M-113 ambulance. Wikimedia Commons The 1960s-vintage M-113 armored personnel carrier is thinly armored and lightly armed. In a serious firefight, it’s a poor substitute for tougher, more modern infant...
Tag: Troops
Russian Troops Keep Rolling Into The Same Kill Zone Outside Vuhledar
A Russian tank explodes at the intersection outside Vuhledar. Via social media There’s a road intersection, a few hundred yards outside the town of Mykilske in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region, that ha...
When Russian Troops Got Stuck In a Minefield Near Vuhledar, They Deployed A ‘Flamethrower’ Rocket Launcher. The Ukrainians Blew It Up.
A TOS-1A the Ukrainians captured last year. Via social media Desperate to break through Ukrainian defenses around Vuhledar, a major strongpoint in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region, the Russian army dep...
SEC Chair Gensler Advises US Troops to Stay Away From Crypto
The Chairman of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) – Gary Gensler – told members of the US Army to refrain from investing in cryptocurrencies. He believes the sector lacks pro...
Russian Mercenaries’ Human Wave Tactics Push Back Ukrainian Troops In Soledar
Wagner fighters, purportedly in Soledar’s salt mines. Via social media When the Ukrainian army began rotating fresh units into eastern Ukraine in mid-December, the 46th Air Mobile Brigade drew t...
Russia’s Electronic-Warfare Troops Knocked Out 90 Percent Of Ukraine’s Drones
A Russian army Pole-21 jamming system. Russian state media photo The Russian military’s failures in Russia’s wider war on Ukraine almost are too numerous to list. Too many attacks along too many secto...
Ukraine Deradicalized Its Extremist Troops. Now They Might Be Preparing A Counteroffensive.
A 98th Azov Battalion M-113. Via social media The narrative the Kremlin advances to justify its brutal war on the Ukrainian people—that Ukraine is a far-right Nazi regime bent on destroying Russia—is ...
As Russian Troops Invaded, Ukraine Scrambled To Form New Mechanized Brigades. A Few Months Later, They Were On The Front.
A 66th Mechanized Brigade M-113. Ukrainian army photo Mechanized brigades with their heavily-armed infantry, scores of armored vehicles plus organic artillery and air-defenses are the backbone of a mo...
Russia’s High-Tech Artillery System Was Supposed To Win The War In Ukraine. But Troops Didn’t Know How To Use It.
Ukrainian troops capture a Russian 2S19 howitzer in March 2022. Via social media The Russian army spent decades and billions of dollars building what should be the world’s most fearsome artillery fire...
Some Of Russia’s Last Good Troops Needed Three Weeks To Capture A Half Square Mile Of Eastern Ukraine
53rd Mechanized Brigade artillery in action. 53rd Mechanized Brigade The Kremlin is determined to capture all of Donetsk Oblast in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region. The oblast after all is the seat of ...
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,...
Easily In Range Of Ukrainian Artillery, Kherson’s Airport Was A Death Trap For Russian Troops
Chornobaivka Airport burns on March 16, 2022. Maxar Three days after the Kremlin ordered its starving, battered forces to retreat from the right bank of the Dnipro River in southern Ukraine’s Kherson ...
As Bombs Rained Down, Ukrainian Troops Set A Trap For Russia’s Pilots
Russian air force Sukhoi Su-25s. Via Flickr The air war over Ukraine could have gone either way in the first few weeks of Russia’s unprovoked invasion of the country starting in late February. The Rus...
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 ...
The Russian Marine Corps’ Dire Choice As Its Troops Die In Record Numbers
155th Guards Naval Infantry Brigade troopers in 2021. Russian defense ministry photo A Russian marine brigade reportedly lost 63 troops in a doomed, two-day assault on Ukrainian positions in eastern U...
12,000 Russian Troops Were Supposed To Defend Kaliningrad. Then They Went To Ukraine To Die.
The 11th Army Corps in 2017. Russian defense ministry photo Six years ago, the Russian navy formed a new army corps whose job it would be to defend Kaliningrad, Russia’s geographically separate outpos...
Watch Eager Ukrainian Troops Roll Into Battle Atop A Tank
Social media capture One skirmish in one sector of one front of a wider war that’s grinding into its eighth month isn’t indicative of much. But watch closely the below video depicting volunteers from ...
Russia Is Wasting Its Last Good Troops In A Pointless Attack On A Worthless Town
Ukrainian troops. Ukrainian defense ministry photo Six weeks after the Ukrainian army launched twin counteroffensives in eastern and southern Ukraine, Russian forces across the country are regrouping,...
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...
A Day After Putin Announces Annexation, Troops Forced Out Of Lyman
Topline Russia said Saturday it was retreating from the eastern Ukrainian city of Lyman, a day after Russian President Vladimir Putin decreed the city would be brought under Russian control through a ...
Thousands Of Russian Troops Are About To Get Trapped In Eastern Ukraine
Ukrainian troops inspect captured Russian T-80 tanks outside Kharkiv. Ukrainian defense ministry photo A month after launching a major counteroffensive outside the free city of Kharkiv in eastern Ukra...
Russia Is About To Draft 300,000 New Troops. It Won’t Be Able To Train Them.
Russian troops during a 2015 exercise. Russian defense ministry photo Russia will mobilize 300,000 men in an effort to make good its losses in Ukraine and expand the army, President Vladimir Putin ann...
Dollar Hits 20-Year High After Russia Mobilizes More Troops
Text size Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the West of nuclear blackmail against Russia. Alexei Druzhinin/SPUTNIK/AFP/Getty Images The U.S. dollar rose to 20-year highs early Wednesday after R...
Russia Has No Reserves Left As Ukrainian Troops Surround A Key Eastern Town
Russian army vehicles stranded in the Oskil River. Ukrainian army photo May 27 was a dark day for Ukraine. That was the day Lyman, the last free town north of the Donets River in eastern Ukraine’s Don...
Stock Market Gains As Russia Withdraws Troops From Parts Of Ukraine
The tech heavy Nasdaq composite led gains among major indexes Monday morning as investors reacted to Russia’s withdrawal from some regions of Ukraine. Meanwhile, economists expected inflation da...
Ukraine Blames Russia For Power Blackouts As Ukrainian Troops Retake Territory
Topline Ukrainian officials on Sunday accused Russia of causing electric blackouts across much of eastern Ukraine, as Ukraine’s military touts the recapture of critical territory in formerly Russian-o...
The Ukrainian Army Is Surrounding 10,000 Russian Troops In The East
A Ukrainian soldier with an abandoned Russian BTR-80 armored vehicle in Kharkiv Oblast. Via social media Two days after punching through Russian defenses outside the city of Kharkiv, Ukrainian forces ...
Russia Is Sending A Fresh Army Corps To Ukraine. Its Troops Are ‘Unfit And Old.’
3rd Army Corps tanks apparently bound for Ukraine. Via social media Photos that appeared online over the weekend, depicting Russian army armored vehicles on trains rolling out of the army training bas...
Beijing Updates Taiwan Policy Rescinding Earlier Promise To Not Send Troops To Island
Topline The Chinese government has updated its official policy on Taiwan to remove an earlier commitment to allow the island to operate autonomously with its own government and systems in the event Ch...