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Ryuu96 on 08 August 2024

Ukrainian military equipment with 🔼 symbols, second photo presumably shows Liubimovka, Kursk region of Russia. 8km from the Ukrainian border. https://t.co/Pdu1DGHTZe pic.twitter.com/4zCgcJA9JE
— Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (@bayraktar_1love) August 8, 2024

Ukraine has seized more territory in less than 48 hours than in the entire counter-offensive in the summer of 2023 - The Telegraph

According to the author of the publication, the Ukrainian offensive in the Kursk region has three key objectives:

▫️ The withdrawal of Russian… pic.twitter.com/EqQkpa2TAq
— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) August 8, 2024

The head of Russia’s external intelligence service says university students should not be taught world history courses anymore, lest they poison Russian minds with foreign ideas. https://t.co/wMUSFxoBbc
— Yaroslav Trofimov (@yarotrof) August 8, 2024

Struck by the fact that we can barely work out with confidence which Ukrainian brigades & what proportion of them are properly in in Kursk, let alone if anything is in reserve & what precisely is happening. OSINT can be absolutely magical, and sometimes incredibly limiting.
— Shashank Joshi (@shashj) August 8, 2024

I think this is a prime example of "fuck around, find out" https://t.co/RN1epR5TXv
— Def Mon (@DefMon3) August 8, 2024

"Dear Vladimir Vladimirovich! We defended Donbass, supported the SVO, we help our army. And how did it happen that NATO equipment is located under our house and we had to run from it in our underwear?"

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Ryuu96 on 08 August 2024

Novoivanovka & Lyubimivka, Kursk region. The operation continues. pic.twitter.com/KrrdgTrwn6
— NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (@NOELreports) August 8, 2024

🏃 Russians runs away from Lgov, Kursk region! pic.twitter.com/zrSK7XTBSa
— MAKS 24 🇺🇦👀 (@Maks_NAFO_FELLA) August 8, 2024

Say what you will about Ukraine’s Kursk offensive, but one thing that it did expose is a complete and utter irrelevance of the CSTO aka “Russia’s NATO”

RUS Duma deputy Zatulin said: “You’re asking stupid questions. Who is going to help Russia in Kursk — Kazakhs, Armenians, who?”
— Misha Simanovskyy🇺🇦🇺🇸🕯️ (@MSimanovskyy) August 8, 2024

Kursk Battle Map (August 8 - 18:00)

Ukraine 🇺🇦 has liberated 27 settlements in the Kursk Region of Russia and expanded their gains to +430 sq kilometers

Some fore are reported to be around 25km to 30km inside Russia. Ukraine is using the lack of defense and geography to advance pic.twitter.com/OspqKQWWZc
— Ukraine Battle Map (@ukraine_map) August 8, 2024

Putin calls for "courage" for people in the Kursk region and promised to give residents 10 thousand rubles each. Meanwhile the devil gnome hides out and ‘promises’ worthless rubles https://t.co/qe7sys2Y5r
— Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 (@OlgaNYC1211) August 8, 2024

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Ryuu96 on 08 August 2024

Interesting fact.
If a Russian soldier dies in Ukraine, the Russian government will give $68,800 to his family.
(Probably more)
No family of soldiers dying in Kursk oblast will receive that, it only applies if they die in Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/pVaut4ECte
— Def Mon (@DefMon3) August 8, 2024

🤔 Russians are sending reinforcements to the Kursk region. pic.twitter.com/JQi3u7y7De
— MAKS 24 🇺🇦👀 (@Maks_NAFO_FELLA) August 8, 2024

Everyone's making jokes, but when russia pulled this in Ukraine, the Western media dutifully adopted the term pro-russian separatists and the AP actually put it in its style guide. https://t.co/aL0JzNr9Vk
— SK Media🇺🇦 (@SpaghettiKozak) August 8, 2024

🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺 Asked about the Kursk operation: @DepPentPressSec says that Ukraine is permitted to conduct cross border operations in Kursk & Belgorod Oblasts but still not allowed to conduct "deep" operations or strikes into Russia; refuses to define "deep".

Pretty much the response I… pic.twitter.com/GmmPBu92DI
— Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (@ColbyBadhwar) August 8, 2024

The moment when occupiers care about Russians more than the Russian army.

A Sudzha citizen hysterically screamed that the Russian authorities lie on TV and that nobody shoots people who try to evacuate from Kursk region. She also said that nobody helps them. pic.twitter.com/IU2QNcJMmm
— Victoria (@victoriaslog) August 8, 2024

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Ryuu96 on 08 August 2024

Russian intelligence knew for two weeks about the impending invasion of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which was the largest since the beginning of the war, a source close to the Kremlin told Bloomberg. According to him, the warning was ignored by the head of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov, who, in turn, did not convey the information to Vladimir Putin. The Kremlin's patience with Gerasimov is running out, but Putin is unlikely to decide to fire him, Bloomberg's source said.

