Thread by @TrentTelenko

This is a really nice history snapshot thread on the Battle of Kyiv that has been making the rounds.

I have a few minor objections to it based on what is missing.

Ukrainian leadership & Russian corruption thread🧵

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https://twitter.com/tomiahonen/status/1510276474175115281

The 1st missing piece is the Pres. Zelensky statement to the West "I need ammunition, not a ride."

"The moral is to the physical what ten is to one"
-- Napoléon Bonaparte of France

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This political act that set the table for the defeat of the Russian VDV outside Kyiv.

It prepared the Ukrainian Army for a fight to the death at Kyiv and in a sentance gave the Ukrainian people a rallying cry.

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The 2nd thing left out was a military decision by Pres. Zelensky that defeated the 3-day plan to encircle Kyiv.

Zelensky ordered the approaches to to Kyiv flooded.

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https://twitter.com/MattyK_USA/status/1500559325382778886

It was this act that set the table for Ukrainian Aerorozvidka weaponized commercial drones to block the bottlenecked by flooding road supply line to the 70,000 Russian troops sitting out of fuel North West of Kyiv.

businessinsider.com/elite-ukrainia…
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The last objection is explaining how the Ukrainians could "play games" with Russian communications.

This involved the failure in by corruption of the Russian Azart digital spread spectrum software defined radio.
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strategypage.com/htmw/htecm/art…

According to strategypage.com -

"Azart proved less capable than expected under combat conditions because there were not enough of them and these radios were unable to remain in contact with higher headquarters. In combat Russian support forces
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..are supposed to erect temporary repeater towers or employ vehicles carrying mobile towers so that Azart users on the front line could stay in touch with other units and the chain of command that went all the way back to the Stavka (Great Staff) in Moscow...

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... that controlled all military operations. The repeater towers did not work because armed Ukrainians found and destroyed them."

And a little later at the same link --

"The Ukrainians know all about Azart because soon after Russian troops began receiving them in 2017,

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...many also showed up on the black market, where anyone could buy one. The Ukrainians did so and, along with NATO, discovered what Azart could do and what its weaknesses were. Ukrainian and NATO tech experts concluded that, with proper countermeasures,..

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... the Azart radios would become a major liability for Russian commanders and it was."

This "failure by corruption" of the Azart radios enabled Ukraine to counterfeit "The Fuel convoy is coming" messages that took quite some time for the Russian Army HQ to pick up on.
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This was aided greatly by capturing the Azart radio gear frequency, password & encryption setting documents of the 1st VDV assault on the Antonov facility.

Zelinsky's leadership & Russian corruption (including tires as well as radios!), plus the blood of

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...Ukrainian Patriots beat all of Putin's plans.

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