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According to the March 5 U.K. Defense Ministry's intelligence update, Russian soldiers are forced into hand-and-hand combat due to lack of ammunition. The reservists were thus ordered by the Russian Command to assault a Ukrainian concrete strong point with only “firearms and shovels.” “The lethality of the standard-issue MPL-50 entrenching tool is particularly mythologized in Russia. Little changed since it was designed in 1869, its continued use as a weapon highlights the brutal and low-tech fighting which has come to characterize much of the war,” the report states. The U.K. Defense Ministry also commented that one of the reservists described...

Ukraine will keep renewing efforts to retake the land it controlled prior to 2014 if Russia does not continue fighting, according to the chief of the Wagner group of mercenary fighters, Yevgeny Prigozhin. "I am absolutely sure that Ukraine, with the help of the NATO bloc, will break through these 'red lines' and return those territories that belonged to it until 2014," Prigozhin said in a statement posted to Telegram via his company's page on Saturday. "There is no doubt about it," he added, saying war would then "start again." Such a conflict may "turn out to be even more...

This list only includes destroyed vehicles and equipment of which photo or videographic evidence is available. Therefore, the amount of equipment destroyed is significantly higher than recorded here. Small arms, ATGMs, MANPADS, loitering munitions, drones used as unmanned bait, civilian vehicles, trailers and derelict equipment are not included in this list. All possible effort has gone into avoiding duplicate entries and discerning the status of equipment between captured or abandoned. Many of the entries listed as 'abandoned' will likely end up captured or destroyed. Similarly, some of the captured equipment might be destroyed if it can't be recovered. When the...

The Head of Russia’s State Duma Defense Committee, Andrei Kartapolov, has advised Russian businesses to install air defense systems at their own expense, The Moscow Times reported on March 4. "There are fairly inexpensive means of combating unmanned aerial vehicles that every self-respecting corporation can purchase and install at its facilities," he explained. The lawmaker noted that the locations of Russian air defense systems are known to NATO and Ukraine. The Kremlin primarily protects state facilities "That is, they know roughly where our air defense facilities are located, and it is quite possible to launch a drone along the route...

The Russian army is welding 80-year-old gun mounts, originally built to arm patrol boats, onto 70-year-old armored tractors—and sending them to Ukraine to get captured by the Ukrainian army. The up-gunned, tracked MT-LBs are further evidence of the Kremlin’s worsening equipment crisis as it struggles to make good its losses in Ukraine. Which is why the Kremlin is pulling out of long-term storage hundreds of 50-year-old T-62 tanks, 60-year-old BMP-1 fighting vehicles and 70-year-old BTR-50P armored tractors. These awkwardly up-gunned MT-LBs just further underscore the Russians’ growing desperation.

Update from Ukraine | Ruzzia missed drones close to Moscow | Update on Bakhmut https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugn18bQKr_4 Follow on Instagram up to date uploads. https://www.instagram.com/denys_pilot/ ****SUMMARY Military MAPS & COMMENTS here: The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the last 48 hours 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time). March 2, 2023 Invasion Day 372 – Summary https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-372-summary/ Website recap of – February 2023 March 3, 2023 https://militaryland.net/news/website-recap-february-2023/

A crowd laughed at Russia's top diplomat when he said the Ukraine war "was launched against us." An audience member at India's G20 summit shouted "come on!" at Sergey Lavrov during the event. He was answering a question about Russia's energy strategy moving forward. Sergey Lavrov, Russia's top diplomat and a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, at a conference in India Thursday said that the war in Ukraine "was launched against us," prompting the crowd to erupt in laughter. Lavrov was a speaker at India's G20 Summit in New Delhi, leading a session that was part of a...

Moldova's parliament adopted a declaration on Thursday condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine which has contributed to a rise in tensions between Moscow and Chisinau. A narrow majority of 55 lawmakers in the 101-seat assembly voted for the declaration, which stated that Moscow's invasion began with the seizure of the Crimea peninsula in February 2014 and demanded the withdrawal of all Russian troops from Ukraine. The declaration said Russia was waging an illegal, unprovoked and unfounded war of aggression in Ukraine that violated the principles of international law, and echoed calls by Kyiv for an international tribunal to prosecute war...

Poland's Foreign Ministry on February 28 condemned what it called "the destruction of Polish cultural heritage in Belarus by the Lukashenka regime," after a mural inside a Catholic church in western Belarus was painted over by the authorities. Pictures released online showed the large mural inside Soly's Catholic church being covered up by unidentified workers on February 25. The mural depicted Poland's military victory over invading Soviet forces in 1920. (snip) In late 2022, a report on Belarus's state-funded media singled out the mural in the Soly church, accusing it of "inciting national and religious hatred." The report also claimed...

