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Moscow acknowledged on Friday that its forces had fallen back north of Ukraine's battlefield city of Bakhmut after a new Ukrainian offensive, in a retreat that the head of Russia's Wagner private army called a rout.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/russia-ac ... -1.6841643
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Did you see this footage? A Russian soldier, guided by a Ukrainian drone operator, surrenders in the middle of a battle and makes his way out while his own side tries to kill him.

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There’s another post that includes the full video. I encourage you to watch it but be very very careful - a soldier blows himself up after being hit by a drone strike. It’s infuckingtense.
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Phoenix520 wrote: Sun May 14, 2023 3:28 pm There’s another post that includes the full video. I encourage you to watch it but be very very careful - a soldier blows himself up after being hit by a drone strike. It’s infuckingtense.
Hey, do you have a direct link... or am I just supposed to hunt and click in searching?

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Don’t say I didn’t warn you
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When your country, your army has no field ambulances, no field medial staff nor medevac ....
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RTH10260 wrote: Sun May 14, 2023 8:44 pm When your country, your army has no field ambulances, no field medial staff nor medevac ....
Running out prison inmates with less training than US ammosexuals isn't very effective, either.
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-15/ ... /102341074

analysisVladimir Putin needs Yevgeny Prigozhin and his Wagner Group mercenaries in Ukraine more than anyone else

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a leaked snippet that will have Putins blood pressure go crazy
Wagner chief offered to give Russian troop locations to Ukraine, leak says
THE DISCORD LEAKS | Yevgeniy Prigozhin said he would tell Ukraine’s military where to attack Russian troops if they pulled their own forces back from the beleaguered city of Bakhmut, where Wagner mercenaries were taking heavy losses

By Shane Harris and Isabelle Khurshudyan
May 14, 2023 at 7:23 p.m. EDT

In a Friday video statement, head of Wagner Group head Yevgeniy Prigozhin mocked the Russian Defense Ministry's report claiming that its forces regrouped to take more favorable positions, saying they effectively fled and “our flanks are crumbling.” (Yulia Morozova/Reuters)

In late January, with his mercenary forces dying by the thousands in a fight for the ruined city of Bakhmut, Wagner Group owner Yevgeniy Prigozhin made Ukraine an extraordinary offer.

Prigozhin said that if Ukraine’s commanders withdrew their soldiers from the area around Bakhmut, he would give Kyiv information on Russian troop positions, which Ukraine could use to attack them. Prigozhin conveyed the proposal to his contacts in Ukraine’s military intelligence directorate, with whom he has maintained secret communications during the course of the war, according to previously unreported U.S. intelligence documents leaked on the group-chat platform Discord.

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Prigozhin has publicly feuded with Russian military commanders, who he furiously claims have failed to equip and resupply his forces, which have provided vital support to Moscow’s war effort. But he is also an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who might well regard Prigozhin’s offer to trade the lives of Wagner fighters for Russian soldiers as a treasonous betrayal.

The leaked document does not make clear which Russian troop positions Prigozhin offered to disclose.



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Most cities along the front line on the Russian occupied territory look like pictures from WWI and WWII in Europe. The fields used to be separated by tree lines. That treacherous shelter has been destroyed where Russian forces hid their heavy weapons and troops. Pictures look like the WWI trench lines along the German French border. The landscape is poked with craters from artillery.
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RTH10260 wrote: Mon May 15, 2023 9:34 pm The landscape is poked with craters from artillery.
And the legacy of unexploded ordnance will last for decades.
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-17/ ... /102354890

Ukraine says it has shot down six Russian Kinzhal missiles in a single night — thwarting a weapon Moscow has touted as a next-generation hypersonic missile that was all but unstoppable — but Russia has denied the claim.

Key points:
Ukraine says the six Kinzhals were among 27 missiles Russia fired at Ukraine over the past 24 hours
Russia says Kyiv claimed to have shot down three times as many missiles as Russia had fired
Ukraine's Supreme Court head has been detained on suspicion of taking a $4 million bribe

It was the first time Ukraine had claimed to have struck an entire volley of multiple Kinzhal missiles, and if confirmed would be a demonstration of the effectiveness of Kyiv's newly deployed Western air defences.
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Russia claims it destroyed a Patriot system with one of their Kinzhals.

There have been reports of several large explosions in Ukranian territory. It looks like Russia was able to destroy Ukranian ammunition depots built up in preparation of the expected offensive.

Note: the Kinzhals rockets can reach any destination within Ukraine (and of course could goo further).


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Russia claims to destroy a Patriot missile defence system
Russia's defence ministry claimed to have destroyed a US-built Patriot surface-to-air missile defence system with a Kinzhal missile, the Zvezda military news outlet reported.

