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Wagner soldiers in Bakhmut
TOS-1A shelling the Komarovka district in Bakhmut
The road from Chasov Yar to Bakhmut via Khromovo
Lugansk Aviation Repair Plant has started work after a long period of inactivity.

In test mode, a test bench for TV3-117 helicopter engines was launched. This is the main engine that is installed on the Mi-8 and Mi-17.
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❗️Model of the "gliding & correction" kit for FAB-500 M62 bombs -- MPK (Russian acronym)

Produced by NPO Bazalt ImageImage
Belarus will hold air force and air defense exercises near the borders of Poland at the Brestsky training ground. They will last from 5 to 7 April.

The MOD has released photos of their Su-30SM and YAK-130s armed with KAB-500Kr bombs ImageImageImage
🇺🇸🇺🇦The Pentagon signed a contract with General Dynamics for Abrams tanks for Ukraine

▪️The contract must be executed by September 29.
▪️General Dynamics Land Systems will receive a $27.1 million contract.
▪️The contract will be financed through the Ukraine Support Fund. Image
🇵🇱🇺🇦As part of Zelenskyy's visit to Poland, an agreement was signed on the supply of Polish Rosomak armored personnel carriers, Rak self-propelled mortars, Piorun man-portable air defense systems, MiG-29 fighters and other weapons to Kiev. Image
🇱🇻The Latvian authorities adopted a law on the return of compulsory military service for men of military age.
Conscription will start On July 1. Recruits will serve 1 year.
🇷🇺The Russian army is quickly learning the lessons learned from the special military operation in Ukraine and will be able to quickly recover from it.

/Pentagon/
Ukr video on the Avenger SR SAM system they received recently
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Joint statement:

Iran, Saudi Arabia agree to resume flights, facilitate visas for citizens
🇷🇺BMP-3
🇬🇷Greece refused to transfer its Leopard 2A6 tanks and S-300 air defense systems to Ukraine.
🇺🇸🇺🇦Defence One: US to send experimental weapons to Ukraine to fight Iranian and Chinese drones

The Pentagon announced the delivery of a new military aid package to Kyiv. It included

"10 anti-UAV mobile missile systems with laser guidance." Image
Lancet strike on a M-109 SP Gun
Himars rocket intercepted in Ugledar area
Lets continue

Bakhmut Central Situation

As far as we can tell, about 90% of Central Bakhmut is under Russian control.

Latest reports speak of fighting at the Prison and Main Train station ImageImage
Liveumap version of Central Bakhmut Image
Prigozhin proposed to execute Trepova on Red Square

“I believe that Daria Trepova is a complete scum and you can’t help her. As for these scum, I think that they just need to be put on a chain like animals. Because terrorists can only be fought with their methods. Image
If Daria Trepova is publicly executed on Red Square, this will cheer up all the people for a long time
⚔️Map of Avdeevka frontline

Russian reports say a group of 14 Ukr soldiers surrendered just to the South of Severne. (marked on map)

The Ukr command became aware of this and ordered a mass artillery strike. The POWS were reportedly all killed during the evacuation. Image
❗️Bakhmut:

Railway - line reached at 2 points. Absolutely fierce battles rage until the middle of the night. Wagner goes forward.

Fights in the Central Station area. And north of Avanhard Stadium where they can already see the railway line. Even in the dark.

/Remylind23/
“Over the past month, Russian forces have removed equipment from a military base in the north of Crimea. The latest satellite images show that there were tanks, armored vehicles and artillery in this area”

Defensive structures also noted in various areas of Crimea
Recruitment department not woke enough 😎 Image
As a result of the shelling of the Kalininsky district of Donetsk, 9 civilians were killed, another 7 were injured

⚠️ GRAPHIC

Video in link
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🇷🇺Defence Minister Shoigu visited the defense industry enterprises in the Nizhny Novgorod region. The working trip took place as part of the verification of the implementation of the state defense order.

(Aerial Bomb production)
The big bomb is either FAB-3000 or FAB-5000

The other 2 are I think are Betab-250 and Betab-500ShP ImageImageImageImage
FAB-1500...acc to some fairly reliable sources there is a UMPK (gliding kit) for it Image
Artillery Shell production at a Russian factory Image
🇷🇺LEER-3 on the frontline

Leer-3 RB-341V combines jammers and Orlan-10 drones able to disable cellular networks, and allow to send fake messages to subscribers. ImageImageImageImage
Drones primary mission is to suppress cellular communication towers. To do this, special ‘jammers’ have been installed onboard the Orlan-10 & also disposable jammers, which they drop onto the ground.
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Captured BMP-1P receiving a BTR-82 turret at a 🇷🇺field maintenance station ImageImage
🇷🇺Reportedly the new version of the Boomerang IFV Image
Couple of 🇺🇦Strykers. One with a LWMR attachment
Shoigu visited the Arzamas Machine-Building Plant, which produces the BTR-82A & various vehicles based on it.

In addition, AMZ produces Tigr armored vehicles in the M SpN and SBM versions, as well as AMN-590951. New versions of the "Tigers" - AMN-2 also got into the frame.
⚔️Destroyed AFU equipment as a result of an Artillery strike...location not known
American billionaire & motivational speaker Dan Pena is pissed off....no wonder...he's an old school kind a guy who doesn't fit in these days
Wagner recruitment video featuring 'Macron'😊...Join Wagner to do a man's job
BMP-2M column in Donetsk
💥Explosions thundered in Slavyansk and Kramatorsk overnight - Russian missiles hit AFU temporary deployment locations

Earlier in Kramatorsk, a ammo depot of the 56th motorized infantry brigade was hit
Artillery fire in Bakhmut area filmed from AFU lines
🇷🇺T-72B3 at Marinka
Time for a comedy break
Geolocation of the recently posted video with the 3 x Kirpi vehicles Image
Mine laying on the Zaporozhye Front by 🇷🇺GMZ-3s
Ukrop soldier with a split personality 😁 Image
Good Morning Image
⚡️❗️The 🇷🇺MOD has reportedly been able to recover valuable components of the downed MQ-9 Reaper UAV in the Black Sea

Details in link ⬇️
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🔥Footage of the work of a special border guard unit vs sabotage activities of the unit of the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine "Russian Volunteer Corps" in the Bryansk region.

Video & details in link
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Bakhmut-Artemovsk - Coat of Arms

(as part of the DPR)

posted on Prigozhin's TG channel Image
🇺🇸🇲🇽🪖 Trump Asks Advisers for ‘Battle Plans’ to ‘Attack Mexico’ if Reelected

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❗️The Kiev regime is preparing a provocation in the Sumy region, imitating the use of artillery ammunition with toxic substances by the Russian Armed Forces

Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
Bakhmut Central

Situation at Centre of town according to maps from different sources

Some reports say the prison has been captured (not shown as such on maps) but not yet confirmed ImageImageImage
Important breakthrough in the area of the MiG-17 monument, includng the capture of high rise buldings along the road....basically means the south road into the western section is physically cut Image
🇺🇦Deep State
Bakhmut is becoming critical.
Situation is tense in the forests of Kremena, near Krasnogorovka, in Pervomaisk & Marinka.

