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I loved the quote in the comments, allegedly by Vasilly Kim:
"Countries with a chicken in their flag shouldn't invade countries with a fork on theirs" - Vasily Kim Mayor of Mikolayv

Good interception rate. However still 8 too many:
 
 

Few interesting tidbits today:
The last one really, IMO, ties into the discussion @The_Capt has been having about ISR. Its one thing to dominate the 'sense' space. Totally another to hand your opponent totally unprotected communications 😂
RE: The FSB, this story reminds me of a book I read about the 1948 US election (dont worry Elvis, I dont think this will veer into the realm on conspiracy theories). Many decades later we learned that the US had totally broken the Russian diplomatic codes and were reading about 50% (or more!) of all cables sent between the US and Moscow. This was known in the FBI as the Venona project Well apparently in 1948 Russian intelligence had tried to introduce a spoiler campaign through the use of some (probably) useful idiots. Thats not really as interesting. Whats funny was that this intelligence effort totally failed for two reasons. First a bunch of Russian agents in the US got their bags of cash and started filing false reports. "Oh yeah I recruited 3 new members to the cell comrade, citizens x, y, and z." But when the FBI checked those people out they couldn't even establish that the handler had met those people! Probably then they were pocketing the cash and not talking to anyone. The other big issue was that the KGB agents weren't informed of GRU activities and vice/versa. So those agents who were active ended up largely trying to recruit people who were ALREADY on the take for the other organization. They would spend all this money wining and dining GRU agents just to find out, oops, youre already in on it.
Often we get really fixated on intelligence successes, where it seems like something really astonishing or impressive occurs. But behind the scenes Russian intelligence was just as clueless and bumbling as the military. 
edit: oh and by the way:
 

Probably the second captured TZM-T loader for TOS-1A in Husarivka
 

This is not apocalyptic movie, this is Rubizhne city

Territorial defense of Sumy oblast captured two new Russian trucks Tornado-U - this is new generation of Ural trucks. Full name is Ural-63704-0010. The truck has armored protection of cabine, engine and fuel tank. Adopted in 2017

 

Just seen this as an enhancement to help students understand the countries in Europe. 
Made me smile.
 

93rd mech. brigade strikes in other place. Except Trostianets liberation in Sumy oblast, other part of this brigade liberated large village Husarivka (1300+ of population) in Kharkiv oblast in 11 km south from occupied Balakliya town. Husarivla was important point and other bridgehead of Russian troops on southern bank of Siverskyi Donets river. This bridgehead was kept by two BTGs. Reportedly UKR troops conducted heavy MLRS strike on Russian forces, during which Russian battalion commander was killed. After attack of Ukr forces, Russians withdrew. Reportedly about 60 vehicles destroyed, damaged and abandoned, losses of the enemy are about 100 men. 
There was BTG based on 2nd tank battalion of 237th tank regiment (T-72B + BMP-2 + 2A65, Belgorod oblast) of 3rd motor-rifle division of 20th CAA Western Military District. 
The second BTG. judging on destroyed BTR-82A, could be based on the battalion of 752nd motor-rifle regiment of the same 3rd MRD - it is only who has BTR-82A.

I did some very quick research. I found no mention of alphabetical names in Russian sites, nor anything that would suggest that in pictures that I found. However, the names do get imaginative, so it could indeed be 'Calibres' (as I suggested, referring to the missiles) or 'Hummingbird'. Though most vehicles have slogans written on them, here's a selection with names:
Bottom Right: 'Black Devil'

'The Russian'

'Avalanche'

This tank has two 'names': 'Rita' and 'The Beaver'. Could also mean 'Rita the Beaver'

Russia now seeding minefields with MLRS:
Video of an Azov unit operating:
 

Ukr artillery hit Russian tanks column. On the video Russian tank approached to the railroad aside other disabled vehcicls, but close (or direct?) hit forced the driver turn on reverse.
Results of strike

Reportedly Russian Mi-24/35 series helicopter hit on the ground with something. UKR UAV Leleka-100 is filming. On the control display the logo DeViRO company is seen - the designer of Leleka
Upd. Our sources have written already this is not Mi-8, but Mi-24/35 helicopter in Kharkiv oblast. Probably it made emergancy landing.
 
 

Mariupol. Rare destroyed UKR vehicle - 120 mm SP-mortar BTR-3M2. Less than dozen of these vehicles were produced for National Guard, also 18 BTR-3M1 (82 mm) and 8 BTR-3M2 were exported to Thailand. 
Vehcile on the photo belonged to Azov. One more was spotted recently captured in Hostomel - several of such vehicles were in 1st National Guard brigade

It is all going according to plan.  All those Ukrainian troops will be tied up processing POWs while the real thrust goes after the true goal! The Ukrainian tractor factory!!! ... oh wait did someone say Tractor Factory?

Believe I have two significant developments to report. The Pentagon has leaked the conclusions of its own analyses of what Putin's really doing in Ukraine and how. They are emphatically counter the official narrative of what Putin's doing, regarding such things as objectives, force applied, targets, attacks on civilians and infrastructure, prospects for chemical attacks and more.

https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/23/pentagon-drops-truth-bombs-to-stave-off-war-with-russia/

The second item is incandescent in its own way, for the Pentagon has now admitted it is providing actionable intelligence to the Ukrainian military--mere weaks after saying it wasn't! This goes a long way toward explaining the ever growing list of senior officers killed, wounded or captured. Some wounded and evacuated to Russia have since DOW and declared heroes.

https://geopolitics.co/2022/03/25/pentagon-targeting-russian-generals/

Regards,

John Kettler

Just flipped on the news and it’s reported the Ukrainians now have more tanks and IFVs then the Russians do in Ukraine as they have captured and are re-using abandoned Russian tanks.
 

24th Feb - one more video of helicopter raid on Hostomel. Civilains film from the road aside Kyiv reservoir somewhere near Vyshhorod town. 
 

Ukraianian troops is retaking Trostianets town, Sumy oblast. Captured Russians
 

Zaporizhzhia direction. Captured Russian BTR-82A and T-72B mod.1989 or B3 probbaly in liberated Malynivka village. The tractor is present too )
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Brief news from our twitetrs and media:
- Reportedly whole Mykolaiv oblast liberated from Russians. Ukarinan troops also liberated the second settlement in Kherson oblast - Novovorontsovka village on the administrative boundary of Kherson and Dnipro oblasts. There are clashes for libaration of Stanislav and Blahodatne villages of Kherson oblast
 - Ukrainain troops are fighting for liberation of Trostianets town in Sumy oblast 
- Russian troops bypassed Izium town from SW side and crosses Siverskyi Donets river through pontoons. Their main part of forces was hit by artilelry fire and partilly destroyed near Topolske village (5km south from Izium). Now fighting is ongoing to throw down them to the river from their bridghead
- Kyiv direction: Russians activated warfare, they launched shellings and attack on Makariv town and forced our troop to withdraw from there, but Russians couldn't hold a ground and now Makariv is "gray zone". Also Russians shelled our troops in Irpin' and Liutizh NW and N from Kyiv and try to advance in Irpin' (they still control about 20% of the town)
- Zaporizhzhia oblast: Malynivka village liberated (12 km east from Huliaypole town - the center of defense on Zaporizhzhia direction)  

UKR commercial drone drops three RKG-1600 bombs (upgraded old RKG-3 HEAT grenades) on unidentified vehicle. Two hits