Russia Invades Ukraine. Again by captaincrunch

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Russia Invades Ukraine. Again

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UPDATED: Monday, December 1, 2025 11:34
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Sunday, November 30, 2025 2:58 PM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

I see TRUMP!RUSSIA!COLLUSION! is rising from the grave.

Anything to shift the blame for our impending defeat.

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger

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Sunday, November 30, 2025 3:09 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Field littered with fiberoptic debris.

https://x.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1928541569348489584

Ukraine hasn't been able to produce unjamnable fiberoptic drones in quantity, or to field night vision drones when necessary.

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger

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Sunday, November 30, 2025 3:09 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Ukraine is finished. Fuck Ukraine.

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Monday, December 1, 2025 3:40 AM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Ukraine is finished. Fuck Ukraine.

There Are Piles Of Dead Russian Troops In The 'Valley Of Death' North Of Pokrovsk

The Ukrainians are shifting to a rural defense

Nov 30, 2025

https://www.trenchart.us/p/there-are-piles-of-dead-russian-troops

After a yearlong siege, Russian forces are gradually consolidating their control over the ruins of Pokrovsk and neighboring Myrnohrad—pre-war populations 60,000 and 46,000, respectively—in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk Oblast.

Outnumbered and outgunned Ukrainian brigades, long starved of manpower owing to Ukraine’s corrupt and inefficient mobilization system, are retreating north to the fields and villages between Pokrovsk and the twin cities of Kramatorsk and Sloviansk, 25 miles to the north.

The twin cities, combined population 400,000, are the next major objectives for the Russian Center Group of Forces, whose 150,000 troops outnumber the local Ukrainian corps five to one. But there are good reasons to believe the march won’t be an easy one. If it took the Russians a year and tens of thousands of casualties to capture Pokrovsk and Myrnohrad, it may take them even longer—and cost even more—to even begin contesting Kramatorsk and Sloviansk.

That’s because there’s a lot of open terrain between Pokrovsk and Kramatorsk. And the Ukrainians are increasingly shifting from an urban defense strategy to a strategy that hinges on a layered defense along the fields between cities.

Cities are great for sheltering dug-in infantry fighting on the defense, but Ukraine is desperately short of infantry. There may be 100,000 empty infantry billets in a military with barely a million people. Open terrain, which offers scant cover for attacking troops, is perfect for a drone-first defense—and Ukraine is flush with drones.

Death valley

Separate lines of effort by the Russian Center Group of Forces north of Pokrovsk offer a horrific preview of the coming long bloody march for the Russians eyeing Kramatorsk. Russian infantry and Russian mechanized forces are both struggling to advance across the Kazenyi Torets River and past the village of Novotoretsk.

There’s a line of Ukrainian fortifications running along the river—razor wire and anti-vehicle concrete obstacles—that the Russians have been trying to breach for months. But there’s little cover: few tree-lines or buildings where the Russians can hide from first-person-view drones. Winter fog can blind drones, but the fog is fickle: it comes and goes.

The Russians have cut the wire in at least one spot near Novotoretsk, but it and other chokepoints are well-known to the Ukrainians. It’s not for no reason that analyst Moklasen referred to the area as the “Novotoretsk death valley.” One recent video, recorded by a Russian assault trooper, depicts an infantry group hustling along the “death valley” past literally scores of Russian corpses.

There’s at least one other heap of dead Russians in the same area.

Russian mechanized groups are struggling, as well. More and than once, tanks and other armored vehicles have gotten mired in the Kazenyi Torets River. Bridgelayers can help span the river, but they’re big fat targets for drones.

At least twice in recent days, Russian vehicle columns have tried to cross the river over hastily emplaced log bridges or the aluminum spans laid by MTU-20 bridgelayers. Drones knocked out at least one MTU-20. The Russians retreated, leaving behind a tank, an MT-LB armored tractor and a clutch of unarmored cars and vans.

