The War in the Ukraine

Abandoned Leopard 2A4 and pickup.


Lancet from obtf Kaskad hits a tank hidden in the forest line.


Vikhr from Ka-52 dispatches another Ukrainian armored vehicle.


Smoke generator under Crimean bridge making smoke.


Attack on the Crimean bridge identified as converted S-200. Russian AD doing missile to ballistic missile intercept.




Fights at Klishchiivka. Russian sniper takes out Ukrainian machine gunner nest at 1200 meters, viewed with thermal sight.


Abandoned Bradley being recovered by the Russians.

Tam said:

Smoke generator under Crimean bridge making smoke.

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To block laser designator ? If they have indeed Ukrainian team in place to tag the bridge, they need to be found.

Atomicfrog said:

To block laser designator ? If they have indeed Ukrainian team in place to tag the bridge, they need to be found.

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Maybe or to block something like DSMAC. The smoke must be in certain spectrum e.g Mid IR to properly block the seeker from "seeing" the target.

sheogorath said:

Seems that one of the unidentified destroyed tanks was Indeed a Leo 2 that tossed it's turret

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According to the brilliant minds of reddit, the russians went out their way to put explosives in the Leopard 2 to make it toss the turret for propaganda purposes

Phead128 said:

Has there been substantial changes in territory in the counteroffensive or is it largely stagnant frontlines?

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Kupyansk is being evacuated, and it is a major fortress city on the Oskil River.

Pro Ukrainian source claiming with evidence that most or all of the prepared brigades for the offensive have now been deployed. Based on the thread it doesn't seem like there was recently a dramatic intensification of effort but more of a slow ramp-up.

Boltzmann said:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1690299316072587264

Pro Ukrainian source claiming with evidence that most or all of the prepared brigades for the offensive have now been deployed. Based on the thread it doesn't seem like there was recently a dramatic intensification of effort but more of a slow ramp-up.

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Two brigades in the context of this conduct are not very significant.

As well significant equipment attrition to Ukranian equipment makes offensive action difficult, and proportionally less effective.

Phead128 said:

Has there been substantial changes in territory in the counteroffensive or is it largely stagnant frontlines?

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Ukrainians have advanced about 6 miles in the berdyansk direction and 3 miles in the melitopol direction since June 5. A little over a week ago they captured staromaiorske and also yesterday probably urozhaine in the berdyansk direction. Still another five miles or so towards the main line of defense there, and full of rivers, so not clear how much they will be able to build on recent success before the fall rains.

Recently some Russian sources near urozhaine have reported that the Ukrainians have started using the same tactics that Russia did in bakhmut, ie send in small sacrificial groups of infantry to force enemy artillery to reveal its position and then respond with counter battery fire. Seems effective for smaller battles like this but unclear how well it would work against more prepared defenses.

It is kind of funny watching pro Ukrainian sources gloat over winning months-long attritional battles for small towns after 12+ months of mocking the Russians for the same behavior.

Bradley attempts to rescue crew of knocked out Leopard but was interrupted by fire from the special forces Osman unit.


ATGM knocks out a Leopard in Zaporozhye.


Ukrainian troop positions spotted by drone and bombarded.


Lancet attacks an M109.


Lancet attacks an M777.


FH-70 hit by Lancet in Krasno-Limansky.


The 7th Brigade hits Ukrainian positions and vehicles at Belogorovka.


Ukrainian stronghold with spotted Starlink smashed by artillery.


Ukrainians throwing everything they got at Urozhayne, including JDAMS.

The stories of two soldiers about how two Turkish-made Bayraktar TB2 Ukrainian UAVs were shot down. Bayraktar TB2 UAVs were armed with laser-guided MAM-L munitions and a high-explosive fragmentation or tandem HEAT warhead. Both UAVs were shot down by Igla MANPADS, one of the drones was jammed by electronic warfare systems.


During the assault by the Ukrainian army on the settlement of Urozhaynoye, one of the Ukrainian T-72 tanks was flooded by its crew in the Wet Yaly River. The reasons for the flooding of the tank in the river are not reported, the fate of the crew is unknown.


The use of the Russian infantry flamethrower Shmel in the battles in Ukraine. Published footage of the use in battles in Ukraine, the Russian jet infantry flamethrower "Bumblebee". According to the memoirs of Afghanistan veterans, a shot from a Bumblebee jet flamethrower is guaranteed to destroy all life in a two-story house, cave or makeshift shelter. The video shows a shot from a Bumblebee jet flamethrower at the bunker of the Ukrainian army and its consequences.