Syrian Civil War: News #10

KoTeMoRe wrote:

Militarov wrote:

franco wrote:

Militarov wrote:

Khepesh wrote:At Beslan two colonels died. Yes, I know spetsnaz are a little different in this, but even so, they died leading their men from the front, not on a radio.

Anyway, seems that the terrorists are on brink of complete collapse in Aleppo and that a further ten districts have been liberated today. Peskov has advised caution about premature expectations because there will be a hard core who will fight to the death and try to cause as much destruction as they can before the end. I suspect Assad will claim liberation of Aleppo in a few days, and some Syrians are claiming it already, but difficult mopping up will continue for maybe a few weeks.

Thing is he was commanding a tank batallion there, at the best. Probably even less unit size. That could have been done by decent...senior lieutenant.

Who was commanding a tank battalion?

Someone today said he was commanding SAA tank batallion in Aleppo and that he was Colonel in 2nd Guards Tank Army.

5th Guard. He was the responsible for the "Separate" tank battalion that is serving in syria as of now. Couple of guys have been in combat supporting 4th Corps, most of them just train the Syrians (and Hizb). Liwa Al Quds has own brand of operators from 49th.

Also Liwa al Quds seen with current prod Valdai VKP 210 in Aleppo. Liwa and Hizb are looking more and more as proxy relays for the Russians.

Breaking. #ISIS claims to be in full control of strategic Hayyal Mount overlooking main road towards #Palmyra and ~5 km SW of Ancient city.

Breaking. #ISIS claims to be in full control of strategic Hayyal Mount overlooking main road towards #Palmyra and ~5 km SW of Ancient city.

auslander wrote:

calm wrote:

Breaking. #ISIS claims to be in full control of strategic Hayyal Mount overlooking main road towards #Palmyra and ~5 km SW of Ancient city.

They can claim whatever they want. Last time I heard RuAF has not stood down in that area and have not abandoned Palmyra nor are they or SSA in panic of a sudden envelopment of Palmyra. Wishful thinking in my opinion, on whose part I won't speculate.

auslander wrote:Seems Brand X has joined EU, DC and UN in screaming for a 5 day ceasefire 'for humanitarian reasons'. My opinion is screw them all, they've had enough chances to GTFO, get their families out, send their wounded for treatment, send the 'hundreds of wounded women and children' out for treatment and all we've ever gotten from each stand down is more bad guys with more equipment and ammo to dig out.

Of interest is the numbers of US and other nato 'advisers' who are now trapped behind the ever shrinking lines. That mortar attack on our field hospital was too good to have been a beardie.

KoTeMoRe wrote:

auslander wrote:

calm wrote:

Breaking. #ISIS claims to be in full control of strategic Hayyal Mount overlooking main road towards #Palmyra and ~5 km SW of Ancient city.

They can claim whatever they want. Last time I heard RuAF has not stood down in that area and have not abandoned Palmyra nor are they or SSA in panic of a sudden envelopment of Palmyra. Wishful thinking in my opinion, on whose part I won't speculate.

They don't want to capture Tadmur they want to get further to Salamiyah and spread the defensive efforts. IS is an opportunistic disease.

auslander wrote:Seems Brand X has joined EU, DC and UN in screaming for a 5 day ceasefire 'for humanitarian reasons'. My opinion is screw them all, they've had enough chances to GTFO, get their families out, send their wounded for treatment, send the 'hundreds of wounded women and children' out for treatment and all we've ever gotten from each stand down is more bad guys with more equipment and ammo to dig out.

Of interest is the numbers of US and other nato 'advisers' who are now trapped behind the ever shrinking lines. That mortar attack on our field hospital was too good to have been a beardie.

Mark my words, no ceasefire will be reached until Sheikh Lutfi and Sheikh Saad is gone. The only remaining Electric substation is in Sh Saad and the only open area is around Sheikh Lutfi, once its gone, the remaining pocket can be cut in two...


Also prepare for Qalat Sharif to fall tomorrow.

I think Lavrov and Vova have been very patient so far, the talk of the people on the ground has been to get the remaining part of the inner ring immediately, 2/300 KIA for that is peanuts. Russians obviously not willing to do that.

auslander wrote:

KoTeMoRe wrote:

auslander wrote:

calm wrote:

Breaking. #ISIS claims to be in full control of strategic Hayyal Mount overlooking main road towards #Palmyra and ~5 km SW of Ancient city.

They can claim whatever they want. Last time I heard RuAF has not stood down in that area and have not abandoned Palmyra nor are they or SSA in panic of a sudden envelopment of Palmyra. Wishful thinking in my opinion, on whose part I won't speculate.

They don't want to capture Tadmur they want to get further to Salamiyah and spread the defensive efforts. IS is an opportunistic disease.

auslander wrote:Seems Brand X has joined EU, DC and UN in screaming for a 5 day ceasefire 'for humanitarian reasons'. My opinion is screw them all, they've had enough chances to GTFO, get their families out, send their wounded for treatment, send the 'hundreds of wounded women and children' out for treatment and all we've ever gotten from each stand down is more bad guys with more equipment and ammo to dig out.

