The War in the Ukraine

Something big hits Sumy.


Powerful arrivals of Gerans on Izyum.


Lancet takes out another 2S22 Bogdana SPG. This time in Vremevsky sector.


FAB-1500 gets dropped and is on its way.


M113 headed towards the Belgorod region gets hit by a Lancet.


Russians captured Rozovka, aka Alexandropol. Konstantinovka front begins.


Ukrainian assault towards Popovka repulsed claims Russians. Demidovka battles ongoing.


Air ram on a Ukrainian Vampire drone leads to it's capture.


TOS-2 'Pump' working on the Pokrovsk direction.


D-30 howitzers of Center Group working on positions towards Pokrovsk.


Ukrainian positions near Pischane and Shevchenko gets struck by artillery of Group Center forces.


Pantsy-SM-SV now spotted in service. This version of the Pantsyr is on a tracked chassis.


Bogdana-B spotted with the AFU, namely with the 47th Artillery Brigade. This is a towed version of the Bogdana.


FPV drone strikes a 2S22 Bogdana in the Sumy region. This was the spot a Ukrainian tank was taken out before.


Russians advancing towards Bogatyr, breakthrough around 4km wide and 2km deep.


Russian forces capture Sribny in the DPR.


Russians captured Alexandropol and advancing towards Panteleimonovka.


Assault brigade 'Lyut' inserts a ground drone Krot-2 into a Ukrainian stronghold.


Ukrainian stronghold hit by TOS-1A in the Shakhtarsky direction.


Destroyed T-72EA in the Kursk region.


BMP-2M with Berezhok spotted.


MANPADS fired from a building in Sudja towards a Ukrainian UAV.


BMP with 30mm spreading the love never gets old.

Episode of the use of the BMD-4 armored vehicle by Buryat paratroopers during the assault on a stronghold of the Ukrainian army in the Kursk region of Russia. The Russian BMD-4 delivers heavy fire from a 30-mm 2A72 automatic cannon and a PKTM machine gun. The result of the assault, prisoners, is at the end of the video. Judging by the video, the assault was carried out several times. The rate of fire of the 2A72 automatic cannon is about 330 rounds per minute, the range of hitting targets is up to 4000 meters.

Removal of abandoned Ukrainian Bradley IFV and BRDM to Russia for repairs. Captured Ukrainian military equipment was delivered to the location of the Tula Guards Airborne Unit of Russia. An American-made M2 Bradley IFV, a Turkish Kirpi armored car, and a Soviet-made BRDM armored vehicle were taken out for repairs. The BRDM is also used by the Russian army, but in a modernized version. More details about it are in the link to the video in the comments to the video. In the video, you can see how the BRDM armored vehicle was repaired and the mechanic's story about it.

Soldier30 said:

Removal of abandoned Ukrainian Bradley IFV and BRDM to Russia for repairs. Captured Ukrainian military equipment was delivered to the location of the Tula Guards Airborne Unit of Russia. An American-made M2 Bradley IFV, a Turkish Kirpi armored car, and a Soviet-made BRDM armored vehicle were taken out for repairs. The BRDM is also used by the Russian army, but in a modernized version. More details about it are in the link to the video in the comments to the video. In the video, you can see how the BRDM armored vehicle was repaired and the mechanic's story about it.

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Salvage of damaged vehicles is a nice replacement source. Most soviet era ones have compatible parts between Ukraine and Russian army. If you are advancing, abandoning damaged vehicles rapidly is way better than having troops dying trying to stay with it before reinforcement. You just salvage them and repair them when the front bypass the battle zones.

Ukraine savaged a lot at the start of the war with The bad Russian logistic on the withdrawal around Kiev, now it's Russia that are salvaging a large quantity.

Air strike on Konstantinovka.


X-38ML strike on a dam near Chunishino at the Pokrovsk direction.


Artillery of Group East working on Bogatyr, Komar and Fedorovka.


Russian MoD confirms the capture of Malye Shcherbaki in the Zaporozhye region.


Artillery of the 305th Regiment takes out Ukrainian UAV control point at Novoselka. This looks like a Krasnopol was used. Blue, yellow, green, target reticles indicative of Krasnopol UI within the drone display.


Hyacinth-B from Group Dniepr takes out an M777.


Kherson region. A Ukrainian UAV control point gets taken out, also possibly with a Krasnopol.


Kherson region. Nikolskie dachas. Ukrainian position hit with a well aimed strike or guided projectile.


Ukrainian self propelled gun transferred to support the offensive on the Belgorod border, gets taken out by an X-UAV missile from an Orion. Sumy region.


Ukrainian ammo depot explodes within a civilian residential area in Sumy. No Russian strike was involved. Ammunition exploded as a result of fire.


'Coffin in a caterpillar'. Bradley left destroyed near the Sudja border region.

Missile attack on a facility in Sumy.


Gerans strike at the Ukrainian UAV launch point at Dolinskoe, and the UAV warehouse of the AFU 65th Brigade. Zaporozhye.


Lancet takes out a Ukrainian 2S1 Gvozdika at the Kupyansk direction.


At least 15 Gerans arrive at Krivoy Rog. Correction, more than 20.


FPV drones of the 200th Brigade takes out a Ukrainian Gvozdika.


Orlan-30 lits up a position of the Ukrainian Airborne for a Krasnopol landing.


