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Day 170, August 12. Summary of Arestovych and Feygin daily broadcast
https://wartranslated.com...d-feygin-daily-broadcast/The Ukrainian general staff said today that the enemy had partial success on the Bakhmut direction. This means that they pushed back our forces closer to the eastern outskirts of Bakhmut. This advance is about 1.5km. Arestovych calls for people to not “lose their heads” over this advance. The tempo and the scale of this advance are such that they will not allow the Russians to take Bakhmut, Siversk or other towns. There will not be a repeat of Lysychansk and Severodonetsk. Arestovych says the Ukrainians have advanced north of Dov’henke and are probing near Kam’yanka. No real changes on the rest of the front, same attempts at attacking in the same places.
Kleine verschuivingen op de kaart zeggen niet veel.
Explosions in Nova Kakhovka. The Ukrainians continue to destroy HQ’s, storage depots and other military targets in the south on a daily basis. Explosions in Horlivka and Donetsk. HIMARS are working well and the UK has given an additional 3 M270. Right now it is a war of attrition and it is going according to plan. Only a long build up can produce the desired effects in such a conflict. According to Arestovych, the Russian offensive in the Donbass currently has at best 1/3 of the power the Russians had in Lysychansk/Severodonetsk.
Grinding werkt, de Russische slagkracht in de Donbass is 1/3 van wat ze in Lysychansk/Severodonetsk hadden.
The transition of the strategic initiative to Ukraine was marked by 2 events: 1. the return of McDonald’s to Ukraine 2. the strike on the Russian airbase in Saky. The Ukrainian army has shown that it can liberate cities without civilian casualties by flanking and forcing the enemy to retreat like what was seen in Bucha and Irpin where the Russians retreated when they became outflanked. Similar events could happen in Kherson, Enerhodar and many other places.
Oekraïne heeft aangetoond dat steden bevrijd kan worden zonder burgerslachtoffers. Zorg ervoor dat de vijand in de val dreigt te zijn, dan trekken ze terug.
Van Kamil weten we dat de Russen niets aantrekken van het lot van de medemens. Zeker als het financieel goed gecompenseerd is. Maar de Russen geven wel om hun eigen leven, een hogere prioriteit dan geld, nieuwe auto of appartement betaald door de overheid.
The 3 ways that Russia could change their situation are:
1. Increase their army by 80-100k well trained soldiers (“volunteer battalions” they are attempting to raise do not count as such). Even then, this would only change the situation temporarily, and the Russians would be stopped again after taking a few more towns.
2. Developing their military industry and accelerating war production however this would not take effect for a few years and is impossible if sanctions are not lifted (which they will not be)
3. The third way is a mass use of nuclear weapons. However, variants 2 and 3 are never going to happen.
De mogelijke keuzes voor Rusland.
- Meer goed getrainde troepen naar het front, verlengt de oorlog een beetje.
- Oorlogsindustrie en -productie versnellen, wordt niet alleen door sancties tegen gehouden. Voor de hogere oligarchen mogen de lagere oligarchen die de fabrieken runnen, niet teveel rijkdom en macht vergaren. Dan offshoren ze nog liever naar de EU en indien nodig wordt Russische technologie aan een ander land doorgeven. Bedrijven in een ander land gaan de winsten niet gebruiken om invloed in Rusland te kopen en mogen dus geld verdienen. Russische fabrieksbazen die teveel geld kunnen verdienen, kunnen dat wel aanwenden om de machtsbalans tussen de oligarchen te veranderen.
- Kernwapens gaat niet gebeuren.
Even the Belarusian army invading somewhere would not change the situation. The Russians have no options left and they understand this perfectly well. This is why the Russians are trying to get a ceasefire and to carry out referendums. The war will come to Crimea and Ukraine has the initiative. The Russians are wasting combat power assaulting Pisky head on and if the situation in Bakhmut gets out of hand, the Ukrainians will simply commit reserves that they have to resolve the situation. Nothing can save the Putin regime now. Strategically, the war is lost.
That is why Arestovych dislikes the fixation on the tactical level which suggests that the Russians are somehow winning. The Putin regime exploits the anxiety of average people. The Russians are now issuing orders that cannot be executed. This leads to a complete erosion of trust in their own troops both in victory and in their high command. This leads to plummeting morale.
