Every time I read someone say something like “Ukraine doesn’t have the resources to counter attack” I genuinely wonder if the person writing the thing is a delusional hack. Of course they don’t, and they never will, and that doesn’t change their ability to win the war. Ukraine doesn’t need to push Russia back to reclaim its territory. I don’t know which delusional fantasy universe people are living in that makes them think Ukraine needs to do so, but that place isn’t the reality we live in.

Officer wrote about this today, but it is blatantly obvious just by looking at what vehicles get destroyed and where and how: Russian casualties do not usually come from an assault. They come from trying to build up forces for an assault. In other words, Ukraine destroys Russians as they drive to the front. Once at the front, the infantry disperse into various underground shelters to hide until such a time a large enough force is gathered to begin assault operations.

AI cannot get data for my project. It cant. AI cannot understand what the data means. AI cannot read between the lines. AI cannot do anything. It is useless. I wish people would stop suggesting it. It isn’t an option. No lazy shortcuts. Work is done by hand. At most, the AI can check if a video is a duplicate, or a script can compile a list of sources that must then be analyzed by hand. But the AI is not, cannot, and will never be a substitute for doing work. Period.

The people who want to limit collateral damage, casualties (civilian and military), environmental damage, and destruction of infrastructure should also support using the most powerful weapons in the greatest number. Because ending the war as quickly as possible achieves all goals The people who say they are against using weapons to destroy Russian infrastructure are, in a round about way, arguing in favor of getting more civilians killed.

Here are the losses I could identify today.



There is another video of like 10 more russian losses but I am not confident they aren't duplicates and I need to precisely geolocate them before I say anything more about them. losses.ukrdailyupdate.com
Dear Russians, please stop. Just go home. You're getting massacred. Every single day. Just go home. Sitting here watching a platoon of infantry get hit by like 9 dpicm in a row and I think like 1 guy survived. Imagine if those 30 guys stayed home instead.

I was only just now able to finish updating my map for yesterday. But here are some news stories I want to highlight.

A civilian was wounded by UXO near Kharkiv.

map.ukrdailyupdate.com/?lat=50.113420…


A 12 year old boy was killed in Borova.

map.ukrdailyupdate.com/?lat=49.377844…

People trying to downplay Russias improved ISR capabilities are missing the boat. Just because something existed for a long time doesn’t mean it isn’t improved. Fucks sake. Especially an issue where improvement is fixing communication friction. Do people really think thats something that cannot be addressed? Cutting down time from observation to engagement is, like, normal.

Here are losses I could identify today.

That one video was pretty bad for the Russians.

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map.ukrdailyupdate.com/?lat=48.552421…

For people who don’t know, this is a classic example of propaganda. This is how they attack things that damage them. They use troll farms and bots to post comments like this, trying to show a “grassroots” disagreement. Humans have a natural instinct to overweight disagreement. In other words, when people see a negative comment, they vastly overweight that comment and it changes their opinion of the whole. Even if that negative opinion is nonsense and holds no weight. That’s what these troll farms try to accomplish.

The goals of the Ukrainian offensive were obvious, and by now I think everyone knows them. To capture Robotyne in the first day, to push to Tokmak, and then to Melitopol. There was arrogance and naivety to it, and it failed. In September people were writing about its failure. The goals of the Russian offensive were also obvious. To capture Berdychi and Sjeverne in the first day. Then to capture Avdiivka and push to Kurakhove. It was also arrogant and naïve, and it failed. But, I do not see people writing about this failure.

Jesus christ. A Russian T-90M couldnt even hold its own in 1 on 1 combat witha. bradley when it had the first shot and knew the bradley was there. This tank got fucking ganked. Russian tech and training such a shit show they can’t even win a tank versus ifv 1 v 1 w/first shot adv This crew is swiss cheese. the tank is a wreck. ass kicking of the century right here.

I have many followers who do not follow the Ukrainian war closely, so allow me to give you a brief description of the current situation: Putin is racing against time to finish this war, and he has resorted to using every weapon he has to achieve this. Namely propaganda. Propaganda has become his primary tool to win. This propaganda is attempting to achieve several things:

1: to breed apathy in western nations
2: to highlight discontent in all nations (even russia)
3: to divide the Ukrainian people

Guys, Russia releases more FPV footage than Ukraine. Stop spreading this horse shit that they don't. What, you only look at footage that contains vehicles? That's a you problem, not a problem with the data. What, you only look at footage that is geolocated? Again, that's a you problem, not a problem with the data.

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Ukraine needs, minimum, 1 million mortar rounds per month. This is bare minimum to conduct their necessary combat operations. Realistically, 10-12 million would be the necessary amount. Per month.

https://twitter.com/guillaume_ptak/status/1728821724840673662

The failure to provide this many rounds isn’t only an issue for Ukraine, its an issue for every country. How does any NATO country plan on supplying their own country in a war if they cannot produce this many rounds? Is NATO even prepared to fight a ground war at all?

Watching the cluster bombs Russia now drops is infuriating to me. It highlights the failure of the west to supply the necessary air defense and deterrence, and it shows how the west is constantly escalating this war by refusing to supply these weapons. Air defense for cities is nice, I guess. But air defense for the military matters more. This means fighter jets. And it means deterrance. By deterrence, I mean long range missiles that can strike deep into Russia and destroy their air force. Failing to supply this is escalatory.

I am writing this in the interest of those who have not followed this story today.

Yesterday, there was a rocket strike reported in Zarichne, which is near Komyshuvakha which is southeast of Zaporizhzia. I marked it on my map yesterday. This is approximately 18km from the front line.

I have been saying this all year, every since January, and even before then: Ukraine should not perform any major offensive actions until Russia is sufficiently attritted in terms of armored equipment and artillery. What is the purpose of defense?

Is it to hold onto land? NO
Is it to hold a position? NO

The purpose of defense is to create the conditions necessary for a successful offensive.

I was tracking a lot of other stuff today putting off reading the news because I knew how awful of a day it was. I knew Zaporizhzhia was hit by six missiles. But in my hiding from news, I had no idea the full extent of how depressing the day was.. There were dozens of airstrikes throughout Kherson oblast, killing numerous civilians. Six bombs were dropped on Novoberyslav, where a 63 year old man died from the blast. Five more hit Kozatske. At least one hit Vesele.

The reason Ukraine needs more Patriot batteries and the latest, modern F-16. These are the airstrikes, just the reported ones btw, for September. There are 840 markers, many of which represent multiple airstrikes. Here are some closer looks.

Olga’s death cult mob is back trying to shut down fundraisers that buy tourniquets.

https://twitter.com/_glnc/status/1704087532449722379

We drove the clown show death cultist herself @OKhudetska into hiding the last time she tried to get Ukrainian soldiers killed with her fake science bullshit. Now she is back at it again.

Are we really at the point where a few social media influencers are pushing people to throw away perfectly good tourniquets because they feel like they have to save face and preserve their social media cred? And the rest of the world is perfectly fine watching people literally die so a handful of people feel better on the internet? As opposed to just telling these people to fuck off and stop literally getting people killed for internet points.