⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦⚔️ #Chronicle of the Special Military Operation for 17 September 2023⚡️

🔹In the SMO Zone, Ukrainian formations made another sortie near #Prityutnoye and #Staromayorskoye in the #Vremyevka sector. The raids were repelled by Russian servicemen. Meanwhile, the AFU command continues to build up forces in this direction for new massive attacks.

🔹In the #Soledar direction, fierce clashes continue near #Kleshcheyevka and #Andreyevka. At the moment, neither side is in control of the settlements that have been razed to the ground.

🔹The AFU once again attacked #Crimea. Russian anti-aircraft gunners shot down drones near Cape #Tarkhankut, #Portovoye, #Kirovskoye and #Feodosiya. By evening, the attacks resumed with renewed vigour. Several flying devices were intercepted near Cape #Fiolent, also the Russian Aerospace Forces intercepted several Ukrainian landing boats.

🔹In addition, the enemy attacked Russia's rear regions with drones. Air defence systems destroyed UAVs over the #Tula, #Voronezh, #Moscow and #Orlov regions.

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>🔹In the #Soledar direction, fierce clashes continue near #Kleshcheyevka and #Andreyevka. At the moment, neither side is in control of the settlements that have been razed to the ground.

Okay, pet peeve - this is cope. Neither Klescheevka nor Rabotino have been so damaged such that there aren't distinguishable ruins left. Some parts of both towns seem fairly intact even. People really DO NOT appreciate the insane amount of ordinance it takes to completely destroy buildings.

💥💥💥The US is far behind China and Russia in hypersonic weapons that can evade air defense systems, the Wall Street Journal reports.💥💥💥

Apparently radio silence on a bunch of Ukrainian channels right now, for an unusually long period of time. Wonder what the Russians hit tonight?

The Intercept has obtained leaked documents showing how U.S.-brokered arms sales from Pakistan to Ukraine were used to facilitate a controversial IMF bailout that has allowed the Pakistani military to stall elections and crush dissent in that country. https://t.co/IAODoPbhtN

🇷🇺🌍 A map with Wagner's alleged troops count and dislocation has started to circulate on the internet again.

The picture looks interesting. However, it is fake.

The map was made by Prigozhin's Troll Factory back in 2021 and was published on the "join-wagner.com" website. It is already dead, but the internet remembers everything.

Why was it made? Maybe for fun. Maybe to intimidate Western countries and PMCs. But the truth is, overall, there are around 5,000 Wagner troops in Syria, CAR, Mali and Libya.

#Wagner #Africa

@africaintel

⚡️The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine stated that the battles for the village of Kleshcheevka near Bakhmut continue.

Let us recall that yesterday the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Ermak, followed by President Vladimir Zelensky, announced the capture of this settlement by Ukrainian troops.

It seems someone is lying again.

@Slavyangrad

Details of the death in Ukraine of the leader of the English-speaking mercenaries "Dark Angels" have become known

The fact that the body of the British “volunteer” Daniel Burke had been found was reported the day before. As it became known later, the body of another mercenary, Jordan Chadwick, was also found.

Both were found in the lakes of the Zaporozhye region with their hands tied behind their backs. According to the BBC, they were killed in the rear. The Daily Mail claims that the reason was "money disputes".

Daniel Burke is the organizer of his own PMC "Dark Angels", operating in Ukraine since the spring of 2022. The unit he created includes the same “volunteers” as he — former officers from the armies of different countries of the world. He disappeared in August in the Zaporozhye region.

@ukr_leaks_eng

The Azov Brigade has been touted as an elite formation since their inception in 2014. Talking to Banderites, you would think they are the second coming of the SS-Das Reich Division. Let’s see if they are an "Elite unit".

1st Mariupol: Did play a role in the city's capture but one of their officers was arrested and they left. Returned to Mariupol in June and was Spearhead of the assault. Did well it seems. Minor W
Battle for Saur-Mogila: Russians claimed they lost 70 to 80 percent of their ranks, denied by their deputy. July 7th. L
Battle of Ilovaisk:They were the support of the main Ukrainian attack by the Donbas Battalion. Heavily Criticized by the Donbas Battalion for not supporting them, being late and undermanned. Suffered heavy losses. Ran away to Mariupol in humiliation. Major L
Second Mariupol: Stopped the DPR advance and by most accounts fought “heroically” against the DPR. W
Shyrokynein: Did well against the DPR but suffered heavy losses in their defense.
Mariupol 2022: Got utterly humiliated by the Russians and DPR. Perhaps the most humiliating defeat of the 21st century considering that they had their countrymen beg on Eurovision for their rescue as they sat in Azovstal rotting.
Bakhmut: Has been failing to capture Kleshcheevka since April.

