Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (Twitter)

Destruction of Russian turtle tank which has additional anti drone cage insid of it.
t.me/ssternenko/32664

Dan (Twitter)

@Danspiun @RomanPilipey: 5. Miscellaneous🇷🇺POWs in Kursk Oblast, unknown units and not located.
The same pick up seen in tweet 4, transporting an additional🇷🇺POW.
I saw 3 other balding overweight POWs who look similar, but his blindfold and lack of facial hair make him distinctive so I'm recording him.
Film by Khorne Group (detached from the🇺🇦116th Mechanised Brigade), released 13th August.
t.me/khornegroup/2454

Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (Twitter)

AASM strike on the Russian positions in Nova Kakhovka area, Kherson region.
(46.7515190, 33.3146735)
t.me/soniah_hub/5646

Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)

Since the beginning of the war, Ukraine has been fighting two fronts: Russia on the battlefields and intransigent western governments in the halls of power. Fear of escalation has severely limited the quantity and quality of weapons willingly provided to Ukraine.

3/22

Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)

Ukraine has been forced to comply with absurd restrictions placed on them out of fear that it would jeopardize what security assistance they do receive from the United States. Efforts by the UK to have the Biden Admin lift the restrictions have been unsuccessful.

4/22

Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)

None of Ukraine's arguments have resolved the fundamental problem: Russia is free to strike all of Ukrainian territory with impunity, but Ukraine cannot respond in kind. The Biden Administration remains adamant that "deep strikes" are both too escalatory & unnecessary.

5/22

Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)

This change was really too little, too late though. Had Ukraine been granted permission sooner, they could have disrupted Russia's Kharkiv offensive before it was launched. By the time Ukraine fired its first defensive strike on Belgorod, Russia had almost culminated.

7/22

Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)

Despite indicating that the policy could be further revised, over the past 11 weeks, there has been no change. Ukraine has been put in the impossible position of having to continue fighting with 1 hand behind their back, because President Biden is afraid of Vladimir Putin.

8/22

Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)

No argument that Ukraine has made, no action they have taken — striking Russian energy infrastructure, an early ballistic missile warning radar, and other strategic targets — has been able to convince the Biden Admin that Russia will not escalate. What else could they do?

9/22

Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)

𝙀𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙆𝙪𝙧𝙨𝙠:

President Zelensky made a decision to start pushing the envelop; to test the seriousness of Biden's threats of terminating aid if they violate the conditions. The operation caught the Russians, the United States, and us analysts off guard.

10/22

Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)

The differing initial reactions from the Biden Admin and the Europeans was an interesting contrast. With the latter giving their approval, and the former's John Kirby saying they were: “reaching out to our Ukrainian counterparts to get a little bit better understanding.”

11/22

Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)

The next day, the Pentagon bizarrely claimed that: “It is consistent with our policy and we have supported Ukraine from the very beginning to defend themselves against attacks that are coming across the border.”

This is of course not true, as that policy dates to June.

12/22

Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)

The policy never permitted Ukraine to use American weapons to launch large-scale ground operations into Russia. Attacking a quiet section of the border in Kursk violates the conditions that Ukraine can only return fire or target imminent threats.

13/22

Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)

I am sure there will be no shortage of clueless individuals claiming without evidence that Ukraine was given more latitude than what was publicly disclosed, but this is obviously untrue. All evidence shows that the Admin did not know & remains skeptical of the operation.

14/22