This is why you should never hide from a drone next to a pile of anti-tank mines.
WARNING: Video shows dead Russians.
For being lucky No. 100, the widows of this crew should receive two bags of onions each.
Link to article.
He didn’t last long.
Burn, baby, burn
A Russian soldier is wounded by a drone drop. His comrade grabs the guy’s radio and walks off without even checking on the wounded soldier.
These Russians weren’t able to shoot down the drone, but their Scooby van paid the price for their lack of success.
Somebody is nervous.
What will Russia try next? Horse cavalry?
Link to Forbes article.
Struggling to replace destroyed armored vehicles with fresh armored vehicles—either newly built or pulled out of long-term storage—the Kremlin is equipping more units with civilian-style vehicles, including the Chinese-made Desertcross 1000-3 ATVs as well as Chinese and Belarusian dirt bikes.
Against dug-in Ukrainian troops backed by artillery and drones, troops riding on ATVs and bikes don’t stand a chance. It’s not for no reason that the Russians are losing record numbers of troops. “The average daily Russian casualties (killed and wounded) in Ukraine throughout May and June 2024 increased to conflict highs of 1,262 and 1,163, respectively,” the U.K. Defense Ministry reported last week.
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Up-armoring the ATVs and bikes with anti-drone cages doesn’t seem to help very much, as the extra armor slows down the already under-powered vehicles, making them more vulnerable to other forms of Ukrainian firepower.
Now it’s just a very tall pile of scrap metal.
Russian machismo.
The lucky winner’s widow gets a bag of onions.
The value of cluster munitions is demonstrated again.
By the dawn’s early light.
Bradleys open up on a Russian-held treeline.
Ukraine struck a plant in Kursk that produces distribution and control electrical equipment.
It sucks when you speed up to get away from a kamikaze drone and the police give you a ticket for speeding.
In front-line areas, they continue to collect fines for violating traffic rules and pay taxes, fees, and housing and communal services in the same amount. For example, drivers exceed the speed limit in order to get away from the drone, or drive quickly through a dangerous place; the state regularly collects fines for this.
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Social tension in the Belgorod region is growing, no one is working with it. Belgorod residents, who were the first to support our troops in the SMO, unfortunately, began to feel like bait for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Our military is told that this is a gray area and they are simply shocked that they need to follow orders and hit the enemy next to the houses where people live. Tension begins between military and civilians. Neither one nor the other is to blame for this.
At least he didn’t fall accidentally from a window.
This thread examines how soldiers in this war go about attacking trenches.
The whole thread can be found here.
The article, written by Andrey Markin and published in the January 2024 edition of Chest' imeyu, highlights the practical difficulties for both sides of assaulting positions located in narrow belts of trees along the sides of Ukraine's wide fields. 2/
Markin writes:"Materials on the tactics of attacks used, which have become publicly available, demonstrate at least three "oddities" of infantry attacks in the current war aimed at capturing enemy positions in the trenches: 3/
1) in the immediate vicinity of the attacked trenches, soldiers of the attacking side move almost at full height at a slow (!) pace, often freezing (!) in place to fire 3-7 meters from the enemy trench. 4/
When stopping their movement, they do not always move to the "lying down" position in the immediate vicinity of the enemy trenches, often taking the "kneeling" or "kneeling" position or remaining in the "standing" position, barely ducking down; 5/
2) the assault almost always proceeds along the trench, and not frontally; 6/
3) the approach to the attacked trench is carried out "in single file", that is, practically in a column, one at a time, without deploying in a chain (wedge), and often such a "column" in front of the enemy trench gathers into a small crowd, … 7/
…when the leading soldiers of the column stop, and those walking behind continue to move forward until they catch up with the soldiers who stopped in front. 8/
If disembarking is carried out from an APC/BMP then it is carried out 10-20 meters from the enemy trench (when disembarking from the stern of an BMP, the side of the vehicle is often positioned approximately parallel to the trench line, i.e. the infantry behind the stern… 9/
…does not take cover at the moment of dismounting; not to mention the fact that soldiers often sit on top of the armoured vehicle during the approach), and the dismounted soldiers then approach the attacked trench in a "crowd", without moving to the lower level. 10/
All this indicates that the density and effectiveness of the defenders' fire in front of the forward edge of the defence is extremely low, otherwise the above actions would be simply impossible. 11/
The war that was supposed to be over in three days.
But it’s a dry heat.
Narrator: The sky did NOT weep.
Heartbreaking.
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