Meanwhile At Kursk...

 Lancets and FPVs fly...

Sadly, this grandpa died when delivered to hospital--he sang about Guards warriors and life continuing in accordance to Guards warriors of the past...

Meanwhile, new NATO armies field manuals will have extensive chapters on how to use civilians as a human shield.

Time To Save One's Own Ass.

 ... or, rather, asses. LOL. I warned, remember? Now suddenly The Economist admits:

Russia’s double-punch back against Ukraine’s shock raid. It is bombing Ukrainians in Kursk and advancing in Pokrovsk

It is behind the paywall, but I can tell you what this globalist establishment tabloid proposes in this newly restarted game of blame. They say that it was hapless general Syrsky who hid his plans from the West to attack Kursk Oblast. Which implies, that should he have told that he about to attack Kursk Oblast (a euphemism for what Syrsky does best--kill his best troops), all those moral and military competent people (I am screwing with you) in Washington and London would have certainly prevented it. But poor poor dears have been in a complete darkness and didn't know about those plans, LOL)) 

Of course, this whole thing is nothing but a heap of bovine manure in a feeble attempt to start deflecting and spreading blame around, after VSU best equipped (practically all of it fresh NATO hardware) and motivated troops, and NATO generals who planned this catastrophe for them, covered part (about 11-12 kilometers) of what is called forefiled (or security zone), which was not prepared (why, we will know in a due time--administration of Kurks Oblast has a lot to answer for) and... drum roll... still drumming... still rolling... ran into the first line of defense of the Russian Army, which, as you may have guessed it by now was in about 11-12 kilometers from the border and... And The Economist still is required to keep abreast of the events along the whole front. Pokrovsk axis is just one of them, where Russians advance very dramatically. How about this? 

Drive to Kupyansk and those lovely narrows of Oskol River where its width is reduced to 25-30 meters. You get my drift, right? And then, of course, there are events at Maryinka-Ugledar chord. So, a lot is unfolding as I type this, but, in the end, it is about sheer military and political stupidity of the NATO planners who needed some "success" and "transfer" of Russian reserves from the front. Boy, they really need to learn what COFM is and get basic math skills going for them. The result was predictable: lines of communications (supply lines) have been cut, the whole force was dispersed and instead of Troops Operation, Counter-Terror Operation was introduced and that means there is NO statute of limitations for terrorism, meaning for anyone involved in this "incursion", including those who planned it. I stress this for the last several days--this is hugely important. And yes, that means NATO planners. 

Meanwhile, the removal of trash continues:

Anyone thought otherwise? Also, instructive, how losers from London stage Russian "POWs", in reality Ukie "actors", laying on the ground (that even WaPo cannot confirm it), while this is how real POWs identification happens through real military professionals of the Russian Army:

Heads-up, self-identification: full name (FIO, in Russian) and military unit. Many POWs from VSU, many... courts will decide who will be accepted as POW and who will face terrorism charges. 

P.S. Dmitry Kosyrev writes today in RIA (in Russian) about Idiocracy capturing the US. Read it, it is instructive.

We All Remember This...

 ... you know, British "tank commander". 

Well, evidently, not only Challengers II do not outmatch anything, but they turned out to be matchboxes which burn together with all their ammo. What a "design"!

What it takes is a visit from Lancet and one gets the fireworks. This is one which was destroyed in Kursk, the second one was politely visited by good ol' ZVBK-16...

 

Which resulted in this. So much for vaunted Chobham armor:

But that's beyond the point. Some new details emerged about why Kursk and why governor of Kursk Mr. Smirnov was abruptly shut down by Putin during recent video-conference. It has nothing to do with allegedly "secret" information, but everything to do with how Smirnov was "preparing" Kursk region. I'll talk about it tomorrow, but as being reported now, Russian Army and VKS turned off electricity in Sumy and, as was expected, new operational axis has been "opened" and it will all end badly for... Sumy--for now the region of 404, soon to be the region of Russia. The localization and annihilation of whatever is being left from those between 11,600 and 11,900 (by General Alautdinov's rough estimates) engaged in this adventure continues and, in fact, accelerates.

Those Who Planned...

 ... this FUBAR in Kursk for VSU--some even state that the whole idea originated in London, not surprising then with the level of UK's military--was obviously planned by amateurs. You see, they are still obsessed with operational indices, such as the length (range) of advance, the speed of advance and other purely Hollywood representations of war taken out of serious operational context and real military science. Well, you remember this, I recon...

The American Army as it is now exists could beat the Russians with the greatest of ease, because while the Russians have good infantry, they are lacking in artillery, air and in tanks, and in knowledge of the use of combined arms, whereas we excel in all three of these...

This is from Patton's diary in 1945. This is also the guy who never fought first rate Wehrmacht at the height of its strength and who faced in Lorraine... 10 German tanks. Who also completely made up a story of his "rivalry" with another propaganda inflated average commander such as Rommel. Not to mention, of course, him and his media chihuahuas taking credit for Ardennes and as the foreword to his diary states:

The creeping arrogance, the hubris, which would cost the American Army so dearly in Vietnam. Summing up the achievements of his troops in crushing the German counterattack of December 1944, Patton with pardonable pride claims to have “moved farther and faster and engaged more divisions in less time than any other army in the history of the United States—possibly in the history of the world... No country can stand against such an Army.” These memoirs are valuable not least in showing, however unwittingly, that a disastrous presumption of invincibility took root in the ranks of officers who led the American military after World War II. 

