Good morning everybody! It’s 1 September: time for me to clean up the pile of reports and photos that came together during August, and create a new folder for September… ….it’s also the traditional first day of the new school year in Ukraine. The war is going on, of course: from what one can read in Ukrainian media, and with exception of schools closer to the frontlines, all the tuition is going to be run ‘normally’, in schools – provided these have suitable air raid shelters. Where that’s not the case, kids will have to receive their lessons online.
Rumint is a too strong term for the paragraph describing the interaction between Shoiguuuuuu, Putin and Gerasimov. Poetic license would be more appropriate. Gerasimov called and asked, Milli denied and they all lived hapily every after., in a galaxy far, far away.
Recently Alexei Danilov announced that Ukraine began the production of the missiles capable to hit aims at a distance 1000 km. So we hope to see them in action.
Great news Tom. Also, I hope you managed to get some rest. Fighting in Verbove was confirmed by multiple sources over the last 2 days or so, great to have it confirmed by you.
1. Assuming Verbove will fall very soon, what do you think the ZSU are planning next? Are they going to attack hill 166 from behind?
2. What is behind the 2nd line that was breached at Verbove? How far are the next significant fortifications?
3. What's the current state of the two VSRF armies in the South? Do they have any reserves? Any undamaged units? Is that VDV division being brought from the East all they have left in the form of fresh units?
What.a interesting update, Tom, and many thanks for it. Hope you may catch some rest as well. Your sarcasm in full throttle is a balsam for my health issues at the moment, but much better for the brave Ukrainians.
Funny to see that not only Putin -lovers live in a a marshmallow sky of faked numbers, but the Keystone Cops even in a acute manner. The, reality crash with you and another notch in the “errors list”.
in the past two weeks there were two videos about succesful russian attacks on ammo/supply trains while they were stopped/unloaded at stations. Both happened well behind, 50-80 km from the frontline, in the Pokrovsk area.
Do you think the Russians managed to apply a more advanced recon system (higher uptime and faster reactions, connections to the long range artillery), or these were local info sources on the ground?
Hey Tom thanks for the update, any news about the status of RU artillery on the Tokmak-Verbove axis? there were some rumour that it was strangely silent either because of lack of ammunition or because of losses incurred by counter battery fire
This is not only entertaining but it greatly cheers me up to see that progress continues, although slowly. The outcome of this war is critical for all of our futures. It is probably the most important piece of history to happen in our lifetimes. I think about it many times every day and pray for lots of bad things to happen to Russia and Russian forces and the opposite for Ukraine. ("Pray" metaphorically of course - no God is going to help).
My deepest regards, sympathy and support for all Ukraine people on this channel.
Thank you Tom very good report its good that the UAF it putting the squeeze on the Rats, and its a little all over, their big idea of a counter-counter-counter offensive in the NE etc isn't working out so well
Thanks for the update. Overall positive, Thats also good. But Ai am getting worried beacause now some positive reports about the Ukrainian counter offensive is beginning to enter more main stream media. Cant help but feeling afraid that will backfire and hurt. But at least some of the arguments you and others are making are beginning to get through.
Thanks for your articles - much appreciated.
I believe that the IL-76 is still in production.
Best wishes.
This sarcasm is just lovely 😉
Rumint is a too strong term for the paragraph describing the interaction between Shoiguuuuuu, Putin and Gerasimov. Poetic license would be more appropriate. Gerasimov called and asked, Milli denied and they all lived hapily every after., in a galaxy far, far away.
Recently Alexei Danilov announced that Ukraine began the production of the missiles capable to hit aims at a distance 1000 km. So we hope to see them in action.
Great news Tom. Also, I hope you managed to get some rest. Fighting in Verbove was confirmed by multiple sources over the last 2 days or so, great to have it confirmed by you.
1. Assuming Verbove will fall very soon, what do you think the ZSU are planning next? Are they going to attack hill 166 from behind?
2. What is behind the 2nd line that was breached at Verbove? How far are the next significant fortifications?
3. What's the current state of the two VSRF armies in the South? Do they have any reserves? Any undamaged units? Is that VDV division being brought from the East all they have left in the form of fresh units?
Holiday seems to have worked. That was some very refreshing sarcasm in the beginning.
What.a interesting update, Tom, and many thanks for it. Hope you may catch some rest as well. Your sarcasm in full throttle is a balsam for my health issues at the moment, but much better for the brave Ukrainians.
Funny to see that not only Putin -lovers live in a a marshmallow sky of faked numbers, but the Keystone Cops even in a acute manner. The, reality crash with you and another notch in the “errors list”.
Any word on how the challengers are performing
in the past two weeks there were two videos about succesful russian attacks on ammo/supply trains while they were stopped/unloaded at stations. Both happened well behind, 50-80 km from the frontline, in the Pokrovsk area.
Do you think the Russians managed to apply a more advanced recon system (higher uptime and faster reactions, connections to the long range artillery), or these were local info sources on the ground?
Thanks
Two mi8 were from Croatia donation.
Hey Tom thanks for the update, any news about the status of RU artillery on the Tokmak-Verbove axis? there were some rumour that it was strangely silent either because of lack of ammunition or because of losses incurred by counter battery fire
This is not only entertaining but it greatly cheers me up to see that progress continues, although slowly. The outcome of this war is critical for all of our futures. It is probably the most important piece of history to happen in our lifetimes. I think about it many times every day and pray for lots of bad things to happen to Russia and Russian forces and the opposite for Ukraine. ("Pray" metaphorically of course - no God is going to help).
My deepest regards, sympathy and support for all Ukraine people on this channel.
Thank you Tom very good report its good that the UAF it putting the squeeze on the Rats, and its a little all over, their big idea of a counter-counter-counter offensive in the NE etc isn't working out so well
Thanks for the update. Overall positive, Thats also good. But Ai am getting worried beacause now some positive reports about the Ukrainian counter offensive is beginning to enter more main stream media. Cant help but feeling afraid that will backfire and hurt. But at least some of the arguments you and others are making are beginning to get through.