Posted on 03/28/2023 6:03:43 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Update from Ukraine | Ruzzian Army and Wagners are blocked in Bakhmut and Avdiivka
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVmGeo2EKjg
****NEW SUMMARY Military MAPS & COMMENTS here:
Invasion Day 398 – Summary March 28, 2023 Jerome News
The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the last 48 hours, as of 28th March 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time).
https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-398-summary/
Update from Ukraine | Ruzzian Army and Wagners are blocked in Bakhmut and Avdiivka
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVmGeo2EKjg
****NEW SUMMARY Military MAPS & COMMENTS here:
Invasion Day 398 – Summary March 28, 2023 Jerome News
The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the last 48 hours, as of 28th March 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time).
https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-398-summary/
ARTICLE
Top Russian Commander Fired After Failed Vuhledar Assault—Reports
By Isabel van Brugen
3/28/23 10:43 AM EDT
https://www.newsweek.com/russian-commander-fired-rustam-muradov-vuhledar-reports-1790890
A top Russian military commander who was placed in charge of leading an offensive in the Ukrainian city of Vuhledar, in the eastern Donbas region, has reportedly been removed from his post.
Colonel General Rustam Muradov, 50, who heads Russia’s Eastern Military District (EMD), had previously come under criticism from Russia’s Wagner Group for his failure in Vuhledar, which a Kremlin-appointed official had claimed could turn the war in Moscow’s favor.
Russia failed to capture the coal-mining city of Vuhledar after a three-week-long battle that saw Russian tanks running over its own troops. Ukraine’s military said last month that Russian forces had lost dozens of armored vehicles in a failed attempt to take the eastern Ukrainian city.
Reports began to emerge in recent days of Muradov’s dismissal, although the Kremlin has yet to confirm that he has been replaced.
“General Muradov was removed from the post of commander of the East grouping of troops,” Russian TV presenter and journalist Ruslan Ostashko said in a post on his Telegram channel on Sunday.
Military observer Yuri Podolyak also commented on the reports, and suggested that Muradov has been replaced.
“Two days ago there was news about the dismissal of General Rustam Muradov from the command of the Vostok group of troops,” he wrote on the Russian social media site VKontakte.
“Yesterday, everything was confirmed, as Lieutenant General Andrey Kuzmenko was appointed acting commander of the Vostok group of troops.”
Podolyak added: “Of course, this will not be said publicly, but Muradov is clearly dismissed for the failure of the offensive(s) led by him on Vuhledar.”
Newsweek has contacted Russia’s defense ministry by email for comment.
Muradov, who was awarded the title of Hero of Russia for his work as a military adviser in Syria, was appointed the commander of the EMD in October, state-run news agency Tass reported.
“One of our own, Hero of Russia Rustam Muradov, was appointed as the commander of the Eastern Military District - one of the most potent military districts in the country in terms of its personnel,” head of Dagestan Sergey Melikov said on Telegram at the time.
“Rustam Usmanovich has always been a leader who motivated others, a strategist who was making right decisions, a courageous fighter who was leading the attack. I am confident that these qualities in addition to his military education and combat experience obtained in the most restive regions, Chechnya and Syria, will help him brilliantly deal with combat tasks. I am proud of my friendship with this courageous person,” he added.
Muradov was heavily criticized after the failed Russian assault on Vuhledar.
The Institute for the Study of War (ISW), a think tank based in Washington, D.C., said in an assessment of the conflict on March 9 that Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu reportedly ordered Muradov to take Vuhledar “at any cost” to settle widespread criticism within the Russian Ministry of Defense about the lack of progress and significant losses in the area.
The think tank assessed that Shoigu recently visited Muradov in western Donetsk Oblast, likely to assess the viability of the Vuhledar offensive as well as Muradov’s continued role as EMD commander.
