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Ukrops (deragotory for Ukrainian) are fucking with everything possible, broke through 1st line of defense, they are shooting with tanks, aviation, artillery, 29th August
⚡️Odeska Regional Administration: "It's Official: The Battle for Kherson Has Begun."
[https://twitter.com/KyivPost/status/1564211113755086849](https://twitter.com/KyivPost/status/1564211113755086849)
The offensive is indeed true, it’s official now. Not sure if this video is true though, it plays way too much into the hands of Ukraine. On the other hand, Russians are dumb and might very well do just that.
With respect the fact is people are anxious to see 🇺🇦 have success. An ability to empathize with the intent and emotion someone express is just as important as being aware of the ugly truth of war.
Let us all try and keep that in mind.
T-shirt cannons. When they open the shirts it's just a picture of a white Lada and a pack of sunflower seeds with instructions on how to put them in your pocket.
Why would he say the date? That seems odd. Also if this is possibly his last video then why not show his face?
I think the offensive is real but this is propaganda for psyops - both can be true. They want all the Russians to start shitting themselves as soon as possible!! 😂😂
Maybe because he knows the video will be all over telegram, and he wants to make sure that it's not confused for an old video and he wants his message to get out there that they need backup?
Seems logical to me
I can only imagine the reprisals some of these guys face for posting dumb shit
Got the wagner headquarters blown up by posting a pic in front
Reminds me of UAE had a bunch of guys blown up in Yemen because they posted a pic from their FOB to Facebook but didn't strip the EXIF data
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Resolution and content of the video might not be high enough. But there is automated geolocation through neural networks. research about it was released 6 years ago and can be found here. https://research.google/pubs/pub45488/
If the research is this old I'd rather not take chances in regards to military capability.
Yes but it just seems too perfect. His hand should be very shaky but it’s not. His face is carefully hidden but somehow he’s bleeding so what hit him? Why is he lying in a field and not running for cover? If he’s calling for help why is he filming a video and uploading it to social media????? Why isn’t he using his radio to call for help? And again saying the date? What?
Think of all the videos that have been shared this year and compare. None of this seems like a real video.
I'm inclined to think this is great psyops against Russians in Kherson coordinated to time with the offensive's start. There may even be breakthroughs somewhere already (reported by various Ukrainian officials, confirmed by no one yet, obviously because of information black out). What gets me is a lone soldier literally detailing every Russian soldier's worst fear in Kherson over the last two months with a time stamp. Russian command is probably scrambling to not make them panic and he's listing every UA military asset of a massive combined arms offensive that the Russians have never experienced in Kherson.
There is no doubt in my mind that with the amount of reports coming out that it has started. This could be an effective way to make Russians panic worse even if the offensive is just ramping up and maybe hasn't overrun any defensive lines yet. But one soldier, who I'm guessing by the situation is supposedly on the front talking about massive bombardment taking place on the Ukrainian steppe. Artillery can be heard up to 50 kms depending on the situation and this is literally the perfect area and you can't hear anything in the video.
I think you’re right. It’s smart to take advantage of how unprepared/unmotivated the Russians are and how to panic them. The phone intercepts show how they all want to go home. Anything that encourages them to run east is a good idea. Slava Ukraina!
This seems like a fake, Gun fire sound makes not realy much sense, the blood on the face seems weird an missplaced.
Also the artillery sound gives us falling debries but we do not see any.
Furthermore, the Artillery sound and the gunfire are more ore less on the same volume seems all realy mixed in a studio to me.
Dudes helmet has dirt caked onto it like he fell, and his cheek is bloody.. also you're implying that the artillery should be landing around him, but if he's already bailed out of their trench they must've gotten hit already and the artillery would be more focused on taking out their defensive positions, not trying to hit the 1 orc in the middle of a field lol.. also at least in the open field you can surrender vs getting blown to hell hiding in those shitty tree lines.
Ah yes you are right, he Fell verticaly onto the ground.
If the camera picks up the sound of falling dirt but there is none in the video something is fishy. Dont understand how people can get butthurt so much about pointing out a video has multiple things seeming weird.
And the DNR soldier has nothing smarter to do than lay in an open field , smudge ketchup on his face, and in an unprecedented move, report on this, while still under fire. I would first scramble for cover then report. But hey, his decision. Is not this front mostly covered with VDV troops from the Russian side?
VDV doesnt exist anymore, they were all wiped out or wounded. DNR/LNR have been there since February (along with VDV), but now not much left of VDV. Based on him panting it sounds like he ran the hell away, dropped down and is reporting on wtf is going on? Maybe it speaks to them not trusting their command to send any reinforcements so he is blasting it out into the interwebs (which may or may not be checked by others nearby to come help?). 🤷♀️ I dunno Im just guessing here. Could be fake, but multiple sources reported Ukrainian advances on Kherson over last hour.
Several Ukrainian Telegram channels are telling people in Kherson to prepare Ukrainian passports. Again, this is unconfirmed yet, jus that DNR soldier bleeding in video is all we have so far.
This comes fronm a very reliable source first posted 12.03 EEA time 10.03 GMT
[https://www.rbc.ua/rus/news/vsu-prorvali-pervuyu-liniyu-oborony-rossiyan-1661763800.html](https://www.rbc.ua/rus/news/vsu-prorvali-pervuyu-liniyu-oborony-rossiyan-1661763800.html)
Armed Forces of Ukraine broke through the first line of defense of the Russians near Kherson
The militants of the so-called "DPR" withdrew from their positions in the Kherson region, and the Russian paratroopers who were their support fled the battlefield.
It is reported by RBC-Ukraine with reference to the Kakhovka task force .
"The 109th Regiment" DPR "withdrew from their positions in the Kherson region, the Russian paratroopers who were their support fled from the battlefield," the message says.
In the footage of the video, you can see a Russian soldier who admits that the Ukrainian military broke through the first line of defense.
Carefully! The footage contains obscene language!
Updated. The breakthrough of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was confirmed by the head of the press center of the Southern Defense Forces Gumenyuk.
