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Sep 20 16 tweets 3 min read
There are a number of Ukrainian reports in the last few hours that the Russian colonial militia has abandoned Lyman.

Russian Collapse Sequence 🧵


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And that Ukrainian forces are in full control of Bilohorivka, causing the Russians to commit a blocking force to the defense of Lysychansk.

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This is all of a piece.

The Russian collapse sequence in Northern Donbass proceeds apace.

The Russian's polyglot ground forces simply cannot handle Ukrainian fire support parity.

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The various Russian ground units are melting under the pressure of captured Russian artillery shells that the fall of Kharkiv Oblast delivered to Ukraine, along with the railway rolling stock to move the captured shell stocks near the Donbass front lines.
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Events in Ukraine are now beyond the power of the German & DC de-escalation camps to effect.

The ~170K Russian at start invasion forces have taken ~95% casualties.

The sums:
54,650 KIA
KIA * 2 = 109,300 WIA
Total Russian casualties = 163,960

ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/357…

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The impressed Russian colonial militias and the Russian Army's most recent conscript & contract replacements are nearly untrained, so the Russian & Russian colonial infantry forces are s--t without 10-to-1 fire superiority.
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The Ukrainians now have superiority in Donbass railway logistics with Kupyansk in their hands.

And they have captured sufficient Russian artillery ammunition to reactivate 500 artillery tubes sidelined in May and the AFU have the trained & organized manpower to crew them in

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...days.

The Lyman & now the Lysychansk fighting are place holding 'shaping operation' in the East while AFU resets for the next operational level offensive.

Plus Russia is about to lose its 25 BTG equipment set & manpower

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...in its 'right bank' forces in Kherson Oblast to 'GMLRS logistical collapse.'

Ukraine seems to be setting Russian forces in Ukraine for another major Defeat/Route/Collapse, as I strongly suspect the timing of the next Eastern

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...Theater operational offensive into Luhansk will be coordinated with the collapse of Russian Forces in Kherson.

Ukraine is planning this:

"Get 'em skeered and keep the skeer on 'em"
- Lt. General Nathanial Bedford Forrest, CSA
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BLUF: Russian collapse inside Ukraines Pre-2014 borders is baked into the cake and all the US & German de-escalation camps can do is poison their Ukrainian relations going forward.

The de-escalation camps cannot save Putin nor will they be able to save themselves when the
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Russian Federation falls apart because Moscow's Regime Security forces are all '200' & '300' (KIA & WIA).

The 60k Russian regime security forces were mauled heavily, early, in the Kyiv column & they are 1/4 to 1/3 of the ~163K Russian casualties to date.

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The Russians have already started eating themselves inside Ukraine.

Defeat there will see exactly this sort of collapse in Russia, as Nadin Brzezinski piece lays out below.
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nadinbrzezinski.medium.com/mercenaries-ka…
FYI, the important part in Nadin Brzezinski medium -dot-com piece is that ALL the Oligarchs are raising PMC's. It is not just Wagner's Patron Oligarch.

Only some of the Oligarchs are sending their PMC to Ukraine.

The Oligarchs are spoiled for choice with all the VDV
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...and other Russian Regime Security Force refuseniks, if they promise to keep them in Russia.

We are seeing the Oligarchs as a class taking 'cross the rubicon' type steps in preparing for the post-Putin Russian Civil War.

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Sweating the possibilities of Russian 'loose nukes' in a multi-sided Russian civil conflict wasn't on my 24 Feb 2022 bingo card...

...but it sure as heck is right now.😱😱😱

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He brings the 🔥🔥🔥🔥

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Text clipped from the link:
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@RALee85 has a very useful thread here explaining the mobilization Putin has put into effect for Russia.

Read it all👇

My takeaways🧵
My immediate takeaways:

- Current conscripts can be ordered to the front & 'refuseniks' jailed.
- Stop loss on all Russian conscript & contract troops. They are all in for the duration of the war.
- Priority call up/conscription of former Russian soldiers with needed skills.
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- Administratively, new conscripts & contract troops will be used as replacements for existing units.

The previous four bullet points together represent potentially effective steps to delay a Russian lanchester square manpower collapse for up to three months.
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Sep 19
I cannot begin to underline enough the Strategic importance of this statement for the Russo-Ukrainian War:

"Ukraine and Russia are also engaged in artillery battles near Lyman."

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Ukraine has enough artillery shells to fight the Russians tube to tube for artillery fire superiority at Lyman in the Donbass!?!!

This is the US Defense Department statement that @JackDetsch is relaying here.

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It isn't just the fact it is the 1st time since May 2022 that Ukraine has had enough shells.

It's the fact that Ukraine now has better Donbass railway logistics to move shells close to the guns firing on Lyman than Russia has to resupply its guns firing back.

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Sep 19
You cannot understate the operational-strategic level importance of this Ukrainian lodgement.🧵

There is no natural defensive line for Ukraine's next offensive in the N East

The only defensive line left for the Russians in Northern Donbass is the 23 Feb 2022 LPR trench lines
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Once Ukraine restores the rail bridge over the Oskil River.

It has rail logistics to move artillery shells for its next Donbass offensive.

And Ukraine has stocks of prefabricated concrete structures.
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I've talked about the importance of prefabricated concrete structures for the Russo-Ukrainian War repeatedly on Twitter.

It is an area of the war the OSINT types on Twitter don't think is important.🤦‍♂️

There is more to war than fighting.

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Sep 19
This is more visual evidence of the the ongoing replacement of Russian tactical trucks w/civilian vehicles.

The destruction of these vehicles represents increasing economic damage to the Russian Federation, as it runs down it's economic transport capability w/o replacement.
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Western sanctions mean no electronics for its automobiles and, theoretically, no German truck steering gears for larger trucks.

To use an economic term of art, the "velocity of goods and services" in the Russian Federation is slowing down for lack of transportation...
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...in its civilian distribution supply chains.

Goods have to be moved from railway sidings to Russian stores, restaurants, & businesses.

The cost and time taken to do that is rising inside Russia as the war in Ukraine goes on as more impressed Russian vehicles are consumed.
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