...around? The AFU boys and girls may need some. Things are not going well in the Donbas for them. Look up the news about the fighting in and around a city called Bakhmut (also known as Artemovsk). Even Field Marshal Boco probably can't fix that one. Maybe we can send the secert weapons of Blinken-or-Nod or Jake the Skinny Snake to fight and bleed slowly (or maybe not so slow) in the mud...

AFU offensive in Svatove and Kremenna stalled due to ammunition shortage: details

The Ukrainian Armed Forces have failed the planned November offensive in the Kupyansk and Krasnoliman directions due to an artillery crisis.

A check of the combat efficiency of the 92nd and 80th AFU brigades near Svatov has revealed that units armed with self-propelled and towed guns are experiencing serious shell starvation and cannot take part in major offensives.

According to the Military Chronicle, the biggest shortages are related to artillery shells of 122 and 152 mm caliber, as well as the delivery and use of shells of NATO caliber (155 mm). The ammunition situation is particularly difficult in units using 203 mm Pion guns. Shells for these guns were not produced in Ukraine, and their quantity was strictly limited.

Production of artillery ammunition of Soviet calibers at the Artem plant in Kyiv is currently impossible. The company cannot operate in the context of Ukraine's energy shortage and constant missile attacks on the country's military infrastructure.

The situation is different in the 25th and 95th brigades of the AFU near Novovovodnoye (35 km north of Kremenna). The units are depleted due to high casualties and the deterioration of guns. Approximately 30-40% of self-propelled and towed guns have been destroyed or require repair, while another 30% have already been sent for repair and taken out of service. For the remaining 155mm shells, the AFU units near Kremenna are short of guns.

Due to artillery shortages, the AFU is not receiving modern weapons, but foreign M101 105mm caliber guns have been produced since 1941. Shells for these guns are not effective enough and are consumed 15 times faster than 152mm ammunition, which only adds to the shortage of ammunition.

The AFU cannot promptly replenish ammunition from old depots in the nearest regions: most of the RAW depots in Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv, Sumy, Kyiv, and Chernihiv regions have been destroyed by high-precision weaponry.

The shells that manage to reach artillery units have expired shelf lives. The newest ammunition with a long shelf life was produced in the late 1980s and shows signs of casing deterioration, leading to incidents. Since the beginning of October, the howitzer division of the 25th Airborne Troops Brigade has recorded at least three fatal incidents involving a projectile rupture in the breech casing of the 122mm D-30 gun.

The redistribution of shells and guns between units on the Kremenna-Svatovo line is hampered by the November muddy weather, a shortage of heavy equipment to transport ammunition, and the activity of Russian Orlan-30 drones, which target surviving AFU convoys with rocket artillery and Su-25 attack aircraft, depriving Ukrainian forces of the ability to form a striking grouping.

shell shock?

biden promised a bunch of $ to fix the uke grid.....maybe someone needs to tell him our grid needs work...

Wonder what the $ we sent them is doing

Where did the billions of dollars of our weapons go? Probably sent them to the same place all the gear we left in Afghanistan ended up.

Not billions, many tens of billions.

Here's one for Boco, the AFU boys down on their side of the river in Kherson.

The hromadske videos are of a higher professional quality in editing and adding dramatic music than say Patrick Lancaster's home edited ones. These Ukies have some western weapons, a few old LAWs (what's their effective range, I doubt all the way across the river) and some non AK rifles. I wonder who they are shooting at towards the end, some Russian Johnny Sneakums up in the bridge supports or just to add some good scenes for the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-X74oJ7c1w

I wonder what the deal is about the AFU solider wearing the "Blackbeard" flag patch on his uniform. It seems that the Ukies are into Blackbeard, it must mean something to them now. You can get your own Ukie Blackbeard flag patch here. We're all pirates now...

https://www.ebay.com/itm/134153486720

A little more research on the "Blackbeard flag" patch that some of the Ukies are wearing. This particular "flag" has been associated with Blackbeard but he may not have actually used it before his last battle and his head ended up on a pike stuck into the ground near the entrance of Chesapeake Bay as a warning to other wannabe pirates. It appears that many English/ western European pirate symbols trace back or can be associated with “No Quarter”. This term has often meant that no prisoners will be taken or basically a fight to the death, although the well known “Jolly Roger” black flag, skull and crossbones was the opposite of no quarter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_quarter

