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How is that a suprize? NATO is basically completely in this war in every way apart from actually sending its own troops.
I think you meant to say NATO is like 5% in this war.
If NATO was completly then there would be not one russian plane able to fly above Ukraine.
Remember what happened when US decided to help Kuwait and Saudi Arabia and compare to this minimal help.
 

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Summary of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation (for the period from September 2 to September 9, 2023)​

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▫️the period from September 2 to September 9 of this year, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation carried out six group strikes with high-precision long-range air and sea-based weapons, as well as unmanned aerial vehicles, on objects: electronic intelligence of Ukraine, port infrastructure, production of unmanned boats, storage depots for ammunition and Western weapons, fuel, as well as training bases for sabotage groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and terrorists from so called the "Russian Volunteer Corps".
▫️ In addition, as a result of the strikes, the operation of strategic electronic intelligence systems, as well as the logistics of the groups of troops of the Armed Forces of Ukraine operating in the Kherson and Zaporozhye directions, was disrupted.
▫️ In the Zaporizhzhia direction, units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine continued unsuccessful attempts to break through the defenses of Russian troops in the areas of the settlements of Rabotino and Verbove in the Zaporizhzhia region for a week.
▫️ To this end, the enemy 39 times threw into battle assault detachments of the 46th Airmobile, 47th Mechanized, 82nd Airborne Assault Brigades, as well as the 15th Brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine.
▫️ To support the offensive operations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in this direction, they used a group of artillery of up to 360 guns, of which over 160 units were Western-made with a caliber of 155 millimeters.
▫️ By the selfless actions of Russian servicemen, all enemy attacks have been repelled.
▫️ During the fierce fighting in this direction, more than 845 Ukrainian servicemen, 27 tanks and armored combat vehicles, including a British-made Challenger tank and 25 vehicles, were destroyed. During the counter-battery fight, 63 enemy field artillery guns were destroyed.
▫️ Only the 82nd Air Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost up to 500 servicemen killed and wounded over the past week.
▫️ In the Pivdenno-Donetsk direction, units of Russian troops repelled four enemy attacks in a week, continuing to inflict complex fire damage on concentrations of manpower and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
▫️ Over the past period, the total losses of the enemy in this direction amounted to over 1230 Ukrainian servicemen, 24 armored combat vehicles, 37 vehicles, as well as 17 field artillery guns.
▫️ In the Donetsk direction, during the week, the competent actions of the units of the "Southern" group of Russian troops repelled 56 attacks by Ukrainian troops, as a result of which more than 2100 servicemen, 23 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 45 vehicles, as well as 30 field artillery guns were destroyed.
▫️ In the Kupyansk direction, the Russian units of the "Western" group of troops continued to improve the tactical situation in their areas of responsibility by conducting active operations.
▫️ During the week, 22 attacks were repelled in this direction, during which the enemy lost up to 425 Ukrainian servicemen, eight armored combat vehicles, 18 vehicles and pickup trucks, as well as 15 artillery pieces.
▫️ In the Krasnoliman direction, as a result of the actions of units of the Center group of troops, air strikes, artillery fire and heavy flamethrower systems, 12 enemy attacks were successfully repelled during the week.
▫️ The losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in this direction amounted to more than 450 servicemen, 13 armored combat vehicles, 15 vehicles and seven guns.
▫️ In the Kherson direction, the main efforts were focused on fire damage to the manpower of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, preventing landing on islands in the bed of the Dnieper River, as well as conducting counter-battery combat.
▫️ In the course of combat missions, an attempt to land enemy troops in the area of the island of Tendrovskaya Spit was prevented.
▫️ In addition, five Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups were destroyed during the week.
▫️ In this direction, up to 355 Ukrainian servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a tank, 32 vehicles, as well as twelve field artillery guns were destroyed.
▫️ The ships of the Black Sea Fleet, in the course of combat service in the southern part of the Kerch Strait, discovered and destroyed three Ukrainian unmanned semi-submersible boats that were trying to attack the Crimean bridge.
▫️ In addition, Naval Aviation aircraft in the Black Sea west of the Crimean peninsula destroyed four speedboats with landing groups of special operations forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, totaling up to 50 Ukrainian servicemen.
▫️ Operational-tactical aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces, air defense systems shot down during the week: a MiG-29 aircraft and a Mi-8 helicopter of the Ukrainian Air Force, as well as destroyed launchers of the S-300ps anti-aircraft missile system near the village of Lyubimovka, Zaporozhye region.
▫️ Air defense and electronic warfare systems destroyed and suppressed 247 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles during the week, including 23 in the western regions of the Russian Federation.
▫️ In addition, 49 HIMARS multiple rocket launchers, three JDAM guided bombs, and one HARM anti-radar missile were intercepted.
📊 In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 467 aircraft, 248 helicopters, 6540 unmanned aerial vehicles, 436 anti-aircraft missile systems, 11742 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1149 multiple launch rocket systems, 6306 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 12840 units of special military vehicles.
 

