Koristili su FAB-250 u Siriji, kako ne.

Jesu ali da li kao klasične avio bombe ili ovako kako BBC spominje?

Koristili su FAB-250 u Siriji, kako ne.

Izvor zapadni mediji.


Ne ulazim u tocnost karte, ali nisam znao da su Rusi fakticki pred predgradjima velikog ukrajinskog grada Zaporozije.

Nevjerojatno je kako su Rusi u mjesec dana sjeverno od Krima napredovali više od 100 km, zauzeli NE Zaporižija te skoro zauzeli grad veličine Zagreba - Zaporožje. S druge strane, u Donbasu u 15 mjeseci rata napredak im se kreće od 0 KM (Avdivkia) do 30ak km (Bakhmut). Djeluje nevjerojatno kako Ukrajinci na pravac Krim - Zaporožje isto nisu postavili neke od svojih najboljih jedinica, kao u Donbasu.

Što je temelj obrane Avdivke i Marinke?
Jesu li tamo neki poljo-industrijski kombinati ili je obrana bazirana na uobičajenom urbanom ratovanju?

U kakvoj su eventualnoj međuzavisnosti ta dva grada s ostatkom bojišta u Donjeckoj oblasti?

Rusi ne napredaju jer su u sličnom stanju kao i Ukrajinci, i oni su imali strašne gubitke, iz istog razloga su se linije stabilizirale i više nitko ne smije niti može krenuti u ofanzivu.

The 28th Brigade was at the forefront of an ensuing campaign to liberate Kherson. For some six months, the Russians staved off the Ukrainians with a deluge of artillery and air strikes, exacting a devastating toll whose precise scale Ukraine has kept secret.

Within weeks, the battalion faced annihilation: entire platoons had been wiped out in close-contact firefights, and some seventy men had been encircled and massacred. The dwindling survivors, one officer told me, “became useless because they were so tired.” In January, what was left of the battalion retreated from the village and established defensive positions in the tree lines and open farmland a mile to the west. “Wagner kicked our asses,” the officer said.

Pavlo estimated that, owing to the casualties his unit had sustained, eighty per cent of his men were new draftees. “They’re civilians with no experience,” he said. “If they give me ten, I’m lucky when three of them can fight.”

Unlike U.S. soldiers in every American conflict since the Second World War, Ukrainian draftees are generally not being contracted for fixed periods of service or deployed on tours with defined limits. They are being indentured for as long as they are needed. One officer told me, “You come home with victory, without a limb, or dead.” A fourth option was desertion. “Sometimes they return, sometimes they don’t,” the officer said.

In January, Zelensky signed legislation that raised the maximum punishment for desertion to twelve years in prison. It is unknown how many Ukrainians have been sentenced to date, but one factor potentially obstructing enforcement of the law is the reluctance of superior officers to denounce offenders. Odesa’s platoon leader, a senior lieutenant named Ivan, told me that he pitied the draftees in his platoon; like Pavlo, he placed the blame for their shortcomings on inadequate training. One of his soldiers, he said, “was just walking down the street when guys approached him and physically took him to the draft center—in less than two days, he was with the brigade.”

The Ukrainian military code for a wounded soldier is Three Hundred. For a dead soldier, it’s Two Hundred. Soldiers who refuse to follow orders are sometimes facetiously labelled Five Hundreds. Ivan claimed that men often faked injuries in a bid to escape the trenches. “It happens all the fucking time,” he said. But, he allowed, such desperation could arise from genuine psychological damage. The process for determining which Five Hundreds were malingering and which were what the Army psychologist called “mentally ill” was ambiguous.

Statement by the Russian Defence Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu:

"Today, at 1.30 am, the enemy attempted to break through our defense with the forces of the 47th mechanized brigade numbering up to 1,500 people and 150 armored vehicles in the Zaporozhye direction. The enemy was detected by intelligence forces in a timely manner, a preemptive strike was carried out by artillery, aviation and anti-tank means. In all four directions, the enemy was stopped and retreated with heavy losses.

As a result of the two-hour battle, the enemy lost 30 tanks, 11 infantry fighting vehicles, up to 350 personnel. Thus, the specially prepared reserve forces of the enemy for the implementation of this breakthrough did not fulfill their task. During yesterday's day of combat operations, on June 7, the enemy lost 945 personnel, 33 tanks, 28 infantry fighting vehicles, 38 armored combat vehicles, 3 Krab self-propelled artillery installations and other weapons."

Malo detalja.