Someone on an international forum that I occasionally post on called all of this stuff a “death cult”, certainly if you go google “No Quarter flags” there are some pretty nasty looking symbols and people wearing it, although none of those seem to be Ukrainian soldiers.

https://www.google.com/search?source=univ&tbm=isch&q=no+quarter+flag&client=firefox-b-1-d&fir=KWAjw4-nXPvY_M%252C7QZH9SOd0UVZKM%252C_%253BHqHeJiYD-M4fSM%252CmKQG4FoaHb3Y4M%252C_%253B-aUOWSbnIGPweM%252Cb1L0E0Oj6KYxRM%252C_%253BLjXdNLTEH01ZiM%252CvfzQkxIma1IVGM%252C_%253BIrTln9S9Td1fSM%252C-BDzpIXadHD7HM%252C_%253BGADVliPxSCGnRM%252CNgSDjWxNkc1JCM%252C_%253B7ibaJV5eziOlfM%252CwAzPDVEBiGrXaM%252C_%253Bynzanfvf1KE-nM%252CF5iYpZoIGa4NmM%252C_%253BO1-jFhgk2glbZM%252C_RluHlMBCjjLPM%252C_%253BaKJLuQ7em-y3KM%252Cl4Bx9ocqhuTmuM%252C_%253BOuvdLrb_omzyVM%252CXI7NvIV1DEoZDM%252C_%253B9qH2Cu5wfF-ThM%252Cf9st6i3I5SCb2M%252C_%253BhqmszvJqAKLZrM%252C5_cv1GIBDHGnUM%252C_%253BGMuikNUQrEXCDM%252CQkasHupl1g_TMM%252C_%253Bw23aWmUVuuLHwM%252CPYIBuqlNsAgkfM%252C_&usg=AI4_-kTMZ76QVAYPShOQ30ks4NhPpWUPlA&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiV4KX9y9j7AhXaLTQIHUshCqgQjJkEegQIOxAC&biw=1280&bih=871&dpr=1

Someone supplied me with this photo today that was supposedly taken in September after the AFU (and friends?) offensive that took back parts of the Kharkov oblast (province). Who knows, maybe all staged, but they had a big old "Blackbeard" flag there waving over the supposed Rus POW.



I think I'll pass on buying the patch on ebay. Not really my style...

https://www.ebay.com/itm/134153486720

Whole thing is a mess, should of never gone on this long.

I agree. I think our gov't wants to keep it going.
Lots of reason why.
US selling fuel to Europe that would of come from Russia,
US using lots of our munitions=donations from munitions makers to politicians,
US sending billions to Ukraine = money not being accounted for ending up again in politicians pockets.

Time to have Ukraine give the eastern part that the Russians are fighting over to Russia. Ukraine was killing those people of their own country for years anyways, it solve 2 problems at once.

lotsa folks getting rich off the US/NATO support for the uke's.....do not expect that to stop anytime soon.

What Marty said. War is profitable if you and yours are not doing the fighting and dying

I agree. The only reason this war is dragging out is because the U.S wants it to.

Seen the documentary movie Canadian Bacon?……John Candy.
Biden should start a war with Canada. Be great for his ratings!

Maybe Larry Johnson is a bit too optimistic for the Rus but the thing that much of the western MSM fail to acknowledge is the total concept about the "ability to wage war". Multiple factors are involved, especially away from the battlefield such as with logistics and war goods production. The last one almost no one U.S. MSM will address, not even Tucker Carlson. Its not overly war sexy but its vastly important. Nations don't win wars without its ability to maintain or even increase it during conflict.

https://sonar21.com/more-information-about-ukraines-military-deaths/

$91 Billion and counting...

^ that is very bad....what a scam, hijacking the US budget and these folks will be in power for the rest of the decade if not longer.

Sorry we can't help it's illegal to export unelsee your a government arms dealer.