The fighting in Vovchansk is described as house-to-house and even within the same building.
"Warring parties are separated not even by tens of meters, but by a few meters. Positions are not just in neighboring buildings, it happens that in the same house - in adjacent rooms, on different floors. The situation in the city takes us back to Stalingrad, only on a smaller scale. Unfortunately, the losses are great," he reports.
More from Vovchansk:
I live in the South and I’ve had pig ear sandwiches and head cheese, but you won’t catch me eating lard sandwiches.
This would likely be another dumpster fire of an offensive for Russia.
Borova is west of Svatove, so this would be Russia’s attempt to undo Ukrainian gains during its successful offensive in 2022.
Burn, baby, burn
I wonder how many turrets he has tossed.
I wonder how Ukraine found this T-80 tank?
Hmmmm. Maybe they just followed the tank tracks all the way to the hideout in the woods.
Nice turret toss.
WARNING: Video also shows dead Russians.
Ukraine continues to target Russian logistics, i.e., trucks.
The Russian filming this says that three officers died in this Chinese golf cart and that the Russians have to use them because if they use trucks they are instantly attacked by drones.
This is pretty funny actually. A lost Russian tank driver stops to ask Ukrainians for directions.
OTOH — you could say that he made the correct turn. Now they can chill in a POW camp instead of being blown up in their tank.
The driver of the tank was captured by the medics of the 244 TDF battalion. Because he came out to look for the directions as they were passing on M113.
There are posts on twitter about finding a Russian vehicle with a severed Ukrainian head on top of the hood. The post says Russians have been ordering not to take any prisoners. The photo of the vehicle shows the (blurred) head on the hood of the vehicle, so I’m not embedding it. It is at this link if you wish to see it.
I’d say I was surprised by this, but war criming is what Russia does best.
An assassination attempt in Kyiv.
A possible assassination attempt foiled.
RCH stands for Remote Controlled Howitzer.
This was announced back in the fall but it was only supposed to be 36. Now it’s 54. But the whole package is not supposed to be delivered until 2027.
This kind of shit needs to stop. If the U.S. is dragging its feet on F-16 training, then some priorities need to be rearranged.
Oleksandra Ustinova, head of Ukraine’s special parliamentary commission on arms and munitions, has accused the United States of making “excuses” for failing to train sufficient numbers of Ukrainian F-16 fighter jet pilots.
Ustinova claims this delay means Ukraine will likely have only 20 fully trained F-16 pilots by the end of the year despite the expected arrival of the first jets later this year.
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Washington told Kyiv that other countries were ahead of Ukrainian pilots in the queue for training places and that it could not violate its obligations to them.
A US Defense Department spokesman also claimed that Ukrainian pilots are having difficulty with their English language skills and the flight program, saying that “the progress of training on F-16s is quite meager.”
This is good news, even though it should have happened two years ago.
Italy steps up.
I wish this was a joke, but apparently it isn’t. 😡
The translation didn’t help much for me. It’s so technical it makes my head hurt.
But am I surprised that Russia made a piece of shit equipment that cost them 20 soldiers? Nope. I just hope they keep fucking up.
Do you think Putin and Kim Jong Un exchange love letters?
Check out how enthusiastic the North Koreans in the audience seem to be.
This is a rather cryptic post from a Russian blogger writing about a commander who was killed in his own yard and hints that the ratio of commanders killed at the front compared to the rear would be shocking.
The other day one of the commanders of the 11th* brigade was killed. Shot dead in the yard of his own house.
War? No. Saboteurs? Don't know. Killed by own people? It's also possible.
There were political deaths. Some people were not allowed to steal. Some couldn't stop because they thought they were holding God by the beard. All the leaders of the republics have been liquidated - although Igor Plotnitsky seems to be still alive... Mozgovoy, Zakharchenko, Kostin, Murz... And not a single one was killed at the frontline.
(In general, it is interesting to calculate the ratio of deaths of commanders at the front and in the rear. Can someone do it? If the enemy does this first, it will be impossible to find more demotivating information. This is a media bomb.)
The reasons for this murder will still be clarified by the investigation. Hopefully.
This is what modern warfare is like. The enemy is already inside you. Have the courage to admit it, because without it there will be no victory. And have the courage to fight, because otherwise the enemy is yourself.
Polish farmers need to stay home and tend to their farms.
They aren’t spreading pig manure to fertilize the fields — although that’s a bizarre side outcome of this stunt — they are doing it because many of the migrants are Muslim.
He reminds me of the swordsman in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Rest in peace.
Maybe one day there can be a parade like this in Moscow without the police arresting everyone.
The scars left on children will take a very long time to heal, if ever.
A break from the war.
Yes, more dancing please!
Lexie and the Ducks might make a good band name.