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Russian new T-80BVM production tanks. Allegedly the Javelin provides anti-tank and NLAW protection. They added protection against kamikaze UAVs to the hill.

 

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What I noticed how common friendly fire incidents is in this war.

Both sides seem to accidentally kill their own.

Is it incompetence, miscommunication or just confusion.

Then again friendly fire incidents are really common thats the crazy thing. I remember 20 years ago how US warthogs opened fire on a British friendly convoy in Iraq. A few British soldiers got killed and the British were so pissed off it was scandalous at the time.
 

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Rostov region, July 12, 2023. DON24.RU. The Russian army has begun preparations to send cluster munitions of enormous power to the front. This was told to the news agency "DON 24" by a representative of the Southern Military District, familiar with the situation.

"Now the nomenclature and the availability of cluster munitions of various modifications are being checked in warehouses. Such shells are capable of effectively countering infantry and light armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, "our interlocutor explained.
However, he declined to give details. It can be assumed that the work is carried out in specialized artillery units located in different military districts.

"This is a response to yesterday's Ukrainian strike on Tokmak in the Zaporizhzhia region, which was carried out with cluster munitions. The Armed Forces of Ukraine used M864 cluster munitions with bottom gas generators. The shells were fired by 155-mm Archer self-propelled artillery mounts handed over to the Ukrainian military by Sweden, "said our source.
Immediately after the shelling, the deputy head of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Medvedev, announced the need for retaliatory actions using similar means of destruction.

According to experts, the Russian Armed Forces have cluster munitions at their disposal, which are almost six times more powerful than conventional artillery shells.

First of all, these are 203-millimeter cluster shells with a range of over 30 km. Each such projectile contains 24 striking elements covering an area the size of a football field.

The penetration power of fragments of a 203-millimeter cluster projectile is 5,8 times higher than that of the standard 152-millimeter Grif projectile, which is widely used by Russian artillery in the combat zone. In other words, with a successful hit, only one cluster shell incapacitates 2-3 companies of soldiers (about 400 infantrymen).

In addition, there are less powerful, but equally formidable 152-millimeter cluster shells. Two types of such munitions are known - "Insistence" (it contains 40 cumulative fragmentation warheads) and "Sucrose" with eight fragmentation-cumulative submunitions. They are loaded into the barrels of the Acacia self-propelled guns and D-20 howitzers, which are capable of bringing down fire on the enemy from a distance of 14 to 21 km.

But that's not all. Cluster munitions are in service with the Grad and Tornado-G multiple launch rocket systems, writes the publication "Russian Weapons". The descendants of the famous Katyusha can meet enemy infantry at a distance of 20-30 km.

Russian cluster munitions are much more effective than American ones, and their nomenclature is wider and more diverse, the Russian Defense Ministry noted.


Use of Russian MLRS Smerch cluster shells in Ukraine. After the Ukrainian army began using cluster munitions, the Russian army also began using cluster munitions. The video shows rare footage of a Russian Smerch MLRS striking with cluster shells, presumably in the village of Urozhaynoye, Zaporozhye region. At the end of the video, footage of the use of incendiary ammunition is also shown.

 

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A Ukrainian soldier dying does his last prayers.

If a Turkish soldier actually said Allahu Akbar as his last words. I wonder how many would get triggered by it.