Some Ukr analysts believe there will be a large 🇷🇺 offensive in the Kremena area but they're waiting for a resolution in Bakhmut first
💥Lancet strike on a M-109 SP Gun - Bakhmut area
🇷🇺Su-25 crashed in Marinka area.

Some say it was shot down, others it was due to technical malfunction
❗️🇺🇸🇷🇺American military experts are concerned about the effectiveness of the Wagner PMC - the U.S. Department of Defense.

Read at
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Russian Info sheets on Western Armoured Vehicles....rough machine translation ImageImageImageImage
Reznikov's sales pitch to NATO Image
AT missile fired at a group of AFU Infantry
The road to Bakhmut...I believe it's the Northern one via Khromovo
Ukr Humvee mounted TOW-2B in Bakhmut area
Ivan Rotar from Italy reported killed in the settlement of Razdolovka (near Bakhmut) on April 7 (pic 1)

The other 2 are Azov members from Kharkov killed in Bakhmut on the same day ImageImageImage
Evacuation of wounded from the frontline filmed from a drone — VDV in Kremena area
Start of assault on Ukr positions in a tree line - Kremena frontline
Assault on a Ukr trench and taking of prisoners
Ukr FPV drone attack on a "Aistenok" ground monitoring radar...pretty dangerous for a makeshift weapon
Prigozhin at the funeral of Maxim Fomin (aka Vladlen Tatarsky) who was killed in the terrorist attack the other day
Another video from the "Road of Death" to Bakhmut
❗️ A missile launched from Ukraine was shot down over Feodosia on the eastern coast of Crimea, head of the republic Sergei Aksenov said on his Telegram channel.

It's reported to have been a "Grom-2" SRBM fired from the Odessa region ImageImage
More details on the missile attack from Rybar in the link⬇️
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The military reporter & patriot Vladlen Tatarsky is buried with military honours.

Earlier, a funeral service of Tatarsky was held in the funeral hall of the Troekurovsky cemetery.
Bakhmut
🇷🇺A pipe production factory in the city of Sokol in Vologda Oblast

But now its production plan includes ~ 40 000 artillery ,mortar rounds per month

It seems the untapped Russian civilian industry is contracting in the ammo production
🇷🇺Air attacks at Avdeevka
Network-centric wars, over-the-horizon strikes, hypersonic missiles... ...and trenches.

The US Army, taking into account the Ukrainian experience, are preparing to fight in the trenches.😊 Image
That'll be all for today from me

Good Night Image
Greetings - Updates for Apr 9 Image
⚡️🇷🇺Strike on a warehouse in Orekhovo (Zap. Region)

In warehouses located closer to the football field, there were two HIMARS MLRS launchers, one M777 howitzer, several unidentified armored vehicles and artillery ammo

Details
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Destroyed AFU ammunition depot in Konstantinovka (Donbas) Image
Ukrainian reports of Russian airstrikes in Kherson region Image
Zaporozhye Frontline

🇷🇺Artillery and Aviation inflicted a powerful fire effect along the entire line of contact throughout the day
Artillery fire on Ukr positions in the Seversk direction
🇷🇺TOS-1 with a anti-drone screen Image
Railway near Slavyansk was bombed
Scott Ritter: US Document Leak 'Much Ado About Nothing'
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Russian airforce struck a hotel with KH-59s (air-surface missile) in Kharkov today. Must have hit something sensitive, since these are the only photos that are available on this strike — @GammonBadge ImageImageImage
An activist from Kherson told RIA Novosti about the creation of an underground organization "Russian Kherson", the purpose of which is the destruction of enemy facilities
🇹🇳#Tunisia is considering joining the #BRICS amid stalled negotiations with the IMF, Mahmoud bin Mabrouk, spokesman for the pro-presidential July 25 Movement, told RIA Novosti.
#BRICS
Tunisian president: Tunisia is not for sale
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🇵🇱🇺🇦The Polish "Bumar-Łabędy" company has started work on the overhaul of T-64 tanks within the framework of the military concern PGZ and "Ukroboronprom" - reported PGZ

In the future, it's planned to provide repair & maintenance of T-72, PT-91 and Leopard-2 tanks as well Image
Here's one reason why Russia works on having good relations with Erdogan

..

The United States wants to put a “second Zelensky” at the head of Turkey, who would drag Turkey into a conflict with Russia in Syria -- Turkish edition of Haber7 writes

Details
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Reportedly video of the Orekhovo strike
Acc to Turkish sources, a column of a 🇺🇦Bgd, which approached the fortifications NE of Ugledar as reinforcements, was hit on Friday by Russian fighters who dropped FAB-500 & UPAB-1500 glide bombs from a distance of up to 60 km.

Most of the column was destroyed or scattered. Image
AFU acknowledged growing threat from 🇷🇺 glide bombs
The speaker of 🇺🇦Air Force said, these bombs are 3 times stronger than the previous ones (1500kg) They are launched from a distance of more than 50 km.
He stressed that Ukr currently lacks resources to shoot down these planes.
“We need means that can resist - such as Patriot, Samp-T systems. And best of all, these are modern F-16 aircraft or other “4+” generation fighters that can parry Russian aviation at a distance.”
Footage of the combat work of the 🇷🇺 "Niobium" radar in the SMO zone

more info in link
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🇷🇺RuAF Su-27s as seen from a Nato fighter over the Baltic Sea Image
🇷🇺Su-27SM3
The video description says a Su-27 pilot was awarded a medal for shooting down a Su-25 and 2 helicopters in one mission
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🇺🇦Bofors L-70 AA gun supplied by Lithuania
🇷🇺VDV Sniper in the Kremena Forest.

The 1st shot nicked the tree on the left of the screen
❗️Ukr video showing one of their units equipped with the NASAMS SAM system.

The text at the start says that in 5 months of combat employment they destroyed over 100 missies and drones
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Interesting No Admission sign in China Image
Apparently, 3 Shahed-Gerans attacked the location with the parked vehicles in Lvov region after the pics were posted on Social media and place was geolocated...at least according to the post Image
Good Morning & Happy Easter to all who are celebrating Image
Aftermath of 🇷🇺airstrike at Berislav - Kherson region ImageImageImageImage
RuAF launched several airstrikes in the Kherson region, the Ukrainian governor of the region, Alexander Prokudin, reports.

“They just struck with guided bombs at Novoberislav. Enemy fighters dropped 3 bombs on Kizomys- Belozersky community, the damage is being investigated. Image
Consequences of an airstrike at Polog - Zaporozhye region ImageImageImage
There are also reports of bombing of a fuel depot at Zaporozhye City (green sq) yesterdays targets marked with yellow circles (Orekhovo & Berislav) Image
The Telegraph on the recent spate of bombing of depots Image
Russian Scouts call in Artillery on Ukr patrol and then collect weapons from the bodies
Another video of the 🇷🇺Su-25 shoot down at Marinka the other day from another perspective...the pilot was reportedly evacuated and is fine
Artillery firing on a Ukr tank at Avdeevka...in the end the crew abandons the tank
The road junction is important not only because it controls the road into the W section of Bakhmut but it would allow a flanking of the main part of Western Bakhmut....there doesn't seem to be any major structures past the big building behind the road
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The fight for Bakhmut train station is costly for both sides.

