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VIDEO: WAR COMMENTARY SUMMATION 02 Feb: Ukrainians CONDUCT A SUCCESSFUL COUNTER ATTACK. Russian Gains REDUCED TO ZERO. War in Ukraine Explained Reporting from Ukraine 463K subscribers 2-2-2024 5:00 Minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh5ecYbONTs
I am Ukrainian. My country has been invaded by Russia. In this video I will tell you what happened on the seven-hundred-ninth day of the war.
Day 709: Feb 02
Today, there are a lot of updates about the battle near Vuhledar.
But first of all, more information became available about the combined strike on Crimea. Russian sources reported that Ukrainians tricked the Russian air defense system by first launching decoy rockets. Once the Russian air defense started shooting them down and revealed their positions, Ukrainians launched anti-radar HARM rockets. These rockets are designed to pick up signals from working radars and destroy them, so Russians basically had to either switch the radars off or take a risk and try to intercept these rockets before they destroy the radars. For Ukrainians, it did not matter what Russians decided to do – the air defense was busy, creating a perfect opportunity to launch Storm Shadow missiles. Ukrainian Air Force Spokesman stated that based on the eulogies of Russian soldiers and other reports, at least 3 aircraft and 2 facilities with personnel were destroyed, including Russian general Oleksandr Tatarenko. Moreover, Ukrainians conducted a simultaneous marine drone strike on the Russian Fleet. As a result, 3 drones successfully hit a Russian missile carrier, which promptly went to the bottom of the sea. Such a massive and successful combined strike caused huge discontent in the Russian media space. Russian analysts criticized the overpraised S-400 air defense systems that were supposed to create an iron dome above Crimea and the continuous failure to protect the radars as well as military objects.
Another point of concern for the Russian analysts became the disastrous Russian offensive operation near Vuhledar. Vuhledar became notorious a long time ago because multiple Russian brigades were completely annihilated here, achieving zero territorial gains. In the most recent offensive operation, Russian forces tried to implement a new plan and bypass Vuhledar from the north. In order to achieve this goal, the main target became Novomykhailivka.
The operation started from demining the fields and attacking Ukrainian strongpoints around the settlement. At first, Russian forces managed to achieve some success on the southern flank, and the main reason for such a big jump was the lack of strongpoints. As you can see, there is a small river going through the settlements, creating several lines of swamps between the fields. Ukrainians had a series of small unit-size defenses in the tree lines, however, the main defense belt was located right in front of the village – more precisely, 2 farms, a cemetery, and main road intersections.
By leveraging 3 settlements under their control, Russian forces were launching one mechanized attack after another from all sides, forcing Ukrainians to withdraw to the main defense belt. Russian sources reported that the battle for Novomykhailivka had started as Russians reached the outskirts. Since Russian forces on the northern flank were substantially lagging behind, the only way to collapse Ukrainian defense was by penetrating the settlement from the south and cutting off supplies. Geolocated footage showed that Russians managed to take control of several strongpoints and get a foothold, and started preparing to storm the settlement.
Despite devastating shelling and the use of heavy thermobaric systems, Russians failed to undermine the Ukrainian defense, and Russian forces on the outskirts were slowly killed. Once the garrison was liquidated, Ukrainian fighters from the 79th Airmobile Brigade conducted a powerful second wave of counterattacks and pushed the front line back by more than 2 kilometers, forcing Russians to start the whole operation from scratch.
The only positions that Russians managed to maintain were south of the swamp. Russian forces decided to leverage the natural obstacle in the form of the swamp as a shield against possible Ukrainian flank attacks and expand westward. Russians created a powerful assault unit consisting of 4 tanks, 10 armored fighting vehicles, and around 150 soldiers and launched an attack. Unfortunately for Russians, Ukrainians ambushed the column with drones.
Geolocated footage shows that Russian forces sustained about a company’s worth of heavy armored vehicle losses during assaults in the area. The Ukrainian General Staff reported that only in this attack Russian forces lost 2 tanks and 7 armored fighting vehicles.
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Total combat losses of Russian Federation since beginning of war - about 387,940 people (+880 per day), 6,341 tanks, 9,300 artillery systems, 11,805 armored combat vehicles.
