The War in the Ukraine

Sheleah said:

It is incredible that the Russians continue to lose their best aircraft to friendly fire... The Russian air defense command is the most airheaded ever seen in a conflict.

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While the Russians rightfully deserve all the shit they get for their continued fratricide, I think sometimes people don’t appreciate how difficult their task is.

What has reportedly happened a number of times is that Ukraine would fire advanced NATO decoys like MALD, under real-time coordination of NATO ISR, at Russian aircraft. The MALDs would mimic targets to attract Russian air defences, and then switch off the signal once Russian SAMs are locking on so the SAMs would end up locking on the Russian aircraft and engaging them instead.

This is another one of those ridiculously situations that will not happen anywhere else, because these kinds of attacks are only possible with micromanagement from NATO ISR operating at extreme close range that they would never be able to do if they were fighting the Russians directly.

Theoretically you can do something similar with stealths acting as the forward observer, but then if you got stealths that close, the stealths can do the kill themselves.

New missile arrivals in Odessa. Said to be X-59.


Russians using ground drones with AGS-17 grenade launchers.


Training camp of Ukrainian soldiers near Chuguev gets hit.


Destroyed M113 in the Donetsk region.


Ukrainian vehicle, an SUV it seems, hit by FPV drone in Gulyaypol.


Railway bridge in Volchya gets hit by X-38ML missile. Another channel says it's using BM-27 Uragan. Whatever, the bridge is vital for AFU logistics in the region.


Ukraine going dark in many places.


Zmievskaya TPP in Kharkhiv region reportedly destroyed.


RBK-500 cluster bombs going off in Ukrainian positions.


Russians now assaulting Semenovka settlement.


GSD base camp near the border gets dual FAB treatment. Another channel says it's Tornado-S.


Buryat paratroopers at work in Ivanoske, shows off using LNG-9 Kopie antitank grenade launcher.


Daily dose of FAB at the Ukrainian side of the Dniepr, targeting the usual like concentrations, temporary bases and warehouses.


Another tank goes down by Lancet, from the Siberian Association.


Ukrainian air defense working against a Geran at night. First gunfire then MANPADS.


Ukrainian drone hits an apartment building in Belgorod.


Ukrainian hideouts in Malinovka gets hit, likely by LMUR missiles again.


Ukrainian BMP and Kozak gets hit by Lancets in Popovka near the Sumy border.


The Marines of the 155th Guards Brigade at work in Novomikhailovka. Among their trophies is the flag of the AFU 79th Airborne Brigade.


Ukrainian UAV bomber carrying two 60mm mines shot down by one of the tankers of the 36th MR Brigade.


First ever M1117 spotted in the conflict gets destroyed.


Ukrainian woman attacks vehicle of Ukrainian TCC recruiters.


Ukrainian cell tower is taken out either by ATGM or FPV drone.

Study in Russia of the downed Storm Shadow cruise missile of the Ukrainian army. Footage of an inspection of the insides of a downed Ukrainian cruise missile Storm Shadow or SCALP-EG of Anglo-French production. The Storm Shadow missile was shot down by Russian air defense or intercepted by electronic warfare systems. Reportedly, every time missiles are intercepted, they are dismantled and sent for study to Russia, to improve the operation of electronic warfare and air defense systems.

Another Ukrainian temporary deployment point in Malinovka hit by LMUR.


Ukrainian IFV attacked by FPV drones in a forest in the Artemovosk region.


M113 struck by ATGM from the 58th Spetznaz Battalion.


Air and artillery strikes destroy the road that brings supplies to Ukrainian forces in Novomikhailovka. KAB attack with Orlans lasing the target for laser guided bombs?


Significant Russian breakthrough in Pervomaysky overnight at around 1.5km.


Ukrainians scramble to build decoys to protect remaining assets.


German Leopard gets taken out by FPV drones in South Donetsk.


Ukrainian DRG of the GSD spotted entering this building near the border, and the site gets heavily shelled.


Ukrainians analyze X-101 missile fragments and discover the missile's warhead expanded from 450kg to 800kg for the purpose of destroying the power centers. While range is reduced there is still enough to hit targets all over Ukraine.


The lack of armored vehicles have forced Ukrainians to use trucks and pickups for rotations. Here a delivery truck is used with seven personnel inside. This does not escape the attention of the Spetznaz who sent an FPV drone to attack the truck.


Ukrainian tank gets taken out by a Krasnopol from a MSTA-S.


Building where Ukrainian troops are spotted gets one shotted, perhaps with a Krasnopol.


Ugledar getting uglier as FABs remodel the town.


