Talk about the war in Ukraine

Dear readers, this is a series of original articles on August 28th, 2023. For the convenience of some intervening readers, I will first list the previous readings: August 27: Ukraine attacked the Russian offshore oil platform; Greece may assist a large number of air defense systems.

August 26th: Russian Su -25 was shot down as soon as it was dispatched; Ukrainian artillery killers are getting smoother and smoother in their hands!

August 25th: The Ukrainian army has won a great victory recently, and Zaluzhni said that it is at the critical point of breakthrough!

August 24: The chef died, the Ukrainian army landed in Crimea, and the Russian army surrendered by helicopter!

On the 55th1day of the war, starting from today, let's talk about the situation first: This morning, local time, the Ukrainian General Staff said in a briefing that the Ukrainian army had fought with the Russian army 23 times.

Yesterday, the Ukrainian army wiped out 174 Russian troops in the direction of Bakhmut and 57 Russian troops in the direction of Kupyansk. Ukrainian soldiers are tenacious in the fierce battle!

In the direction of Kupyansk, the Russian attack did not make significant progress. Today's news is very funny: Russians are now laying new defense lines, and along the border of Belgorod region, they are building mine barriers! It can also be seen from this that they actually have no confidence in their own attack.

According to the information provided by the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence, in the direction of Bakhmut, the Ukrainian army continued to advance in the south wing and liberated another kilometer last week. At present, 44 square kilometers of land around Bakhmut has been liberated.

Yesterday, in the direction of Tafroya, the Ukrainian army destroyed 32 Russian military equipment, including 10 cars, 2 tanks and 8 armored vehicles.

The best news today is that the Ukrainian General Staff officially announced the liberation of Robodigne. The release of this news was delayed for many days. Obviously, the Ukrainian military is very cautious. Before releasing such news, they made sure that Robodine was no longer in danger of being recaptured by the Russian army. At present, the Ukrainian army not only consolidated Robodine's defense, but also advanced to Novo Proko Pifka in the south and Ocheretuvat in the southeast, getting closer and closer to tokmak.

It is said that the United States once suggested that Ukraine concentrate its forces in the direction of Zaporoge in order to cut off Russia's "land bridge" more quickly. At present, it seems that the Ukrainian army did listen to this suggestion. Everyone should have a vague impression. In July, the progress in the north-south direction of Bachmut was faster than that in August, and now it has gradually slowed down. In exchange, the progress of the Ukrainian army in the south of Zaporoze was greatly accelerated.

Whether the Ukrainian army followed the advice of the United States or made corresponding adjustments for its own consideration, I believe this is the right move. Bachmut is there. It doesn't make much difference to get it back earlier or later. But cutting the Russian army in half is obviously more important in military benefits than killing some Russian troops in Bakhmut.

According to the results report released by Uzbekistan today, the cumulative losses of Russian troops were 26 1 3 10, an increase of 490:

Ukrainian troops also destroyed tanks: 4,400, 4 new ones; Armored vehicles: 8,562 vehicles and 8 new vehicles; Artillery: 5425 guns, 22 new guns.

Air raid news: There are still drones attacking Russia, especially Moscow, in the early morning of Monday local time. Some of these drones were shot down near Lubozi in Moscow, resulting in the temporary closure of Vnukovo and Domodedovo airports.

Two other drones were shot down in Bryansk when they were attacking a military airport in Bryansk. However, the Ukrainian side said that it launched three drones to Bryansk instead of two. The Russian side said that the military airport was not damaged, but the turf was burnt and there were no casualties. I wonder if they are telling the truth.

Ukrainian troops intercepted two 4-caliber missiles and two other Kh-59 missiles early this morning:

Kh-59 is a so-called "stealth missile", but it was often intercepted by the Ukrainian army, even before the arrival of the Patriot system. Russians probably have some misunderstandings about "invisibility".

There is another strange thing. Samp-T air defense and anti-missile system jointly developed by France and Italy has existed in Ukraine for a long time. I remember at least two months, but I have never heard of this system. When Na sams and Iris -T arrived, it was the worst time for Ukrainian air strikes.

