Don's Weekly, 1 January 2024: Part 2
(…continued from Part 1…)
Western Luhansk
Russia keeps attacking and Ukraine holds the line.
In warmer weather, another Russian assault on Synkivka fails. The intercepted radio transmissions are translated…
https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1740484352205894003
13 km northwest of Svatove, a successful artillery strike on a Russian position…
https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1738646569358918116
A building in Kreminna was reportedly hit by an M31 rocket…
https://twitter.com/666_mancer/status/1740467918075580426
20 km east of Kupiansk, two videos of munitions dropped from drones on Russian infantry. Some are more effective than others…
https://twitter.com/EjShahid/status/1740074855243169888
One type of Ukrainian sniper is trained to take shots up to 3000 meters. The other type is trained to shoot at 300 meters. Near Kreminna…
https://twitter.com/UKikaski/status/1740702509214171324
Bakhmut
Ukraine lost a 400 x 400 meter patch of woods west of Bakhmut. None of the other lines have changed.
A Russian assault group is stopped by artillery fire before they could attack Klischchiivka…
https://twitter.com/moklasen/status/1741228228012921235
Avdiivka
The automatic grenade launcher is like a very small artillery system. I don’t know how far away this one was but I’ve seen them fired from 1500 m and watch them track the rounds on a computer screen. It sounds like that’s what happened here…
https://twitter.com/EjShahid/status/1739659937523884515
Russian tanks near Stepove are hit by drones…
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1740327028547617213
An immobilized Russian BTR will never be remobilized…
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1740313408728138202
The same for a Russian BMP…
https://twitter.com/UkrReview/status/1740293395229380649
A Ukrainian tank fires point blank on Russian positions. A Russian tank is hit by an FPV drone…
https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1740462377059893667
In another good look at the terrain, a Bradley is firing from just north of the coke plant towards (what’s left of) the treeline by the rail line and the concrete barriers north of the coke plant. The locations where the Bradley is firing is 800 m from the coke plant, easily in range of Ukrainian machine guns in the elevated positions in the plant…
https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1739776291883155612
A Bradley fires from the eastern side of Stepove at Russians that made it to the treeline…
https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1740882321828683995
A Ukrainian anti-tank gunner watches a Bradley at work through his sights…
https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1739007111080657387
A Ukrainian tank fires its main gun point blank at Russian positions. The tank then fires its machine gun and Ukrainian infantry that were cut off climb onto its back and the tank takes them to safety…
https://twitter.com/GirkinGirkin/status/1741091940521709847
Zelensky made a visit to Avdiivka. 400 meters to Zelensky’s right is the southern end of the coke plant. Fighting regularly takes place 1800 meters away. I’ve posted a video of a Ukrainian tank firing point blank into houses 2500 meters away…
https://twitter.com/KyivPost/status/1740767584541421749
Marinka
While Russia is trying to expand out of Marinka without much success, they are making a hard push on the village of Novomykhailivka. On two separate days the eastern side of the village was ripped apart by the thermobaric explosions from the TOS-1As. It was also subjected to 14 airstrikes and a salvo of rockets from a helicopter strike.
They followed up those strikes with armored columns attacking from the south and the east. Each column was attacked by drones and artillery as they approached the village and some never reached it. Russia did reach a small block of buildings on the southern edge. A Ukrainian tank attacked them at point blank range before the Russian infantry was expelled…
https://twitter.com/EjShahid/status/1739053489718702158
Novomykhailivka is pounded by multiple TOS-1A thermobaric strikes…
https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1740488295325311396
“The primary effect [created by the TOS-1’ss rockets] is a long-duration high-pressure blast wave which creates a vacuum – then precipitates a reverse wave. These pressure/vacuum surges (up to 427 pounds per sq inch) cause a ripping effect on soft materials (such as airplane skin, radar surface, human lung tissue). Walls and surfaces within the affected area do not necessarily shield victims, rather cause multiple pressure waves, which amplify the tearing effects and can topple structures. A secondary effect is high-temperature heat — 2,500-3,000° C. An incomplete explosion renders a near-devastating effect, wide-area long-duration high-temperature flame. Even those outside of the blast area will be rendered ineffective with debilitating mental and physical trauma.”…https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/44479/the-truth-about-russias-terrifying-tos-1a-thermobaric-rocket-launchers-now-in-ukraine
You can get a brief glimpse of what Novomykhailivka used to look like before they were first hit by TOS-1As back in May, 2022…
Kherson
Russian attacks continue to hit Krynky hard. One of them actually pushed through the forest and gained a foothold in the town but Ukrainian artillery blasted the rubble of the houses that they occupied and Ukraine regained all of their defensive lines.
Ukrainian drones are mining the roads at night and disabling trucks and cars. In the morning, before the vehicles can be recovered, drones finish them off by dropping munitions. Ukrainian EW is still effective, but it does not eliminate the Russian drone threat and an increasing number of Russian drones are using low light or thermal sights.
A compilation of Russians hunting Ukrainians at night with thermal sights…
https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1733245948472533345
A Russian assault group was assembling west of Korsunka, 4 km from Krynky. One vehicle is hit by a drone in the video…
https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1738659978800435281
A short display of all the Russian vehicles destroyed by drones over time in just one 500 m stretch of road…
https://twitter.com/EjShahid/status/1740696080306815313
A Russian vehicle pursued by a drone turns itself into a stationary target…
https://twitter.com/EjShahid/status/1739982299754545634
Magyar says that they detected 24 drones on December 26 and knocked 20 of them down. Here is one example…https://t.me/robert_magyar/765
Drones spot Russian personnel and equipment for destruction…
https://twitter.com/ukrspecsystems/status/1741053146388963770
More of the drone/GLMRS combination…
https://twitter.com/GloOouD/status/1741038237794103541
(…to be continued…)