The commander-in-chief of Ukraine's armed forces, Valerii Zaluzhnyi, said missiles all had been successfully intercepted.

However, two US officials said on Tuesday that a Patriot defence system had been hit, adding that it did not appear to have been destroyed.

One US official, speaking on the condition of anonymity and citing initial information, said Washington and Kyiv were already talking about the best way to repair the system and at this point it did not appear the system would have to be removed from Ukraine.

The official added that the United States would have a better understanding in the coming days and information could change over time.

Kyiv authorities said three people were wounded by falling debris.

"It was exceptional in its density — the maximum number of attack missiles in the shortest period of time," Serhiy Popko, head of Kyiv's city military administration, said on Telegram.

Zvezda quoted the Russian ministry as saying the attacks had been aimed at Ukrainian fighting units and ammunition storage sites.

Zaluzhnyi said his forces had intercepted the six Kinzhals launched from aircraft, as well as nine Kalibr cruise missiles from ships in the Black Sea and three Iskanders fired from land.

Two S-300 missiles targeted infrastructure in Kostyantynivka, west of the embattled eastern city of Bakhmut.
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Russia’s most potent hypersonic weapon neutralised, says Ukraine
Intense night-time bombardment of Kyiv damaged Patriot air defence system, air command confirms

Luke Harding in Kyiv and Dan Sabbagh
Tue 16 May 2023 22.09 BST

Ukraine has said it has neutralised the Kremlin’s most potent hypersonic weapon, shooting down six out of six Kinzhal missiles launched at Kyiv, but hours later it emerged the intense night-time attack had damaged a Patriot air defence system.

Yurii Ihnat, a spokesperson for Ukraine’s air command, said Moscow had also bombarded the capital with nine Kalibr missiles and three ballistic rockets, as well as six attack drones and three reconnaissance drones. All were shot down, he said, thwarting what he called “air terrorism”.

But the attack appeared to have damaged a US-made Patriot air defence battery, US sources told CNN later on Tuesday. Officials warned the system may have to be withdrawn entirely depending on the level of damage it had sustained. An assessment was ongoing, they added.

The attack on Kyiv was one of the biggest since last year’s invasion and followed Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s three-day trip to Europe. During meetings in London, Berlin, Paris and Rome, Ukraine’s president secured promises of more military assistance, including long-range attack drones from the UK.

Russia’s furious response came at 2.30am local time. Emergency sirens woke residents. Soon afterwards there were loud booms as Ukrainian air defences engaged incoming missiles. Tracer fire illuminated the sky and car alarms went off. There were growling explosions. A further air raid warning sounded at 4am.

Earlier, on Tuesday, the ministry of defence in Moscow said it had destroyed a US-supplied Patriot air defence battery. Serious damage to a Patriot would be a major blow to Ukraine’s air defences. Two Patriots, one donated by the US and one by Germany, arrived in the country around mid April, and have already been targeted previously by Russian missiles, in an effort to eliminate them.

Although considered particularly effective, the Patriot is a relatively static air defence system, and is considered potentially vulnerable to high speed missiles.

“We have received very powerful air defence systems from our western partners. They work against air dynamic targets. The Kinzhal X-47 missiles which used to terrorise us are not so scary any more,” Ihnat said. The raid was “unique” in its use of six Kinzhals from an estimated reserve of “about 50”. “The enemy has used a relatively big number of them,” he added.

The combined attack in the early hours of Tuesday featured Shahed loitering drones arriving from the north, Kinzhals launched by MiG-31K fighter jets in the east and Kalibr missiles fired by Russian warships stationed in the Black Sea, he said. The shooting down of the Kinzhals, if confirmed, would be a powerful demonstration of the effectiveness of the newly deployed air defences.



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I subscribe to Malcontent News' podcast and read their updates. I think it's good stuff for a dilettante like me.

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me: what's $US3 billion here or there..

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-19/ ... /102366172

The Ukrainian military and Russia's Wagner private army both reported further Russian retreats around the city of Bakhmut on Thursday, as Kyiv pressed on with its biggest advance for six months ahead of a planned counteroffensive.

Key points:
Ukraine's military says its troops in Bakhmut have advanced in places by 1 kilometre
The Wagner mercenary group's chief has accused Russian commanders of abandoning ground, but says his forces advanced up to 400 metres in Bakhmut
Meanwhile, the US has over-estimated its weapons support for Ukraine by $US3 billion, sources say

me:
Quite a good outcome as it may mean more needed weapons that the Russian operatives in the US Congress cannot stop.
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Ukraine's Zelenskiy to join Hiroshima G7 summit, intensifying focus on Russia

https://www.reuters.com/world/g7-leader ... 023-05-18/
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy will attend the Group of Seven (G7) Hiroshima summit this weekend, Ukrainian and Western officials said, putting fresh pressure on Russia against the backdrop of a city synonymous with the horrors of nuclear war.

