🧵 update on the quest of finding 🇷🇺 supply locations. Acting on a hunch of @defmon3 about the supply routes to #Chaplynka airport. We discovered a possible location @ Myrne, Kherson. The location makes sense the railway line from Crimea to Kherson runs thru town.
And there are large warehouse complexes located right next to the train station, which we know the 🇷🇺 love to use (like @ Brylivka). Another + is that it is located out of HIMARS range and it is located only 12 km. from Chaplynka airbase (🇷🇺 forward heli base more in another 🧵)
After obtaining the sat. images (with your support) and surveying the area,we found out that 🇷🇺 were indeed using this town for re-supply.They were not using loc. near the station,but a complex outside of town. This is located right along the railway line just outside of town.
After a closer look and looking at previous images,🇷🇺 trucks could be seen there on multiple occassions. On low-res images trains can be seen in front of the complex regularly, and military trucks can be seen @ the complex
1/10 Kherson update 🧵 last week we saw the collapse of the #Kharkiv front and things at #Kherson front seemed slow, but also here 🇺🇦 forces are putting the pressure on the 🇷🇺 forces. In this thread i will try to give a summary of what happend last week IMHO 😁
2/10 To start in the utmost W part of this front, end of august 🇺🇦 forces liberated Oleksandrivka, hereby squeezing the 🇷🇺 VDV into Stanislav & Shyroka Balka, geolocated footage placed an artillery regiment here.Shyroka was hit several times destroying the VDV HQ there.
3/10 yesterday the official UA MoD declared troops have entered Soffivka(reportedly SOF forces) which would cut off any suplies to the two towns, and bypass the 🇷🇺 defenses N of Tomyna Balka. Leaving the most W flank of Chornobaivka airport wide open & cutting supply route T1501
🧵Thanks to all your contributions i am able to show you some extraodrinary satellite images.While backtracking ammo depots in the area, we discovered the location of a 🇷🇺 tank battalion, near to Chornobaivka airport, which probably is linked to a VDV unit in the same area.
These VDV(247th guards division) unit's HQ was stationed on the access road from the M14 Highway to the airports main entry point. This HQ was hit end of august (see 🧵⬇️). As can be seen in the image the damage is extensive, all surrounding buildings
Have been utterly destroyed. Reportedly more 100 VDV including many staff had been killed here by #HIMARS strikes. However what 🇺🇦 intelligence probably missed, is that just to next to this area, a large contingent of MBT's & support vehicles were stationed(approx. 100 meter)
1/11 🧵 about what 🇺🇦 forces are facing when engaging the 🇷🇺 forces around #Chornobaivka airport.I have been working on mapping the positions since beginning of aug. & now the counter-offensive has started i think its time to share.
2/11 🇷🇺 defenses for the airport are located along the HWY M14 from Kyselivka to Chornobaivka. It's a 3 line indepth defense starting with a small forward pos.,larger extended trench works and finally the large and heavily defended airport compound.
3/11 Forward pos. is located @ gas station on the M14 entry into Kyselivka.Since end july this pos. was left by 🇷🇺forces due to daily heavy shelling. It seems last week they pushed back 🇺🇦 forces here & took the pos., last unconfirmed news is 🇺🇦 have re-taken the pos. on the 31st
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
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