Ukrainian kids are playing in a hole from a Russian missile that hit a playground in central #Kyiv earlier this week. #Ukraine️ pic.twitter.com/7jgrXXPpwq
— Ostap Yarysh (@OstapYarysh) October 16, 2022
Ukrainian kids are playing in a hole from a Russian missile that hit a playground in central #Kyiv earlier this week. #Ukraine️ pic.twitter.com/7jgrXXPpwq
— Ostap Yarysh (@OstapYarysh) October 16, 2022
Northern front, bout to really get bloody.Red Pear Realty said:
The images/videos of equipment with the "triangle 2" markings on them rolling through on rail pretty much convinced me Belarus is actually going to get involved this go around.
⚡️Zelensky: Fierce fighting continues in Donbas, including against Russian prisoners.
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) October 16, 2022
President Zelensky said the heaviest fighting continues in two cities in Donetsk Oblast, Soledar and Bakhmut, where the Ukrainian military is holding off Russians, including 2,000 prisoners.
Rossticus said:To my eye this looks remarkably lot like a MGM-140 #ATACMS, a large bore longer range (300km) ballistic missile for the MLRS and HIMARS.
— Petri Mäkelä (@pmakela1) October 16, 2022
This would be capable of hitting previously safe Russian bases and logistics hubs.#Ukraine https://t.co/zMf7Twu4cn pic.twitter.com/ifqgySlyLL
The Russian Dirty Dozen's! Hope they either revolt or get chopped to pieces.Waffledynamics said:⚡️Zelensky: Fierce fighting continues in Donbas, including against Russian prisoners.
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) October 16, 2022
President Zelensky said the heaviest fighting continues in two cities in Donetsk Oblast, Soledar and Bakhmut, where the Ukrainian military is holding off Russians, including 2,000 prisoners.
meanwhile Ukrainians pic.twitter.com/ptvs7GvR0s
— Dr.Clef's Shotgun (@koplo_joni) October 16, 2022
Not sure if they will actively participate or just let the Russians use their territory to launch an invasion, as they did in February. This is what they would do if Russia decided to invade the Baltic States or PolandRed Pear Realty said:
The images/videos of equipment with the "triangle 2" markings on them rolling through on rail pretty much convinced me Belarus is actually going to get involved this go around.
Docs found in Girkin’s Slovyansk office after he fled in 2014 revealed he'd ordered the executions by firing squad of at least 3 people in eastern Ukraine following slapdash military trials. Girkin later admitted to sentencing 3 more men to death and killing one of them himself.
— KT "Special NAFO Operation" (@KremlinTrolls) October 16, 2022
Russian soldiers have shot dead a Ukrainian musician in his home after he refused to take part in a concert in occupied Kherson. https://t.co/WZSe2KsF5l
— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) October 16, 2022
VIDEO from St Petersburg in Russia of a young man "being encouraged" to volunteer to be mobilised, conscripted and sent to Ukraine (to die). There is little or no resistance by Russians against this & to the people looking on its a joke #Russia #Putin #UkraineRussianWar #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/J4FTantbJP
— raging545 (@raging545) October 16, 2022
The launcher itself looks like an MLRS. I don't think the U.S. has sent any of those, but Germany has sent some MARS-IIs, which is a German upgrade to the MLRS.Ulysses90 said:Rossticus said:To my eye this looks remarkably lot like a MGM-140 #ATACMS, a large bore longer range (300km) ballistic missile for the MLRS and HIMARS.
— Petri Mäkelä (@pmakela1) October 16, 2022
This would be capable of hitting previously safe Russian bases and logistics hubs.#Ukraine https://t.co/zMf7Twu4cn pic.twitter.com/ifqgySlyLL
I am not an expert but I believe he's correct. From what I recall, HIMARS firing a pod of rockets orients the pod to fire off the side i.e. perpendicular to the direction that the cab of the truck is pointed. ATACMS fires directly over the cab. Someone with personal experience may correct me.
