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KYHorn

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  1. Yesterday, two L-39 training planes collided near Zhytomyr. Three pilots were killed Among the dead was a well-known Ukrainian pilot with the call sign "Juice", who took part in the air defense of Kyiv. Juice (Andrei Pilshchikov) was a MiG-29 fighter pilot. With the start of the large-scale invasion, he participated in Kyiv's air defense. In interviews with The Washington Post, Financial Times CNN, Fox News, BBC News called on Western partners to provide Ukraine with modern fighter jets.
  2. Media: Ukraine strikes Russian positions in Crimea, dozens of casualties reported. The Ukrainian military, together with the Security Service of Ukraine, launched a drone strike against the 126th Brigade of the Russian Black Sea Fleet. There were dozens of casualties, Ukrainska Pravda news outlet reported, citing their source at the SBU.
  3. Sounds like the funds were not replenished
  4. Well that's because they were smoking on the plane... Investigators have a new version of the crash of #Prigozhin's plane - careless handling of ammunition on board during the flight, Russian media reported. This is connected with the fact that small arms, ammunition and grenades were found at the site of the plane's crash in the Tver Region, which apparently belonged to the passengers of the plane from among the #Wagner mercenaries. This is actually in line with the report about the flight attendent on board who told her family they were "repairing" the plane prior to takeoff. Edit: found it:
  5. Today, Portugal has confirmed its readiness to train Ukrainian pilots and engineers on F-16 aircraft, reports the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy during a meeting with representatives of the media and the President of Portugal. "We also discussed opportunities for expanding defense cooperation, in particular, the supply of Ukraine with armored medical equipment and equipment for demining," says Zelenskyy.
  6. https://twitter.com/sentdefender/status/1694722827679830173?s=20 ^
  7. I haven't seen this mentioned. It's at least worth noting. Prigozhin's second plane flew to Azerbaijan It flew out of Vnukovo airport and is heading to Baku. It is not known who is on board. Recall, yesterday after the disaster this plane made zigzags in the sky above Moscow, and then flew to St. Petersburg. Later, the business jet returned to Ostafievo airport near Moscow.
  8. Ukrainian GUR says it carried out a special operation - an amphibious landing, in the Tarkhankut peninsula of Crimea, where it destroyed several occupiers, as well as the S-400 air defence system. Russian officials tried to say the boats were destroyed, but independent sources are saying they all managed to get away.
  9. Time to see if Prigozhin had a killswitch.
  10. Interesting article on the American and British analysts' perceptions of the offensive. I think they make some good points about focusing on the main objective and allocating resources toward that goal. I also appreciated the specific example of the often-used, but vague, comparison between Soviet and NATO/Western style approaches: the issue of keeping competing factions within an army equally supplied. Ukraine’s Forces and Firepower Are Misallocated, U.S. Officials Say American strategists say Ukraine’s troops are too spread out and need to concentrate along the counteroffensive’s main front in the south https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/22/us/politics/ukraine-counteroffensive-russia-war.html?campaign_id=190&emc=edit_ufn_20230822&instance_id=100636&nl=from-the-times&regi_id=141347410&segment_id=142644&te=1&user_id=5edae170e2c7f9e85eb5207073ecafed
  11. https://twitter.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1693910513342660609?s=20
  12. That's unfortunate, but I think it'd be simpler overall for you to just get a throwaway twitter account so that you can read the threads, rather than having to get an additional thread reader link for every thread. Alternatively, I would think you should be able to copy the link of the thread in Surly and paste it into thread reader to see the full thread?
  13. Best line from the report: "The penis was present, but invaginated." Wow, way to kick the guy when he's down.
  14. More context: Russians continue to frantically attack Klishchiivka south of Bakhmut but they have a huge problem: the Ukrainian positions overlooking the village from which any movement can be monitored and Russian troops effectively repelled, which btw. happens on a daily base. (Screenshot 1) Due to the high losses, Russians tried to outflank the Ukrainian vantage position by attacking from the north, using 3 MBTs and 3 BMPs. (Screenshot 2) But an Ukrainian drone detected them approaching and the following barrage of Ukrainian artillery smashed 2 MBTs and 2 BMPs, destroying this Russian attack group, including scores of Russian infantry at these coordinates: 48°32'37"N 37°57'20"E Source of video: https://t.me/mysiagin/25971
  15. This is the life of a Russian air defense operator. If they turn on their radar, they are locked onto by an anti-radiation missile (HARM) from a Ukrainian plane. The HARM locks on and keep going to the site of the radar, even after they turn in off. Ukraine has eliminated so many Russian AD systems that their drones are now flying all over the Russian lines and beyond. [Also they likely recovered this tape when UA advanced to this location. Another possible indication of UA advances that are still not posted due to opsec.]
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