Russian Invasion of Ukraine 2022

[Husky_Khan]

Ukraine reportedly launched a three drone attack on Moscow.







Seventeen drones reported over Crimea, striking at least one ammunition depot. This is the latest in several days of strikes upon Crimea.



First Documented Pictures of US Submunition 155mm Artillery Shells in Ukraine.

 

[Husky_Khan]

Spain sending another military aid package to Ukraine, this will include four more Leopard 2A4 Main Battle Tanks, ten M113 APC's, a field hospital, ambulances, military trucks and more.



Rheinmetall to delivery two Skynex SHORAD Systems to Ukraine in the Coming Months.



Ukrainian Marines downed a Russian Ka-52 Attack Helicopter with MANPADs in the Donetsk Oblast, Reportedly Killing the Crew.



Dylan Collins, an American Agence France Presse photographer who normally works out of Lebanon but was on assignment in Ukraine, was injured by shrapnel from Russian fires near Bakhmut. His injuries are reportedly non-life threatening.



Poll of Russians released pertaining to what they see as the main benefit of the Special Military Operation in Ukraine. Shockingly the largest plurality state they see the acquisition of Ukrainian land and territory with less then half the number concerned with things like protection of the Russian people, or the Russian state, or preventing the spread of NATO and/or Nazism.

 

[Husky_Khan]

Does not compute - or lost in translation/passing on.
Is it "benefit" or "outcome"?

I think it's both based on the available wording of the poll. Corrected my wording though since it made it seem like it was a desired outcome as opposed to past tense.

 

[Husky_Khan]

Russians making incremental gains in the North, West of Svatove and the Ukrainians reportedly captured the heights Klishchiivka, South of Bakhmut.





A Variety of Systems including radar and electronic warfare systems were reportedly destroyed by Ukrainian fires in the vicinity of Bakhmut.



Russia is now using munitions imported from Myanmar, specifically 120mm mortar bombs.



New $400 million military aid package from the United States to Ukraine. It seems to mostly be spare parts and munitions replenishment for everything ranging from small arms and ATGM's to Patriots, NASAMs and HIMARs and everything in between. But also includes 32 more Stryker Armored Fighting Vehicles and more of those tiny Hornet UAV's.



The United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner (OHCHR) did a year long investigation of the death of over fifty Ukrainian prisoners at Olenivka and determined it wasn't a Ukrainian HIMARs strike or anything similar that killed those POW's while in Russian custody as Russia insisted.

Türk decries lack of accountability for Olenivka killings

GENEVA (25 July 2023) – A year after the tragic killing of at least 50 Ukrainian prisoners of war at the penal colony at Olenivka in the Donetsk region of Ukraine that is under the temporary military control of the Russian Federation, justice is still no closer to being served, UN Human Rights...

www.ohchr.org

 

[Husky_Khan]

Ukrainian Forces Reportedly Capturing a Village on the Zaporizhzhia Front.



New media reportedly from the months old Ukrainian Counteroffensive, with Ukrainian IFV's taking a rest in an anti-tank ditch.



A Russian TOS-1 Thermobaric MLRS explodes brilliantly after a drone strike.



Another cross river landing in the Kherson Area by Ukrainian Forces.



Map Reportedly Showing the Frontlines based on the amount of greenery of land areas that have gone unharvested due to their proximity to the front lines.

 

[AnimalNoodles]

New media reportedly from the months old Ukrainian Counteroffensive, with Ukrainian IFV's taking a rest in an anti-tank ditch.

love the spin on that one. It was a solitary vehicle from a wrecked column that got confused, drove in the wrong direction and drove into a ditch.

 

[Husky_Khan]

Kadyrovite/Chechen Forces Geolocated as Withdrawing from the Village of Andriivka south of Bakhmut.





Ukrainian Humvee Firing Laser Guided Hydra-70 Rockets.



Russians Captured a French Supplied AMX-10RC Armored Fighting Vehicle. Light Tank looks depressed at its current fate, main gun is sagging in sadness.

Russian Military Storm Z units made up of Russian Penal Troops request to not be used as Russian Penal Troops are traditionally used.

The Saga Continues as Russian Penal/Storm Z Units Seem to Still be Disagreeable About their terms and conditions regarding being Penal Troops. Apparently threats of Death or Imprisonment aren't sufficient enough motivation for some Storm Z Penal Units who are currently facing Death or Imprisonment.

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Russians always find a way to make their operations more efficient and reducing corruption, such as the ironclad 'No Body - No Payout' Standard.

