Battlefield Update - 2023-05-14 (1)
🇷🇺🇺🇦.It is worth noting that panic reports are spreading in Ukrainian social networks that during the detonation of an ammunition depot in Khmelnytsky, a large batch of British tank ammunition with depleted uranium, which was recently brought to Ukraine along with Storm Shadow missiles, was also destroyed. As a result of a huge explosion, particles of depleted uranium could be dispersed on the territory of the Khmelnytsky region, which, taking into account the experience of Yugoslavia and Iraq, could lead to an outbreak of cancer in the medium term.
There are already reports that the radiation background has allegedly increased in Khmelnitsky. Let's wait for actual confirmation.
Destruction of Ukrainian artillery by kamikaze drones "Lancet" .
Watch now (4 min) | — At 0:15, a Krab 155mm self-propelled gun was hit, which led to an instant fire of the ammunition load and its subsequent detonation. The footage shows burning enemy artillerymen jumping out of the vehicle. — At 0:50, another Krab arrives with almost the same effect, only this time the crew managed to jump out before they were cooked.
📌 The situation in Bakhmut - May 14
▪️Units of PMC "Wagner" established control over almost the entire territory of the Zabolnitsa district
▪️In the defense areas of the Armed Forces of Ukraine "Konstruktor" and "Gnezdo", the Wagner assault detachments occupied several more multi-storey buildings, each of which had previously been turned into a separate stronghold.
▪️Units of the 72nd Motorized Rifle Brigade of the RF Armed Forces have lost their positions southwest of Ivanovskoye. The Armed Forces of Ukraine are trying to reach Kleeshchevka, on the northwestern outskirts of which there is a tactical height.
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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Attacks of the Russian Armed Forces on the objects of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the night of May 13-14, 2023
On the night of May 13-14, Russian troops again hit the objects of the Armed Forces of Ukraine throughout Ukraine. For strikes, cruise missiles and UAVs of the Geran family were used.
▪️Ternopil got the most: in addition to the defeat of the Ternopil railway repair and mechanical plant, which was almost certainly used to repair Ukrainian military equipment, at least one more explosion thundered in the city.
▪️Local sources published information about explosions in Kiev and the Sumy region, but we do not have any exact confirmation of whether it was an arrival or air defense work.
▪️Toward midnight, explosions began in Kharkov. Despite the initial statements about the firing of the RF Armed Forces from S-300 launchers in the mode of fire at ground targets, apparently, they were hit by Iskanders.
According to our sources, the Russian Armed Forces hit a warehouse with equipment in the KhTZ area - increased activity has been observed there over the past couple of months, so this is unlikely to be the last hit target in this area. The fire was extinguished only by five in the morning.
Two other strikes hit unknown objects in the Novobavarsky district of Kharkov and the city of Zolochev.
▪️ Around five in the morning, Russian troops launched repeated strikes (including on Ternopil and Khmelnitsky ). In addition, during the night, the Russian Aerospace Forces carried out air strikes with guided bombs on Stanislav and Kizomys in Kherson Oblast
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Ukrainian Armed Forces used Storm Shadow missiles against Luhansk - what does this change during the SMO
Yes, nothing fundamentally changes! You have to get used to the fact that the enemy will evolve. We are evolving in the same way. It is a brutal, hard, and bloody struggle, but it has always been and always will be. In our time, everything has simply accelerated significantly, and quite a lot of decisions have already been accumulated during the CBO that radically change the “rules of the game”. For the Armed Forces of Ukraine, this is, first of all, HIMARS, and for us, the Lancet, Geranium, and UMPC.
Yes, the Armed Forces of Ukraine now have an inconspicuous cruise missile capable of flying at extremely low altitudes and bending around the terrain. Yes, now they will be able to try to hit targets at a distance of 560 km from the front line.
Well, what to do? We don't have a monopoly on long-range missiles, so that was to be expected. To panic and, as some suggest, to relocate the Aerospace Forces from airfields within the range of enemy missiles is nonsense. This will simply take our aircraft out of the game to the delight of Kiev.