Interesting seeing people keeping their beliefs and faiths even when their world turns to hell.

Of course they do.
Many 'progressive' and 'modern' Muslims are super insecure about their religion, and want so badly to be validated by the West that they avoid being related to anything symbolic and inherent to their religion. You can decolonise the body or even prevent it altogether from happening. But you can’t decolonise the mind that easily.
 

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MOSCOW, 3 August. /TASS/. Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev cited data from the Ministry of Defense, according to which, from January 1 to the present, a total of more than 231,000 people have been accepted for contract work.

"According to the Ministry of Defense, from January 1 to August 3, that is, today of the current year, a total of more than 231,000 people were accepted for the contract," he cited statistics.

The system of selection for service under a contract in the Russian Federation has been successfully adapted to the conditions of the Northern Military District, Medvedev said at a meeting on the issues of understaffing of the RF Armed Forces.

“The task remains the same - to make contract service as prestigious as possible. To this end, organizational, economic, social, and technological decisions have been made in recent months. it is less important that it was possible to significantly improve the social security of servicemen and their families," Medvedev said.

He recalled that a one-time payment was established for contractors, credit holidays were introduced and their jobs were maintained for the period of service, "although it is still necessary to monitor what is happening in this area." "The imbalance in the amount of salaries of mobilized and contract soldiers has also been eliminated. Regional incentive and compensation payments have been established in all regions of the country," Medvedev continued. "The results of these and other measures are obvious," he concluded.


Since January 1 of this year, about 280 thousand people have been accepted for service in the RF Armed Forces. This was stated by Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev. According to him, they all signed a contract with the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

I am meeting with the heads of the subjects of the federation in person, bearing in mind the importance of this work on the resupplying of the armed forces with contract servicemen. According to the Ministry of Defense, since January 1, about 280 thousand people have been accepted into the ranks of the armed forces, some of them are people who were in the reserve, some of them are volunteers, other categories - said Dmitry Medvedev.

Recall that the mass start of the recruitment of contract servicemen in the ranks of the Russian army was announced at the beginning of this year. As emphasized in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the RF Armed Forces needed to recruit 300 thousand people. They were supposed to strengthen the personnel of the Russian group, which is participating in a special military operation in Ukraine.

Recruitment of those wishing to enter the military service under the contract is carried out in all regions of the country. Recruits are paid a one-time payment of 195 thousand rubles. In addition, monthly payments from 204 thousand rubles are provided for the participants of the SVO.

We add that now the units of the Russian group are successfully repelling the counteroffensive of the Ukrainian army in the Zaporozhye region and the DPR. At the same time, Russian units are conducting offensive operations in the LPR and the Kharkov region, approaching Kupyansk. In the confrontation with the army of the Russian Federation, the Armed Forces of Ukraine suffer heavy losses in personnel and equipment .


Russia claims Ukraine loses 5 to 10 times than they do and Ukraine claims the same vice versa. However, I simply look at who is getting thrown into white rape vans to get sent to the front and which side is volunteering themselves into active service with a hot war going on. I think the side that is volunteering themselves into active duty wouldn't do so if Oryx was right about their claims (unless anyone wants to argue that Russians are super-duper brave). We also seen like one or two T-90s captured or destroyed and there are several hundred T-90Ms and the rest being T-72B3M amounting to 1500 tanks by the end of this year. However we still see T-72s T-80s battling challengers and leos with soon to be Abrams I will believe Oryx with their vehicle claims if Russia starts throwing T-90Ms early in the operation than throwing them later for a planned major offensive against Ukraine
 

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A Ukrainian soldier dying does his last prayers.

If a Turkish soldier actually said Allahu Akbar as his last words. I wonder how many would get triggered by it.

Interesting seeing people keeping their beliefs and faiths even when their world turns to hell.
Literally no one in the world will get triggered by a person reciting their last prayer before dying.
 

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New batch of Il-76-MD90A in production, let's see how long UAC/OAK could replace the 4 lost Il-76

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One of the Tu-160M2s in flight,

Russian aircraft industry proved to be able to keep up with losses, and even export jets to Myanmar and Iran.


Looking forward if the Russian land industry could expand to the point they outproduce their losses.
 

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