Dorm 15 said:Predator B ?Rossticus said:Dorm 15 said:
Is it correct that the US is sending drones?
Certain drones, yes
⚡️Satellite imagery taken on March 14 by the private U.S. company Maxar Technologies showed that the word “children” had been written in Russian outside the Mariupol theater where hundreds of civilians had taken shelter.
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) March 16, 2022
The theater was bombed by Russian forces on March 16.
NEW: Russia has deployed additional attack and troop transport helicopters to a base in Belarus, per satellite photo.
— Jack Detsch (@JackDetsch) March 16, 2022
A senior US defense official said this week that Ukraine’s capital Kyiv is increasingly under assault by Russian fires, including long-range strikes.
📷:@Maxar pic.twitter.com/gepNE0XAGv
JUST NOW
— Richard Walker (@rbsw) March 16, 2022
Scholz:
Germany "will continue" supplying weapons to Ukraine.
"We've made our decision." pic.twitter.com/bqM8IDTwZl
A gun shot can be heard at a distance of up to 5 km, and gun fire can be heard at a distance of 15 km.
— MotolkoHelp (@MotolkoHelp) March 16, 2022
And Pinsk is the nearest to the point where they heard the sounds of explosions – 165 km from the “Brestski” training ground, not 3 or 5 km.
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YESDorm 15 said:
Is it correct that the US is sending drones?
ATX_AG_08 said:
Looks like Russia does not believe this thing is over by any means.NEW: Russia has deployed additional attack and troop transport helicopters to a base in Belarus, per satellite photo.
— Jack Detsch (@JackDetsch) March 16, 2022
A senior US defense official said this week that Ukraine’s capital Kyiv is increasingly under assault by Russian fires, including long-range strikes.
📷:@Maxar pic.twitter.com/gepNE0XAGv
More elaboration from Reuters: https://t.co/FqMix3HdpS
— spook (@spook_info) March 17, 2022
Russian attempts to advance towards #Kharkiv, #Severodonetsk, #Mykolaiv during last couple of days.
— Walter Lekh (@LekhWalter) March 17, 2022
Basic, simplified schemes.#RussiaInvadedUkraine #russianinvasion pic.twitter.com/3LN9H88OsA
Rossticus said:
Russia just DGAF.More elaboration from Reuters: https://t.co/FqMix3HdpS
— spook (@spook_info) March 17, 2022
🚨A Ukrainian official tells me the negotiations have not yet progressed significantly. The official, who has direct knowledge of the talks, told me the more positive tone from Russia was more about Moscow wanting sanctions pressure eased, calling it a “smoke curtain.”
— annmarie hordern (@annmarie) March 16, 2022
Why would they? No one has ever done anything to stop them, before, and no one is doing anything to stop them now. They are betting on everyone being afraid of Putin popping off a nuke, and doing whatever they want.Rossticus said:
Russia just DGAF.More elaboration from Reuters: https://t.co/FqMix3HdpS
— spook (@spook_info) March 17, 2022
Yes, we know. https://t.co/iTRmQ6q4VI
— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) March 17, 2022
Kremlin wants the West to believe that a Russian-Ukrainian compromise is within reach (is not). To convince the West that more weapons supplies to Ukraine would undermine the on-going negotiations (on the contrary). Do not get fooled. Each day of delay in arms deliveries matters
— Daniel Szeligowski (@dszeligowski) March 16, 2022
The infantry is preparing to repel a russian tank attack#Luhansk region SE #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/lQ9HDXsCTL
— C4H10FO2P (@markito0171) March 16, 2022
TheEternalPessimist said:
Can anyone elaborate on the explosions in Belarus any further?
Massive explosions in a number of cities in #Belarus. Residents of Baranavichy, Luninets, Stolin, Hantsavichy, Slutsk, Kletsk and other cities reported sounds similar to explosions. We are trying to understand what happened
— Hanna Liubakova (@HannaLiubakova) March 16, 2022
This video is from Luninets. Loud sounds and flashing dots in the sky. There is a similar video from the village of Goryn on the border with #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/GHia02ID7F
— Hanna Liubakova (@HannaLiubakova) March 16, 2022
https://t.co/Fb96Hvr3Hp pic.twitter.com/H6B2coAOTU
— Ipster🇫🇮🇺🇦 (@Iipi_p) March 16, 2022
We state: #Belarus is an occupied territory, #Russia is an occupying country, & Lukashenka's regime is a #puppetgovernment. We call on foreign partners to give an appropriate assessment of the current situation.