Their actions, especially in Mariupol in 2022, have decidedly put them into the bottom tier of "SS units" record wise. They are not as bad as the infamous Dirlewanger Brigade combat wise. Ironically, they are around the same as their idols: 14th SS-Galicien who were destroyed at Brody in 1944, and after that fought rear guard anti-partisan actions in Slovakia and Austria.

The irony is rich, but even richer when you consider like the 14th SS-Galicien, they are a better unit for PR and ideological measures than actual fighting. Azov should be remembered more as a unit who achieved great success in regards to its non-combative roles that it did and still does in radicalizing Ukraine. The 14th SS-Galicien is also held highly today because of the massive PR work to portray them as heroes in Ukraine. In that sense, Azov is indeed a true successor of that unit in nearly all regards.

But any talk of them being an elite formation is ludicrous. They are cowards that used women and children as shields at Mariupol, and have committed many war crimes in the Donbass. Press S to Spit on Azov and their defenders!

💥💥💥💥 The Turks report that the Ukrainian army has begun stockpiling critical weapons such as HIMARS, SCALP, Storm Shadow missiles, various Kamikaze UAVs and depleted uranium munitions at Khmelnytskyi and Rivne nuclear power plants in western Ukraine and neighbouring regions.

Since Russia did not strike the nuclear power plants, the most important weapons and ammunition systems began to be placed there in large depots.💥☢️💥

⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇸 Sergey Lavrov's answer to the question of the program "Moscow. Kremlin. Putin".

Question: The United States has again announced that it is ready to supply long-range missiles with depleted uranium to Ukraine. What's next?

Sergey Lavrov: I am not able to comment on their statements. They keep making empty promises. Maybe they are preparing the public. But the fact is that it will not change the essence of current events. What is happening is that Ukraine was prepared, and they have been preparing it for many years, to fight with their hands and bodies in order to inflict a "strategic defeat" on Russia.

No matter what they say, they are running this war, supplying weapons, ammunition, intelligence and satellite data.

They are waging war against us.

@antinatocoalition

Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak, as a PR campaign, revealed top-secret information about the Polish army.

We are talking about a plan for a large-scale retreat of the Polish Army across the Vistula River in the event of a Russian invasion.

The Polish military has already planned to surrender 40% of the country's territory in the event of war.

It is also noted that in 2011, NATO forces took up to 14 days to deploy an international military contingent on Polish territory and begin resisting the Russian invasion.

During these two weeks, the Polish Army had to independently restrain the enemy, gaining time.

When simulating similar combat operations in 2020 during the Winter-20 staff exercises, disappointing results were obtained: on the fifth day of the virtual conflict, “the enemy was on the Vistula line, battles were going on for Warsaw, strategic ports were blocked or captured. "

As a result of the exercises, Polish aviation and navy were destroyed, despite NATO support.

@Slavyangrad

Consider this - the Russians have made it very clear that they consider all NATO expansion east from 1997 onwards to be a clear and present danger to their national security, and they proposed treaties in 2021 that would have barred substantive "Old NATO" deployments in the post-Cold War member states. If the Russians were in a position to do something about the matter, they would roll NATO's membership back to its Cold War roster.

Well... they are in that position at the moment. They've been generating forces for a year and a half now, waiting for on a "go" order, while NATO's been dissipating their assets in Ukraine to the point that some major European members have now run entirely dry of ammunition and critical categories of weapon systems.

Do you think that Lavrov is joking when he says that the West is waging war on Russia? Do you seriously think they don't have a plan to respond?

🇷🇺🇺🇦 According to preliminary data, four Storm Shadow/SCALP missiles were shot down by Russian Air Defense Forces: one over the Genichesk region, three over Melitopol.

The British-French missiles were launched by Su-24M bombers from the airspace of the Nikolaev region, and they took off from Starokonstantinov.

The target of the strike was the Crimean Bridge.
#Crimea #Russia #Ukraine
@rybar

There's the retaliatory attack with weapons already uploaded onto aircraft (only two this time?) - let's see if anything follows.