Of interest is the numbers of US and other nato 'advisers' who are now trapped behind the ever shrinking lines. That mortar attack on our field hospital was too good to have been a beardie.

Mark my words, no ceasefire will be reached until Sheikh Lutfi and Sheikh Saad is gone. The only remaining Electric substation is in Sh Saad and the only open area is around Sheikh Lutfi, once its gone, the remaining pocket can be cut in two...


Also prepare for Qalat Sharif to fall tomorrow.

I think Lavrov and Vova have been very patient so far, the talk of the people on the ground has been to get the remaining part of the inner ring immediately, 2/300 KIA for that is peanuts. Russians obviously not willing to do that.

A lot of amateurs consider '200-300 KIA' as peanuts....unless they should happen to be one of the peanuts.

KiloGolf wrote:I'm sorry but I can't help noticing the timing of the IS attack.
Lots of unhappy people due to Aleppo seem to have unleashed their dogs... as seemingly their only means of response.

Fvck them up plz.

KiloGolf wrote:I'm sorry but I can't help noticing the timing of the IS attack.
Lots of unhappy people due to Aleppo seem to have unleashed their dogs... as seemingly their only means of response.

KoTeMoRe wrote:

KiloGolf wrote:I'm sorry but I can't help noticing the timing of the IS attack.
Lots of unhappy people due to Aleppo seem to have unleashed their dogs... as seemingly their only means of response.

It's a matter of opportunity. IS has always worked like this. The difference is that these small probed are also the way they can sustain their small tempo war in the area.

KoTeMoRe wrote:

auslander wrote:

calm wrote:

Breaking. #ISIS claims to be in full control of strategic Hayyal Mount overlooking main road towards #Palmyra and ~5 km SW of Ancient city.

They can claim whatever they want. Last time I heard RuAF has not stood down in that area and have not abandoned Palmyra nor are they or SSA in panic of a sudden envelopment of Palmyra. Wishful thinking in my opinion, on whose part I won't speculate.

They don't want to capture Tadmur they want to get further to Salamiyah and spread the defensive efforts. IS is an opportunistic disease.

auslander wrote:Seems Brand X has joined EU, DC and UN in screaming for a 5 day ceasefire 'for humanitarian reasons'. My opinion is screw them all, they've had enough chances to GTFO, get their families out, send their wounded for treatment, send the 'hundreds of wounded women and children' out for treatment and all we've ever gotten from each stand down is more bad guys with more equipment and ammo to dig out.

Of interest is the numbers of US and other nato 'advisers' who are now trapped behind the ever shrinking lines. That mortar attack on our field hospital was too good to have been a beardie.

Mark my words, no ceasefire will be reached until Sheikh Lutfi and Sheikh Saad is gone. The only remaining Electric substation is in Sh Saad and the only open area is around Sheikh Lutfi, once its gone, the remaining pocket can be cut in two...


Also prepare for Qalat Sharif to fall tomorrow.

I think Lavrov and Vova have been very patient so far, the talk of the people on the ground has been to get the remaining part of the inner ring immediately, 2/300 KIA for that is peanuts. Russians obviously not willing to do that.

Lavrov: Combat actions in Aleppo suspended to take civilians out of city



HAMBURG, December 8. /TASS/. Syrian Armed Forces have suspended combat operations in eastern Aleppo to enable withdrawal of a column of civilians from the city, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday on the sidelines of a conference of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).

"Combat actions of the Syrian Army in eastern Aleppo are suspended today, as a yet another and the biggest one so far operation to evacuate the civilians willing to leave the place is underway there," he said. "There are some 8,000 people in the column. That's a huge operation and the withdrawal route is five kilometers long.".

http://tass.com/politics/917876

Lavrov, Kerry discuss militants’ withdrawal from Aleppo — Russian foreign ministry

MOSCOW, December 8. /TASS/. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry have agreed that the two countries’ experts will work tightly on the issue of militants’ withdrawal from Aleppo, the Russian foreign ministry said on Thursday after their telephone conversation.

According to the ministry, the two countries’ top diplomats met on the sidelines of a meeting of the Ministerial Council of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Germany’s Hamburg in the morning on December 8. "In the evening on the same day, they had a telephone conversation," the ministry said. "The two top diplomats continued the discussion of problems of the Syrian settlement, including ways of normalization of the situation in Eastern Aleppo."

http://tass.com/politics/917879

KoTeMoRe wrote:

Ok, I get it, I understand that the political side of this demands Green Bus service. Especially while throwing more JAN and AAS to idlib.

But W.T.F.

miketheterrible wrote:SyAF and RuAF are bombing the hilltop in Palmyra. As well, reinforcements are headed to Palmyra.

Apparently, area was heaps by NDF and they ended up fleet bff positions leaving behind lots of equipment for ISIS.  So yeah, NDF screwed up yet again.