Ukrainians are full of praise for the excellent performance of these two systems. When visiting Germany, Ukrainian Prime Minister michal thanked the Germans in person, saying that Iris-T achieved a miracle of interception rate of 1.000% at that time. The Ukrainian military likes Iris-T very much and has released its photos to the media. The commander of the Ukrainian air force praised it in front of the camera. This picture can still be found online today.

Not to mention "Patriot", it was set on fire by Russian cruise missiles, especially "Dagger" hypersonic missiles. However, the "Patriots" showed great courage, and then intercepted more than a dozen "dagger" missiles, which can be said to have scared the Russian army.

However, Samp-T is quiet now, and there is no news at all. The Ukrainian army did not announce the results, no senior Ukrainian officials came out to comment, and no reports mentioned this system. It stands to reason that Samp-T is a powerful system with both air defense and ballistic missile terminal defense capabilities, which can be compared with Patriots. It's really hard to guess why it is so quiet.

In terms of war crimes: Russians attacked Ukraine 10 yesterday, and Russian troops launched 27 attacks on Zaporoge 104 residential area; Hellson was shelled 69 times, causing casualties.

Today, Russian missiles attacked an oil factory in Khodorov village, Mirhorod district, poltava, killing two people and injuring two others:

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Aid news: 1. The Ukrainian Embassy in Japan reported that two more containers containing humanitarian aid materials successfully arrived in Ukraine. The main contents are 3,200 sets of children's stationery, 450 sets of hospital disinfection equipment and 66 wheelchairs.

2. In an interview with Kiev media, Mikhail Brodsky, Israeli ambassador to Ukraine, said that Israel will continue to provide humanitarian assistance to Ukraine and intends to participate in post-war reconstruction, but its national defense support will not exceed Israel's "red line".

Brodsky said that 80% of Israelis support aid to Ukraine, but Israel has to be careful because it is "in a very explosive region". At the same time, he believes that the relationship between the two countries is very strong. Ukraine has a relationship with Jews for hundreds of years, and Israel has a Ukrainian community of 500,000 people.

3. The Ministry of Health of Ukraine reported that last week, Ukraine received 65,438+04 ambulances and 65,438+036 trays of medicines from international partners.

4. A few days ago, the United States agreed to sell 96 Apache helicopters to Poland at a total price of $654.38+$200 million. It is reported that Poland also requested to buy 1844 Hellfire missiles, 96 training missiles and 508 Stinger missiles.

Polish Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defense Bovashchak said that these Apache helicopters will be deployed to Poland 18 Mechanization Division first. He said that this is because the 18 division will be equipped with Abrams tanks. These helicopters work well with Abrams tanks.

Bovashchak pointed out that these two weapons "* * * isomorphic into a great force, a force of resistance ... we should use them to deter our opponents".

After the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian war last year, Poland made strengthening the country's military strength a priority for the government. In April last year, Poland signed an agreement worth about US$ 4.75 billion to purchase 250 M 1A2 SEPv3 "abrams" main battle tanks from the United States, and then signed an additional tank agreement worth US$1400 million in June this year. The exact number is unknown.

Poland has also bought an amazing number of main battle tanks, self-propelled artillery and fighter planes from South Korea, and the Polish army will undoubtedly soon become the leading army on the whole European continent. Yes, not even the Russian army. More importantly, the Polish army will always defend peace and maintain regional stability. In this respect, the Russian army is incomparable!

Zelensky has given many interviews recently and said some interesting things. We might as well listen to what he said and get to know the inner thoughts of Ukrainians.

The first is about the election. During a recent visit to Kiev, US Senator Lindsay Graham suggested that Zelensky hold elections as scheduled, because "a country should pay attention to the process of expressing citizens' wishes when defending democracy, even under such difficult conditions".

Zelensky told reporters that he is also willing to hold a general election, but he expressed two concerns. First, the election may divert people's attention from the real problem; Second, the election may expose and increase internal differences in Ukraine; Third, there is no money for elections. Zelensky told Graham that if the United States and Europe are willing to bear about $5 billion, they can consider holding it.

