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Continuation of previous Terra video of Ukrainian operation to seize a village: Looks like the Russian IFVs are BMD-2s, so presumably a VDV unit.

POV: getting hit and ejecting at low altitude.

Some more views of this strange beast: Earlier photos of same, or more than one?

Interesting UKR tank in Bakhmut. Not sure what this is, but possibly a workshop Frankenstein creation.

@sburke @Kinophile Maj. Insur Kinyakayev, deputy battalion commander in 31st Air-Assault Brigade. Still finding out about officers who died in the first days of the invasion.

Popped his top: Interesting that they appear to be engaged in an active battle.

Another example of "modernized" SSh-68 helmets:

@sburke @Kinophile Lt. Col. Evgeny Loskutov, Head of Intelligence, 11th Air-Assault Brigade:

Probably just a temp bonus to morale across the board if the unit starts in prepared defensive position, removed if the unit leaves (or comes under other negating circumstances?)

@sburke Pretty sure he was previously reported, but his last name was misspelled.

The oh-so-sad story of the crew of the T-90M named “Gorky,” who all volunteered, received a month of training and were sent to Kupyansk to die: https://www.nn.ru/text/gorod/2022/10/18/71742242/ Story would seem to indicate two possibly undocumented T-90M losses.

This, in my opinion, is the sole reason we refuse to acknowledge these as budget cruise missiles. A cruise missile can’t have a motorcycle engine!

Beware the drone in the sun:

Probably going for the tree line. You can see at least two bombs with drag chutes at about 0:09.

That was a load of high-drag bombs from the fighter with long delay fuze.

And looks like one of the ejections might have been too late. All around pretty successful sortie.

Indeed.

Happy ending:

The son is Col. Denis Lapin, commander of the 1st Guards Tank Regiment, but maybe someone else from same family?

There was an open question about the “bear paw in circle” marking seen on several BMP-2Ms and some T-80s. This appears to be used by the “Baikal” volunteer battalion.

@sburke @Kinophile Shandura’s death appears to have been a fake report. OMON Col. Alexey Grachev and Lt. Col. Andrey Golovin:

@sburke @Kinophile May be one of those “commander in” vs “commander of” wording issues, but this says now dead Sr. Lt. Igor Boychuk was commander of the Engineer-Sapper Battalion in the 138th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade: Maj. Gleb Mayboroda, unknown VDV unit:

1200m turkey shoot:

@sburke @Kinophile Maj. Rishat Izatullin, 228th MRR, 90th TD, was wounded repeatedly in Ukraine, but kept going back until he died: Lt. Col. Vladimir Tarasov, Head of Troops and Security for the Military Service, 29th Combined Arms Army:

That was fake. The attack was pre-dawn.