Remember, the main weapon of the enemy is not Storm Shadow, not HIMARS, and not even Abrams. His main weapon is our fear and panic. And it is precisely the fussy attempts to cover your ass in the “no matter what happens” format that is now the biggest danger. Such decisions as “no planes - no chance of being hit” are, of course, very simple, but they lead to disaster.
It is also impossible to ignore the problem, but let's exhale, get together, and begin to act consistently and rationally.
Airfields and other critical facilities must be prepared for an enemy attack, but this must be done sensibly. Disperse planes in parking lots? Yes! Provide caponiers and shelters? Yes! Strengthen air defense? Yes! Withdraw all aircraft beyond the Volga? No!
The enemy wants to intimidate us. No need to disperse the panic yourself and play along with him. Let
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Artemovsk summary
🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦Near Artemovsk, the enemy made massive attempts to break through the defense of our troops, and our commanders died heroically, - Ministry of Defense
▪️Commander Makarov, who led the battle in the area of the settlement Krasnoe, died after being wounded during the reflection of an attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine;
▪️Motorized riflemen repelled the attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine south of the settlement Red in the DPR, the enemy's losses amounted to about 200 militants killed and wounded;
▪️Deputy commander of the army corps for military-political work, Colonel Brovko died heroically while repelling the attack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Artemovsk;
▪️All attacks by units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Soledar-Artemovsk direction were repelled, and no breakthroughs in the defense of the Russian troops were allowed;
▪️North and south of Artemovsk, the enemy made massive attempts to break through the defense of Russian troops
▪️Motorized riflemen repelled six attacks east of Bogdanovka in the DPR, they involved assault groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, numbering more than 100 people;
▪️All military personnel who distinguished themselves in battles in the Artemovsk region were awarded state awards directly at combat positions;
▪️Losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine for the day amounted to over 400 militants killed and wounded in the Soledar-Artyomovsk direction.
▪️Assault detachments with the support of the Airborne Forces continued to fight for the capture of the western quarters of Artemovsk
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❗️ 🇷🇺🇺🇦 Battle for Bakhmut
situation by the end of May 14, 2023
A video of the work of Ukrainian tanks on residential buildings occupied by the Wagner PMC in the Konstruktor and Gnezdo fortified areas has appeared on the Web. This made it possible to somewhat clarify the situation in the western quarters of Bakhmut .
🔻 Based on the positions of the tanks, several conclusions can be drawn:
▪️Partially PMC "Wagner" entered the "Constructor" located to the west and are trying to attack the "Nest" from all possible directions. To the south of the house 105/107 on Levanevskogo it is not yet possible to pass - fierce battles are being fought for the Semya supermarket. But, in general, PMCs have bit into the northern houses of the "Constructor" and are developing an offensive from there.
▪️Most likely, after the loss of the positions of the RF Armed Forces to the south-west of the Berkhovskoye reservoir and the dominant heights, the PMC command set the task of cleaning up the private sector, which accounts for the main promotion of the PMC. We assume that the attack aircraft reached at least Larisa Shepitko Street . In this case, going through the virtually destroyed private sector and physically blocking the highway to Khromovo is a matter of a couple of days.
▪️Main Department of Statistics and nearby houses in the northeast of the "Nest" - under the control of the enemy. And the whole center of the fortified area too. The southeastern part of the "Nest" lies in ruins, but judging by the fact that Russian artillery continues to work on it, at least the ruins are suitable for defense.
📌According to Alexander Simonov , the enemy broke through the defensive orders of the RF Armed Forces to the west of Kleshcheevka , in fact, cleared the forest plantation near Krasnoye , east of the Seversky Donets-Donbass canal. The Ministry of Defense also spoke about the losses of personnel near Krasny.
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The Russians warned the Brits against introducing DU armor piercing rounds. Definitely a direct relationship between fucking around and finding out.