(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Russian stuff blowing up: Russia running low on cannon fodder [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2024-11-03 A Baba Yaga drone takes out a Russian air-defense system. x Luhansk Oblast, a Ukrainian Baba Yaga drone sneaks up on an operating Russian SA-8 Osa surface to air missile system and drops a grenade on it. pic.twitter.com/HNMmLN6TZy — OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) November 2, 2024 Hey guys, I’ll let you out right here under that drone. WARNING: Video shows soldiers getting bombed. x Russian BMP masterfully disembarks infantry right under Ukrainian drones. pic.twitter.com/uoZICqWIAU — Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (@bayraktar_1love) November 3, 2024 Close combat. WARNING: Video shows soldier getting hit. x Definition of luck in a video. pic.twitter.com/Hp75Nci62f — 2S7 pion (trost) (@Trotes936897) November 2, 2024 More Bradley/Abrams action on Russian positions. x Mechanized assault consisting out of two M2A2 Bradley IFVs and one M1A1 Abrams tank of the 🇺🇦47th Mechanised Brigade in the Kursk Region. The video was provided by our friend Commander of Bradley Oleksandr "Kach"https://t.co/LB8SsOV0rW pic.twitter.com/CbGLmGMoO4 — Cloooud |🇺🇦 (@GloOouD) November 2, 2024 I would venture to guess that the success rate for taking down a drone with an RPG (rocket propelled grenade) is quite low. x TikTok next level. An atttempt by Kadyrov’s forces to take down an FPV drone using an RPG-7. 🙃 pic.twitter.com/hSPms6jCrE — NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (@NOELreports) November 3, 2024 Another 33 dead Russian officers confirmed. x The Russians have confirmed that at least 4 984 Russian officers have been eliminated in the Russian invasion of Ukraine since 24 February 2022. Last week update: +33 newly registered. Sources can be found in our spreadsheet. pic.twitter.com/VSdEGDLl9L — KIU ✪ Russian Officers killed in Ukraine 🇨🇿🇺🇦 (@KilledInUkraine) November 3, 2024 How can you be pro-USSR and also wear a Waffen SS patch? x 7th Waffen–SS Volunteer Mountain Division Prinz Eugen emblem: pic.twitter.com/sYO0RLU2Qs — KIU ✪ Russian Officers killed in Ukraine 🇨🇿🇺🇦 (@KilledInUkraine) November 3, 2024 Another 1,410 Russians. x Nov. 3 update on russian losses in the war pic.twitter.com/MxtsQ4WSk9 — In Ukraine (@InUKRofficial) November 3, 2024 He says that other than the nearby corpses, life among the ruins of Vovchansk isn’t too bad. x Ruins of the 350-year-old city of Vovchansk, completely destroyed by the so-called Russian army during their unsuccessful offensive in the Kharkiv region. Just six months ago, this thriving town was home to thousands of people. pic.twitter.com/F7z81KJiZJ — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated) November 3, 2024 Russia is running low on cannon fodder. Good thing for them the North Koreans have arrived. x Simultaneously, a blunt solution to the manpower shortage for assaults is proposed: simply throw even more money at impoverished Russians—10 million rubles or $100,000 each—and there will be no shortage of eager recruits. They even openly embrace the term 'meat assaults.' https://t.co/2Ga0nNr2cA pic.twitter.com/l922gQeWXY — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated) November 3, 2024 The text is long, but to summarise, there is a catastrophic shortage of personnel for meat assaults in the companies, and all the more or less smart guys are hiding in these auxiliary units. However, simply sending everyone into meat assaults is a bad idea, as these units, despite the lack of uniformity, provide some support to the remnants of the suicidal soldiers in the trenches. This could lead to even greater losses. An update on the tenuous situation at Kurakhove: x Ukrainian serviceman on the situation at Kurakhove: "The enemy is gradually bypassing Kurakhove behind the reservoir, steadily bringing the northern flank of the city under fire control. Defense under such conditions becomes significantly more difficult, while constant mechanised… pic.twitter.com/cEHIOwegHy — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated) November 3, 2024 More on the evolution of drone warfare. x It was interesting because they would throw a bomb through a window on an angle so it would land next to the next window and blow it out so they could keep moving through the building one room at a time. — Andrew Perpetua (@AndrewPerpetua) November 2, 2024 This is from a thread about Russian drone developers complaining that field commanders are tech dinosaurs. x 8/ "Progressive initiatives of young officers are categorically not welcomed. Any initiative is persecuted and punished, what if this upstart starts showing results!? And the grandchildren have a mortgage and they need to somehow sit in the chair!? — ChrisO_wiki (@ChrisO_wiki) November 3, 2024 Russian command logic: If they are all going to die anyway, what difference does it make if they spread disease. When will Russians get over the idea that the best way to solve their problem is to make a video appeal to the higher