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Must be all volunteer NK force? However, "volunteer" in NK might have a different meaning.
 

Tinder Trap: Ukraine using fake profiles to trick Russian soldiers​

Oct 18, 2024 #bfbsforcesnews #forcesnews #news

Both sides of the Ukraine war have used cyber warfare and online espionage to bolster their military campaigns, with Ukraine using fake profiles on apps like Tinder to entrap Russian soldiers.
One Ukrainian woman reportedly set up several Tinder profiles and managed to contact 70 Russian soldiers who then gave away their locations during their conversations.
The information she acquired was then passed on to the Ukrainian intelligence services who used it to coordinate their war effort.
More: https://www.forcesnews.com/ukraine/ti...

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Are Russian soldiers not trained on OPSEC? Did they forget? Are they stupid? Or are they doing this as a quiet way to oppose their military duties and give information to their "enemy" who they wish to support? I can understand many possible reasons, but I don't know which is the most likely. (A great amount of .. removed and saved for later.)
 

Korean Troops Heading To Kursk Fierce Fighting Along The Oskol River Military Summary 2024.10.19​

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I thought the Putin Chechen's were going to run over the Uke's? Now it's the NK's. It's a good training exercise.
 

Harvest TimeGeran Supremacy The Battle For Oskil Selydove Encircled🎖 Military Summary 2024.10.20​

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Ukraine is playing a part in a broader "NATO plot" to destabilize and exploit Africa, says African expert

This comes in the wake of Ukraine's recent seizure of a Cameroonian cargo ship Usko MFU in the Black Sea while it was carrying barley from Russia's Crimea to Greece.

Dr. Franklin Nyamsi, an African writer and president of the Bamako-based think tank African Freedom Institute, in an interview with Sputnik Africa, argued that the seizure is indicative of a pattern of hostile actions by Ukraine towards African countries, particularly those with ties to Russia.

🗣 "The attitude of Ukrainian authorities is absolutely unbelievable and unfair against Africa," Dr. Nyamsi stated. "Africa is free to have relations with all powers it considers like Russia, and Ukraine has not the right to try to punish Africa because of its own sovereignty."

He further argued that the seizure is part of a wider strategy by Ukraine, acting as a "vassal country of NATO," to pressure African nations into aligning with Western interests.

🗣 "We know that Africa is destabilized by a NATO plot," Nyamsi said, pointing to the 2011 overthrow of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi as an example of the West's destructive influence on the continent.

He went on to cite the July attack on the Malian town of Tin Zaouatine by terrorist groups, an incident he believes Ukrainian forces were involved in: "The Ukrainian ambassador in Senegal openly recognized that in association with Al-Qaida and the Islamic State, they attacked Mali because they intended to kill Russian allies of Mali and to kill Malian soldiers."

The analyst added that the actions of the Ukrainian government undermine regional security efforts in Africa and demonstrate a blatant disregard for the continent's sovereignty. "They don't even recognize that it is very, very scandalous for them to be involved and to acknowledge that they are with terrorist groups against African people."

He called for a unified response from the continent, accusing Western powers of turning a blind eye to Kiev's harmful policies. "They [Ukrainians] need to ask some questions to their elites and to tell them you are putting Africa against Ukraine. And this is not in the interest of Ukraine because Africa is 50 nations and Ukraine is only one."

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US says evidence shows North Korea has troops in Russia, possibly for Ukraine war​

  • US has evidence North Korea sent 3,000 troops to Russia
  • South Korea says North Korea promised Russia 10,000 troops
  • US says 'very serious' if they fight alongside Russia in Ukraine
  • Moscow, Pyongyang dismiss reports as fake and groundless
SEOUL, Oct 23 (Reuters) - The United States said for the first time on Wednesday that it had seen evidence that North Korea has sent 3,000 troops to Russia for possible deployment in Ukraine, a move that could mark a significant escalation in Russia's war against its neighbor.

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, speaking in Rome, said it would be "very, very serious" if the North Koreans were preparing to fight alongside Russia in Ukraine, as Kyiv has alleged. But he said it remained to be seen what they would be doing there.

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debunked.

Russia doesn't need them. They have 30K Russians signing up each month.

Also you can't serve unless you are a Russian citizen.

Another thing is the language barrier. Korean vs Russia? Imagine that being a huge issue on the battlefield.

So, it's fake news.

Stas covers it all here:

 
Russia is done playing around

🎙 Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s answer to a question from 'Moscow. Kremlin.​

(https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1977244/)
Putin' television programme (Kazan, October 23, 2024)

Question: Zelensky claims that halting strikes on energy infrastructure can be considered the first step towards peace.

Sergey Lavrov: No. When he says this, he recalls previous exchanges of opinions when he initiated something along the lines of what you’re saying. After that, there was an incursion into the Kursk Region. Everyone is clear about what stands behind his steps “towards peace.”

There was a “peace formula” first followed by a “victory plan.”

That doesn't mean peace. It means victory for one side and defeat for the other side.

As I’ve been told, he has come up with a new “initiative” to follow up on the “victory plan,” which was largely rejected by the West.

The new “plan” concerns measures Ukraine itself is now pledging to undertake, such as expanding its defence industry, or something akin to it. This is not serious. Going through it is like reading a boring comic book.
 
Journalist Alexey Volynets on Deep Operations in the Current War in Ukraine.

Part 1.