— Pavel Latushka (@PavelLatushka) March 16, 2022
Full statement: https://t.co/IthH9OrkSJ @StateDept @SecBlinken
Agthatbuilds said:🚨A Ukrainian official tells me the negotiations have not yet progressed significantly. The official, who has direct knowledge of the talks, told me the more positive tone from Russia was more about Moscow wanting sanctions pressure eased, calling it a “smoke curtain.”
— annmarie hordern (@annmarie) March 16, 2022
Now that's a lede:
— Trip Gabriel (@tripgabriel) March 16, 2022
"A Kalashnikov rifle slung over his shoulder, Voznesensk’s funeral director...spent this Tuesday driving through fields and forests, picking up dead Russian soldiers and taking them to a freezer railway car piled with Russian bodies"https://t.co/DWWqd4FuJL
My dudes! Got crazy nostalgia watching that.ATX_AG_08 said:The infantry is preparing to repel a russian tank attack#Luhansk region SE #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/lQ9HDXsCTL
— C4H10FO2P (@markito0171) March 16, 2022
⚡️Moldova calls on Russia to withdraw from Transnistria.
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) March 17, 2022
Moldovan President Maia Sandu called for the removal of munitions and “complete and unconditional withdrawal of Russian forces” from the unrecognized breakaway region during a UN General Assembly meeting on March 16.
⚡️ China's Ambassador to Ukraine congratulates them for their unity and resistance. Also promises to help Ukraine economically and to help rebuild.⚡️
— spook (@spook_info) March 17, 2022
Here's the entire WSJ piece:ATX_AG_08 said:Now that's a lede:
— Trip Gabriel (@tripgabriel) March 16, 2022
"A Kalashnikov rifle slung over his shoulder, Voznesensk’s funeral director...spent this Tuesday driving through fields and forests, picking up dead Russian soldiers and taking them to a freezer railway car piled with Russian bodies"https://t.co/DWWqd4FuJL
Quote:
Instead, the two-day battle of Voznesensk, details of which are only now emerging, turned decisively against the Russians. Judging from the destroyed and abandoned armor, Ukrainian forces, which comprised local volunteers and the professional military, eliminated most of a Russian battalion tactical group on March 2 and 3.
The Ukrainian defenders' performance against a much-better-armed enemy in an overwhelmingly Russian-speaking region was successful in part because of widespread popular support for the Ukrainian causeone reason the Russian invasion across the country has failed to achieve its principal goals so far. Ukraine on Wednesday said it was launching a counteroffensive on several fronts.
"Everyone is united against the common enemy," said Voznesensk's 32-year-old mayor, Yevheni Velichko, a former real-estate developer turned wartime commander, who, like other local officials, moves around with a gun. "We are defending our own land. We are at home."
The Russian military says its Ukraine offensive is developing successfully and according to plan. Moscow hasn't released updated casualty figures since acknowledging on March 2 the death of 498 troops, before the Voznesensk battle.
Russian survivors of the Voznesensk battle left behind nearly 30 of their 43 vehiclestanks, armored personnel carriers, multiple-rocket launchers, trucksas well as a downed Mi-24 attack helicopter, according to Ukrainian officials in the city. The helicopter's remnants and some pieces of burned-out Russian armor were still scattered around Voznesensk on Tuesday.
Russian forces retreated more than 40 miles to the southeast, where other Ukrainian units have continued pounding them. Some dispersed in nearby forests, where local officials said 10 soldiers have been captured.
"We didn't have a single tank against them, just rocket-propelled grenades, Javelin missiles and the help of artillery," said Vadym Dombrovsky, commander of the Ukrainian special-forces reconnaissance group in the area and a Voznesensk resident. "The Russians didn't expect us to be so strong. It was a surprise for them. If they had taken Voznesensk, they would have cut off the whole south of Ukraine."
