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Actually ATO is the Ukraine anti-terrorist force in Donbass.
BTW, the "ATO" has quantitative superiority in terms of men, tanks, apc, artillery over the militias.
The militias are using the same stuff but less numbers overall.

What they are missing is good leadership. The militia commanders command at the front line, Soviet style, which gives them tactical advantage in a timely manner. Plus, the militias are fighting on home ground where they have territorial knowledge and the "ATO" are mostly drafted in from the west.

Very nice scale model military diorama.

A surprisingly balanced article from the BBC

Although it is the "personal viewpoint" of guest writer Prof Anatol Lieven Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service in Qatar and not written by a staffer.

it cannot be emphasised too strongly that, for the foreseeable future, however many weapons the Ukrainian army receives from the USA, if it gets into an open fight with the Russian army, it is likely to lose, and lose catastrophically.
So far, very limited numbers of lightly disguised Russian troops have been enough to bring to a standstill the entire fighting strength of the Ukrainian army - last autumn, the Nato estimate was that a mere 3,000 Russian soldiers were present in the Donbas.

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Further; a rare piece of honesty is permitted on this particular subject

More importantly, the advocates of arming Ukraine do not appear either to have sufficiently analysed the actual balance of forces on the ground, or to have studied a key lesson from recent history: namely, what happened to Georgia when its government launched an offensive against separatist rebels and their Russian backers in South Ossetia in August 2008.

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Overall well worth a read.

Aidar disbanding. This must be the 2nd time this is carried out.

An article from Cassad on both sides withdrawing heavy artillery but preparing for Spring offensive.

Dannhill said:

Very nice scale model military diorama.

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I liked the small details that included a cigarettes on some of the troops.

a vivid discussion under the blog of "Cassad"

in which he informed about the Russian interview with a Russian-tank crew-member on Active Duty who said he had fought around Debaltsevo (as a part of 31-tanks unit brought from Siberia) and got hit on February 19 in Logvinovo

(I would translate the title as

"We Didn't Know What's Ahead Of Us"

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anyway be careful if you decided to open that link: parts of his body were burnt)
One of the topic of this discussion is: his name, unit, Military ID numbers were given out in this interview, so some debaters (including "Cassad" himself -- he sometimes participates in discussions below his blogs) insinuated, assuming the interview was genuine, "subversive activity during a war", but then some others asked "what war".

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of course, one of the questions is if to believe

More captured equipment for the Novorossia army near Debaltsevо


Back to bottling my Grenache

Ukrainian Army destroys separatist tank


Back to bottling my Grenache

Ukranian Mine layer

Pantsir-S1 in Donetsk and Lugansk,

This second one is interesting as as far as I know The Ukraine never procured any of this type.