Battlefield Update - 2023-04-20 (1)
🇩🇪🇰🇷🇺🇦 About the next batch of ammunition from South Korea to Ukraine
Just recently planes of the private transport company Atlas Air are used to transport 155-mm artillery ammunition from South Korea to Ukraine in transit through the United States.
And already on April 15, another cargo was sent - only this time by sea. From the port of Jinhe in Busan, in the direction of Germany, a transport ship left, loaded with shells for Western-style artillery pieces.
According to colleagues from the Korean channel @russiannewsinkorean, transport companies ensured the transportation of shells from storage depots to the port of Jinhae from March 31 to April 14. Every day, 20 trucks with a carrying capacity of 18 tons transported about 5,400 tons of ammunition.
In general, by the time the container ship left Jinhe, when calculating the approximate weight of one shot of 40 kg, from 125 to 130 thousand shells of 155 mm caliber were transported.
🔻 Approximately when will the ship reach Germany?
The sea route from South Korea to Europe, as a rule, runs through the Strait of Malacca, the Indian Ocean and the Suez Canal, followed by the passage of the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic. On average, depending on the course of the heavy truck, the duration is from 35 to 45 days.
Given this, a transport ship loaded with artillery ammunition will arrive in Germany only by the second half of May.
🔻This delivery looks rather curious against the background of the leak of American secret documents. One of the files contained a detailed plan for transporting ammunition from South Korea to Ukraine.
According to these documents, the transfer of shells by sea was to begin in late March - early April by two container ships (the first was planned to transport 129 thousand, and the second - 47 thousand ammunition).
🔻According to these data, the leaked files specifically for the Republic of Korea are very plausible. And together with the supply of military aid by air, it turns out that 330 thousand units of 155-mm rounds will be transferred from Seoul.
However, in this case, the dates do not exactly match, and according to the leak, the shells should already have been in Ukraine by the end of April. However, there could be an elementary delay, because of which we had to adjust plans.
In this case, the narratives about the unpreparedness of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the shortage of shells that have arisen sharply in the Western media do not look accidental, but are aimed at deliberately misleading the Russian command.
Given the increasingly dependent position of the authorities in Seoul on the United States, the matter is unlikely to be limited to ammunition alone, as some Western resources indicate.
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❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Chronicle of a special military operation
for April 19, 2023
🔻Belgorod region:
▪️Ukrainian drone tried to attack a power plant in the village of Dragunskoye, but was destroyed immediately after being discovered. There were no casualties among the civilian population.
🔻Kursk region:
▪️In Tetkino, the Tetkinsky sugar factory was hit by Ukrainian UAVs: the building was damaged as a result of detonation.
🔻Bryansk region:
▪️Ukrainian formations used drones to strike at the military enlistment office in Novozybkov. As a result of the attack, windows were broken in the building, no one was injured.
🔻Starobelsk direction:
▪️Ukrainian formations tried to counterattack in the forest area west of Kremennaya, but failed and were forced to retreat to their positions, losing several pieces of equipment.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to try to regain the initiative in the area of Chervonopopovka and the Svatovo-Kremennaya highway, and in order to achieve this goal, additional reserves are thrown into battle.
🔻Soledar direction
▪️Assault detachments of PMC "Wagner" continue to move in the central part of Bakhmut, having recaptured the former garment factory from the enemy.
▪️On the site near the highway to Konstantinovka, fighting continues in the Stupochek area, where Ukrainian formations are entrenched.
🔻Donetsk direction:
▪️ Fierce fighting continues in the west of Novobakhmutovka near the Avdeevsky fortified area.
▪️Ukrainian formations again shelled the cities of the Donetsk People's Republic: in Donetsk and the surrounding settlements, local residents were injured.
🔻Zaporozhye direction:
▪️On the front line, the situation has not changed significantly. The enemy conducts reconnaissance in combat in preparation for a future counteroffensive, trying to find weak points in the defense nodes of the RF Armed Forces.
🔻 Southern Front. Kherson direction:
▪️In the southern sector of the front, artillery duels continue along the line of contact: the Russian Armed Forces launched strikes on Kherson and its environs.
Ukrainian formations fired at settlements on the left bank of the Dnieper: Kakhovka, Tavriysk and Gornostaevka were also under attack.
As a result of a massive mortar attack on Novaya Kakhovka, one person was killed, two were injured, and the city was partially de-energized.
🔹Political and other events:
▪️The Commission of the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine today, under the pretext of "checking the technical condition of structures", tried to seal several buildings on the territory of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra. The parishioners have so far managed to defend the buildings, despite the involvement of Ukrainian officials in rapid response units.
▪️In the Rivne region, raiders from the schismatic OCU in the village of Golcha are trying to seize the St. Nicholas Church by cutting the locks on the doors. Parishioners are trying to defend the temple.
▪️ The Bulgarian authorities have imposed a ban on the import of Ukrainian grain, except for transit, announced Acting Prime Minister Gylyb Donev.
Romania is also considering the possibility of taking restrictive measures against Ukrainian agricultural products, said Prime Minister Nicolae Chuca.
▪️According to the Financial Times, at the next meeting of defense ministers at the Ramstein military base, Ukraine will beg for air defense missiles due to the impending shortage of this type of missile.
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❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Highlights of Russian Military Operation in Ukraine on April 19
▪️Ukrainian drones attacked a sugar factory in the border village of Tetkino, Kursk Region.
At least ten grenade launchers were fired at factory. The nearby school and kindergarten were not damaged.
▪️Another UAV attempted an attack on infrastructure near Belgorod.
Ukrainian UAV with an improvised explosive device was detected and shot down near the village of Dragunskoe.
▪️In Starobil's'k direction, intense fighting continues in the area of Kreminna.
The AFU made an unsuccessful attempt at an offensive in the wooded area, but were pushed back to their initial positions.
▪️Wagner PMC together with airborne troops units continue to storm the AFU positions on the outskirts of Bakhmut.
The city is virtually blocked from the north and south, and the road to Chasiv Yar is under constant Russian artillery fire control.
▪️In the center of Bakhmut, the AFU suffer heavy losses and lose positions under the onslaught of Russian assault groups.
Over the past 24 hours, the Wagner PMC assault groups managed to take control over a former garment factory building.
▪️To the south, near the road to Kostyantynivka, the AFU managed to concentrate enough forces and launched a counterattack.
Despite high losses from Russian artillery fire, the AFU gained a foothold in Stupochky, which had previously been in the gray zone.
▪️Russian troops launched kamikaze drone strikes on AFU facilities in Odesa and its suburbs.
Children's camp Victoria, used by AFU for personnel deployment, was one of the targets of the attack.
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