RU artillery is working absolutely hard on UA positions west of the railway line even at this hour. Even Wagner Aviation is active. The fighting rages on without a break. Absolutely hell in the city.

/Remylind23/
Russian Army took control over the remaining buildings of the industrial area of Marinka. Close to 70% of the town is now under Russian control.

/SuriyakMaps + MilitaryMaps/ ImageImage
Avdeevka (South)

Fighting for the marked fortified points to the SW of Avdeevka which guard the approaches to the "9th Quarter" (underlined) district...unclear if No 1 is captured or not Image
Russian VDV -- Kremena frontline

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VDV supported by armour attacking Ukr dugouts in the Kremena forest

Put the volume down to avoid getting a headache from the music😠
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🇺🇦AS-90 SP Gun...apparently first public footage of it in Ukraine
Ukr "mutant" Tiger-M with a BRDM-2 turret Image
Captured M-113 used by Wagner in Bakhmut
🇺🇦🇨🇳🤡 Head of the International Affairs Committee of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine declares that Taiwan is not China. And Beijing has no rights to the island. Image
At the same time, Merezhko is outraged that Xi Jinping does not call Zelensky.
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🇺🇦BMP-1 which was disabled by AT projectile was finished off by grenade dropped from a drone — Ugledar area
Refering to an encounter with a RAF RC-135 in 2022 Image
The US puts pressure on the South Korean authorities, demanding the supply of weapons to Kiev

Details ⬇️
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Photos from a captured Ukr position at Avdeevka ImageImageImageImage
The "Spice" MUST Flow Image
🇷🇺MSTA-S SP Guns...seems the roof screens are becoming more common
Lancet strike on a M-777 at Bakhmut
Long range shot with the new 🇷🇺Lobaev rifle

There was a post a couple of days ago saying a sniper hit a target at a distance of 1.3km with that type of rifle
Ukrainian medium-range air defense systems will be completely depleted by May 23.
They will be able to withstand two or three more waves of blows.

/The Washington Post, citing Pentagon documents/
Footage of Ukrainian positions in the SW of Bakhmut

Fighting is carried out on the very outskirts of Bakhmut along Korsunsky Street, 92 where the famous monument to the MiG-17 aircraft was
Could be the Fuel depot bombing I posted about earlier today
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❗️Pushilin in Bakhmut-Artemovsk

“Here it is, our Artemovsk” — Acting head of the DPR Pushilin arrived in Artemovsk, most of which was liberated by Wagner PMC

As Pushilin noted, the battles for the city are still going on. Our units continue to liberate the Russian land
Neocon Marco Rubio blows a gasket about Macron's recent statements that Europe must seek to be more sovereign and stop being the vassals of the US, to decrease dependency on USD and to stay away from conflicts that are not theirs.
Russian air defense is working out the defense of the north-western border of the country in connection with Finland's accession to NATO and Sweden's application for this

Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the VKS Lt General Andrey Demin also said:

⬇️
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💥Missile strike on the port of Ochakov (Odessa region)....not sure of date
Updates for April 11
The Ochakov strike video is a fresh one from Apr 10
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The Russian Airforce bombed a bridge over the Zhdrebec River near Nevsky (Svatovo-Kremena frontline)
A bridge in the Chernigov region (North Ukr) near the Russian border was bombed for a 2nd time
Video of the 2nd airstrike on Apr 10
Video of the 1st airstrike on the same bridge on Apr 9
💥Lancet strike on a BUK-M1 SAM system
Unsuccessful evacuation of a wounded Foreign fighter on the frontline
⚠️ GRAPHIC
Lancet strike on a Grad MRLS
Both videos should be from the South Donetsk frontline
🇷🇺Airstrike on the Svatovo-Kremena frontline
The Minister of Defense of Ukraine, Reznikov, said that if he had followed the security protocol at the beginning of the conflict, he would have been captured a long time ago.

Details
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Kostantinovka (Ukr held Donbas) yesterday....there are fresh reports of strikes at Slavyansk and Pokrovsk
The Russian Aerospace Forces with guided bombs destroyed an enemy military facility in the Zmievka area in the Berislavsky district (Kherson region), where the AFU concentrated equipment and ammunition.

RVvoenkor
🇩🇪🇺🇦Germany buys drone suppression equipment

the reason is allegedly that "someone" is monitoring the training of Ukrainian soldiers

Germany recorded flights of "suspicious" copters in places where the Ukr military was trained.
🇷🇺Agents were immediately suspected
🇮🇱🇺🇸Leaked secret Pentagon documents are considering scenarios in which Israel would agree to supply lethal weapons to Ukraine, according to US media.

Details
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🇺🇸🇺🇦JDAMs getting jammed?

In the US, they are studying the failure of the JDAM smart bomb guidance systems that occurred in Ukraine, and the actions of Russian forces are being considered among the reasons

/NBC News/
A drive through the western section of Bakhmut (under Ukr control)
🇺🇦The Kiev authorities continue to sell Ukrainian land to foreign companies

Read below ⬇️
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🇷🇺"Kornet" destroys the communications relay of the Armed Forces of Ukraine installed on a multi-storey building in Avdeevka
Ukroboronprom (Ukr Arms Company) said that a batch of 125-mm tank shells produced in partnership with a NATO state was handed over to the Ukr Armed Forces.

Presumably, this is Poland, which is getting more and more involved in the conflict.
Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Danilov said that the Ukrainian counteroffensive "happens every day" and urged not to wait for "magic dates" Image
🇺🇦In Lvov, right under the windows of high-rise buildings, a large cemetery for AFU servicemen appeared.

Soon they will probably ban the filming of graveyards...a bill has been tabled in the Rada that would prohibit it
❗️Unusual episode from the front...

2 x Russian soldiers attacking a Ukr trench
🇺🇦Foreign Legion
❗️Researchers are looking at the reasons why JDAM bombs stopped working properly. The doc points out that possible reasons are incorrect settings of the bomb fuses & possible problems with the GPS signal caused by Russian electronic countermeasures.
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Russian Artillery firing on Ukr Infantry
On the eve of Biden's visit to Northern Ireland, a crowd of protesters attacked police with firebombs during a parade to commemorate the 1916 Republican uprising in Derry.
Training of Ukr soldiers by foreign instructors
Time for a fitness motivational video

Eye of the Tiger😎
❗️Russian Su-35 fighter jets launched a series of strikes on Orekhov and Gulyaipol in the Zaporozhye region. Losses are being investigated
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/Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andrey Yermak/
A "sponsor" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was detained in Khabarovsk

According to the FSB, the Khabarovsk resident transferred money to Ukrainian militants. A case of treason has been opened.
🇷🇺Smerch MRLS
Kremena frontline part 1
Kremena frontline part 2
Lancet strike on a Grad MRLS
🇷🇺Drone & Artillery interaction
Hi everyone...been busy today, on the road most of the day Image
🇧🇬🇺🇦Bulgaria is mulling transferring MiG-29 fighters to Ukr on "special terms".

