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More Russian stuff blowing up, plus Russian pilot defects with his MI-8 helicopter [1]
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Date: 2023-08-23
Ukraine hit an S-400 missile complex in Crimea, setting off a huge explosion.
x Ukrainian @DI_Ukraine confirms that a Russian S-400 complex and missiles installed on it was destroyed in occupied Ukrainian Crimea today at Cape Tarkhankut near Olenivka village.
Main Intelligence Directorate adds: "Given the limited number of such complexes in the enemy's… pic.twitter.com/MbHsRspklF — Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) August 23, 2023
Translation: We are lucky they are so stupid.
x Russians lack intellect!
Harsh words from Colonel Petro Chernyk regarding the destroyed S-400 system.
"If it was damaged or destroyed, it means that the Russians do not have the intellectual potential to produce competitive weapons of this level." pic.twitter.com/hduNCpOl3g — Sarah Ashton-Cirillo (@SarahAshtonLV) August 23, 2023
Ukraine picked up another MI-8 helicopter thanks to its defecting pilot. This was apparently well planned.
x “A Russian combat helicopter Mi-8 together with the entire crew arrived in Ukraine and surrendered to the Armed Forces,” Yuriy Butusov reports. Russian air force related channels said the helicopter got lost due to navigational errors..
This looks to be the first deliberate… pic.twitter.com/EL8pEVrG1t — NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (@NOELreports) August 23, 2023
The GUR just confirmed the operation. A Russian Mi-8 carrying spare parts for fighter jets was lured into Ukraine in an operation that lasted over 6 months. Two crew members (unaware where they were heading) were reportedly eliminated while the Russian pilot was kept unharmed. He is reunited with his family that was taken to Ukraine earlier.
x ❗️ Russian Mi-8 military helicopter flew into Ukrainian territory and surrendered with the entire crew
According to one version, the pilot of the helicopter purposefully crossed the border to surrender and hand over the equipment. It is also reported that his family was taken to… pic.twitter.com/8cHGbKYZ44 — NEXTA (@nexta_tv) August 23, 2023
According to one version, the pilot of the helicopter purposefully crossed the border to surrender and hand over the equipment. It is also reported that his family was taken to Ukraine in advance. It is also known that the helicopter may have had spare parts for Su-30 airplanes on board. The Russian side does not officially confirm this information. However, the military media close to the Russian Air Force say that there was a navigation error and "the pilot got lost".
Reportedly Ukrainians in a speedboat engaged a Russian jet with a MANPADS and damaged the jet.
GUR is Ukrainian Intelligence:
x More from the GUR. Close to Zmiiny Island, near the Boyko’s Towers, a Ukrainian servicemen reportedly hit a Russian fighter jet. The launched rocket damaged the Russian jet, which was forced to leave afterwards. Although the actual hit is not visible in this released video. pic.twitter.com/MhQj9Icm1d — NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (@NOELreports) August 23, 2023
Hopefully more soldiers will refuse to go to Ukraine.
x Russian soldier Dmitriy Vasilets is now on trial in Russia for refusing to go to the "special military operation" zone.
Vasilets says he is ready to serve time in prison for his convictions.
📹: ukraine. is. love/TikTok pic.twitter.com/4Qr4k4hlNY — Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) August 23, 2023
Video of Prigozhin’s jet on its way to a fiery landing after being hit by what may have been an S-300 or a Pantsir missile. The plane was flying at about 28k feet, so out of range of MANPADS. Another possibility is that a bomb was planted on the plane.
Looks like he had plenty of time to think about it before crashing. He fucked around with Putin. He found out.
