Ukraine - Russia Conflict
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This is reported in relation to Russian capabilities:
Big problems with reconnaissance and targeting for the Russians as Ukrainian flak severely limits the use of their ISR aircraft. This means that in order to hit the Ukrainian rear, they are forced to focus on fixed targets and cannot go after moving targets. In other words, they can try to damage infrastructure but are not able to attack logistical convoys or other targets.
In addition, the failure rate of missiles, which are the main means for the Russians to strike in depth, is much higher than the Russians expected, while the accuracy is much lower than they expected.
Many Russian units are reduced to using old maps, some even dating from the 1970s. Needless to say, in many cases they no longer correspond to the reality on the ground.
As for the Donbass, the Russians are using their artillery better than they did before, especially by concentrating their fire on specific targets. Nevertheless:
The Russian army is currently in the midst of an introspection process to analyse the reasons for their failure (so far anyway) and to find ways to remedy it. They have started to improve but they are starting from such a low base that it will take some time to see the effects.
Big problems with reconnaissance and targeting for the Russians as Ukrainian flak severely limits the use of their ISR aircraft. This means that in order to hit the Ukrainian rear, they are forced to focus on fixed targets and cannot go after moving targets. In other words, they can try to damage infrastructure but are not able to attack logistical convoys or other targets.
In addition, the failure rate of missiles, which are the main means for the Russians to strike in depth, is much higher than the Russians expected, while the accuracy is much lower than they expected.
Many Russian units are reduced to using old maps, some even dating from the 1970s. Needless to say, in many cases they no longer correspond to the reality on the ground.
As for the Donbass, the Russians are using their artillery better than they did before, especially by concentrating their fire on specific targets. Nevertheless:
- Lack of integration between artillery and reconnaissance and surveillance elements when it was thought that they had a much better handle on this.
- Still very little consideration for the risks to Ukrainian civilians from this massive fire.
- In the end, the pace of the Russian advance is relatively slow, sometimes down to 1km/day, and this while Ukrainian positions (and civilians) are subjected to a veritable deluge of fire.
- The level of Russian losses has decreased.
- However, it remains relatively high
- It is much higher than the Ukrainian level of losses
- There is a big difference between Russians and Ukrainians in terms of the effect of casualties on the respective morale of the armies.
The Russian army is currently in the midst of an introspection process to analyse the reasons for their failure (so far anyway) and to find ways to remedy it. They have started to improve but they are starting from such a low base that it will take some time to see the effects.
Russian state TV presenters threatening to nuke us. Clearly insane. I think it's time they were kicked off the P5.
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On Russian TV, European countries are threatened with a nuclear strike for assisting Ukraine
KATERYNA TYSHCHENKO - FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 2022, 17:30 On air on "Russia 1" Russian propagandist Olga Skabeeva and State Duma deputy from the LDPR faction Alexei Zhuravlev discussed how many seconds the Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile would take to reach the capitals of Great Britain...
The Russians continue to carry out offensive operations in eastern Ukraine in order to establish full control over the territory of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions and hold onto the land corridor with temporarily occupied Crimea.
Source: Summary of the General Staff as of 18:00
Quote: "On the Donetsk and Taurida fronts, enemy units are trying to conduct an offensive towards Lymansk, Sieverodonetsk and Popasniansk.
The enemy continues to attempt to establish complete control over the settlements of Rubizhne and Popasna and is taking preparatory measures to advance towards Sieverodonetsk. The enemy continues to shell our troops."
Details : On the Kurakhivsk front, a group of occupying troops was reinforced with additional artillery units from the 1st Army Corps.
On the Mariupol front, Russian forces continued to inflict air strikes on Mariupol. They concentrated their main efforts on blockading the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the vicinity of the Azovstal plant, and also transferred part of their units from Mariupol to the Kurakhivsk front.
On the Volynsk and Polisk fronts, certain units of the armed forces of Belarus continue to strengthen a section of the Ukrainian-Belarusian border in the Brest and Gomel regions. It was noted that checks were made on the readiness of the aviation component of the duty forces and means of the air defence system of Belarus.
The threat of missile and bomb attacks on Ukrainian targets from the territory of Belarus remains.
On the Siversk front, the enemy is trying, by maintaining the position of an appropriate set of troops , to prevent movement of the reserves of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the Siversk front to the Eastern Operational Zone. In the border areas with Ukraine, the Bryansk and Kursk regions, the enemy deployed part of the units they had previously withdrawn to restore combat capability.
"In the future, the implementation of demonstrative actions and provocations by the enemy in areas adjacent to the state border of Ukraine cannot be ruled out. In particular, there is a possibility that units of the Defence Forces and infrastructure in the border areas will be shelled," the General Staff noted.
On the Slobozhansky front, the Russians’ combined unit from the 6th Combined Arms Army and the coastal troops of the Baltic and Northern Fleets is concentrating its main efforts on holding its positions in the area north and southeast of the city of Kharkiv and trying to deploy additional artillery units.
On the Izyum front, the Russians are operating with forces from the 1st Tank Army, the 20th Army of the Western Military District, the 35th Combined Arms Army, the 68th Army Corps of the Eastern Military District and airborne troops. Their main efforts are focused on conducting reconnaissance and inflicting fire damage on units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
To ensure additional transfer of troops in the Izyum direction, the occupiers are constructing additional pontoon-bridges across the Siverskyi Donets River.
The Russians continue to inflict air and missile strikes in order to destroy civilian infrastructure and disrupt the logistics systems of Ukrainian troops. In order to clarify the position of the units of the Defence Forces of Ukraine, the Russians carried out aerial reconnaissance using an Orlan-10 UAV. The Russians continue to lose this type of reconnaissance equipment.
On the Yuzhnobuzh and Bessarabsk fronts, the Russians are trying to conduct combat operations with the set of forces available to them in order to improve their tactical position. They continue to regroup, build up a system of fire damage, and improve the engineering equipment of positions.
As part of building up the logistics system for their troops, the occupiers set up assembly points for damaged vehicles and points for the repair and reconditioning of equipment.
In the Transnistrian region of the Republic of Moldova, the Russian Federation continues to disseminate information through the pro-Kremlin media about the threat to the population of the region from Ukraine. In particular, there are reports of another case of Ukrainian UAVs being used over ammunition depots.
Video of the battle on the borders of Russia and Ukraine near the Sevsky district of the Bryansk region. On the evening of April 25, a Ukrainian group in two cars drove up to the checkpoint and tried to break through into Russia, failing to achieve this, shelling Russian territory from mortars began. The fighters of the Russian army from Tuva suppressed the firing point and destroyed the Ukrainian car with return fire, later a Russian helicopter came to the rescue, the remnants of the Ukrainian soldiers retreated.
Ukrainian Chief Intelligence Directorate: another traitor of Ukraine found shot
ROMAN PETRENKO - FRIDAY, 29 APRIL 2022, 12:12 On 25 April, local collaborator Pavlo Sharohradskyi disappeared in the temporarily occupied town of Novoaidar in the Luhansk region. He was soon found shot in the head, with wounds on his body.
This will leave other parts of Russia vulnerable.
Lootin' for Putin.