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[quote=Anonymous]As the Ukrainians take Svatove, this should cut off the supply to the troops on either flank?

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/10/13/2128629/-Ukraine-update-Ukraine-approaches-strategic-Svatove-as-Russian-Telegram-invents-phantom-wins

The Ukranians also hit infrastructure in Belgorod, Russia in apparent retaliation for the strikes on Ukrainain cities.  Belogorod is a major staging area for the new conscripts arriving.

"Train operations were suspended early on Friday near Novyi Oskol, a town in Russia's Belgorod region that borders Ukraine, after remains of a missile fell near the railway"
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/trains-suspended-parts-russias-belgorod-region-after-defences-shoot-down-missile-2022-10-14/

"“An electric substation... caught fire after a strike on Belgorod,” Gladkov said on Telegram, adding that it would take “up to four hours” to activate a backup system and restore power."
https://english.alarabiya.net/News/world/2022/10/14/Ukraine-strike-destroys-electrical-substation-in-Russia

"the governor of Belgorod Oblast, confirmed that an ammunition depot was blown up"
https://news.yahoo.com/disruptions-russia-explosions-belgorod-fire-170927193.html

But not all the damage was caused by Ukraine.

“Belgorod is bombing itself. And this is not a joke”
https://euroweeklynews.com/2022/10/14/misfiring-russian-air-defence-system-belgorod/

Note that the more Russian train service is disrupted, the more difficulty the Russians have resupplying and transporting troops.  This act brought the war to the Russian homefront.  Before, Russians felt safe that no one would attack them on their own soil.  It also seems to have rattled Russian propagandists.

"I don't understand why on earth they regularly they hit Belgorod, yesterday with an American missile that was shot down. I do not understand it. Well, we have to move the border somehow, so they don't fire at Belgorod. This is a threat to our country. Move the f..cking border back 200 kilometres. If you cannot move the border - make a firestorm," 
https://charter97.org/en/news/2022/10/14/519912/

Top Russian Federation (RF) propagandist Vladimir Solovyov, appearing on  state-controlled television on Thursday, Oct. 13 said: “Blast them [Ukraine and its people] with fire and death. So that there would be no possibility, by any means, for them to shoot [at Russia]. I couldn’t give a (expletive) about the fate of Ukrainian cities…why are we playing patty-cakes with them?…We haven’t even come close to using all the weapons we have at our disposal. If we have to, then we need to scorch the earth.”

Pavel Gubarev, a pro-Russia activist in occupied Donetsk Region, released a video on Wednesday, Oct. 12, warning that a people living in regions annexed by Russia, as well as territories not yet captured by Russian troops, but claimed by the Kremlin, have the choice of accepting Moscow’s authority or dying.

“We [RF forces] aren’t coming to kill you, but to convince you,” Gubarov said. “But if you don’t want to be convinced, we’ll kill you. We’ll kill as many as we have to: one million, five million, or exterminate all of you.”
https://www.kyivpost.com/russias-war/kremlin-ramps-up-armageddon-rhetoric.html

[b]"Okay, good option... so I repeat, the eternal question, Poseidon or Sarmat?"
"Sarmat [will only be] on combat duty in December, as I understand it."
"Don't worry.  It's like here, if they say in December, it means it's already on duty."[/b]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nk7i6IM963g

Sarmat "is a Russian liquid-fueled, MIRV-equipped super-heavy intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)"
"The RS-28 Sarmat will be capable of carrying about 10 tonnes of payload,[31] for either up to 10 heavy or 15 light MIRV warheads, an unspecified number of Avangard hypersonic glide vehicles (HGVs)"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RS-28_Sarmat

As precision conventional missile stocks go down, what's left are mainly nuclear tipped weaponry.

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