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Update from Ukraine | Drone Boats in Sevastopol, Crimea | Minus Rus Black Sea Marine Ship https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8b-Buv51vss
****NEW SUMMARY Military MAPS & COMMENTS here:
Invasion Day 424 – Summary April 23, 2023 Jerome News The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the last 48 hours, as of 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time).
https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-424-summary/
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Update from Ukraine | Drone Boats in Sevastopol, Crimea | Minus Rus Black Sea Marine Ship
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8b-Buv51vss
****NEW SUMMARY Military MAPS & COMMENTS here:
Invasion Day 424 – Summary April 23, 2023 Jerome News The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the last 48 hours, as of 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time).
https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-424-summary/
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VIDEOS
1. Russia says Ukrainian drones
attack the port where Russian ships were stationed in Crimea
Kanal13
1.54M subscribers
Apr 24, 2023 6:00 p.m EDT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZ7YBR5fZO4
2. I SIGNED A CONTRACT AND LEFT PEACEFUL HOME
Zolkin Volodymyr
110K subscribers
Apr 23, 2023 2:30 p.m. EDT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eed1o6pYFU
ARTICLE
Opinion: How the battle for Bakhmut exposed Russia’s ‘meat-grinder’
Opinion by Michael Bociurkiw
Updated 1:16 PM EDT, Fri April 14, 2023
CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/14/opinions/battle-bakhmut-ukraine-russia-war-bociurkiw/index.html
***Editor’s Note:
Michael Bociurkiw (@WorldAffairsPro) is a global affairs analyst currently based in Odesa. He is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and a former spokesperson for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. He is a regular contributor to CNN Opinion. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion at CNN. Odesa
When the war in Ukraine finally comes to an end, the besieged city of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine will go down as one of the most recognizable symbols of the conflict.
A place where happiness was brutally replaced with blood-drenched killing fields.
It will also be recorded in history as a battle that exposed more than anywhere the meat-grinder approach of Russian fighting. Where sending wave upon wave of fighters – including former convicts recruited by the Wagner mercenary group and Russian elite forces – became a military tactic to dislodge Ukrainian forces from the city.
For a prize of highly-questionable military value, the Kremlin, not known for valuing human life – even that of its own citizens – established a new threshold that tolerated the loss of several of its own combatants to every Ukrainian.
“The Russians at the moment, despite trying for six months, with huge numbers of personnel and huge numbers of losses, have been unable to take the town and at the moment have made very, very slow progress,” Western officials said in a briefing last week.
Various experts and entities have debated the military significance of capturing Bakhmut – a city with a pre-war population of around 70,000 – with most agreeing a win or loss there would not alter the trajectory of the war. These days, those remaining are thought to number fewer than 4,000, including 38 children.
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VIDEOS
1. Deadly hand-to-hand combat | Military Mind | TVP World
TVP World
320K subscribers
Apr 24, 2023 3:30 p.m EDT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDYp-QLKVBs
Every day on the front line takes a huge toll on their health, nervous system, and psyche. These guys are not sacrificing all of this for the imaginary promises of politicians. They’re doing it to ensure a free Ukraine and a future for the country they want to see, a future they have paid for with their blood.
2. Ukrainian Artillery Crews Defending Bakhmut Rely On Grad Rocket Systems
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
756K subscribers
Apr 24, 2023 1:00 p.m EDT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZMSrTFH1jw
Ukrainian rocket launchers are raining fire on invading Russian units on the eastern front in the defense of Bakhmut. Ukrainian artillerists say they use multiple-launch systems in pinpoint attacks on valuable Russian equipment. Aiming and shooting quickly is just as important to avoid detection.
Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces show “excellent work” by snipers in Bakhmut
Iryna Balachuk —
Pravda
Monday, 24 April 2023, 11:49
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/04/24/7399160/
The Special Operations Forces and Oleksandr Syrskyi, Commander of the Ground Forces of Ukraine, have posted a video showing Ukrainian snipers killing Russian invaders in Bakhmut.
SOURCE: Special Operations Forces on Telegram; Oleksandr Syrskyi on Telegram
QUOTE from Special Operations Forces: “Here is the footage of the work of the ‘Ghosts of Bakhmut’. It has been another productive night – four occupiers down.”.
DETAILS: Syrskyi has noted that the video shows the sights of snipers of the 8th Special Purpose Regiment named after Iziaslav Mstyslavych and called their work “excellent”.
AmericanInTokyo
“Must be just literally blowing apart the craniums, of pro Soviets on this forum”
Sad, But too true.
Some pro-Putin/Anti-American type Freepers do not provide thoughtful comments. Rather, their choice is to function at the internet abusive bully level.
