1/ Russia is reportedly creating 'Kursk battalions' of newly enlisted conscripts, many of whom are barely trained teenagers paid only $0.75 a day, who are being sent to Kursk to fight the Ukrainian incursion. Some are being forced to sign contracts to fight at the front lines. ⬇️
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10/ "Do you want to say that you don't dare and don't know how to violate orders? Yeah, no, when you need to, you always know how to give a damn, you'll find a hundred reasons.
Well, if you don't give a shit about your lives, then you are idiots!"
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12/ 'Thirteenth' compares Russia's general staff unfavourably to monkeys: "In the third year of the war, even a monkey could be taught, but not some Ministry of Defence staff general who gives orders for such murderous marches in the frontline zone.
Who will be responsible for the formation of the next columns? What are you doing, brainless creatures?"
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11/ 'Dead Heads' responds with resignation:
"Did you think that after almost three years of full-scale warfare, something would change dramatically?"
The defeat of a column in the border area of the Kursk region, footage of which is already everywhere, says otherwise.
In the range of enemy missile weapons, in conditions of complete visibility of the area by reconnaissance drones, this is still possible.
Hence the results. We have what we have."
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1/ Ukraine's recent HIMARS attack on a Russian convoy in Rylsk, Kursk region, has prompted fury from Russian milbloggers at the military's incompetence. "The Russian land is full of idiots", one concludes; another complains that "this is some kind of sodomy". ⬇️
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4/ "But often you can't send him into a storm, because there is no one to send. Although, assholes often survive! And then they get posts and medals for having survived."
Oleg Tsarov bemoans the lack of learning evident in the decision to send the troops in a tightly clustered convoy: "This is just trash. The third year of war and troops [are still being organised] in columns."
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3/ "Who gave the order to move in columns in the drone's observation zone and, consequently, to [be defeated by] HIMARS, is not only an asshole, but must be sentenced according to the laws of wartime, today - it [deserves sending to] an assault squad. And I don't care what their rank is - [demote them to] private and [send them to an] assault squad! Those who command the movement in the column themselves, being in the column itself, are no less an asshole!"
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2/ At least 13 trucks filled with Russian troops were hit by Ukrainian HIMARS missiles on 8 August, killing upwards of 100 soldiers. It's likely to be one of the biggest losses of life in a single incident on the Russian side since the full-scale war began in February 2022.
The Russian military analyst and volunteer Roman Alekhine calls for the negligent commander in charge of the convoy to be executed, or maybe less drastically, to be demoted and sent into a "meat wave" assault unit.
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7/ "Just take the column leader, beat him like a dog, kick him until he starts puking and shitting himself. For dense, slow movement in a column, you need to punish him, and punish him very harshly. For the order to line up in a column and start moving (we're talking about wartime), you need to demote him to the rank of private and send him to Storm V to atone for his guilt."
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6/ "One of the most unpleasant feelings in war is driving slowly past a military column standing beside the road. You're driving, and a bunch of fuckers are standing next to the cars, scratching their balls, talking and smoking. The only desire at that moment is to press the gas pedal all the way down and drive away from the fuckers.
For columns, especially those standing on the side of the road in the zone of destruction by enemy missile and artillery weapons, you need to beat them up."
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5/ 'Older than Edda' recommends punishing the column's commander by "beat[ing] him like a dog" until he is "shitting himself" and rsuggests a similar punishment to that advocated by Tsarov. He comments on how it feels unpleasantly vulnerable when you pass by a stalled column:
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9/ 'Revenge of good will' concludes that "The Russian land is full of idiots."
"You, yes, yes, you, commanders, senior column/vehicle commanders, drivers, fighters, all of you who like to travel in crowds, columns, call it whatever you want in the combat zone. You are all idiots. Not only the command that gave you the order, but you personally."
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8/ 'Older than Edda' comments that "this is some kind of sodomy" if the Russian high command has not issued an order for there to be "no more than 3 cars [in line], no stopping on the side of the road to take a shit/pee/smoke and no pressing against the ass of the car in front."
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2/ The Fighterbomber Telegram channel last week posted an appeal to Russian companies to supply Russian Air Force regiments with bottled water. 3,300 litres have now been donated to one airfield – enough to last a month.
However, seven more regiments still need a total of 23 tonnes of water (23,000 litres / 6,000 US gallons). The huge shortfall almost certainly indicates a major breakdown in Russian logistics across the region, exacerbated by drought and the destruction of the Kakhovka Dam.
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1/ Russian forces in southern Ukraine appear to be experiencing an increasingly desperate shortage of water. Water rations for all personnel – from soldiers in the trenches to fighter pilots – are now limited to only 1 l (36 oz) per day, as little as 8% of what they need. ⬇️
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16/ The region's vegetation had already been stressed badly by the North Crimean Canal being cut off by the Ukrainians between 2014 and 2022 (it was reopened briefly after the 2022 invasion). The difference in vegetation cover between July 2013 and July 2024 is stark.
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Sources:
🔹 https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/151622/canals-in-ukraine-are-drying-up
🔹 https://jamestown.org/program/water-shortages-in-russian-occupied-crimea-set-to-trigger-mass-outmigration/
🔹 https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-society/3873022-water-level-drops-in-occupied-crimeas-rivers.html
🔹 https://unn.ua/en/news/crimea-faces-water-shortages-forced-to-use-reservoir-resources-to-fill-the-north-crimean-canal
🔹 https://unn.ua/en/news/crimea-claims-shallowing-of-belogorskoye-reservoir-local-historian-says-it-threatens-water-supply-situation
🔹 https://unn.ua/en/news/even-drought-tolerant-crops-suffer-severe-drought-in-occupied-crimea
🔹 https://24tv.ua/ru/zasuha-v-krymu-stanovitsja-realnoj-ugrozoj_n1340691
🔹 https://crimea.ria.ru/20240504/v-krymu-peresokhli-dve-reki-ekspert-otsenil-riski-zasukhi-1137009860.html
🔹 https://crimea.ria.ru/20240521/v-krymu-nachalas-zasukha--agrarii-spisyvayut-posevy-1137450307.html
🔹 https://glam1.gsfc.nasa.gov/ -
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18/ "There will be no hayfields in such conditions, which means that they will have to buy hay at high prices, if it is available at all. In such circumstances, villagers are beginning to reduce the number of livestock and abandon vegetable gardens. In many villages, the water pressure in the system is already low, as water consumption is in excess of the norm. I think we will soon start to see water cut-offs, and there will be a big problem with water in Crimea this summer." /end
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17/ One farmer interviewed by Radio Free Europe has noted that even drought-resistant crops are now dying out. Farmers have had to write off their crops. Little is now growing:
"Everything has dried up, there were few strawberries this year, and the wild berry glades have burned out from the heat, there are stone fruits, but they are small. Because of the heat and drought, there is no green grass, only dry grass, and milk yields have dropped sharply."
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6/ As an English traveller wrote in 1855, Crimea's interior in the summer was a place "of melancholy desolation. The grasses and flowers are then dust and ashes; the surface is a perfect desert; and can only support a few herbs and scrubby bushes..." Hunger was frequent.