Don's Weekly, 26 February 2024: Part 3
(…continued from Part 2…)
Marinka
Russia was able to push into Pobieda. With a shortage of artillery ammo, Ukraine was not able to push them out. Two M113’s and a Leopard 2 were disabled and abandoned.
At some point it is likely that Novomykhailivka will fall either to pressure from the north or direct assaults from the east and south, but the number of Russian personnel and equipment already lost makes this a good engagement for Ukraine. The longer they can hold out and inflict losses, the better. No other territory changed hands this week.
26 km behind Russian lines, and 37 km southeast of Vuhledar, a Russian unit was gathering on a training ground. Their unit was hit by a HIMARS/MLRS missile. 65 were killed and an unknown number were wrounded…
https://twitter.com/front_ukrainian/status/1760005519853449422?s=19
A Russian assault on Novomykhailivka is destroyed…
https://twitter.com/front_ukrainian/status/1760925852861080021
Vuhledar, a comparison…
https://twitter.com/moklasen/status/1761542852440395828
Mokri Yali Valley
In Staromylnivka, 4 km from the front line, Ukrainian drones discover a warehouse full of armored vehicles, and the doors were open…
https://twitter.com/giK1893/status/1759846365285187634
Russians fire on Ukrainian positions…
https://twitter.com/EjShahid/status/1761718704784429433
A Russian BMP is destroyed by an ATGM…
https://twitter.com/thisisnotdirk/status/1761705045085618204
Zaporizhzhia
The Russian assaults in this area are strong and persistent, but Ukrainian defenses are holding.
Another Russian assault on Robotyne was stopped…
https://twitter.com/front_ukrainian/status/1759828815696572481
Two Russian BMPs made it into Robotyne and dropped off infantry. Ultimately, they were all destroyed…
https://twitter.com/TheDeadDistrict/status/1761546335155556741
Four Ukrainians and artillery beat off a Russian assault near Robotyne…
https://twitter.com/GloOouD/status/1761764809815568736
Captured Ukrainian soldiers have been executed so often in this sector that Ukrainians are briefed that it is a likely outcome if they surrender…https://streamable.com/36l0r4
Kherson
Because of political pressure, the local Russian commander reported that he took Krynky and supported his report with a video of two Russian soldiers placing flags over a pile of rubble in no man’s land and then withdrawing to friendly lines. When the truth came out, the commander then made a strong push to actually take the ruined village but the attacks were repelled and retreating survivors were hounded by drones. The situation remains stable.
Russia created a flag-raising video over a pile of rubble to prove they took Krynky. A Ukrainian drone documented their effort…
https://twitter.com/astraiaintel/status/1760231572958040325
In the Oleshky National Park, a Russian general was supposedly arriving for a visit and the troops were ordered to assemble. Two different locations were hit by the M31 rocket of HIMARS/MLRS. A third rocket was launched as others came to help…
https://twitter.com/Acontece_ndo/status/1760454520008519686
From the Russian point of view GRAPHIC:…
https://twitter.com/kardinal691/status/1760071729676685625
Two Russian air defense systems are destroyed 37 km south of Kherson…
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1760691588013908096
An Su-34 was shot down near Genishesk near the Azov Sea, 120 km from Ukrainian front lines. "Video from Genicheskogo district from the crash site of the Su-34", 23 Feb…https://t.me/Crimeanwind/54346
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Black Sea
Russia lost a fifth of its Black Sea fleet in the last four months. Its formidable air defenses in Crimea have been significantly degraded with the loss of radars and missile systems. Five weeks ago, the Russian’s lost their first A-50 electronic surveillance plane in the Azov Sea near the shores of occupied Ukraine. This week they lost another deep within Krasnodar Krai, 200 km from Ukrainian front lines. Airborne missiles, drones and naval drones regularly make attacks on Russian targets. Against this backdrop, Zelensky promises there will be more surprised on the Black Sea in the coming days…https://www.newsweek.com/zelensky-vows-russia-will-see-more-surprises-black-sea-1872669
(…to be continued…)
Thanks Don a 3 rd report read, all interesting information, lets hope we can force a vote on the aid package for the UAF etc we all know its badly need except for the dim witted republicans
Thanks for the updates. I notice your disagreement with Bidens ability to send old munition to Ukraine and compares it with Reagans contras support. You may be right, but wasnt one problem then that everything was secret? And then expoused like secrets usually are? (Even the master Psy op with Taylor Swift has now been expoused so we know government secrets get out eventually). Regarding the terrotorial losses Ukraine takes and the need to take them back. Of course it is better not to lose them, but I think that when Russia collapses it will not matter, because then recapture will happen quick. The iffy issue is to keep fighting two more years.