The War in the Ukraine

They will live. Ukrainian men running across the border to Moldavia.


Cruise missile in flight headed to Dnipropetrovsk.


Dnipropetrovsk under attack by multiple drones and missiles.


Railway station reportedly hit.


Railway systems no longer operable. Arms, ammunition and men can no longer be transferred to the front via rail.


No one died in this video but three will live. Three Ukrainian soldiers arrive by boat to the Russian side and raised their hands up to surrender.


FABs hit what remains of Ukrainian forces in Novomikhailovka.


Rocket strikes in Odessa.


Tu-22 crashes east of Stavropol which is 430km from the front. Appears to be technical malfunction.


Mass production of T-80BVM.


FABs arrive in Keramik.


Lancet takes out a Ukrainian howitzer in Vremivka.


FABs arriving in Ukrainian positions in Konstantinovka.


Russian mortar hit a Ukrainian UAV control base in the Dniepr coast.


Ukrainian mortar site hit by FPV drone.


Ukrainian assault went bad when the lead vehicle gets hit.

Satellite images show that in the attack on the Dzhankoy base, the Russians lost at least one anti-aircraft defense battery... as for the aircraft that were presumed to have been hit, it seems that they managed to be evacuated before the Ukrainian attack

HighGround said:

Excalibur is apparently useless. Just doesn't work in the EW heavy environment.

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Where did you hear this? The main negative I've heard is just the unit cost is prohibitive.

Deino said:

Upps! Allegedly a Tu-22M3 was lost.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1781176770739228813

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Friendly fire? It kind of looks like the aircraft was hit in the rear, but maybe that was just an engine fire / explosion that brought it down?

Does the Tu-22M3 have crew escape systems?

SlothmanAllen said:

Does the Tu-22M3 have crew escape systems?

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It has ejection seats. But they aren't known to be that good to be honest. Using an ejection seat is a crapshoot even in the best of conditions.

SlothmanAllen said:

Friendly fire? It kind of looks like the aircraft was hit in the rear, but maybe that was just an engine fire / explosion that brought it down?

Does the Tu-22M3 have crew escape systems?

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Presumably engine fire or another malfunction. Which happens with decades old Cold War era aircraft.

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Some adjustments on previous posts. On the Iskander-M with cluster munitions attack on Aviatorske airfield, there appears to be seven not three MiG-29s on the field of effect. On top of that are four AN-26 transports, which may no longer be functional for a while.



The cluster warhead is similar to an attack on a temporary airfield used by Ukrainian helicopters as a stepping point earlier this year. The attack caught several helicopters on the ground.

The airfield from satellite image.


There's an S-300 system near and protecting the airfield and it got dispatched by an Iskander-M with an HE warhead.


Hours later, we have a massed missile strike on Dnipropetrovsk taking out the train station among other things.


And another at Krivoy Rog. Infrastructure facility?



With regards to the strike on the Chernigov hotel, there appears to be some interesting info on this video. As previously posted, the appearance of bunk beds point to the hotel being used by a military unit.

One of the photos from Ukrainian media brushed off the appearance of a person in the picture. Got something or someone to hide? VIP? Mercenaries? The big suspect is French. The other is NATO personnel.

Rare footage of the combat work of the Russian air defense system "Pantsir-S1" in the Belgorod region of Russia. The video shows the interception of Ukrainian RM-70 Vampire MLRS missiles. As can be seen in the video, the combat work is quite effective and outwardly resembles the work of the Israeli Iron Dome air defense system. Reportedly, 25 shells of the RM-70 Vampire multiple launch rocket system and three unmanned aerial vehicles of the Ukrainian army were intercepted.

supersnoop said:

Where did you hear this? The main negative I've heard is just the unit cost is prohibitive.

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Since early last year. Western media has been complaining about Russian EW turning their smart munitions into useless duds.

Fast forward one year to March 2023 and the Excaliburs suddenly started missing their targets. Russian electronic jamming, which overloads a receiver with noise or false information, was blocking the artillery shells’ GPS, causing the ammunition to miss its mark.

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supersnoop said:

Where did you hear this? The main negative I've heard is just the unit cost is prohibitive.

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Russian Contingency and RUSI, who both have people doing field research.

The Russians have been jamming and spoofing GPS to kingdom come in Ukraine.
Anything that relies too much on GPS like Excalibur isn't going to work all that well.