The press service of the Bulgarian MOD stated that the country is ready to transfer MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine, but not free of charge. Image
However, the agency noted that negotiations on the supply of the MiG-29 to Ukraine have not yet been held, as reported in some media.
The increased deployment of anti-drone weapons seems to have an effect Image
⚡️The AFU created "detachments to increase the offensive initiative."😎

Previously, simply called - Blocking units.

The lad in the video is happy, he will not have to run through minefields in a hail of shells but is ready to shoot at those who are not very inspired to do so
⚡️Mobilization in Ukraine is aimed at achieving the maximum number at the front, while the training of recruits is minimal.

Quantity over quality - writes the Washington Post

Soldiers are exhausted, recently they've been complaining that recruits are ill-prepared. Image
Russian hackers break into security cameras in Ukrainian cafes to track the movement of military columns.

Says the representative of the US National Security Agency (NSA) Rob Joyce (Reuters)

Details
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During the Whole Year of the war, the WEST sent $ 130 billion worth of weapons and ammunition to Ukraine and another $ 45 billion in financial assistance.
1/ Fmr Ukr Ambassador to Germany Andrey Melnyk gives short and clear orders to German Defense Minister:

"We call on the Secretary of Defense not to shirk any more, but to address this central issue."
Melnik listed all the shortcomings of the German government:
2/ Ukraine has not received enough, we need: 310 Leopard 2s, 600 Fuchs APCs and 300 Wiesel combat vehicles

Andrey Melnik concludes his short message with a succinct one:

"Immediately!" 😊
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Thanks to a well-organized political campaign against Russia, the US has gained a premium European gas and oil market, according to the Financial Times.

Continued at
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Famous Ukrainian cyclist Konstantin Deneka was killed in the battle for Bakhmut.

The 40-year-old athlete served in one of the special forces of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense and died on March 31 near Bakhmut as a result of a shrapnel wound. Image
❗️ Works on the installation of the water pipeline from Rostov region to Donetsk are nearing completion.

Part of the pipes near Donetsk are already ready to receive water and laid in the ground.
🇷🇺Defence Mnister Shoigu during a visit to a military-Industrial facility in the Tula region
Recon drone discovered a AFU command post in the Kupyansk direction which was then attacked
🇺🇦2S1 Gvozdika with anti-drone cage
Wagner BMP-3
❗️Victory is assured...🤓

"Ukrainian gay soldiers are fighting with Russia for their rights"- British magazine The Economist Image
❗️The announced drastic tightening of the conscription & mobilisation system in Russia is reportedly the biggest reform in this area for many decades

Details
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⚡️There are reports (not yet properly verified) that the Central Train Station in Bakhmut has been captured by Wagner
History Legends on the Bakhmut Battle in his own style

Video seems to have been filmed on April 10

Russian drone footage from the Kremena Forest
Close Call
Chinese view of the war in Ukraine
Anyway, I'll call it a day and sign off

Good Night
Good Morning.

Lets continue after a 24 hr hiatus Image
T-90M tank in Bakhmut
Note the added ERA blocks highlighted in red....field modification
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Bakhmut city: Russian Army took control over City People's House in Rose Alley and new blocks south of it, reaching the streets of Krainia and Oborony. Meanwhile, clashes with Ukrainian Army continue at Elevator close to Bakhmut Railway Station 2, which is currently contested. Image
Map of the Bakhmut area as seen from Chasov Yar (West perspective) with the roads and important locations highlighted

Map source: NWE (edited) Image
Another map version of the captured section mentioned in the Suriyak update.

The photo of the Wagner flag at the govenment building at the end of Rose avenue and the T-90M video have been gelocated there
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Avdeevka acc to MilitaryMaps Image
Yesterday, it was mentioned in one of the reports that the road & rail infrastructure at Snigerevka is being worked on. A lot of it has been damaged heavily during the previous fighting in the area

As can be seen from the map, it's an important Road and Rail junction Image
Video of the Ukrainians blowing up multi storey buildings in Bakhmut before withdrawing further west into the city...the footage is from the centre of the city
Unsuccessful Ukr attempt to set up a Starlink terminal on the frontline in Zaporozhye region
T-72B3M model 2022 tank at the rehearsal of the Victory Parade in Yekaterinburg with a novelty.

The latice screen at the back of the tank received elements of dynamic protection ImageImageImageImage
A M-113 and a recovery vehicle sent to evacuate it were hit by Russian artillery at Ugledar
VDV Artillery targeting the AFU in Bakhmut
There is a report from a reporter in Bakhmut, that the AFU plans to blow up all the buildings in the yellow area if forced to withdraw further
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🇹🇷Conspiracy 😎 Image
💥Russian military commentator on TV show suggested it's time for mass employment of Vacuum (Thermobaric) bombs which haven't been employed so far. Complete destruction is assured in a radius of 300 - 400m. Human organs burst even if the person is 500-600m from the epicenter ImageImageImage
🇷🇺Russian Tank Ace: Stepan Belov

Gunner of a T-72B3M tank, he so far knocked out 16 Ukrainian tanks, 4 infantry fighting vehicles, and 10 light armored vehicles — R&U videos
🇷🇺T-72B3M tank on the frontline
🇷🇺"Pacer" (Orion) drone taking part in a attack on an enemy convoy at night
💥Lancet strike on a 79K6 Pelican ground surveillance radar
Lancet strike on Ukr position
Reporter with Wagner soldiers in Bakhmut.
Towards the end they talk about eliminating 3 Sniper positions that were holding back the infantry
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1/ 🇵🇱🇺🇦Polish - Ukranian plans

Our source in the OP told insider that Zelensky at a meeting with Polish PM Andrzej Duda agreed on the format of the Warsaw Union between Ukraine and Poland, which will be formed in the form of a confederation of the two countries.
2/ Zelensky's Office has agreed on several drafts for the upcoming union, and most importantly, a single political / military mechanism. In fact, it will be a new Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, but in a new format, which will allow Ukraine to instantly join NATO and the EU
❗️Prigozhin announced the number of Ukr soldiers destroyed by Wagner during the SMO.

"From the 1st day of hostilities to the present, our estimate for the destroyed enemy (irretrievable losses) is 38,000 people.

Of which 32 000 fell in Bakhmut, Soledar and surrounding area
🇺🇦"Krab" SP gun hit by Krasnopol guided round during counter-battery fire at Kuzemovka (Svatovo - Kremena front)
1/ 🇭🇺Hungarian PM Viktor Orban in an interview with the Hungarian Radio called Ukraine
"a financially non-existent country."

According to him, if the answer to the question "does Europe want to keep Ukraine" was "no", then the clashes would be over.
2/ "We pay for Ukrainian pensions, salaries, health care.

It is clear that this cannot continue indefinitely," he said.
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Arestovich speaks Image
⚡️🇨🇳🇷🇺Chinese Defense Minister will pay an official visit to Russia from April 16 to 19,

Chinese Ministry of Defense headed by a general who was on the US sanctions list for engaging in deals with individuals associated with the Russian defense or intelligence sector - FT
❗️Victoria Nuland hinted to the Russian Ambassador about possible arrests of Russian officials in the United States if their spy Gershkovich is not released
Reportedly, Poles in Bakhmut
Artillery of the 85th Bgd of the 2nd Lugansk Corps (LPR)
Transforming an old T-72B1 into a T-72B3M

/UVZ/
New batch of BMP-3s delivered to the 🇷🇺MOD
⚡️🇧🇾 The Minister of Defense of Belarus said that the continuation of the West's policy towards Belarus will lead to the fact that not only tactical, but also strategic nuclear weapons will appear on the territory of Belarus.

