The War in the Ukraine
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Looks like they are hitting every warehouse they could find.
Footage of five Ukrainian naval drones being destroyed by Russian Lancet drones, small arms, and anti-tank missiles. The video was filmed in the Black Sea, presumably near the coast of Crimea, as evidenced by the ATGM firing. The type of Ukrainian naval drones is unknown.
The Russian army has begun using tear gas-armed drones to assault Ukrainian positions. The video shows drone strikes in Ukraine using tear gas warheads. The use of such drones helps reduce casualties during assaults on fortified positions, bunkers, and other underground structures. Some Ukrainian units have begun using gas masks, as shown at the end of the video.
The Ukrainian drones may be manufactured abroad, but they still have to be broken down into kits for transport and reassembled in suitable areas. These centers of transport and assembly are prime targets for the Russians. On top of that, truck facilities, trucks, gas stations, power stations, transformer stations are also being hit. You can't assemble and charge batteries without power and you can't transport without gas and trucks.
Piskunivka have fallen to the Southern Group of Forces.
Worst time to be ordering from Amazon in Kiev.
Piskunivka have fallen to the Southern Group of Forces.
Every postal center too.
Worst time to be ordering from Amazon in Kiev.
❗️UNITS OF THE "EAST" TROOP GROUPING LIBERATED THE POPULATED POINT ALEXANDROVKA
Guardsmen of the 36th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade of the 29th Army of the "East" Troop Grouping, building on the success in liberating Dobropasovo and Bogodarovka, continued their offensive actions and took control of Alexandrovka — a major populated point on the right bank of the Volchya River. In conjunction with Dobropasovo, Pisantsy, and Novoskelivat, the bridgehead established by our soldiers is of particular importance in the further liberation of Pokrovskoe.
During intense and prolonged battles, the Far Eastern soldiers took control of a large defense area, prepared in advance by the enemy, with a total area of more than 5 square kilometers, and cleared over 1,000 buildings. The enemy's losses amounted to a company of live forces from the 82nd Separate Motor Rifle Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. 17 combat armored vehicles, 18 vehicles, 12 units of motorized equipment, 9 ground robotic complexes, and 28 heavy hexacopters of the "Baba Yaga" type were destroyed.
The success in Alexandrovka was the result of a clear interaction between assault units, aviation, artillery, and UAV crews. Systematic fire suppression, combined with decisive and coordinated actions of assault groups, allowed for taking control of this fortified area.
❗️The liberation of Alexandrovka strengthens the position of the "East" Troop Grouping and creates conditions for further advancement on this front section.
"The Far Eastern Express" continues to move forward according to schedule!
Guardsmen of the 36th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade of the 29th Army of the "East" Troop Grouping, building on the success in liberating Dobropasovo and Bogodarovka, continued their offensive actions and took control of Alexandrovka — a major populated point on the right bank of the Volchya River. In conjunction with Dobropasovo, Pisantsy, and Novoskelivat, the bridgehead established by our soldiers is of particular importance in the further liberation of Pokrovskoe.
During intense and prolonged battles, the Far Eastern soldiers took control of a large defense area, prepared in advance by the enemy, with a total area of more than 5 square kilometers, and cleared over 1,000 buildings. The enemy's losses amounted to a company of live forces from the 82nd Separate Motor Rifle Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. 17 combat armored vehicles, 18 vehicles, 12 units of motorized equipment, 9 ground robotic complexes, and 28 heavy hexacopters of the "Baba Yaga" type were destroyed.
The success in Alexandrovka was the result of a clear interaction between assault units, aviation, artillery, and UAV crews. Systematic fire suppression, combined with decisive and coordinated actions of assault groups, allowed for taking control of this fortified area.
❗️The liberation of Alexandrovka strengthens the position of the "East" Troop Grouping and creates conditions for further advancement on this front section.
"The Far Eastern Express" continues to move forward according to schedule!
Ukrainian barracks and warehouses in Nikolaev area used for drone development, storage and assembly, gets struck by optically guided Gerans.
Geran hit on a gas station in the Krivoy Rog highway in Dnepropetrovsk.
Destroyed fuel tanker and gas station in Zaporizhye, knocked out by Gerans.
Gerans with optical guidance strike fuel tanks in an oil storage facility in the Zaporizhye region.
Geran hit on a gas station in the Krivoy Rog highway in Dnepropetrovsk.
Destroyed fuel tanker and gas station in Zaporizhye, knocked out by Gerans.
Gerans with optical guidance strike fuel tanks in an oil storage facility in the Zaporizhye region.
Footage of a confrontation between Russian soldier Andrei Rezikov and five Ukrainian army FPV drones. The video was filmed near the village of Novopidgorodne in the Dnipropetrovsk region. The soldier was advancing toward the assembly point of a detachment of the 443rd Motorized Rifle Regiment of the 27th Guards Motorized Rifle Division of the Center group. There were five drone attacks, with the soldier firing back, dodging, and throwing an assault rifle at the drone. As a result of the engagement, the soldier sustained a leg wound. He bandaged the wound and made it to the assembly point.
Russian forces are approaching Slovyansk from three directions.
There are no major cities beyond Slovyansk, nor is there adequate logistics infrastructure for the Ukrainians to maintain the front line.
It is worth noting that the battles for Slovyansk and Kramatorsk must be fought in tandem, as they share supply lines; any operation undertaken must address both, otherwise the Ukrainians could focus on defending one while the other remains secure.
From the south, they cannot simply attack via the river valley where Druzhkivka is located—approaching from Kostyantynivka—because the corridor is too narrow. A Ukrainian counterattack could encircle such a salient far more easily than the Dobropillya salient last year.
The Russians need to dramatically widen the front, launching frontal, fixing attacks from Rai-Oleksandrivka along the T0514 highway after capturing Dobropillya. This will be the most critical axis of advance, as it is where they will concentrate the "Rubicon" unit to sever supply lines to Kramatorsk; they will need to bypass Kramatorsk to the west.
They need to do the same on the northern flank: establish a broad front extending from Lyman and the area northwest of it to outflank the cities and execute the "Rubicon" maneuver to cut off Slovyansk's supply lines.
Then, they will launch frontal assaults on both cities—a strategy likely to succeed, as the Ukrainians would lack the resources to halt the Russian advance if their supply lines were severely disrupted. The Russians would effectively advance through villages and smaller towns, pushing their drone coverage as close as possible to Slovyansk and Kramatorsk, and that would be the decisive factor.
The big question is whether the Ukrainians will make a concerted effort to stop them. They do not necessarily have to. Strategically, they could lose these cities and still be fine, provided they bleed the Russians as much as possible while preserving their own forces to the greatest extent they can. If they truly wanted to use the battles for Sloviansk and Kramatorsk to wear down the Russians as much as possible, it would make sense to allow the Russians to get closer to these cities in order to create the right conditions. They know how desperately Putin and Gerasimov want this; the two will be eager and impatient, and Ukraine's best opportunities to use drones to wear down the Russians lie in tactical operations related to the offensive.