Klein 🧵 voor de nederlandse volgers. Naar aanleiding van nu binnen komende berichten van het front in Donbass en Kharkov blijkt dat het Oekraïnse leger een gewaagde strategie heeft gevolgd de maanden na de afgeslagen aanval op Kiev. Het heeft namelijk een groot gedeelte van de
ervaren reguliere troepen laten roteren naar het achterland om te recouperen en opnieuw te worden aangevuld met nieuwe verse recruten welke een gedegen training hebben gekregen de afgelopen maanden.Hun plaats werd voor een groot gedeelte ingenomen door de zgn. TDF battalions,
milities zoals o.a. Azov, internationale strijders battalions en dienstichtigen welke uitermate gemotiveerd waren.Wat ook al geruime tijd opviel was dat er vanuit deze troepen van tijd tot tijd kritiek kwam over een gebrek aan zware(westerse) wapens en artillerie
Er werd zelfs gesproken over een cultuur van corruptie waardoor deze niet op het Donbass front aankwamen.Ook dit lijkt nu een vooropgezet plan van de legerleiding te zijn geweest, waarschijnlijk met opzet zijn deze wapens uit de gebieden met een russisch artillerie overwicht weg
gehouden om voortijdige vernietiging er van te voorkomen.Russische bronnen vertellen nu opeens tegenover ervaren en gemotiveerde troepen te staan bewapend met moderne westerse wapens welke meer agressieve akties uitvoeren dan voorheen. Conclusie kan zijn dat het Oekraïnse leger
zgn. "bodies" in de strijd heeft gegooid om de russische opmars in de Donbass te vertragen en de russische troepen daar uit te putten om op dit punt op verschillende andere fronten(Kherson,Kharkiv) met verse en goed bewapende troepen terug te slaan.Laten we hopen dat het genoeg
is om voor de winter arriveerd, grote gebieden in Kherson,Zaporizija en Kharkiv te bevrijden. 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
1/11 #Kherson update 24-08. 🇷🇺 forces attacked in different area's of the front presumably in anticipation of indepence day offensives,in this 🧵 the details.🇺🇦 forces have been attacking supply lines & C&C continuesly last weeks.
2/11 In the Stanislav area, 🇷🇺 attacked Oleksandrivka some 2 week ago pushing 🇺🇦 back to positions N, last week 🇺🇦 forces countered. 🇷🇺 were pushed back to the S end of town.Burning vehicles have been seen on/near the T-1501 HWY. Town is now contested.
3/11 to the E, 28th mech. Brigade keeps supressing 🇷🇺 artillery in ShyrokaBalka area, 🇷🇺 forces tried to move NW from Sofiivka but where repelled on the line W of Doslidne by forward 🇺🇦 forces.Around Tomyna Balka reportedly multiple MLRS & art. were destroyed by 🇺🇦 artillery.
1/10 #Kherson western front update 🧵is finally here.Been working on checking info from local,#OSINT,sat & other sources to produce the most complete picture IMO while still keeping #Opsec.Let's go 🚀
2/10 First by popular req. a full overview map of the current(8 aug) frontlines west of the #Inhulets river. As we can see there have been some (small) shifts in the overall line. As you can see i have included known 🇷🇺 defensive pos. and some published 🇺🇦 pos. Some details ⬇️
3/10 First we look at the sit. around #Stanislav. 🇷🇺VDV reinforcements arrived 15-7,and started a push toward #Oleksandrivka pushing 🇺🇦 back across the coastal road W and N taking control of the town. 45th Spetnaz are active here. 🇺🇦 are using art. & tank fire to stop the advance
As promissed in my previous 🧵 ⬇️ i will go into the destruction of another ammo depot with #HIMARS in the west-#Kherson region. The one i will take a look at today was located just south of #Novodmytrivka and was hit on 21st of july.
If we look at the #FIRMS data we can see there are a lot of spots on fire around the compound however when looking at the #Sentinel imagery we can see it originates from the N end of the complex and spread on the dry lake bed. This is even more clear using the burned area option.
Burned area option on the #Sentinel imagery makes it possible to see how the fire progressed.We can see spots around the complex which indicates burning material was spread over a large area.This is consistent with a large explosion. (ref. Expl. #Novakhakova 21-7 ⬇️)
Video of 🇷🇺 BM-21 Grad MLRS being loaded & transported to launch site. This recent video published by 🇷🇺 media was supposedly recorded around the town of #Vugledar,#Donetsk oblast multiple launchers can be seen and loading occurs on the road.
At 11 sec. you can see the loaded MLRS driving on a road which bends to the right, in the distance two elec. towers can be seen as well as a field full of powerlines to the left. @neonhandrail geolocated this site. It was geolocated to #Novohryhorivka.
#Vulgledar would have put 🇷🇺 forces atleast 10 km behind the known frontlines in this area.The geolocation however puts it at 23 km away behind 🇷🇺 lines.When we look @ sighting loc. on 22-7 with #Sentinel imagery.we can see the field to the S is burned.
As promissed a 🧵 on what was happening inside #Kherson city yesterday (22-7). I have been in contact some local sources who painted a picture of every growing chaos & fear among 🇷🇺 troops & collaborators inside the city. First it's important to know that during the occupation
The 🇷🇺 invaders have been setting a system of checkpoints on almost any intersection in the city, these are called blockposts by the civilians. Before last week these checkpoints where mostly manned by #Rosgvardiya troops which are a internal mil. force directly under #Putin.
During the last few days,most of these #Rosvguardia seem to have left the city and manning of the checkpoint seemed more lacks. This seems to have increased the number of desertions,farmers in the surrounding areas are being confronted with 🇷🇺 soldiers dressed in civilian clothes
Just a little 🧵 looking at the aftermath of the strike on the ammo depot @ Raiske, Cherson Oblast, Oekraïne which seems to have happend on 18-7 at 5 am.When looking @ the video clearly missiles and thermobaric charges can be seen detonating
At 5 am presumable HIMARS rocket fire hit an ammonutions storage warehouse located at a 🇷🇺 military facility in #Raiske [46.42567 33.18566] seen on sat. images the facility consisted of 6 large warehouses and several smaller structures, just west are an urban area & wheat factory
When looking @ Nasa #FIRMS data from 18-7 it's clear there are mulitiple fires around the south and west sids of town. The fires can be located at 3 places. The first attack hit the ammo storage, fires to E & S were prob. started by exploding ammo & spread thru dry fields.