Expect similar outcomes in the coming months as the Russians push toward Kramatorsk. For nearly four years of wider war, the Ukrainians’ impulse has been to fortify the big cities—and hold them for as long as possible. That impulse may no longer be the right one.

“Cities were once the main point of Ukrainian defensive strategy,” French analyst Clément Molin explained. “The overwhelming number of Russian soldiers and the possibility to hide easily from drones inside cities” now make an urban defense “more difficult,” Molin wrote.

“Paradoxically,” Molin wrote, “it has become easier to defend fields or villages than large cities: fewer soldiers are needed, the Russian infantry is quickly spotted and the increasingly numerous obstacles (ditches, barbed wire) sometimes prevent progress.”

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Monday, December 1, 2025 3:46 AM

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I see TRUMP!RUSSIA!COLLUSION! is rising from the grave.

Anything to shift the blame for our impending defeat.

"Impending" means this year? Or in February? 2026? 2027? "Impending" loses meaning when used by Signym:

Prominent Russian milbloggers continue to contradict the Kremlin’s efforts to portray Russian victory in Ukraine as imminent or inevitable, however. A prominent Russian milblogger acknowledged that the tactical battlefield situation favors Russia, particularly near Hulyaipole, but stated that Russian state media coverage of Russian progress on the battlefield once again resembles “joyfully idiotic, rosy, self-indulgent nonsense” that does not support the war effort.[22]

The milblogger stated that such narratives of an imminent Russian victory create the false perception domestically that the Russian society no longer needs to urgently support the war effort against Ukraine, a competent adversary that uses NATO equipment and intelligence. The milblogger also noted that continuing the war effort in Ukraine will cost Russia further state resources amid growing societal dissatisfaction with the introduction of new fees and rising taxes in 2026.[23] The milblogger added that Russia continues to face manpower shortages and that the ongoing volunteer recruitment campaign is not generating a sufficient number of forces to demobilize Russian personnel that the Kremlin involuntarily called up in September 2022.

Girkin similarly assessed in a letter published on November 26 that Russia could develop its possible future seizures of Hulyaipole and Orikhiv into operational successes only if Russia has enough reserves to exploit these tactical advances.[24] Girkin observed that the most recent six-month Russian offensive on Kupyansk did not result in a “big victory” and assessed that Russian efforts to seize the “secondary” objectives of Pokrovsk, Vovchansk, Siversk, and Lyman are only tactical and will not be quick, will not degrade the combat effectiveness of the Ukrainian military writ large, and will not collapse the front lines. Girkin implied that Russia has enough troops to support tactical advances but lacks the necessary reserves and resources to achieve its strategic goals, such as seizing Dnipro, Zaporizhzhia, and Kharkiv cities.

ISW continues to assess that while the situation in some specific sectors of the front line is serious, particularly in Pokrovsk and Hulyaipole directions, the Kremlin’s efforts to present Russia’s victory in Ukraine as inevitable do not correspond to the battlefield reality.[25]

It is notable that the Kremlin’s misrepresentation of the situation on the ground was so far from reality that prominent pro-war milbloggers and ultranationalist figures continue to feel compelled to issue their own corrective statements.[26]

https://understandingwar.org/research/russia-ukraine/russian-offensive
-campaign-assessment-november-30-2025/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Monday, December 1, 2025 11:26 AM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

Ukraine attacked a Turkish-owned tanker Mersin as it was carrying Russian oil off the coast of Senegal.

https://www.tradewindsnews.com/tankers/tanker-linked-to-russia-trade-h
it-by-explosions-off-west-africa/2-1-1909083

https://gcaptain.com/shadow-fleet-crisis-deepens-third-tanker-incident
-off-senegal-follows-black-sea-drone-strikes/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Monday, December 1, 2025 11:34 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

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Ukraine is finished. Fuck Ukraine.
There Are Piles Of Dead Russian Troops In The 'Valley Of Death' North Of Pokrovsk

I would absolutely hate to burst your bubble, but I don't give one single fuck about dead Russians either, and I never did.

Ukraine is fucking toast, and Zelensky is a dead man.

Period.

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