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Ukraine: military situation update with maps - Mar 2, 2023
(’Orc’ is associated with the various hoards of 13th century Mongol invaders, as well as LOTR evil villains)
War in Ukraine Explained/Reporting from Ukraine:
https://www.youtube.com/@RFU
Artillery (key to success in this war), Fuller explanation of Orc military structure, Other Bonus articles - see previous postings in “Attack on Europe” (FR title search).
(Numbered printed material below - Some of the items below may be out of date, and not updated yet)
••Denotes Transcribed Dialogue. The entirety of the analysis is from a Ukrainian guy named Reporting from Ukraine’s daily video - I only transcribe it. Extras are just that - from other sites, or my comments marked (Edit: .... ) or { } or [ ].
-—> Current to date and past MAPS: <——
https://militaryland.net/
-—> The True State of Russian Army <——
posted 2 months ago, 21.13 min
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KiII_2qabk
-—> Combined Arms Breach, what UA will have to master to smash Orc Lines <——
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ-sCT_maAQ
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Extras:
-—> Ukraine Situation Report: Conflicting Claims Over ‘Raid’ Inside Russia <——
Russia says Ukraine carried out a deadly raid inside its borders, but Kyiv disputes that claim, suggesting partisans caused any trouble.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/ukraine-situation-report-conflicting-claims-on-raid-inside-russia
Excerpts:
Putin on Thursday accused Ukraine of carrying out an act of terrorism in a small Russian community just north of the Ukrainian border.
Ukrainian forces “today carried out another act of terror, committed another crime, infiltrated the border area and opened fire on civilians,” Putin said, according to the official Russian TASS news agency. “They saw it was a civilian car, saw that civilians and children were inside ... they opened fire on them.”
Putin’s comments came after Alexander Bogomaz, the governor of Bryansk Oblast, claimed on his Telegram channel that a Ukrainian sabotage group crossed the border, killed two people, and wounded two others. He offered no proof of those claims.
“The story about [a Ukrainian] sabotage group in [Russia] is a classic deliberate provocation,” Ukrainian presidential advisor Mikhail Podolyak wrote on Twitter Thursday. The Russian Federation “wants to scare its people to justify the attack on another country & the growing poverty after the year of war. The partisan movement in [Russia] is getting stronger & more aggressive. Fear your partisans.”
Andrii Yusov, a spokesman for the Ukrainian Defense Intelligence Directorate (GUR) also cited the work of Russian partisans, saying Russia is full of internal strife.
“The so-called Russian Federation is an absolutely unstable entity with a colossal number of internal conflicts: international, social, political,” he told the Ukrainian Suspline news organization. “And indeed, there are such things, in particular, that speak of a confrontation in the middle of the Russian Federation itself between the citizens of the Russian Federation itself.”
Yusov told the publication that there was already evidence of the presence of one of those partisan groups - the Russian Volunteers Corps (RVC) - in the region.
“This shows that the people of Russia are probably starting to wake up against Putin’s bloody dictatorship,” Yusov said.
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An American military veteran who told Russian state-run media that he defected to Moscow after fighting with Ukraine’s International Legion served very briefly with the U.S. Army, a service spokesperson told our colleagues at Task & Purpose.
John David McIntyre “served in the regular Army as an Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C) from June 2015 to August 2017,” an Army spokesperson told Task & Purpose on Thursday. “He has no deployments. He held the rank of private first class at the end of service.”
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-—> Our Best Look At Ukraine’s Shadowy ‘Alibaba Drone’ Used For Long-Range Strikes <——
New images show an intact example of the same adapted commercial drone that has struck targets deep in Crimea and inside Russia.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/our-best-look-at-ukraines-shadowy-alibaba-drone-used-for-long-range-strikes
Excerpts:
The mysterious ‘available on Alibaba’ twin-tail-boom drone that gained notoriety last summer for being tied to long-range ‘kamikaze’ strikes likely carried out by Ukrainian forces has emerged once again.
This time, however, instead of blurry faraway video footage and pictures of it high over territory Ukraine does not control, including over Russia itself, or crashed parts of it, new photos show the drone fully intact on the ground. This offers us the best look yet at the shadowy improvised long-range precision strike weapon.
Where exactly the drone reportedly downed in Crimea came from is also unconfirmed. But reports coming out of Russian state media would suggest that it may have been tied to a recent mass long-range drone attack in the area launched by Ukrainian forces. Russia’s Defense Ministry on Wednesday claimed its military “prevented a massive drone attack on Crimea” by shooting down six drones using air defenses and disabling another four using electronic warfare capabilities.
it is largely believed to be a commercial type that can be bought on the Chinese marketplace website Alibaba. Potential names have even been nailed down since it made its first documented appearance last June, with Mugin-5 being the most commonly used today.
