The War in the Ukraine

Biscuits said:

Abscence of evidence cannot be taken as evidence.

Right now, the most reliable and maybe only way to gauge the conflict would be by looking at how the front moves.

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Exactly, we know Ukraine is having a hard time on the offensive because we can directly observe vehicles being blown up, we can rely on Mappers to see how the front is trending and a general gist of how the war is going. Similarly we can actually tell that Russia has suffered a few ammo strikes from HIMARS because RUSI article specifically mentioned that ammo dispersion has taken place and HIMARS is now less effective, you can bend and twist a few videos to make whatever conclusions you want, but you can't fake changing doctrine and tactics based on battlefield reality.

On a sidenote, regarding Ukraine threatening jailing people posting public videos, not even sure why maintaining OPSEC is seen as a bad thing in the first place. Currently Russia basically have free reign to strike anywhere they want within Ukraine, the only limitation that they have is the intelligence required to execute the strikes, not giving them free intel in the form of damage assessment through public clout chasing online is the LEAST that the Ukrainians can be doing.

This special unit has a middle finger for a badge. Series of videos that document Krasnopol strikes on Ukrainian vehicles including Leopards.





T-72M1 getting hit by Lancet courtesy of Obtf Kaskad.



PTRK (ATGM in other words) of the Russian 58th Special Purpose Brigade hitting it's target.


Maxxpro and Humvee falls victim to the Vikhrs of this Ka-52.

Leopard that got Krasnopol, i guess that'll serve a good reminder for those making memes hyping Leopards months back that one cannot choose what your enemy may throw at you.

Beside Krasnopol, Russians also got full gamut of Laser guided munitions for their artilleries. even 120mm Mortar got Kitolov and gran while 240mm Tyulpan got Smelchak and Santimetr.

Stealthflanker said:

Leopard that got Krasnopol, i guess that'll serve a good reminder for those making memes hyping Leopards months back that one cannot choose what your enemy may throw at you.

Beside Krasnopol, Russians also got full gamut of Laser guided munitions for their artilleries. even 120mm Mortar got Kitolov and gran while 240mm Tyulpan got Smelchak and Santimetr.

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Been looking for the names of the Tyulpan shells for months. Heard these are using Krasnopol derived guidance systems. What's the name of the laser guided shell of the Malka?

Gran is for the 120mm mortar but Kitolov 22 is for the 122mm howitzer as in D-30 and 2S1 Gvozdika.

Onto other developments, a FAB-500 ran smack into a Ukrainian ammo depot and deployment complex in the Bakhmut sector.


More dead MaxxPros. These are just death traps.


Ukrainian tank that hit a mine. Or was it a 120mm mortar shell?


Ukrainian tank or armored convoy getting pasted by artillery or ATGMs.


Some bad news about the Ukrainian 128th Mountain Assault Brigade. Their bad luck streak hasn't ended. They occupied the village of Pyatihatki, got more human reinforcements to push down the road further...that's when over 100 TOS thermobaric rockets rained in. We may get more info, pics and videos of this in the near future.

Tam said:

More dead MaxxPros. These are just death traps.

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MRAPs are the best-protected APCs of this conflict*.
Ironically, for both sides of the conflict. For Ukraine, they're slowly becoming AFV of choice (as there is little other choice).

*apart from a very small number of tracked APCs of Russian assault flamethrower units.

These demining systems are interesting, we have seen them used on buildings in Mariupol, fortification in Kreminna Forests and now Ukrainian M58 miclic used against minefields in Zaporizhzhia ?


Biggest problem against minefields is the speed of the progress and possibly the capacity of mining directly on top of them with Zemledeliye Remote Mine-Laying System. They would need an incredible number of them and insane coordination to be able to cover the minefields on 10km to the first line of defence...

Atomicfrog said:

These demining systems are interesting, we have seen them used on buildings in Mariupol, fortification in Kreminna Forests and now Ukrainian M58 miclic used against minefields in Zaporizhzhia ?

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1670418225757077519

Biggest problem against minefields is the speed of the progress and possibly the capacity of mining directly on top of them with Zemledeliye Remote Mine-Laying System. They would need an incredible number of them and insane coordination to be able to cover the minefields on 10km to the first line of defence...

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Remote smart mining is for emergency "updates". There are far more simple ways to patch up minefields.

Maybe this one has been asked before?
But since there has been made use of simple lightweight drones dropping grenades and collecting intel.
Why not issuing some shotguns (like semi-auto baikal 155) to the troops?
If they can take down geese and even goose out to 150-200m? (73cm barrel and 86mm shell) for anti-drone duty.
When going into combat, simply replace barrel (relatively fast & easy on most shotguns) to magazine length one and load up with 70mm buckshot or slugs; would make fine close combat weapon for house clearing also.

pendragon said:

Maybe this one has been asked before?
But since there has been made use of simple lightweight drones dropping grenades and collecting intel.
Why not issuing some shotguns (like semi-auto baikal 155) to the troops?
If they can take down geese and even goose out to 150-200m? (73cm barrel and 86mm shell) for anti-drone duty.
When going into combat, simply replace barrel (relatively fast & easy on most shotguns) to magazine length one and load up with 70mm buckshot or slugs; would make fine close combat weapon for house clearing also.

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The Intel drones (assuming you mean the commercial DJI drones) are to high to spot and mostly to far away for shotguns any way. You only need to be like 150-200m up and it's almost impossible to spot it with the sun in your eyes etc.
The grenade droping ones could probably be engaged but it is hard to shot something directly above you and dodging grenades at the same time does not make it easier. So the shooter would have to be positioned of to the side to have any chance.

Marines meet Marines. Members of the Ukrainian 35th Marines Brigade surrender to the Russian 60th Marines Brigade at Vremesky Ledge. Ukrainians have made some advances in this area despite heavy documented casualties.


"Fighting on Vremevsky ledge: coastal marines captured Marine Corps of the Armed Forces

The fighters of the 60th Marine Corps brigade in the Makarovka region captured the militants of the 35th Marine Corps of the Armed Forces.
Heavy fighting on the Vremev ledge on the border of the Zaporizhzhya Front and the DPR continues, our counterattack."

Destroyed Ukrainian equipment as the Ukrainians tried to probe the Russian 127th Division. The Russians have gone back to corps and divisions and in my view, this is helping.


Battle of Orekhov. Soldiers of East-Akhmat, or Vostok-Akhmat (Chechens) captured scouts of the Ukrainian 65th Brigade. Also in the battle is the Russian 42nd Division of the 58th Army Corp,


Destroyed Ukrainian vehicles along the Rabotino line near Orekhhov. Russian participants of the area include the 70th, 71st, and 291 Regiments, the 22nd Special Forces Brigade and 417 artillery brigade.