Ukrainian officers estimated that some 100 Russian troops died in Voznesensk, including those whose bodies were taken by retreating Russian troops or burned inside carbonized vehicles. As of Tuesday, 11 dead Russian soldiers were in the railway car turned morgue, with search parties looking for other bodies in nearby forests. Villagers buried some others.
"Sometimes, I wish I could put these bodies on a plane and drop them all onto Moscow, so they realize what is happening here," said Mr. Sokurenko, the funeral director, as he put Tuesday's fifth Russian cadaver on blue-plastic sheeting inside his van marked "Cargo 200"Soviet military slang for killed in action. A Ukrainian military explosives specialist accompanied him, because some bodies had been booby trapped.
About 10 Ukrainian civilians died in Voznesensk during the combat and two more after hitting a land mine afterward, local officials said. Ukraine doesn't disclose its military losses. There were fatalities, mostly among the Territorial Defense volunteer forces, local residents said.
The Russian operation to seize Voznesensk, 20 miles from the South Ukrainian Nuclear Power Plant, was ambitious and well-equipped. It began after Russian forces fanned out of the Crimean Peninsula, which Moscow severed from Ukraine and annexed in 2014, and thrust northward to seize the regional capital of Kherson on March 1. They pushed to the edge of Mykolaiv, the last major city before Odessa, Ukraine's main port.
About 55 miles north of Mykolaiv, Voznesensk offered an alternative bridge over the Southern Bug river and access to the main highway linking Odessa with the rest of Ukraine. Russian forces raced toward the town at the same time as they made a successful push northeast to seize the city of Enerhodar, where another major Ukrainian nuclear power plant is located. Voznesensk's fall would have made defending the nuclear plant to the north of here nearly impossible, military officials said.
...
Missile strikes
The Russian assault began with missile strikes and shelling that hit central Voznesensk, destroying the municipal swimming pool and damaging high-rises. Helicopters dropped Russian air-assault troops in a forested ridge southwest of Voznesensk, as an armored column drove from the southeast. Mr. Velichko said a local collaborator with the Russians, a woman driving a Hyundai SUV, showed the Russian column a way through back roads.
Ukrainian officers estimate that some 400 Russian troops took part in the attack. The number would have been bigger if these forcesmostly from the 126th naval infantry brigade based in Perevalnoye, Crimea, according to seized documentshadn't come under heavy shelling along the way.
Natalia Horchuk, a 25-year-old mother of three, said Russian soldiers appeared in her garden in the village of Rakove in the Voznesensk municipality early March 2. They told her and neighbors to leave for their safety, and parked four tanks and infantry fighting vehicles between the houses. "Do you have anywhere to go?" she recalled them asking. "This place will be hit."
"We can hide in the cellar," she replied.
"The cellar won't help you," they told her. Hiding valuables, she and her family fled, as did most neighbors.
(... cont'd)
BD88 said:📸@Maxar (very quickly) releases satellite images of the Mariupol theater it says were taken 14 March. the words "children" are visible in white, written on the pavement in front and back of the theater. pic.twitter.com/iIEfIXJAmz
— Mike Eckel (@Mike_Eckel) March 16, 2022
(Russians on the moon ;-) )ATX_AG_08 said:Now that's a lede:
— Trip Gabriel (@tripgabriel) March 16, 2022
"A Kalashnikov rifle slung over his shoulder, Voznesensk’s funeral director...spent this Tuesday driving through fields and forests, picking up dead Russian soldiers and taking them to a freezer railway car piled with Russian bodies"https://t.co/DWWqd4FuJL
PJYoung said:"Russian survivors of the Voznesensk battle left behind nearly 30 of their 43 tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, multiple-rocket launchers and trucks, as well as a downed Mi-24 attack helicopter, according to Ukrainian officials in the city." https://t.co/cTsyxnhQSM
— Michael Weiss 🌻🇺🇸🇮🇪 (@michaeldweiss) March 16, 2022Quote:
Russian forces retreated more than 40 miles to the southeast, where other Ukrainian units have continued pounding them. Some dispersed in nearby forests, where local officials said 10 soldiers have been captured.
