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Originally Posted by WhiskeyOutpost ↗

It's a manbag.

aka Murse. Camo, with grenade patches.
or perhaps more fancy, fine italian leather with 24k fasteners.

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Originally Posted by duntez ↗

Well, he has some massive balls

The size of watermelons. He has to cart them around in a wheelbarrow.

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Originally Posted by WonderMomma ↗

aka Murse. Camo, with grenade patches.
or perhaps more fancy, fine italian leather with 24k fasteners.

I'm just a simple man

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Originally Posted by WhiskeyOutpost ↗

I'm just a simple man

Should be tankers black

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As a mechanic it is totally acceptable to have many many man purses and man clutches.

[WonderMomma]

Originally Posted by WhiskeyOutpost ↗

I'm just a simple man

That's a classic and very respectable mantote.

Originally Posted by Rfneimad ↗

As a mechanic it is totally acceptable to have many many man purses and man clutches.

Don't forget the many forms of technology. Laptops, ipads, tablets, phones, and a couple of notebooks.

It's funny... one of the cams from Ukraine we use on the stream is a ring door bell type camera. The occupants of the home are a young couple (30's maybe). The man of the house carries a manbag with him at all times even to simply go outside and smoke a cigarette. I've never seen him coming/going or smoking without it. He wears it as a sling bag. I wonder if it's something he keeps on him at all times in case he needs to flee suddenly or if this is something he's done for a long time.