Prigozhin was a war criminal and a terrorist. He had it coming.
x Ironically, the plane took a bit of time before it hit the ground. pic.twitter.com/z1bQlhTbvZ — Dmitri (@wartranslated) August 23, 2023
x 🧵1/3 The cause of Prigozhin's plane crash remains undetermined, but there have been assertions of air defenses involvement. The S-300 air defense unit is located roughly 50 km from the crash site, adds weight to this theory, though not as conclusive or final proof. pic.twitter.com/H3pgQIepcK — Tatarigami_UA (@Tatarigami_UA) August 23, 2023
This guy even looks like what Hollywood would cast as a serial killer or the bad guy in an action film. Good riddance to him too. Check out the Nazi tattoos on his shoulders.
x ⚡"Dmytriy Utkin, founder of Wagner and "right hand" of Prigozhin, was also on board the plane that crashed", - rosZMI pic.twitter.com/48Bm5U64R6 — MAKS 23 👀🇺🇦 (@Maks_NAFO_FELLA) August 23, 2023
x telegram right now is like 10 million ukrainians cheering and like 10 million russians crying. its fantastic. — Andrew Perpetua (@AndrewPerpetua) August 23, 2023
Some of my favorite Prigozhin memes (so far):
x Direct transmission from hell 😁 pic.twitter.com/TpkK9ijeEG — Kate Levchuk 🇺🇦 (@KateGoesTech) August 23, 2023
HIMARS = Big Bavovna
x RusZia Commands Posts and ammunitions warehouse in the village of Novoprokopivka. near Robotyny was destroyed by Himars 😎 pic.twitter.com/sC4mHV2DoH — Getty (@region776) August 23, 2023
Moscow’s shiny business district gets hit again. Apparently Russia can shoot down Prigozhin’s jet but not a Ukrainian drone flying across the country.
x 🇺🇦 DRONE ATTACK IN MOSCOW 🇷🇺
Watching it in slow-motion: Very impressive!
How many wet beds do you suppose it caused? pic.twitter.com/zkvvRj4q0z — Jason Jay Smart (@officejjsmart) August 23, 2023
Russia continues to hit kindergartens. What kind of monsters do that?
x 11 drones out of 20 were destroyed over Odesa and Zaporizhzhia regions overnight. There were hits on production and transshipment complexes, and grain storage facilities were damaged. And this morning there was an airstrike on Kherson, which set a kindergarten on fire, six people… pic.twitter.com/VQfaFI7WGG — Гюндуз Мамедов/Gyunduz Mamedov (@MamedovGyunduz) August 23, 2023
Reports say that this colonel died not from shrapnel but from a heart attack.
x ⚡️ Mobilized Colonel Кочетков Владимир Геннадьевич (Kochetkov Vladimir Gennadievich), commander of the 1232nd Motor Rifle Regiment of mobilized, was confirmed.
“Оn 17 August, while carrying out another combat mission, he died, and, as his acquaintances said, not from a shrapnel…
https://t.co/5TXhrPuwX8 pic.twitter.com/pKMUyO1utd — KIU • Russian Officers killed in Ukraine 🇨🇿🇺🇦 (@KilledInUkraine) August 23, 2023
Adios to this dude too.
x Ukrainian-born Major Погребной Вячеслав Иванович (Pogrebnoy Vyacheslav Ivanovich), commander of the mortar battery of the Motor Rifle Battalion, 810th Guards Naval Infantry Brigade, Sevastopol, was killed in Robotyne, Ukraine.
https://t.co/evT23xdQKJ pic.twitter.com/Y1SvnNQbOd — KIU • Russian Officers killed in Ukraine 🇨🇿🇺🇦 (@KilledInUkraine) August 22, 2023
Ukraine raises the flag over Robotyne’s school on Ukraine’s Flag Day. This building is in the southernmost part of the destroyed village.
x Robotyne.
Happy Flag Day.
Slava Ukraini. pic.twitter.com/M7V7G2mcbH — Sarah Ashton-Cirillo (@SarahAshtonLV) August 23, 2023
Some hopeful predictions from a retired American general and commander of US Army forces in Europe:
x -Ru forces won’t be able to reinforce a key area on the “Suvorikin line,” which will contribute to UAF success.
-support for Putin in RU will continue to decline & by Christmas he’ll be in dire straits in Moscow.
-western support for key “ground” support will continue. 10/ — MarkHertling (@MarkHertling) August 21, 2023
He posed with a war trophy, then he was a war trophy himself..
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