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Update from Ukraine | Ukrainian Army Started the new Attack towards Horlivka. Glory to Ukraine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3a6XnNit2mE The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the recent developments on the battlefield. https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-644-summary/ [NOTE: two summaries per week, released on Wednesday and Sunday] November 30, 2023 The Sicheslav paratroopers received Marder vehicles. 25th Airborne Brigade got first Western vehicles and opens recruitment for foreigners. A lot has changed since the appointment of the new Ukrainian Minister of Defense, Rustem Umerov. One of the more noticeable things is the decision that Ukrainian battle-hardened brigades should also get Western weapons. Finally....

Update from Ukraine | Ukraine Starts Attack on Horlivka | Ruzzia lost the moment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=373CCprrBDA Order of Battle Deep Dive – 110th Mechanized Brigade November 19, 2023 https://militaryland.net/news/order-of-battle-deep-dive-110th-mechanized-brigade/ 110th Mechanized Brigade is a mechanized brigade of Ukrainian Ground Forces, formed shortly after the Russian full-scale invasion. (Excerpt) [NOTE: two summaries per week, released on Wednesday and Sunday] *** Great interactive maps with viewer controlled Map magnification tool to use for each Front! https://militaryland.net/maps/

A special presidential flight landed in Kyiv late on July 29 carrying 17 exhausted people, who then met with President Petro Poroshenko. The group, which included 15 Ukrainian servicemen, one Swedish and one Georgian citizen, spent months as hostages in Horlivka, one of the last remaining strongholds of the Kremlin-backed separatists led by defiant rebel commander Igor Bezler who goes by the nickname of “Demon.” These people were set free in an exchange for Olga Kulygina, believed to be a Russian Security Service agent.