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connorthemaoist · 1 month

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March 21, 2024 | Ang Bayan

Desperate to “finish off” the revolutionary armed resistance of the Filipino people, the US-Marcos regime’s armed tentacles is carrying out a rampant terrorist and fascist rampage throughout the country. Marcos and the AFP are set to make one false declaration after another that provinces have become “insurgency-free,” especially in areas that have long been targets of foreign corporations for mining, plantation and energy projects. At the behest of US imperialism, the AFP is also in a hurry to “end” the armed struggle of the Filipino people so that the US military can fully employ the AFP in its war of provocation against China which is likely to intensify in the coming year.

Marcos and the leadership of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) have recently ordered an all-out war. The declared aim of this war is to dismantle all NPA guerrilla fronts by the end of March, destroy all NPA combat units by the end of June, and destroy all regional Party committees before the end of the year. Thousands of military troops, alongside police combat troops and tens of thousands of paramilitaries armed by the AFP, have been dispatched to ravage the countryside.

Hundreds of villages are being garrisoned by Marcos’ fascist minions. Oppressive soldiers are controlling people’s lives and livelihoods, silencing them and trampling on their rights and freedoms. Checkpoints and food blockades, prohibiting people from working in their fields or swidden farms, armed soldiers occupying barangay centers, going house to house and forcing people to “surrender,” harassing young women or even married women, all-night drinking, beatings and altercations, indiscriminate firing of guns—this is how people perceive the rotten soldiers. Amid drought and disasters, fascist soldiers are like pests who bring nothing but disaster to their communities.

Using powerful weapons such as drones and jetfighters, helicopters and howitzers, Marcos’s terrorist soldiers are bombing mountains and fields, indiscriminately firing night or day, destroying the forests and poisoning waters, shattering the peace and causing deep trauma to the people, especially children, pregnant women and the elderly. These result in unnecessary number of lives lost, contrary to all principles and laws of civilized warfare.

The evil aim of Marcos is to instill fear in the hearts of the people and force them prostrate while allowing their land to be grabbed by big foreign capitalists and their partner comprador bourgeoisie and big landlords. But instead of falling on the ground, the people are more and more roused to stand up and fight, and tread the path of armed revolution.

In the guerrilla fronts across the country, the units of the New People’s Army (NPA) continue to enjoy deep and widespread support from the peasant masses. Military officers of the AFP and the reactionary state are furious that despite their intensified all-out war which has lasted for almost seven years, the peasant masses continue to provide political and material support to the Red fighters. Young farmers, as well as young students, workers, as well as professionals continue to join the people’s army.

The people’s desire to carry forward the armed struggle continues to burn. Amid fascist attacks perpetrated by the armed minions of the US-Marcos regime, and oppressive policies that worsen their plight, it is becoming clearer to the minds and consciousness of the peasant masses that they completely have nothing if they do not have the New People’s Army on their side to defend their lives and rights, and to fight with for their land and livelihood.

In recent years, the NPA has suffered losses and setbacks in various parts of the country due to the errors and weaknesses of conservatism and complacency with its previous accomplishments. Instead of boldly treading the path of continuous expansion and invigoration of the armed struggle, the scope and mass base of guerrilla units were reduced, and units became passive and vulnerable to enemy encirclement. Under the guidance of and inspired by the Party, the NPA is determined to rectify errors and move forward on the path of strengthening and galvanizing the people’s war.

In the spirit of the rectification movement, the NPA must more vigorously wage armed struggle in all parts of the country. Utilizing the broad mass movement in guerrilla warfare, they must use all weapons—guns and rocks, spears and punji traps, shotguns and landmines—and carry out large or small tactical offensives that can be won against weak and isolated parts of the enemy. Strike at the enemy’s fascist troops and all its tentacles by way of rendering justice for the people and inspiring their resistance. Only by waging widespread armed resistance can the NPA consolidate, overcome setbacks and strengthen.

Since its establishment, five and a half decades ago, the NPA has served as the true people’s army in promoting the revolutionary aspirations of the Filipino people for national democracy. On its coming anniversary on March 29, let us celebrate its accomplishments for the past 55 years, pay tribute to all the martyrs and heroes, and reaffirm the determination to advance the protracted people’s war, without fear of sacrifices and hardships, to achieve ultimate victory in the future.

#revolution #maoism #communism #revolutionary #marxism leninism maoism #communist #maoist #marxism #mlm #the philippines #pw #ang bayan #cpp

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captain-price-unofficially · 3 months

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155 mm 2S22 Bohdana 3.0 self-propelled howitzer from 10th Separate Mountain-Assault Brigade is operated, Ukraine, January 2024.

