It is not by chance that the Ukrainian Armed Forces now rely on supplies of western uniforms. They do not have their own.

One of the reasons cited is the destruction of storage facilities with uniforms by precision strikes from Russian missiles. According to another reason, winter uniforms were distributed to fighters back in the summer, which was hot, and they were lost or abandoned during the retreat. In general, the Ukrainian army is freezing now, when night temperatures do not exceed eight degrees Celsius.

This can all be regarded as banal excuses. They simply did not have adequate supplies of clothing when it was needed in increased quantities. So to speak, they made kits on the basis of 225 thousand military personnel, as many as were in the ranks of the AFU at the start of the special operation. Assuming that the next year the same number would be ordered, but the situation has changed and the need for uniforms has increased significantly. Garment factories cannot triple production in the short term, even if they switch to the “military rails”.

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The same Spiegel reported, citing its sources in NATO, that “it will be possible to satisfy almost 50 percent of the request made by Ukraine for winter uniforms”. For example, Lithuania, which had promised to provide winter uniforms for 25,000 Ukrainian soldiers at a cost of two million euros, has now sent only 500 kits. That is not enough even for officers, not to mention soldiers and reservists.

https://news.1rj.ru/str/EurasianChoice/20936

https://orientalreview.org/2022/10/14/how-winter-will-change-the-nature-of-military-operations-in-ukraine/

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🇧🇾🇺🇦⚡Terrorist suspects detained in Belarus gain combat experience in Ukraine - Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Belarus

The detainees, who are suspected of planning sabotage in Belarus, were recruited by representatives of the country's recognized terrorist organization BYPOL, as well as the Western opposition, the republic's Interior Ministry said. They were trained in Poland and gained combat experience in Ukraine.

They were going to plant bombs and they knew where to get incendiary mixtures. Coordination was carried out through Telegram bots. Now they are giving confessions and are ready to cooperate with the investigation, the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported.

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⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦⚔️ On the AFU's plans in the #Nikolaev - #Berislav Direction⚡️

▪️ The AFU in recent days regrouped their troops on the #Nikolaev - #Berislav direction.

➖ A convoy of wheeled vehicles has come from #Ochakov to #Nikolaev. On the way it was joined by several trucks with ammunition and MLRS. In the city itself it was joined by dozens of armoured vehicles transferred from the northern districts of #Nikolaev Oblast.

➖ The grouping then split up and departed in two directions: one to #Bashtanka, the other to #Pribugskoye and #Galitsinovo, where strike forces are being formed.

▪️ What are the future plans of the AFU?

➖ The Ukrainian leadership must organise an offensive before the cold weather arrives. Yesterday's attack by the AFU in the #Berislav area was a reconnaissance battle to check the staten of the Russian defensive lines. The surplus of personnel so far allows the enemy not to worry about losses from such unsuccessful assaults.

➖ The concentration of forces at the #Aleksandrovska sector and at #Bashtanka, from where they can be mooved to the #Andreevkya sector, indicates that these two sectors are being prepared for an attack.

➖ And the #Berislav section is needed to divert attention from the main directions of the assault: from #Luparevo and #Pribugskoye, as well as Sukhoy Stavok and Davydov Brod with subsequent access to Novaya Kakhovka and #Kherson.

▪️ Another possible option is a completely different direction - #Zaporozhye. For more than a month Ukrainian marines have been practicing landing near #Energodar.

➖ The #Zaporozhye NPP is the most important target for the AFU before the onset of winter, and the scenario of capturing the plant has been worked out for a long time. And the grouping moved to #Bashtanka can be sent to #Zaporozhye relatively quickly.

➖ In the event of another offensive in #Kherson Oblast, it cannot be ruled out that an attack will be launched simultaneously from the #Orekhov - #Gulyaypole line with a landing at #Energodar.

➖ And an attack from the #Dudchany village could also be used to cover the landing of AFU formations on the left bank of the #Dnipro from Zolotaya Balka and #Novoalexandrovka. Besides, they have informants in that area.

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◾The mother of a Ukrainian militant from Enerhodar voluntarily handed over her son's cache: weapons, nationalist literature and symbols, and called on fellow countrymen to follow her example.

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▶️ Press TV’s Johnny Miller reports from the site of Donetsk city administration building that was hit by Ukrainian artillery.

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◾The Unites States and Canada are preparing to invade Haiti and all the Western media is preparing the public opinion.

◾Haiti is a country rich in minerals and US and Canadian companies have a lot of interests there.

◾I'm in contact with comrades from Haiti and I will be covering the developments very close.

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🇷🇺 Peskov: NATO has de facto entered the conflict in Ukraine, but this does not affect Russia's goals

NATO de facto got involved in the Ukrainian conflict, but this does not affect Russia's goals - its potential allows the special operation to continue and it will be brought to an end, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

💬 "NATO has already de facto entered the Ukrainian conflict." However, this will in no way affect our goals and plans, that is, the special operation continues and will be brought to an end," said Peskov.

