Ukraine nailed another ammo depot with a drone. Massive secondary explosions.
https://x.com/osinttechnical/status/1832222481890803964?s=46
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Russian losses per 07/09/24 reported by the Ukrainian general staff
+1270 men
+1 tank
+29 artillery pieces
+1 AD system
+52 UAVs
+1 cruise missile
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France has announced that it will use €1.4 billion of the share of revenue from frozen Russian assets to purchase military equipment for Ukraine.
This should take some of the heat out of domestic politics, with Le Pen previously running on an agenda of opposition to assistance to Ukraine, as well as a tight budgetary situation.
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Will they? Have they?
Iran delivers ballistic missiles to Russia despite Western warnings
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Iran has completed its long-awaited shipment of ballistic missiles to Russia, defying Western warnings not to supply arms to Moscow, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday, citing US and European officials.
The Biden administration has informed its allies that Iran delivered short-range ballistic missiles to Russia, providing Moscow with a significant new military tool amid its ongoing war against Ukraine, the WSJ report said.
This move comes despite Western warnings urging Iran not to supply arms to Russia, and marks a major escalation in Iran’s military support for Russia.
“The missiles have finally been delivered,” a US official said. The shipment reportedly includes several hundred short-range ballistic missiles, capable of reaching up to 500 miles. These missiles could help bolster Russia’s intensified missile attacks on Ukrainian cities and infrastructure, which have recently led to the deaths of dozens of civilians.
“We have been warning of the deepening security partnership between Russia and Iran since the outset of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and are alarmed by these reports,” said White House National Security Council spokesperson Sean Savett. “Any transfer of Iranian ballistic missiles to Russia would represent a dramatic escalation in Iran’s support for Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine.”
Iran had already been providing drones to Russia, which have been used extensively in Ukraine. Additionally, Russia has sourced ammunition and missiles from North Korea for its military campaign.
Such a deepening partnership could further isolate Iran from the West and worsen an economy already in crisis mode, as ballistic missile transfers to Russia would likely be met with additional sanctions on Iran by Western powers, as promised by Ukraine’s western allies.
In response to the missile deliveries, European and US officials are preparing to implement new sanctions against Iran, according to the WSJ report.
European leaders had previously warned that they would impose coordinated sanctions if Iran proceeded with the missile transfers.
According to Western officials, sanctions could include banning Iran’s flag carrier, Iran Air, from European airports, and targeting companies and individuals involved in the missile shipments, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Russia’s access to Iranian ballistic missiles could devastate civilian populations, marking a turning point in the conflict, Farzin Nadimi, a Senior Fellow with the Washington Institute, told Iran International.
He said some of these missiles will have enough range to hit Western Ukraine and strike important targets like railway stations. “It’s going to have a really bad effect on civilians.”
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Russian state TV reacts to RT indictments
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Bump!
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Lets hope something like this is what triggers the US to stop being ■■■■■■■. Also wonder if things kick off in the ME as expected that Iran will slow down assistance.
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I’d be interested to know the USA decision-making process over this issue. Who’s involved in the deliberations, what facts and figures they analyse, costs, damages, diplomacy, and what the likely outcomes and effects are likely to be.
But most importantly, what true outcome the US desires.
Not allowing the use of American long-range weapons on Russian soil appears very weak hearted by the USA.
I, for one, suspect an ulterior motive and a willingness to expend Ukrainian lives to obtain a desired outcome.
My suspicion (already expressed by others on Blitz) is: the USA wanting to achieve the gradual whittling away of the once feared Russian military might. All without the risk of America being implicated and drawn into the conflict, or, into an escalation of a much wider, possibly nuclear conflict… Dirty deeds, done Ukrainian dirt cheap, while the USA makes lots of money selling arms.
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Gave it a like because of posting, nothing to do with the content. So what now, don’t surrender and go out with all guns blazing. Shame the drone filming wasn’t an armed one.
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You remember those stories of ‘spies under the bed’?