#2S22 #SPGs #ukrainian armor #modern #russo-ukrainian war

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archivist-crow · 5 months

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On this day:

ABSENTEE ARMIES

On December 10, 1937, in the foothills south of Nanking, China, a Chinese army of 3,000 men vanished in the night. Earlier that day, Colonel Li Fu Sien inspected the troops that he had positioned in a two-mile natural fortress along the road, close to an important bridge across the Yangtze River, where he hoped to delay the march of Japanese soldiers. Armed with howitzers, the troops dug themselves in, and the colonel returned to headquarters a few miles behind the lines. Three hours later he was awakened by an aide reporting that the troops could not be contacted. The colonel returned to the front line. The entire army—with the exception of one small outpost closest to the bridge—was missing. The remaining soldiers had seen nothing suspicious. The guns of the vanished troops were all that remained.

In 1915, the British First-Fifth Norfolk Regiment was on a mission in Gallipoli to capture Istanbul, Turkey, and were preparing for an attack at Hill 60. Over 250 soldiers and officers, under the command of colonel Sir Horace Beauchamp, were pursuing the enemy up the hill when a strange cloud, 800 feet long and 220 feet high, descended from the sky. The troops marched into it. The cloud then ascended vertically, taking the entire army with it.

In 1868, while marching toward the city of Saigon, 500 French Legionnaires and 150 troops from the Algerian Calvary vanished. They failed to reach the city and did not return to their base. In the early 1700s, marching in the foothills of the Pyrenees mountains, 4,000 armed Spanish soldiers camped beside a mountain stream one night. Their camp was later found, but they were never seen again.

Text from: Almanac of the Infamous, the Incredible, and the Ignored by Juanita Rose Violins, published by Weiser Books, 2009

#on this day #december #mysterious disappearances

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montgomery-cannon · 8 months

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Monty remembered Titania's funeral vividly. Funerals in District Two were celebrations of a Games well fought usually. Flowers and speeches. Parties and reenactments. Doubly so when there was a Victor, as there had been after the 115th. Monty had been the guest of honor at his District Partner's final memorial, even more so than her parents and family.

He remembered how Abraham Howitzer had sulked in the back the whole time, still jealous that Monty had Volunteered faster than he had. He remembered the handful of Academics who hid derisive laughter behind their hands, thinking that Titania didn't deserve a party because she had died to poisonous beetles rather than in the glory of open combat. He could still see his father and mother, wearing black in honor of the fallen, but so very proud of their son, the Victor.

He remembered Everett, at 18, still thinking that the long hair Monty sported looked good on him. In this retrospect, Monty was a bit flattered, while at the time he had made merciless fun of Everett for wanting to be as strong and as cool and as everything as his older brother (none of which he was). He remembered the way his little brother looked at that funeral, the funeral of a Tribute who had fallen in the Games.

Monty had been to countless funerals for the fallen. More times than not there were four caskets a year. He didn't make it to every one - some of the families preferred smaller celebrations, or the Cannons had been blacklisted from one family or another. The Colts, for example, had expressly forbade the Cannons from entering the premises of their daughter's celebration. Everett had been there, at some of them. Some of them he hadn't been at. He wasn't always invited either. Sometimes Monty would get an invitation as a Victor that the rest of his family wouldn't get. Or Helios might get an invite for his work in government. Or their father, Lionel, might get one for the business he ran. Sometimes Monty and Everett simply didn't want to go. There were some funerals where no Cannon was present, and others where all of them were there.

Monty remembered a lot of funerals.

It was different from now. Now it was Mason who was the guest of honor, laying to rest a different Brick. The celebrations had been appropriate. Drinks had flowed, Mason spoke as eloquently as he ever had. Miller had been ushered where he needed to be, and remained understandably quiet. People had a variety of opinions about the patriarch Brick's speech, and only a few people hid said opinions.

All the Cannons were there. Lionel, Rheyna, Montgomery, Helios, Liliana, and Everett. All dressed in black, all offering congratulations and condolences as the conversations commanded. The entire family there to honor the Tribute who had fallen in the Games and celebrate the Victor who had come home. Montgomery would remember this funeral too. It was the first one in a while that they had all been in town and available to make it. As the Bricks deserved, after all. The families were so close. The Bricks had all been at -

Monty excused himself from the conversation he was in. Some young Academic, excited for her shot in the Arena, had been bothering every Victor she could find. She deflated for a brief moment before spotting Cato in the distance, who set her eyes a-twinkle again. It seemed to Montgomery that tact was rapidly becoming a lost art in the Academy. But he couldn't stop the admirable upward quirk in the corner of his mouth as she bounced away. It was good, if nothing else, to know that pride and tradition still remained strong in District Two.