authorities? x “Our commanders send us with viral hepatitis C to infect the Russian army. For what? So Ukraine can win and a lot of our fighters can die from a virus? So that later their relatives can also get infected? It's a criminal offense. Everyone knows it. People go to jail for… pic.twitter.com/91URaXuLau — Natalka (@NatalkaKyiv) November 2, 2024 Welcome to the Hotel Cannon Fodder x ⭐ Russian Army: “You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.” ‼️ People with HIV, Hep C, other contagious diseases and old people have problems getting discharged from the Russian army due to their health or age. Post by a russian war blogger Anastasia… pic.twitter.com/oPcBegZAbE — Natalka (@NatalkaKyiv) November 2, 2024 North Korean quality. x Russian military show how they clean 82 mm mines, allegedly handed over to Russia by North Korea, from solidol and rust. According to them, only 1 shell out of 5 actually fires. Even so, according to military experts, about half the shells that Russia uses in the war against… pic.twitter.com/U7PaJjnwO6 — Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) November 2, 2024 Russia interferes in Moldova’s presidential runoff election. x Watch as Russia influences elections across the region, attempting to steal the chosen European future of sovereign nations. https://t.co/hcXxI65VuH — Katie Shoshiashvili (@KShoshiashvili) November 3, 2024 Better late than never. x The Insider: Taiwan announced a complete halt in exports of locally produced machinery to Russia following stricter export controls. Following these measures, the volume of Taiwanese machinery exports to Russia reportedly has dropped to zero. Despite its pro-Ukrainian stance,… pic.twitter.com/4oVs96KuSH — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated) November 3, 2024 By Wednesday Medvedev will be claiming they were secretly hoping Harris would win. x Dmitri Medvedev wrote about US elections on his Telegram channel (in the very early hours of Sunday morning). Translation is below. It looks like Medvedev threatened Donald Trump with an assassination (he said Trump could become "the new JFK") and poured dirt on Kamala Harris.… pic.twitter.com/QPwjTnthlM — Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) November 3, 2024 1. The election will change nothing for Russia, as the candidates' positions fully reflect the bipartisan consensus that our country must be defeated. 2. Kamala is stupid, inexperienced, easily-led and will be afraid of everyone around her. A synclite of top ministers and deputies plus indirectly the Obama family will rule. 3. A jaded Trump, spouting platitudes like "I'll offer a deal" and "I have a great relationship with..." will also be forced to comply with all the systemic rules. He can't stop the war. Not in a day, not in three days, not in three months. And if he really tries, he could be the new JFK. But before we crush NATO we must get shit-faced and fall down. It doesn’t take long before the responsibility of leading a country at war shows on the face. x Ukrainian media share photos of Zelenskyy from before and during the war. The difference between the photos spans approximately two years. pic.twitter.com/l8f2rafeKL — NEXTA (@nexta_tv) November 2, 2024 A Ukrainian PE-teacher-turned-soldier tours the remains of a school. Volodymyr Kotsko from Lviv region used to be a physical education teacher, and currently, Volodymyr's unit is in the Kursk direction, where he commands a platoon of a self-propelled division. "Russians will not win, they made a big mistake, and they will pay for this mistake for centuries, their children and great-grandchildren will feel it, because this war is terror," Volodymyr says. x "Seeing a destroyed school where hundreds of children could have studied is a cry, tears, frustration. All that could have been is gone. The future is destroyed." Volodymyr Kotsko from Lviv region used to be a physical education teacher, and currently, Volodymyr's unit is in the… pic.twitter.com/oihSialigd — Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) November 3, 2024 Sleeping on a cold hard subway floor beats sleeping at home and having a drone fly into your window. x People sleeping in Kyiv subway due to Russian drone attack pic.twitter.com/yb4fPlsjWH — In Ukraine (@InUKRofficial) November 3, 2024 Rest in peace. x It was their last goodbye. Vitaly Drachenko, died. He was 26 years old. video:futsal_vmtg Source: online_vinn pic.twitter.com/dm1MDUKC0y — Oriannalyla 🇺🇦 (@Lyla_lilas) November 3, 2024 x Ukraine's second Taiwanese volunteer fighter killed in Luhansk Oblast Taiwan's foreign ministry confirmed death of second volunteer fighter in Ukraine since 2022. Wu Chung-ta, 44, killed by Russian bombing.https://t.co/xo0H8FI7Dl — Euromaidan Press (@EuromaidanPress) November 3, 2024 Dad’s home. x Dad is back. pic.twitter.com/V8YlU0BbQn — In Ukraine (@InUKRofficial) November 2, 2024 Autumn in Kyiv. [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/11/3/2282124/-Russian-stuff-blowing-up-Russia-running-low-on-cannon-fodder?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/