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Тактичний кошеня

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Stefan Korshak
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September 18, Day 207 - Bridges and bullseyes, Trophies and POWs, Carrot shortage in the Russian army
Hi DR!
We haven’t had a gratuitously cute animal image in a while, so here you go.
The lines have been fairly static the last two days but it’s not clear how much that is attrition fighting and how much of it is one or both of the sides taking a breather.
Two videos to kick things off. First, images of how the UAF crossed the Oskil’ River at Kupiansk. This is dated, probably from early last week. The slightly underwater bridge is Soviet doctrine, so no surprises there, but the fact the Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF) put it in, as part of a follow-on offensive operation, is another small sign the UAF is capable of more than a company-sized attack. Getting a bridge to the right place, getting troops to clear both banks to put the bridge in, picking the site, defending it from the air - all those things don’t happen automatically. It takes staff planning, junior officers on the ground who know what needs to happen, and soldiers and sergeants executing with a purpose. Putting a bridge across the Oskil’ is a minor achievement compared to, say, bridging the Dnipro, of course.
Second, someone - I assume some portion of the UAF’s psychological operations division - on Saturday released video of if not all then a wide selection of Kherson occupation authority officials, with their images photoshopped onto gravestones and a warning to abandon their job or be murdered. I’m not saying there is cause and effect, but on Saturday evening there was some kind of firefight in central Kherson involving automatic weapons fire and a BTR armored personnel carrier (occupation authorities claimed they cornered a partisan gang. Video)
Today, Sunday, there was a series of eight explosions in the central part of the city, at about 2:30 in the afternoon. Chernobaivka also was hit. Image of smoke in Kherson center attached. The head of the occupation authority and target of an assassination attempt on Friday, said the UAF partisans are now targeting innocent humanitarian aid warehouses. (Meaning, probably, the partisans hit something the RF cares about.)
The fighting in Kharkiv sector and north Donbass
In general, relatively speaking the weekend along most of the length of the fighting line the situation seemed fairly quiet. There was some evidence that in the Kharkiv sector the Russian Federation was trying to build a coherent defense along the Oskil’ River by manning strong points in and around the towns Pechenegi/Oskil, at the south end of the Oskil’ reservor, around Kupiansk, in the middle, and Durechine, at the north end.
Reports are mixed about how that is going. I’ve seen reports that Oskil’ is fully in UAF hands, and that elements of 3rd Russian Mechanized Division are fighting hard there, and around Durechine, that the UAF is attacking in reinforced battalion strength but taking losses, and also, that the UAF is fully in control of Kupiansk and heading east, and that the RF units hold Kupiansk’s eastern suburbs and the UAF is stopped cold. Also, further east, reports are going back and forth about control of Sviatove, well behind the Oskil’ River line.
All in all, it looks like both sides resting and refitting in this sector with the UAF pushing to maintain contact and locate weak points.
At some locations, the UAF is still gathering in POWs and Russian equipment. There are still plenty of images coming in, but the most impressive over the last couple of days has to have been several shots of the first top-of-the-line, bleeding edge, best-that-Russia-has T-90 tank. The T-90 images are from the WarLife Telegram feed.
The Ukrainian Defense Ministry today issued the first official estimate of captured Russian soldiers: “hundreds” - which is pretty much what we were expecting. Video of a larger group of POWs attached. Also a picture of three guys from LPR.
Further south, where the main terrain barrier is the Siviersky Donets River, likewise there are conflicting reports about who owns Sivitihorsk (my guess the UAF), Yampil’ and Lyman. Here the UAF intention is clearer because the road network is a bit more constricted: the objective is to build a strong bridgehead on the left/west bank of the Siviersky Donets preparatory to an outflanking move against Lysychansk and Severodonetsk from the west, or, a drive to the Russian border to the east. According to a late Saturday reprot, the UAF liberated the “approach villages” Shurove and Dibrove, threatening to envelop Lyman.
As noted earlier, this sector is heavily wooded and the lion’s share of the woods is on the east/left bank of the Siviersky Donets. My instincts tell me Gereral Sivsky would want to expand that bridgehead and force the RF to defend in the woods, where the RF infantry shortage will be the most painful, and then at a time of his choosing launch a conventional armored attack towards Starobilsk and the Russian border. But no proof.
Meanwhile, the RF still seems to be intent on driving troops out into the open heading towards Soledar and Bakhmut. I guess these attacks distract UAF forces, but I have to confess I suspect the only reason these columns are heading out daily, is that no one in Moscow has decided to eat crow and give up on trying to capture Bakhmut. As always, the Wagner Group fighters appear to be leading this effort.
RF outlets are complaining that UAF howitzer fire on central Donetsk has become intense, and daily.
Fighting in the south
According to the UAF the Russians are trying to fix their supply problems in this area, in part, by sinking nine rail cars by the Nova Kakhkovka dam, to improvise a bridge replacingthe one on the dam which, as we have seen, the Ukrainians have pounded into bit. I’m not really sure what the RF thinking is because if the Ukrainians can hit the bridge the replacement bridge can’t be less vulnerable.
Reportedly, a battalion task group from 28th Mech brigade attempted a push near the village Posad-Pokrovsky, village Pravdino, and was repelled by RF paratroopers.
In Russia
- According to Ukrainian social media, and following up on the previous review, the mercenary company Wagner now has a new means of recruiting prison inmates: they are transferred without being asked whether or not they want to fight, and flown directly to an airfield near the town of Millerovo Belgorod Oblast’, where they are told they can sign contracts or be charged with treason. Supposedly, inmates sentenced for murder, assault, robbery and battery are picked to join Wagner. This sounds unbelievable, but there is RF prison-associated social media to back it up. (Image).
There was a time when armed Russian inmates would have been terrifying to a lot of us. But to reach civilian Ukraine, they have to get through the UAF.
- According to a new video (attached) bouncing around the blogosphere, the RF army in its wisdom has canceled wound payments and benefits for soldiers hit in battle, but, it was either a concussion or a splinter that didn’t break a bone or hit a major artery of vein. According to the soldier making the video, the main motivation is to save money because of all the RF soldiers who have “light wounds”. The number, my guess, could easily be more than 50,000 and might reach 75,000. According to the video, this benefit, now cancelled, dates back to the days of the Red Army.
- In Rostov, right next to Ukraine, where UAF missiles have hit more than once, masked soldiers set up a street stand trying to recruit Russian men willing to become soldiers and go fight right across the border. Image attached.
Stuff for Ukraine
Multiple reports that 20 Ukrainian soldiers are now in Spain training to operate some kind of NATO tank. In general, NATO operates German Leopards, but Germany seems dead set against sending Leopards to Ukraine. (Although Leopard-chassis tank recovery vehicles, sure, Germany is OK with that.) So the question here is what western tank are these UAF guys learning to operate? Training is supposedly taking place at the San Grigorio maneuver area in Zaragoza district. (Image)

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Originally Posted by Rfneimad ↗

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Things are not looking good for the Russian Federation.

"I suspect the only reason these columns are heading out daily, is that no one in Moscow has decided to eat crow and give up on trying to capture Bakhmut."

ISW and at least one other mil logger had the same opinion.

If I remember correctly Bakhmut is a political goal that is emotional for Donyetsk and nothing else.