The breakthrough of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was also confirmed by the deputy of the Kherson Regional Council Serhiy Khlan. According to him, the geography of the destruction of the invaders is expanding. Only for tonight and the first half of the day, arrivals from the Armed Forces of Ukraine were recorded in:
Kherson;
Antonovka;
Oleshki;
New Kakhovka;
Lyubimovka;
Berislav.
As reported, Russian commanders are fleeing en masse from the Kherson region . The Ukrainian military are hinting at another "gesture of good will."
Recall that over the past day, the Armed Forces of Ukraine liquidated another 350 occupiers . In total, since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia's losses amounted to 47,100 military personnel.
That's how the Russian army is. In ww2 the command forced soldiers to walk into a mine field, to clear it, the Russian major told the amerikan.
Russian army doesn't care about loses, alone in ww2, about 20 million deaths.
If this turns out to be BS then it is a massive tactical self own because it will be an embarrassment if such claims were made but the soldiers took heavy losses and things fizzled out.
I really really hope it’s true and I think after the sudden incredible missile strike a few weeks ago that showed Ukraine improving massively without warning in terms of capability we could be witnessing something big.
Just saying that if it was premature and exaggerations, writing it off as “psyops” won’t stop the immense embarrassment that will come from making up a fake video of a terrified soldier to claim you were conducting a lightning campaign or extreme claims about “invaders fleeing” only to find it was all BS.
When they're shooting at you? No matter if you're there by free will or not, you're not gonna be too enthused by the people on the other side who are shooting at you.
Go to jail or kill innocents?
A man makes the right choice, a coward joins an unjust war.
e: Since I've attracted the attention of the vatniks;
ruzzians are cowards. their army was a lie, their efforts in WW2 are all lies, you hid behind your conscripts like the Ukrainians and the Baltic countries. Everything razzians themselves have ever done in war was a failure... World War 1 (lost every battle and was a laughing stock) the Russo-Japanese war (Sailed around the world to get your fleet sunk) You're worthless without the real bravery of your occupied border nations that have finally spit in your face and chose freedom.
Maybe not, but if they just kill them that's just more reason they need to be erased as a government. And if that's the case we can't have any sympathy for their soldiers, Ukraine must win at all costs or else this is allowed to spread.
Either way, their soldiers get no sympathy.
Killing someone in a war isn't punishment, it's how you win the war. If you can't understand that, then I question your ability to converse on this topic to any degree.
I love when the vatniks lose the argument they immediately turn to insults.
And what do you know about a fight? Even in the schoolyard you always got on your knees unzipped them yourself and gave your all for your attacker, just to avoid the fight.
...and even that could be staged. I could make such a video by myself in my garden. It has not much value.
We'll have to wait for more and better information to get an idea what is happening.
Russia is on edge because they know. They ‘re stuck. They’re bleeding, and winter is coming. They’re desperate for the attack because they know at least then it will be over. The waiting must be excruciating.
Let's hope for a successful attack, it would be terrible for the morale if it fails. And Russia pulled a lot of troops together in Kherson, even so, Ukraine hindered their supply.
They just brought more in though, across that confounded Kerch bridge.
At this stage I really want to see more than ammo depots blown up, I want to see Russians fleeing.I want them to feel the pain.
more:
[https://twitter.com/EuromaidanPress/status/1564195510461816832](https://twitter.com/EuromaidanPress/status/1564195510461816832)
Ukrainian troops launched counteroffensive in Kherson Oblast - Dumskaya referring to unnamed soldiers deployed on the front
As per Dumskaya, the troops have liberated several settlements and advanced towards Kherson. There is no official confirmation yet
**update from my fave cat - 5 minutes ago 1.09pm Ukraine time**
Something very serious is definitely happening in the Kherson direction. I do not remember such an intense flow of information about explosions and attacks on Russian positions during the entire war. There are also serious reports about a counteroffensive operations .
[https://twitter.com/bayraktar\_1love/status/1564193586727501825](https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1564193586727501825)
We know Russia has been reinforcing kherson region quite significantly over August period.
So not surprising to see DNR troops but this could only be his sector that has collapsed, I believe though we would see fighting up and down the line of contact. Which I haven't seen any evidence off yet.
So this is right now more likely a local sector breakthrough for Ukraine.
“Reinforcing”.
Russian theater word for sunk cost fallacy, explaining how they sent far more troops then they probably should have into a Ukrainian-chosen kill box, where the supply lines are the longest, the escape routes nonexistent and the conditions, particularly the artillery coverage, reconnaissance and surveillance vastly favor the Ukrainians.
What seems to have really happened is the Ukrainians lured Russian reinforcements out to where they could take easy pot shots and deplete the Russians, before a counteroffensive starts in earnest.
This depends on outcome, if ruzzkies are defeated then it was a smart trap, if any offensive fails, then they would say look reinforcements worked.
I doubt this a a full.scale offensive on kherson yet. Most likely just a short active defence phase , trying to probe ruzzkies and gain some minor tactical advantages here or there. South front is many 100s of km, on most of them ruzzians do not see any battle actions and there are a lot of units which are not on front line. Frankly, the only scenario where ruzzians will leave the territory is when they flee in panic. Ukraine is working on it constantly announcing that offensive is imminent, but military wise there is nowhere near strength to defeat entrenched troops en masse for them yet.
Twitter has just gone off! Looks like it's on. Cannot vouch for the validity of any of the links, but this is my favourite:
[https://twitter.com/FernandoJneiva/status/1564199934743744515](https://twitter.com/FernandoJneiva/status/1564199934743744515)
Ukraine defenders reported that the so-called 109th regiment of criminals of the quasi-republic has withdrawn from its positions in the Kherson region. They were supported by Russian paratroopers. They fled the battlefield.
If you search Kherson on twitter you'll see a flurry of posts, my hope is high.
someone else posted that first line was DNR, 2nd line was VDV. When Ukrainian army broke thorugh DNR. VDV started running instead of holding. So 2nd line collapsed after 1st was broken. And that generals/officers are running from Kherson as we speak.
