Seeing is believing. The following videos provide graphic evidence of the one sided fight that is taking place in the Donbass. Yes, Ukraine is still shelling some cities in Donetsk and the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant. But these are isolated attacks that are not changing the strategic picture in Ukraine’s favor. Just the opposite. Russia is grinding and, in the process, destroying Ukrainian troops and equipment, most of it provided by the United States and NATO.
First up is a summary from August 25 courtesy of South Front. In the south, the Russians are moving closer to Nikolaev. Remember, this is the area where Ukraine promised to unleash an offensive a month ago ostensibly to defeat the Russians. It is not happening.
The following video highlights the fact that soldiers in the 21st Century confront a threat that Allied and Axis troops did not face during World War II–i.e., night vision and guided missiles. If you look carefully at the end of the first half of the video, which shows Ukrainian troops in a forest, you can see the pinpoint of light that is akin to a Javelin anti-tank missile launched from a distance with devastating results:
Ukraine has tried to launch isolated counter attacks on Russian positions. As I discussed in my previous article on Combined Arms, it is a suicide mission. You will see the Ukrainian troops fleeing from the flaming vehicles. Those poor soldiers subsequently are hit with follow up rocket and artillery strikes.
Last is a bombing/shelling of a Ukrainian fortification in Donetsk. The advent of drones, integrated with satellite targeting, puts entrenched troops at a serious disadvantage. They often do not realize they are being watched and that their coordinates are being fed to artillery and missile systems that will hurl death their way. This is a brutal war.
If anyone has similar footage of Ukrainian attacks on Russian positions please let me know. While western media continues to insist that Russia is stalled or retreating, these videos continue to populate the internet. But there is no comparable evidence from the Ukrainian side notwithstanding their robust, western supported propaganda campaign. Russia is showing no signs of let up in its campaign nor a shortage of artillery and rocket rounds. This helps explain why Ukrainian troops are falling back and abandoning positions in the Donbas.
Hi Larry, regarding the third video you posted- the first segment of 2 BMPs charging across a field- sparked a lot of contraversy in Russian channels because of debate about which side performed the assault. According to a famous military correspondent who goes by Vladlen Tatarzky, that is actually 2 BMP-3 vehicles of the 155th Brigade of the Russian Pacific Fleet Marine Corps pushing a Ukrainian position. As he states it, the reason those “hits” seem so accurate is because the vehicles are actually running over anti-tank mines, not being hit by artillery or ATGMs. The reason you also see the vehicles keep moving and the soldiers run out is because the BMP-3 is significantly up-armored compared to previous BMP models and is know for its impressive durability especially against mines. According to Vladlen, he was present on that front at the time and saw this footage earlier and this was the basis of a prior post he made talking about the impressive survivability of the BMP-3. According to him, the marines had to conduct this push because they had no better way to cross the field but the assault had to pull back because the UR-77 mine clearing vehicle didn’t get all the mines. Ultimately, however all troops involved in this push survived and further parts of that video do appear to be Ukrainian troops getting destroyed.
He also mentioned that there was then a Ukrainian counterpush nearby on BMPs that looked similar and was repulsed with more losses but he is looking for video of it.
Other commentators argued that he’s wrong and that it looks like ATGM fire from the forest strip and that he might be confusing events.
Here’s his post on the subject if you want to google translate.
https://t.me/vladlentatarsky/15703
His version seems believable to me because older Soviet and modern Ukrainian APC designs really wouldn’t usually survive impacts like that without impressive luck. There normally wouldn’t be anyone running out like that after a mine or an ATGM. Nonetheless, the jury is still out I suppose.
Slight correction- there may not have been a UR-77 clearing this sector, I misread. He was just giving that as an example of one possible reason why such assaults may fail for either side.
the software that handles the drone that is providing coordinates is in Russian, the Ukrainians are not handling drones with Russian software at this point. and that the video comes from Russian sources is also to add.
Excellent article which summarizes everything:
The King in Yellow
I wear no mask
https://stolzuntermenschen.substack.com/p/the-king-in-yellow?fbclid=IwAR0bg76lA-6t7gJl2_5Q5R0jbApj_ZQGbQSZMP9VLQQZsYZ-WJh25rtUgxg
I subscribed …. So many points made I have seen on many other sites ,,,,as very interesting analogies and comments made based on the wests absolute hatred of Ukraine as a nation and only use as a vassal … et al …..
“This is a brutal war…” Indeed.
Russia waited eight long years while civilian Russians in Ukraine were – and are – brutally murdered by targeted shelling and bombing, by kidnappings and rapes and torture – well over one hundred children being so murdered, so far.
Ukrainian soldiers are regularly called to laid down their arms via “information bombs”, before the next assaults take place.
