The War in the Ukraine

37thCommando said:

The political establishment is the biggest culprit by far, Putin still held onto of vain hopes of Slavic Brotherhood and vastly underestimated how indoctrinated the Ukranian Armed forces had become over the past 8 years.

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Putin is not all those things and he has far intelligence beyond Ukraine.
what he is trying to do is managing the conflict to make it sustainable long term. obviously he cannot use weopons that damage environment or get tough with west due to global wealth stored there. . He also has Turkish speaking spokesperson that can understand things real time when all the time talk with Turks who are essentially represent Germany. Israeli PM went straight to Berlin to see Scholz after meeting Putin. Than Austrian Chancellor and former German Chancellor came for talks to Moscow. Austrian Chancellor did not understood when Putin told him that he is winning despite withdrawing around North.

Ukranian MiG-29 hunting for Shahed drones. There are claims that a MiG-29 either crashed or got shot down by Ukranian air defense while chasing a drone

An Australian M113 was captured in Marinka

Seems a Russian Ka-52 pilot escorting a Mi-17 found it amusing to land on a parked Il-76

Attempts by the Ukrainians to repair captured equipment. Both T-72B3 seems to be missing their thermal cameras and likely the first one is just being cannibalized for parts, while a T-62 is being converted into either a command vehicle of some sort or a recovery vehicle

Could we spare the posts about motivation, results, page long analysis of feelings please ?

I like to read interesting analysis based on facts or using strong logic, however these are the exceptions rather than rules.

Ukrainian T-84 "Oplot" spotted in action near Kupyansk, this must mean Ukrainian 3rd Tank Brigade has been moved up there.

Ukrainians have been saving up those for the whole war. Pretty much only seen once around the time when Russians pulled out of Kiev. Throughout the whole of last year every time there's a photo of them they've been spotlessly clean without any personal affects from the crew on the outside. If such "parade" units are thrown into the fight now things must be getting really hot.

Temstar said:

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Ukrainian T-84 "Oplot" spotted in action near Kupyansk, this must mean Ukrainian 3rd Tank Brigade has been moved up there.

Ukrainians have been saving up those for the whole war. Pretty much only seen once around the time when Russians pulled out of Kiev. Throughout the whole of last year every time there's a photo of them they've been spotlessly clean without any personal affects from the crew on the outside. If such "parade" units are thrown into the fight now things must be getting really hot.

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There are 5 total of them, unless Ukraine managed to buy back the hundred or so from Thailand.

It's even bigger of a rare white elephant than spotting an armata.

One of the reasons I believe the offensive has not yet taken place:
The accumulated troops have not yet gone to the front and are still in the stage of concentration. There would be more data from Mi6 and DSGI reporting concentrations from Kursk to Rostov-on-Don.

Kaskad battalion at the office, with drone and artillery at Vuhledar. Drone tracking Ukrainian company at high altitude and they let them have it with artillery.

A bus load of Ukrainian UAV operators got their minibus ambushed and hit by an ATGM courtesy of the DPR.

It looks like the Russians are studying the diagrams of Leopard 2 tanks

I'd love to hear more from @MarKoz81

His effort posts are always interesting to read and educational for me. I love the way he lays out his thought process.