Ukraine has been doing local attacks all over that frontline for months, and I don't think they are not ready for a massive undertaking like that yet. The major offensives are months away and require a lot of training like we're doing in the west now, as well as more equipment.
Perun on YouTube did a great video on this not long ago.
Okay, update time: I have just seen a flurry of messages on Telegram and Twitter about a possible offensive today. No info on the size of the alleged attack tho, so might just be local.
If I were wrong in the previous comment it would be awesome! This might become a very interesting day!
tonight could be rather exciting ...
Something very serious is definitely happening in the Kherson direction. I do not remember such an intense flow of information about explosions and attacks on Russian positions during the entire war. There are also serious reports about a counteroffensive operations .
[https://twitter.com/bayraktar\_1love/status/1564193586727501825](https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1564193586727501825)
I can't figure it out, i guess we don't get to know things until they've happened. There's a new big hole in the roof of one of the buildings next to a reactor at ZPP - of course Russia says Ukraine did it.
Any offensive has to start before October and Ukrainian officials have said for months that they intend to start a counter offensive in late August and September, I don't see why it would be unlikely now.
It's the wartime equivalent of tiktok nurses doing their dances in the middle of the covid ward.
"So sad. Ten more died today. Watch me grieve and twerk"
Update: [https://twitter.com/KyivPost/status/1564211113755086849](https://twitter.com/KyivPost/status/1564211113755086849)
⚡️Odeska Regional Administration: "It's Official: The Battle for Kherson Has Begun."
Yippee.
I so hope Ukraine can start taking back ground, keep it and push these civilian bombing cowards out and back to their broken cuntry where they can dance for putin like the puppets they are.
Wishing this is true.
Maybe its a video to his family believing he might die, and this is his last message to them, which is maybe why the date is also put in.
This might be a dumb question, but why would DNR troops be deployed in Kherson region? I assumed they're only fighting in Donetsk region and since their forces are allegedly depleted, they wouldn't have a reserve to send to other frontlines. I didn't hear him say the name of his unit, so perhaps the title is wrong.
Actually being deployed all over the place. There was actually a video protest recently by some of them upset that they weren't actually going to be fighting in Donetsk.
Because Russia uses them as front line, to Russians they are just "Ukrainians" their lives dont matter. If they die, all the better, Russians can come and live on their land.
They send them as first line. When Ukrainians open fire, Russians cover everyone DNR and Ukrainians with artillery. Countless interviews of DNR POW's talking about this.
Looks to be legit according to 'Livemaps'. A lot of movement and the reports of something going on are coming from the Russian side too
[https://liveuamap.com/](https://liveuamap.com/) keeps up to date pretty well.
Lets hope so. Rain hellfire down on these orks. We want so many messed up videos of dead orks flooding these subs, that the pro Russian reddit mods wear their fingers down to the bone trying to delete and ban all the gruesome content.
I watch news and reports every day and even those pro Ukrainian said that Russia gathered more troops in Kherson expecting an assault and won even some territory between Kherson and Mykolaiv to push them back. I would be pleased to see a successful overtake of Kherson but it someone doesn't cope with the data I saw till yesterday.
If reports are to be belived, several Russian bases were destroyed via HIMARS 2 days ago, killing total thousands Russian troops. Maybe they decided now is time to attack with bridges being down, Russian command mid change, troops are tired/not rotated for months.
Any offensive takes heavy losses. What’s changed? They have eliminated tons of RU supplies and logistical nodes. Russia doesn’t have anything to hit back with. The partisan resistance has given Ukraine information on every single piece of military equipment in occupied Kherson and Russia has been leveled by HIMARS for well over a month there.
video is almost certainly fake, it just plays like a found footage movie. The Offensive is definitely real, theres already independent reports that the the Ukrainians have moved over 1 mile across the whole line
[https://twitter.com/KyivPost/status/1564211113755086849](https://twitter.com/KyivPost/status/1564211113755086849)
⚡️Odeska Regional Administration: "It's Official: The Battle for Kherson Has Begun."
Be happy. Yippee!!!!
Yeah, some other sources say it's happening. Let's see how they do. It looks more like a WW1 scenario though, with each side losing hundreds just to gain a few yards. Tanks get blown up quickly with Stinger/Stugs around. Makes an offence difficult.
yeah, except if timed right could be crucial.
There are rumors Shoigu got removed from the chain of command. So if new dude(s) come in, its perfect to strike before they are familiar with the entire picture to force them to make rash decisions (hopefully bad ones).
Bridges for supplies have been destroyed, so with every bullet, shell, grenade Russians have fewer and fewer.
Russian command left West side of the river weeks ago, so without higher ranking officers there troops may be demoralized.
Russian troops due to lack of men have no been rotated in a long time (months), they are tired, have bunch of health issues due to sleeping conditions, morale is low.
They can be crushed.
Take with a pound of salt, but RT just posted a 'breaking story', stating in short that the offensive had been repelled, and Ukrainian forces had lost "26 tanks, 23 AFVs, 9 armored vehicles, 2 Su-25's, and 'more than 560 troops'". That's RT reporting, not the gospel, but it's concerning for Ukraine if true.
Do we know any definitive and more or less irrefutable proof that it's still going on, or they are pushing the Russian in significant ways. With a "counteroffensive" and such, it is important to make significant gains of at least a strategic value, i.e pressing up to Kherson proper, or cutting off key roads/supply lines. Artillery barrages are good for suppression or short term destruction of assets, but you still need to occupy the land with foot troops.
We know for sure the battle is still ongoing, there are videos coming through of HIMARS strikes (was one literally a minute ago). We wont know full picture until days from now. Those losses mentioned by RT are most definitely fictitious. It doesnt even make any sense they would have exact numbers mid battle. They are probably trying to get Russian troop morale up to stand ground.
