I'm getting plenty from our fella, but I can't put very much here because ... well, because.
anyway, stuff I can
"Kursk
The attacks here by the Free Russia Legion is still ongoing, but will most likaly calm down after the weekend as per usual.
The attacks was more powerful than before due to quite a few old Wagnerites having signed up to eek out revenge on Russia for the treatment they got.
The Legion is now at around Battalion strength and will increase by about 20 percent more as and when the last batch of Wagnerites have cleared the Ukrainian security control.
Kreminna
Here Ukraine has increased the artillery expenditure against ammo dumps and artillery systems.
Also the ever popular air defences are getting "massaged".
Since Putin refuses to move these forces out to reinforce in the South, something that was Ukraines prefered option that they do.
It has been judged that it is high time to degrade them in situ, instead of degrading them down south.
It also keeps the scheming rodent Syrskyi occupied if he has to do some actual work and "be offensive" by borstjing some Russians, no need for real offensive work so he is getting to degrade sitting on his ****.
Bakhmut
The ever popular Russian Vacation & Spa Village of Bakhmut has now seen development on the Northern side again.
This is mainly caused by Russia having thinned out the line here to defend down south.
No new resources have been allocated, so Ukraine is now more or less falling into a void.
Russia is trying to build a direct and improved railroad from Rostov-on-Don into Mariupol, basically hugging the coast, or as near to it as they can come.
We have been aware of this for quite a few weeks since they started.
They are building it pretty fast due to them being desperate for improved rail logistics.
As I see it they are just feeding me new yummy bridges for my sexual bridge destruction fetish.
That is one railroad that will never be serviceable, it is in eminent strike range for the GLSDBs.
Tokmak Axis
Over here Ol******* is pushing into both Verbove and Novoprokopivka at a slow but steady pace.
At the same time he is pushing southwards into the gap between the villages.
From there he is following the road between Verbove and Solodka Balka and Ilchenkove.
The Russian resistance is classified by Ol****** as "lighter than previously".
Also, the diminished amount of mines is making things easier for him.
The last part makes it easier for him to use heavier equipment.
The Mayor of Melitopol is complaining about an influx of Russian soldiers in stolen civilian clothes that have meandered into town trying to go back home to Russia.
Seems like they are very impressed with the Putin Order and not getting any reinforcements.
There are also signs now that Russia is ready to step back to the Ocheretuvate - Tokmak Line that has been prepaired.
The VDV Division that previously tried to do flank attacks from East and West to try and cut the salient have now been withdrawn here.
Same goes for the VDV and regular army units that was holding behind Verbove and Novoprokopivka and Solodka Balka.
Obviously there are still forces here, but they are now mostly mobiks of expandable nature.
If these retreat continues we will see significant breakdown within a week.
But, do not be fooled as and when that happen, Russia has a final defence line between Ocheretuvate - Tokmak, so it will not be the definitive breakthrough and a mad dash for the Sea.
Armenia
The Armenians are trying to flee Nagorno-Karabach, but the Azeri forces are shelling the road.
So far more than 125 Armenians have been killed along the road.
This is obviously causing a lot of rejoicing in Azerbaijan, Israel and Turkey.
I still do not understand why Israel is supporting this genocide.
The Putin Order
In a war it is important to have an over-arcing gameplan with the goals that you wish to achieve.
Upon this you attach actual battleplans for invidividual sectors, but being careful that you different sectors pull in the same direction, and help each other out in achieving the gameplan.
The gameplan is the more rigid part, unless things is going spectacularly bad you do not change much here.
After all it contains the steps necessary to win the war.
The initial Russian gameplan stated take Kyiv, create a landbridge from Crimea to Donetsk, take Kharkiv, move onwards and take Odesa from the Sea, and after that seize and hold all of Ukraine.
Obviously the gameplan was garbage and unachievable in reality.
But, if Russia had deployed 50 percent more resources... different story really.
The main problem was that they had not wargamed the individual steps properly.
If they had done that they would have set up a less ambitious gameplan.
Problem is as per usual that Russia was not willing to put in the effort of wargaming the different battleplans that was the result of the gameplan.
Russia set the gameplan, and then tried to force it downwards into the army without input from below on what was feasible.
A true gameplan is set based on what is achievable.