The Moscow Times

I don't know if this is true or someone in the Kremlin wants Gerasimov dead

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shavenferret on 08 August 2024

Ukraine used a deep strike drone on another bomber. I guess that missles aren't a necessity these days.
https://euromaidanpress.com/2024/08/07/ukraine-destroys-russian-su-34-bomber-in-deep-strike-drone-attack/

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Ryuu96 on 08 August 2024

Ukraine's actions in Russia's Kursk region align with the U.S. policy on the use of provided weapons, according to U.S. Deputy State Department spokesperson Sabrina Singh. pic.twitter.com/YuzCChGLw9
— NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (@NOELreports) August 8, 2024

‼️ “We don’t feel this is escalatory in any way. Ukraine is doing what it needs to do to be successful on the battlefield” — @DepPentPressSec on Ukraine’s operation in the Kursk region, adding that the US will continue to support Ukraine with the capabilities they need.
— Ostap Yarysh (@OstapYarysh) August 8, 2024

You'd expect at least a bit of anger if not open criticism, at least some rant on the office's duty to protect them and their livelyhoods, but no just servile begging
— Mihnea/𒈪𒄴𒉈𒀀 (@Miyhnea) August 8, 2024

Maybe we can finally dispense with the ‘transparent battlefield’ fallacy. War’s enduring feature, as Clausewitz described, is that it is a human endeavour and that it is full of uncertainty, friction, emotion and surprise. 1/5 🧵 https://t.co/SSe5FU9yD6
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5/ But the strategic shock will also need to be exploited. It will have an impact on the status of Putin at home and abroad (can’t defend his own country). And, I hope, this will reinvigorate Western publics & politicians to force a change in our strategy to one that embraces and…
— Mick Ryan, AM (@WarintheFuture) August 8, 2024

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Ryuu96 on 08 August 2024

At this moment, it's unknown what the actual goal is. It's rather difficult to tell if it's actually controlled based on the geolocations, but the it's rather impressive how far Ukraine have gotten so far.
— Ukraine Control Map (@UAControlMap) August 8, 2024

New: Ukrainian forces are pushing further into the Kursk region of Russia, in a cross-border incursion that surprised even some U.S. officials, multiple officials tell me. The intention: to disrupt Russian forces and divert them from the eastern front. https://t.co/tuyHwIO8cg
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) August 8, 2024

The Ukrainian offensive appeared to be more successful than even many officials in Kyiv expected. 4/4
— Giorgi Revishvili (@revishvilig) August 8, 2024

Numerous channels report explosions and fires in the area of Rylsk https://t.co/pj6UsjevEK pic.twitter.com/fanFRtRP0q
— Def Mon (@DefMon3) August 8, 2024

Pokrovsk direction,
the wifes are furious pic.twitter.com/g0ElLTPirH
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Ryuu96 on 08 August 2024

Moment Russian civilian encounters Russian tanks leaving the town of Sudzha in Kursk Zone. pic.twitter.com/t4HAwJxEG9
— WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated) August 8, 2024

Ukrainian officials are now requesting that the U.S. to allow them to use long-range ATACMs to hit air fields that Russia is using to retaliate against them — a policy decision Kyiv believes will allow it to retain a portion of Kursk Oblast.https://t.co/iPlYej9YDV
— NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (@NOELreports) August 8, 2024

Addition to the previous post. Reports coming in that a Russian column with equipment and cars in Oktyabrskii, Rylsky District in the Kursk region had a treatment.
— NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (@NOELreports) August 8, 2024

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Oktyabyrsk, Kursk region 😌🔥 pic.twitter.com/JaoEMEy0mo
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Ryuu96 on 08 August 2024

Now is the time for Biden and Sullivan to wake the fuck up, Ukraine has once again proven Russia's redlines to be bullshit and they've done so in the most bold and dramatic fashion, they've straight up invaded Russia with their Armed Forces and what has Russia done? How have Russia escalated? I don't see Russia lobbing nukes, I don't see Russia bombing NATO, I see a bunch of headless chickens struggling to get the situation under control like they did when Prigozhin marched on Moscow, what did Putin do? Did he escalate and blow Prigozhin into the sky? No, he fucking fled Moscow to St Petersburg and then negotiated with the dude that marched on his capital and would have reached it with ease, it's irrelevant what he did after, he fucking cowardly shot him out the sky after everything quieted down but in the moment, Russia was paralysed.

Please fucking tell me how American missiles used on Russian territory against military jets is more "escalatory" in America's mind than Ukraine invading Russia using western vehicles, a Ukraine army powered up by the West is taking territory of Russia and Russia has not escalated at all. Now would be the perfect time to lift the ban and let Ukraine pull up the HIMARS and ATACMS and use them to blow the fucking shit out of Russian positions, aircraft, etc. Now would be the time to allow Ukraine to pull up a Patriot and blow out the sky any aircraft, do it now before Russia manages to get their shit together and push Ukraine back out because Russia has once again shown that they're all talk.

Stop being fucking cowards Biden and Sullivan.

Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 08 August 2024