As we all see, since February 2022, both sides of the conflict have only made relatively deep breakthroughs when facing an undeployed or significantly outnumbered enemy. For instance, Russian forces advanced hundreds of kilometers at the start of the special military operation near Kherson and Kiev, while Ukrainian forces made tens of kilometers of progress near Izyum in 2022 and Sudzha in 2024.

However, any attempts to break through fortified defenses manned by comparable forces have demonstrated the impossibility of deep penetrations. Ukrainian counteroffensives in 2023 against the "Surovikin Line" managed only a few kilometers of advance, and the ongoing 2024 Russian offensive has seen slow grinding gains against Ukrainian positions.

So far, there have been no deep operations in this war—meaning no breakthroughs of the enemy’s fortified defenses with decisive goals of encircling and destroying enemy forces. The reasons for this are as follows:

1. First, deep operations haven’t occurred because the last time anyone had real experience conducting such operations against a comparable enemy was during the Great Patriotic War (World War II). Every conflict since—whether Korea in 1950, Budapest in 1956, Vietnam, Afghanistan, even Iraq in 1999–2003, and Syria—has involved a vastly superior side fighting a much weaker opponent. But if something hasn’t been done for three generations, you lose the ability to do it. No one today—neither NATO, nor the Russian Armed Forces, nor the People's Liberation Army—has experience in executing deep penetrations against a comparably equipped enemy. Theories based on WWII experience can't replace actual practice.

2. Second, in the context of the current war, combat operations are carried out without affecting the reconnaissance infrastructure on either side. For example, reconnaissance satellites remain intact. On the Ukrainian side, manned and unmanned reconnaissance aircraft operate freely close to the combat zone. In this war, tactical surprise is possible, but operational surprise—at the level of large-scale offensives—is not, as any significant concentration of forces on either side is quickly detected.

3. Third, the relatively small numbers of personnel and, more importantly, equipment are significant factors. On the extensive front lines we have today, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and, at most, thousands of military vehicles are fighting on both sides. Troop density relative to the front line and the theater of operations is astonishingly low. If millions of soldiers were fighting with thousands of tanks and hundreds of thousands of artillery pieces (and millions of drones), the situation might be very different. The current conflict resembles a civil war like Spain’s, not a world war.

4. Over the past two years, the widespread use of drones, combined with existing anti-tank measures, has made armored vehicles more vulnerable. Modern tanks are more at risk now than they were in 1945.

To be continued.

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Jourmalist Alexey Volynets on Deep Operations in the Current War in Ukraine.

Part 2.

Is a decisive victory possible under such conditions? Yes, it is. Although World War I was a long time ago, we can look at an example from a couple of generations later: the real course of the Vietnam War. Let’s focus on the prolonged conflict between North and South Vietnam—not the Hollywood version, but the period after the U.S. military had already left. In the final stage of that war during the 1970s, large Vietnamese armies on both sides engaged in essentially positional warfare, with North and South Vietnam conducting offensives involving hundreds of thousands of soldiers, tanks, artillery, and aircraft (e.g., the Nguyen Hue military operation).

During those years, South Vietnam managed to launch offensives against the North with moderate success. However, there were no deep breakthroughs until the southern regime began to collapse. Despite the significant American aid in weapons and money to the South, the North couldn’t cut off these supplies even in theory. But persistent, long-term pressure eventually led to the North’s victory. The South fell apart due to a combination of external and internal factors.

This is not to say that a similar outcome is guaranteed in our case. Rather, it shows that decisive victory is possible even in a clear "positional deadlock," provided the state and society demonstrate sufficient mobilization and perseverance.

Moreover, 21st-century mobilization doesn’t necessarily need to mirror that of the 20th century. But that’s a separate, larger discussion.

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It does NOT have a democratically elected government. Zelenski canceled elections! He also made it illegal to negotiate with Putin!

They are NAZI's. The reason they don't have any political prisoners is because they kill any they capture!

NeoColonialism... Backed by the U.S. of A. Just as we did Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria!

Nuclear annihilation? LOL Russia won't attack unless attacked first. They've made that point very clear.

This Pole is propaganda central IMO.
 

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North Korean Troops In Russia Finally Confirmed By NATO, U.S.

The acknowledgment comes after South Korea and Ukraine claimed that North Koreans are undergoing training in Russia to support the war effort.
www.twz.com
 

Russia's war in Ukraine: on Putin's front lines | DW Documentary​

Oct 26, 2024 #documentary #dwdocumentary

Journalist Sean Langan reports from the Donbass region, an area annexed by Moscow. He meets those living on the front lines, as well as soldiers fighting for Russia. It’s a rare look at a world usually inaccessible to Western media.

Together with his colleague — Donetsk-based translator Sascha — Langan goes behind the front lines of the Russian war in Ukraine. Despite working under the watchful eyes of Russian authorities, he manages to gain deep insights into the merciless war of attrition on the front. The conflict has already claimed an estimated hundreds of thousands of lives, and this film shows Moscow’s relentless determination to fight on, regardless of its own losses.

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searcher said:
Russia's war in Ukraine: on Putin's front lines | DW Documentary
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You know it's biased when it starts out with:

didn't watch it, but did it also report on the west bombing Donbas civilians to the tune of 14K dead (a war crime) and making it illegal to speak Russian and illegal for the Orthodox Russian church to exist? Did it also mention the bioweapons labs?

Putin went into Ukraine to stop them from killing civilians in the Donbas.

and to think they could have had peace back in 2014 by honoring the Minsk agreements!
 
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The Poles better check their hubris. They talk about Russian propaganda without mentioning western propaganda. It seems they are part of the machine.
 
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