Don's Weekly, 27 May 2024: Part 4
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Marinka
There is a lot of heavy fighting from Krasnohorivka to Novomykhailivka but very little territorial changes. Ukraine is counter attacking in Krasnohorivka, some of which succeed while others fail.
500 meters west of Novomykhailivka, the Russians are attacking Paraskoviivka. This building is in the eastern third of the village that Russia controls and is hit by a Ukrainian airstrike…https://x.com/clement_molin/status/1793993168368574850
A T90 is knocked out by a HEAT grenade…https://x.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1794086635912462756
Russia is slowly inching forward in Krasnohorivka…https://x.com/JulianRoepcke/status/1794426767249490075
Just north of Krasnohoivka a Russian on a motorcycle loses to a drone…https://x.com/albafella1/status/1794422963527458854
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Zaporizhzhia
As part of the normal life cycle of a Russian advance, Robotyne went from being controlled by Ukraine, to a gray zone where Russian infantry and equipment is destroyed over time, to finally being slowly controlled by Russia as the adjacent territories are transformed into gray zones. The same thing is happening in Staromaiorske and Urozhaine but at a faster rate due to the tremendous Russian bombardments and airstrikes.
A few Russians enter Staromaiorske on motorcycles. Here they seem to be in the center of the village…https://x.com/clement_molin/status/1793993165491642419
Somewhere near/in Robotyne, Russians take cover under a tank and have dreams of expansion…https://x.com/wartranslated/status/1793198943561478298
An assault on Robotyne was turned back before it began. The video stops after a well-aimed grenade drop so it’s not possible to determine how much damage the vehicle sustained…https://x.com/albafella1/status/1794433875617169833
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Kherson
The light Ukrainian occupation of Krynky extends to Kozachi Laheri. Russia no longer uses vehicles in their attacks and the infantry is intercepted by drones. Yet another Russian commander was fired and replaced in this sector. Russian asaults on Nestryha Island continues and Russian shelling and airstrikes on the right bank are trying to disrupt Ukrainian supplies and replacements that are supporting the small island force. In both of these cases, the small Ukrainian troop presence is provoking a Russian response that is generating high Russian casualties.
The light Ukrainian occupation of Krynky extends to Kozachi Laheri. Russia no longer uses vehicles in their attacks and the infantry is intercepted by drones. Yet another Russian commander was fired and replaced in this sector. Russian asaults on Nestryha Island continues and Russian shelling and airstrikes on the right bank are trying to disrupt Ukrainian supplies and replacements that are supporting the small island force. In both of these cases, the small Ukrainian troop presence is provoking a Russian response that is generating high Russian casualties.
The Russians are losing 100 men a day trying to re-take Nestryha Island. This is the amphibious version of trying to cross an open field before reaching Ukrainian defensive positions…https://x.com/GloOouD/status/1793345822626644208
Boat crossings are dangerous for both Russians and Ukrainians. In this video, the Russians make it to the island and get lucky when offloading. But there is very little cover or concealment on the island. Some may find it GRAPHIC because it shows Russians bleeding out in a swamp, but you don’t see too much blood…https://x.com/albafella1/status/1794428003273027645
The 126th Territorial Defense Brigade by Beryslav is already part of the 30th Marine Corps and will get a new insignia…https://x.com/Militarylandnet/status/1794448591408582795
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Crimea
"Air defence umbrellas in Crimea are being methodically destroyed. The losses of air defence systems in Crimea today are large, but not yet as critical as we would like", - speaker of the Ukrainian Volunteer Army "South" Serhiy Bratchuk. This time, an ATACMS strike in Simferpol…https://x.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1793726098066510116
The roads near Saki airfield were closed…https://x.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1794274917070131586
A report that either a satellite communications or EW site was hit by ATACMS, about 8 km from Alushta. The observation point. …https://x.com/ukraine_map/status/1793736884843061554
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Russia
Since replacing Shoigu as Defense Minister, more generals have been arrested. There is a report that hundreds of people of various ranks will be arrested, and that the FSB has assumed the control of the GenStab and thus the armed forces in Russia. Corruption is always an easy excuse to remove individuals because it’s a widespread practice…https://x.com/wartranslated/status/1793551839784296847
Popov was popular with his men, had criticized the military leadership and was removed a month after Prigozhin’s coup. He has been arrested but that upset a lot of his men so he will await trial from home…https://x.com/igorsushko/status/1793981778241393037
Somehow, information connecting the new Defense Minister to Wagner was released to the press…https://www.kyivpost.com/post/33039
Russia mobilized 385,000 men last year, for an average of 32,000 a month…https://x.com/ArturRehi/status/1793933709084663868
A veteran of the Chinese army gives an outsider’s view of what it’s like to fight for the Russian’s and against the Ukrainians. I don’t know where his unit is located.
A Ukrainian drone on the way to a target 1200 km away is shot down a kilometer later…https://x.com/EjShahid/status/1793605409556906308
Two early warning radars were destroyed in Krasnodar Krai, 500 km outside Ukraine. This part of the ongoing campaign is aiming to reduce Russia detection and air defense systems…https://x.com/UKikaski/status/1793987895486726433 - but also the capability to disrupt the work of GPS-assisted weapons.
How comes?`
As can be read here, the Voronezh-DM radar was serving as a control centre for the 14Ts227 Tobol electronic warfare system, which was jamming multiple satellite signals (see: communication, navigation etc.). The Tobol proved powerful enough to disrupt StarLink - which in turn prompted Musk into announcing something like that he’s going to spend a lots of money to fight it now.
The Kushchyovskaya air base was just over 200 km from the battlelines. Ukrainian drones hit it and 2-3 planes seem to be damaged or destroyed. The rest were evacuated…https://x.com/kromark/status/1793969926048506256
Parents chase a bus after their sons were pulled of the streets of Moscow and pressed into the military…https://x.com/igorsushko/status/1794527477592899654
Tom mentioned that his order of battle that he painstakingly assembled was a transitory reality. Andrew Perpetua follows a lot of Russian Telegram channels that don’t post any more because their owners died…https://x.com/AndrewPerpetua/status/1794163779913285856
For the second year in a row, Russia canceled the tank biathlon it was expected to win…https://x.com/Daractenus/status/1794388247642046551
Trent Telenko shows how a false story can become the truth for the casual reader, an objective that is often pursued by Russia.
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(…to be continued…)
I can't get my head around the fact that half a million Russians have been killed, or seriously wounded in the war and we don't hear anything about it. If even 500 soldiers were killed in any western country today there would be outrage. It would be in the headlines of all newspapers, for several months. Yet, we hear nothing from Russia.
I've read that the judge rejected appeals to release Popov.