Day 866
Sharing SIGINT with WAPO
I don’t know the story behind this mural. Yet.
The NATO summit marking the military bloc’s 75 anniversary kicks off tomorrow in Washington, D.C., where military leaders of 32 states — including four which do not support Ukraine — will be sweating profusely. We urge them to drink lots of fluids.
The last time I checked, Z was scheduled to meet Uncle Joe and Speaker Mike on the sidelines of events. He and his entourage should wear their short sleeve tac outfits.
I spent a suffocating summer at Fort Meade in the early 1980s inhaling sticky air. It was awful, much worse than oppressively hot San Angelo, Texas.
This morning our war map looks much the same as last week.
Stefan stopped giving us updates more than 100 days ago, altho his words are available at Kyiv Post.
Phillips P. O’Brian continues to labor away,
as well as Tim Mak.
A weird article appearing in The Washington Post cites intercepted enemy communications1.
The newspaper said it could not independently confirm the accuracy the transcripts but received them directly from troops monitoring the communications.
Last week, Z said Ukraine has 14 new brigades but western weapons haven’t arrived yet to equip them.
"We have the desire (for a counteroffensive), but the tools have not arrived, as they say. That is, we have brigades without weapons, we have reserves, we have 14 undersupplied brigades that do not have appropriate weapons. Weapons that have already been voted for (at Congress), which have been talked about. Packages should arrive, but, unfortunately, they are coming slowly," Z said in an interview with Bloomberg, published on his Telegram channel on Thursday.
This, er, is bullshit.
Ukrainian attacks on supply lines slowed Russians in Kharkiv, intercepts show. Russian troops invading Ukraine’s Kharkiv region are short of food and water, Ukrainian soldiers say, citing intercepted communications and interrogations of POWs (The Washington Post, July 8, 2024)