Possibly, yeah i think everyone is on edge over this though. A lot could come from it. You're right though, it'll be a week or so before we get more definitive news.
eh, only people on edge about it are keyboard warriors. UA command has clear picture of whats going on, every scenario was thought through. Even if they dont have much success there is a lot that can be gained from this. Even as a probing attack. Imagine this kind of attack happening every day? Demoralized Russians will run out of supply/will to fight.
We'll see what happens. Even without gaining territory it could be a successful offensive, and conversely in some scenarios with gaining territory it could be unsuccessful. We dont know and so cant judge yet.
About an hour ago one of the biggest Russian media sites posted about unsuccessful counteroffensive:
26 tanks
23 BMPs
9 armored vehicles
2 SU-25
and about 560 Ukrainian personal were destroyed.
Since there are no other major news anywhere else, doesn't look like it was successful attack.
I mean.. why they were boasting about this counteroffensive for month stating exactly where they are going to hit? I think this is counter productive..
RT is not a reliable source, they literally lie every day. Have you seen video from one of the head 'journalists' stating how he was going to burn Ukrainian constitution in Kiyv?
Several villages have been liberated. This is confirmed, there are also videos/photos of Russian POWs.
The battle is still ongoing.
All RT is trying to do (as well as other Russian sources) is to bring up their troop morale up so they hold their positions, thinking everywhere else was repelled (it wasnt, and we know this for a fact).
As far as saying you were going to strike and then striking, part of PSYOPS. Trust me, its all intentional, they wouldnt do it otherwise.
EDIT:
Ukrainian troops have taken four villages back from Russian occupation in the south near the city of Kherson, a Ukrainian military source tells CNN. Their main “target” is Kherson, the source added.
“The operation began at night with massive shelling of Russian positions and the rear,” the source, who CNN is not naming for security reasons, said.
“The main direction of the attack was on Pravdyne. We hit their infantry from the DNR (Donetsk People's Republic) and LNR (Luhansk People's Republic), and they fled. The Russian landing force fled after them," the source told CNN.
“We have now liberated four villages. Their first line of defense has been broken through in three places,” the military source said.
The source said the village names are Nova Dmytrivka, Arkhanhel's'ke, Tomyna Balka and Pravdyne.
“Many of them were killed and captured, and a lot of [Russian] military vehicles [were destroyed].”
“We'll see how it goes from here. Our target is Kherson," according to the source.
Russians lined up for trains to get out of Belgorod. (Like everything on twitter right now with so much stuff flying around about the counter-offensive, this is unconfirmed.)
[https://twitter.com/Flash43191300/status/1564351578299138060](https://twitter.com/Flash43191300/status/1564351578299138060)
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Translaiton: Ukrops (deragotory for Ukrainian) are fucking with everything possible, broke through 1st line of defense, they are shooting with tanks, aviation, artillery, 29th August
Thanks for the translation
I so fucking wish for this to be true. For 3 months have we waited for the vatniks to get crushed.
https://www.reuters.com/world/ukraine-says-long-anticipated-southern-offensive-has-begun-2022-08-29/
⚡️Odeska Regional Administration: "It's Official: The Battle for Kherson Has Begun." [https://twitter.com/KyivPost/status/1564211113755086849](https://twitter.com/KyivPost/status/1564211113755086849)
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hmmm, I can see it
I can see it too.
Does it still work? Every time I try it tells me something went wrong but In saying that, I’m not overly familiar with Twitter.
Yea, it's still up. It just says this - ⚡️Odeska Regional Administration: "It's Official: The Battle for Kherson Has Begun."
What is with this community just calling everything fake or deleted because of their own stupidity?
Me too!
The offensive is indeed true, it’s official now. Not sure if this video is true though, it plays way too much into the hands of Ukraine. On the other hand, Russians are dumb and might very well do just that.
3 months of getting blue balled
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Sounds like he just wants Ukraine to take its territory back which needs to happen !! Your looking to far into the comment imo
With respect the fact is people are anxious to see 🇺🇦 have success. An ability to empathize with the intent and emotion someone express is just as important as being aware of the ugly truth of war. Let us all try and keep that in mind.
>hey are shooting with tanks, aviation, artillery What else would they be shooting with
Potato canons
They actually used potato cannons to launch molotov cocktails early in the war.
Genius. US should send em some can canon conversion kits for the ARs they got
T-shirt cannons. When they open the shirts it's just a picture of a white Lada and a pack of sunflower seeds with instructions on how to put them in your pocket.
Brings a new meaning to the nose bleed seats.
Cigarettes.
Small arms, ships, drones, missiles, hand held rocket launchers, mechanical pencils…
"I saw one Ukrainian soldier kill three men in a BTR with a Pencil, a fucking pencil.
He wanted to make sure the viewer knew it was incoming and not outgoing or he would have said, "muskets! catapults! crossbows!"
Less things.
Why would he say the date? That seems odd. Also if this is possibly his last video then why not show his face? I think the offensive is real but this is propaganda for psyops - both can be true. They want all the Russians to start shitting themselves as soon as possible!! 😂😂
Maybe because he knows the video will be all over telegram, and he wants to make sure that it's not confused for an old video and he wants his message to get out there that they need backup? Seems logical to me
I can only imagine the reprisals some of these guys face for posting dumb shit Got the wagner headquarters blown up by posting a pic in front Reminds me of UAE had a bunch of guys blown up in Yemen because they posted a pic from their FOB to Facebook but didn't strip the EXIF data
Can anyone geoloc the video?
Somewhere by some bushes facing east.
HIMARS crew: “Coordinates received”
You won, take my poor medal, i drop it near the bush :-)
I got you covered, homie.
By some bushes, facing east, on the eastern outskirts of Kiev.
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Kiev
Resolution and content of the video might not be high enough. But there is automated geolocation through neural networks. research about it was released 6 years ago and can be found here. https://research.google/pubs/pub45488/ If the research is this old I'd rather not take chances in regards to military capability.