VIDEOS
Russia loses influence in countries of the former USSR: Armenia and Kazakhstan
UATV English
384K subscribers Mar 28, 2023 7:15 p.m. DST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHd7ZWMhNQI
1. Baltic States, Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, and Azerbaijan, have already separated from the Russian field of influence long ago. Most of the states named became victims of brutal Russian military aggression in attempts to bring them back under the Kremlin’s yoke. And now, even Russia’s long-standing allies Armenia and Kazakhstan declare their discontent with the Putin regime and Russia as a whole. How Russia loses its influence – our correspondents have found out more.
2. Moldova escaping Russia’s grip | Eastern Express | TVP World
TVP World
309K subscribers
3-28-2023 3:30 p.m. DST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DK-1MHEa_H0
ARTICLE
Putin Removes Age Limit for Conscripts as Russian Forces Devastated
By Isabel van Brugen On 3/28/23 at 7:05 AM EDT
https://www.newsweek.com/putin-removes-upper-age-limit-conscripts-national-guard-ukraine-1790807
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree removing an upper age limit for Russian National Guard members serving in parts of Ukraine that are under the control of Russian forces.
The presidential decree, signed on March 27—which Putin designated as National Guard Day in 2017—states that age restrictions for its citizens in the Federal Service of the National Guard Troops of the Russian Federation serving in the affected regions have been lifted until January 1, 2026.
The Donetsk and Luhansk regions, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia were illegally annexed by Putin in the fall of 2022 following “sham” referendums. Russia is not fully in control of any of the regions, and foreign governments, including the United States, have said the move was illegitimate.
Russia created its National Guard, or Rosgvardia, in 2016. It is separate from the Russian Armed Forces, and reports directly to Putin. National Guard soldiers have been heavily used in Ukraine throughout the full-scale invasion launched last February, and many have been sacked for refusing to fight in the war-torn country.
The decree notes that Russian citizens serving in the annexed territories will instead be assessed by a military medical examination conducted in absentia, which will determine whether they are fit to serve.
In a speech on Russia’s National Guard Day, Putin described its key tasks as “countering terrorism, extremism and organized crime, guarding significant strategic facilities, maintaining law and order during mass events, and monitoring the arms trade.”
“These are all complicated and highly responsible aspects of your work requiring high professionalism and a systemic approach, strict compliance with the law and a constant commitment to achieving specific and tangible results in the interests of maintaining the security of our society and state and reliably protecting the rights and freedoms of citizens,” he said.
The Russian president also said that during what he still calls a “special military operation” in Ukraine, Rosgvardia members “are acting boldly and resolutely; they are defending Russia, our citizens, and they are fighting bravely, displaying fortitude and an intrepid spirit in the most difficult situations.”
Just months into the war, in May 2022, court papers showed that 115 members of the Russian Guard were sacked for refusing to fight in Ukraine. Rosgvardia soldiers were also deployed across the country in October over “increased attacks” on military registration and enlistment offices since President Vladimir Putin’s decision to partially mobilize reserve troops to fight in Ukraine, according to State Duma Deputy Alexander Khinshtein.
Putin’s latest decree comes more than a year into his faltering war. The Institute for the Study of War (ISW), a think tank based in Washington, said in an assessment this month that Russia’s new offensive in Ukraine appears to have stalled already.
Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to Ukraine’s minister of internal affairs, told Newsweek in a February interview that Russia had already begun an offensive, and that a counteroffensive from Kyiv was coming. The ISW said Russia has barely expanded its territory in Ukraine in a month of its new offensive.
You do realize using your own map sources, the rooskies have ADVANCED to within 6 city blocks of the 54MB military Base from the North, and within 12 city blocks from the south. Its time for Ukraine to pull out and re organize a better (higher elevation) vantage defense position.
VIDEO
28 Mar: NICE. Russians FIRE THEIR GENERAL FOR CATASTROPHIC INCOMPETENCE | War in Ukraine Explained
Reporting from Ukraine
211K subscribers
Mar 28, 2023 8:30 p.m. DST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4WQjiTOUss
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COMMENTS:I am a Ukrainian. My country has been invaded by Russia. In this video I will tell you what happened on the three hundred and ninety eighth day of the war.