When asked by journalists how much NATO's involvement in the conflict complicates Russia's position, Peskov said that the situation is "essentially more difficult."

💬 "That requires, probably, our internal economic mobilization and other types of mobilization. One thing is the Kiev regime, and another thing is the potential of NATO. It's an additional burden, but our potential allows us to continue the operation under those conditions," said Peskov.



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The Dutch deputy told curious things in the presence. So, according to him, a whole generation of European politicians was brought up in pro-Soviet and pro-Marxist ideas. He also said that St. Anthony's College in Oxford is a training center for Western intelligence agencies, and the country's finance minister graduated from it. British intelligence is recruiting people there. And it turns out that the globalist elite is striving to introduce life planning for ordinary people.

As a result, the ministers left the hall



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⚡🇷🇺🇺🇦 A document belonging to one of the Tajik/Uzbek servicemen that shot up a shooting range in a barracks of the Belgorod region.



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Hologram? You will never know. This is the world we live in where a hologram can lead us to a nuclear war.

It means it wasn't Russia, and it's too dangerous for the German government to call out the perpetrator (the US). Democracy in the West...

Sahra Wagenknecht, opposition politician in the German parliament, asked the German government for information on the attack on the Northstream pipelines, and got this reply:

«"For reasons of the state's well-being" no further information will be provided

"After careful consideration, the federal Government has come to the conclusion that further information cannot be provided – not even in classified form – for reasons of the state's well-being." The reason for this is the "third-party rule" for international cooperation of the intelligence services. According to this, the international exchange of knowledge is subject to particularly strict secrecy requirements. "The information requested thus affects confidentiality interests that are so in need of protection that the state's well-being outweighs the parliamentary right to information and the right of members of Parliament to ask questions must exceptionally take precedence over the confidentiality interest of the federal government.“ In plain language: there are probably findings that the members of the Bundestag are not allowed to learn.
For this reason, the German government does not answer Wagenknecht's question "which NATO ships and troops" have been in the areas where the damage occurred since the suspension of gas supplies by Nord Stream 1, and which Russian ships and troops were sighted during that period. This answer, too, "would involve the disclosure of information that would have a particular impact on the welfare of the state," writes the Federal Foreign Office. Therefore, a classification and deposit of the requested information is also out of the question, "since even the low risk of becoming known cannot be accepted".»

https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/politik-gesellschaft/exklusiv-nord-stream-explosionen-ostsee-linke-politikerin-sahra-wagenknecht-bundesregierung-verweigert-informationen-zu-pipeline-anschlaegen-li.277250

Why Is It So Difficult To Attack In Plain Terrain And What Could Be Done About It?

From Kherson, and untill it reaches Donetsk, the terrain consists of flat fields which are sometimes riddled with gullies and small rivulets. The fields are divided by hedges, narrow flat plantations of deciduous trees and shrubs. In the middle of the fields are small villages with 2-3 streets, usually with a farm and a school. To the north of Donetsk, there are agglomerations and villages, sometimes moving from one to the other. To the South and North of the Seversky Donets is a small strip of forest, then fields again.

Despite the fact that probably 90% of military ranges are fields, most of combat operations in these conditions present a great difficulty.

Concentrations of equipment are easily detected by UAVs and if the artillerymen are well trained, even an attempt to reach the attack line will end badly. The enemy has created a solid minefield at the line from Dnieper to Marinka, which also makes it very difficult to use armoured vehicles.

Attempts to occupy strongholds without armour support, when effectuated in small groups which try to approach the enemy stealthily, ninja-party style, also often end miserably, mainly due to enemy artillery that cannot be suppressed. Attacking without suppressing artillery is a fail, it has been known since World War I, but for some reason this commandment has been forgotten. After all, it doesn't matter how many men are advancing on a stronghold, 10 or 100 - shells will cope with any number.

In order to suppress enemy artillery you need more modern artillery radars or UAVs capable of hovering behind enemy lines (if they were kamikaze drones, there would be no problem at all), and high-precision munitions.

The asymmetrical way of contrabattery warfare - destroying supply depots, logistics centers and bridges (it is still not clear why they are intact) significantly reduces the enemy's artillery potential, but does not solve the problem completely. There is a lot of complex work to be done here.

Hopefully, our scientists and generals have already looked into this issue.


https://news.1rj.ru/str/vladlentatarsky/16845

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🇺🇸🇺🇦 White House warehouses are empty

Washington will soon have to reduce the supply of weapons and ammunition to Ukraine. Mark Kanchian, ssenior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said this in an interview with Fox News.

Kanchian refers to sources in the Biden administration. According to him, the Pentagon's stocks are rapidly depleted, the United States has few HIMARS missile systems, Javelin anti-tank systems, M777 howitzers and ammunition for them.

“We will continue to support Ukraine, but we will have to do it in other ways. For example, we can provide analogues, buy equipment from third countries or slow down the supply process,” he said.