Ukraine on the other hand has had a very good gameplan, and it was the entire way based on what was achievable as a series of parallell battleplans.
Ukraine is more doing an organic tapestry of of individual battleplans supporting the gameplan, and that are ever changing according to what the current needs and opportunities are on the battlefield.
In other words, they are very light on their feet and change plans almost daily at times.
This creates constant pressure where the gameplan so requires, and when Russia makes mistakes they rapidly switches around their plans and can attack very fast.
Note how Ukraine is strictly holding onto the gameplan with their Southern Offensive while grinding in many places, and as opportunity arrives pushes forward in all sorts of bewildering places if it is furthering the gameplan, and some of those places pushed is advancing positions that will be useful in other upcoming offensives up to a year away.
Let us state that Ukraine want to take Luhansk City Next fall, just an example.
Taking a key height North of Kreminna now, would potentially support an upcoming push to take key road 6 months later, that in turn would open up access towards Luhansk 9 months into the future.
Now, let us ponder the Putin Order.
It is de facto the current Russian gameplan.
1. Stop the offensive in the South.
2. Take a large City (with a blooming list of suggested cities to take).
3. Do not move troops away from Luhansk.
It is childlike in its lack of detail and longterm clarity.
Also, it is blocking the achievability of its own inherent goals.
Without moving troops down South they can't stop the current Ukrainian advance in the South.
Without moving troops they can only attack towards Kharkiv on the list of suggested cities to take.
Taking Kharkiv would require nearly 1 million men to take by now, it is the heaviest fortified city on the planet by now.
This obviously leaves taking a smaller city or town as the only viable option, and that is pretty much beyond them since they already tried that and lost as they broke out of the Kreminna bulge.
You see how point 3 effectively kills point 1 and 2.
And even without 3 they would not be able to take a larger city, probably a few villages at best.
Or, they could defend the landbridge from being cut for 6 months.
Anyway, my point is that it is hard to come up with a gameplan more destructive than the Putin Order.
It gives no solutions to any of Russias problems, and it hinders even short term goals and battleplans, and completely lack anything resembling a plan of how to longterm stabilise things and perhaps give a victory in the deep future.
It's utterly pathetic and childlike.
And the Ukrainian MOD is very happy about it."
anyway, stuff I can
"Kursk
The attacks here by the Free Russia Legion is still ongoing, but will most likaly calm down after the weekend as per usual.
The attacks was more powerful than before due to quite a few old Wagnerites having signed up to eek out revenge on Russia for the treatment they got.
The Legion is now at around Battalion strength and will increase by about 20 percent more as and when the last batch of Wagnerites have cleared the Ukrainian security control.
Kreminna
Here Ukraine has increased the artillery expenditure against ammo dumps and artillery systems.
Also the ever popular air defences are getting "massaged".
Since Putin refuses to move these forces out to reinforce in the South, something that was Ukraines prefered option that they do.
It has been judged that it is high time to degrade them in situ, instead of degrading them down south.
It also keeps the scheming rodent Syrskyi occupied if he has to do some actual work and "be offensive" by borstjing some Russians, no need for real offensive work so he is getting to degrade sitting on his ****.
Bakhmut
The ever popular Russian Vacation & Spa Village of Bakhmut has now seen development on the Northern side again.
This is mainly caused by Russia having thinned out the line here to defend down south.
No new resources have been allocated, so Ukraine is now more or less falling into a void.
Russia is trying to build a direct and improved railroad from Rostov-on-Don into Mariupol, basically hugging the coast, or as near to it as they can come.
We have been aware of this for quite a few weeks since they started.
They are building it pretty fast due to them being desperate for improved rail logistics.
As I see it they are just feeding me new yummy bridges for my sexual bridge destruction fetish.
That is one railroad that will never be serviceable, it is in eminent strike range for the GLSDBs.
Tokmak Axis
Over here Ol******* is pushing into both Verbove and Novoprokopivka at a slow but steady pace.
At the same time he is pushing southwards into the gap between the villages.
From there he is following the road between Verbove and Solodka Balka and Ilchenkove.
The Russian resistance is classified by Ol****** as "lighter than previously".
Also, the diminished amount of mines is making things easier for him.
The last part makes it easier for him to use heavier equipment.
The Mayor of Melitopol is complaining about an influx of Russian soldiers in stolen civilian clothes that have meandered into town trying to go back home to Russia.
