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Update from Ukraine | Ukraine Pushed Ruzzians on the north of Avdiivka. Ruzzian attack failed again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkjwa3hNrhM The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the recent developments on the battlefield, as of 22nd November 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time). https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-637-summary/ [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/

Update from Ukraine | Situation in Avdiivka | Ruzzia is Unable to encircle the city Meat waves start https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hp1SR2xdKaA The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the recent developments on the battlefield, as of 22nd November 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time). https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-637-summary/ [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/

Russia has launched its biggest drone attack on Kyiv since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine began last year, the city's mayor has said. Residents were woken by explosions before dawn on Saturday, and for more than six hours, the booms of Kyiv's air defences echoed through the city. There was wave after wave of attacks from the north and east. Officials said that more than 75 Iranian-made Shahed drones were fired at the capital, and 74 were shot down. With Russia's dwindling missile stocks, Shahed drones are seen as a cheap alternative. They are slower than ballistic missiles and have...

Update from Ukraine | The Ruzzian Headquarters ambushed by HIMARS on the east | Ukraine's revenge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfuRZARLq-U Air Assault units received honorary titles November 21, 2023 https://militaryland.net/news/air-assault-units-received-honorary-titles/ On the day of Air Assault Troops, the president Volodymyr Zelenskyy presented battle flags and awarded brigades with honorary titles. The honorary award of the President of Ukraine “For courage and bravery” was awarded to 122nd Separate Airmobile Battalion of 81st Airmobile Brigade. The Ukrainian president presented battle flags to 82nd Air Assault Brigade, 148th Artillery Brigade and 135th Management Battalion. Four Ukrainian Air Assault brigades also received honorary titles. [NOTE: two summaries...

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/

Update from Ukraine | Ruzzia tries to Advance to Klishchiivka | Ukraine takes the ground too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7aa8asCAdk 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/

Update from Ukraine | Frontlines are Boiling Ukraine Advances on the South Ruzzia sends more forces https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjElWt-iU2w Offensive through the eyes of a soldier November 17, 2023 https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-630-summary/ Offensive through the eyes of a soldier Company commander of 47th Mechanized Brigade speaks about the unit and combat in the south. Mykola Melnyk is an officer of Ukrainian Armed Forces, owner of Bohdan Khmelnytsky Order. In 2022, he joined 47th Mechanized Brigade (back then a battalion) and became company commander. He recently gave an interview to Ukrainian Front 18 channel, where he speaks about the brigade and the offensive in Zaporizhzhia...

This week’s “No Shit Analysis” award goes to Eugene B. Rumer for his Wall Street Journal op-ed, It’s Time to End Magical Thinking About Russia’s Defeat. Only took him 22 months to figure this out. He may be a slow learner but give him some credit, he finally awakened from his dream world and is beginning to grasp that the Ukraine project is swirling down the toilet.Eugene B. Rumer is a Senior Fellow at the Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University, Washington DC. Previously, he served at the State Department, on the staff of the National Security Council...

Update from Ukraine | Successful Landing operation on the South | Ukraine is Ready for Big move https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiZpypx10Bw Offensive through the eyes of a soldier November 17, 2023 https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-630-summary/ Offensive through the eyes of a soldier Company commander of 47th Mechanized Brigade speaks about the unit and combat in the south. Mykola Melnyk is an officer of Ukrainian Armed Forces, owner of Bohdan Khmelnytsky Order. In 2022, he joined 47th Mechanized Brigade (back then a battalion) and became company commander. He recently gave an interview to Ukrainian Front 18 channel, where he speaks about the brigade and the offensive in...