Preparations for this are already underway. Image
That;s all for today...Signing Off😊
Good Morning Image
❗️There are reports of a potential mini cauldron devloping in Bakhmut.

Elements of the 93 Mech Bgd and some Ter-Def unit if they don't withdraw, are reportedly in danger of being cut off in a pocket East of the railway line.

It's estimated about 300 people Image
Wagner troops crossing the railway in Bakhmut — Ukr video
Map of the Railway Station in Bakhmut and surrounding area acc to MilitaryMaps Image
A former Military Base and a section with large structures will probably be the main strongholds for the AFU going by this map Image
Bakhmut....could be a Russian DRG if true Image
Russian airstrike at Bakhmut....they say "Jdam-ski"
Former US paratrooper Chris Campell and Polish Officer (not sure of his name) reported killed in Bakhmut ImageImage
British supplied "Spartan" and a MT-LB knocked out at Bakhmut.

This is the 1st documented loss of a Spartan AFAIK
Wagner soldier celebrating his 2nd birthday...probably with a headache - Bakhmut
🇷🇺Air or Artillery strikes on the Ukr held bank of the Dnieper river in Kherson region...one of the targets was a field fuel & lubricants depot
▪️At 16:00, the Russian Aerospace Forces attacked an industrial enterprise in the Semyonovsky district of the Chernigov region with guided bombs

reports the Operational Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine "Sever" (North) ImageImage
Russian airstrikes on Zaporozhye Front
Lancet strike on a M-777 - Kherson region
Ukraine's allies in the West no longer expect a breakthrough from a possible AFU counteroffensive — Bloomberg

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French TV report from the Russian side of the front
🇷🇺2M-3M shipborne 25-mm mounts are installed on ATS-59G artillery tractors-all-terrain vehicles.

Recently removed from storage.

2M-3M - automatic double-barreled 25-mm shipborne artillery mounts - means of self-defense of ships, can hit targets at a slant range of up to 3 km. Image
Remains of the 5V55 missile from a 🇺🇦S-300P/PS system that hit a building in Slavyansk...5 people were killed
As usual, the local authorities say it was Russian
According to Western experts, Russia has worked out countermeasures for the HIMARS system

Coordinated action of S-300/400 and Buk air defense systems, as well as strikes on the HIMARS launchers with guided weapons Image
Russian unit has entered Nevelskoe acc to this map. It's part of the fight in the Pervomaisk - Vodyane area Image
There are suggestions, the attached Lancet video shows a TRLM-4D radar associated with the IRIS-T SAM system
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💥Konstantinovka — Ukr held town in Donetsk region
The death toll in Slavyansk from the S-300 missfire is reported to have risen to 17 people
Friendly Fire:
they're telling him that's where ours are
🇺🇦FM Kuleba put forward a ultimatum to the West for Ukraine to join NATO.

Just reaffirming the open door policy "for the 130th time" is no longer enough
If they offer us in Vilnius some deeper cooperation with NATO, but at the same time they do not take a single step towards Ukraine's membership in NATO, then this is unacceptable for us. In Vilnius, NATO should take a step towards membership
1/ 🇷🇺🇨🇳Russia did not ask China for military assistance, & statements of the Western press are fakes.
Sergei Sanakoev, member of the Russian International Affairs Council

He says that within the framework of Russian-Chinese relations, no one would hide the supply of weapons. Image
2/ The logic of our relations over the past decades has been such that, technically, Russia is helping China, and not vice versa.
🇫🇷Thousands of people take to the streets of Paris, garbage cans are burned throughout the city

a reaction to the approval of Macron's pension reform by the French constitutional court.
Footage from a 🇺🇦Ter-Def unit in Bakhmut
Medvedev angry with the Poles 🤨

I think related to the Polish PM remark about a Nato-Russia war not being a concern of theirs Image
🇺🇬 The son of the President of Uganda Image
🇫🇮🇷🇺Barely 2 weeks after joining NATO, Finland began to build a fence on the border with the Russian Federation, - AP

Not sure what a fence is suppose to do

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A new batch of leaked Pentagon documents claims that Russia is suppressing American guided bombs.

In addition to JDAM, malfunctions are also observed in other precision-guided munitions guided by GPS.

/politico/ Image
💥🇷🇺Airstrikes at Ugledar
🇩🇰🇺🇦Video of the first Danish Leopard 1A5 tanks being repaired and upgraded by FFG Flensburger for shipment to Ukraine.
🇷🇺Orlan-10 with "Moskit" jammer
🇷🇺Rostec started the production of "Obereg" protective vests in the Tula region.

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Lets continue...just a short update today

Small 🇷🇺advances in the southern part of the Bakhmut City Image
Ivanovskoye-SW of Bakhmut
VDV were able to force the AFU out of the forest area, using TOSs and BMPT "Terminator". The AFU are located along the main road and are trying to prevent further offensive actions. Aviation works on Ukr positions.

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VDV Artillery (likely TOS-1A) firing at Ivanovskoe
Khromovo area- Wagner made some progress along the upper residential area. Khromovo is a gray area, as artillery of Wagner group covers the entire village. All vehicles entering the village are under fire. The village itself is almost destroyed.
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Situation at Pervomaisk-Vodyane..heavy fighting reported at nearby Nevelskoe ImageImage
Reporter with Wagner in Bakhmut in the Railway Station area...
I'll be signing off for today...I'm pretty knackered😊

I suspect there might be a lull on the SMO battlefields today due to Easter

Good Night Image
April 17 Updates Image
🔥Belgorod was attacked with Drones.

2 fires were burning at 2 locations...one of them is probably a fuel depot judging from the fire.

Acc to the local authorities, the fires have been put out. There were no casualties
Bradleys reportedly somewhere in Ukraine
Lancet strike on a Ukr tank on Kremena frontline
Destroyed 🇺🇦M-109 SP Gun - Kupyansk direction
Update: An electrical sub station was hit in Belgorod which caused the fires
🇷🇺Airstrike on Zaporozhye Front ImageImageImage
Russian mobile ATGM team on buggies & ATVs at work on the "opornik" (strongpoint) of the AFU in the Zaporozhye region.
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Modified T-90M with extra ERA blocks on sides:

extra layer on sideskirts and the rear slat armour replaced with ERA.... and on top of turret.

The inserted smaller pics show the original set up compared to the new one ImageImageImage
🇷🇺VDV detachment training in the rear areas of the front
Lots of Russian tanks reportedly in the Donetsk area approx a week ago Image
"Izvestiya" Reporter with Wagner in Bakhmut
Map of Bakhmut City from Ukr "Deep State" shows a small section East of the railway line under Ukr control....acc to Russian sources everything east has already been cleared Image
It's reported there was an Ukr attempt to unblock the road to Seversk at Sako-Vancetti Image
T-90M firing gun launched missile at a tower with observation equipment...distance is about 3.5km
Russians using "Climate" weapons at Bakhmut according to 🇺🇦General Sursky😎 Image
🇷🇺Airstrike at Avdeevka
According to Pentagon documents, the Ukrainian military has very limited use of American HIMARS systems. According to MASH journalists, out of 20 launchers in service with the Ukrainian army, only 3-4 are used.