He took a breath of the crisp mountain air, turning his back to the festivities. They were winding down. There were still hands to shake and people to see, but Monty's social responsibilities had more or less concluded for the day. Something had lodged itself in the corner of his eye, though, and it was never polite to rub at one's eyes in the company of others.

Something was different about this funeral.

#t: everett 7 #i'm sorry i wrote a novel!#ahw133

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gijoe-forever · 5 months

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#gijoe #roadblock #salvo #sneak peek #mountain howitzer

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theculturedmarxist · 10 months

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The member nations of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization – consisting of the teetering Masters of Empire and their tawdry entourage of class-stratified vassals – have just concluded a historic confab in Vilnius, Lithuania, capital of the alpha Baltic chihuahua.

In a shockingly transparent but otherwise rather banal series of events it became unmistakably clear that their grand plans to subject Russia to the “rules-based order” have come to naught.

Among others, the following consequences will ripple in the wake of this reality:

Russia will achieve a decisive conclusion to the war on terms they dictate.

NATO is shattered as a military alliance, and coming apart at the seams as a political alliance.

Germany is on a trajectory of becoming a failed state, and as it goes, so will go the incoherent iron and clay mixture of the so-called European Union.

The great myth of overwhelming US armaments supremacy has been exposed as little more than a modestly scaled boutique enterprise utterly ill-suited and ill-prepared to prosecute industrial warfare against a peer adversary.

Of course, many will immediately object:

“But the US hasn’t even employed its military in Ukraine! If the US entered this war with its awesome air and naval power, and its “best-in-class” army … well, the Russians would get pounded to dust within a few weeks.”

Well, I hope the thesis is never put to the test, because it will NOT end well.

I am now more convinced than ever that Russia’s specific strengths match and will consistently defeat the American military’s perceived strengths.

Russia admittedly does not wield an expeditionary military, but the concept and constitution of the military it has built renders it effectively unbeatable in its own neighborhood.

A little over a year has now passed since I published an essay entitled The United States Could Not Win and Will Not Fight a War Against Russia. I have recently revisited it. I felt no impulse to change a thing. Indeed, I am struck by how much it is more apropos now than it was a year ago. I believe it constitutes an essential element of understanding in relation to the geopolitical realities at work in our world circa 2023.

Since I wrote the article, there have been many twists and turns in the path of the continuing quasi-proxy war in Ukraine between the rapidly descendant American Empire and an increasingly resurgent Russia. But in early July 2022, it had, in my estimation, become undeniably evident that Russia had effectively wrecked the formidable original proxy army the empire had built, trained, and partially equipped on the foundation of Ukrainian flesh and blood, and a substantial collection of legacy Soviet implements of war.

Sure, there were still scattered potent remnants, but it had been degraded at least 60% by that point in time. Despite a few own-goals along the way, the Russians accomplished this using a force less than half the size of the one the Ukrainians arrayed against them, while inflicting severe equipment losses and at least a 7 to 1 casualty ratio.

So NATO was forced to up the ante. Aspiring to address the obvious Russian advantage in firepower, they shipped several batteries of M-777 155 mm howitzers to Ukraine, followed soon by a few dozen M-142 HIMARS rocket launchers.

Both weapon systems enjoyed a smattering of early successes that were ecstatically trumpeted by western media and their devout disciples around the world.

Meanwhile, tens of thousands of Ukrainian young men were being trained in NATO bases dotting Europe and the western hemisphere. They were instructed in the use of NATO equipment, and to fight the Russians according to NATO battlefield doctrine.

By mid-summer, a significant portion of this second iteration of the Ukrainian army had arrived back in Ukraine, along with hundreds of NATO infantry vehicles, mountains of ammunition – and perhaps most significantly – a substantial contingent of NATO-affiliated “volunteers” from many countries within the western alliance, notably Poland.

I am convinced this escalatory step convinced the Russians they must immediately begin to more fully prepare themselves for the prospect that NATO would directly intervene in the war.

First they gave priority to learning how best to track down and destroy the limited-mobility M-777 howitzers. And rather than obsess unduly on targeting the elusive HIMARS launcher vehicles, the Russians instead focused on electronically jamming / spoofing the GPS sensors or otherwise shooting down the rockets with their short- and medium-range air defense systems.

