The Lookout (Twitter)

Highly interesting report.

Note what the "Vector" from the GUR UAV unit says about Russian air defenses. https://twitter.com/fpleitgenCNN/status/1846492468621045944#m

Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (Twitter)

More HIMARS cluster munition strikes on Russian training grounds. Southern front. https://twitter.com/BackAndAlive/status/1846500239324160151#m

Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (Twitter)

Exclusive @CNN video about Ukrainian “Lyuty” long-range kamikaze drones and one of Ukraine’s long-range drone units
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/10/16/europe/elite-ukrainian-drone-unit-russia-intl-cmd/index.html

Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (Twitter)

Ukrainian decoy drones which are launched together with “Lyuty” kamikaze drones to break through Russian air defence systems. https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1846507334815686689#m

Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (Twitter)

During a Russian attack on Ukrainian positions in the Kursk region, a Russian BTR with infantry approaches a Ukrainian tank and receives a point-blank tank shot.
t.me/ButusovPlus/14325

Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (Twitter)

The quarter of the total campaign goal is secured thanks to your support🫡

https://www.help99.co/patches/special-kherson-cat-10---close-the-sky https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1845757205628252246#m

Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (Twitter)

/2. Same episode with point-blank tank shot on Russian BTR-82 in Kursk region but in better quality
t.me/marshalvdv/24504

Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (Twitter)

Ukraine to receive aging Abrams tanks in latest Australian military aid package. - ABC News.

Australian soon-to-be-retired Abrams tanks will be sent to Ukraine under a $245 million military support package. Preliminary 49 M1A1 Abrams will be transferred.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-16/ukraine-to-receive-aging-australian-abrams-tanks/104480368

4emberlen (Twitter)

RT @Tatarigami_UA: I'll say what many might think but hesitate to voice: Ukraine is currently losing the war, and the trend is negative unless drastic measures are taken.

Debates over what constitutes loss or victory can be had, and yes, Ukraine’s survival so far is a big win. But even if Russia halts advances and goes on the defensive, we lack the resources to reclaim territories to the 2022 borders, let alone the 1991 borders. This is due to many factors: delayed mobilization, insufficient aid, weak sanctions enforcement, a lack of political will in the West, poor military decisions, delayed aid due to de-escalation concerns, and the sheer reality of fighting a country with four times our population, with superior numbers in almost all domains and one of the largest military industries, supported by regimes like North Korea, which contribute more than some European countries with far larger GDPs.

Manpower shortages are another issue, but that's a separate discussion. Ukrainian leadership bears a good part of the responsibility for these problems. Still, if the West can’t supply the 14 brigades Zelensky requested, why discuss drafting hundreds of thousands more? We need to completely re-arm way more existing brigades. Who’s going to pay for them? Let’s be honest - there’s little enthusiasm in the U.S. or Europe to fund this.

If Russia retains its occupied territories, it will undermine one of Europe’s core security principles: that borders cannot be redrawn by invading force. In 2014, Russia violated this order, leading to the 2022 invasion. This time, it’s not just Ukraine that will have failed - it’s Ukraine, the U.S., and Western Europe’s failure to defeat Russia.

Some might cite Finland's Winter War, as an example of what Ukraine should have done, but that war lasted three months and ended with Finland ceding territory, paying reparations in the form of machinery, and renting a port to the Soviets. Ukraine's demographics today are also very different: the 18-25 age group is among the smallest, a reality across modern Europe.

Unless Ukraine and the West create a serious plan to radically increase aid to support mobilization - where Ukraine commits to mobilizing more people on the condition that they are properly armed and trained, and the West provides robust air defense to intercept missiles as decisively as the U.S. does for Israel - Ukraine will lose the war of attrition. This will force unfavorable peace, and mass migration from Ukraine to other countries, setting a dangerous precedent, and making it look like the West lost to Russia in the eyes of the world, especially among the enemies of the West

IgorGirkin (Twitter)

Ok, twi

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IgorGirkin (Twitter)

RT @kromark: 🧵1/7 A quick thread: finding yet another 'Pantsir' in Moscow Oblast in 10 minutes with the help of OSINT. (The ad on the pole says, 'Will buy any car'😆)

Necro Mancer (Twitter)

RT @BBS3AB: Роботи смерті: ураження живої сили та ворожого РСЗВ з FPV!

Піхотні групи окупантів вистежили, щоб вдарити під час скупчення. Іншим — розвалили земляні укриття та «кабіни».

Також підбили реактивну систему залпового вогню, і легковушку, яку росіяни ховали в ангарі.

Настріл бійців Батальйону безпілотних систем. Атакує з неба на Харківщині Третя штурмова!

🫡 Ми нищимо ворога кожен день!
Підтримуйте, підписуйтесь, донатьте на FPV (їх потрібно дуже багато)!

Збір на важкі дрони: https://secure.wayforpay.com/button/bb764dd8ee55f

Necro Mancer (Twitter)

И ещё один привет рашистам на южном направлении
t.me/savelifeua/3149 #RussianUkrainianWar https://twitter.com/666_mancer/status/1846285567614492802#m