Rusich, Russia's neo-Nazi Wagner unit, reacts to UA/RU prisoner exchanges by advising RU forces how to commit war crimes, including how to extort $$ from families after summarily executing prisoners (awkward English auto-translate for convenience). Disgusting... pic.twitter.com/aeB5hFlnle
— Michael Colborne (@ColborneMichael) September 22, 2022
Grey Zone publishes a short Q&A with Wagners' Prigozhyn who says that Ukrainians are not running from Bakhmut as it's being claimed. Also briefly throws shade at "allies", which are likely to be L/DPR forces, he doesn't seem to like them.https://t.co/IFsSlO5BBB pic.twitter.com/V9ffRKqkhX
— Dmitri (@wartranslated) October 16, 2022
VIDEO of Russia dropping incendiary munitions over the Ukrainian held area near Bakhmut. #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #Putinswar #UkraineRussianWar pic.twitter.com/GahffTZ2B1
— raging545 (@raging545) October 16, 2022
❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Chronicles of the special military operation
— Rybar in English (@rybar_en) October 17, 2022
October 15 - 16, 2022 pic.twitter.com/dZvjIlCgVo
@GeoConfirmed: 46.775, 33.376
— Brady Africk (@bradyafr) October 16, 2022
Ulysses90 said:
The ATACMS missile also launches at an offset to the direction of the target. After it launches it makes a sharp turn toward the target and accelerates and climbs. This makes it more difficult for the enemy to get a counterbattery fix on the launcher location because a simple regression would generate a firing solution that it a long way from where the launcher was actually located.
Private PoopyPants said:aggiehawg said:
MiG 29s were late 70s early 80s design, correct? Weren't they replaced about 20 years ago?
They are Russia's rough equivalent to our F15 although the avionics and other tech is not close. The engine performance and maneuverability are quite good. If they are pulling them out of storage then odds are they are not coming with anything modernized.
It is also the primary fighter/attack jet Ukraine is using in the war. The Ukrainian MiG-29 has been upgraded to fire NATO weapons, including the HARM anti-SAM missile.
One of the big eye-openers in this war is the lack of performance from the Russian Air Force. They don't seem to be able to fly with significant altitude and accurately target the ground at the same time. The lack of smart munitions and targeting pods has played a big role in how many have been shot down by manpads.
2/ Ukrainian forces are currently conducting a counteroffensive push in #Kherson Oblast as of October 16. @TheStudyofWar and @criticalthreats will update our maps after information about the new front lines unambiguously enters the open-source environment. https://t.co/FPaJYs7TCa
— ISW (@TheStudyofWar) October 17, 2022
The work of the Ukrainian fighting pigeon GUL - 131 grown in "American biolaboratories" pic.twitter.com/gScFcweoTF
— ТРУХА⚡️English (@TpyxaNews) October 16, 2022
about the capture of settlements near Bakhmut, in particular, Ivanhrad, Opytne, and others settlements.
— George Barros (@georgewbarros) October 16, 2022
This statement tracks with all available visual evidence that we’ve seen from open sources.
The false claims points to a Russian effort to create an information effect and convince the Russian homefront Russian forces are making some progress to prevent more demoralization. https://t.co/PzL0DP240t
— George Barros (@georgewbarros) October 16, 2022
The 29 has evolved into a multi-role platform more along the lines of the F-18 over the years. It was never intended to be the equivalent of the F-15. The lineage as GAC06 stated started the same way the F-16 started. Day fighter with very short legs.Private PoopyPants said:
That is right. For some reason I've always had it in my head that the MiG-29 was capable of ground attack but was designed more for the air to air with the Su-27 more of the multirole design. I had it backwards. My 7th grade self would be very disappointed with me right now.
These units have received a lot of training assistance from US and NATO SOF over the past few years, with the 73rd hosting the US Commanding General, Special Operations Command-Europe in 2021.https://t.co/ttTmHIKyOD
— OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) October 17, 2022
Russian soldiers flees for his life as Ukrainian HIMARS missiles start raining down on the positions of his unit.
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) October 16, 2022
The Russians are much less cocky now that the Ukrainians can fire back at them with top-grade weapons. pic.twitter.com/Fki9jaeqlQ
Meanwhile in Russia: Tempers fly, as not everybody is happy with the government's failure to properly equip the troops, leading to proposals to cancel the New Year's festivities and spend the money on the military. One pundit concludes: "The government sh*t its pants." pic.twitter.com/vBAUIcsAfz
— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) October 17, 2022
Russia's war correspondents and Russia's military pride Wagner say "the problem of replacement of the Russian population" (with non-ethnic Russians from former Soviet republics) is going to "explode into a civil war".
— Christo Grozev (@christogrozev) October 16, 2022
Remember, this country is "fighting Nazism in Ukraine". pic.twitter.com/XNFpZepl3w
It also means that these groups probably should not be under the umbrella of the Russian Federation, which is a point that can and will continue to create fissures in the RF. This undoubtedly translates to the battlefield as these disparate groups enter the conflict.aggiehawg said:
The Mixing Bowl versus the Melting Pot as we were taught in grade school.
If members of their own Federation are considered "foreigners" to ethnic Russians, then there are not enough of them to hold on forever. He makes a good point.
DNR forces with an anti-materiel rifle and LPD-801 C-UAS gun. https://t.co/gJWm8qi5cb pic.twitter.com/eGBlznSBlg
— Rob Lee (@RALee85) October 17, 2022