(Their success in this respect has been nothing short of a revolution in military affairs. It is unprecedented in the age of aerial warfare. Yes, some missiles still get through, but not many, and typically only in the absence or on the outskirts of Russian ECM and air defense coverage areas.)

The Russians had, throughout early- to mid-2022, made significant offensive advances into the Novorossiya regions of Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk, Lugansk, and Kharkov. But as the summer waned, they began to perceptibly consolidate the entire line of contact. They then quickly brought to pass popular referenda in all but the Kharkov region – thereby formally assimilating the other four into the Russian Federation.

In mid-August 2022, the AFU began to advance against Russian forces on the western borders of the Dnieper River near Kherson. The Russians savaged the initial attacks, but then assumed a tactical-retreat posture. This continued for many weeks as they methodically contracted their lines into a bridgehead on the western part of Kherson city proper, all the while exacting severe losses on the attacking forces.

They would eventually effect an almost-flawless evacuation of twenty thousand troops and virtually all their heavy equipment to the eastern bank of the river, blow up the Antonovsky bridge, and then proceed to savage the AFU troops on the other side with artillery and airstrikes that continue to this day.

As September rolled around, the Ukrainians (with significant numbers of NATO-affiliated “volunteers” in the vanguard) moved with an even more potent force in the Kharkov region, aiming for the strategic cities of Kupyansk, Izyum, and Kremmenaya.

Again, amid much triumphalism in the western punditsphere, as well as bitter recrimination and hyperbolic dooming from the Russian 6th column and its acolytes, the Russian high command effected what I observed to be an orderly, well-executed fighting retreat to the other side of the Oskol river, where they had prepared fortified lines and installed substantial reinforcements.

At that point, the Ukrainian offensive in the Kharkov region reached its high-water mark, and as autumn turned to winter and then to spring, every attempt to advance further was met with a decisive repulse.

Though consistently ignored by those who laud the “lightning advances” of the late-season AFU “counter-offensive” in Kharkov, the attacking Ukrainian forces were horrifically mauled between the first week of September and mid-October – and ever since.

As the Russians contracted their lines to much more defensible positions, they concurrently mobilized and commenced intensive training of several hundred thousand reservists; ramped up armaments production to completely unforeseen levels, and settled in for the next few months to fight a punishing war of attrition against Ukraine and its NATO benefactors – even as they simultaneously prepared to face the credible possibility of direct NATO intervention.

That said, despite a mostly defensive posture throughout late 2022 and early 2023, the Russians did launch an operation against the strategic cities of Soledar and Bakhmut that few foresaw would evolve into the greatest battle on European soil since the Second World War. “Surovikin’s Meat Grinder” would eventually consume many tens of thousands of Ukraine’s best remaining troops and equipment.

In the end, the second iteration of the Ukrainian army was degraded even more comprehensively than was the first.

Ukrainian air power has long-since been rendered effectively negligible. Provided with occasional but very sparse deliveries of old Soviet aircraft from the former Warsaw Pact nations, they have continued to manage occasional stand-off missile strikes, but close air support has been nonexistent.

Russian missile strikes on Ukrainian infrastructure in early 2023 served to rapidly deplete the legacy Soviet air defense systems. And all western shipments of would-be replacements have proven to be inferior to Ukraine’s old stocks of S-300 and Buk systems.

Fantastical Ukrainian and western media claims of 90%+ shoot-downs of Russian missiles notwithstanding, the Russians now routinely strike targets throughout Ukraine where and when they will.

Most debilitating of all, persistent ammunition shortages have now become acute. Original and supplemented stocks of Soviet-sized 152 mm artillery are all-but exhausted. And despite the US having coordinated the shipment of millions of NATO 155 mm artillery shells from every nook and cranny in the empire’s vast global network of bases and those of its obedient vassals, the cupboard is now bare.

What was widely (albeit fallaciously) believed to be a nearly inexhaustible supply of equipment and ammunition in the warehouses of the Pentagon and its various less-than-sovereign minions around the globe has been exposed as entirely inadequate to the demands of a real war.

It is an astonishing development in the eyes of a great many in the world.

And yet, it shouldn’t be.

In my July 2022 article, I prominently cited US Army Col. (Ret.) Alex Vershinin's all-important analysis regarding The Return of Industrial Warfare, which had appeared in RUSI a couple weeks previous. If you have not already done so, I highly recommend this short but powerful essay. His entire argument has now been confirmed by events.