MI6 and CIA warn of ‘reckless campaign of sabotage across Europe’ being waged by Russia
Sir Richard Moore and Bill Burns did not list examples but there has been a spate of mysterious sabotage and arson attacks on infrastructure in the UK, Germany and in the Baltics.
Saturday 7 September 2024 06:12, UK
Russia is waging a “reckless campaign of sabotage” across Europe, the heads of MI6 and the CIA have warned in their first-ever joint remarks.
Sir Richard Moore and Bill Burns also said the UK and the US faced an “unprecedented array of threats”, and said the entire world order was under the most serious strain since the Cold War.
In a newspaper article, the spymasters pointed to Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine, while also describing China as “the principal intelligence and geopolitical challenge of the 21st century”.
They touched on the secret work their agencies are doing to try to reduce the chance of wider conflict in the Middle East and revealed that MI6 and the CIA were “working ceaselessly to achieve a ceasefire in Gaza”.
In addition, Sir Richard and Mr Burns underlined the “resurgent” danger posed by Islamic State.
“Today, we cooperate in a contested international system where our two countries face an unprecedented array of threats,” Sir Richard and Mr Burns wrote in the Financial Times on Saturday.
‘The international world order is under threat’
“There is no question that the international world order - the balanced system that has led to relative peace and stability and delivered rising living standards, opportunities and prosperity - is under threat in a way we haven’t seen since the Cold War,” they wrote.
Combatting such risks was at the heart of what the intelligence chiefs described as their two countries’ special relationship.
“Trust, openness, constructive challenge, friendship,” they wrote. “These characteristics can be relied upon into the next century, as can our shared determination to remain champions for global peace and security.”
On Russia, the heads of MI6 and the CIA said Russian intelligence was waging a “reckless campaign of sabotage across Europe”.
They did not list examples but there has been a spate of mysterious sabotage and arson attacks on infrastructure in the UK, Germany and in the Baltics.
US intelligence also reportedly foiled an alleged Russian plot to assassinate the chief executive of Germany’s leading arms manufacturer.
As well as physical sabotage, Sir Richard and Mr Burns warned of the threat posed to Western democracies by Russian information operations.
‘Staying the course is more vital than ever’
They talked about the Kremlin’s “cynical use of technology to spread lies and disinformation designed to drive wedges between us”.
Turning to Russia’s war in Ukraine, the intelligence duo said: “Staying the course is more vital than ever. Putin will not succeed in extinguishing Ukraine’s sovereignty and independence.”
They said the conflict had demonstrated the impact of technology on the battlefield.
“Ukraine has been the first war of its kind to combine open-source software with cutting-edge battlefield technology, harnessing commercial and military satellite imagery, drone technology, high and low sophistication cyber warfare, social media, open-source intelligence, uncrewed aerial and seaborne vehicles and information operations - as well as human and signals intelligence - at such incredible pace and scale. Most of all, it has underlined the imperative to adapt, experiment and innovate.”
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Some men just want to watch the world burn… Well, the Russian world anyways.
State of emergency declared in part of Russia’s Voronezh Oblast due to ammunition detonation – videos
SATURDAY, 7 SEPTEMBER 2024, 08:50
A state of emergency has been declared in the Ostrogozhsk district of Russia’s Voronezh Oblast, where a fire broke out near facilities with explosive objects, leading to detonation overnight.
Source: Alexander Gusev, the governor of Voronezh Oblast, on Telegram
Details: The evacuation of residents from one settlement is ongoing.
Temporary accommodation centres have been set up, where dozens of people are already staying.
Russian officials claimed that "no
State of emergency declared in part of Russia’s Voronezh Oblast due to ammunition detonation – videos
SATURDAY, 7 SEPTEMBER 2024, 08:50
A state of emergency has been declared in the Ostrogozhsk district of Russia’s Voronezh Oblast, where a fire broke out near facilities with explosive objects, leading to detonation overnight.
Source: Alexander Gusev, the governor of Voronezh Oblast, on Telegram
Details: The evacuation of residents from one settlement is ongoing.
Temporary accommodation centres have been set up, where dozens of people are already staying.