VIDEOS
1. Putin Is Shaken By This News: Russian Ship Is Burning Like Hell!
ANKA Daily News
419K subscribers
4-24-2023 8:00 p.m. EDT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc—nISv12Q
2. A brigade of Russians was destroyed in Vuhledar - more than 100 vehicles, hundreds of fighters...
Kanal13
1.54M subscribers
4-24-2023 7:30 p.m. EDT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ofuNwHosA4
VIDEO WITH COMMENTARY
24 Apr: UKRAINIANS CROSS THE RIVER UNDER RUSSIANS’ NOSE | War in Ukraine Explained
Reporting from Ukraine
232K subscribers
4-24-2023 10:30 p.m. EDT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQLWE__W_II
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I am Ukrainian. My country has been invaded by Russia. In this video I will tell you what happened on the four hundred and twenty fifth day of the war.
Day 425: April 24
The freshest reports suggest that Russians decided not to wait until Ukrainians launch their offensive and launched a series of attacks first. As a result, Russian forces managed to increase their bridgehead in front of Dorozhnianka and Marfopil. Closer positions also allowed Russians to start targeting Ukrainian positions in the unnamed settlement in front of Marfopil. The main goal of these actions is to not give Ukrainians enough time to prepare and force Ukrainians to engage the accumulated forces prematurely. And Russian sources are reporting significant concentrations of troops, namely up to 10 thousand assaultmen only around Huliapole.
In the Kherson region, Ukrainians have increased their bridgehead on the eastern bank of the Dnipro River to the point where many Russian sources started raising the alarm. Previously, Russian forces continued to occupy and establish observation posts in the residential areas of the islands in the Dnipro River’s delta. The first clashes for control over the islands started when Russians attacked the bridge to Karantynyi Island. This did not help, as Ukrainians gradually pushed Russians from the Velykyi Potiomkin Island. Shortly, Ukrainians also established control over the proximate island with a lot of places for docking. However, the biggest news by far became the fact that Ukrainians are present in the residential area of one of the biggest and most important islands in the region – the so-called Antonivsky Island. Such substantial control over the eastern bank of the river gives a lot of freedom for the Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups. This 20-km wide bridgehead is already hard to control, so if Ukrainians establish control over the remaining residential areas and get closer to the mainland, then a lot of Ukrainian sabotage teams will slip through and assist in the main phase of the counteroffensive operation by destroying strategic objects and critical railways and bridges.
Several days ago, Ukrainians also made the third test of their ballistic missile system Hrim-2. The target became an unspecified object in Kerch. The rocket was shot down, but everyone understands that this is just a test, and the real attack would be concealed behind a massive drone and missile strike. The most important takeaway is that Ukrainians established at least three positions for launching ballistic missiles: Odesa, Kherson, and Zaporizhia. The targets of the strikes were also objects in the vicinity of critical ground lines of communication, such as the Crimean Bridge and crucial railway stations in other cases.
And Ukrainians continue launching drones on Crimea as well. Today, two drones hit the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol. Military analysts are saying that the main goal of these seemingly ineffective drone attacks in small groups is to keep their finger on the pulse and understand the current disposition and capabilities of the Russian air defense. Ideally, Ukrainian commanders should see a decrease in the air defense density because Ukrainians took significant steps to force Russians to stretch their air defense.
For example, today, Ukrainians successfully destroyed a Russian oil depot in the Luhansk region with a drone attack. Russian sources also reported that today at least 3 Ukrainian drones reached Moscow. Interestingly, they were not shot down, they just ran out of gas. Russian military panicked and temporarily closed the sky over the military bases around Moscow. Russians have already started relocating their air defense from the front to protect the sky over Moscow, and such drone attacks are aimed at making sure that they continue doing it at the expense of Zaporizhia and Crimea. Russian analysts are warning that once Ukrainians are ready to launch the main phase of the counteroffensive, they will send swarms of drones to overwhelm Russian air defense in the region, and once the air defense is down, they will conduct extensive HIMARS strikes and use ballistic missiles Hrim-2 to take out Russian supplies right when they are going to need them the most.
VIDEOS
1. THE RUSSIAN FIGHTER’S DECISION TO SURRENDER PROVED TO BE A GOOD ONE - AS IT SAVED HIS LIFE || 2023
Warthog Defense
509K subscribers
4-24-2023 9:00 a.m. EDT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=At53TQMVnmQ
2. INTERVIEW WITH PRISONERS OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION | @zolkinvolodymyr9639
Zolkin Volodymyr
110K subscribers [63 watching now]
Started streaming 8 hours ago 3:00 p.m. EDT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTxMpDcE4FI
INTERVIEW WITH PRISONERS OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
**All participants in the video gave their voluntary consent to filming and publishing materials with them on the Internet, in accordance with paragraph 1 of Article 152.1 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, and also, in accordance with Article 307 of the Civil Code of Ukraine.
This video is for informational purposes only, and in no way calls for any actions or conclusions.
At: https://twitter.com/nanoiridium/status/1650723678261477377
“Apparently the Russian infantry have some much more mobile mortar style weapon they’re using to bombard Ukrainians attempting to advance.”
Another reminder that Ukraine needs thousands of pickup trucks, with SPG-9 recoilless rifles or mortars mounted on the bed.
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