It isn't just a matter of codes, cyphers and operational plans & the disasters those represent.
That headquarters has all the Russian government political & military policy directives that reached that Front headquarters from pre-war planning to date.
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It has all the filtration lists, the kill lists, all the information on who & what to ethnically cleanse.
It also has all the various Russian government ministry directives on what to steal from Ukraine and who to sent it to.
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This is such a systematic level of documentation of Russian War crimes and who did them it will need it's own globally hosted electronic holocaust research center to process them for war crime trials for the next 80 years.
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It will have ongoing political appreciations of Western governments that were applicable to the Front's operations.
This will provide Ukraine considerable leverage against a whole lot of EU & US politicians for decades.
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It will have Russian technical examinations & impressions of all the various Western weapons used against & captured by Russia.
And the Russian view of their countermeasures against those weapons.
6/8
And it has copies of lists of all the Russian agents of influence/collaborators in the Front area of operation.
These will include lists of individuals in non-government organizations, journalists & media organizations operating in Ukraine.
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Ukraine has captured what amounts to an information weapon nuclear arsenal to use against Russia & Russia's tools/fools for generations.
Slava Ukraini 8/8
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The reality that Donetsk airport has fallen to the AFU means we are looking at an Afghan National Army style collapse of the Russia's LNR Colonial Militia.
**Follow On Forces Attack, AKA FOFA, a late Cold War NATO military doctrine
...this is not surprising. The Russians have no idea of the actual trouble they are in now.
National Security Advisor Sullivan and NSC -- the DC de-escalation faction's head -- are in the same
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... trouble as well as the scale of their "MISPREDICTIONS BLOAT" about the irrational & brittle nature of Russia's Kleptocratic state meets the reality of massive Russian military defeat.
Russian occupation officials say Russian units recently arrived from within the Russian Federation are now defending #Kupiansk, Ukraine from the approaching AFU counteroffensive👇
It looks like the Kharkiv Oblast break-in point chosen by Ukraine was so lightly held that any serious mechanized force would blow through it like tissue paper with no local reserves behind the lines to stop it.
This means the Ukrainian forces involved could be as small as 1/7
...a Ukrainian reinforced tank or mechanized brigade could be involved in this offensive. (H/T @battle_order)
This points up a real problem with Russian intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) assets versus Ukraine's integrated air defenses.
2/7
Russia has to be allocating its drone ISR assets across the whole of the vast Ukrainian front line – Kherson first first, then Donbass, then dribs to the rest of the front.
And Ukraine is Texas sized. (GMLRS/ATACMS map by @ameliairheart)
The Soviet Union produced 10,000 KS-19 anti-aircraft guns from 1948 to 1957. They have a range of up to 21 km and at an altitude of up to 15 km at air targets with a flight speed of up to 1200 km/h.
The guns were finally removed from Army service in the 1980's and were
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... used to start avalanches in mountain passes and resorts inside Russia by the "Roshydromet" (Russian Hydrometeorological Service).
Removing them from the Roshydromet to provide artillery support in Ukraine 3/6
@kamilkazani gave us all an early May 2022 thread which included this infographic tweet explaining how Russian forces of the "Putin Imperium" are structured.
The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense counts Russian Army, Wagner, Chechin & the LNR/DNR colonial militias as "Russian."
Now compare that 28 Aug 2022 Russian Ministry of Finance 48,838 CONFIRMED Russian Army-only deaths #'s with Ukraine's 5 Sept. 2022 #'s for all Russian forces. 3/