This list only includes destroyed vehicles and equipment of which photo or videographic evidence is available. Therefore, the amount of equipment destroyed is significantly higher than recorded here. Small arms, ATGMs, MANPADS, loitering munitions, drones used as unmanned bait, civilian vehicles, trailers and derelict equipment are not included in this list. All possible effort has gone into avoiding duplicate entries and discerning the status of equipment between captured or abandoned. Many of the entries listed as 'abandoned' will likely end up captured or destroyed. Similarly, some of the captured equipment might be destroyed if it can't be recovered. When the...

Despite disagreements between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Nikolai Patrushev, the prelude to the transit of power continues. Personnel changes in the Security Council are one of the manifestations. If the transit scenario is implemented, simultaneously with the appointment of Dmitry Patrushev as prime minister, his father Nikolai Patrushev leaves the Security Council, and Rashid Nurgaliev takes his place. Averyanov was sent to "look after" the Medvedev, just in case.

Last night, Putin's health deteriorated, he refused to eat because of severe nausea and headache. Doctors on duty were called to the president, who, after staying with Putin for about half an hour, left him to rest. We have already told you that starting from March 5, the head of state is waiting for a mandatory course of therapy and in this regard, the bravado of the presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov about Putin's tight schedule for the whole of March is incomprehensible. Peskov, of course, is not completely aware, but still he is aware of the current health problems...

Putin is preparing to "curtail" the offensive by March 5 Vladimir Putin is considering ending the offensive on March 5. This information was shared with its readers by the Telegram channel “general SVR”. According to the resource, the president of the Russian Federation plans to undergo another course of therapy at the beginning of the month, and therefore for some time he will lose the opportunity to fully manage the so-called "special operation". In this regard, the politician consults with the military about the possibility of stopping the assault on Ukrainian positions and switching to defense. "The president has not...

This is what Russian peace and liberation looks like. VIDEO https://fb.watch/j0o92iihVw/ VIDEO COMMENT "Who got good with all these games? To the young men who lost their lives in this battle? Some did it while protecting their native land, and others are unknown for what they were away from their homeland. Tens of thousands of peaceful people - children who have just started to live, elderly people who have lived difficult long lives, mothers who have lost children, husbands, brothers? Seas of blood spilled and oceans of unavoidable grief - what's it all for???" Life is given from above, so...

This list only includes destroyed vehicles and equipment of which photo or videographic evidence is available. Therefore, the amount of equipment destroyed is significantly higher than recorded here. Small arms, ATGMs, MANPADS, loitering munitions, drones used as unmanned bait, civilian vehicles, trailers and derelict equipment are not included in this list. All possible effort has gone into avoiding duplicate entries and discerning the status of equipment between captured or abandoned. Many of the entries listed as 'abandoned' will likely end up captured or destroyed. Similarly, some of the captured equipment might be destroyed if it can't be recovered. When the...

Belarusian anti-government activists have claimed responsibility for what they said was a drone attack on a Russian A-50 surveillance aircraft at an airfield near the Belarus capital of Minsk on Sunday. "Those were drones. The participants of the operation are Belarusian," Aliaksandr Azarov, leader of Belarusian anti-government organization BYPOL, was quoted as saying on the organisation's Telegram messaging app and on the Poland-based Belsat news channel. "They are now safe, outside the country."

PRESS STATEMENT Nine years ago, Russia invaded Ukraine and seized Crimea – a clear violation of international law and of Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. The United States welcomes the efforts of Ukraine’s Crimea Platform to focus global attention on Russia’s continued occupation. The United States does not and never will recognize Russia’s purported annexation of the peninsula. Crimea is Ukraine.

Update from Ukraine | Ruzzia lost the most important airplane in Belarus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oumuCRjnlW8 Follow on Instagram up to date uploads. https://www.instagram.com/denys_pilot/ ****SUMMARY Military MAPS & COMMENTS here: NEW- New Marine Brigade is being formed - February 25, 2023 https://militaryland.net/news/new-marine-brigade-is-being-formed/ https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-366-summary/ The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the last 48 hours, as of 24th February 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time).

A group of nearly 100 Polish police officers has returned from an operation – kept secret until now – to demine areas in Ukraine won back from Russian occupation. The team was welcomed home by President Andrzej Duda at the presidential palace, where he awarded them medals for bravery. Working in the Kyiv region, the Polish group cleared more than 342,000 square metres of land and over 17.5 kilometres of roads. The Polish officers safely removed around 2,000 dangerous objects, including mines, grenades and grenade launchers.

This list only includes destroyed vehicles and equipment of which photo or videographic evidence is available. Therefore, the amount of equipment destroyed is significantly higher than recorded here. Small arms, ATGMs, MANPADS, loitering munitions, drones used as unmanned bait, civilian vehicles, trailers and derelict equipment are not included in this list. All possible effort has gone into avoiding duplicate entries and discerning the status of equipment between captured or abandoned. Many of the entries listed as 'abandoned' will likely end up captured or destroyed. Similarly, some of the captured equipment might be destroyed if it can't be recovered. When the...