Taranis

UKR Uragan :
 

UKR Uragan :
 

Big men make big targets ! Between the videos of non-respect of the shooting zones and that.... Don't change anything above all... Keep it up Russians you are on the right track... 🤦‍♂️
On the next video, they will put a bullet in through their mouth and out somewhere else... 🤣
 

The only conceivable utility of this silliness is that it gives these three guys an excuse not to go to Bakmuht and get killed. I am sure they are very enthusiastic, anybody else...

Big men make big targets ! Between the videos of non-respect of the shooting zones and that.... Don't change anything above all... Keep it up Russians you are on the right track... 🤦‍♂️
On the next video, they will put a bullet in through their mouth and out somewhere else... 🤣
 

What am I watching? This is filmed at the 2023 St Petersburg Economic Forum apparently. 😁

Bleep me, they just INVITED NATO's air force to join the war. How can such an invitation be refused? Three thousand sorties days will wrap thus thing up by the fourth of July

Idiot w camera nearly shot two of his comrades in back of the head.  Hopefully there's more like him in RU army, will save UKR a lot of effort.

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Some MaxxPro actions :
https://t.me/pilotblog/4669
 

Bakhmut :
https://t.me/pilotblog/4670
 
3rd Assault Brigade (Bakhmut again) heavy figthing :
https://t.me/ab3army/2702

Aprobotos
 

We're in macro-masking/tactical deficit country again!
Like in WW1, this war has revealed (or confirmed, or reiterated, take your pick) that the factors influencing success in base tactical interactions did not align with the pre-war expectations of the belligerents. So officers have been ordering units around with an inaccurate concept of what they're capable of achieving in the prevailing conditions.

This happens all the time, the tricky part is figuring out what has changed and whether those changes are going to be important or applicable in the future... something people from a wide array of boxes typing in a wargame forum might be able to process better than a collection of people all sitting in the same military career box.

Or we can at least be wrong in original and unexpected ways!

Some good maps here, especially of the minor water ways.
 
 

Here's another clip for all the folks who love artillery here.

He's a senator which is 1/100 individuals in this country. It's pretty alarming that he would say something so stupid. If there were really that many vehicles destroyed then Russia would be posting it allll over telegram. 
7000 KIA in a week. What is this, Operation Barbarossa? Somebody call and tell this fool to read a book.  

Twitter translate says
"Zaporozhye region, damaged Leopard 2A4 tank (somewhere they write that after the Lancet hit)"
 

About allegedle landing operation in Nova Kakhovka... I've watched today a video named "Russian batery fled from battlefield" in one of western twitter accounts. Alas, I can't find it now. There two UKR soldiers lays in the grass in 100-150 m from the road and count passing SP-howitzers and trucks.
More interesting was a writing on video: "14th of June, 2023. Lepetykha"
Lepetykha is a village in Mykolaiv oblast, but Russians never were there -probably soldier wrote incorrect name. We have only two other villages with similar names - Mala Lepetykha and Velyka Lepetykha. Both are situate each near other... on lefft bank of Dnipro on the shore in 60 km SE from Nova Kakhovka. 

Looks like the operational pause is over an Ukrainians are on the move again. There are reports of heavy shelling by UA artillery in Bakhmut, Vuhledar, Novosilka and Tokmak directions. More interestingly, multiple RU Telgrams report fighting in Nova Kakhovka where reportedly UA amphibious landing is taking place. To be taken with a huge grain of salt of course, but something is definitely going on:
 

Or maybe not?
https://t.me/RVvoenkor/47371
 
 

Saving private Fox
 

Map from fresh Mashovets post.

I'd want to emphasize that it appears we're in the offensive's counter-attacking phase. To avoid further penetration, RU is pulling forward reserves and increasing counter-pressure. But if RU does not roll back UKR in the following days, they most probably will have to retreat to the next line.

Completely disagree with these three takes. 
First two can be true if we say about 2014-2015. Further we have the same program of NATO training, a separate program of sergeant corps training. Of course, all depends from brigades command attitude and soldiers motivation to learn. Ukrainian training centers had very formal and not enough effective training program, more effective were different alternative programs, implementing with support of high command and NATO training.
But for almost five years we already had enough good sergeant corps and enough trained experienced personnel. Though, as told UKR volunteer Roman Donik, who organized alterrnative training programs for riflemen and squad leaders, combat experience without knowledges how "military machine" should work during combat, leaves this experienced serviceman not as experienced soldier, but anyway as civilian with combat experience and this is two big differences. 
"Prewar UKR military doesn't exist anymore" - we have obviously heavy losses (for Ukrianian scale) in dead and wounded among soldiers, who were in real service in 2022 and among "OR-1 first category" (retired contractors, who participated in ATO/OOS and were mobilized in first months). On 24th Feb 2022 we had only 178 000 of OR-1. How much personnel we really had on 24th Feb I can't say (according to the law about Armed Forces maximum number of pesonnel, including civilian servicemen was 246 000). I can suppose real picture was about 60 % of personnel in Ground Forces units. Taking to account that conscripts were adopting experience from servicemen and mobilized veterans, and taking to account overall number of veterans in about 250 000 at least, we can't say that now we have completely rooky army without "old blood". Again, all depends from brigades and command of brigades and batatlions, more exactly from their wish to be effective unit, or to be Soviet-style formalists, for which paper work and more valuable then effectiveness, or to be Russian-style butchers with moods "if unit has low level of losses, this means the unit fights bad" (alas, during Kherson offensive theer were reports about several battalion commanders, which boasted each before other how much of their personnel was lost during direct assaults as a sign of their "hard fight")

Russian soldiers reportedly looting homes in Belgorod Oblast (yahoo.com)
"They are living in our houses, leading an ugly lifestyle, leaving alcohol and other things as garbage and dirt, polluting toilets and houses, personal belongings and property are stolen,” another local resident told Meduza.
“An ATV was stolen from our garage and how it is often spotted in the vicinity.”
Reports of Russian soldiers looting Russian residences has become commonplace in Belgorod.
"We live in the village of Nova Tavolzhanka,” another social media user, claiming to a resident of the village, wrote.
“Today, on June 14, we went for the first time to check our homes. Two houses are damaged, the doors are broken in, the windows are also broken... All things inside turned upside down in search for small precious items, and a portion of them were stolen. We saw vandalism in another house: the TV set is broken, the furniture is torn up. Soldiers are obviously living in the house. We have found two bikes that were stolen earlier from our neighbors, in our yard.”
 
Alcoholism wave hits top officials and elite in Russia ‘like never before’ amidst war, media reports (yahoo.com)
 
Verstka reporters recently interviewed several sources connected to the Kremlin, the Russian parliament, and regional authorities. All these sources confirmed that a significant number of employees from government agencies, government officials, and particularly public politicians and “members of the elite” have been “getting plastered much more” over the past year.
“Governors skip meetings, and indulge in banned substances,” noted one source.
“Meetings are disrupted, and they attend events while intoxicated. Guests from Moscow used to despise excessive drinking in other regions, but now they drink like there’s no tomorrow.”

The CBS article Maks 23 was using as a source.
Ukrainians expected to finish Abrams tank training by end of summer (CBS)