Seems like they are very impressed with the Putin Order and not getting any reinforcements.
There are also signs now that Russia is ready to step back to the Ocheretuvate - Tokmak Line that has been prepaired.
The VDV Division that previously tried to do flank attacks from East and West to try and cut the salient have now been withdrawn here.
Same goes for the VDV and regular army units that was holding behind Verbove and Novoprokopivka and Solodka Balka.
Obviously there are still forces here, but they are now mostly mobiks of expandable nature.
If these retreat continues we will see significant breakdown within a week.
But, do not be fooled as and when that happen, Russia has a final defence line between Ocheretuvate - Tokmak, so it will not be the definitive breakthrough and a mad dash for the Sea.
Armenia
The Armenians are trying to flee Nagorno-Karabach, but the Azeri forces are shelling the road.
So far more than 125 Armenians have been killed along the road.
This is obviously causing a lot of rejoicing in Azerbaijan, Israel and Turkey.
I still do not understand why Israel is supporting this genocide.
The Putin Order
In a war it is important to have an over-arcing gameplan with the goals that you wish to achieve.
Upon this you attach actual battleplans for invidividual sectors, but being careful that you different sectors pull in the same direction, and help each other out in achieving the gameplan.
The gameplan is the more rigid part, unless things is going spectacularly bad you do not change much here.
After all it contains the steps necessary to win the war.
The initial Russian gameplan stated take Kyiv, create a landbridge from Crimea to Donetsk, take Kharkiv, move onwards and take Odesa from the Sea, and after that seize and hold all of Ukraine.
Obviously the gameplan was garbage and unachievable in reality.
But, if Russia had deployed 50 percent more resources... different story really.
The main problem was that they had not wargamed the individual steps properly.
If they had done that they would have set up a less ambitious gameplan.
Problem is as per usual that Russia was not willing to put in the effort of wargaming the different battleplans that was the result of the gameplan.
Russia set the gameplan, and then tried to force it downwards into the army without input from below on what was feasible.
A true gameplan is set based on what is achievable.
Ukraine on the other hand has had a very good gameplan, and it was the entire way based on what was achievable as a series of parallell battleplans.
Ukraine is more doing an organic tapestry of of individual battleplans supporting the gameplan, and that are ever changing according to what the current needs and opportunities are on the battlefield.
In other words, they are very light on their feet and change plans almost daily at times.
This creates constant pressure where the gameplan so requires, and when Russia makes mistakes they rapidly switches around their plans and can attack very fast.
Note how Ukraine is strictly holding onto the gameplan with their Southern Offensive while grinding in many places, and as opportunity arrives pushes forward in all sorts of bewildering places if it is furthering the gameplan, and some of those places pushed is advancing positions that will be useful in other upcoming offensives up to a year away.
Let us state that Ukraine want to take Luhansk City Next fall, just an example.
Taking a key height North of Kreminna now, would potentially support an upcoming push to take key road 6 months later, that in turn would open up access towards Luhansk 9 months into the future.
Now, let us ponder the Putin Order.
It is de facto the current Russian gameplan.
1. Stop the offensive in the South.
2. Take a large City (with a blooming list of suggested cities to take).
3. Do not move troops away from Luhansk.
It is childlike in its lack of detail and longterm clarity.
Also, it is blocking the achievability of its own inherent goals.
Without moving troops down South they can't stop the current Ukrainian advance in the South.
Without moving troops they can only attack towards Kharkiv on the list of suggested cities to take.
Taking Kharkiv would require nearly 1 million men to take by now, it is the heaviest fortified city on the planet by now.
This obviously leaves taking a smaller city or town as the only viable option, and that is pretty much beyond them since they already tried that and lost as they broke out of the Kreminna bulge.
You see how point 3 effectively kills point 1 and 2.
And even without 3 they would not be able to take a larger city, probably a few villages at best.
Or, they could defend the landbridge from being cut for 6 months.
Anyway, my point is that it is hard to come up with a gameplan more destructive than the Putin Order.
It gives no solutions to any of Russias problems, and it hinders even short term goals and battleplans, and completely lack anything resembling a plan of how to longterm stabilise things and perhaps give a victory in the deep future.
It's utterly pathetic and childlike.
And the Ukrainian MOD is very happy about it."