⚡️🇷🇺🇧🇾 | Russian (and Belarusian) Military Installations 1.5.0 - Belarus Update
I've completed another update of my years-long project in Google Earth to map all possible-to-find Russian (and Belarusian) military and security-related facilities across the globe (integrated into…
A video has been released revealing secret of why the Ukrainian crews of Norway-delivered M109A3GN self-propelled howitzers are so effective in avoiding Russian counter-battery fire.
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Ukraine's "KRAKEN" special unit released a 9-minutes-long video material from the operation to liberate the city of Balakliya in Kharkiv Oblast, launched on September 6.
It contains some interesting footage, and provides rare insight on how the battle really looked like.
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Did the Ukrainians installed two UB-32 57mm rocket pods from a Mil Mi-8/17 or Mil Mi-24 helicopter (or Su-25 attack aircraft) on a BMP-1 chassis and are using it as a rocket launcher?
In the other news, a bear with a box on his head managed to sneak into one of the Turkish military bases and climb onto the tower.
The animal is reported to be safe and managed to descend on its own.
Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine officially confirms: Ukrainian servicemen now have French-delivered CAESAR 155mm self-propelled howitzers at their disposal.
A video from the crash site of a Belarus-delivered Mil Mi-8MTKO-1 helicopter employed by Russia's Wagner Group, that was shot down by the Ukrainians near Bakhmut in the Donetsk Oblast of Ukraine on Monday.
Another angle of the same engagement: Russian T-90M tank being hit multiple times with the M242 Bushmaster 25mm auto-cannon of a Ukrainian M2A2 Bradley ODS-SA IFV.
🇺🇦🇷🇺 | A long video of a close-range engagement between Ukrainian M2A2 Bradley ODS-SA IFVs from the 47th Mechanized Brigade and a Russian T-90M main battle tank in Stepove, Donetsk Oblast.
At one point, the Russian T-90M tank starts spinning its turret and driving around in a…
People were asking what platform the Ukrainians were using to launch Brimstone ground attack missiles, delivered to them by the UK.
Well, here's the answer:
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There's an insane footage of Ukrainian soldiers defending their positions in the battle for the last road to Bakhmut.
We follow a 🇺🇦 soldier as he jumps into his dugout. He is made aware that his comrade has been killed. Shortly after, the Russians launch their assault.
Ukraine released footage from the tests of its new unmanned underwater vehicle, called "Marichka" ("Марічка").
According to available information, this UUV has the range of over 1,000km. It can perform strike, transport or reconnaissance missions.
A massive missile salvo from 9K720 Iskander-M short-range ballistic missile system, BM-30 Smerch heavy MLRS and S-400 air defense missile system during the main stage of the 'Kavkaz-20' exercise at the Kapustin Yar training ground today.
Potentially previously unseen video of the aftermath of Ukrainian strikes with M142 against a Russian Spetsnaz base near Izyum in the Kharkiv Oblast, as a result of which a number of Russian trucks and Tigr-M infantry mobility vehicles were damaged or destroyed. July 2022.
Undated video of a Russian ammo depot detonating as a result of Ukrainian strikes with HIMARS.
Acc. to a Russian channel, HIMARS played a key role in the liberation of the city of Izyum in September 2022, with daily strikes on Russian ammo & fuel depots.
A fuel depot of the Russian Armed Forces (53.218026,34.446157) and Rosneft oil depot (53.225896,34.457019) in the Russian city of Bryansk were on fire last night.
This story sounds unbelievable: Russian draftees were simply left on their own at a train station in the Belgorod Oblast, without being subordinated to any military unit.
They say that they were given full gear and live ammunition, and that they had no training.
French-delivered TRF1 155mm howitzer was recently spotted being towed by a Renault TRM 10000 truck reportedly somewhere in eastern Ukraine.
At least 6 such howitzers were delivered to Ukraine by France before December 12.
Insane video of a Russian T-72B3 tank appearing on a road and firing from a close distance at a group of Ukrainian servicemen. Poor guys thought it was a Ukrainian tank.
