Fenris

Hey look... A tank with supporting infantry, that's new

PzH2000 sighting

Dangers of crossing a pontoon bridge (2nd clip is a little graphic).

40 minutes of footage from a foreign volunteer who says it's from the start of the conflict. Notable for showing how completely chaotic it was. Pretty brave and/or crazy to just jump right in like this with a couple of strangers, no comms and a language barrier. Complete GoPro of my 1st mission in Ukraine Edit - watching another vid from the same guy he says that his team leader and the UKR army unit they were with weren't happy with them tearing off like this and he got transferred to another unit because of it. After a while he ended up in a SOF unit with a mix of UKR and other well trained/experienced foreign fighters.

Nothing important, just interesting. Although jokes about German weapons deliveries do present themselves.

Perhaps hitting a mine and walking back to your lines alive is preferable to getting close the UKR light infantry.

I knew this automatic firing mortar existed but I've never seen one in use

Drone salesman be like "Is there anything a drone can't do??"

Doco from Butusov on running supplies to defenders in Mariupol by helicopter (with English subs)

This is the first I've seen on the topic of Syrians since the call to arms back in what was it? March?

Another interesting tweet

Wonder if this is accurate

Sounds like the kind of person who goes on to be a leader. What a waste. Makes me pretty angry.

Long wait for DE systems Colourful language in english is a little jarring being so used to hearing Ukrainian

Thanks, that was interesting (even though I don't speak French). Did she say they were able to shoot and scoot in 4 minutes?

Interesting because the mine suspected of being used, see second part of tweet. Essentially an automatically triggered panzerfaust sitting on the side of the road waiting for something to drive past.

Case in point - this got posted a couple of hours ago (it's twitter so should probably wait for corroboration but posting anyway) Will put a link, there's another tweet with a photo of a corpse attached. https://twitter.com/uasupport999/status/1533586195388801030

Hmmm, ballsy sure, but is that a great idea? I really hope he doesn't go the way of all the RF generals that have gotten too close the pointy end of things.

Next interview with US ex-serviceman James Vasquez. The 'take no prisoners' comment from the last interview is the first thing they discuss. From some of the comments it sounds a bit like his unit was working autonomously without being an integrated part of the UKR forces, buying all there own gear, getting and acting on their own intel, maybe there's just not enough details to make that assumption. Not a channel I'd normally watch, the interviewer is a bit too much of something for me, interesting to hear the first hand account tied to pics I've been seeing over the past couple months on his twitter. There's a bit where he's at that BRDM(?) monument that got shot up by passing BTRs early on in the invasion too.

Something to add to teh TOE of the next module. I've been wondering about the apparent prevalence of suppressors I've been seeing - what's the reason for this? I'd have thought range and hitting power would still be important, especially with body armour being more common. Or is staying concealed considered more important now?

Was just thinking about that bit. I admire the guy for what he's been doing over there but he shouldn't be admitting to stuff like that, especially on the internet.

I was pointed to this little bit of news yesterday. Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia ditches referendum on joining Russia https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20220530-georgia-s-breakaway-region-of-south-ossetia-ditches-referendum-on-joining-russia

Another heavy weapons announcement, says possible transfers, anyone in Europe know any details?