Since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion, Ukrainian defenders liquidated about 387,940 Russian invaders.
The enemy’s total combat losses from 24.02.22 to 03.02.24 are approximately:
• personnel - about 387940 (+880) people,
• tanks - 6341 (+10) units,
• armored combat vehicles - 11805 (+13) units,
• artillery systems - 9300 (+26) units,
• MLRS - 979 (+1) units,
• air defense systems - 663 (+0) units,
• aircraft - 332 (+0) units,
• helicopters - 324 (+0) units,
• UAVs of the operational and tactical lev el-7161 (+15)
• cruise missiles - 1847 (+0),
• ships/boats - 24 (+0) units,
• submarines - 1 (+0) units,
• motor vehicles and tankers - 12352 (+36) units,
• special equipment -1473 (+3)
I don’t think the submarine actually sank...
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In my opinion:
The rough math of fighting Russia. To win against Russia, you need a sustained 5 to 1 kill ratio. Less than that and you can expect a stalemate. If your kill ratio drops to 2 to one or less, you will loose.
It has been a stalemate and appears to continue to be a stalemate. Unfortunately, this is costing both sides a lot of people.
Welp, that’s it. it’s all over for Russia.
“ Unfortunately, this is costing both sides a lot of people.”
I look at this like the Iran-Iraq war back in the 80s.
I want both sides to lose.
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VIDEO Belbekt Air Force Base
Damage to Belbek Air Base by Storm Shadow Seen in Satellite Imagery: Radar Command Post Destroyed
Suchomimus
253K subscribers
2-3-2024 1:15 p.m. EST
3:21 Minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9yhh5uoJ6g
Satellite imagery shows extensive damage to part of Belbekt Air Force Base that was hit by Storm Shadow missiles in late January. The images show a building and various nodes at a radar post south of the airfield destroyed after being hit by two Storm Shadows.
If you go through her Free Republic posts, she very rarely, comments on any other article threads besides the ones she posts. Her primary function on Free Republic is posting articles about Ukraine only, then cutting and pasting links to herself on those threads. She takes no part on any other threads not related to Ukraine. No comments on any of the political threads, or other non-Ukraine topics, which take up the majority of the articles posted here. All she does every day, is post threads on Ukraine. I find it strange that a person who joined Free Republic, a public forum, participates in no other part of the forum, except to post endless Ukraine threads with cut and paste links to videos and blogs. She's using Free Republic's bandwidth every day to spread her propaganda, without participating in any other aspect of the forum. Somebody's paying her to do it, and Free Republic is letting her get away with it.
You're despicable.
to stop doing this
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Doing what? The posted outlet is a legitimate analysis of a particular days’ events in the invasion. Pro-Moscovian posters do the same: they post Moscovian analysis of invasion events. So why is it bad to post pro-Ukrainian news, but not pro-Moscovian?
Furthermore, why do you bother to post on this thread, since you have nothing useful to add to the conversation?
There’s more than enough Putin propagandists here.
I see nothing wrong with this.
This thread is brought to you by the Ministry of Propaganda of Ukraine.
She’s on the prayer threads.
Her attempt at appearing warm, fuzzy and holy.
Why do you want Ukraine to lose?
Is it because of the Ukrainian nuclear arsenal, with which Ukraine politicians are constantly threatening America's heartland? Oh, that's right: Russia is the one doing that! In contrast, Ukraine (then technically the third-largest nuclear power in the world) surrendered all of their Soviet-era nukes in exchange for assurances from the U.S. (and the U.K.) and Russia in the framework of the Budapest Memorandum that their territorial sovereignty would be respected.
Is it because Ukraine, since winning its independence in the wake of the dissolution of the U.S.S.R., has been invading neighboring countries and breaking the post-WWII peace order in Europe. Oh, that's right: Russia is the one doing that. Since re-achieving independence in 1991, Ukraine has never violated an international border, claimed foreign territory, threatened to annex foreign territory, etc.
Item: Ukraine has done nothing to ever warrant any patriotic American wishing it ill - certainly not that an aggressive foreign power should invade it, kills tens of thousands of civilians, etc.
Regards,
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