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Russian media claim - “the cause of the explosion in the hangar with pyrotechnics in Sergiev Posad was the "human factor".

Russia last year experienced a record number of explosions, leading to dozens of deaths and thousands of injuries, the independent news website Vyortska reported, citing a report by the Emergency Situations Ministry.

Overall, 83 blasts ripped through residential buildings, warehouses, cars and mines in 2022, according to the cited ministry report on 2013-22 emergency response efforts.

At least 55 people died and 10,647 were injured last year as a result of the record number of explosions, said Vyorstka, which noted that over the past decade, no single year had witnessed more than a total of 500 people injured and killed.

In a sign of the domestic toll of Russia’s war in Ukraine, Vyorstka notes that 55 out of the 83 recorded explosions involved bombs, rockets, mines or grenades.

Russia’s Emergency Situations Ministry report also includes the October 2022 blast on the Crimea bridge, which links the annexed peninsula to mainland Russia.

In July, Ukraine's security service for the first time claimed responsibility for the October bridge attack.

The Emergency Situations Ministry’s report does not include explosions that are considered “state secret,” a fire safety expert told Vyorstka.

Thomas C. Theiner
@noclador
Aug 9

The 111 known Ukrainian combat brigades are:

Army:
• 34x Mechanized
• 5x Tank
• 5x Motorized
• 4x Rifle
• 2x Jaeger
• 2x Mountain
• 2x Assault
• 1x Special Purpose
• 1x Presidential

Air Assault Forces:
• 4x Air Assault
• 3x Airmobile
• 1x Airborne
• 1x Jaeger

Marine Corps:
• 4x Marine

Air Force:
• 1x Rifle

Territorial Defense:
• 31x Defense

National Guard:
• 7x Offensive Guard

National Police:
• 1x Offensive Guard

Border Guards:
• 1x Offensive Guard

General Staff:
• 1x Guards

And there might be more.

As for support brigades and regiments:

• 3x Special Forces regiments
• 16x Artillery brigades
• 1x Rocket Artillery regiment
• 2x Engineer brigades
• 5x Engineer regiments
• 3x Pontoon Bridge regiments
• 7x Tactical Aviation brigades
• 4x Army Aviation brigades
• 1x Naval Aviation brigade
• 5x Anti-Aircraft Missile brigades
• 12x Anti-Aircraft Missile regiments

And there are at least 143 independent light infantry, reconnaissance, special forces, volunteer, tank, territorial defense, and rifle battalions.

These combat and combat support forces number at least 600,000 troops. All the signals, radar, radio-technical, electronic warfare, drone, logistics, maintenance, transport, medical, PSYOPS, naval, rear area security, training, military police, staff, etc. units add at least an additional 500,000 troops to the current strength of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Currently 32 combat brigades are in the rear training and waiting for the call to enter the fight in the next phases of the Ukrainian offensive. And (!) Ukraine keeps forming new brigades.

So, please don't listen to people saying Ukraine is running out of units. russia is running out of units; Ukraine isn't.

And thanks to increased Western and Ukrainian artillery ammo production Ukrainian artillery units now regularly outshoot the russian artillery.

Hellraiser wrote: Fri Aug 11, 2023 1:07 pm

Uncle fester wrote: Fri Aug 11, 2023 4:39 pm

Hellraiser wrote: Fri Aug 11, 2023 1:07 pm

Confused. Why would a Putin aligned source be drawing attention to back door sources for Russia?

Muddy the water?

Uncle fester wrote: Fri Aug 11, 2023 4:39 pm

Hellraiser wrote: Fri Aug 11, 2023 1:07 pm

Confused. Why would a Putin aligned source be drawing attention to back door sources for Russia?

Muddy the water?

fishfoodie wrote: Fri Aug 11, 2023 10:14 pm

Uncle fester wrote: Fri Aug 11, 2023 4:39 pm

Hellraiser wrote: Fri Aug 11, 2023 1:07 pm

Confused. Why would a Putin aligned source be drawing attention to back door sources for Russia?

Muddy the water?

The US can see all of this live on satellite, & can see where the assembly points are for refueling too ....

Hellraiser wrote: Fri Aug 11, 2023 10:28 pm

fishfoodie wrote: Fri Aug 11, 2023 10:14 pm

Uncle fester wrote: Fri Aug 11, 2023 4:39 pm

Confused. Why would a Putin aligned source be drawing attention to back door sources for Russia?

Muddy the water?

The US can see all of this live on satellite, & can see where the assembly points are for refueling too ....

I think you are misinterpreting. Qazaqstan is not sending weaponry to Russia, these videos are part of a fake news disinformation campaign.

fishfoodie wrote: Fri Aug 11, 2023 10:49 pm

Hellraiser wrote: Fri Aug 11, 2023 10:28 pm

fishfoodie wrote: Fri Aug 11, 2023 10:14 pm

The US can see all of this live on satellite, & can see where the assembly points are for refueling too ....

I think you are misinterpreting. Qazaqstan is not sending weaponry to Russia, these videos are part of a fake news disinformation campaign.

Which makes you ask who this BS is aimed at, when everyone who counts knows the true story, & that's that the Orcs on the line are sucking hind tit, & they're led by goons who are several levels below donkeys, but whose mistresses live in very nice beach front mansions in Sochi.

I think things are going to get interesting in the next year, because they've tapped out the republics in terms of recruits who could be conned/blackmailed & now they're increasingly having to rope in ethnic Russians, who've always had it easy when it came to dying for mother Russia.

TB63 wrote: Sat Aug 12, 2023 8:44 am

Zig wrote: Sat Aug 05, 2023 5:16 pm

EnergiseR2 wrote: Sat Aug 05, 2023 4:59 pm They have fuck all time left to start making the investment in them look worthwhile

There's an argument that this war saved NATO and sparked the kind of defence spending in Europe that been needed for a long time. Old Soviet stocks from Eastern Europe are being donated to Ukraine and replaced by modern Western equipment. France is about to replace Russia as the world's 2nd largest arms supplier.

Western countries are benefitting more from this war than is being said publicly.