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Lieutenant Colonel Roman Venevitin, former commander of the Russian 72nd Separate Motor Rifle Brigade that got wrecked near Klishchiivka and Andriivka, calls the brigade losses 'very serious', while calling it betrayal to sent soldiers to the front untrained and unprovided.

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It is reported that Colonel Andrey "Dunai" Kondrashkin, commander of the Russian 31st Guards Air Assault Brigade, has died fighting in Ukraine.

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Ukraine destroys the air defense shield over Crimea

Today's destruction of the S-400 in Yevpatoriya, Crimea with kamikaze UAVs & Neptune cruise missiles was already the second such successful operation in recent days.

On August 23, Russian S-400 air defence system & 48Ya6-K1 Podlet-K1 low-altitude surveillance radar used with S-400 AD system were destroyed in Olenivka, Crimea.

Podlet-K1 radar provided control of the air situation over the western part of the Black Sea to Russian forces.

The destruction of the S-400 air defense system on August 23 made a kind of "hole" in the air defense of Crimea.

This allowed Ukraine to target Sevastopol with British Storm Shadow cruise missiles fired from Su-24s.

Russian Navy’s Ropucha-class landing ship Minsk & Kilo-class Rostov-on-Don (B-237) submarine are now beyond repair after these strikes.

This is a difficult, methodical, long, but successful operation conducted by Ukrainian forces.

And it'll surely continue with the Ru

❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Combined attack by the Ukrainian armed forces in the Black Sea

On the morning of September 14, Ukrainian formations carried out another attack on the Crimean peninsula.

First, 11 UAV were launched from the vicinity of Odessa (for the first time in a long time not "Mugins" were used for this purpose).

The drones were shot down by the 31st Air Force and Air Defense Division around 5.30 a.m. over Yevpatoria.

Around 5.50 a.m the AFU hit the vicinity of Uyutnoye with an "Neptun" anti-ship missile R-360, as a result a S-300 SAM launcher was hit (relevant footage already appeared on the Net)

❗Once again the AFU uses the same tactics as a few weeks ago. After the UAV raid, the positions of the S-300 air defense system were determined, and the Neptun was used almost immediately. First, the AFU waited until the ammunition was exhausted, and then hit the SAMs.

🔻 Over the past two days, the Ukrainian armed forces also attacked several times a detachment of warships of the Black

“Granit, cease fire!”

Russian artillery heavily pounded its own forces in July 2023 for two hours.

EW was suppressing the communication all this time.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Soledar direction: the AFU advances near Andriivka, situation as of 14.00 on September 9, 2023

🔻Southwest of Bakhmut, Ukrainian formations continue to make their way to the railroad track: after passing to the northeastern outskirts of Kleshcheyevka, the AFU struck near Andriivka.

As a result of fierce fighting, enemy units were able to drive the Russian army fighters out of the village. According to some reports, the RF Armed Forces' line of control runs along the railway line.

This is indirectly confirmed by the activity of Ukrainian reconnaissance groups north of Kurdyumovka. Units on armored vehicles are moving north of the Russian fortification, which could not be the case in case of the presence of the RF Armed Forces in Andriivka.

🔻 There are also clashes in Kleshcheyevka. Russian Armed Forces units hold the northeastern outskirts and are trying to counterattack. The distance to the railway track is about 400 meters.

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"The head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), Vasyl Malyuk, told about how the Kerch Bridge bombing was prepared on October 8, 2022.

According to him, the explosives were hidden in rolls of film, its total capacity was 21 tons of TNT equivalent.

At the same time, all the Russians transporting the explosives, as well as the truck driver who died at the time of the explosion, were used "in the dark".

"We have gone through seven circles of hell, used so many people in the dark! The Russians "closed" 22 people - imprisoned them. They incriminate all of them for complicity in a terrorist act. Although in fact they were engaged in their usual routine business. They were just ord

Combined troop deaths and injuries among Russian and Ukrainian forces in Ukraine is approaching 500,000.

Russian casualties approaching 300,000, including as many as 120,000 deaths.

Ukrainian deaths at close to 70,000 & wounded between 100-120,000.

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Everyone knows that infantry is at the forefront of every battle, but today we decided to show you the forces overseeing their progress from above – Ukraine’s army aviation. Meet the two legendary helicopters that form it’s very backbone.

An apparently leaked memo attributed to former Russian minister Dmitri Rogozin reports major shortcomings in the Russian army's equipment, including artillery far inferior to Western equivalents, a shortage of 152 mm shells, inadequate communications and obsolete UAVs.

The VChK-OGPU Telegram channel has published 4 pages of a memo signed in Rogozin's name and addressed to Anton Vaino, the head of the Russian Presidential Administration. It tackles "problematic issues of organisation and management of combat operations" in the war in Ukraine.

Rogozin served as deputy prime minister in charge of the defence industry from 2011 to 2018, then as head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos until being fired in July 2022. He has since been trying to make himself relevant again, which is likely the context for the memo.

Rogozin declared himself the head of the "Tsar's Wolves" inspection group of volunteers, with

"Russian “Vostok” Battalion commander Alexander Khodakovsky suggested that Russia freeze the war in Ukraine along the current frontlines, reintroducing a narrative that had been largely dormant since Wagner financier Prigozhin’s armed rebellion.

Khodakovsky's unit is defending in the Donetsk-Zaporizhia border area & his comments about freezing the war follow the liberation of Urozhaine, suggesting recent UKR advances may be significantly weakening confidence in the RU defense along the wider front in southern Ukraine.

Khodakovsky has previously highlighted concerns about the Russian defense in the Donetsk-Zaporizhia Oblast border area, specifically relating to poor Russian counterbattery capabilities, heavy Russian losses, exhausted Russian forces, and a lack of reserves.

Khodakovsky called for an operational pause on August 13 so that Russian forces could accumulate resources for a new operation.

Khodakovsky’s escalation from calling for an operational pause to suggesting tha

A S-300 Battery hit by HIMARS

The history of this unit defending its homeland spans more than a century. Since the start of the full-scale invasion, they faced the enemy on the hottest frontiers: in Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, and near Bakhmut. The brigade has been commended by Volodymyr Zelenskyy at least half a dozen times, and President Biden quoted one of its soldiers in his speech. Now, they continue to liberate their homeland. This is the story of the 128th separate mountain assault brigade.

Genuinely interesting. This morning the Russian MoD claimed they destroyed 3 naval drones that tried to attack two of their Black Sea Fleet patrol ships (Sergey Kotov and Vasily Bykov). There were stories a container ship (Sparta-IV, reportedly carrying weapons coming from Syria) was also among the vessels that were attacked.

Russian sailors after the attack reportedly asked for evacuation. In intercepted conversations between the crews of Ka-29 helicopters (involved in the evacuation) and coastal aviation services, coordinates of the vessels are transmitted and the number of casualties were specified. There is being talked about one dead and five wounded while also talking about the need for border guards for 'custom clearance'. What is ment with the latter is unknown but it is likely related to the cargo.

It seems a lot more damage has been done than Russia (like usual) is willing to admit.

Wagner PMC mercenary Denis Kuzmin was headed home to Omsk across Russia but stopped in Moscow and hired prostitutes in a banya (sauna). After he passed out, the prostitutes stole 790,000 rubles ($8,500) in cash, his entire salary for serving in Ukraine for 6 months.

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