A Zemledeliye minelayer in action in Zaporizhzhia. Via social media The appearance of a sophisticated Russian army minelaying rocket-launcher in southern Ukraine underscores the problems the Ukrainian...
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Russian Trenches In Southern Ukraine Are Too Short To Stop A Ukrainian Attack
Ukrainian artillery. Ukrainian defense ministry photo It’s been three weeks since Ukrainian brigades forced Russian troops across the wide Dnipro River in southern Ukraine, liberating Kherson city and...
The Ukrainian Navy Still Has One Big Amphibious Ship. She’d Be Pretty Useful Right About Now.
‘Yuri Olefirenko’ in happier times, before the current war. Ukrainian navy photo There might be just one big ship left in the Ukrainian navy—the amphibious landing vessel Yuri Olefirenko. ...
How The Ukrainian Army Could Get Behind The Dnipro River And Roll Up Thousands Of Russian Troops
Ukrainian troops pass each other. Ukrainian defense ministry The Dnipro River is the biggest natural obstacle in all of Ukraine. Running north to south through major cities including the capital Kyiv,...
A Strategic Strip Of Sand. Rumors Of Ukrainian Raids. As Russian Forces Retreat, Keep An Eye On The Kinburn Spit.
Kinburn Spit. Google Maps The Kinburn Spit is a narrow finger of sand and scrub, barely three miles long, that juts from the wider Kinburn Peninsula into the Black Sea at the mouth of the Dnipro River...
The Dnipro River Poses A Large Challenge For The Ukrainian Counter-Offensive
Last week, the Russian military decided to abandon the city of Kherson and retreat to the east bank of the Dnipro River. As part of the operation, they destroyed or damaged every major river crossing ...
Biggest Defeat For Russia In A Generation As Starving Troops Flee Across A Key Ukrainian River
Ukrainian forces in Kherson Oblast. Czech T.V. capture The Kremlin has ordered its forces to withdraw from the city of Kherson on the Black Sea coast in southern Ukraine. The order comes eight months ...
Ukraine’s River Fleet Is Fighting a Secretive War Along Vast Waterways
Ukrainian defense ministry photo A brief glimpse of an old, ex-Soviet amphibious tractor, hauling a Ukrainian army platoon across a river, is a reminder that Ukraine’s expansive rivers are a battlefie...
The Russians Are Fleeing Southern Ukraine. They Could Cause A Lot Of Damage On Their Way Out.
Ukrainian defense ministry photo The Russian army is retreating from Kherson. And it’s poised to leave behind it a lot of destruction and dead bodies. Kherson, a port at the mouth of the Dnipro River ...
Rivers At Their Backs And Ukrainian Brigades Closing In, A Lot Of Russian Troops Might Need To Learn To Swim
The Ukrainian 128th Mountain Brigade. Ukrainian defense ministry photo Russian paratroopers are fleeing their positions in a critical sector of the front in southern Ukraine. While at least one Ukrain...
The Bridge Battle In Southern Ukraine Is Escalating
A crane on the Antonovsky Bridge. Photo via social media Russian engineers are scrambling to repair a strategic bridge across the Dnipro River into occupied Kherson in southern Ukraine, a few days aft...
In Southern Ukraine, Kyiv’s Artillery Drops Bridges And Isolates A Whole Russian Army
Russian supply dumps burn near Kherson. Photo via social media The 49th Combined Arms Army is the main Russian force in southern Ukraine’s Kherson Oblast. That makes it the Ukrainian army’s main targe...