Mugin-5 drones, which are made of carbon fiber, vary in price depending on the model and listing. On Alibaba, the standard fixed-wing Mugin-5 costs just under $9,500, but past prices have ranged anywhere between $5,000 and $10,000.
The site puts the drone’s wingspan at about 16 feet, its fuselage length at just over 11 feet, and its maximum payload capacity at about 55 pounds. The listing says Mugin-5 can fly for up to seven hours at 74 miles per hour.
The ‘Alibaba drones,’ though, were likely responsible for a significant number of the mysterious strikes and secondary explosions that have occurred in the last year. These being at strategic targets like fuel depots and ammunition dumps either in Russia or deep inside Russian-controlled territory, as well as strikes on Crimea.
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The drone breached a Belarusian airbase in broad daylight, apparently in the days leading up to a claimed drone strike on the A-50.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/video-shows-drone-landing-on-russian-a-50-radar-jet-that-was-supposedly-attacked
Excerpts:
BYPOL says this video was taken during a period of “two weeks [when] Belarusian partisans conducted aerial reconnaissance at Machulishchy military airfield with the help of civilian drones purchased in a store.”
Although it’s unclear exactly when this reconnaissance took place, it does lend credibility to BYPOL’s claims of a drone attack on an A-50. Until now, we had no firm evidence that drones had actually penetrated the airbase.
As it stands, we know that at least one drone succeeded in getting close enough to the A-50 to land on it, although the degree of damage that was ultimately inflicted on the aircraft remains unclear for now.
The video was apparently shot from a quadcopter-type drone, with its rotors periodically visible at the margins of the camera shot. According to BYPOL, the attack on the A-50 involved two drones manufactured by DJI, “converted into kamikaze drones in a handicraft way.” According to the same source, each drone carried a charge of 200 grams (0.4 pounds) of TNT explosive as well as around 200 metal balls.
Most recently, the Belarusian Ministry of Defense has published at least two undated videos showing the A-50 in question taking off and then flying over Belarus, escorted by Belarusian Su-30SM Flanker fighter jets while conducting “combat duty tasks.” It’s possible, of course, that the video was shot before the claimed drone strike, or any damage sustained was subsequently repaired, although that seems less likely due to the short timeframe involved.
As far as the possibility of repairs is concerned, a report today from the Ukrainian Ukrainska Pravda online newspaper suggests that the damaged A-50 was flown, at an undisclosed time, from Belarus to Russia. Citing an independent Belarusian military monitoring media outlet, Belaruski Hajun, the article states that the plane headed for repairs at the 325th Aviation Repair Plant, at Taganrog, on the Sea of Azov.
This has not been independently verified and, if true, a movement of this kind could be related to a regular fleet rotation, routine maintenance, scheduled overhaul, or even upgrade. It also could be Russia removing such a prized asset from what is now proven to be a vulnerable location.
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Reporting from Ukraine:
https://www.youtube.com/@RFU
No transcript available - some YT problem.
••Day 372.
Eastern front: Russian plans were obvious, so UA set in motion a plan to deny an easy victory. UA is sending more forces to Bakhmut as shown on a video of massed armored vehicles. UA force commander says they will hold city as long as High Command see fit. The forces are on the high ground between Chasiv Yar and another town, and not being sent inside Bakhmut.
To attack and close the north pincer, the Russians have to move over the low ground which is soaked, while the UA is on high ground which is dry, giving them a tactical advantage.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPpYQuLW8T0
Denys says:
No transcript available - some YT problem.
••Attack in the Bryansk Oblast, Russia was carried out by opposition Russians. Kid was not wounded according to his mom. After firefight. which reportedly killed a border guard officer, the opposition returned to Ukraine.
Looks like the Bryansk Oblast is weakly defended, and a couple of UA battalions could take the whole of it. The operation was conducted in coordination with the UA - the objective was to show how weak Russia really has become.
More troops and the UA could take Moscow, because 90% of the Russian army is in Ukraine. This action shows how weak the Russian army actually is and how weak the FSB is whose job it is to protect the Russian Federation and Russia’s borders.
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One Ilyushin Il-76 at the Russian repair facility caught fire and exploded.
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Putin, upset about the Bryansk attack, held a meeting & issued a strongly worded statement.
Seems to be the start of some sort of Russian civil war, as Ukraine only provides shelter to the Russian passport-holding opposition.
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Slovakia in last stages of transferring 10 of 11 MiG-29s to Ukraine.
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Russian general who lost 130 armored vehicles at Vuhledar was promoted by Putin. Russian Mil bloggers are mad about this action by Putin. This is the first time in Russian military history that a general was promoted after a disastrous loss.