Zelenskiy will attend on Sunday, two officials involved in the G7 summit said, declining to be identified because of the sensitivity of the issue.

His presence and his calls for greater support in the war with Russia will add urgency to deliberations as leaders of the world's rich democracies look to crack down on Russia's circumvention of sanctions.

They are expected to announce new sanctions against Russia and closer collaboration in countering China's growing influence.

"Very important things will be decided there," Oleksiy Danilov, secretary of Ukraine's National Security and Defence Council, told state television.
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-23/ ... /102383974

Fighting in Russia's Belgorod region has entered a second day, and its governor told residents who fled after a cross-border incursion of armed fighters from Ukraine that it was still not safe to return to their homes.

Key points:

Russian investigators have opened a terror investigation following the incursion
Kyiv denies responsibility
Fighting has eased around Bakhmut, which Ukraine says it aims to encircle
Monday's incursion, apparently involving armoured vehicles, was the biggest raid into Russia since the war began 15 months ago, though details including the number of fighters involved, their affiliation and the extent of any clashes, could not be independently confirmed.
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-25/ ... /102389612

The Russian commander of a militia that conducted a raid on a Russian border region this week has said his group will soon launch more incursions into Russian territory.

Key points:
Two Russian groups operating in Ukraine claimed responsibility for the incursion
The RVC says it is made up of Russians fighting for Ukraine, and against Russian President Vladimir Putin
Washington was looking into reports that American vehicles were used by Ukraine inside Russia

Denis Kapustin, who described himself as the commander of the Russian Volunteer Corps (RVC), spoke to reporters on the Ukrainian side of the border with Russia a day after Moscow said it had repelled the raid on the Belgorod region.

Kyiv has said the attack was carried out by Russian citizens, casting it as homegrown, internal Russian strife.

Two groups operating in Ukraine — the Russian Volunteer Corps (RVC) and Freedom of Russia Legion — have claimed responsibility.



Me: see comments by Wagner owner about the risk of a second (4th?) Russian Revolution... and in the Russia thread the potential outcomes of a Russian defeat.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-24/ ... /102388784
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from:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-24/ ... /102388784

Russia 'lost 20,000 fighters in Bakhmut'
Mr Prigozhin says his force lost more than 20,000 fighters in the drawn-out battle for Bakhmut, with about 20 per cent of the 50,000 Russian convicts he recruited to fight in the 15-month war dying in the eastern Ukrainian city.

The figure was in stark contrast with claims from Moscow that it lost just over 6,000 troops during the entirety of the war, and is higher than the official estimate of the Soviet losses in the Afghanistan war of 15,000 troops between 1979-89.
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same as prior post:
Wagner chief warns of revolution and says 20,000 fighters killed in Bakhmut
Yevgeny Prigozhin says children of Russian elite ‘shook their arses’ in sun while sons of poor returned in coffins

Julian Borger in Kyiv
Wed 24 May 2023 19.06 BST
The head of the Wagner mercenary force has said that 20,000 of its fighters have been killed in the battle for the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, and warned that Russia could face another revolution if its leadership does not improve its handling of the war.

Yevgeny Prigozhin said 20% of the 50,000 convicts Wagner had recruited, and a similar number of its regular troops, had been killed over several months in the fight for Bakhmut.

Prigozhin pointed to the social disparity underlined by the war, with the sons of the poor being sent back from the front in zinc coffins while the children of the elite “shook their arses” in the sun.

“This divide can end as in 1917 with a revolution,” he said in an interview posted on his channel on the Telegram messaging app. “First the soldiers will stand up, and after that – their loved ones will rise up. There are already tens of thousands of them – relatives of those killed. And there will probably be hundreds of thousands – we cannot avoid that.”

Prigozhin is known as “Putin’s chef” because he once provided catering services to the Russian leader, but he said that “Putin’s butcher” would be a more fitting nickname. He claimed his men now controlled all of Bakhmut – a claim disputed by the Kyiv government, which insists its forces still have a foothold in the ruined Donbas city – but he warned that Wagner would pull out at the beginning of next month.

Prigozhin was speaking after two Russian rebel militias, the Russian Volunteer Corps and the Freedom of Russia Legion, had made a dramatic incursion into the Belgorod region along Ukraine’s northern border, crossing into Russia with apparent ease, although the Wagner boss did not refer directly to the raid.

The Russian defence ministry claimed to have routed the raiding force, killing 70, but the militia leaders said they had only suffered two deaths. After withdrawing from Belgorod, Denis Kapustin, a commander of the Russian Volunteer Corps, told reporters on the Ukrainian side of the border that the raid had demonstrated the fragility of Russia’s defences.



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Prigozhin looks like old Darth Vader without his hat.
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