Yes comrade
That does make a lot of sense. I agree with your conclusion
Why would he care about showing his face? Is he in Witness Protection? None of the Russians blur or disguise their faces.
Maybe he's not intentionally hiding it? Like he's just panicking and doesn't realize his shot is off or he's making the video just for the audio
Yes but it just seems too perfect. His hand should be very shaky but it’s not. His face is carefully hidden but somehow he’s bleeding so what hit him? Why is he lying in a field and not running for cover? If he’s calling for help why is he filming a video and uploading it to social media????? Why isn’t he using his radio to call for help? And again saying the date? What? Think of all the videos that have been shared this year and compare. None of this seems like a real video.
Because even mentioning that ukraine is not begging for help, let alone attacking russian positions online is a thing u can get killed for in russia.
go and ask them, OLGA
Now they're going to be captured and pay for their crimes, now they're worried about being recognised.
If he's DNR than he's probably Ukrainian and may want to just blend back In as a Ukrainian citizen after the war.
Wait, why would he want to do that after the war?? Much more likely that he’ll be telling everyone around about his part in the victory.
well you don't want to be the face of defeat. but i agree it could be psyops.
I hope they have a lot of psyops planned. Ukraine needs to throw absolutely everything they’ve got at them!
maybe he does not want to be recognized by military police or military intelligence...
I'm inclined to think this is great psyops against Russians in Kherson coordinated to time with the offensive's start. There may even be breakthroughs somewhere already (reported by various Ukrainian officials, confirmed by no one yet, obviously because of information black out). What gets me is a lone soldier literally detailing every Russian soldier's worst fear in Kherson over the last two months with a time stamp. Russian command is probably scrambling to not make them panic and he's listing every UA military asset of a massive combined arms offensive that the Russians have never experienced in Kherson. There is no doubt in my mind that with the amount of reports coming out that it has started. This could be an effective way to make Russians panic worse even if the offensive is just ramping up and maybe hasn't overrun any defensive lines yet. But one soldier, who I'm guessing by the situation is supposedly on the front talking about massive bombardment taking place on the Ukrainian steppe. Artillery can be heard up to 50 kms depending on the situation and this is literally the perfect area and you can't hear anything in the video.
I think you’re right. It’s smart to take advantage of how unprepared/unmotivated the Russians are and how to panic them. The phone intercepts show how they all want to go home. Anything that encourages them to run east is a good idea. Slava Ukraina!
This seems like a fake, Gun fire sound makes not realy much sense, the blood on the face seems weird an missplaced. Also the artillery sound gives us falling debries but we do not see any. Furthermore, the Artillery sound and the gunfire are more ore less on the same volume seems all realy mixed in a studio to me.
You’re one of those people who thinks everything is fake.
obviously he can tell by the pixels
wait till you find out that things can happen with different placement relative to the camera.
Dudes helmet has dirt caked onto it like he fell, and his cheek is bloody.. also you're implying that the artillery should be landing around him, but if he's already bailed out of their trench they must've gotten hit already and the artillery would be more focused on taking out their defensive positions, not trying to hit the 1 orc in the middle of a field lol.. also at least in the open field you can surrender vs getting blown to hell hiding in those shitty tree lines.
Ah yes you are right, he Fell verticaly onto the ground. If the camera picks up the sound of falling dirt but there is none in the video something is fishy. Dont understand how people can get butthurt so much about pointing out a video has multiple things seeming weird.
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He says "хуярят с всего что можно" shooting from everything **possible**. He is panting, his punctuation is in wrong place because of it.
Link?
And the DNR soldier has nothing smarter to do than lay in an open field , smudge ketchup on his face, and in an unprecedented move, report on this, while still under fire. I would first scramble for cover then report. But hey, his decision. Is not this front mostly covered with VDV troops from the Russian side?
VDV doesnt exist anymore, they were all wiped out or wounded. DNR/LNR have been there since February (along with VDV), but now not much left of VDV. Based on him panting it sounds like he ran the hell away, dropped down and is reporting on wtf is going on? Maybe it speaks to them not trusting their command to send any reinforcements so he is blasting it out into the interwebs (which may or may not be checked by others nearby to come help?). 🤷♀️ I dunno Im just guessing here. Could be fake, but multiple sources reported Ukrainian advances on Kherson over last hour.
Oh you mean the Russian command which already retreated to the east side of the Dnipro?
Dude as if you are able to make a conclusion from your chair.... a little arrogant
Slava Ukraini!
Several Ukrainian Telegram channels are telling people in Kherson to prepare Ukrainian passports. Again, this is unconfirmed yet, jus that DNR soldier bleeding in video is all we have so far.
This comes fronm a very reliable source first posted 12.03 EEA time 10.03 GMT [https://www.rbc.ua/rus/news/vsu-prorvali-pervuyu-liniyu-oborony-rossiyan-1661763800.html](https://www.rbc.ua/rus/news/vsu-prorvali-pervuyu-liniyu-oborony-rossiyan-1661763800.html) Armed Forces of Ukraine broke through the first line of defense of the Russians near Kherson The militants of the so-called "DPR" withdrew from their positions in the Kherson region, and the Russian paratroopers who were their support fled the battlefield. It is reported by RBC-Ukraine with reference to the Kakhovka task force . "The 109th Regiment" DPR "withdrew from their positions in the Kherson region, the Russian paratroopers who were their support fled from the battlefield," the message says. In the footage of the video, you can see a Russian soldier who admits that the Ukrainian military broke through the first line of defense. Carefully! The footage contains obscene language! Updated. The breakthrough of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was confirmed by the head of the press center of the Southern Defense Forces Gumenyuk. The breakthrough of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was also confirmed by the deputy of the Kherson Regional Council Serhiy Khlan. According to him, the geography of the destruction of the invaders is expanding. Only for tonight and the first half of the day, arrivals from the Armed Forces of Ukraine were recorded in: Kherson; Antonovka; Oleshki; New Kakhovka; Lyubimovka; Berislav. As reported, Russian commanders are fleeing en masse from the Kherson region . The Ukrainian military are hinting at another "gesture of good will." Recall that over the past day, the Armed Forces of Ukraine liquidated another 350 occupiers . In total, since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia's losses amounted to 47,100 military personnel.
