A Russian soldier gives a video tour of a HIMARS strike on Russian self-propelled guns.
Ukraine continues its attacks on Russia’s electrical grid.
A Russian long-range radar is hit. No indication where this was.
No one died there, eh?
This would have been a good place to use cluster munitions.
A year and a half behind enemy lines trying to get home is a long time.
A few weeks ago, the Navy Intelligence Department received information from operational sources that two servicemen of the Ukrainian Armed Forces have been in the temporarily occupied territory since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, where they participated in battles with the occupiers, were seriously injured, and were unable to independently enter the territory controlled by Ukraine. All this time, they were in an illegal situation and successfully hid, thanks to local residents.
Turning cluster bomblets into drone grenades.
This is in western Ukraine.
A Russian officer turned Ukrainian agent.
“As a result of the special operation “Barinya”, military lieutenant of the Russian Federation Danylo Volodymyrovych Alfyorov, who since June 2023 has actively cooperated with the Security and Defense Forces of Ukraine, has gone over to the Ukrainian side. He convinced and voluntarily transferred 11 military personnel of the Russian Federation for captivity in several batches. When there was a threat to Alfiorov’s life, Ukraine carried out a special operation for his controlled retreat to Ukrainian territory,” Yusov said.
Since when is incompetence a disqualifier for advancement in the Russian military?
His removal, which most certainly required Shoigu’s approval, was presumably for negligence related sending at least three DRG companies on a suicide mission to the island north of Kozachi Laheri on the occupied left-bank of Kherson.
I think this is an important firing since several heavy-hitter Russian social media influencers, like Romanov and Two Colonels, openly called for this. And, it may be the first time that a corrupt and incompetent Russian officer was fired because of public opinion and outside pressure on the Kremlin.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy teased yesterday that he would have a big announcement today. This is it — a consortium of Western defense firms that will develop and manufacture weapons in Ukraine.
Russia has been using Shaheed drones with increasing frequency. They launched 40 at Ukraine yesterday, all but 10 were shot down.
But the Shaheeds have been upgraded recently with tungsten shrapnel warheads and other features.
In addition to using an increased number of these drones, Russia is using new models, Ukrainian officials say. That’s based on findings from the recovery of recently downed Shaheds.
The latest generation of these drones were found to have new warheads, engines, batteries, servomotors and bodies, Capt. Andriy Rudyk, a representative of Ukraine’s Center for the Research of Trophy and Prospective Weapons and Military Equipment, said Thursday at a press briefing.
The new warheads contain tungsten balls for fragmented shrapnel, which is an upgrade over the Shahed-136’s original blast fragmentation warhead configuration. Tungsten balls are also a design feature of U.S.-manufactured Guided Multiple Launch Rocket Systems (GMLRS) munitions fired by the M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, or HIMARS and the M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) provided to Ukraine. Driven by the force of the explosives, fragments, like ball bearings, widen the destructive area of the warheads and tungsten’s high density penetrates better into whatever they hit, and do so with more force.
This Russian military cargo ship passed through the Dardanelles in Turkey on its way to a Russian Black Sea port.
Sergei won’t need those boots.
There’s corruption and then there’s Russian-level corruption.
Horses saved from Russian shelling.