Zelensky said so, not kidding. He is far ahead in the opinion polls now, and the election is a shoo-in for him, so he is not worried. But now the Ukrainian government really has no extra money to do this. Ukrainian Prime Minister Mikhail michal has been racking his brains to raise funds all day. In order to pay pensions and military salaries, 60% of the income of the Ukrainian government has been consumed, and the tax revenue is definitely not as good as before the war. Just today, something happened, which fully embodies the kind of pressure that onlookers will not feel:

On Monday, 28th, more than 50 residents of Odessa gathered for a rally to protest that the local court had to spend the budget to repair some buildings.

These residents have a point of view:

"The assistant mayor said in his speech that they were worried about the detention conditions of the detainees. But how can you not worry about the present conditions of our defenders? "

"We see road maintenance tenders every day. Yes, roads need to be repaired, but what about the roads needed for military operations? When the downtown far from the front line is paved with asphalt and the maintenance of the stadium is going on, I have a question: who are you preparing them for? When the Russian army came here, we were sitting in these cells? "

"There is also about the maintenance of the outer wall of the Youth Theatre. This is not the maintenance of culture in wartime. When the artist's salary is not enough and he has to go out to beg, the money will be used to repair the external wall! For the soldiers who are now near Donetsk, your facade will not help them block the tanks, and there is no way to help them take his injured comrades out of the battlefield! "

From these speeches, even ordinary Ukrainians know that money should be spent in the most urgent places now, rather than paving new roads or repairing the external walls of courts. Admittedly, those things need to be done, but at present, nothing is more important than helping the army defeat Russia and save Ukraine!

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Zelensky also said an important thing, he said, recently, Ukraine has been able to significantly increase the production of "Stunia -P" and "Pirate" anti-tank missiles and "Neptune" missiles! According to him, Ukraine also produces 122 mm artillery shells and 155 mm artillery shells according to the NATO model. The point is, he said, these yields are not increased by 10 times, and some categories are even dozens of times the previous yields!

Just today, the Russian Ministry of Defence announced that it had intercepted a Ukrainian "cruise missile" in the Black Sea. But what cruise missiles does Ukraine have? I guess it's probably another Neptune anti-ship missile. Because the anti-ship missile has a long range, flies close to the ground and has the ability to attack the ground, it is no problem to call it a cruise missile.

A few days ago, a Neptune missile hit the Russian S-400 air defense system in Crimea. Neptune, which was intercepted today, is likely to be on a similar mission. Considering the lying record of the Russian Ministry of Defense, perhaps this "Neptune" was not intercepted, but hit the target.

So Zelensky said that the output of these missiles has been greatly improved, and he probably didn't just talk nonsense. Yesterday, I analyzed the situation around the Black Sea and thought that the Ukrainian navy was trying to control the whole Black Sea, or at least half of it. Now Zelensky says that the Neptune missile has been improved, which is obviously aimed at the Black Sea!

In yesterday's analysis, I did not pay attention to the issue of missile production, but analyzed the main weapons that the Ukrainian navy relied on and their long-term successive achievements. Today, coupled with the issue of weapons production, my argument about the Ukrainian navy's attempt to control the Black Sea is more rigorous.

Looking back, it's really not easy for Ukrainians to come this way. Those of us who care about and support Ukraine will feel particularly gratified, from being destroyed for almost three days at the beginning, to stubbornly resisting the "Ten-way Rush", to sinking the "Moscow", winning in the eastern part of Kharkov and recovering Hellson, and now making visible progress in the counterattack in Zaporoze.

I think everyone supported Ukraine from a moral point of view at the beginning, thinking that peace should not be trampled on easily and the UN Charter should be fully respected! But to our surprise, Ukraine is so tenacious, and Ukrainian soldiers and civilians are so brave and United. Their progress not only contributes to their own independence, but also inspires our supporters in Qian Shan.

Their success shows that those who want to run amok can't compete with the peace-loving forces all over the world, moral strength is greater than ambition, and civilization will surely defeat barbarism! I sincerely hope that the complete victory that the Ukrainians will surely win will come soon. On that day, I will get drunk, for this hard-won victory, for the justice that countless people expect!