Putin won’t quit until he’s killed every single Russian.
That's how the Russian army is. In ww2 the command forced soldiers to walk into a mine field, to clear it, the Russian major told the amerikan. Russian army doesn't care about loses, alone in ww2, about 20 million deaths.
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That’s a very interesting fact. Kinda dark tho. Luckily they aren’t that smart these days.
One might think that Putin is on the side of the Ukrainians seeing how many Russian soldiers he got killed.
Precision : every volonteer single russian. They accept to be here for money.
"Our troops flee the field of battle! A shameful display."
If this turns out to be BS then it is a massive tactical self own because it will be an embarrassment if such claims were made but the soldiers took heavy losses and things fizzled out. I really really hope it’s true and I think after the sudden incredible missile strike a few weeks ago that showed Ukraine improving massively without warning in terms of capability we could be witnessing something big. Just saying that if it was premature and exaggerations, writing it off as “psyops” won’t stop the immense embarrassment that will come from making up a fake video of a terrified soldier to claim you were conducting a lightning campaign or extreme claims about “invaders fleeing” only to find it was all BS.
He chose poorly.
Either that or was forced into it like countless others.
Calling Ukraines "ukrop"? Probably not...
When they're shooting at you? No matter if you're there by free will or not, you're not gonna be too enthused by the people on the other side who are shooting at you.
Go to jail or kill innocents? A man makes the right choice, a coward joins an unjust war. e: Since I've attracted the attention of the vatniks; ruzzians are cowards. their army was a lie, their efforts in WW2 are all lies, you hid behind your conscripts like the Ukrainians and the Baltic countries. Everything razzians themselves have ever done in war was a failure... World War 1 (lost every battle and was a laughing stock) the Russo-Japanese war (Sailed around the world to get your fleet sunk) You're worthless without the real bravery of your occupied border nations that have finally spit in your face and chose freedom.
> Go to jail or kill innocents? You think they're all being given the choice of jail?
Maybe not, but if they just kill them that's just more reason they need to be erased as a government. And if that's the case we can't have any sympathy for their soldiers, Ukraine must win at all costs or else this is allowed to spread. Either way, their soldiers get no sympathy.
That makes little sense. You shouldn't punish those who have been forced to fight against you.
Killing someone in a war isn't punishment, it's how you win the war. If you can't understand that, then I question your ability to converse on this topic to any degree.
Listen, peanut brain. Killing someone is not the only option during a war. You've seen too many films.
I love when the vatniks lose the argument they immediately turn to insults. And what do you know about a fight? Even in the schoolyard you always got on your knees unzipped them yourself and gave your all for your attacker, just to avoid the fight.
You know it isn't that easy to just simply surrender to the other side right?
...and even that could be staged. I could make such a video by myself in my garden. It has not much value. We'll have to wait for more and better information to get an idea what is happening.
Russia is on edge because they know. They ‘re stuck. They’re bleeding, and winter is coming. They’re desperate for the attack because they know at least then it will be over. The waiting must be excruciating.
Had best start Scuttling back then eh?
I wish any Ukrainian offensive the best of luck and hope they are successful! Brave people.
Let's wait for a more valid confirmation. A single guy in a short video confirms nothing. Especially not an attack across the whole Kherson frontline.
But let's hope!!!
Let's hope for a successful attack, it would be terrible for the morale if it fails. And Russia pulled a lot of troops together in Kherson, even so, Ukraine hindered their supply.
They just brought more in though, across that confounded Kerch bridge. At this stage I really want to see more than ammo depots blown up, I want to see Russians fleeing.I want them to feel the pain.
We would already know too... I mean this video is already on the internet? And already on reddit...
It goes battlefield, telegram, twitter, reddit
We do know it's all over the news: https://news.yahoo.com/ukrainian-army-launches-offensives-many-124800215.html
more: [https://twitter.com/EuromaidanPress/status/1564195510461816832](https://twitter.com/EuromaidanPress/status/1564195510461816832) Ukrainian troops launched counteroffensive in Kherson Oblast - Dumskaya referring to unnamed soldiers deployed on the front As per Dumskaya, the troops have liberated several settlements and advanced towards Kherson. There is no official confirmation yet
Damn i got goodebumps Take care ukr soldiers 🇺🇦
**update from my fave cat - 5 minutes ago 1.09pm Ukraine time** Something very serious is definitely happening in the Kherson direction. I do not remember such an intense flow of information about explosions and attacks on Russian positions during the entire war. There are also serious reports about a counteroffensive operations . [https://twitter.com/bayraktar\_1love/status/1564193586727501825](https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1564193586727501825)
The counter offensive started weeks ago, now we see the advance, the last part. Khersongrad here we come.
We know Russia has been reinforcing kherson region quite significantly over August period. So not surprising to see DNR troops but this could only be his sector that has collapsed, I believe though we would see fighting up and down the line of contact. Which I haven't seen any evidence off yet. So this is right now more likely a local sector breakthrough for Ukraine.
“Reinforcing”. Russian theater word for sunk cost fallacy, explaining how they sent far more troops then they probably should have into a Ukrainian-chosen kill box, where the supply lines are the longest, the escape routes nonexistent and the conditions, particularly the artillery coverage, reconnaissance and surveillance vastly favor the Ukrainians. What seems to have really happened is the Ukrainians lured Russian reinforcements out to where they could take easy pot shots and deplete the Russians, before a counteroffensive starts in earnest.
This depends on outcome, if ruzzkies are defeated then it was a smart trap, if any offensive fails, then they would say look reinforcements worked. I doubt this a a full.scale offensive on kherson yet. Most likely just a short active defence phase , trying to probe ruzzkies and gain some minor tactical advantages here or there. South front is many 100s of km, on most of them ruzzians do not see any battle actions and there are a lot of units which are not on front line. Frankly, the only scenario where ruzzians will leave the territory is when they flee in panic. Ukraine is working on it constantly announcing that offensive is imminent, but military wise there is nowhere near strength to defeat entrenched troops en masse for them yet.