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@ChrisO_wiki: 1/ Russian soldiers say that Russia's Ministry of Defence is leaving the bodies of dead convicts on the battlefield in Ukraine so that it doesn't have to pay compensation to relatives. Meanwhile, relat...…

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[Husky_Khan]

Ukraine adapted old large S-200/Sa-5 Air Defense Missiles for Land Attack and Reportedly struck the Russian city of Taganrog near Rostov. Dating from the 1960's, this missile has a 200+ kilogram warhead.





Two Russian missiles struck Dnipro in central Ukraine. One hit a SBU (Security Services) headquarters, the other a residential apartment.



Ukrainian Air Assault Formation will reportedly be receiving the British Challenger 2 Main Battle Tanks. They'll also be reportedly equipped with German Marder 1A3 IFV's.



One year since Russian forces allegedly killed over fifty Ukrainian Prisoners of War, the building they were housed in being set on fire in Olenivka.

 

[Husky_Khan]

The Moscow Metropolitan Area has come under reported drone attack again.



Alleged map of Ukrainian Advances on Zaporizhzhia Front compared with main Russian defense lines.



35th Marine Brigade operating in the South US equipped with BMP's, Turkish Kirpi MRAPs and T-80BV Main Battle Tanks. Many of these tanks were taken out of storage by Russia after sustaining losses of more modern tanks, thus T-80BV losses have been very high. At least 80 have been documented as captured so far.



Leopard 2A4 Main Battle Tanks being worked on at a repair depot in Poland recently established to support the Ukrainian military.



Ukraine received hundreds of Starlink Terminals via the US DoD that can be used without the geofencing location limitations.

 

[Husky_Khan]

More Details on the Drone Attack on Moscow. Russia states three drones were downed by Russian air defenses but two crashed into office buildings. The drones potentially involved in the attack are reportedly called 'Beavers' which were constructred by Ukrainian domestic civil industry, with a range of a thousand kilometers and a cost of about $110,000 per drone to manufacture.

Zelensky after Moscow drone attack: War coming back to Russia

Ukraine's president speaks of an inevitable process, hours after buildings were hit in the Russian capital.

www.bbc.com

At least one of the buildings reportedly housed several government ministries and resulted in the scattering of government documentation across the streets of Moscow. The Russian response in some areas has been remarkably calm, such as calls for fleeing the city, or establishing Civil Defense forces on Moscow rooftops to help fend off the drones.



At the time of the drone attack, Moscow was reportedly defended by multiple Pantsirs still positioned on rooftops (as they have been for months now) as well as S-400 Battalions.



Also in the news, remember those Central Asians Russia was importing to help rebuild and repopulate Mariupol? The Russians allegedly found something else they can be utilized for...

Central Asians are being persuaded to work and settle in occupied Ukrainian territories.

Hundreds of Migrant Workers from various former Soviet Central Asian Republics are being hired by Russian firms to collect dead bodies, dig trenches and engage in construction work, often very close to war zones. Some have reportedly been killed or wounded. Some issues have apparently arisen over apparent deception regarding the safety and security of the work, lack of promised pay and the inability to leave Ukraine if dissatisfied with their work. Apparently Russian Women Convicts are also being persuaded to work in Ukraine in exchange for having their criminal records expunged and/or payment.

Collecting Dead Russians: Central Asians Being Lured To Work In Occupied Ukraine

Hundreds of Central Asian migrants work in Russian-occupied Ukrainian territories, digging trenches, collecting dead bodies, and repairing war-ravaged buildings. Their governments have warned them not to go to Ukraine, and Kyiv says they are seen as accomplices of the invaders.

www.rferl.org

Reportedly around forty thousand Russians, largely of Central Asian ethnicity, are being persuaded to resettle in cities like Mariupol which had a prewar population of over 400,000 and now currently has a population of about a tenth of that.

Russia scrubs Mariupol's Ukraine identity, builds on death

Throughout Mariupol, Russian workers are tearing down bombed-out buildings at a rate of at least one a day, hauling away shattered bodies with the debris.

apnews.com

 

[Tiamat]

Also in the news, remember those Central Asians Russia was importing to help rebuild and repopulate Mariupol? The Russians allegedly found something else they can be utilized for...

More construction workers getting sent to the trenches? God this is depressing.

 

[Cherico]

More Details on the Drone Attack on Moscow. Russia states three drones were downed by Russian air defenses but two crashed into office buildings. The drones potentially involved in the attack are reportedly called 'Beavers' which were constructred by Ukrainian domestic civil industry, with a range of a thousand kilometers and a cost of about $110,000 per drone to manufacture.

Zelensky after Moscow drone attack: War coming back to Russia

Ukraine's president speaks of an inevitable process, hours after buildings were hit in the Russian capital.

www.bbc.com

At least one of the buildings reportedly housed several government ministries and resulted in the scattering of government documentation across the streets of Moscow. The Russian response in some areas has been remarkably calm, such as calls for fleeing the city, or establishing Civil Defense forces on Moscow rooftops to help fend off the drones.



