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,...
Tag: Ukrainian counteroffensive
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 Army Appears To Be Pulling Out Of Kherson
Ukrainian troops with M-113 personnel carriers. Ukrainian defense ministry photo A city bus, rolling unimpeded past a military checkpoint in the Russian-occupied city of Kherson on or before Thursday,...
A Fierce Ukrainian Mechanized Brigade Is Routing Russian Mercenaries In One Symbolic Eastern Town
The 93rd Mechanized Brigade around Bakhmut. Photo via the Ukrainian general staff When Ukrainian forces launched twin counteroffensives in eastern and southern Ukraine starting in late August and earl...
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 ...
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,...
Ukraine’s Busiest Tank Brigade Is Fighting On Two Fronts
17th Tank Brigade in the east. Ukrainian defense ministry Amid relentless fighting and heavy losses, the Ukrainian army has struggled to form new tank brigades. But the tank brigades it has formed are...
Ukraine Has A Plan To Win The War
A Ukrainian 2S7 howitzer. Ukrainian defense ministry photo It’s going to take engineers nine months to finish repairs to the Kerch Bridge after Ukrainian forces blew up the strategic span, connecting ...
Ukraine Claims It Shot Down Five Russian Helicopters On Wednesday Morning. Here’s Why The Choppers Are Top Targets.
A Ka-52 over eastern Ukraine. Via social media When Ukrainian forces counterattacked in eastern and southern Ukraine starting in late August, the Russian air force struggled to keep up with the swift ...
As Ukrainian Forces Close In, A Regiment Of Russian Draftees Begs For Help
The 127th Rifle Regiment pleads for assistance in June 2022. Via social media Three weeks after the Kremlin announced a nationwide mobilization meant to make good Russia’s steep losses in Ukraine, sig...
Ukrainian Marines Vs. Russian Paratroopers. A Tough Fight Over One Village Is Shaping The Southern Front.
A Ukrainian marines tank. Via social media Ukrainian marines are on the move toward a key village in southern Ukraine. But a tough Russian airborne division stands in their way. The battle for Kostrom...
In 2014, Ukrainian Defectors Formed A New Russian Brigade. In 2022, The Ukrainian Army May Have Destroyed It.
BTR-80s belonging to the 126th Guards Coastal Defense Brigade on a train from Crimea in August. Via social media When Russian troops invaded Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula in February 2014, the Ukrainian...
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...
Ukrainian Forces Are Advancing In Southern Ukraine
Ukrainian troops liberate Khreshchenivka. Ukrainian army photo Just a day after liberating Lyman, a key supply hub for Russian forces in eastern Ukraine, Ukrainian forces are on the move in the south,...
A Russian Regiment, Currently Surrounded In Eastern Ukraine, Has A Tragic History Of Defeat
Ukrainian troops advance. Ukrainian defense ministry photo The Ukrainian army reportedly has nearly completed its envelopment of the Russian garrison in Lyman, a transport hub in eastern Ukraine’s Don...
Ukraine Said To Have Mauled A Russian Fighter Regiment, Shooting Down A Quarter Of Its Crews
An Su-34 belonging to the 559th Bomber Aviation Regiment. Wikimedia Commons The Ukrainian armed forces’ aggressive counterattacks in the south and east starting in late August have chewed up several o...
Watch Ukrainian Bombers Bullseye A Russian Tank
Ukrainian air force Su-24s bomb a Russian tank. Ukrainian air force capture They came screaming in at treetop height, somewhere over southern Ukraine. The pair of swing-wing Ukrainian air force bomber...
Ukraine’s Ex-German Air-Defense Guns Are In Action, Supporting The Counteroffensive
A Ukrainian Gepard near Kharkiv. Via social media We’ve gotten our first glimpse of ex-German Gepard anti-aircraft guns in Ukrainian service. And there’s a surprise. The Ukrainians appear to be deploy...
The Ukrainian Army Reportedly Destroyed Another Russian Division
A Russian howitzer near Bakhmut. Via social media Three weeks ago, the Ukrainian army’s northeastern counteroffensive dismantled one of the Russian army’s elite units: the 1st Guards Tank Army. Now th...
Lyman, A Supply Hub In Eastern Ukraine, Is The Last Place A Russian Soldier Wants To Be Right Now
A Ukrainian 2S7 howitzer in action. Ukrainian defense ministry capture The Oskil River, running north to south from Russia all the way to the Donets River in eastern Ukraine, is a natural defensive ba...
Rare Show Tanks, Rusting On The Front Line, Are A Sign Of Russia’s Desperation
A wrecked T-72B obr. 2014. Via social media Eight years ago Uralvagonzavod Research and Production Corporation, a Russian manufacturer of armored vehicles, developed a new version of the classic T-72 ...
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...
The Russian Air Force Is Back In The Fight In Ukraine. But It’s Not Making Much Of A Difference.
The Russian air force raid on Spirne. Via social media After going missing for a couple of critical weeks in Ukraine, the Russian air force is back. Videos that appeared online this week seem to confi...
The Russians Spent Months Forming A New Army Corps. It Lasted Days in Ukraine.
A 3rd Army Corps BMP, abandoned near Kharkiv. Via social media The Kremlin this summer scrambled to form a new army corps, seeking replacements for 80,000 troops injured or killed in Ukraine and 5,000...
A Hundred Wrecked Tanks In A Hundred Hours As Ukraine Guts Russia’s Best Tank Army
A Russian T-80 burns following a Ukrainian drone strike. Via social media The Ukrainian army’s counteroffensive around the city of Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine starting on Sept. 6 destroyed half of...
Russia’s Air Force Goes Missing At The Worst Possible Time—During Ukraine’s Counteroffensive
A Ukrainian air force Su-25 attack jet at low level. Via social media Ukrainian troops are on the move—rolling along wide highways and across open fields as they counterattack in eastern and southern ...
The Russian Army Is Losing A Battalion Every Day As Ukrainian Counterattacks Accelerate
Abandoned Russian vehicles near Izium. Via social media The Russian army is losing at least a battalion’s worth of vehicles and men a day as twin Ukrainian counteroffensives roll back Russian territor...
Ukraine Is Attacking Everywhere
Ukrainian troops advance in the south. Via social media The Ukrainian armed forces are attacking along three fronts in the south, east and north, reversing some of the territorial gains the Russian ar...