Russian officials claimed that “no civilians were affected”.
Local residents reported that the attack targeted an ammunition storage point in the village of Soldatskoye.
The Russian Defence Ministry stated that two drones were downed over Belgorod Oblast and two more over Kursk Oblast overnight. The ministry did not comment on the attack in Voronezh Oblast.
Background: A fire and detonation of explosive devices occurred due to a drone strike in the Ostrogozhsk district in Russia’s Voronezh Oblast.
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NOT A GAME-CHANGER.
Well, I’m expecting, nay, demanding, America to immediately begin scrapping all of its intercontinental ballistic missiles if “striking deep in Russia is no game changer.”
Utter, utter, bullshit.
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Ukrainian Reinforcements Are Counterattacking Outside Pokrovsk
The Russian assault on the city is losing momentum, for now.
Sep 6, 2024,05:19pm EDT
As the Russian 2nd Combined Arms Army and adjacent units ground toward the Ukrainian stronghold of Pokrovsk in late August, some Russian observers cautioned against overconfidence on the part of the Russians.
Yes, the 2nd CAA—dozens of regiments and brigades strong—outnumbers the Ukrainian force around Pokrovsk, the Tavriya operational strategic group, around four to one. Yes, the Ukrainians have been steadily retreating along the Pokrovsk axis since at least mid-February, when the Russians breached the defenses of the fortress city of Avdiivka on the axis’ eastern end.
But despite assigning a dozen battalions from eight or so brigades to their surprise invasion of Russia’s Kursk’s Oblast, the Ukrainians seemed to have kept four or five brigades—each with up to 2,000 troops and hundreds of vehicles—in reserve. Russian propagandist Evgeny Norin described these units as “reasonably intact and well-equipped.”
Now some of those reserves are finally joining the fight along the last line of trenches and fortified towns five or six miles outside Pokrovsk and its vital supply lines. “What is happening is exactly what was predicted—the Ukrainian armed forces have begun counterattacking,” one Russian blogger reported. And that’s helping stabilize the front line—at least for now.
This has surprised some Ukrainian observers who blamed a lack of fortifications, rather than a lack of troops, for the Tavriya operational strategic group’s monthslong retreat east of Pokrovsk. “Not so long ago, there was public discourse suggesting that the deployment of additional brigades to the Pokrovsk direction wouldn’t make much difference,” Ukrainian analysis group Frontelligence Insight noted. “Yet, here we are, seeing that it does make a difference.”
Don’t expect immediate dramatic changes around Pokrovsk. For now, the Ukrainian reinforcements—at a minimum, the national guard’s Kara-Dag Brigade and the army’s 12th Azov Brigade and 93rd Mechanized Brigade—are conducting small-scale counterattacks, the main effect of which has been to slow or slightly roll back Russian gains.
But the Russians can’t afford to lose momentum. Every day they fail to advance is a day the Ukrainians can dig in and reinforce their positions around Pokrovsk ahead of the coming winter. That has implications for the whole wider war in Ukraine. “The upcoming battle for Pokrovsk will be the climax of the enemy’s offensive operation in the southwestern theater of operations in 2024,” the Ukrainian Center for Defense Strategies predicted.
The Kara-Dag Brigade’s fierce actions in Selydove, a front-line town southeast of Pokrovsk, might be the most significant of the recent counterattacks. For days now, the brigade’s T-64 tanks have been blowing up and capturing Russian tanks and fighting vehicles trying to infiltrate Selydove along the main east-west road into town.
The high terrain in and around Pokrovsk has the effect of channeling attacking forces into the city’s lower southern approaches. That also channels them into Selydove, whose peak elevation is around 100 feet below the highest ground in Pokrovsk.
It’s fair to say the Russians must get through Selydove in order to have a clear shot at Pokrovsk. “Without securing the Selydove area, the enemy cannot sustain their offensive,” CDS explained.
But now that fresh and well-equipped Ukrainian troops are in Selydove, and attacking, the Russian conquest of Pokrovsk—once seemingly inevitable—is looking a little less likely.
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