The War in the Ukraine

SKF bearing plant in Lutsk destroyed by missile strikes.



Three armored vehicles hit by ATGMs of the Russian 71st Motorized Rifle Regiments.


M113 captured nearly intact and will be repurposed. This in the Artemovsk direction.



Rare kill of a Lancet against a Czech 152mm howitzer Dana in the Kupyansk direction.


Ukrainian 2S3 Akasya taken out by Krasnopol in the Artemovsk sector.


Ukrainian T-72M1 knocked out by ATGM in the Rabotino area.


Yuzmash plant hit by missiles.


Ukrainian boats south of Kherson hit by kamekaze drones.

Gerans strike at the port of Reni. This time this is recorded from the Romanian side, escaping Ukrainian censorship.


M109 destroyed by Lancet.


Chechen Beaver FPV drone attacks a Ukrainian T-72M1 this time.


Lancet-3 hits a Ukrainian armored vehicle.


YouTube versions for what I previously posted from Telegram, for those who prefer using YT.

Ukrainian S-300 system knocked out.


Multiple Ukrainian vehicles taken out as a convoy falls under fire from the 71st Motorized Rifle Regiment.


Battle in Avdiivka. Russian tank took hits but kept going to deliver it's punches.


Three Ukrainian tanks destroyed in Belogorovsk under Russian artillery fire.


Ukrainian BM-21 Grad firing falls under Russian mortar fire. However results are inconclusive and the Grad continues to fire.

Other captured equipment on display at Patriot Park

AMX-10RC


Mastiff MRAP


T-72AMT



SCALP, maybe rebuilt from the remains of one?



Seems Challengers 2 are finally on the move. Also yesterday there was a video of Marder being hit but I can't find it

Ukrainian Strela 10 struck by Krasnopol from the Russian 68th Army Corps.


Battle proven Upyr FPV drone shown at Army 2023.



FPV drones being assembled.


Chechen Beaver strikes again this time a Ukrainian BMP-1. Akhmat Yug is heavily involved in battles in the Rabotino area.


Zil truck hit by Lancet. Given the way it burns, it must be carrying ammunition and supplies.


FAB-500 attacks on Ukrainian positions in Staromayorsky and Urozhaynoye.


Ka-52 uses Vikhr on a Bradley.

Allegedly two Ka-52 less however the 2nd one is not yet confirmed)

AFU ammunition train tracked and observed by Russian drones, subsequently destroyed by cruise missile strike. The AFU is ammunition starved as it is.


TOS-1A Solntsepek used in the Krasnoliman front. The entire northern front is facing a Russian offensive.


Ukrainians pose with destroyed PT-91 tank, destroyed by a Russian FPV drone.


Could it be this same tank hit by the Chechen Beaver?


Two Strela 10 destroyed one by Lancet and another by Krasnopol.



Two destroyed Leopard tanks in Zaporzhyzhia.


Destroyed Kozak APC from the Ukrainian POV with Go Pro.


Ukrainian ammo depot destroyed as a result on incendiaries attack.


AFU tank destroyed and Humvee teams dispatched to rescue the crew. The mission did not go well and the AFU lost three Humvees. Shot from the Ukrainian POV with a Go Pro.


AFU units pour through Urozhaynoye but gets fire from the Russian 37th Motorized Rifle Brigade. Vehicles destroyed by mines, artillery, FPV drones and ATGM.



Ukrainian position at the right Bank of the Dniepr, hit by an X-38 missile.


Lancet strike on a moving Ukrainian BMP-2 courtesy of the 200th Guards Brigade near Artemevosk.


ATGMs from the 98th VDV hitting Ukrainian DRGs near Artemevosk.

War Thunder like tank on tank battle on Novodonetsk. First footage is Ukrainians storming Russian positions from APCs. Then a lone Russian tank moved out and knocked out two Ukrainian vehicles. Several hours of combat ensues. The second footage shows Ukrainian vehicles burning and retreating, knocked out by ATGMs.


Maybe he just went out to pee. Ukrainian soldier was spotted by drone and tracked back to his hideout. This was followed by a Russian FPV drone going express delivery to that hideout.


Passing by a destroyed and abandoned Leopard tank.


Footage where three Humvees were called to rescue the crew of a destroyed AFU tank, but fell into fire themselves, losing the Humvees. In the last scene, the crewman of one of the Humvees survives and escapes.


Russian artillery hits a Ukrainian command post in Avdiivka.


Four wrecked Husky vehicles at Urozhayne.


Three destroyed AFU vehicles at Staromayorsky.


Once again AFU soldiers are spotted and tracked by UAVs to their hideout, which is then treated with a precision strike.


Slovakian SPG Zuzana-2 gets treated by a Lancet.


Captured 40mm ordnance.


MSTA-SM2 aided by drones hit AFU vehicles over a distance of 20km.

WASHINGTON, Aug 17 (Reuters) - The United States has approved sending F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine from Denmark and the Netherlands to defend against Russian invaders as soon as pilot training is completed, a U.S. official said on Thursday.

Ukraine has actively sought the U.S.-made F-16 fighter jets to help it counter Russian air superiority.

Washington gave Denmark and the Netherlands official assurances that the United States will expedite approval of transfer requests for F-16s to go to Ukraine when the pilots are trained, the official said.

The total number of Ukrainian and Russian troops killed or wounded since the war in Ukraine began 18 months ago is nearing 500,000, U.S. officials said, a staggering toll as Russia assaults its next-door neighbor and tries to seize more territory.

The officials cautioned that casualty figures remained difficult to estimate because Moscow is believed to routinely undercount its war dead and injured, and Kyiv does not disclose official figures. But they said the slaughter intensified this year in eastern Ukraine and has continued at a steady clip as a nearly three-month-old counteroffensive drags on.

Russia’s military casualties, the officials said, are approaching 300,000. The number includes as many as 120,000 deaths and 170,000 to 180,000 injured troops. The Russian numbers dwarf the Ukrainian figures, which the officials put at close to 70,000 killed and 100,000 to 120,000 wounded.

But Russians outnumber Ukrainians on the battlefield almost three to one, and Russia has a larger population from which to replenish its ranks.

Ukraine has around 500,000 troops, including active-duty, reserve and paramilitary troops, according to analysts. By contrast, Russia has almost triple that number, with 1,330,000 active-duty, reserve and paramilitary troops — most of the latter from the Wagner Group.
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Man, that is really grim.

Apparently some US officials think focusing attacks on Crimea is waste of resources for little to show for, calling it "at best a distraction, and at worst, a valuable waste of resources in a strategy that many analysts now believe has left Ukraine stretched too thin between multiple axes of attack."