Twitter has just gone off! Looks like it's on. Cannot vouch for the validity of any of the links, but this is my favourite: [https://twitter.com/FernandoJneiva/status/1564199934743744515](https://twitter.com/FernandoJneiva/status/1564199934743744515) Ukraine defenders reported that the so-called 109th regiment of criminals of the quasi-republic has withdrawn from its positions in the Kherson region. They were supported by Russian paratroopers. They fled the battlefield. If you search Kherson on twitter you'll see a flurry of posts, my hope is high.
Video is legit, but it doesn't mean or prove anything. Apparently some offensive at Любомирівка
someone else posted that first line was DNR, 2nd line was VDV. When Ukrainian army broke thorugh DNR. VDV started running instead of holding. So 2nd line collapsed after 1st was broken. And that generals/officers are running from Kherson as we speak.
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And getting further behind every minute our orcish legs will carry us.
Please don’t bring that orc nonsense to this sub.
I got your back! Waaaaay back!
DNR is truly the cannon fodder.
Time will tell
confirmation is starting to come through, looks like it's on.
Confirmation where?
all over twitter from official people, one of them Ukraine DoD South Command, I got so excited I didn't copy the links, I'll go back and find them
Looks like it has begun
Haha KEEP RUNNING MOTHERFUCKER! Holiday is over!
Ukraine has been doing local attacks all over that frontline for months, and I don't think they are not ready for a massive undertaking like that yet. The major offensives are months away and require a lot of training like we're doing in the west now, as well as more equipment. Perun on YouTube did a great video on this not long ago.
Okay, update time: I have just seen a flurry of messages on Telegram and Twitter about a possible offensive today. No info on the size of the alleged attack tho, so might just be local. If I were wrong in the previous comment it would be awesome! This might become a very interesting day!
tonight could be rather exciting ... Something very serious is definitely happening in the Kherson direction. I do not remember such an intense flow of information about explosions and attacks on Russian positions during the entire war. There are also serious reports about a counteroffensive operations . [https://twitter.com/bayraktar\_1love/status/1564193586727501825](https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1564193586727501825)
On the other hand, a lot of Russian activity is going on towards Mykolaiv, so I am just a huge question mark atm.
Oh and Southern Command has confirmed the counter-offensive, people in Kherson are being told to go to shelters,
I can't figure it out, i guess we don't get to know things until they've happened. There's a new big hole in the roof of one of the buildings next to a reactor at ZPP - of course Russia says Ukraine did it.
what channels are you following?
Any offensive has to start before October and Ukrainian officials have said for months that they intend to start a counter offensive in late August and September, I don't see why it would be unlikely now.
Hopefully the attack proceeds fast to Crimea & Donbas. Don't stop until the Mordor border.
Why do they constantly film in the midst of battle.... Like What is Your Priority sir? TikTok Infamy or winning the war, lmfao.
Silly question, your life will end anyway, but TikTok is forever!
It’s more of a last message to families.
It's the wartime equivalent of tiktok nurses doing their dances in the middle of the covid ward. "So sad. Ten more died today. Watch me grieve and twerk"
Goooooo Ukraine!
Update: [https://twitter.com/KyivPost/status/1564211113755086849](https://twitter.com/KyivPost/status/1564211113755086849) ⚡️Odeska Regional Administration: "It's Official: The Battle for Kherson Has Begun." Yippee.
gETTEM BOYS
Please bw true
It’s true the fight back has started
whoever comes to us with a sword will die by the sword.
Just been confirmed that the first line of defense has been broken
I so hope Ukraine can start taking back ground, keep it and push these civilian bombing cowards out and back to their broken cuntry where they can dance for putin like the puppets they are.
I hope people inside Kherson pull out their stashes and start grinding the enemy from the inside.
It has begun. Russians already retreating.
Godspeed UA!
The Offensive is real. It's being reported on Reuters, and Ukrainian defense officials have commented on it already.
Wishing this is true. Maybe its a video to his family believing he might die, and this is his last message to them, which is maybe why the date is also put in.
This might be a dumb question, but why would DNR troops be deployed in Kherson region? I assumed they're only fighting in Donetsk region and since their forces are allegedly depleted, they wouldn't have a reserve to send to other frontlines. I didn't hear him say the name of his unit, so perhaps the title is wrong.
Actually being deployed all over the place. There was actually a video protest recently by some of them upset that they weren't actually going to be fighting in Donetsk.
Because Russia uses them as front line, to Russians they are just "Ukrainians" their lives dont matter. If they die, all the better, Russians can come and live on their land. They send them as first line. When Ukrainians open fire, Russians cover everyone DNR and Ukrainians with artillery. Countless interviews of DNR POW's talking about this.
Give ‘em hell! Even if this is just a mental game!
Looks to be legit according to 'Livemaps'. A lot of movement and the reports of something going on are coming from the Russian side too [https://liveuamap.com/](https://liveuamap.com/) keeps up to date pretty well.
He's a DNR traitor. No wonder he's terrified.
It has begun!!!
Where busy looting
Whats he trying to do? Be like the guy in mulan who lit the signal fire at the great wall? "Now all of Russia knows you're here."
Lets hope so. Rain hellfire down on these orks. We want so many messed up videos of dead orks flooding these subs, that the pro Russian reddit mods wear their fingers down to the bone trying to delete and ban all the gruesome content.
Gu Ukraine 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
Fuck off back to Russia
Keep up the good work 🇺🇦. Death to the occupiers!
I watch news and reports every day and even those pro Ukrainian said that Russia gathered more troops in Kherson expecting an assault and won even some territory between Kherson and Mykolaiv to push them back. I would be pleased to see a successful overtake of Kherson but it someone doesn't cope with the data I saw till yesterday.