Here in mid-July 2023, almost everything that eighteen months ago was only seen through a glass darkly is now undeniably apparent to all with eyes to see:

Far from being massively attrited, as any number of empire-compromised NATO rent-a-generals and politicians have ludicrously argued from the first weeks of the war, the Russians have employed an extremely impressive economy of force to achieve their objectives. To be certain, they have suffered losses in men and equipment that would be far in excess of anything western nations could abide. But the fact remains that the Russians have inflicted the most disproportionate casualty ratio of any major war in the modern era.

My sense of the matter is that the aggregated total of Russian, Donbass militia, and PMC Wagner combat deaths is probably in the neighborhood of twenty-five thousand.

On the other side of the line, Ukrainian combat deaths are now almost certainly in the range of 250k to 350k – at least 20k of that total occurring just since the first week of June.

The third iteration of the Ukrainian army, equipped predominantly with imported NATO armor, artillery, and ammunition, has been torn to shreds over the course of the previous six weeks of their last gasp offensive. The AFU very likely has been husbanding its scant remaining stock of NATO equipment and ammunition for one last “charge of the damned”, but otherwise Ukrainian offensive potential is played-out, and there will be no fourth iteration of a Ukrainian army to face the Russians on the field.

Meanwhile, upwards of four-hundred thousand uncommitted Russian reserves are champing at the bit to be turned loose. With Russian military industrial output now in high gear, these troops are better-equipped than any that have yet taken part in this conflict.

The Russian air force has received substantial numbers of new airframes from the production line. Attack helicopters roam the battlefield with near-impunity. Russian supply of strike drones, cruise missiles, and supersonic air-launched missiles appears to meet all its battlefield demands. Its so far modest deployment of hypersonic missiles has shown them to be extremely potent weapons that defy the attempts of antiquated western air defenses to interdict them.

This war is a lost cause for the empire and its hapless allies in Europe and around the world. And that, of course, is the unavoidable conclusion that has finally managed to seep into the otherwise dense skulls of the various participants at the recent NATO summit in Lithuania.

The Masters of Empire now face a no-win scenario. They must abandon their failed Ukraine gambit — and inexorably, over the next few years, yield to maximalist Russian demands regarding the roll-back of NATO to its pre-1997 borders — or else yield to the mad impulse of a futile attempt to subjugate Russia by force of arms in the form of direct US/NATO intervention into this war.

Either way, the decline of the empire will be radically accelerated; NATO will almost immediately cease to function as a credible military/political alliance; the EU will dissolve as a monetary/political "union"; the demise of the global dollar system will rapidly gain momentum.

And though many, if not most, find risible the assertion that these things could possibly come to pass in anything like the near- or medium-term (2 - 5 years), I increasingly expect they will be proven catastrophically mistaken.

#russia #nato #ukraine conflict #european union #us imperialism

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workersolidarity · 6 months

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[A Ukrainian self-propelled howitzer is targeted in a Russian missile strike in the Kherson region]

🇺🇦🇷🇺 🚨

💥UPDATE ON THE RUSSO-UKRAINIAN WAR, EVENTS OF DAY 631💥

(16 November 2023)

In the General direction:

According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation:

▫️ Operational-Tactical and Army Aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces eliminated one command post of the AFU 128th Mountain Assault Brigade near Dmitrovo (Zaporozhye region), as well as manpower and military hardware in 132 areas.

▫️ Fighter jets of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down one MiG-29 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force close Krasnoarmeysk (Donetsk People's Republic).

▫️ Air defence systems have shot down two HIMARS MLRS projectiles and one U.S.-made JDAM aerial guided bomb.

▫️ In addition, 26 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were shot down close to Kremennaya (Lugansk People's Republic), Novoandreyevka, Lipovoye (Donetsk People's Republic), Mirnoye, Romanovskoye, and Pavlovka (Zaporozhye region).

📊 In total, 536 airplanes and 254 helicopters, 8,960 unmanned aerial vehicles, 441 air defence missile systems, 13,426 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,184 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 7,121 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 15,312 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.

🔹 Russian Defence Ministry

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▫️ In the Kupyansk direction:

According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, units of the Zapad Group of Forces supported by aviation and artillery repelled three attacks of the AFU 32nd and 67th mechanised brigades near Sinkovka and Zagoruykovka (Kharkov region).

The enemy losses amounted to up to 110 Ukrainian troops, one tank, two infantry fighting vehicles, and one U.S.-made M777 artillery system.

Russian Forces continue operations in the direction of Liman Pershyi, with video published by Russian sources in the area of the movement of Ukrainian Forces through the forests outside the city just north of Synkovka. After the vehicle gets stuck and a second vehicle comes to tow it, Russian artillery forces opened fire on them.

