🇺🇦🧵🗣️Kenneth Gregg here again (1/15) "Good news for the Eastern Front. The Russians have reinforced and continued their attacks with intensity with the help of soldiers from the Kherson front. They have had partial successes in recent days, above all around Vuhledar.
2:"You probably remember Bengt and Emil's [Swedish Television] report on Taras, 'The soldier who has had enough', and his comment that we see the Russians but we have no weapons to knock them out. At the time, they only had one armoured car at their disposal, now our artillery⤵️
3:"...has arrived, and the result was of course success. The Orcs got a swollen nose and retreated. Not only here has our artillery arrived, also at Bahmut. We can safely say that we have stabilized the eastern front and are preparing counterattacks.⤵️
4:"The Kherson front also looks quite bright, the Orcs are moving further towards the Crimea and have started building defense lines just north of the Crimean peninsula. Troops have also been moved into Melitopol and of course into the Donbas region. ⤵️
5:"During my and Jonas' tour of Kherson Oblast, we saw Russian trenches and defences EVERYWHERE, indicating that they had a lot of troops there. My estimate is that a small portion of the troops have been left around Nova Kakhovka and Kherson to delay us for the river crossing.⤵️
6:"The other front lines are unchanged.
I want to devote the rest of the update to the paramilitary organizations on both the Russian and Ukrainian sides. We all know the Russian Wagner group and its leader and his political goals. We also know that Wagner is above the Russian⤵️
7:"...military organization and has special rights. On the Ukrainian side, the Azov battalion is probably the best known and most vilified by the Western media, even today it is alleged to be a right-wing organisation. What people still don't seem to understand is that it has⤵️
8:"...been part of the National Guard since 2015 and that completely ordinary people apply to the battalion. Only a fraction of those who apply get in, there are hard physical and mental tests before you can even start the training. The training is a minimum of 2 months and⤵️
9:"...after that you can be sent to active duty in line 2. From there to line 1 and then finally to line 0. The soldiers who come to line 0 are well trained and very well equipped. Azov was founded in Mariupol in 2014.⤵️
10:"The other known paramilitary group is KRAKEN which was founded in Kharkiv and its face is Konstantin Nemitsev, 27 years old. He is one of the founders and has also had political ambitions. When the Russians attacked Kharkiv,⤵️
11:"...it was probably thanks to the Kraken that they were stopped. Today, the battalion consists only of elite soldiers and it is also more difficult to be accepted to Kraken than to Azov. Today, Kraken is subordinate to GUR, or the military intelligence service.⤵️
12:"All paramilitary groups - even the Home Guard/territorial defence can be considered a paramilitary group because all units are founded by private individuals - are subordinate to the regular army. It is the army that is in charge, gives the missions and arms them.⤵️
13:"Now to the stove fundraising project, we are $1,586.70 from the goal. Stoves are manufactured and delivered. Next week I will publish 'thank you' videos and 'thank you' pictures from the frontline soldiers. The material must first be reviewed so their positions are not⤵️
14:"...accidentally revealed. Winter has arrived and the deliveries arrived on time. Now I am also very GRATEFUL to the newly founded 'Kamingruppen' ['Stove-group'] which will surely have 1000 more stoves manufactured without any problems.⤵️
15:"Special thanks to MORGAN and STURE, your work means so much to SO many. Last but not least NATALKA!! I don't have words to thank you for your work and dedication, but you have a special place in my heart forever, THANK YOU!"/🚫
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🇺🇦🧵🗣️Kenneth Gregg, in his own words freshly cut from Facebook: (1/12) "18.11.2022 and the first real update this week. As many of you already know, Jonas V Matern and I made a tour in Kherson and Kherson Oblast. During the weekend, a detailed report on that trip will come.⤵️
2:"Another change is that under the Swedish text there will be an English version, there are so many non-Swedish speakers who have wished it.
