The Russians are determined to lose thousands of troops and hundreds of armored vehicles in a ridiculous effort to take Avdiivka.
They are digging tunnels closer to our positions, firstly, for the purpose of camouflage, and, secondly, to emerge somewhere closer to our positions unexpectedly"
He also noted that Ukrainians spotted the use of remote-controlled robotic transport vehicles by the Russians that can carry a decent load.
Combat in the trenches. The YouTube video is almost 9 minutes long and shows the difficulties in defending a trench.
There is a long written description from one of the soldiers. Here is the beginning:
On the way, there were bursts from shells, filled-up holes, and a broken, burned-out dugout full of stinking rubble. The mortar did not give rest. We had to fall into pits from explosions, onto fallen trees. The branches of bushes and simply branches that tangled your legs from which you fell, just taking a new step, caught your eye. The worst has happened for these circumstances. When I fell, I tore my kneecap, and this hole in the wet skin began to interfere with movement even more, and when I fell, I completely tore my knee. The tank started working on us and it was really crazy! Because this pain did not allow me to breathe at all. Imagine a situation in which you run blindfolded across a field of branches, bushes and holes, falling every 10-20 seconds for 4 hours straight...
This post is generating a lot of attention. The speculation is that this is from the Oleshky Sands, which is a national park area on the left bank of the Dnipro River southeast of the city of Oleshky. If that’s true, (big IF) it’s a big effin’ deal.
Some video has emerged of the airfield in Luhansk that was hit by ATACMS.
The ATACMS attack on the Luhansk and Berdyansk air fields destroyed or damaged a lot more helicopters than originally thought.
I can say that this count is based on VHR satellite imagery that I have seen. These images show that the entire area inside the Berdyansk protective berms was peppered with cluster munitions. This type of image cannot be distributed publicly because of copyright restrictions.
However, GeoConfirmed did make a mistake when analysing these images by identifying a Pantsir as a helicopter.
Here is my analysis based on VHR imagery and displayed through Planet imagery. 8 helicopters were completely destroyed, 6 were damaged and probably totalled and a radar was destroyed at Berdyansk. A Pantsir SAM located outside the image to the east may also have been damaged.In Luhansk, at least 7 helicopters were damaged or destroyed (one of which was not included in previous public analyses).
Confirmed losses therefore amount to 21 helicopters destroyed or damaged and one radar destroyed.
Russia is using Tuvans to communicate over radios in their own language. He compares this to the WWII Native American code talkers.
Russia destroys a post office. What’s the point of that other than terrorism?
I knew nothing about Howard Buffet (Warren’s son) before reading this. So I googled him. Seems he is a Republican who held local office in Colorado and was once implicated in some shady stuff. This is from Wikipedia:
In January 2019, the Phoenix New Times ran a 27-page investigative report potentially implying that Howard Buffett used money donated to his charitable foundation principally by his father to gain influence and obtain a position in the Cochise Country, Arizona Sheriffs Department possibly to conduct operations against migrants in the borderlands or to combat drug-runners. The operations implied by the report include the stockpiling or donation of weapons and a questionable defoliation campaign.
But I’ll give him credit for going to Avdiivka with humanitarian aid.
This is an interesting thread explaining the ins and outs of the various types of ATACMS. And it explores whether ATACMS can take out the Kerch Bridge.
Short answer: Yes, but only temporarily. What is needed is a warhead of about 2,000 kg hitting the bridge foundations. In other words — Germany’s Taurus cruise missiles.
In particular: their experience was that if you do anything else, even a slight variation, it would result only in slight damage to the bridge that the enemy could start repairing without great difficulty.
Conclusion: Will ATACMS of different kinds be extremely helpfull in destroying Russian stocks, airfields, troop concentrations, equipment, army bases and logistics as far away as anywhere in Ukraine?
Yes. Will it kill the Kerch bridge?
At least part of it temporarily.
Ukraine continues to probe the left bank of the Dnipro River near Kherson looking for a foothold.
That fifth SU-25 that was shot down the other day was from a Stinger. Your tax dollars at work.
Hello Daddy.
Yes, they certainly deserve to be honored.
I once ate a pig ear sandwich at a blues festival in the Mississippi Delta, but I wouldn’t eat this.
Must be a Leopard tank.