Day 897: March 28
The freshest reports suggest that the grey zone areas around Orikhiv have been reduced significantly. If previously, Bilohiria was not permanently occupied by any party, then now it is clear that Ukrainians have established total control over this village and are slowly pushing further.
The intensity of fights in front of Novodanylove has also increased. Here Ukrainian 128th Assault Brigade has consistently been using up to two platoons for reconnaissance-in-force operations in the direction of Robotyne. Russian sources reported that Ukrainians are attacking from multiple directions at once and sometimes multiple times per day to catch the Russians off-guard.
The area of operations seems to be slowly expanding because Ukrainians also started assaulting Russian strong points between Robotyne and Bilohia. The openness of the area significantly complicates the situation, which is why not all attacks go according to the plan. Sometimes Russians manage to stop a Ukrainian assault unit by spotting it with a drone and timely coordinating with the artillery. The latest updates suggest that Ukrainians started to use smoke screens extensively in order to mask the movement and location of troops and prevent precise correction of artillery fire.
Ukrainians also started assaulting Russian positions near Myrne. Previously, it was reported that Ukrainians only engaged assault helicopters for conducting airstrikes to soften up Russian defenses, so the assaults here are not surprising. The increasing scope of the operations has already brought some results and revealed the weakest aspect of the Russian primary defense line. Despite the fact that Russians hold extensive trench networks, they are too sparsely located to protect one another, which is why they can easily be surrounded and collapsed during more comprehensive actions.
However, storming of trenches may not be needed if an intense enough artillery preparation is conducted. Ukrainian artillery is already working on the revealed main Russian strongpoints in the region. Ukrainian artillery has also recently conducted a series of precision strikes. Yesterday, Mariupol Mayoral Advisor reported that Ukrainian HIMARS crews received an extensive fire mission and targeted Russian bases in Melitopol, Tokmak, Volnovakha, Novotroitske, and Donetsk. In Melitopol, Ukrainians destroyed a dormitory quartering Russian military and Ministry of Internal Affairs personnel, while in other places, Ukrainians targeted ammunition depots and warehouses with equipment. Today the strikes continued, and Ukrainians also hit objects in Fedorivka and Berdyansk. Berdyansk is one of the main Russian logistical hubs, with a lot of ammunition and equipment.
Interestingly, Russian sources previously highlighted that if Ukrainians increase the frequency of HIMARS use in the Zaporizhzhia region, then the counteroffensive operation is imminent, and the closer the strikes are to the zero line, the closer is the offensive.
Even though, so far, Ukrainians are mainly targeting the deep rear, Russian forces have already started making massive changes in the structure of the command. Several days ago, rumors started spreading that the Russian Ministry of Defense fired the commander of the Russian forces in the south, Rustam Muradov. Muradov took command on 6th October, and has overseen a series of disastrous offensive operations, including the high casualties, suffered in the assault against Pavlivka in October-November and the prolonged and failed effort to take Vuhledar. At first, Russian military bloggers were positive about the news, in hopes that the Russian command was taking the threat seriously and trying to promote competent leaders. However, today it was announced that Muradov just went on vacation, so they temporarily assigned Andrey Kuzmenko. Many Russian military analysts are not happy with the change and have started to speculate that they just made him responsible in case they lose Zaporizhzhia and need to have someone to blame.
Yeah, I don’t see what they’re talking about. Russia’s going about this slowly and methodically, killing as many Ukrainian men as possible so NATO can never build an army again.
They’re also refraining from encirclement of both towns as they could get pincered from both directions.
This war needs to end.
“the rooskies have ADVANCED”
I understand the reports.
Nevertheless, I continue to factually share info on thread during this ‘fog of war.’
