Thanks Don. Regarding "Both shoot-downs seem to have been scored by French-made Mistral short-range air defence systems. These have a range of around 8,000m/8km"
I was serving as a conscript in air defence battery in 2002 equipped with Mistral. We got told the range is 5km with max. 4km heights. Seems to have been an older model, but somehow I don't expect Ukrainians got the newest version or do you have information that they got those?
Thanks for these report Don this last one doesn't sound all that good
Avdiivka-Pokrovsk is the most unstable district, for sure.
It looks like the Russians target weak units like the 41st mentioned above, rather than weak spots on the front.
The Avdiivka loss seems to be the greatest gain of Russian forces, since it has offered multiple avenues for breaking through Ukrainian defense lines.
We can say anything about the Russian troops and their training, but they are digging good defense lines
Thanks Don. Regarding "Both shoot-downs seem to have been scored by French-made Mistral short-range air defence systems. These have a range of around 8,000m/8km"
I was serving as a conscript in air defence battery in 2002 equipped with Mistral. We got told the range is 5km with max. 4km heights. Seems to have been an older model, but somehow I don't expect Ukrainians got the newest version or do you have information that they got those?