According to the source:

The Kozak armored car could not cope with the off-road conditions in the area of the settlement. Sinkovka and therefore the good old “Motolyga” pulled him out.

The scouts of the 6th Army of the Western Group of Forces could not resist such a gift and sent artillery to their aid.

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Outside Yahidne, some Russian sources claim to have captured Ivanivka, or part of Ivanivka, however no video evidence has been produced as of yet to give evidence to this.

No other changes in territory were recorded for the region.

▫️ In the Krasny Liman direction:

According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Tsentr Group of Forces' units, as well as strikes of helicopters and artillery, repelled one attack of an assault detachment of the AFU 12th Azov Special Forces Brigade close to Chervonaya Dibrova (Lugansk People's Republic).

In addition, strikes were delivered at clusters of enemy manpower and hardware near Torskoye (Donetsk People's Republic) and Serebryansky forestry.

The enemy losses were up to 175 Ukrainian troops killed and wounded, two pick-up trucks, and two U.S.-made M777 artillery system.

No video updates are coming from this area, despite constant reporting of fighting ongoing in the area complete with consistent update from the Russian MoD on Ukrainian losses. Perhaps all is not as well as the Ministry would like its people to think but aren't yet ready to reveal this, perhaps because of ongoing operations or plans. Whatever it may be, this area remains in a virtual black out.

No territorial changes have been recorded or claimed.

▫️ In the Donetsk direction:

According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, units of the Yug Group of Forces supported by aviation and artillery repelled 14 attacks, and inflicted fire damage on AFU manpower and hardware close to Kleshcheyevka, Artyomovo, Georgiyevka, and Novomikhailovka (Donetsk People's Republic).

In total, the enemy lost up to 240 troops killed and wounded, one tank, and three motor vehicles in this direction during the day.

In course of counterbattery warfare, one U.S.-made M109 Paladin self-propelled artillery gun, two Polish-made Krab self-propelled artillery systems, three U.S.-made M777 artillery systems, as well as one MT-12 Rapira anti-tank gun were neutralised.

In the north of Avdiivka, Russian operations to expand their zone of control in the area of Stepove continues, with RU Forces making progress in the treelines and trenches along the rail lines towards the direction of Ocheretyne.

While a second push towards the Avidiivka chemical plant is evidenced by a video from Ukrainian sources showing Russian infantry holding positions in a trench network geolocated to the very northeastern corner of the chemical plant, just outside its perimeter.

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On the south of Avdiivka, Russian Forces have made considerable progress in the area of Yasynuvatskyy Ln, advancing a distance in recent days, evidenced by geolocated Ukrainian video showing the successful targeting of a Russian T-72B which was advancing up the lane.

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In the Siversk direction, in the village of Spirne, heavy fighting has started up in the area, with a multitude of videos recently from both sides evidencing an intensifying of the fighting here, in one of the quieter areas of the Special Military Operation.

Ukrainian Forces in the Spirne area published a geolocated video of drone work in the area, with the successful targeting of a Russian store of TM-62 mines to stupendous visual effect, killing upwards of 20 Russian soldiers collecting mines in the area.

According to the source:

Destruction of enemy TM-62 mines thanks to FPV-kamikaze. South of the village of Spirne, Donetsk region.

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While Russian Forces in the area published video of drone operations on Ukrainian positions on the neighboring side of Spirne from the last geolocated video.

According to the source:

The scouts of Detachment GORB 2AK are terrorizing the enemy’s defensive position at the Spornoye NP with drops and FPV

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Lastly, also in the Spornoye direction, dispicably, Ukrainian Forces have introduced women to the frontline of Spirne, after Russian Forces made advances on some Ukrainian edge-line positions, they worked their way through the newly captured trenches to find multiple dead Ukrainian women inside the trench network, and produced video evidence of this horrifying update.

This isn't to suggest women cannot fight in wars, but this update suggests Ukraine is running out of men to feed into the meat grinder, and are now actively pursuing women to use in this same way. As meat to fill the trenches they expect their soldiers to die in.

According to the source:

BREAKING: Ukraine uses WOMEN in frontal battle units near Spornoe.

➡️ They’re running out of people …

crazy.

#source7

▫️ In the South Donetsk direction:

According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, units of the Vostok Group of Forces, helicopters, and artillery inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of the AFU 79th Air Assault Brigade and 128th Territorial Defence Brigade near Ugledar and Konstantinovka (Donetsk People's Republic).

The enemy losses were up to 70 servicemen, two armoured fighting vehicles, and two pick-up trucks.

