Don's Weekly, 10 March 2025: Part 2

by Donald Hill

(…continued from Part 1…)

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Kharkiv

The 1st Air Force Combined Rifles Brigade, formed in 2024, uses drones and an airstrike to suppress Russian forces in Vovchansk.

A Ukrainian mortar position is attacked.

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Kupiansk

Ukraine recovered some ground near Zapadne, but Russia advanced about a kilometer north of Novomlynsk. By now it’s obvious: in this sector, the ZSU has got not enough ammunition and troops to destroy the Russian bridgeheads west of the Oskil River, but enough to prevent the Russians from transferring their heavy equipment to the western side. Thus, the Russians can only grind forward by infantry.

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Terny

A Russian assault group managed to move down a treeline over 3000 meters but didn’t survive the effort.

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Chasiv Yar

It is common for local drone dominance to change over days and weeks, but right now the Russians say Ukrainian drones are dominating the skies in Chasiv Yar. Russian EW is currently ineffective because Ukrainian operators are adapting too quickly.

That advantage with drones played a factor in the Russian attack of 25 vehicles headed for the 24th (Ukrainian) Brigade. 2 km from the front lines, they were hit at the canal. 11 vehicles were destroyed and five were damaged. 33 soldiers were killed or wounded.

The 93rd Brigade, which thanks to Syrsky meanwhile has its battalions deployed almost everywhere along the frontline - in Chasiv Yar, in Toretsk and in Pokrovsk - accepted inmates of Ukrainian prisons, and shows how they are trained.

A Ukrainian armored vehicle survives multiple drone hits and shelling during a mission to evacuate a casualty in Chasiv Yar. Another casualty is pulled out by hand.

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Toretsk

In general, over the last week, the 12th NG Azovm, the 28th and the 42nd Mechanised Brigades run a series of counterattacks. These drove deep into the flanks of Russian positions in western Toretsk, eventually causing panic and disorder. As of Friday the last week, ‘half the Russian social media’ was filled with reports about units being encircled and similar. By Saturday, RUMINT had it that the Russians abandoned western Toretsk and fell back towards East.

Attacks by drones and artillery are a broad indication of Russian and Ukrainian positions at some point in time. These attacks that were recorded are only a fraction of the attacks that happened, but the Ukrainian drone attacks in territory that it supposedly holds could indicate pockets of Russians holding out or Russian assault teams that were engaged while attacking.

effectively. A Ukrainian position in central Toretsk is shelled.

Drones of the 28th Brigade attack Russian positions.

Russia shells a drone team in Dachne.

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Pokrovsk

In this sector, the ZSU also continued its counterattacks, liberating few hamlets and some of lost positions in the process. For example, here the Ukrainian attack on the Russian positions near Nadiivka, while in Pishchane, the Russians were finished off finished off by the 425th Battalion.

Nevertheless, the Russians continued assaulting: their attack in Shevchenko was stopped.

A Russian tank shells Dachenske.

1500 meters south of Lysivka, two Russian vehicles and infantry are destroyed.

A D-20 is destroyed 6500 meters from the front line. Three Russian armored vehicles are destroyed 4500 meters from the front line.

The 414th Regiment (Magyars Birds) post a day’s work.

20 km north of Pokrovsk, two Russian ballistic missiles were fired at a village. When enough time passed for emergency vehicles to respond, they fired cluster munitions: 11 dead and over 30 wounded.

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Andriivka

Since the cauldron was evacuated two weeks ago there has been little movement in the front lines.

A Russian report that claims an airstrike took out a drone team in Bahatyr.

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Velyka Novosilka

The Russian advance slowed in this sector but they still managed to advance over a kilometer in two directions.

Russians attacked towards Dneproenerhiia.

Shevchenko is hit by an airstrike.

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Zaporizhzhia

Cluster munitions hit a residential neighborhood.

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Kherson

30 Russians were killed by cluster munitions at a training facility.

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Unknown Location

A personal moment in the war. There is blood in the video.

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(…to be continued…)