"We didn't have a single tank against them, just rocket-propelled grenades, Javelin missiles and the help of artillery," said Vadym Dombrovsky, commander of the Ukrainian special-forces reconnaissance group in the area and a Voznesensk resident. "The Russians didn't expect us to be so strong. It was a surprise for them. If they had taken Voznesensk, they would have cut off the whole south of Ukraine."
Ukrainian officers estimated that some 100 Russian troops died in Voznesensk, including those whose bodies were taken by retreating Russian troops or burned inside carbonized vehicles. As of Tuesday, 11 dead Russian soldiers were in the railway car turned morgue, with search parties looking for other bodies in nearby forests. Villagers buried some others.Quote:
The Russian assault began with missile strikes and shelling that hit central Voznesensk, destroying the municipal swimming pool and damaging high-rises. Helicopters dropped Russian air-assault troops in a forested ridge southwest of Voznesensk, as an armored column drove from the southeast. Mr. Velichko said a local collaborator with the Russians, a woman driving a Hyundai SUV, showed the Russian column a way through back roads.
Ukrainian officers estimate that some 400 Russian troops took part in the attack. The number would have been bigger if these forcesmostly from the 126th naval infantry brigade based in Perevalnoye, Crimea, according to seized documentshadn't come under heavy shelling along the way.Quote:
Ukrainian shelling blew craters in the field, and some Russian vehicles sustained direct hits. Other Ukrainian regular troops and Territorial Defense forces moved toward Russian positions on foot, hitting vehicles with U.S.-supplied Javelin missiles. As Russian armor caught fireincluding three of the five tanks in the wheat fieldsoldiers abandoned functioning vehicles and escaped on foot or sped off in the BTRs that still had fuel. They left crates of ammunition.
Mr. Rudenko picked up a Russian conscript days later, he said, who served as an assistant artillery specialist at a Grad multiple-rocket launcher that attacked Voznesensk from a forest. The 18-year-old conscript, originally from eastern Ukraine and a Crimea resident since 2014, suffered a concussion after a Ukrainian shell hit near him. He woke the next morning, left his weapon and wandered into a village, Mr. Rudenko said. There, a woman took him into her home and called the village head, who informed Territorial Defense. "He's still in shock about what happened to him," Mr. Rudenko said.
Mr. Dombrovsky, the reconnaissance-unit commander, said he captured several soldiers in their early 20s and a 31-year-old senior lieutenant from the Russian military intelligence. The lieutenant, he said, had forced a private to swap uniforms but was discovered because of the age discrepancyand because Ukrainian forces found Russian personnel files in the column's command vehicle.
"The Russians had orders to come in, seize, and await further instructions," Mr. Dombrovsky said. "But they had no orders for what to do if they are defeated. That, they didn't plan for."Quote:
The Ukrainian army's 80th brigade was towing away the last remaining Russian BTRs with "Z" painted on their sides, the identification markers that in Russia have become the symbol of the invasion. About 15 Russian tanks and other vehicles were in working or salvageable condition, said Mr. Dombrovsky. "We are ready to hit the Russians with their own weapons," he said. Others, mostly burned-out wrecks, were removed from streets because they scared civilians and contained ordnance, the mayor said.Quote:
Electricity, disrupted during combat, has returned in Voznesensk, as have internet, gas and water services. ATMs have been restocked with cash, supermarkets with food.
The only explosions are from bomb squads occasionally disposing ordnance. Mr. Velichko, the mayor, fielded citizen phone calls Tuesday, telling one he would take care of a possibly rabid dog and assuring another that her utilities wouldn't be cut in wartime even if she was late in paying. He argued with an army commander because Ukrainian soldiers had siphoned fuel from the gas station.
Spartak Hukasian, head of the Voznesensk district council, said the cityno longer near front lineswas starting to get used to relatively peaceful life again. "He who laughs last laughs best," he said. "We haven't had a chance to laugh until now."
He can say that, but I think that part of Moldova wants to be Russian rightATX_AG_08 said:
Damn getting hectic. Is everyone punking Putin now?⚡️Moldova calls on Russia to withdraw from Transnistria.
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) March 17, 2022
Moldovan President Maia Sandu called for the removal of munitions and “complete and unconditional withdrawal of Russian forces” from the unrecognized breakaway region during a UN General Assembly meeting on March 16.