The UK is expected to deliver 20 AS-90 self-propelled howitzers and 45,000 shells to Ukraine this week. The equipment will be first send to Poland, where Ukrainian troops will train on them.
The commander of the Russian 14th Separate Guards Spetsnaz Brigade (Eastern Military District), Guards Colonel Sergey Polyakov has been killed in combat in Ukraine on February 2, according to information on Russian social media.
A NATO aircraft (presumably, E-3A Sentry AWACS) flying above Polish airspace on Tuesday tracked the missile that landed in the country, an alliance military official told CNN on Tuesday.
The intel of the radar tracks was provided to NATO & Poland.
Ukrainian BTR-4E armored personnel carrier lays down suppressing fire at the Russians with its 30mm autocannon as the Ukrainian infantry moves forward. Bakhmut.
#BREAKING
: There are reports that Russia's Saki Air Base in Novofedorivka, Crimea, has been hit by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Saki is a homebase of the 43rd Separate Naval Assault Aviation Regiment of the Black Sea Fleet (warplanes: Su-30SM, Su-24M, Su-24MP, Tu-134).
A number of Russian channels claimed the destruction of a Ukrainian M270 MLRS/MARS II.
As it turned out, it's a Soviet-made IMR-2 engineering vehicle that is seen in the photo.
Russian naval losses during the war in Ukraine:
🇷🇺 22/03/2022: Project 03160 Raptor-class patrol boat (damaged with ATGM near Mariupol);
🇷🇺 24/03/2022: Project 1171 Tapir-class landing ship BDK-65 Saratov, (destroyed as a result of Tochka-U missile strike in Berdyansk);
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Russian soldier presents a new breakthrough achievement in military engineering: several AGS-17 30mm grenades attached with tape to an RPG-7 projectile for "greater striking ability."
Wondering how this would work out in practice.
Footage of a Polish-made AHS Krab 155mm self-propelled howitzer operated by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in action near Bakhmut in the Donetsk Oblast, with a rare look inside the vehicle.
Intense footage of a Russian BMP loaded with infantry being ambushed from a close distance by the Ukrainians in Klishchiivka, south of Bakhmut, where the AFU made some gains recently.
Pentagon is considering Boeing proposal to supply Ukraine with Ground-Launched Small Diameter Bombs, designed for launch from ground artillery systems.
GLSDB can reach a range of up to 150km, and would allow Kyiv to strike far behind Russian lines.
A video reportedly showing two Russian Shahed-136 (Geran-2) loitering munitions being shot down by the Ukrainians with a German-delivered Flakpanzer Gepard self-propelled anti-aircraft gun (SPAAG) during last night's attack in Odesa Oblast, southern Ukraine.…
Pretty insane footage of a pair of Russian Sukhoi Su-34 bombers flying ultra low and dropping bombs at the positions of Russian Volunteer Corps in the vicinity of "Grayvoron" border post in Belgorod Oblast earlier this week.
It appears that this bomb run wasn't very effective.
#BREAKING
: Explosions and fire at the Novokuibyshevsk Refinery in Samara Oblast of Russia, in what appears to be yet another Ukrainian drone strike on Russian oil infrastructure.
Novokuibyshevsk is located around 900km from the border with Ukraine.
Wow.
Smoke appears to be coming out from the site in Verkhnosadove near Sevastopol where located is the protected command post & special receiving radio center of the Russian Black Sea Fleet.
Maybe, just maybe, the Ukrainians managed to struck another very important target.…
Storm Shadow/SCALP-EG cruise missile spotted over the Crimea short time ago.
Explosions and Russian air defenses activity was reported in the area of Belbek Air Base, Inkerman, Kacha Air Base and Sevastopol.
🇺🇦🇨🇿 Ukrainian T-72EA main battle tank upgraded by Czech Excalibur Army arms company spotted somewhere in Ukraine.
T-72EA modernization includes additional explosive reactive armor (ERA), new radio communication system and increased engine power.
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In the final part, the Ukrainian forces enter the centre of Balakliya and secure the city. The members of the "KRAKEN" unit take down some Russian flags and raise the Ukrainian flag over the building of the regional administration in Balakliya.