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Russian column

Might be related to the pic in the attached post but I don't know
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Trump Junior lesson in geography Image
🇷🇺Grom glide bomb Image
Young Wagner fan
Hi everyone

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💥BIG! explosion in Bakhmut:
the building of the Palace of Culture has been blown up by the AFU to impede the Russian advance
Also a large explosion reported from a Russian airstrike in Bakhmut Image
Map of situation in Western Bakhmut Image
Aerial view of the fighting in Western Bakhmut
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💥Reports of airstrikes in the Kupyansk area

The positions of the 14th separate mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kupyansk area were hit by a large number of UPAB-500 gliding bombs.
Reports of probing AFU attacks at Ugledar and Russian airstrikes as a response.
It's believed the AFU will attempt a breakthrough towards Volnovakha

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Spetznas Tiger-Spn & К-53949 Typhoon-K on the Zaporozhye front ImageImageImageImage
🇷🇺T-80BVM mod. 2022 with the Kontakt-1 reactive armor blocks added by the crew on anti-cumulative gratings behind the turret. ImageImage
One of the Leopard-2A4s didn't make it to Ukraine.🧐

It's turret was ripped off during training in Poland.

Apparently the gun was jammed into the soil resulting in what you see ImageImageImage
🇺🇦 FPV drone strike on a T-72...they say the ERA did it;s job on this occasion
🇷🇺🇵🇱"Briefly about the "grain deal". So to speak, Judas choked on grain at Passover."

Maria Zakharova on Poland's suspension of grain imports from Ukraine.
1/ 🇺🇦"Ukraine will cease to exist by September."

Zelensky now spends half of his time in Poland, where the final approvals and preparations for the surrender of the western regions of Ukraine are underway
2/ Zelensky's office is well aware that the spring offensive will fail, but it will allow them to buy two or three months to complete all their issues before moving."

Ilya Kiva, former deputy of the Verkhovna Rada
Donbas

Our positions have been strengthened by the arriving airborne and armoured units

/Tankers of the Southern Military District TG channel/ ImageImage
Polish supplied PT-91 "Twardy" tanks at a training ground
💥Lancet strike on a 🇺🇦 Gunboat on the Dnieper at Zaporozhye City
⚡️🇷🇺Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the headquarters of the Dnepr and Vostok groups in the Kherson region and the LPR, where he heard reports from the commanders Mikhail Teplinsky, Oleg Makarevich and Alexander Lapin.

Video ⬇️
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🇷🇺Il-20M Recon aircraft with fighter escort approached Estonian airspace...Nato Eurofighters were raised as a response Image
Destroyed 🇺🇦PRV-16 radar (altimeter) vehicle
Lancet strike on artillery gun — Zaprozhye frontline
⚔️Ka-52 footage during yesterdays Ukr attack at Ugledar...3 x Tanks and a BMP-1 were destroyed
military echelon in Russia
Shoigu met the Chinese Defence Minister
Binance vs. USA — crypto exchange canceled limits for Russians

The largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world has canceled restrictions imposed after the fifth package of Western sanctions on the size of an account of 10 000 dollars or euros for Russian citizens.
The wreckage of the kamikaze drone "Geran" in Snigirevka, Nikolaev region, where, according to local authorities, seven such UAVs arrived at night. Their target was an industrial infrastructure facility.

Noteworthy is the number M836. Image
Polish Army Reserve Officer Piotr Pavelka - about the incident with the Leopard-2 tank at the training ground
Few updates for April 19

Odessa was attacked with Shahed-Geran drones overnight. including the airport ImageImageImage
Lancet strike on a "OSA-AKM" SAM vehicle
The Optimists from the Ukr-AirForce command report that 10 out 12 drones were shot down.
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NATO is preparing for possible hostilities on its borders and is moving from a state of “hibernation” into a capable military alliance, which implies the transfer of even more military and equipment to the border with the Russian Federation.

/The New York Times/
💥Kupyansk. Old Quarry.

On the video - the result of a Russian airstrike with glide bombs
Large amount of destroyed munitions and burnt equipment is visible
🇷🇺Mobile AT teams on Quad ATVs in Bakhmut area ImageImage
🇺🇦Su-25 shot down by IGLA Manpad at Ugledar
🇺🇸🇷🇺☢️US has secret nuclear technology at Ukrainian nuclear power plant and warns Russia not to touch it - CNN, citing a letter from the US Department of Energy sent to Rosatom

the NPP has been under Russian control for a year already...might be a bit late
🇺🇸🇨🇳The administration of US President Joe Biden is preparing to announce unprecedented measures to limit US investment in China, aimed at curbing Beijing's technological and military development.

Politico citing sources.
Russian Army awards Ukr soldier who disabled the Leo-2 tank 😎
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A group of Chechen volunteers left Grozny for the SMO zone
🇺🇦Trophy T-72B3 knocked out in Bakhmut Image
Reportedly a 🇷🇺UPAB glide bomb strike at Berislav (kherson region) which the AFU is using as a marshaling area
A VDV unit made up of soldiers from Yakutia (Far East Russia) converse in Yakutian over the radio...not many Ukrainians or westerners speak Yakutian
Wagner flag raised over a captured building in Bakhmut...not sure of exact location Image
🇨🇳🇷🇺Chinese Defence Minister laid a reef at the grave of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow
The Danish state broadcaster DR complains that Russian reconnaissance ships are allegedly preparing sabotage on the maritime infrastructure of Northern Europe.

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🇷🇺🇰🇷Medvedev reply to the announcement by the South Korean president he is ready to supply weapons to the Kiev regime

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Russian anti-tank cluster mines PTM-4 "Knockout-2" once agan made an appearance on the frontline.

PTM-4 is equipped with a magnetic fuse and can be installed remotely using cassettes, aircraft, minelayers or portable mining complexes. ImageImageImageImage
T-90M firing at a observation tower. Distance is 4.2km
🇺🇦M-109 SP Gun hit by Krasnopol round during counter battery fire near the village of Petropavlovka
🇷🇺Strela-10 shooting down a Recon drone
⚔️Fighting in Bakhmut.

Filmed from Wagner positions
❗️The second Iris-T SLM battery is already in Ukraine. It's transfer, along with 16 missiles, took place a few days ago, - Der Spiegel.

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If true, not many missiles Image
❗️It's also reported that a Patriot Battery has arrived in Ukraine from Germany Image
M2A2 Bradley ODS-SA and Slovenian tanks M-55S during exercises of the 47th Specialized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The servicemen of this particular unit of the Ukrainian army were trained on the Bradley's in the USA. Image
Lets continue - Apr 20

⚡️The units of the Airborne Forces blocked Artemovsk (Bakhmut) from the northern and southern outskirts.

/Ministry of Defense of the RF/

...

