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For 4-5 days. Today at 19:00 General Staff again claimed Ka-52 was shot down. The fifth. But still no evidences. Russian TGs like FighterBomber and other tied with helicopters also keep silence

According to UKR, due to artillery losses, the Russians have begun substituting them with helicopters. As a result, helis are being shot down as they come closer to the frontline (there are claims that not two, but four helis have been shot down).

How to demilitarize a T-55 - Orc style
 
 

They even give away the location of themselves and get storm shadowed in return...Thanks god they are so stupid.
 
 

Russian TG says according to their source in General Staff, in result of today's strikes on ammo dumps in Kherson oblast was lost 15-20 % of ammunition, stored for defense of southern direction. As if also were lost about of 30 servicemen and dozens of vehciles, including tanks. 
Thought, it can be also disinformation

RU are saying UKR just hit HQ of 80th Brigade (AFAIR it is at Novodarivka-Stepove of Berdyanks direction)

The RU forces are having major problems with their drinking water supply. As usual, the RU MOD responds that everything is fine.

The UA seems to have figured something out yesterday - let's hope it continues!
 
 

This needs to be treated the way Mossad treated the people who ran the death camps. The people who run these camps need to hunted like diseased vermin for the rest of their lives. 

UKR Mashovets post 17 June

second post
Discussion: It appears that the UKR tactic is to make a shallow push (creating a major threat), attract RU reserves, smash them with arty, make another shallow push widening the problematic spot, attract more RU reserves, smash them with arty, rinse and repeat until RU defenses start crumbling somewhere.
In other words, RU expected that UKR would attempt rapid deep penetration and, as a result, would be forced to fight on RU terms - deep within the RU defensive belt outside of the arty and AA umbrellas against undamaged RU reserves and RU aviation. Essentially, RU was prepared to counter the Kharkiv scenario. However, these vile untermesh khokhols thwarted RU plans by conducting shallow penetrations with minor troops to fight RU reserves under UKR terms - under arty and AA cover. Best example of the Enemy gets a vote.
The best part is, I don't think RU is aware of what's going on. I looked at the mood of the RU Nats, and it is the same:

Short summary of UKR Kovalenko (colleague of Mashovets) post about RU forces at South direction
I would like to add that UKR do not have a particular need to rush. All they really need is not to lose it in one evening and keep enough pressure. Eventually at some point somewhere RU are going to crumble.
 

UKR Uragan :
 

Slow but steady. Don't know if it is still too early to draw that conclusion, but the pattern looks a lot like what the allies did around CAEN. Let the enemy counterattack himself to death.
 
 

IF Passed & Signedx
 

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So at the moment we have confirmed training of UA pilots on F-16s and Gripens, official talks with Australia about F-18s and whatever training France and the UK are providing. It seems that Ukrainian Air Force inventory is going to be as diversified as their tank fleet...
 

Saved their lives.  Like,  Yknow,  what an IFV is SUPPOSED to do.
It's why killing a Bradley in CMBS is always a 2-Stage nightmare - (1) kill the Bradley, yay. Now,  Mr. Smarty Pants, (2)  kill the dispersed,  javelin armed and very much alive infantry that are angrily pouring out of it.
Go on.  
I'll wait. 

MEPs look ahead to next EU summit (europa.eu)

A little off topic, but interesting:
 

RDK raids proved that, contrary to popular belief, RU is particularly weak in border regions. According to my sources inside RU, the word on the street the old man truly lost control of border regions, with both Prig and Kadyriv expressing a wish to travel there to help those regions. Furthermore, the UKR appears to be striking RU units harder with arty there than even in the Donetsk region, aggravating the RU situation (young conscripts started dying there which s very sensitive topic for Ru public)
Bakhmut is a walking time bomb. It appears to be quiet but it is not. Unlike what RU expected, UKR has not stopped pressing there, causing a major challenge for RU. RU must either transfer additional reserves or risk taking a massive moral and political blow if the situation explodes (there's a reason Prig fled so quickly from there).
UKR began pushing back at Avdivka. That worries RU since Avdiivka is so near to Donetsk, and any penetration, no matter how minor, may lead to not just military but also political disaster.
Another publicized assault on Maryinka village has failed. Who are these men defending Maryinka? This is above cyborg level of power.
Current UKR actions in the south has lately begun worrying RU since, on top of the present issues, a major UKR strike in the Volnovkha direction has the potential to collapse the whole RU front there.
UKR created a lot of problems for RU in a lot of different places without committing main forces yet. And all the fuss is about the loss of bunch of Bradley and Leo's that spooked RU craples.  

lol c'mon guys, start a new thread on what rounds size is best and stopping power.  The UA isn't using those.

Warning: this clip is loud. 😁
Illia did not say, but another person that I follow on Twitter said this was filmed recently in the Zaporizhzhia Oblast.
 

According to UKR rumors, Western equipment was employed to draw RU attention and persuade them that it was the main thing. I believe that since the UKR employed Leopards. German tanks annoy Russian officers since the Russian army has suffered greatly from German tanks in the past.

Prominent Russian Telegram channels and military correspondents had a meeting with Putin. This indicates that he seeks alternative sources of information on the war, apart from his intelligence and military commanders. Some of these correspondents have been openly critical of Russian generals.

I would say that vatnik war propaganda is getting increasingly bizarre.
But the truth is between Ukrainians creating super soldiers in biolabs and using witchcraft, vatnik war propaganda was bizarre from the very beginning.

Guys, there is good chance that the main party would start soon - UKR Mashovets just posted
Just in case, please bear in mind that the UKR is not fighting to breach RU defenses, but rather to attrit them enough to cause the deployment of main reserves. And, if we trust Mashovets (and I have no reason not to), RU just started doing so.