So to the military update. Kharkiv Oblast is still calm, the main task for us has been to stabilize the front sections and⤵️
3:"...prevent Ruzzian attacks. We have also succeeded in that. Whether we will continue the offensive on this section during the winter is depending on the Russian units withdrawn from the Kherson region.⤵️
🇺🇦🧵🗣️Kenneth Gregg writes: (1/10) "THE FINAL OFFENSIVE HAS FINALLY BEGUN IN KHERSON. Yes, all indications now point to it and the weather conditions have been favourable for building up of mud everywhere. I will try to explain below why this suits our tactics.⤵️
2:"In addition, we have engaged both the Azov and the Foreign Legion for a joint attack. Where have we launched this attack, then? At #Snihurivka. We are attacking the city from three directions: from the northeast, north and west.⤵️
3:"The attack from the west has the task of attacking the Russian flank and together with the troops from the north divide them into two parts. It looks like we have a foothold in the northern part of the city as the enemy retreats towards the centre and try to arrange⤵️
🇺🇦🧵🗣️A few words from Kenneth Gregg: (1/7) "The Donbass is currently the front with the most fighting. Once again, the Russians are trying their best to take Bakhmut and Pavlivka. They feed newly mobilised troops in on an assembly line. They fall just as quickly.⤵️
2:"The few metres they advance cost them dearly. If they continue at this rate, they will last another week, whereafter thousands of new cannon fodder men will be needed. Our main lines of defence are holding firm although under heavy attack. ⤵️
3:"We have casualties too, but nowhere near what the Russians have.
Fighting also rages around the Svato region, but not quite so intense. Yesterday a group of 21 newly mobilized Russians surrendered and joined our brigade 92. They are all from Moscow and the surrounding area.⤵️
🇺🇦🧵🗣️Kenneth Gregg here with a lengthy report: (1/22) "I want to start with a news item that has gone completely under the radar in terms of consistency. I have not been a fan of German Chancellor Scholtz but now he must receive some credit.⤵️
2:"He negotiated with China and China came out very strongly with a statement: use of Russian nuclear weapons is a 'NO GO'. This certainly means that the nuclear threat from Russia is averted. If Russia loses all support from China, Putin and his footmen are gone.⤵️
3:"So to something very serious, the headline reads:
CORRUPTION IN UKRAINE'S PRIVATE ENERGY SECTOR COULD LEAD TO MASS EVACUATION OF KYIV
In Ukraine, the government cannot intervene in the electricity market without first declaring a total state takeover of the energy sector.⤵️
🇺🇦🧵🗣️Kenneth Gregg talks: (1/10) "The front lines have not officially changed, but there is heavy fighting both in Kherson Oblast and on the Kharkiv/Luhansk front. We have hammered the Russian positions with artillery as well as with heavy and light mortars.⤵️
2:"The Russian phone calls we are intercepting show that the Orcs are getting exhausted and hungry. The coming week will include attacks on the Russian main lines at both Kherson and Kharkiv.⤵️
3:"No one can have failed to hear about our drone attacks on Sveastopol. What surprises me is that the Russians do not have a proper defence system around the port, e.g. net barriers. The boat drones we sent in were fired on with machine guns from helicopters.⤵️
🇺🇦🧵🗣️Kenneth Gregg here again: (1/9) "A lot has happened during the night and the last hours. Let's start in Kharkiv/Luhansk Oblast. Although not yet officially confirmed by the General Staff, we have basically taken control of road P07 and also of large parts of P66.⤵️
2:"P07 turns into P66 at the Svatove junction. Our strategy is to take over the communities above and below Svatove, down to Kreminna. This is because there is a ridge running through them, which means the Russians have to retreat quite a bit to create new defensive lines.⤵️
3:"We only have November left before the weather causes problems.
The Donbass area is the same as before: we hold our ground and the Russians sacrifice their lives for nothing. The Orcs show their real face here.⤵️