How far up shit creek is the russian army in 2023?

Well volunteers are having to manufacture Kontakt-1 analogues to supply to russian tankers.

A short thread 👇 I've come across two russian channels/volunteer groups who have been manufacturing and supplying ERA to russian tankers since at least February of this year.

The first was "¡No Pasaràn!" run by an guy in Kaluga who does the best fascist Santa Claus impression I've ever seen.

Flooding on the highway from Oleshky heading East.

6km away from where the Dnipro river banks normally are.

46.61569, 32.79130, geolocation in 2nd tweet. @GeoConfirmed

For lovers of 🇷🇺 MoD and Wagner drama;

Prigozhin just published a report and images of the mining of their exit route from Bakhmut and subsequent attack on them by the 🇷🇺 72nd Brigade. twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Source: t.me/Prigozhin_hat/…

In the aftermath of the drone strikes on Moscow, Wagner-linked GREYZONE posted such a rant against Ru MoD, that many of their followers started calling them Khokhols and suggested they had been hacked.

Some highlights. It gets better as it goes on👇 Right out the gate admitting stories about strikes on “decision making centres” yesterday are absolute fantasy by Shoigu and part of a predictable and ongoing PR campaign to distract from continued attacks in Belgorod

Fascinating interview with Ukrainian Air Force Brigader General, Serhii Golubtsov.

Covers F-16s, JDAMS, Storm Shadows and everything in between. Worth a full read but some highlights below; 1.
The F-16 meets Ukraine's strategic requirements; Multi-role and capable of using a wide array of NATO country weapons. AIM-120 air to air missiles will be enough of a threat to force russian fighters and bombers much further back from the border.

Occupied Luhansk is burning for the first time in a long time.

Milbloggers seem convinced Storm Shadow is already at play. Additional images

Ru milblogger Yuri Kotenok has made a lengthy post this morning discussing localised Ukrainian successes recently, Wagner vs Army units and the failures of ru forces in general

Short 🧵👇 1/6

He begins by discussing difference in Wagner vs regular Army. Wagner and regular units are both employing “meat wave” tactics, but only Wagner capitalises on such assaults to bring success.

Combat capability/experience of Wagner is decreasing as losses mount however.

In this thread: I will gather reactions from russian telegram and mass media to the UK's announcement of the delivery of Storm Shadow.

Currently most of the major channels are hovering somewhere between Denial and Depression. Many of the usual suspects are still quiet. Milinfolive - Big dollop of reality for their 0.5 million subscribers.

All of Crimea and the Kerch bridge is back in play. Logistics to the peninsula are about to become very difficult. Also in range are a large number of strategically important airfields on Russian territory.

WATCH: UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace confirms delivery of Storm Shadow to Ukraine. Now I get to spend my day watching russian media and telegram in absolute meltdown.

People have been scratching their heads wondering what Putin is up to with his unilateral Christmas ceasefire. @InformNapalm and their sources in occupied Donbas think they know what's up - a series of false flag attacks on churches.

Sharing the full statement in🇬🇧below;

1/7 'According to two InformNapalm HUMINT sources close to the DNR fighters, there is a high probability that several Orthodox churches in Donetsk and other settlements in the Russian occupied territories may be mined and detonated during the festive morning service...'

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Hey @OlafScholz your turn now.

#Freetheleopards

https://twitter.com/zelenskyyua/status/1610685985767002124

Interesting to note that, legally, the AMX-10 is a "Battle Tank" in Europe.

https://twitter.com/domenpresern/status/1610713679661613239

This strike on School no.19 in occupied Makiivka is tearing apart the 🇷🇺 milbloggers.

They were promised 🇺🇦 would be destroyed on 01/01/23 and instead all 45 Shaheds were intercepted and Ukraine vaporised 100s of mobiks in their sleep.

Short 🧵of highlights w/ links.

https://twitter.com/TuiteroMartin/status/1609634190789677057

Solid intro.

t.me/akimapachev/35…

Engels airbase has been struck again it seems. Local channels reporting at least two explosions. twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Imagine pretending to be a Superpower for half a century and your strategic bomber forces get bombed twice in a month.

Another video has surfaced of the counteroffensive by 🇺🇦 on the very Eastern parts of Bakhmut.

One street North from the last video, this time a 🇺🇦 MBT is used to smash 🇷🇺 positions in the industrial area further East.

1/5 At 0:22 we see the 🇺🇦 tank moving East up the main street before taking up position and firing on the industrial buildings roughly 750m/2500ft away.

According to the source, an entire group of Wagner fighters were buried in rubble by the end.

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🧵I did a little digging on this because I’d seen some mention a few days back but figured it was a one off where some customs official/border guard had stolen the kit or wanted bribes to release it (this happens a lot on the RU/occupied Donbas border).

Spoiler: Not a one off.

https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1596596035551649793

On Nov 13th a small channel posted a document sent by a Colonel in the Federal Customs Service to the heads of the customs points on the Ussuri river border crossings between Eastern China and Russia

Occupied Sevastapol has been under attack by what appears to be an extended Ukrainian drone strike for almost an hour now.

Additional explosion were reported a few minutes ago . twitter.com/i/web/status/1… t.me/chp_sevastopol…

Confirmed territory changes in Kherson in the past 24 hours, visualised. The last frame is a very conservative picture of what is currently happening on the ground, showing only geolocated movements. This footage normally lags operations by at least 12-24 hours.

There are very credible reports 🇺🇦 has made it as far as Chornobaivka this evening.

Russian troops have chaotically accumulated at the available crossing points and Ukraine are absolutely hammering them.

Rumours and audio clips have been circulating on local channels all evening but Russian sources are now reporting them same.

t.me/rusich_army/62… More dire reports from Russian sources

I think this might even be the same guys from the Biolab movie they were making not long ago.

Fucking lunatics.

https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1590042093732659200

Context

https://twitter.com/ItsArtoir/status/1576333553130164225

Russians have begun moving a newly constructed span to install on the damaged Kerch bridge in occupied Crimea. Local channels say it will be installed tomorrow. Deputy PM for Construction and Regional Development has also shared images on his telegram.

t.me/mkhusnullin/655

GulagU have released a two part video of Yevgeny Prigozhin of Wagner, meeting with ex-prisoners who have been seriously injured fighting for him, along with some amazing details on the staggering amounts of money Putin has been funnelling to him from the state budget.

1/3 In the first clip he is seen talking to amputees from his convict brigades. In the second, footage of prisoners being transported to and loaded onto IL-76s belonging to the 🇷🇺 State.

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