The War in the Ukraine

Destroyed T-64BV in the Kursk region.


Incendiaries dropped over Ukrainian positions from Ukrainian POV.


Mi-8 with GOES hunts and destroys Ukrainian Magura sea drones at night.


Missiles and drones or hit in Odessa port. Could be lights out if power station is struck.


Kurakhovo under threat of encirclement in the biggest cauldron of the war so far, as Group Center advances from the north and Group East advances from the south. There's also fighting within Kurakhovo itself. The two pincers are closing at a rapid rate.


Carrot strikes an M113 in the Kurakhovo sector. Carrot is the term for FPV with an RPG sticking out like that.


Ukrainian pickup gets taken out by artillery in the southern Donetsk direction.


Humvee struck by FPV, artillery gun struck by multiple FPVs, tank hit by Lancet, from the 14th SPN Brigade.


Failed Ukrainian FPV attack against the Storm detachment of the 143rd MR Regiment leads to a text book capture of the drone using EW.


Two Ukrainian IFVs destroyed west of Maksimovki by Group East units.


Velikaya Novoselka now at in a semi encirclement.


Deployment point of the AFU 41st Brigade in the Sumy region gets hit by two ballistic missiles (Iskander or Tornado-S) with cluster munitions. Allegedly 60 were killed, 12 armored vehicles and several trucks destroyed.


Kim is working on his own version of the Lancet.


Russians raise the flag over Antonovka in the Kurakhovo direction.


FABs arrive on Ukrainian positions towards Liman.


Stalin era D-44 gun gets taken out. At this rate, Ukrainians are raiding museums for artillery pieces.


Terradyne Gurkha ambulance armored vehicle gets taken out. First reported loss of that type.


Supply train in Pokrovsk struck by a VT-40 drone. This puts Pokrovsk in FPV drone range by the Russians.

tabu said:

In memoriam

The only volunteer in Ukraine's army from China killed in action

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On the bright side, once Scholz is out of the chancellor's office, there is a high probability that Ukraine will be given a Taurus and unleashed

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"From China"... has a US flag patch. Can you at least make an effort?

Actually, it might not be your fault. The Ukrainians saw he had slanty eyes and that, of course, means he's from China. The casual racism makes them so sympathetic:
The invasion couldn't have happened to nicer people.

tabu said:

On the bright side, once Scholz is out of the chancellor's office, there is a high probability that Ukraine will be given a Taurus and unleashed

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Ukraine already has the Storm Shadow. It is just more of the same.

The Russians will be able to add the signature of the Taurus to their SAM database. And they will pass this information to other countries. South Korea is a user of the Taurus so its effectiveness against either North Korea or China will be diminished.

ZeEa5KPul said:

"From China"... has a US flag patch. Can you at least make an effort?

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He's probably an ethnic Chinese man who served as a Marine, which means he has US citizenship.

tabu said:

He's probably an ethnic Chinese man who served as a Marine, which means he has US citizenship.

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That means he's not "from China"

Kejora said:

That means he's not "from China"

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Sorry but I think this forum is majority Chinese with passports of different countries, who in spirit consider themselves Chinese with deep feelings for China. The connection with the historical homeland does not disappear for everyone.

tabu said:

Sorry but I think this forum is majority Chinese with passports of different countries, who in spirit consider themselves Chinese with deep feelings for China. The connection with the historical homeland does not disappear for everyone.

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Yeah, but if join Russian Army they would consider me Indonesian volunteer, not Chinese.

plawolf said:

The Russians are winning comfortably, there isn’t any reason for them to throw NK formations wholesale into the fight. Especially when those NK troops, equipment and tactics have not been battle tested. Do you really want to risk having whole sectors fold if the NK troops are not up to snuff?

Not saying the NK troops will do badly necessarily, but the Russians themselves have plenty of history and knowledge about how unreliable allied armies can be more of a hindrance than an asset from their battle histories fighting the Germans.

If Russia wants to deploy NK troops to the fight, it would make far more sense to deploy them slowly and as part of larger Russian formations so that they can both evaluate their combat worth, as well as pass on hard won experience and knowledge.

What better way to start than with NK artillery? You have very easily slot a few batteries of them into the order of battle while keeping them relatively far from the front lines to ease them into things. At the same time you can embed some NK artillery forward observers in Russian frontline units to build trust and learn how to best co-ordinate their joint efforts.

Only after such trials have been completed and the inevitable teething issues resolved would you want to progress to giving NK forces responsibility for whole sections of the front.

As for compensation, I don’t think Su57s are needed. Some Su35s will already be a quantum leap for the NK air force.

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I don't understand what you are getting at: there are so many other models and according to Oryx the Russians lost at least 417 pieces of towed artillery and as many as 851 pieces of self-propelled artillery of which 31 were 203mm Pions (half of those originally in service, but before the conflict according to wiki there were actually 260 more in storage).

Of 2S5s, which precisely are instead of the more inflated 152mm caliber, many more turn out to have been lost, namely 78, which means almost all of those originally in service, but in depot wiki says they had 850, so I don't understand why you're talking about a derisory number.

They originally had a lot of artillery in storage, but you have to see how many vehicles have already been reactivated to fire like there's no tomorrow, how many are still reactivated, and how many are only used as a source of spare parts, particularly barrels that have a shorter life span than Western vehicles because of the lower quality of the steels and the poor quality of the firing charges.

I would then point out that the Oryx figures for artillery necessarily are even more underestimated than those for vehicles used in assaults, because what is destroyed perhaps by counterbattery fire dozens of kilometers behind the front line is not always documented: the Ukrainians here say (...) that they have eliminated over 20000 pieces...

Beyond that, if the intention is to try to fire farther than the Western-supplied guns, the surviving Pions I believe are relatively few by Russian standards of volume of fire, and the M-1989 Koksans come in handy (whether the Russians or the North Koreans use them).

Do you think Russia has not been taking those artillery guns out of storage and refurbishing them? There have been reports of further upgrades of 2S7 Pion to 2S7M Malka happening mid war for example.

Of course the Koksan would help since the North Koreans have a waste amount of artillery ammunition for them.

The Koalitsiya is also presently in serial production and should be getting delivered to the Russian troops this year.

Footage of warehouses in Odessa burning and destroyed after drone and missile strikes.


Russians enter two villages in the Chernihiv region from the Bryansk region, planted flags in Gremyach and Muravyi.


The Black Leopards Tank Battalion evacuates an Abrams in the Pokrovsk direction to the Russian rear area.


Russians captured Stepanovka in the Kurakhovo direction.

Ukrainian FPV drone tried to take out Russian flag installed on a factory pipe, but lost to the flag.


Knocked out Ukrainian tank in Novogrodovka.


5th Tank Brigade from Buryatia conducts a successful assault. Here you can see both an armored column and a motorcycle raid. Should be in the Kurakhovo sector.


Two Leopard tanks struck by Lancets in the Kurakhovo direction.


Another Ukrainian tank struck by a Lancet. Also in the Kurakhovo direction.


Vandal fiberoptic FPV drone from the 155th Marine rushing to attack a Stryker saw it's potential kill stolen by a Lancet instead. Kursk region.


Grad MLRS strikes a Ukrainian deployment area in Seversk. Despite it's ubiquity with both sides, Grads are such nasty weapons that both sides are eager to publish if one on the other side gets destroyed. The deployment point of the AFU 54th Brigade was targeted and an ammo depot was destroyed among others.



Russian flag is raised in Antonovka.


FABs working on Ukrainian deployment points in Kurakhovo.


The Russians captured Voznesenka.