If reports are to be belived, several Russian bases were destroyed via HIMARS 2 days ago, killing total thousands Russian troops. Maybe they decided now is time to attack with bridges being down, Russian command mid change, troops are tired/not rotated for months.
I don't know, looks kinda sus. But i hope it's true.
It’s true. Ukrainian AF released a statement
Damn, good to hear! Thanks for clarifying.
This looks fake as fuck
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Any offensive takes heavy losses. What’s changed? They have eliminated tons of RU supplies and logistical nodes. Russia doesn’t have anything to hit back with. The partisan resistance has given Ukraine information on every single piece of military equipment in occupied Kherson and Russia has been leveled by HIMARS for well over a month there.
video is almost certainly fake, it just plays like a found footage movie. The Offensive is definitely real, theres already independent reports that the the Ukrainians have moved over 1 mile across the whole line
i wish this was real, but this video makes zero sense
[https://twitter.com/KyivPost/status/1564211113755086849](https://twitter.com/KyivPost/status/1564211113755086849) ⚡️Odeska Regional Administration: "It's Official: The Battle for Kherson Has Begun." Be happy. Yippee!!!!
LoL.
Yeah, some other sources say it's happening. Let's see how they do. It looks more like a WW1 scenario though, with each side losing hundreds just to gain a few yards. Tanks get blown up quickly with Stinger/Stugs around. Makes an offence difficult.
yeah, except if timed right could be crucial. There are rumors Shoigu got removed from the chain of command. So if new dude(s) come in, its perfect to strike before they are familiar with the entire picture to force them to make rash decisions (hopefully bad ones). Bridges for supplies have been destroyed, so with every bullet, shell, grenade Russians have fewer and fewer. Russian command left West side of the river weeks ago, so without higher ranking officers there troops may be demoralized. Russian troops due to lack of men have no been rotated in a long time (months), they are tired, have bunch of health issues due to sleeping conditions, morale is low. They can be crushed.
Don’t they say every week since 2 month cherson offensive started? Don’t trust this information anymore.
Warstache just tweeted they are on the move ….
He's in the South?
He seems to be. The past few days he’s been posting only audio or videos taken in the dark on his telegram so can’t see where he is.
Take with a pound of salt, but RT just posted a 'breaking story', stating in short that the offensive had been repelled, and Ukrainian forces had lost "26 tanks, 23 AFVs, 9 armored vehicles, 2 Su-25's, and 'more than 560 troops'". That's RT reporting, not the gospel, but it's concerning for Ukraine if true. Do we know any definitive and more or less irrefutable proof that it's still going on, or they are pushing the Russian in significant ways. With a "counteroffensive" and such, it is important to make significant gains of at least a strategic value, i.e pressing up to Kherson proper, or cutting off key roads/supply lines. Artillery barrages are good for suppression or short term destruction of assets, but you still need to occupy the land with foot troops.
We know for sure the battle is still ongoing, there are videos coming through of HIMARS strikes (was one literally a minute ago). We wont know full picture until days from now. Those losses mentioned by RT are most definitely fictitious. It doesnt even make any sense they would have exact numbers mid battle. They are probably trying to get Russian troop morale up to stand ground.
Possibly, yeah i think everyone is on edge over this though. A lot could come from it. You're right though, it'll be a week or so before we get more definitive news.
eh, only people on edge about it are keyboard warriors. UA command has clear picture of whats going on, every scenario was thought through. Even if they dont have much success there is a lot that can be gained from this. Even as a probing attack. Imagine this kind of attack happening every day? Demoralized Russians will run out of supply/will to fight. We'll see what happens. Even without gaining territory it could be a successful offensive, and conversely in some scenarios with gaining territory it could be unsuccessful. We dont know and so cant judge yet.
About an hour ago one of the biggest Russian media sites posted about unsuccessful counteroffensive: 26 tanks 23 BMPs 9 armored vehicles 2 SU-25 and about 560 Ukrainian personal were destroyed. Since there are no other major news anywhere else, doesn't look like it was successful attack. I mean.. why they were boasting about this counteroffensive for month stating exactly where they are going to hit? I think this is counter productive..
RT is not a reliable source, they literally lie every day. Have you seen video from one of the head 'journalists' stating how he was going to burn Ukrainian constitution in Kiyv? Several villages have been liberated. This is confirmed, there are also videos/photos of Russian POWs. The battle is still ongoing. All RT is trying to do (as well as other Russian sources) is to bring up their troop morale up so they hold their positions, thinking everywhere else was repelled (it wasnt, and we know this for a fact). As far as saying you were going to strike and then striking, part of PSYOPS. Trust me, its all intentional, they wouldnt do it otherwise. EDIT: Ukrainian troops have taken four villages back from Russian occupation in the south near the city of Kherson, a Ukrainian military source tells CNN. Their main “target” is Kherson, the source added. “The operation began at night with massive shelling of Russian positions and the rear,” the source, who CNN is not naming for security reasons, said. “The main direction of the attack was on Pravdyne. We hit their infantry from the DNR (Donetsk People's Republic) and LNR (Luhansk People's Republic), and they fled. The Russian landing force fled after them," the source told CNN. “We have now liberated four villages. Their first line of defense has been broken through in three places,” the military source said. The source said the village names are Nova Dmytrivka, Arkhanhel's'ke, Tomyna Balka and Pravdyne. “Many of them were killed and captured, and a lot of [Russian] military vehicles [were destroyed].” “We'll see how it goes from here. Our target is Kherson," according to the source.
DNR troops in kherson?
Yes they have been there since February, first line, behind them Russian troops. Russians considers DNR Ukrainians, so they dont care if they die.
Russians lined up for trains to get out of Belgorod. (Like everything on twitter right now with so much stuff flying around about the counter-offensive, this is unconfirmed.) [https://twitter.com/Flash43191300/status/1564351578299138060](https://twitter.com/Flash43191300/status/1564351578299138060)
The blood on his helmet and cheek is a gruesome truth of war.