Russian prisoners are regularly mistreated; a number are tortured; some are murdered after surrender. Ukrainian prisoners – even thousands of nazi goons – receive the treatment due to prisoners of war.
As for the killing we see on these videos, it is not different from the killing and maiming by bombing and shelling unleashed by the US’s (and appendages’) imperial wars for the last 70 years.
Russia is bringing to an end a war of liberation that was unleashed against it – in hot fashion – in 2014.
The middle video of two IFV’s attacking across a field is probably showing a Russian attack with BMP-3s, notice the square tray at the back. Per comments it shows them running onto AT-mines , and that looks correct – I see no direct fire impact .
Or it could possibly be a MTLB variant the Ukrainians have.
Larry said it : This is a brutal war. It seems reminiscent of World War 1 (the war to end wars), minus – thankfully – the large scale troop movements.
In that one we had German arrogance and folly, this time it’s America’s turn.
To quote or misquote Mark Twain: History may not repeat but it does rhyme.
In the last video, at the start of the video, four Ukrainian soldiers are appear. It seems that three are already dead(in the trench) and one of the Ukrainians appears to still be alive (out of the trench). The motor/artillery strike appears to disappear away the single previously (barely) alive Ukrainian.
That Ukrainian soldier didn’t disappear. He went in every direction all at once really fast.
Sorry. It’s a shocking image. Nothing to joke about. Just couldn’t help it. I really do pity these poor men who are stuck between the artillery of the Russians and their own nationalists’ rifles. They are doomed.
For a change of focus, it would be interesting to hear some analysis of the air war in Syria.
Both Israel and US are bombing with impunity, and all of the Russian and Syrian air defenses are unable to inflict any damage to either.
The best Russian can due is report the percentage of missiles that were shot down, while the percentage that get through defenses inflict significant damage.
Even Damascus airport has been hit causing days of shut down.
Andrei Martyanov says that Russia is only interested in protecting its Syrian military bases in Syria. But, it seems per treaty that Russia has committed to protect Syria as a whole and it is not doing very well vis a vis the air war.
This calls into question the much flaunted air defense weaponry that Martyanov and others have repeatedly talked about. How serious can anyone take the Russian systems when Israel and US fly against it with impunity.
Thank you
You don’t play chess with a sledge hammer.
It pains me to say it but it’s occured to me that saker and martynov are not simply delusional fanboys, but quite possible operatives of the US Air Force or something similar. With the purpose of collecting names, IPs and geographic data. As recently as January this year the saker was bragging about how the RF could “take out” the Ukrainian bulwarks in the East via “standoff weapons” and there was no need to even cross borders. A pure nutcase. I hope not. Perhaps they are simply old men as hopelessly out of touch as Putin and Shoigu. It’s the first thing I thought immediately post Maidan and previously during the coup itself.
When you ain’t got nothing, “Extend and Pretend.”
Russia and the people of the Donbas have not put a foot wrong from the get go.
Everything the US +NATO supplied over 8 years + four months has been destroyed.
Review the above article and watch the videos. If you are American or British review the videos everyday for a week. Still do not recognise the measured and total destruction of a 600,000 weak Nazi military….get a job at the State Department.
Or London, carrying the launch keys for the Global Midget.
Shelling a Nuke Power plant with the consent of the White House appears to some readers, as desperation and total insanity.
My money backs Larry and the Salty Bear. Experience beats “Hope,” every time.
I agree. There is a certain sense of the Emperor’s New Clothes when I read these fellows. A great deal of verbalage; at the end what exactly did I learn.
Constant rants about how dumb politicians and reporters are.
IDk how you can call them ‘delusional’ when what they predicted a long time ago is happening in front of our own eyes. They predicted a crushing defeat for Ukraine with huge casualties. Isn’t it what’s happening right now?
Not only Martyanov and the Saker made such remarks. Watch Col. Douglas McGregor, Scott Ritter, Jaques Baud, and Larry.
According to your logic, all of them should be ‘delusional’
I bet Zelensky’s jewish buddies had insurance on this nuclear plant it was long destined to be replaced. The is no war. It is an exercise in “how to get the NATo countries to modernize and rebuild a country. Nothing new.
” It is an exercise in “how to get the NATo countries to modernize and rebuild a country. Nothing new.”
Not a complete analogue of General Plan OST.
I find the last video curious, how does a shell heavy enough to make a massive crater, yet leave bodies intact. and also the bodies appear to rearrange themselves neatly in a row “after” the last shell, which landed in the crater. I’ve seen enough bodies on TG to know that bodies tend to be all over the place. Not suggesting anything, It’s a good quality video and I have a massive PC screen. Have a look!
