The War in the Ukraine

⚡️Briefing by Russian Defence Ministry

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation in Ukraine.

High-precision air-based missiles near Udachnoe railway station in Donetsk People's Republic have destroyed a large number of weapons and military equipment delivered to a group of Ukrainian nationalists, including from the USA and European countries.

In addition, temporary foreign mercenary deployment site near Fedorovka, Lugansk People's Republic and 2 batteries of multiple rocket launchers near Progress, Kharkov Region, and Volcheyarovka, Lugansk People's Republic, have been destroyed.

Operational-tactical and army aviation have hit 1 command post, 1 radar station of Buk-M1 anti-aircraft missile system near Lisichansk, Luhansk People's Republic, as well as 63 areas of AFU manpower and military equipment concentration.

The attacks have resulted in the elimination of more than 120 nationalists, 2 tanks, 7 field artillery mounts and 11 special vehicles.

Russian air defence means have shot down 8 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles near Shevchenkovo, Kostromka in Nikolaev Region, Balakleya, Borodoyarskoe in Kharkov Region, Staromikhailovka, Opytnoe in Donetsk People's Republic, Smolyaninovo, Popasnaya, Lisyichansk in Luhansk People's Republic, including 1 Bairaktar TB-2 near Lugansk, overnight.

Missile troops and artillery have hit 247 areas of AFU manpower and military equipment concentration, 13 command posts, 63 firing positions of AFU artillery units, including 7 multiple rocket launchers near Artemovsk, Slavyansk, Soledar and Sol', as well as 1 radio-electronic warfare station near Pokrovskyi in Donetsk People's Republic.

In total, 201 Ukrainian airplanes and 130 helicopters, 1,196 unmanned aerial vehicles, 338 anti-aircraft missile systems, 3,525 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 515 multiple launch rocket systems, 1,933 field artillery and mortars, as well as 3,583 units of special military vehicles were destroyed during the operation.

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RottenPanzer said:

Besides that, Missiles coming to Belgorod, possibly from the newly acquired HIMARS or M270, no confirmation as of late

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If they are using HIMARS for that, instead of deploying them on a more tactically relevant front, it might mean the Ukranians are just lashing out and have no clue what to do, or they are deeply aware such weapons in so little quantities make no difference but the pictures of them destroyed might damage their "we are totally winning" image.

sheogorath said:

If they are using HIMARS for that, instead of deploying them on a more tactically relevant front, it might mean the Ukranians are just lashing out and have no clue what to do, or they are deeply aware such weapons in so little quantities make no difference but the pictures of them destroyed might damage their "we are totally winning" image.

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A beggar cannot choose, but more importantly a beggar cannot plan. Im assuming this is why equipment are sent in piecemeal.

Interesting article around the experiences from the Ukranian side in Severodonetsk and Lyman. They are basically getting shelled day in and day out with little reprieve while the author tries to paint it as a story of heroic resistance.

You can also read the disdain some ukranian soldiers have for eastern ukranians while the journalist purposefuly misconstrues the word "mir" and associates some non-existant ideology to it, in an excercise that can only be seen as an american projecting themselves on others.

Then to make things even more "fun" he witnesses the public mock execution of a russian POW but then goes on to add:
"There is no evidence of widespread abuse of prisoners of war by Ukrainian forces, but there are several ongoing criminal investigations into isolated incidents in which Russian prisoners appear to have been tortured or even executed." and further tries to whitewash the whole thing, so I have my doubts about the soldier being totally fine and alive afterwards, according to him.

Later in the article, it seems russians have the capability of real-time cellphone tracking and able to send rounds into the pinpointed location relatively fast

The Russians can either track cellphones or jam them with their Leer-3 electronics warfare platform.

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“The Russians tracked his signal and located our position. He called his mom for 15 minutes, then his wife for 15 minutes … and then his girlfriend for almost two hours. They bombarded us all night. That’s why I beat him.”

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LOL

karma is a bitch....

One aspect I don’t see much coverage of the Ukraine conflict, which could be of significant importance to both understanding the progression and direction of the war, as well as current Russian tactics, is the nature of the armed forces of Ukraine.

In many ways, I am struck at how astonishingly similar current day Ukraine is to civil war China, in that you essentially have a whole host of warlords who maintain effective private armies in charge of much of the country. Private armies that rival or even surpass the official central army. These private armies are nominally deputised into the official national army, but very much retain their own loyalties, agenda and chain of command.

This was starkly illustrated before the war broke out when Elensky was flat out denied when he tried to give orders to a lowly Azov unit commander out in the field.

The significance of this is that local private armies can punch well above their weight when fighting in home ground, as they would enjoy significant local knowledge since most would be drawn from the local population. In addition, since they will literally be fighting for their own homes, they often exhibit surprisingly high moral, determination and combat effectiveness.

Facing off against a mix of private armies and centrally commanded forces can also be very confusing if you didn’t know what you were up against since the private armies can make unexpected moves and throw your entire game plan off if you were expecting them to behave like one unified force instead of a bunch of de-facto independent outfits all out doing their own separate thing.

Of course, once you realise the true nature of the enemy you are facing, this lack of central command and effective co-ordination can also be used against them and ruthlessly exploited.

I think the Russians have cottoned on to this deal, because their current overall combat strategy could have been lifted right out of Chinese civil war military history.

As such, I would suggest that a potentially good way to see what the Russians might do next would be to look back at the history books.

Has Russia used a thermobaric bombs to clear out Ukrainian soldiers in sieged cities? I haven’t heard about them being used on cities under siege. Tho maybe it’s just a bad idea.

they've been using thermobaric ammos with their tos-1, smerch and uragans iirc; idk whether they use that stuff in cities

FriedButter said:

Has Russia used a thermobaric bombs to clear out Ukrainian soldiers in sieged cities? I haven’t heard about them being used on cities under siege. Tho maybe it’s just a bad idea.

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Not that anyone has reported such use, so I’m guessing no. Probably on account of all the civilian human shields the Ukrainians habitually take during such sieges.

That may change once the fighting moves further west as the Ukrainians run out of majority ethnic Russian cities full of ‘enemy’ civilians to hide behind and become more reluctant to use more ‘Ukrainian’ civilians like that. And/or the Russians start to care a hell of a let less as Ukrainians try that same shit in the west and decide to count all charred remains as enemy combat dead.