Ukraine follows up its strike against the Sevastopol shipyard with an attack on two more Russian ships.
Video has appeared of the damage to the landing ship Minsk at Sevastopol.
Folks at the Defense Ministry need to improve their communications with the folks in the field.
Andriivka, which is south of Klishchiivka and Bakhmut, was declared liberated, then the brigade in the field said, no it hasn’t.
What constitutes “liberated” is probably debatable. Can a village that is now gone really be liberated?
That’s a damn shame about that expensive AD system. Yep. A damn shame.
This system probably actually costs a few million dollars if it’s built honestly. But once you add in the kickbacks, the payoffs and the materials stolen or diverted elsewhere, there’s no telling the real cost.
This video shows the big bavovna starting at about the 4:30 mark.
As Scooby Doo says, “Rut roh.” Somebody’s in trouble.
A big pile of anti-tank mines is blown up. Good.
A cope cage might provide protection from a drone dropping a grenade from above but it isn’t going to thwart a kamikaze drone approaching horizontally.
Or from a well-maneuvered drone .
Speaking of drones, this is a long thread looking at the state of the drone war in Ukraine. I have embedded some of the more interesting points.
A Russian soldier in a trench fires at a drone coming at him.
American-made RQ-20 PUMA recon drone vs. Russian missile. Drone wins.
The thing that jumped out at me was the comment about 800 “refuseniks and deserters in the forest belt.”
"Egor, hi. I'd like to tell you about Klishchiivka and Andriivka.
I was just evacuated from there yesterday.
I'd like to tell you about our command.
A tank's been kicking us out for 24 hours. Yesterday, at about 3 a.m., it got mad that we were holding on till the end and started to demolish the hut. I was concussed as well as two of my fellow soldiers.
I don't know how, by some miracle, we survived.We were hit with everything from shrapnel ammunition to cluster munitions.
We asked for artillery support. We were told there were no shells. How were we supposed to hold it? The tank spent three ammunitions on us. For 3 men. And ours supposedly ran out of shells.
We were f**king crazy about that, sh*t.
And now they're throwing sticks at special forces. We stayed until the end. Akhmat left the day before yesterday. There's 800 refuseniks and deserters in the forest belt. The 42nd Division left yesterday. We stayed with three squads until the end, until the advance started. We lost two of our guys on the way out".
Don’t blow me up! Blow up that guy over there.
This tiny island is in the mouth of the Dnipro River and just off the coast from the Kinburn Spit.
A good explanation of how Storm Shadow cruise missiles find their targets.
The threat of cruise missile attacks on the Black Sea Fleet in port has become very real. These missiles (Storm Shadow/SCALP-EG/Neptune land attack variant) use infrared imaging with scene/imaging matching for terminal homing. Hence why Russia painted their ships to break up their IR silhouettes. This was not done to make it hard to spot them in satellite imagery. That does not work even in mediocre commercial imagery nor does it necessitate the sides of the hulls being painted to match. If the missile does not match its target based on preset threshold parameters it aborts its attack. These ships began being painted like that just as Storm Shadow arrived. Now land attack Neptune in play with greater range. Also note the two ships hit were a submarine and a amphib that was not painted in that manner. They were also static in drydock where not much changes in their surroundings between initial targeting and attack. We have written about this for months now, see linked posts in this thread, but the Black Sea Fleet could be under extreme threat after this attack, especially if indeed cruise missiles were employed.
Lukashenko has been adroit at keeping Belarus out of the war and appeasing Putin with obsequiousness. But his luck might be running out.
Lock his ass up.
Shoigu: How do I know? Do I look like I’m in charge or something?
Russia’s newest aircraft.
When you realize that Russia’s promise to protect you is as worthless as Trump’s promise to pay your legal bills.
Wait! Is that Ammo Dump Jesus? What’s he doing in Indonesia?
Putin: You don’t happen to have any air defense missiles I could buy, do you?
Together forever now.