They don't specify exact locations but we'll try to figure it out
The MOD statement likely refers to:

Northern route: Cutting of the Chasov Yar - Khromovo road south of Orekhovo Vasilevka (reported by several sources)

Southern route: this is just speculation but likely the road junction where the MiG-17 monument was Image
Reports of heavy fighting at Hospital No 2.

Russian forces are pushing along "Pobeda" (Victory) avenue in the direction of Khromovo (from the East)
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Wagner captured the southwest of the train station and reached the military barracks used by the pre-war Ukrainian army

- Russian VDV troops crossed the railway west of the city bus station and captured some of the high-rise buildings

from @FahrettinAltay_ Image
❗️The explosion in the sky over Kiev was initially reported as the work of the Ukr Air-Defence...later a statement was released by the Ukrainians saying a NASA satellite had crashed...an unusual place to crash a satellite IMO
Another version of the explosion in the Kiev sky
Another theory about the explosion in the Kiev skies is that it was a malfunctioning Hypersonic missile
According to the author of the video, the footage shows the blowing up of a bridge with the help of a remotely controlled 🇷🇺GAZ-66 truck filled with explosives somewhere on the frontline.
Aftermath of an 🇷🇺airstrike in Ugledar
❗️🇺🇦 "Da Vinci Wolves" video somewhere on the outskirts of Bakhmut showing unfortunately an unsuccessful Russian attack.

Very close combat shown.

From what can be seen, they receive info from a drone during the fight and the commander is competent
Ukraine demanded that Turkey detain a ship with grain allegedly loaded in Crimea, The Wall Street Journal reported.

According to her, a ship belonging to a company from Dubai with 19,000 tons of barley under the Panamanian flag arrived at the Turkish port on April 17.
AT missile caught in the frame in Bakhmut area
Sweden has supplied Ukraine with PS-70 (Giraffe) radars that can be used with L-70 Bofors 40mm AA guns and the RBS-70 missile system Image
Inside a Russian T-72B3 tank
The Ukr Airforce command reports of Drone and guided bomb attacks overnight. They claim to have shot down 10 out of 11 Shaheds Image
🇷🇺Su-25 over Donbas
⚡️Acc to the Washington Post based on leaked Pentagon docs, the 🇷🇺 military conducted tests of EW system "Tobol", originally designed to protect Russian satellites. US intel claims that Tobol can be used to launch attacks on enemy satellites.

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December 21, 2021 "Tirada-2S" from the Rostov region turned off 2 military satellites of the Eurospace Agency.
As of March 2022 (already with the beginning of the SMO) on the French website there was a remark that "two satellites are still not functioning"
From 2021 regarding the jamming of satellites
NATO general secretary Stoltenberg has arrived for a visit to Kiev Image
For more than a month, Global Hawk flights have been keeping their distance from Crimea Image
⚡️According to the Military Chronicle, when trying to “slip” into Bakhmut, Wagner covered a convoy with equipment of the 24th and 93rd mechanized brigades, as well as territorial defense units, with artillery fire.
Armoured Vehicles promised to Ukraine

Blue - Promised
Purple - On way
Red - Delivered Image
🏳️‍🌈 In the Kremena direction, 🇷🇺 soldiers found the bodies of soldiers from the 🇺🇦 "Gay battalion"

The slain gay wore a chevron with a unicorn on his uniform, and in his pocket, apparently, was a photograph with his boyfriend.
Apr 21 Updates

Artillery on Donetsk Front
Situation at Bakhmut according to latest updates....the white sections with stars are areas captured in the last 24-48 hrs

Maps
MilitaryMaps + NWE ImageImage
Russian sources report a missile strike on the AFU Bakhmut Group HQ in Konstantinovka

As well as heavy fighting on a section of the Chasov Yar - Khromovo road (Road 5060). Acc to some reports the road is physically cut ImageImage
Western Bakhmut from a different perspective showing some important features ImageImage
A Russian attack on Nevelskoe has reportedly been repulsed...this is part of the Vodyane-Pervomaisk sector Image
Zaporozhye Frontline

2 smaller Russian advances reported in the direction of Gulaipole

And Russian Artillery & Air strikes on the East side of the frontline (fire icons) ImageImage
Kupyansk Direction

Artillery duels focused mainly on the East bank of the Oskol River....Russians aiming to prevent AFU troop rotations and force them across the river, while AFU trying to hold on Image
The latest announced US aid package for Ukraine Image
Transport of Bradley IFVs in Transcarpathia (West Ukr). Video said to be from Apr 14
One of the Ukr soldiers from the quoted video has been killed on April 9 (On the wreath: call sign "Norman" from Da Vinci Wolves)...so the video was filmed either in early April or March
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Ka-52 video from Ugledar area
Lancet strike on AN/TPQ-37 counter battery radar
Lancet strike on a tank

It's a longer version of a video posted a day or two ago
Ukr video from Bakhmut...their positions in a multi storey building got into the frame
Su-34 armed with Kh-29T missile

They still won't show us what the bombs with the UMPK kit look like ImageImageImage
NATO will help Ukraine in the long term so that the armed forces of this country come to full interoperability with the forces of the alliance, NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg said following the talks in Kiev. Image
Western leaders expect Zelensky to pay off the investments made in him

British strategy expert Lawrence Friedman told where the conflict in Ukraine is heading: "Ukrainian commanders may not have another chance to win.

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Improvised 🇺🇦demining vehicle based on a Hitachi excavator ImageImageImage
🇺🇦36D6 Radar with netting against kamikaze drones ImageImage
Reporter showing work of Artillery on the frontline
🇷🇺AT missile fired at a group of Infantry
Yesterday, a bomb was dropped from a Su-34 on Belgorod due to a technical problem...luckily no one was killed Image
A crowd of people waiting for food aid from the UN in Kherson City...yet they're exporting grain?
A Wagner fighter told media about anti-drone units: special groups with anti-drone weapons are constantly on the line of contact to intercept enemy tactical drones.

The Ukr military organizes a real hunt for "bird catchers" & showed the wall that once saved him.
The leaked documents say that the Ukrainian military planned to strike Russian forces in Syria with the help of UAVs.

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From the video description

Russian forces have begun to use 'The Road of Death'; which symbolises that they have taken a large portion of it.
/Ukraine War Updates/
Comments from a pilot (Fighter-Bomber TG channel) regarding the Belgorod incident

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⚡️US presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr. spoke about the events in Ukraine on Fox News.

“No one talks about it, but 14,000 Ukrainian civilians, 300,000 military personnel died.

Russians kill Ukrainians in the ratio of 7 to 1 or 8 to 1.” he said.
Today, at the Ramstein airbase in Germany, a meeting of representatives of the countries - sponsors of Ukraine will be held.