In a review of the Sudja operation, Chernivka-2 'Blueberry-2' winged FPV drones were used to strike the communication, drone control and repeater towers put up by the AFU in Sudja.

Atomicfrog said:

They don't use foam on the landing strip or something to diminish damage and reduce fire risk ? We have seen other belly landing, SU-25 mainly and it's the same. Better to rub the belly to brake faster ore they just don't care ?

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Honestly, I dont remember seeing the Russians using foam ever. So they probably dont care it seems?

Atomicfrog said:

Salvage of damaged vehicles is a nice replacement source. Most soviet era ones have compatible parts between Ukraine and Russian army. If you are advancing, abandoning damaged vehicles rapidly is way better than having troops dying trying to stay with it before reinforcement. You just salvage them and repair them when the front bypass the battle zones.

Ukraine savaged a lot at the start of the war with The bad Russian logistic on the withdrawal around Kiev, now it's Russia that are salvaging a large quantity.

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That's one of the core of Soviet logistical doctrine too.

They are expecting to salvage as they advance. They expect the battlefield will be full of damaged or destroyed vehicle, that is the spare parts. Their maintenance facility is also double as rebuilding one. Thus why they seem to be trained just to abandon the vehicle if it's malfunctioned and cannot be solved just by the crew.. There will be special logistical salvage team that will take them.

Two dozen Gerans arrive on Cherkassy.


Ukrainian assault towards Popovka, Belgorod border region, was ambushed by FPV drones. The column consists of two IMRs and two IFVs. Drones from Akhmat. One of them looks like a Bergepanzer-2.


Not so common tactical use of Geran drones, but one that might appear more frequently in the future. Gerans strike individual Ukrainian UAV launch points in the Dolinsky area of Zaporozhye. The latest versions of Gerans, now pack a 90kg warhead, so the explosion could be substantial.



Grad firing at an enemy position. The dispersion of this salvo is fairly close and clustered.


TOS arrives at a Ukrainian stronghold in Dibova.


X-38ML strike on a dam in Chunyshyne.


Lancet hits a Ukrainian Bogdana SPG in Voskresenka.


Baba Yagas bomb 170mm Koksan SPGs but failed to get a direct hit.


More Koksans arriving from train, along with a 240mm M1991 MLRS.


T-80BV of the 1st Slavyansk Brigade working on Ukrainian positions towards Pokrovsk. This unit used to be in the Toretsk area. DPR units are also getting better tanks instead of just modernized T-62 or refitted T-64.


Civilian vehicles betray their military use by mounting ECM modules on top. FPV drones of the 132nd Brigade working on AFU vehicles, which some appear to be Mitsubishi pickups.


Russian drone operator recruitment poster. Shows you how big or small one of those ZALA reconnaissance drones look like in relation to a human being. The offer comes to about $2500 per month.


Tyulpan of Group East working on an enemy position.


FPV drone hits a Ukrainian position, causes some ammo to burn. Precise artillery shelling with Krasnopols take out D-30 and D-74 gun sites of the AFU. So it appears the AFU is using D-74s which is an antique 122mm field gun from the Soviet era but has a remarkable 24km range which exceeds the popular D-30.


Ukrainian UAV control point at Novoselka gets Krasnopoled by the 305th Brigade of the East Group. Once again note the use of drone guided projectiles against opposing drone crews.


Another Ukrainian tank, this time a T-72, doung SPG role work in a forest line gets targeted by an FPV drone. Belgorod border region.


Russian paratroopers evacuate an M777.


Lancet strike on an S-300(?) system in the Sumy region.

Operators of Russian FPV drones showed footage of the interception of the Ukrainian UAV Leleka-100. The video was filmed over the Kherson region. The Leleka-100 UAV was developed by the Ukrainian company DeViRo. The Leleka-100 UAV is used for reconnaissance, patrolling and mapping of the area, with the ability to transmit operational information. The model of the Russian FPV drone is not reported. As a result of the air ram, the Ukrainian Leleka-100 UAV was shot down. The element base of one of the drones of the Leleka-100 UAV. The basis of the computing unit of the Lelika UAV is a microprocessor with DSP STM32H743XIH6, in fact, this is an ARM processor with a Cortex-M7 core, operating at a frequency of 480 MHz, there is a built-in flash memory of 2 MB and 1 MB of RAM. Developed by STMicroelectronics (Switzerland), manufactured by TSMC (Taiwan), the DO-AP200 block itself is assembled by Hong Kong Jobray Co. Ltd., which also has 2 GPS ports (GPS and UART4 ports), accelerometer/gyroscope: ICM-20689, ICM-20649, BMI088, magnetometer RM3100, barometer MS5611 and several RC inputs (CPPM) with a communication module, on components from FPE and CIS. Ltd (China).

Footage of the use of the Russian FPV drone "Prince Vandal Novgorodsky", abbreviated "KVN", controlled by a fiber optic cable. The video shows an attack by a Russian FPV drone on a Ukrainian armored personnel carrier International MaxxPro. Judging by the video, the MaxxPro armored personnel carrier was abandoned, the reason is unknown, visually the combat vehicle is not damaged. The International MaxxPro armored personnel carrier is manufactured in the USA by Navistar International and was accepted into service in 2007. The location of the shooting is not reported. Presumably, this is the Kursk region of Russia, since most of the Ukrainian military equipment is now abandoned there. As a result of the strike by the Russian FPV drone "Vandal", a fire started in the Ukrainian armored personnel carrier International MaxxPro.