Ukrainian winged drones landed by EW. One a Shulika-S1 and the other a Shukach.


Krivorozhskaya TPP out of commission after Geran and missile attacks.


Poltava oil and gas company attacked by Geran drones.


A day in the life of an Su-34 delivering daily FABs to its targets, here a Ukrainian command post.


Russian artillery takes out a Ukrainian BMP.


T-64BV gets taken out by an FPV drone on the rear of the tank where it is most vulnerable.


Ukrainian positions in Urozhayne gets FABed.


Ukrainian bridge vital as a supply route gets taken out by Tornado-S or X-38ML near Kurakhovsky.

Tam said:

Ukrainians analyze X-101 missile fragments and discover the missile's warhead expanded from 450kg to 800kg for the purpose of destroying the power centers. While range is reduced there is still enough to hit targets all over Ukraine.

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This was to be expected. I am surprised they did not do it sooner. You do not need 5500 km range to hit targets in any part of Ukraine.
They should do the same thing with the Kalibr.

Ukrainian media published footage of an attack by Ukrainian FPV drones on Russian robotic platforms. The video was filmed in the Avdeevsky direction. It is unknown what model of robot was used by the Russian army, but it is equipped with AGS-17 grenade launchers and a TM-62 anti-tank mine installation system. Judging by the number on the robot, at least 6 of them have already been produced. There are no details of the battle, but the robots participated in the battle and for an unknown reason stand motionless. The video shows how Ukrainian FPV drones attack them. We can say that we are witnessing the first robot battles in Ukraine.

Arrival of missile at Kamensky, Dnipropetrovsk. Missiles and drones continue to hit rear areas of Ukraine.


Kozak gets hit by Russian ATGM in Donetsk.


Broken and abandoned Swedish mod of a BMP near Tonensky. A good candidate for recovery and modernization to a Basurmanin.


Hidden Ukrainian SPG gets hit by a Lancet with thermals.


Four FABs arrive on Ukrainian positions in Razdolvka.


Ukrainian makeshift base gets hit by Krasnopol in the village of Konstantinovka (not town of) in South Donetsk.


Abrams gets hit by Lancet in the Avdeyevka front.


9M22 Thermite rockets from a BM-21 Grad arrive on Ukrainian positions.


Russians advance further in Novomikhailovka.


March 2024 is a record month for Lancet use.


Ukrainian D-30 howitzer gets knocked out in counterbattery duel.


Power plant in Odessa gets hit and lights out ensued.


Krasnopol hits Ukrainian positions in Mezhove.


Ukrainian temporary base in Huliaipole gets hit.


Ukrainian howitzer gets hit near Hostre by the 238th.


Ukrainian Gvozdika gets knocked out in Kurakhovo by the 238th.


FABs arrive in Ukrainian positions in Paraskoviivka.

Rise of the Robots. Squad of ground robots with AGS-17 assaults Ukrainian positions in Berdychi. Not without losses themselves though.


Odessa goes dark.


Artillery from Sever-V suppresses a Ukrainian UAV squad in Grigorovka, Artemovsk sector.


Ukrainian BAT-2 demining machine gets hit by Lancet near the border.


Another Ukrainian 2S1 Gvozdika gets hit by Lancet from the 98th VDV.


MSTA-S of the 98th VDV hits a Ukrainian mortar site.


M777 and a Krab gets Krasnopoled by a D-20 howitzer of the 6th MR Division.


Russian MoD reports three Su-25 of the Ukrainian Air Force destroyed by missile attacks in an airport in the Mykolaiv region.


Ukrainian Strela-10 knocked out by shells from a Giasint-S of the 305th Artillery Brigade.


Ukrainian D-30 howitzer destroyed by Krasnopol from the 17rh Brigade.


Ukrainian EW station gets hit by a Lancet.


FABs hit Ukrainian positions in Novomikhailovka.


Somewhere near the border. Russian artillery hits a Ukrainian temporary deployment point.

Brutal. A Russian offensive using 36 tanks and over a dozen BMPs pretty much demolished.

Takes them months to cross 5-8kms to take Avdiivka city center at a high cost and it is likely going to cost them another divisions worth of men and armored vehicles to advance from Avdiivka. Crazy.

Russian forces haven't been able to advance from Bakhmut area since taking the city center but some folks dream about taking Odesa and Kyiv.

Did you bother reading the comments to the Twitter posts you put here? Not all the vehicles shown destroyed in those pictures are Russian vehicles.

Expect to see a lot more of this happen until the end of the mud season when vehicles can speed up and go offroad again. Right now they are constrained to go through narrow paths at reduced speed which makes countering armored offensives easier.