The War in the Ukraine

Right_People

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There hasn't been much update over the Orthodox Easter but now that update is happening again we see Wagner took another bite out of Bakhmut:
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Train station in Russian hand, from north direction Russians are well across the railway.

One successful AFU counterattack around from Chasiv Yar direction towards the furthest points and they pushed the Russians back a bit.

There were apparently two proving attack by AFU around Vuhledar but they were beaten back.
I think AFU just took no-man land and russians long moved back to the other side of the water canal
 

Right_People

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There are now reports that glide bombs and other PGM bombs are being used at Bakhmut, as many as 20 bombs each day are used across the entire front.


Lancet from obtf Kaskad takes out a Buk M1 of the AFU.

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This was Bakhmut yesterday, they are saying a gliding one, chances it was one of those new gliding FAB-1500

Lancet claims another victim, an OSA SAM this time:
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Tam

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Zelensky visits Avdiivka, a mere 4km from the front lines, he is either reckless or Russian pressure on this front is really low.

This like modern version Orthodox Christian blessings, bringing icons and bless soldiers before being sent to final battle. Zelensky's visits to fronts don't foretell good tidings, as this is indicative of climatic battles that will see many troops killed--- see his last visit in the front was on the Azom steel factory in northern Bakhmuth which as you know fell to the Russians. But give him credit that he does that, it's a continuation of a legacy of military tradition in that region. This is also why Prigozhin visits the front to his troops, and Pushilin does to DPR troops and others, as both made visits regularly. Of course they are not Orthodox clergy, but the modern version of this tradition can accept any leadership and accept this as a modern version of blessings before final battle.
 

Soldier30

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Combat work of self-propelled guns 2S9 Nona-S on the strong point of Ukraine. The crew of the Russian self-propelled guns 2S9 "Nona-S" spoke about their combat work in Ukraine. The video shows the work of the Russian Airborne Forces unit at the stronghold of the Ukrainian army in the forests in the Kremenny direction. Self-propelled guns 2S9 fire 120-mm shells and mortars at a distance of up to 13 kilometers.


The work of the Russian electronic warfare UAV Orlan-10 of the Leer-3 electronic warfare complex. Footage of the launch of the Russian UAV Orlan-10 of the Leer-3 electronic warfare system in Ukraine. The RB-341V complex is designed to suppress cellular GSM communications using the Orlan-10 EW UAV at a distance of up to 120 kilometers. A special transmitter installed on the Orlan-10 UAV imitates the operation of a cellular network base station and interferes with the normal operation of subscriber terminals.


Russian drones with loudspeakers were noticed by Ukrainian soldiers, they would have opened fire on the drones, but they failed to bring down anything.


A Russian soldier spoke about the use of the Lancet kamikaze drone in Ukraine and how the Ukrainian army is trying to deal with the strikes of the Lancet drone.


A Su-34 fighter-bomber of the Russian Air Force attacked the Ukrainian bridge over the Sudost River in the Chernihiv region. Reportedly, the strike was caused due to the fact that sabotage groups of the Ukrainian army used a bridge across the Sudost River, not far from the village of Gremyach, to penetrate the territory of the Bryansk region of Russia. Presumably, the modernized planning bomb FAB-500 M62, or the X-29TD missile, was used for the strike, the height of these bombs was from 570 meters to 12 kilometers, at a flight speed of up to 1900 km / h. Bomb damage radius up to 250 meters.

 

supersnoop

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Range has increased to 40km for the Lancet-3. However the -3 still has the short wings and doesn't account for the long and longer wingspan Lancets we have seen in many videos. I believe the long wingspan ones either to the -3M or -5, and would have even greater range that they are able to strike at search radars and S-300 systems well behind the front. The older S-300 systems have a range at least 90km. We have also seen Buk systems being hit, and these have a range of about 40 to 50km. The Russians maybe keeping the true range of the Lancet and has yet to formally reveal the -3M or -5 versions and their ranges, all as part of opsec.

Even by the more conservative estimates, about half of M777’s donated to Ukraine have been destroyed. About $500 million value destroyed.

Being out of production, there is no way to replace them for western armies.

Future donations will need to be mothballed M198.
 

jvodan

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Even by the more conservative estimates, about half of M777’s donated to Ukraine have been destroyed. About $500 million value destroyed.

Being out of production, there is no way to replace them for western armies.

Future donations will need to be mothballed M198.
I dont think the M777 is out of production
 

Right_People

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Even by the more conservative estimates, about half of M777’s donated to Ukraine have been destroyed. About $500 million value destroyed.

Being out of production, there is no way to replace them for western armies.

Future donations will need to be mothballed M198.
Wikipedia says still in production.
Although taking into account the enormous loss rate, the price of manufacturing new guns, the delivery times etc. this is a very costly war of attrition ...
 

Tam

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Lancet takes out an Osa air defense system.


Ukrainian centimeter wave height finding radar PRV-16 got taken out by Russian RPG at close range. The PRV-16 is an antique Cold War era radar but this one should be a modernized one. How it got into a position to be taken out by RPG is beyond me. Maybe the frontline mapping is wrong to a large degree.

 
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