De Russen verspillen veel slagkracht in Pisky en als Bakhmut uit de hand loopt, dan zet Oekraïne gewoon de reserve in. Dit is waarom Arestovych niet van het blindstaren op paar dorpen op een kaart houdt.
Het is Putin die graag de angsten van de mensen uitbuit en zoals op de beurs extrapoleert de mens graag alles. Elke dag beetje opschuiven op de kaart wordt al snel geëxtrapoleerd tot de Russen zullen uiteindelijk alles veroveren.
De Russen geven orders die niet uitgevoerd kan worden en het vertrouwen tussen de soldaten en officieren gaat volledig verdwijnen.
In response to Russian threats to the west, Arestovych says that only 4 Ukrainian planes with anti radiation missiles from the 80s obliterated all Russian air defences on the west bank of the Dniepr. NATO, if it has to, can use 2100 planes. In the event of NATO war with Russia, “there will be nothing left alive up to the Ural mountains”, he clarifies that this only applies to military personnel and targets, not civilians.
4 Oekraïense vliegtuigen met jaren 80 anti-radiatie-raketten heeft de Russische luchtafweer gesloopt. The west bank of the Dniepr is in roos op de onderstaande kaartje ingekleurd:
Laat staan wat er gebeurd als de NAVO 2100 vliegtuigen inzet. Alles tot aan de Oeralgebergte afslachten.
Day 171, August 13. Summary of Arestovych and Feygin daily broadcast
https://wartranslated.com...d-feygin-daily-broadcast/Russian sources are claiming to have captured Pesky (for “eight time”!) and to have entered the East suburbs of Bakhmut. While the enemy is indeed slowly approaching Bakhmut from the East, Ukraine denies that Russia entered Pesky or Bakhmut. The future advance is possible but extremely costly to Russia. Yet, the further misinformation campaign by Russia is likely to continue.
De Russen hebben de gewoonte om bij het naderen van een dropgrens de verovering van het hele dorp te claimen.
In the Kherson and Energodar direction Ukraine has made several strikes on Russian bases on the left (East) side of the river Dnipro: 5-6 strikes on Russian forces as far as Melitopol. More strikes on Russian forces on both of Dnipro are expected. The UAF aim to weaken not just the Russian troops occupying Kherson, which remains a strategic target, but also the Russian forces in the Melitopol.
De vijand in de diepte verzwakken.
Russian Federation begging for ceasefire
“To avoid a defeat, USA must force Zelensky to the negotiation table – this would be the best scenario for the US…” Chief of North American department Ministry of Foreign Affairs, A. Dorchiev (via TASS)
“USA are on the edge of a nuclear war with Moscow and Beijing… Ukraine must be recognised as a de facto NATO member.” H. Kissinger
Feygin considers that while the US and China have already reached an agreement, Russian tries to voice their own wishes via Dorchiev and promote its rhetoric with the “useful idiots” like Kissinger. Arestovych, avoiding offending Mr. Kissinger, commented that he “listened with interest to the opinion of the specialist on US politics”.
Commenting on the attempt of Moscow to force Ukraine into negotiations by pressuring Western allies, (via grain deal and now the ZNPP), Arestovych pointed out that the Kremlin is afraid of a major defeat in Southern Ukraine. Russia is afraid of:
1) Liberation of Kherson and having Russian soldiers being surrounded and captured en masse.
2) Major Ukrainian strike on Melitopol that would completely compromise the Russian operations in Kherson, Melitopol, Energodar and Mariupol.
Om het verliezen van de oorlog te ontwijken, worden useful idiots, appeasers,... ingezet en het dreigen met het opblazen van de grootste kerncentrale van Europa.
The two military solution for the current Russian situation are:
1) finding 60k of fresh, well-trained troops – which is physically impossible. Or
2) starting a nuclear war – which is a suicide for Russia and the Kremlin-regime, leaving RF without a military solution.
Therefore, Russia is trying to push for a ceasefire and negotiations to avoid a military defeat.
Militair is Rusland al uitgespeeld.
“The ceasefire and negotiations with RF [without restoration of Ukrainian borders] would mean defeat. There is only negotiation on the prisoner exchange between the two sides.” – M. Podoliak, Adviser to the Head of the Office of President of Ukraine.
Most likely, to reduce military losses, Ukraine is going to continue to systematically destroy Russian logistics and weaken the Russian forces until they lose the attack potential and collapse.
Oekraïne blijft de Russen verder verzwakken totdat ze door de hoeven zakken.