It wasn’t a direct hit, Ray, the bang occurred to the left, shrapnels could have hit hem, hence the bodies were not torn to pieces, also, may have been prevented form moving because some obstacles on the ground, or you were to argue the picture was doctored which is possible, it’s a digital image.
“Seeing is believing.” ,
“moderation” is a facilitator of group think, whilst comment is an illustration of variable immersions in group think, and hence group think is a comfort mechanism in attempts to assuage doubt by “belonging” to a group: consequently seeing is interpreting, often as a function and in illustration of group think.
Halturnerradioshow.com reports today the 28th that NATO is using ordinary tractor trailers used in everyday commerce to conceal the delivery of weapons and ammunition throughout the Ukraine.
Napalm?
t.me/wagner_group_pmc
t.me/nvp_73
t.me/intelslava
3 Telegram channels worth following.
i miss you on Telegram btw, the sonar_21 channel there just post links to ur articles.
I would be interested in hearing from anyone with an artillery background. I would think that attacking trenches, you would see more use of proximity fusing to detonate artillery rounds in the air rather than so many ground impacts ? Proximity fusing is like WW2 tech and not terribly expensive.
We’ve apparently come of age. Military snuff films.
Here’s a guy that happens to disagree, Mr. Johnson, Lieutenant General Ben Hodges the former top dog of the US Forces in Europe, he keeps repeating that the Ukrainian Army will prevail without furnishing any solid evidence for it, he is critical of the Russian Navy saying it’s hiding in Sevastopol (except for firing missiles), but he also says that the Ukrainians have really no navy at all, it doesn’t occur to him that perhaps that’s the reason the Russian Navy sits in the port firing missiles, there’s no enemy at sea.
If this is the quality of thinking at the top of the US Armed Forces we should truly fear not perhaps Russia but the Middle Kingdom, which is arming at a staggering speed, will outpace the US within few years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_cH6mbmwfo
PS: In Austria, there appeared reports few hours ago that the woman Natalia Vovk, a suspect in the killing of Daria Dugina had been found dead, the Interior Ministry says it cannot confirm it.
In the german newspaper “Welt” there was an interview of a russian deserter.
the article was behind paying barrier, but the headline was interesting.
the man said: ” I can not say that the ukrainians have dony any noteworthy counter-attack”.
I could be wrong, but my take on Syria …
Russia defeated the US.
Followed by years of skirmishes and tit-for-tat.
Maidan,and what followed since, was ‘payback’ by neocons. Putin saved Assad(and Tartous base mainly). Project ‘Messiah’, greater Israel was then cancelled de facto.Obama was ready to launch an attack on Damas in 2013.Hollande (french President another neocon), was ready to strike, but the UK at the last moment refused. Putin saved Obama face by proposing to help him in destroying eventual Chem weapons remaining in Damas arsenal. The first attack was cancelled. Trump later launched a fake second attack to please his neocons(gop Bolton + Pompeo), on an empty barrack somewhere in a deserted airport, he advised Russia(don’t see it a russiagate proof ok), as later Iran advised him also,after the killing of General Soleimany(?).Iran fired missiles at US base, but officialy no US losses were reported, they have been advised 90 minutes before to evacuate in safe places.
Back in 2014, neocons(dems this time) via Nuland(fuck the EU), launched the Maidan coup in Kiev and then lost Crimea, which was the main goal of the coup, not at all the rest.
Then ukie army tried to retake a first time dpr-lpr with nato unofficial aid, it failed.MH17 has been destroyed by Ukraine to force Merkel and the EU to implement sanctions, she did not wanted to take(ns2). It failed again later, we got Minsk 2.Then decision was taken in D C State dept to prepare a war against Russia. It has been a bit delayed by Trump winning and then due to the two years of C19.But is was the former plan for after a Hillary victory.
Pompeo(who is like Bolton much more a ‘China hawk’ than a ‘Russian one’), launched C19 bioweapon in oct 2019 against China, with spreading to the World for plausible deniability. It failed..in China as they reacted(even with two weeks delay) with their lockdown ‘zero covid’ new policy(still on in some places).Pompeo had been promised by London MI6 that it would kill at least a few millions in China and destroy their economy.Open gate for further blackmail after.Trump was probably not in the ‘know’ as it would have caused him a big problem for a reelection.How to kill two birds with one bullet.
But main target ‘Russia’ was just delayed up to the arrival of Brandon, very implicated in Ukraine with his son in a natgas company and maybe more(Burisma, Slaviansk).
He was the perfect usefull idiot, easy to be manipulated by the neocons. It is a Nuland Blinken personnal vendetta for eschatology reasons (Armagedon, arrival of the Messiah(video available on YT by multiple rabbis), the fight of their entire life.