Update from Ukraine | Ukraine Took the initiative after the Failed Rus attack | Tank crew are heroes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMjvkUoGsoY Invasion Day 630 – Summary November 15, 2023 The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the recent developments on the battlefield, as of 15th November 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time). https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-630-summary/ [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/

Update from Ukraine | Ukraine Continue to Push the Ruzzian Army on the South | Verbove is next https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBqrvqOtXZQ Recap Deployment Map changes – Week 45 November 13, 2023 https://militaryland.net/news/recap-deployment-map-changes-week-45/ [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/

Update from Ukraine | Goodwill Gesture by the Ruzzian Army on the South was already announced https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXhfIce7VPQ Recap Deployment Map changes – Week 45 November 13, 2023 https://militaryland.net/news/recap-deployment-map-changes-week-45/ Invasion Day 626 – Summary The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the recent developments on the battlefield, as of 11th November 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time). https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-626-summary/ [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/

Rumours are circulating that Vladimir Putin has died, and that his corpse is being stored in a freezer in his luxurious woodland palace. The General SVR Telegram Channel, supposedly led by a Kremlin insider, claimed the Russian President had succumbed to a number of health issues last month. A heart attack was said to have been the final blow, with a body double now filling in for the despot. The channel continues to state that Putin is dead despite the Kremlin refuting the claims. A Telegram post earlier this week said the body was "in the freezer at his residence...

Intriguing rumors have recently surfaced regarding Russian President Vladimir Putin's health and whereabouts, coupled with startling claims about his luxurious woodland palace, Valdai, situated in central Russia. According to sources including Radar Online and the General SVR Telegram channel, there are allegations that Putin, 71, may have passed away on October 25, with his body purportedly being stored in a freezer at this opulent residence. These claims, which have been denied by the Kremlin, suggest that a body double of Putin might be acting on his behalf. The General SVR Telegram channel, believed to be operated by a Kremlin insider,...

We’ve been hearing for weeks that Ukrainian forces were making some progress along the Dnipro River.Three weeks ago, the marines crossed the wide Dnipro River in southern Ukraine’s Kherson Oblast and secured a bridgehead in the settlement of Krynky on the Russian-dominated left bank.From Krynky, the marines have advanced south—expanding Kyiv’s five-month-old counteroffensive and challenging foreign observers who seem eager to appease the regime of Russian leader Vladimir Putin.What happens next is anyone’s guess. But what happened before to make the Krynky crossing possible increasingly is becoming clear. The Ukrainian military electronically and logistically isolated Russian forces in Kherson, repositioned...

Svyatoslav Golikov, an instructor of Russia's Storm-Z penal units, took to his Telegram channel on Tuesday to outline the impact the weapons are having on troops in combat. He said ATACMS, which are capable of reaching targets 100 miles or more away, are creating large-scale casualties, and this is disrupting the execution of Russian operations... The U.S. agreed in September to supply Ukraine with ATACMS. Given their long-range, Kyiv's forces are able to strike targets further away than missiles from the U.S.-supplied High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) and M270 multiple-launch rocket systems... "It is cluster shells that are now...

Russia immediately backtracked on a statement released on Monday that said some of its troops had withdrawn from a key position in Ukraine's southern Kherson region, raising questions about the scale of Moscow's operations in the area. The Russian Ministry of Defense dismissed its own statements about the "regrouping" of the Dnieper Group of Forces published by state-run news agencies Tass and RIA Novosti as a "provocation", without elaboratinThe term "regrouping" has previously been used by the Kremlin in Russian President Vladimir Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine to describe a battlefield retreat by its forces. Ukraine has been gradually expanding...

Update from Ukraine | Ruzzia Moves in Avdiivka with Heavy losses | Ukraine Defends the Ground https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aZ2KR4w5oA Invasion Day 626 – Summary The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the recent developments on the battlefield, as of 11th November 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time). https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-626-summary/ [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/

Update from Ukraine | Ruzzia lost two more ships in Crimea and Many Soldiers in Avdiivka https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1inQNbWDOo The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the recent developments on the battlefield, as of 8th November 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time). https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-623-summary/ [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/

Update from Ukraine | Big fight on the south | Z-Clown runs for President in USA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86HyG3EWZh0 The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the recent developments on the battlefield, as of 8th November 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time). https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-623-summary/ [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/