Sweden is preparing another military aid package for Ukraine. It will include:
- Up to 50 CV90 infantry fighting vehicles;
- Unspecified number of FH77BW L52 Archer 155mm self-propelled guns;
- NLAW anti-tank missiles;
- Demining equipment.
#BREAKING
: Germany delivered the promised MARS-II MLRS and another three PzH 2000 self-propelled howitzers to Ukraine, German Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht said on Tuesday.
A battery of Ukrainian M777 155mm towed howitzers deployed in the field firing at Russian positions under cover of a 9K33 Osa short-range air defense system.
A very powerful Russian 2S4 Tyulpan 240mm self-propelled mortar was recently destroyed as a result of Ukrainian strikes near Kreminna in Luhansk Oblast of Ukraine.
Pro-Russian war correspondent Anna Dolgareva says that the Armed Forces of Ukraine broke through the Russian lines in the area of the settlements of Karpivka and Ridkodub in Donetsk Oblast, in an attempt to bypass Lyman defenses from the north.
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As the first part showed final preparations and initial advances, below we can see the Ukrainians entering a former Russian warehouse and Ukrainian strikes on Russian positions with a wide spectrum of weapons: 82mm mortars, BM-21 Grad MRL, D-30 towed howitzers and a tank.
The servicemen of the Ukrainian 46th Separate Aeromobile Brigade posing with a US-supplied M7 Bradley Fire Support Team Vehicle (BFIST).
M7 BFIST was designed for spotting targets and coordinating indirect fires at ranges of up to 20 km from such systems as M142 HIMARS, M270…
Polish PM Morawiecki convened the emergency meeting of the Committee of the Council of Ministers for National Security & Defense Affairs.
Acc. to initial reports, one or two Russian missiles that lost way fell near Hrubieszow in Lublin Voivodeship, on the border with Ukraine.
A massive blast occurred today in the settlement of Kuzovatovo, Ulyanovsk Oblast of Russia. According to eyewitnesses, a tank truck caught fire and exploded. At least two people were injured.
A video reportedly showing a Sweden-delivered RBS-17 missile being launched by the Ukrainian military somewhere in Ukraine.
RBS-17 is a Swedish variation of an AGM-114 Hellfire missile, adapted for anti-ship role; apparently can be also successfully used against ground targets.
A Ukrainian Leopard 2A4 main battle tank fitted with Kontakt ERA was destroyed on the Zaporizhzhia front.
This is the third visually confirmed loss of this type of vehicle in Ukraine.
45th Separate Artillery Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine strikes the house to which the Russian soldiers went in after they finished loading a wounded into a car.
Soledar, Donetsk Oblast of Ukraine.
January 16, 2023.
A large fire is underway on the territory of a car service center located on the Dekabristov Street in the northern part of the city of Moscow.
Russian emergency services told TASS that fuel canisters were heard exploding.
Undated video of a Russian ammo depot detonating as a result of Ukrainian strikes with HIMARS.
Acc. to a Russian channel, HIMARS played a key role in the liberation of the city of Izyum in September 2022, with daily strikes on Russian ammo & fuel depots.
That's it.
Both Project 636.3 Improved Kilo-class submarine Rostov-on-Don and Project 775 Ropucha-class landing ship Minsk of the Russian Navy were destroyed in Ukrainian strikes on the Sevastopol Shipyard.
Newly released satellite imagery shows that the two vessels suffered…
Presumably the first video documenting a Russian T-90M Proryv main battle tank employing its TShU-2 Shtora-1 electro-optical active protection system after its was targeted by a Ukrainian ATGM.
Svatove-Kreminna front, January 2023.
A video reportedly capturing the moment when Ukrainian strikes struck the building of the House of Culture in Kumachove, Donetsk Oblast of Ukraine, where Russian servicemen were celebrating the Day of Missile Forces and Artillery on November 19.
Among the killed was the…
Ukrainian war correspondent Yuri Butusov says Kherson is within range of Ukrainian field artillery; Ukrainians are less than 18km from the city. Russian river crossings/nearby staging areas being hit.
The units supposed to cover the retreat are rushing to the Dniepr river.