, Seminole said: Probably nothing to it, but... All Russian telegrams simultaneously posted that there isn't any panic in Balakiya Yep. It was hillarious. Especicaly in context of RU Nat reporter claims they do not receive any directives what to say from above. 51 minutes ago, Battlefront.com said: Hilarious if this is what the tag says it is, which is Russian made video that made the rounds of Russian blogger groups. What did the video show? A bunch of supposedly dead Ukrainian SF guys who died trying to take Zaporizhzhia nuke plant by river crossing. https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarRoom/comments/x7kqj4/recently_a_video_went_around_russian_groups/ If these guys look like they are playing dead, instead of being dead, watch until the end where one of them gets up. Now, this could just be a Ukrainian unit "taking the piss" out of the Russians, not Russians making a very bad propaganda video. I suspect that's the real story. Either way, it apparently made the rounds amongst the Russian propagandists and it is definitely fake. Steve Yes, that UKR taking the piss out of the RU Nats. It is well made and funny. RU made similar ones but simpler and smaller in scale (couple of bodies in the water) yet decided not to spread them. I do not know why... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grigb Posted September 7, 2022 Share Posted September 7, 2022 Fresh RU Nat sober assessment Quote The Ukrainians managed to at least take the northern road to Kupyansk under fire control. At night there were battles at Volkhov Yar and I fully admit that the enemy might managed to knock us out of it. Balaklay in the operational encirclement, the AFU will continue to develop success and it is likely that they will try to reach Kupyansk, cutting off both Balaklay and Izum. They have the strength to do this, as amateur bloggers have repeatedly written about. Let's see how the Russian General Staff will respond and what level of operational skill it will demonstrate. Well, ordinary soldiers and officers of the Izyum Front continue to fight, as they did the previous six months of the war. Map for reference 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taranis Posted September 7, 2022 Share Posted September 7, 2022 (edited) 1 hour ago, Battlefront.com said: This is a great meme for the people who insist that sanctions aren't working because Russia hasn't surrendered yet. Because, apparently, that is what sanctions were supposed to do all on their own It's like everyone who believes the Russian propaganda that the Russian economy is growing and doing even better than before the war. In this case, Russia would have sold all this gas "at a loss" to Europe during all this time, and importing Western goods, penalizing its economy ? Just to please us ? Edited September 7, 2022 by Taranis 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grigb Posted September 7, 2022 Share Posted September 7, 2022 As we previously discussed UKR offensive aimed not at capturing land but degrading RU combat capabilities. Given another fresh RU sober assessment from Kherson it works. Quote Let's understand the real state of affairs, for today we lost four guys from the artillery crew of my friend in the Kherson direction, he was left alone from the entire crew, he was now evacuated to Russia with a wound. Perhaps what I'm going to say now will be said emotionally, but I'm really already burning up [from butthurt]. Enemy missiles are already flying along the border and across the territory of Russia. There are no bridges across the Dnieper, the enemy has destroyed them, the crossings are being shot through, in fact the group is cut off from proper supplies, we are losing occupied villages, we are retreating to reserve positions, the enemy has enough forces and shells to constantly hit our positions, and in fact measures to prevent this had to be taken back in March or April. All bridges which the enemy used to bring foreign equipment, all channels of bringing reserves in our direction had to be destroyed, and filtration centers for the local population had to be organized in the occupied territories, through which everyone without exception had to be taken, with the verification of electronic devices, and involvement in various activities related to the help of the AFU. And, of course, the destruction of decision-making centers, but it already said from every lamppost [means from everywhere], but it remained empty words. What should [we] do now? Now it's time to take serious measures, otherwise there is every chance of getting a tactical catastrophe in the Kherson direction, [e need] in extreme case, to pull back to the Dnieper and strike the enemy's major cities with nuclear tactical bombs. In a more democratic version, use heavy bombers, Caliber missiles, [at] all those targets that I listed above. **** [it all] at such a pace as it as on that first night on February 24. You know all these targets. Otherwise, someday someone will do it first [at RU cities], because it's time to understand that the jokes have already ended, the West supplies them with everything they need. You can call me crazy paranoid, but the time is lost, now you need to be ready for anything. And take tough measures. And in this situation, I am concerned about the lives of soldiers, my colleagues, and not those who did not accept proper organizational conclusions in warm offices three or four months ago. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongLeftFlank Posted September 7, 2022 Share Posted September 7, 2022 9 minutes ago, Grigb said: As we previously discussed UKR offensive aimed not at capturing land but degrading RU combat capabilities. Given another fresh RU sober assessment from Kherson it works. ....in extreme case, to pull back to the Dnieper and strike the enemy's major cities with nuclear tactical bombs. In a more democratic version, use heavy bombers, Caliber missiles, [at] all those targets that I listed above Hmm, to borrow from Douglas Adams, this seems to be some strange *new* definition of the word 'sober' of which I was previously unaware. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Requiem762 Posted September 7, 2022 Share Posted September 7, 2022 Im so glad that this thread has been such a boon to battlefront! over a year since the last release! also the Battle for normandy release on steam has missed its release window 2 years in a row. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taranis Posted September 7, 2022 Share Posted September 7, 2022 (edited) Ukrainian military in full control of Novovoznesenske of Kherson region (northern area) Edited September 7, 2022 by Taranis add : northern area 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Butschi Posted September 7, 2022 Share Posted September 7, 2022 2 hours ago, Battlefront.com said: This is a great meme for the people who insist that sanctions aren't working because Russia hasn't surrendered yet. Because, apparently, that is what sanctions were supposed to do all on their own Indeed. According to the report I posted a few pages ago, Russia is making at least as much money with fossil fuels as before the war. But apparently they can't buy anything useful with it and it hurts them enough that they proritize lifting the sanctions over stopping weapons deliveries. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taranis Posted September 7, 2022 Share Posted September 7, 2022 Ukrainian military at Volokhiv Yar (north of Balaklia, on the M03), Kharkiv region 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taranis Posted September 7, 2022 Share Posted September 7, 2022 Ukrainian forces hit Russian Su-25 aircraft near Volokhovy Yar, Kharkiv Oblast 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grigb Posted September 7, 2022 Share Posted September 7, 2022 RU fresh assessment of Balaklya direction 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grigb Posted September 7, 2022 Share Posted September 7, 2022 It seems UKR captured Volkhiv Yar but RU started counterattack from Shevchenkove. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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