On September 3, there was a heavy rocket attack on the Ukrainian city of Poltava, in which, according to Ukrainian reports, many soldiers were killed. But that is probably not the whole truth.
On September 3, the Russian army attacked a Ukrainian army training center in Poltava with two Iskander missiles. Western media such as Der Spiegel also reported many dead soldiers and that there was a lack of understanding in Ukraine as to how something like this could have happened.
However, there is probably much more to it, because the object hit was a radio communications school of the Ukrainian army, where the operators of radio-electronic warfare and drone pilots, who are so important today, are trained. Since this technology is mainly supplied from the West, it was immediately reported in Russia that not only soldiers but also many Western instructors were killed in the attack.
Swedish soldiers in particular are said to have been hit because Sweden wants to provide Ukraine with airborne radar, for which Ukrainian specialists have to be trained, which is supposedly done in the telecommunications school in Poltava. not only his resignation but also his retirement from politics Coincidence or not, on the evening of the same day, Swedish Foreign Minister Billström announced.
The Iskander Missile Attack Was A Decapitation Blow To Ukraine's Radioelectric Warfare.
The media pressure wave of this hit circled planet Earth several times and from the Kiev junta came inarticulate whining and understated reports of losses. So it was the usual pattern. We don't expect anything else.
Eyewitnesses described the reality. These are pictures of the paramedic Igor Tkachev of the volunteer battalion “Hospitaller”, who arrived at the scene before the ambulances and wrote about it: Further back everything was full of corpses, blood, screams, groans, pain and death. In front of us, there was a huge old truck into which the wounded were loaded. They were placed on rags, blankets, or doors, lifted over their heads and thrown in the back. I didn't even have time to see what was wrong with them. When I got there I was helping the last of the wounded. There was no room, the door was closed, and the truck drove across town to the hospital, packed with dying people.
And this is what he writes about what it looked like a little later: The doctors who arrived were young girls with long fingernails, screaming, shaking and not knowing what to do. We were loading seriously injured, dying people with no arms or legs into cars, and the girls were at a loss. They were completely disorganized. They weren't prepared for something like that. I didn't see what the State Emergency Service did except transport the wounded, most of them couldn't help, and I didn't see any first aid kits either.
Former Ukrainian diplomat Andrei Telishenko, who worked in the Ukrainian embassy in the USA, claims in an interview with RT that instructors from Great Britain, Sweden and France taught at the military communications institute in Poltava. Hence the excitement. We even saw planes from western Ukraine and Poland, especially Rzeszów, picking up bodies from all over Europe after the Russian attack. The losses amount to more than 600 military personnel, Telischenko said.
Other independent Ukrainian bloggers also mention this number of 600, sometimes even close to 700 losses. One thing is clear: the two Iskander missiles fired were precise and decapitated Ukraine's radio-electronic warfare system. This was carefully prepared and timed, to coincide with the morning departure and bypassed all air defense systems and jammers. The survey worked perfectly.
In addition to its devastating impact, this attack, also had a clearly demoralizing effect. Kiev military expert, Dmitry Snegirew said: The situation is simply catastrophic, in that electronic warfare, specialists are trained in this school. These are very specialized people, they're worth their weight in gold, in the Ukrainian Defense Forces.
British expert Alexander Mercouris seems to be even better informed, saying: There are speculations, that there were mainly drone pilots there. Perhaps, some were trained by Swedish instructors in the use of AWACS and other radars.
AWACS is an American flying radar for cooperation with combat aircraft. Ukraine is preparing to receive a similar Swedish system from SAAB, the ASC-890. It can stay in the air continuously for up to five hours, and the radar visibility radius is up to 500 kilometers, which should be of great help to the American F-16 in target determination. Then “bang!” Russian Iskanders flew to the Swedish trainers even before the flying SAAB radars arrived.
The symbolism of the site of the attack, Poltava, is mentioned by American Colonel Douglas MacGregor: Poltava was the scene of a truly gigantic battle in which Russia and Sweden fought for dominance in Eastern and Northeastern Europe. During World War II, Hitler's front command center was also located here. So the city has a symbolic meaning on many levels, and the real message is: We are coming, now you are finished.
Of course, the targeted attack on the telecommunications school in Poltava, although extremely important, is only part of the bigger picture of what is happening on the fronts. And our troops continue to advance.
According to the Defense Ministry's final summary for this week, the Center group liberated the following settlements: Skuchnoye, Karlovka, Zavetnoye, Zhuravka, Kalinovo and Novogrodovka. The Eastern Troop Group took control of Pretschistovka in the DNR.
However, Ukraine suffered the greatest losses, at least in terms of equipment, in the confrontation with the “North” group, whose area of responsibility includes the strip previously cut off from Russia, up to 14 kilometers deep and 40 kilometers across the front. Fierce trench warfare is taking place, in which the Banderists have lost 9 tanks and even 112 armored fighting vehicles since the beginning of the month and by the end of this week. And, most importantly, in just a week in this section 4 American multiple rocket launchers HIMARS. Each hit was confirmed by multiple sources.
Yes, the Kursk border area is a very painful issue for all of us. Above all, the uncertainty hurts, even though we are receiving information about the Nazi atrocities in the Kursk border area. And of course the commander in chief. But Putin must not lose sight of the overall goal of ending the conflict faster, on our terms and with minimal casualties. Consistency is fundamental here.
The topic of the Banderists' provocation in the Kursk region inevitably came up at the Eastern Economic Forum. Putin said: “The enemy's goal was to make us nervous, to agitate us so that we would move troops from one area to another and stop our offensive in key areas, primarily in Donbas, the liberation of which is our primary goal is.
Did that work or not? No, the opponent was unsuccessful. Firstly, our armed forces have stabilized the situation and begun to gradually push him out of the border areas. Second, and most importantly, there are no measures to contain our offensive. On the contrary, by moving its fairly large and well-trained units to these border areas, the enemy has weakened itself in key areas and our troops have accelerated their offensive operations.
It's been a long time since we had such territorial gains. The day before yesterday, for example, the East group conquered a triangle measuring seven by five kilometers in one fell swoop. The Center Group also operates very successfully in the Donetsk and Pokrovsk regions.
There, too, the terrain gains are no longer counted in hundreds of meters, but in square kilometers – four times five, three times five and so on. That's the second point and last but not least, the enemy suffers huge losses in personnel and material. And this threatens to break through the front in the most important areas, and the losses can simply lead to the loss of combat effectiveness of the entire armed forces, and that is what we want to achieve.”