At the time of the drone attack, Moscow was reportedly defended by multiple Pantsirs still positioned on rooftops (as they have been for months now) as well as S-400 Battalions.



Also in the news, remember those Central Asians Russia was importing to help rebuild and repopulate Mariupol? The Russians allegedly found something else they can be utilized for...

well they kind of started a war, and as retaliation goes this is pretty minor.

 

[Husky_Khan]

Rail Bridge in Chongar, one of several that links Crimea to the rest of Southern Ukraine, was damaged by Ukrainian Fires. Thread on it below.



Ukrainian Partisan Activity reported in Russian occupied Mariupol, destroying trucks, and damaging engineering and housing facilities for Russian forces.



Video Showing Ukrainian Forces with Polish Rosomak Armored Vehicles and Swedish CV90's and Leopard/Stridsvagn 122 Tanks.



Russian Logistical Vehicles reportedly running afoul of their own minefields well behind the frontlines.



Russian Telegram reports China will be modifying its policy for exporting Chinese model civilian drones which may impact Ukraine's ability to deploy large numbers of drones for kamikaze strikes or for dropping munitions like anti-armor grenades.



Volunteers from far off Kamchatka are being given the privilege and honor of enlisting as support troops like construction workers but also including nurses, and instead serving as motorized riflemen, including alongside Russian Penal Storm Z Units!

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Article on North Korean Munitions Showing up in the Special Military Operation with even Ukraine reportedly using captured North Korean munitions.

The Ukrainian soldiers said the rockets had been “seized” from a ship by a “friendly” country before being delivered to Ukraine. They declined to provide further details.

Ukraine’s defence ministry suggested the rockets were taken from Russian forces. “We capture their tanks, we capture their equipment and it is very possible that this is also the result of the Ukrainian army successfully conducting a military operation,” said Yuriy Sak, an adviser to Ukraine’s defence minister.

“Russia has been shopping around for different types of munitions in all kinds of tyrannies, including North Korea and Iran,” he added.

https://twitter.com/ChristopherJM/status/1685126870159802373?s=20

 

[Cherico]

If you need to go shopping in north korea to get ammo you have problems.

 

[paulobrito]

If you need to go shopping in north korea to get ammo you have problems.

More like who produces ammo compatible with your systems and can sell it to you. Not many options. And NK is known to produce a lot (?). And starved for money.

 

[Jormungandr]

So, eighteen to nineteen year old women are being forced to serve as frontline troops... alongside convicts whose crimes include but are not limited to rape, molestation, and murder of women.

Yeah, this is going to end well.

When the historical Nazis you're making your modern enemy out to be as part of your official justification had better moral standards than your own, you know shit's fucked. smh

More like who produces ammo compatible with your systems and can sell it to you. Not many options. And NK is known to produce a lot (?). And starved for money.

Yep! Russia's systems are either still Soviet-era or are directly descended from Soviet stuff, so they use all the same ammo pools, tools, and machinery. North Korea, and to a smaller extent China and certain Middle-Eastern nations, are making bank off the Russian's stupidity -- the Norks especially.

 

[Marduk]

More like who produces ammo compatible with your systems and can sell it to you. Not many options. And NK is known to produce a lot (?). And starved for money.

North Korean ammo is better than no ammo, but not by much, considering the quality and reputational damage, i think that's the point people are trying to make. If they could take any other option, like making more of own ammo, or Chinese ammo, which is also compatible, they would take it over NK.

The really important point here is that it demonstrates the limits of supposed Russian-Chinese friendship. It doesn't go to the point where China would suffer the escalation in hostility in the West resulting from directly aiding Russia with ammo. Which China would be technically capable of doing, and to a humongous degree.

 

[ATP]

North Korean ammo is better than no ammo, but not by much, considering the quality and reputational damage, i think that's the point people are trying to make. If they could take any other option, like making more of own ammo, or Chinese ammo, which is also compatible, they would take it over NK.

The really important point here is that it demonstrates the limits of supposed Russian-Chinese friendship. It doesn't go to the point where China would suffer the escalation in hostility in the West resulting from directly aiding Russia with ammo. Which China would be technically capable of doing, and to a humongous degree.

Well,if China sell their excellent Type 59 tanks,Ukraine should not complain too much....

 

[paulobrito]

Excellent in WoT, for sure. Other than that...

 

[Marduk]

Well,if China sell their excellent Type 59 tanks,Ukraine should not complain too much....

Those are no longer produced and mostly sold to Africa.
If China was truly Russia's allies, they would sell, no, gift Russia these tanks, much like West sends their tanks to Ukraine - at least equal to increasingly rare T-90, but also to a degree compatible with Russian logistics and training due to being based on T-72.