According to the NATO Secretary General, the possibility of providing Ukraine with various types of aircraft will be discussed.
The United States will begin training Ukrainian forces on how to use and maintain Abrams tanks in the coming weeks, as the it continues to speed up its effort to get them onto the battlefield against Russia as quickly as possible U.S. officials said Friday.apnews.com/article/ukrain…
Good Morning - Apr 22 Updates Image
Russian Aerospace Forces launched a series of airstrikes on the former Fregat camp near the village of Kizomys, Kherson region. ImageImageImageImage
The right bank of the Dnieper is dotted with children's & fishing camps , which are now places of deployment of the AFU. These facilities are equipped with piers, which allows the AFU to use boats for attacks on the islands on the Dnieper.
🇷🇺Airstrike on a hangar-warehouse where AFU equipment was stored...an OSA SAM vehicle can be seen among other vehicles
Latest History Legends Video
❗️Satellite pics of the area where the Russians are said to have cut the Chasov Yar - Bakhmut (0506) road.
Extensive Ukr defences shown before and after Artillery shelling
3rd photo shows a destroyed AFU column ImageImageImage
1/ The SBU released photos of a cruise missile attack on the Ukrainian air base Kanatovo in the Kirovograd region on July 16, 2022.

Some images show destroyed Su-27s and Su-24s ImageImageImageImage
2/ This was the result of a failed intel operation during which the SBU thought it had recruited a Russian pilot to defect with his aircraft. He was meant to land at this base which was instead attacked
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Deep State video showing some of the fighting for the trench system defending the 0506 road (Chasov Yar - Khromovo)
🇺🇦Leopard-2 and M-113s somewhere on the frontline

So we should see it in action soon
Fuel Depot at Vinnitsa was hit by Shahed-Geran drones Image
Blinken the "diplomat" exposed Image
Zelensky signed a law on the "decolonization of toponyms" - it prohibits assigning names associated with Russia to geographical objects and streets

It will go into practice 3 months after publication and has to be fulfilled within 6 months after that
Prigozhin, said that in conditions of heavy slush, the AFU would not launch a counteroffensive.

However, he still believes they will eventually try
The main task of the Russian military is to prevent the AFU from accumulating a sufficient number of forces and means for conducting a counteroffensive, so they strike "on enemy warehouses, equipment, and personnel."

Retired Lt Colonel Marochko
Russian AT missile team in Bakhmut
VDV "Nona-S" SP Gun-Mortar...likely Kremena frontline
T-90M that lost it's track getting evacuated by a BREM recovery vehicle
Ukr video from West Bakhmut
Video description says "Khrsantema" AT missiles (launcher not filmed) fired at Ukr observation camera in West Bakhmut
The head of the Wagner, Prigozhin, says that the son of Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary of the President of Russia, served in the PMC as a "simple artilleryman" as part of the crew of the 220-mm Uragan MLRS.
🇷🇺"Unmanned Vehicles" presented a prototype of a K-5 jet-powered FPV kamikaze drone

Equipped with artificial intelligence to recognize thermal signatures & visual patterns.

"In the near future, adjusting the inertial system will completely get rid of the use of radio channels Image
Russian Il-96-300 flies to Berlin.

There's speculation that an exchange of some sort might be happening. Image
Airstrike at the coal mine north of Ugledar
Polish 155-mm self-propelled gun Krab and an ammunition carrier (in the background) near the village of Zvanovka in the Seversk direction.
The HAWK SAM systems were delivered to Ukraine without radars reports Foreign Policy magazine... Image
"Yarem Shooter" (reporter attached to Wagner) at the Train Station in Bakhmut

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Nov 25
❗️Starting a new "World War Z" thread.

Last one ends here
❗️After a pause of several days, NATO chose to launch an attack on a Kursk (Khalino) airfield with ATACMS missiles. To distract and overload the air defense system, the attack involved drones also. Unfortunately, not all missiles were shot down.

◾️The Khalino airfield in the Kursk region, is one of the sites where reinforced concrete shelters are being built at a rapid pace.

◾️Based on the published footage, it looks like 2 missiles got through and released their cluster munition payload.

◾️The exact damage caused is unknown at the moment, although it's reported that combat aircraft were moved from the border airfields and relocated further inland a while ago.
The following is a summary from several opinion type pieces

Objectively, NATO countries and the bloc's leader, the United States, have two basic options for further action:

1. Raise the stakes and continue using Western missiles on the "old" territory of Russia,

2. Abandon this and return to the previous framework of the conflict in Ukraine.

However, the second option is an admission that Russian deterrence has worked, which means significant image loss for the West.

Western missile strikes on the "old territory" have continued. Either the United States does not believe in Russia's use of force against the North Atlantic Alliance, or the outgoing Biden administration has decided to actually start a war in Europe, a scenario which it sees as favorable for the US

Therefore, the choice facing Russia is now extremely simple.

The first scenario is one in which Moscow relies on defeating the enemy on the front where it is doing well, and does not respond.

Then the level of escalation from the opposing side will increase. The next targets could include the HQ of the SMO command in Rostov-on-Don or the Black Sea Fleet base in Novorossiysk or the Crimean Bridge again.

The second scenario is Russia raising the stakes, that is, a more powerful response than the non-nuclear test of "Oreshnik". A response that could be limited to the territory of Ukraine OR expand into NATO countries.

The Russian leadership has a lot of options for action, and here it is a question of exclusively political will. Although for some reason the West does not believe the Kremlin will escalate to a level causing a large scale direct clash.

Let us also add that if the first scenario is chosen, new types of Western missile weapons may appear in Ukraine and Moscow and St. Petersburg may be under attack.

The use of a "dirty" nuclear bomb by the enemy is also a possibility
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Apr 22
Hi everyone ✋

Starting a new Russo-Ukr/NATO thread

Last one end here


Appologies for not posting any updates the past 2 days but I've been sick as a dog...still recovering
❗️⚔️Some Russian sources are saying that Ocheretino has fallen.

The centre of the town is definately under Russian control as shown on the video of Russian soldiers in front of the admin building
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Jul 10, 2023
🇷🇺🇺🇦New Russo-Ukr/NATO thread

Last one ends here
❗️There was an explosion on the Crimean bridge

At least one collapsed bridge span is reported

1 civilian car was damaged with people inside...there are dead https://t.co/APLpFssAyFtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
We don't know what caused the explosion at the Crimea bridge at the moment but some channels are speculating it could have been an attack with small naval drone

The Naval drone theory is seen as the most likely explanation due to no air raid alarm and the nature of the damage… https://t.co/oPbRlDGfWztwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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May 4, 2023
🇷🇺We've all heard of Dolphin combat divers...meet an Eagle drone interceptor
Russian airstrike at Orekhovo - Zaporozhye front
Russian drones at Spornoe
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Apr 22, 2023
🇺🇸MQ-9 Reaper drone reported shot down at Kirkuk in Iraq.

The Pentagon says it crashed due to technical problems
People are being evacuated from the area where the bomb dropped recently in Belgorod....some reports say there is unexploded explosives or another bomb
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Feb 12, 2023
Starting New 🇷🇺🇺🇦Thread

Previous one ends here
1st footage of a new 🇺🇦Kamikaze drone

In appearance, dimensions and method of launching the Ukrainian UAV resembles the Iranian Arash-2 closely.
If it has similar performance characteristics, it will be able to strike deep behind Russian lines
The drone is launched from a low-tonnage truck using a launch rocket accelerator, and then flies to the target on a piston engine with a pusher propeller.

2nd pic is Iranian Arash-2 for comparison
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