In course of the counter-battery warfare, one Polish-made Krab self-propelled artillery system and one UK-made FH70 howitzer were destroyed.

In the Krasnohorivka direction, Russian Forces continue heavy artillery and bomb preparation in this area, with Russia Forces in the area publishing video of their night work on Ukrainian positions in the south of the city where Russian Forces have made advances in the previous week.

According to the source:

And day at night, specialists from our Brigade conduct operational and combat work. The coordinated interaction of scouts, artillery and BMP crews of the 5th Brigade is producing results: the enemy is suffering losses around the clock. So, meter by meter, we are returning our lands!

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In the Novoprokopivka area, Russian Forces continue heavy bombing and artillery preparation from both the north and south of the village, with Russian sources publishing video of FAB500 strikes on the north of the village.

According to the source:

FAB-500 with UMPC fly into the air traffic control zone at enemy strongholds in Novomikhailovka

#source9

▫️In the Zaporozhye direction:

According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, units of the Russian Group of Forces, aviation and artillery inflicted fire damage on manpower and hardware of the 33rd, 116th, and 118th mechanised brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine close to Rabotino, Uspenovka, and Malaya Tokmachka (Zaporozhye region).

The enemy's losses in this area amounted to up to 100 troops, two tanks, two armoured fighting vehicles, as well as one Giatsint-B gun.

Russian Forces published video today of a major strike on the headquarters of the 115th Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Also, according to today's update from the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, an 128th Mountain Assault Brigade in Dmitrovo, destroying a meeting of the officers. One of many strikes in recent weeks in the area. Very difficult to understand what exactly is happening in this area.

A previous video published on November 4th was also said to be on the 128th Brigade, and many are getting these two strikes confused. However, it is clear from the video these were two separate strikes, with the first strike on Nov 4th using Tornado-S MLRS, while the second strike was likely an Iscandar missile strike.

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Fighting continues in the vicinity of Verbove, with Russian Forces heavily bombing and shelling Ukrainian positions on the western outskirts of the village as Ukrainian Forces continue with irregular assaults.

A similar situation in the west of Robotyne. Russian Forces are heavily bombing and shelling the western outskirts of the village using a variety of weapons including drones, howitzers, mortars and MLRS.

For instance, Russian Forces published video showing the work of their FPV drone operators in the vicinity of the western outskirts of Robotyne.

According to the source:

Positional combat operations in the Orekhovsky direction.

Shelling of a Ukrainian Armed Forces position in the west of Rabotino by an FPV drone of the Russian Armed Forces.

#source13

▫️ In the Kherson direction:

According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, up to 70 Ukrainian servicemen and two motor vehicles were neutralised as a result of fire defeat during the day.

Also, one U.S.-made M109 Paladin self-propelled artillery system, one U.S.-made M777 artillery system, and Msta-B howitzer were hit during counter-battery warfare.

Bombing and shelling continues towards Krynky with few updates.

In the area of Mykilske, Russian sources published video of an accurate strike on a Ukdainian self-propelled howitzer.

According to the source:

Kherson direction, a self-propelled artillery unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (self-propelled guns, 2S1) is firing at our positions and at civilian infrastructure facilities. Trying to hide from retaliation in the hangar. Two accurate shots, she was never seen again.

Best regards, " Junker" I have the honor!

#source14

Russian sources published video showing the targeting of a suspicious Ukrainian barge on the Dnieper in the vicinity of Dniprovske, though I have yet to hear any updates on what this ship might have been or what damage was done to it.

According to the source:

In the riverbed of the Dnieper, our troops spotted a barge that had suspicious enemy activity.

Prevention of the enemy being near the object was carried out successfully. Reportedly, the barge was later sunk.

#source15

While a second video published by the same source show the successful targeting of Ukrainian armored vehicles in the Kherson direction by Russian missile forces.

According to the source:

Our missile defense system destroys another enemy concentration off the banks of the Dnieper.

#source16

@WorkerSolidarityNews

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During the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, forested tracts and strips between fields have become the only shelter available to soldiers trying to hide from reconnaissance drones. For that reason, Ukraine’s forests have become sites of particularly intense fighting and targets for seemingly endless missile and artillery strikes. Since October 2022, a separate “forest front” has existed to the north of the Siverskyi Donets River near the city of Kreminna. Large forces from both Russia and Ukraine have faced off there, bombing and shelling the forest with every available type of weapon, from mine-clearing vehicles to powerful aerial bombs. At the same time, the Russian army continues its long-standing practice of mining practically every strip of forest in the northern Zaporizhzhia and southern Donetsk regions.