Recall that in May, the US Defense Department complained about the severe depletion of the FIM-92 Stinger MANPADS and FGM-148 Javelin ATGMs. According to preliminary estimates, the restoration of their reserves will require from 2 to 7 years of active work of American arms industry.

At the same time, "Western partners" have prepared another package of assistance for Ukraine.

Money, blood, adventures, death — the way of the mercenary in Ukraine 🇺🇦

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Automatic gun S-60 in the ranks. A timeless classic with a fighting spirit

Servicemen of the 16th battalion of the territorial defense of the LPR are holding back the enemy in one of the sectors in the Lisichansk direction.

The guys successfully complete the assigned tasks and fire at targets from the Soviet S-60 anti-aircraft gun. This timeless classic with ammunition from a four-round magazine creates serious problems for Ukrainian militants.

Equipping the 57-mm memory with both standard and modern optical and radar sights allows you to successfully hit enemy lightly armored ground vehicles, as well as resist enemy attack helicopters and attack aircraft.

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Map: @ReadovkaNews, translated by @Slavyangrad
https://news.1rj.ru/str/SLGmaps/16

Ukrainian air defense - past and present

The air defense of Ukraine at the time of the start of the special operation was largely represented by obsolete Soviet systems. Their number was small: 250 S-300P units of various modifications and 72 Buk-M1 units.

Despite not new equipment, with competent air defense actions of Ukraine, it could pose a big problem for the Russian Aerospace Forces, inflicting heavy losses on our aviation. In turn, Russia could completely open the sky for itself, having achieved the total elimination of Ukrainian air defense. In reality, neither side has achieved its goals.

What losses did Ukraine suffer during the 8 months of the conflict? It is reliably known that at least 200 S-300P and 30-40 Buk-M1 units were disabled. This is a lot, but not enough.

S-300P, as the country's air defense, performs the task of protecting large cities from air attacks. Calibers, X-101, X-55 and Gerani are the main targets for the air defense system. Therefore, the Armed Forces of Ukraine create air defense bases around such cities as: Kyiv, Dnipro, Lvov, Kharkov, Nikolaev and Odessa. The complexes are located in areas on the proposed flight routes of cruise missiles. The fight against them is complicated by the complete radio silence of the installations, as well as the periodic change in their location.

Buk-M1, as the air defense of the ground forces, is a cover for the ground forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Their main task is to create an “air defense umbrella” over the advancing columns so they cannot be defeated by Russian aircraft. Together with the widest range of other army air defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Buks can protect ground forces very well. But in moments of calm at the front, they most likely help the S-300P in the defense of cities. Riding alone in complete radio silence, they are a hard-to-reach target for the Russian Aerospace Forces and can hit air targets at any moment.

Readovka has prepared a map with the possible location of Ukrainian air defense systems.

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⚡️🇺🇸🇺🇦📦 Never look a Gift Horse in the Mouth⚡️

The Gringos brought Mykola* a plate, but, as DoneZky** notes, clearly not the right one.👇

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RF Armed Forces fielding new Chimera UAV (by Subaru X)

Recently, videos appeared which purport to show Russian-made Lancet attack UAVs attacking targets. Many observers pointed out that the UAVs in the videos do not resemble the Lancet in layout and size.

I focused on one of the recent videos, in which a large SUV was targeted, with footage both from above and also from an "FPV" view.

The UAV used in the attack is much larger than the Lancet, and is clearly a completely different design. Looking at the dimensions and layout of the UAV in the video, I concluded the most likely candidate is the Iranian Samad-3 UAV.

The Samad-3 has a range of 1600km and carries up to 40kg HE. It has been used to great effect by Yemeni Houthis against Saudi Arabian targets.

HOWEVER: The Samad-3 does not have an optics payload, and the FPV view shown in the attack is identical to that of the Lancet as the infographic shows.

This leads me to the conclusion that Russia has deployed a new chimera drone based on the Samad-3, but equipped with the Lancet optical package.
https://news.1rj.ru/str/SLGmaps/17

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😎🇬🇧💪American Military Watch writes: Belgorod air defense broke the world record for the range of destruction

According to the magazine, a pair of Ukrainian combat aircraft attacked the Russian city of Belgorod, reaching the border with Russia at extremely low altitude, after which they gained altitude, fired at the target and again went to the ground, headed for the airfield.

However, neither the Su-27 fighter nor the Su-24 front-line bomber reached him, having received a rocket in their engines. Both aircraft were shot down over the Poltava region.

Allegedly, the Russian S-300V4 anti-aircraft system worked on them.

According to the Americans, the complex hit Ukrainian aircraft at a range of 217 km, thereby breaking the previous “record” set by the Russian S-400 system in March this year, when a Ukrainian Su-27 fighter jet was shot down over Kyiv at a range of 150 km.

As the magazine writes, despite its maneuverability, the fighter could not get away from the missile.

And no one has yet encountered the S-500 ...


https://news.1rj.ru/str/donbassrussiazvo/635


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