Rob Lee (Twitter)

18/ https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1975181106761568409#m

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1/ 🇷🇺🪖 Russian milblogger Romanov writes about the current situation in Russian assault infantry units. Basically, it can be concluded that it's a death sentence.

"So, experts, attention, question: Romanov, why haven't you signed a contract yet? Look, they're offering six million (and In the long run eight million!)!

Because: if I sign the contract, they'll send me to the assault force. Despite the fact that:

- I have a certificate of completion from the Military Medical Academy, a course in 'military medical instructor,' and practical experience working on evacuations and stabilization points, etc.;
- I have experience working with UAVs, making adjustments, and a full set of personal equipment (Mavics, remote control, FPV, and navigation system).

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It doesn't matter. Regarding the assaultmen.
Because there really aren't enough assaultmen.
What's lacking is precisely the people who will 'push' the enemy on the ground and hold positions at the frontier.

Why aren't there enough of these assaultmen?
Because commanders view them as expendable.
They'll be given new ones, but the General Staff demands advances. Bonuses for advances. And they still have to earn their "advance payments."

Necro Mancer (Twitter)

@DanilkoSer86191: Ну эти цифры явно не по спискам, а по внутренним докам, вопрос, насколько аутентичные

Status-6 (Twitter)

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The average assault life cycle is 12 days.
- Day one: he signs the contract and arrives at the training ground;
- Days two to eleven: training at the training ground;
- Day twelve (the final day): arrival at the position.
In hot spots, only one out of two soldiers reaches the position. At best.

Because of enemy's UAVs. Because almost no one is systematically engaged in seizing the initiative in the air. Lack of resources, skills, or desire. When Mavics and FPVs are gone, they are replaced by assaultmen.

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I often speak with people who have signed contracts and are arriving at the positions. I ask: Do you understand that you'll be f*cked tomorrow? What's your motivation? The most common answer is: 'My family will receive payments.'

And here is my answer: I do not sign the contract, because from the moment of signing the countdown of my last 12 days will begin.

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5/

At the same time, I:
- with the help of my channel members and friendly channels, collect and deliver medical supplies and technical equipment to the soldiers (often to the places where most of the volunteers don't make it);
- conduct medical training for those who will be marching into the thick of things tomorrow;
- visit the site with my UAVs and do the best I can.

Necro Mancer (Twitter)

@roazicnij83919: Из них 11 уходит на "обучение"

Status-6 (Twitter)

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What needs to change?

- The Department of Military Counterintelligence must begin real work on cleansing those who turned the war into their own criminal and bloody business (they have a lot of evidence);

- Instant criminal liability for mistakes is a lie. Many casualties occur during assaults because their own command or a neighboring unit reported that these positions had already been taken;

- Replacing pensioners with those who come from the assault units (there are plenty of them already; they understand reality, but they're not allowed to rise above battalion commanders). This is high-tech warfare, not a Slideshow Military Operation.

Necro Mancer (Twitter)

@roazicnij83919: Большей частью ничему, но "положено"

‌Status-6 (Twitter)

7/END

In short, I know the reality all too well. Maybe it's even a good thing that most of our citizens are blissfully ignorant, reinforced by official statements from the Ministry of Defense."

t.me/romanov_92/49495

Necro Mancer (Twitter)

@roazicnij83919: Зато потом на них большая экономия выходит

Dan (Twitter)

RT @Tatarigami_UA: The Ukrainian project @hochuzhit_com has published a photo of a document with Russian losses over 8 months, from January to September 2025. According to it, total KIA numbers 86,744, roughly 10,843 per month, which is very close to our earlier estimates. Total losses are 281,550

Dan (Twitter)

RT @RALee85: Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi disbanded OSUV Dnipro Operational Strategic Group (formerly known as Khortytsia) at the end of September.

"The Dnipro Operational Strategic Group was responsible for a significant stretch of the front line from the city of Zaporizhzhia to Kharkiv Oblast, including managing ammunition distribution between brigades. Its functions are now being transferred to troop groupings and newly formed corps.

Major General Mykhailo Drapatyi headed the group for eight months. According to the article, he will retain his post as Joint Forces Commander and, along with his team, relocate to the north-eastern front, where he will lead one of the troop groupings. His area of responsibility will be reduced by about half."
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/10/06/8001425/

Dan (Twitter)

RT @KyleJGlen: If Ukraine uses HIMARS in Russia we'll be at war, if they use ATACMS we'll be at war, if they use Storm Shadows we'll be at war, if they use. .

Honestly exhausting. https://twitter.com/DougAMacgregor/status/1975038224650342835#m

Dan (Twitter)

RT @moklasen: crazy stuff:
- 2nd, 41st, 51st armies: ~80k casualties around pokrovsk since january
-retaking kursk (from jan) and sumy incursion cost vdv+marines grouping 42k casualties
- 90th tank division took 7k casualties to reach the Dnipropetrowsk border
- 29th Army only has one brigade: 36th MRB took 7.7k casualties since january
- 1st tank army barely moved the front since winter but took 21k casualties
- 98th vdv division took 2.1k casualties in chasiv yar, since january https://twitter.com/Tatarigami_UA/status/1975125211914834145#m

Dan (Twitter)

RT @UAControlMap: Russian casualties per grouping from the leak today, Jan 1st - Sept 1st 2025