A forest road in the Chernihiv region after heavy combat followed by Russian troops’ withdrawal, April 2022.

Marko Djurica / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA

Holy Mountains National Nature Park in the northern part of the Donetsk region. For several months in 2022, one of the war’s front lines ran through the forest along the Siverskyi Donets River, until Ukraine’s Armed Forces liberated the park in the fall. In March 2023, signs of last year’s fighting were still visible in those forests.

Ihor Tkachov / AFP / Scanpix / LETA

Forest in Kreminna, June 2023

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A Ukrainian soldier in the Kreminna forest, June 2023. Traces of a fire are visible. Fighting has been ongoing in this forest since October and Russian troops have not been able to force Ukrainian units out of the area.

Anatolii Stepanov / AFP / Scanpix / LETA

A camouflaged D-30 howitzer fires at Russian positions near Kreminna. Forests gave soldiers on both sides much-needed cover from skies filled with reconnaissance and attack drones.

Libkos / AP / Scanpix / LETA

A burned section of the Kreminna forest near Yampil, November 2022. The village was captured by the Russian army in May and liberated by Ukraine in September.

Andriy Andriyenko / AP / Scanpix / LETA

A mined forest strip on the Izyum–Slovyansk road. Russian soldiers called this section the Sherwood Forest. They tried from April to September 2022 to capture it, but in the end were forced to withdraw. A large number of mines and unexploded ordnance remain in the forest.

Marek M. Berezowski / Anadolu Agency / ABACAPRESS / ddp images / Vida Press

Traces of combat in Holy Mountains National Park, October 2022, when Ukraine’s Armed Forces recaptured parts of the forest on the banks of the Siverskyi Donets.

Carl Court / Getty Images

A large, old tree serves as a makeshift roadblock in the Donbas, June 2022

Bernat Armangue / AP / Scanpix / LETA

Anti-tank mines in the forest near the Mokri Yaly River, not far from Velyka Novosilka, in southern Ukraine, summer 2023. On the eve of Ukraine’s offensive, Russian troops lined all the forested tracts and strips in the southern Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia regions.

Diego Herrera Carcedo / Anadolu Agency / ABACAPRESS / ddp images / Vida Press

Burned out Russian equipment in a burned forest belt in the Kharkiv region after Ukraine’s successful fall 2022 offensive. Regional authorities are trying to clear the forests of scrap metal and are paying local residents to collect it.

Mykhaylo Palinchak / SOPA Images / Sipa USA / Vida Press

Pine trees damaged by artillery fire in a forest outside of Bucha, in the Kyiv region. Both sides in the conflict used artillery in combat near Ukraine’s capital from February to March 2022.

Pavlo Dorohoi

Fire-marked trees in the forest near Chornobyl, September 2022. At the beginning of the war, 14,000 hectares (34,600 acres) of forest burned during a month of fighting, at the beginning of the current war, in the exclusion zone created in the aftermath of the 1986 disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.

Narciso Contreras / Anadolu Agency / ABACAPRESS / ddp images / Vida Press

The site of a forest fire, started during combat in spring 2022, near Chornobyl

Narciso Contreras / Anadolu Agency / ABACAPRESS / ddp images / Vida Press

Flooded trees on the Irpin River, near the village of Demydiv in the Kyiv region. Ukraine’s Armed Forces reportedly blew up a dam on the river in order to slow Russian troops’ advance on Ukraine’s capital. The Ukrainian authorities have blamed Russia for the flooding.

Nicolas Garcia / AFP / Scanpix / LETA

Flooded forest near the village of Demydiv after an explosion at a dam on the Irpin River, February 28, 2022

Yasuyoshi Chiba / AFP / Scanpix / LETA

Rocket fragments in a burned forest strip on the outskirts of Mykolaiv, August 2022

Stanislav Kozliuk / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA

The tail end of an 85-millimeter mine, stuck in tree branches in a grove of trees in the Mykolaiv region.

Efrem Lukatsky / AP / Scanpix / LETA

Fighting in the swampy forests on islands in the Dnipro River did not stop even after flooding caused by the rupture of Kakhovka Hyropower Plant. This photo was taken near the Antonivka Bridge, where Ukrainian Armed Forces landed in June 2023.

Nicolas Cleuet / Le Pictorium Agency / ZUMA Press / Scanpix / LETA

Trees washed out during the flood after the rupture of the Kakhovka dam were carried to the Black Sea and washed ashore near Odesa

Art-Studio / Alamy / Vida Press

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