So, there you have it, pure delusion, with, obviously, people like Zhukov, Rokossovsky, Konev, Vasilevsky or Tolbukhin among many others, should they have been alive, having a Homeric laughter from the statements from a man who is venerated in the US Army as someone of a huge import in warfare, while being known primarily for his big mouth and outlandish claims. So, in the end, VSU lost by different estimates around 10-11 thousand its "best" troops, who encountered a real army. 

The result was expected--Ukie propaganda, while those "groups" who survived initially are now, also as was expected, corralled into the pockets within forests (zelenka as it is known in Russia) and being methodically annihilated, while some groups which are still loose in near border localities are being hunted down and killed. They never controlled anything more than at best 100-120 square kilometers of terrain with some hamlets (now it is reduced to low tens square kilometers at the most) and those "indices" mean nothing when the main task of the war on operational and tactical level, unlike it is the case with strategic Clausewitzian truism that the main object of war is to compel the enemy to do our will, is to KILL the opposition's armed force as much as possible. Russians are really good at it. In fact, they are the best in history. 

But, but, as I am record--once one begins to learn the military history based on Patton and Rommel, one is bound to lose its wars. Not to mention the fact that Russia finally paid serious attention to this "military bloggers" sewer and even shitty British propagandists from tabloid Moscow Times had to admit:

Russians are having a field day today with memes, which may have something to do with reality, that Ukrops got into Kursk Oblast to steal toilets, microwaves and washing machines;)) 

Now a sort of a trivial pursuit... Name which physical advantages--the only one that matter in the end--the US Army, as described in Field Manual 3-0, Operation, 2022, holds over Russians;): Position, Range, Speed of movement, Technologically superior capabilities, Terrain and weather. Good luck locating them;)

Thanks To Larch...

 ... for pointing and translating General Alautdinov's statement from his TG channel. 

⚡️ Over the past 24 hours, in the area of ​​Martynovka and the Sudzhansky direction, the AKHMAT special forces, together with the fighters of the 2nd special forces brigade and the Special Operations Forces of the Russian Ministry of Defense, destroyed: 1 tank, 7 BTR-BMP units, 13 armored combat vehicles (of various brands and manufacturers), 1 truck, 1 minibus, 9 pickups, a D-30 gun. And for dessert: a Plastun SIGINT station and a huge number of fascists.

The hunt was successful. I hope the expired one and his gang realized the failure of the blitzkrieg. And so the guys are ready to chop dill (ukarop) tirelessly. For the sake of such a topic, even without a meal and rest. And this is only for us. Imagine how many fascists were burned throughout the Kursk sector. We have never had such a number of destroyed enemies in a day in the entire SVO. Luckily, you are not sitting in holes from where each of you had to be dug out separately. With this action, you yourself decided the issue of accelerating your complete destruction. The piglet herding continues until your complete end. The smell of fried food is still everywhere 😂.

@AptiAlaudinovAKHMAT

AKHMAT POWER - RUSSIA POWER - ALLAH IS GREAT!

Here is what legendary commander talks about--this pretty much sums up all of NATO "strategy" from the beginning of SMO. 

You literally cannot illustrate it better than this. Yes, as US Army Field Manual 3-0 says in regards to Russia (page 6-3):

Understand the psychological and cognitive issues among competing friendly forces, aggressor forces, the local population, and other actors in an operational environment.

Boy, they think they can understand--no, they cannot; to understand they will need to discard most of their war experiences and learn--an impossible task for people poisoned by Hollywood and exceptionalism.  They and their direct and indirect assets through a medium of 404's psyops orgs failed miserably, again. What they achieved--they fucking really pissed Russians off across all walks of life and Russians now demand heads of all those "military bloggers" and "analysts" in Russia, while accomplishing what was expected--finishing off what's left of those "invaders" and rigging for taking parts of Sumy region for buffer zone. What outcome did they expect? Ah, yes, PR and some teeny-weeny nuclear terrorism at Zaporozhye NPP. Luckily, the fire is extinguished and there is no danger. How's those cognitive effects going for NATO?

The Big Hunt Is On...

 ... as was expected, once dispersed or pinned down, the fate of VSU (in reality NATO forces) is... very bleak. Here are are Akhmat guys and guys of 801 Naval Infantry Brigade dealing with suicidal troops. 

It has to be stated very clearly, that NATO military as a whole is absolutely not designed for war, from low to high tiers. I speak in my video today about the issue of Russian society finally having enough of media and their military "experts". Komsolmolskaya Pravda's piece finally opened with a broadside salvo at all those BSers who literally make shit up for only one purpose--hype and donations. Many of them, including most of these YouTubers, including in the West, are fakes and shysters with zero military background. My video should be up fairly soon. The mop up continues...

 

P.S. The phrase he says in Russian: 434 Regiment, Akhmat, Chechnya. And--nobody will pass.