Russian’s museum-quality equipment under Ukrainian fire | Military Mind | TVP World
TVP World
309K subscribers
Mar 28, 2023 3-28-2023 9:00 p.m. DST
Soldiers with Ukraine’s 30th Mechanized Brigade, named after Prince Kostiantyn Ostrozky, catch up with the invaders and their museum-quality equipment. We’re not even certain what it is – a motorbike with a sidecar, most likely, although it also resembles a wheelbarrow.
2. Miracle: 45,000 Ukrainian soldiers FINALLY reached Melitopol!
Yunus Yemekleri
421K subscribers
Mar 28, 2023 8:00 p.m. DST
The Ukrainian armed forces have started offensive operations to encircle Melitopol with its huge army of 40,000 troops. Local officials pointed out that the Ukrainian partisans could support the army from both Zaporizhia and Melitopol.
Meanwhile, Russian forces have been trying to attack the Ukrainian army with small attack groups on the southern frontlines of Ukraine. If Russia wants to encircle the Ukrainian army, it must break through Huliaipole and sweep north, but there is a huge army of the Ukrainian armed forces in Huliaipole, making it difficult for the Russians to achieve this aim. Ukrainian forces are expected to launch a counterattack in late March or April to liberate the occupied city of Melitopol.
Your delusion is strong.
VIDEO
1. RUSSIANS ARE CONFUSED, BLACK CIRCLE AND LOUD NOISE APPEARED OVER MOSKOW || 2023
Warthog Defense
483K subscribers
Mar 28, 2023 7:00 p.m. DST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jtp4Blzk28c
2. Russia suffers heavy losses in frontal attacks near Avdiivka
Kanal13
1.5M subscribers
Mar 28, 2023 7:15 p.m. DST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fzcq_Gccvg
The only side flipping out is the Ukrainian side. Putin visited the new apartment complexes he already completed in Mariupol. He has all the time in the world.
Russia made costly mistakes at the beginning of the war, but once they began the attrition war, there’s only so much NATO ammo available. Plus, they continually send these negative rumors to the Ukrainians and the Ukrainians eat it up and send it to the western press, hoping to keep the money train running.
The war needs to end. People are dying in a war where Russia will get more than the 20% of Ukraine they were offered in 2022. God curse those that constantly deny both sides peace.
Good for you.
“delusion?”
We both have have freedom of thought and expression to hold our point of view. I respect your freedom to hold your opinion. Absolutely, not my intention or responsibility to “change” or form the opinion for some one else.
Hopefully, the factual info I share will give additional input for you on this evil Putin invasion.
Do understand difference of opinions are TOTALLY fine with me. Please just skim, ignore my posts or I will choose to ignore your comments :D
“I continue to factually share info”
Thank you for your comment.
You do realize using your own map sources, the rooskies have ADVANCED to within 6 city blocks of the 54MB military Base from the North, and within 12 city blocks from the south. It’s time for Ukraine to pull out and re organize a better (higher elevation) vantage defense position.
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They are following the war, “ according to the world of Biden”. You are correct in stating the western war maps show Russian gains as of today. I suggest this poster stays up to date, it will save some embarrassment and loss of credibility.
As I stated many times, drinking from the collective West’s MSM’s whiskey cup will result in one heck of a hangover.
VIDEOS
1. Russians die at the front without proof of service – no death benefits for families | Break the Fake
TVP World
309K subscribers
Mar 28, 2023 6:30 p.m. DST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahl4vrH-Q3c
Today, we’d like to tell you a little about why Russian soldiers are so fixated on claims about money and getting proof of service documents from the government.
2. Russian-destroyed village in the Kharkiv region returns to normal life
UATV English
384K subscribers
Mar 28, 2023 12:30 p.m. DST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8hs39hhUTg
Dovhenke was a site of hostilities between the Ukrainian Armed Forces and Russian occupiers for six months. All this time, the housing was brutally destroyed by artillery fire.
The Russians also contaminated the area with anti-personnel mines. Our correspondent Olena Hramova was there to tell the story of Ukrainians who returned to their devastated village.
“whiskey cup will result in one heck of a hangover”
Axiom: If you ‘don’t drink, no hang-over :D
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