The War in the Ukraine

Janiz said:

Yet, the Ukrainian side reported the complete opposite. In this case, the VDV got hit really hard.

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Let me point out that in the first place, the VDV also known as the Russian Airborne, did not take any participation in Avdiivka. After all, and it's already obvious for some time, the VDV are concentrated in Bakhmut and in Kremennaya. Avdiivka is mostly a DPR operation. If any regular Russian military there would from the Army and reserves in support of the DPR.

Lancet takes out a howitzer to that's well camouflaged, well hidden in the forest and covered by cope nets.


There's a US supplied M113 with a big Z painted on it running around apparently under new ownership.


Latest news is that the Avangard stadium, the Bakhmut railway station, and the entire railway line has fallen to the Russians, who also now has a beachhead to the Western District. The fighting on the important railway station has been the fiercest and bloodiest so far as both sides threw their best troops, and the tides kept shifting one way or the other.

Lancet takes out a Krab. Some people say it's an AS-90, but they both look alike to me and does the same thing, and the video is just too fast and not sharp enough.


A Ukrainian tank column in Ugledar got hit by TOS-1A "Sunshine". This happened in Ugledar.


As you would expect from this terrible weapon, Ukraine has made it a top priority to take out the TOS-1A using drones. Russians responded by using cope cages. I previously posted a video where MSTA-S SPGs are also fitted with cope cages.

Atomicfrog said:

Just a small part of it...well done tho.

Some quarry near Bakhmut can be levelled with the scrap before pilling it. Clearly don't know if they will recycle some of the concrete for roads or something else... We talk a lot about destruction of assets in Ukraine, reconstruction will be interesting in years to come.

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Russians have an experience to build and rebuild under harsh conditions: Napoleonetic invasion, crimean war, ww1, revolutionary war, ww2, and all of this despite the offensive climate !!!

The Washington Post refers to the leak again though this time it indicates that the reported Ukranian losses sit at around 124.000 to 131.000

Then the article turns into a puff piece for Azov

What happens on the roads in Bakhmut. Published footage of movement in Bakhmut one of the Ukrainian BMP-2. The footage is not particularly remarkable, except that you can see which roads armored vehicles are currently moving on. As well as a lot of Ukrainian army equipment destroyed and bogged down in the mud, among them 4 Turkish Kirpi armored vehicles are visible, there is a video about this equipment on the channel.

An Ukranian was jailed for passing information to the Russians about the whereabouts of the HIMARS and their ammo. They claim he had been doing it for months now so maybe there is some truth to Russian claims of the destruction of HIMARS launchers and explain why so few launches reported in the leak.

sheogorath said:

An Ukranian was jailed for passing information to the Russians about the whereabouts of the HIMARS and their ammo. They claim he had been doing it for months now so maybe there is some truth to Russian claims of the destruction of HIMARS launchers and explain why so few launches reported in the leak.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1645403270897098755

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There is also this:

This account reported from @milchronicles. This event also reported by Russian MOD. Ukrainian reinforcement and supply convoy intercepted along the roads heading to western Bakhmut. This lives up to the reputation of the 'Road of Death'. The convoy was shelled from Hyacinths, and as it retreated, finished off using Grads.

From Artyomovsk they report that the track between Kalinovka and Bogdanovka is very loud now.

According to the Military Chronicle, on this section of the CVK artillery « Wagner », a combined detachment of units of the 56th and 57th motorized infantry brigades of the Armed Forces tried to break into the western regions of Artemovsk ( Bahmuta ) on light technology.

After the enemy was covered with « Giacint-B » guns fire, a couple of kilometers from Khromov ( Artyomovsky ), rocket artillery was fired at the retreating units.

Losses of the Armed Forces — about 25 people killed and about 50 wounded. The convoy with the technique is destroyed.

Not every day do you see a T-90 left at a truck stop in Louisiana ...