Nuland went last fall in Moscow to give Putin a violent ultimatum. Then the Cia boss followed one month later, to say ‘it is very serious’, decision to retake Ukraine in full had been taken, at any cost.If you accept it, you will keep Crimea for a while and we will invest in Russian energy sector, no sanctions. If you don’t: sanctions from hell, regime change, Syria lost etc.. We then have the Russian ‘demands’ before Christmas, but only the date of the ukie assault was not clear(end of feb or March 5 or 6?).Everybody knows that a war was certain since Biden ‘won’ the election.Ukie prepared their build up since apr 2021.I’m sure that if for exemple, Putin suddenly call Biden to say:” ok Joe, we stop here, let’s exchange Assad and Syria against Ukraine”, they will accept it, this is for Israel.
Eu idiots did not believed the plan till feb 22, Macron even fired his top Military security general in March. Even in London they only learned it in dec 21.Then Bojo + Truss+ Wallace went to Moscow, to repeat the same threads.Macron followed several times but on a positive way.Macron really tried to avoid the war, but was deceived by the US Nato.
Neocons are going to lose everything(except if they in a desperate move launch a first strike): War in Ukraine, 550k + kia-wia-mia on Ukie side, a bankrupted country, Europe desvasteted. Russia under sanctions and with some losses true, but till when will Europe resist very long to her own economic destruction?
A new de facto ‘alliance’: Russia + China + Iran (not so sure before feb 22).
Very good relations with India, Turkey, Israel,Brics soon Brics +, the global South.
At the UN last week, only 58 countries (including 8 very small one)voted against RU Smo.Mainly the Golden billion + a few weak vassals.
More than the 2/3 did not, a collapse from the first vote in March(163) on 192.
Seems that phase 3 of he Smo is imminent.
https://twitter.com/Cicke69/status/1563922754948177920
Expect a major Ukie Mi6 false flag…my two cents.
Moscow espects the SMO to be concluded by autumn of…2024. On time for next Potus elections.
Great summary-interesting points. Thoughts on the false flag? Was trying to take the Zap NPP (IAEA in attendance) a first attempt?
Hi Larry, try this link for videos
Apocalypse scenes: Russians capture Kodema and advance on Kharkiv – Road to Bakhmut opened – Heavy Ukrainian losses.
https://warnews247.gr/skines-apokalypsis-sto-ntonbas-o-rosikos-stratos-katelave-tin-kodema-epomeni-stasi-bakhmut-nea-rosiki-proelasi-sto-charkovo-megales-oukranikes-apoleies/
Post some, please, Spartantop, please.
Also have a look again at the retired Lieutenant General Ben Hodges and his spiel saying roughly what you think is going on (it was posted by Baron above already including the link below), if the Russians were getting pummelled don’t you think the general would include it in his video? Instead it’s some unidentified short film footage of things going bang.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_cH6mbmwfo
If anyone has similar footage of Ukrainian attacks on Russian positions please let me know, you say. OK. Here you go.
There are tons and tons of such videos on various Telegram channels, but it takes some time and a strong stomach to sift through that crap. As far as I’m concerned, I’ve served a military, but, luckily, I’ve never seen a real combat. I can smell & handle a rotting animal carcass w/o puking, however, so I could cope with combat situations too, I guess.
Well, but… the combination of 21th century ultra super duper high quality video drones, and WWI style trench warfare makes me sick on a whole different level, so… that’s all I can produce for now. The rest is up to you & your stomach.
Some tanks are assaulting some trenches, and then some infantry appears from nowhere and… whatever. I like the music in the first half of the video, and dislike the rap in the other:
https://southfront.org/in-video-dpr-military-in-action-in-peski-region/
I don’t know whether this video comes from the abovementioned infantry or not, but, in any event, this is something that they must have encountered:
https://southfront.org/in-video-21-destroyed-ukrainian-positions-near-peski/
I certainly empathize with the author of the above video. He must have a serious puking disorder just like me.
It is so hard to figure out what is real and what is info war.
1. Either side (esp Ukraine) can show video of their opponents and claim that it is them
2. Computer graphics have gotten so good that it is hard to tell what is fake, especially for scenarios similar to computer games. The vid of the armored car advance looked wonky to me. BTW I am NOT suggesting that Larry is intentionally putting out fake stuff. I’m only saying that it’s hard to tell, for anyone, what is genuine.
1. Night vision looks better than daytime vision. I do not know about others but I find it easier to see contrasts w/black and white. Grades of color tend to confuse me.
2. Re drone spotting for artillery, I’m giving that a mixed grade. It is fantastic for damage assessment and I did see one shell score a direct hit on the slit trench. But I also saw a lot of near misses, especially factoring in the previous craters. A slit trench is excellent protection against near misses. I’m surprised at the number of misses, older artillery?