War Reports - 2023-12-04
💥Geran-2 drones flew to the Starokonstantinov airfield in the Khmelnitsky region. Explosions are reported.
Update: Repeated explosions thunder.
#source (https://t.me/voenacher/57292)
#UkraineRussiaWar
🌐 Place: #Bakhmut
🕰 Date: ~03.12.2023
📌 Coordinates: n/a
📝 Description: Russian SU-25 operates in the sky near Bakhmut. Fascinating!
🖥 id: 03122023.1347
✉️source: https://t.me/negumanitarnaya_pomosch_Z/12800
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#UkraineRussiaWar
🌐 Place: #Avdiivka
🕰 Date: ~03.12.2023
📌 Coordinates: 0:45 - 48.1179162, 37.7995060
1:50 - 48.1174829, 37.8029851
📝 Description: Russian robot wheeled drones deliver ammunition and food to positions near Avdiivka.
🖥 id: 03122023.1229
✉️source: https://t.me/pomosh_zemlyakam/3053
Map: MilitarySummaryMap (https://dev.militarysummary.com/#/login)
#UkraineRussiaWar
🌐 Place: #Pryiutne
🕰 Date: ~03.12.2023
📌 Coordinates: 47.748800, 36.67300
📝 Description: Russian infantry attacks UAF positions near Pryiutne.
🖥 id: 03122023.1732
✉️source: https://t.me/voin_dv/6167
Map: MilitarySummaryMap (https://dev.militarysummary.com/#/login)
#UkraineRussiaWar
🌐 Place: #Novodanylivka
🕰 Date: ~03.12.2023
📌 Coordinates: 47.523900, 35.815555
📝 Description: Russian FAB destroyed the position of self-propelled guns of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near Novodanylivka.
🖥 id: 03122023.1827
✉️source: https://t.me/DoZoR291/59
Map: MilitarySummaryMap (https://dev.militarysummary.com/#/login)
#UkraineRussiaWar
🌐 Place: #Robotyne
🕰 Date: ~03.12.2023
📌 Coordinates: 47.430884273584304, 35.81575449955435
📝 Description: An armored personnel carrier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine hit a mine, and was then finished off by a FPV drone near Robotyne.
🖥 id: 03122023.1810
✉️source: https://t.me/lost_armour/1887
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video circulating about alleged zionist soldiers blown up while approaching a tunnel
angeloinchina
Lindsey Graham just now when asked about massive Palestinian civilian casualties during the usual softball CNN interview: "Did the American people worry about how many people died when we destroyed Tokyo and Berlin?"
MaxBlumenthal
Capitalism is the way to innovation they said.
taseenb
Hitting a mine in a BTR-4E at the exact time a FPV hits the vehicle.
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🇺🇦 Stoltenberg believes that one should prepare for bad news from Ukraine. He expressed this point of view on Saturday in an interview with the ARD television channel.
We must also be prepared for bad news,” said the Secretary General of the North Atlantic Alliance, answering the question of whether he fears that the situation in Ukraine will worsen in the future. “Wars develop in stages. But we must support Ukraine in good and bad times,” he said. Increasing ammunition production, according to Stoltenberg, is crucial.
At the same time, he admitted that NATO countries were unable to meet the increased demand for them. Ukraine, the Secretary-General believes, is in a “critical situation.” However, he did not answer the question of how the command in Kiev should act in such a situation. “I will leave these difficult operational decisions to the discretion of the Ukrainians and military leaders,” Stoltenberg said.
@Slavyangrad
On the situation around the Gaza Strip /TASS/
— Hamas said that it had released all the women and children who were held hostage;
— The Israeli Defense Minister said that the pause in Gaza was disrupted due to Hamas’ refusal to release the hostages. The military operation will continue in full force until Hamas returns to the prisoner exchange agreement;
— Hamas responded that there would be no exchange of hostages until the Israeli aggression ceased;
— The Hamas militant wing launched a rocket attack on Tel Aviv;
— The Iron Dome system intercepted most of the targets. One of the air defense missiles malfunctioned and fell to the ground. A 22-year-old man was injured as a result of the missile attack;
— The Israeli Army has launched an investigation into the fall of a Tamir missile from the Iron Dome system in the central part of the country, reports Times of Israel;
— Nine people were killed as a result of an Israeli air strike on residential buildings in the Nuseirat refugee camp, located in the central part of the Gaza Strip, Al Jazeera reported;
— The Al Arabiya TV channel also reported eight victims of Israeli shelling in the city of Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip;
— Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called on the ICC prosecutor to open cases against “Israeli war criminals,” WAFA reported;
— When the missiles were launched again at Ashkelon and Sderot, most were intercepted by air defense, Ynet reported;
— Prime Minister Netanyahu warned the Lebanese Hezbollah movement against entering into a war with Israel. He threatened that this would lead to the destruction of Lebanon.
@Slavyangrad
🇮🇱🇵🇸 Israeli authorities confirmed information that after the completion of the operation in the Gaza Strip they intend to create a buffer zone in the enclave for security purposes, The Times of Israel reported on Sunday.
“To ensure security, the defense department is discussing the formation of a buffer zone on the border - on the Gaza side, so that the Hamas group cannot concentrate forces near the border and again take actions unexpected for Israel,” an unnamed Israeli government official told the publication.
“This is a security measure, not a political step. We do not intend to remain on the other side of the border, in Gaza,” he clarified.
@Slavyangrad
🇺🇦 Ukrainian military said they could no longer fight in Avdeevka
Soldiers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces cannot fight in Avdeevka due to heavy fire from the Russian Armed Forces. A Ukrainian military man with the call sign “Nikola” told about this.
“ We are just constantly being attacked, we have lost a lot of guys, we simply don’t have the strength to fight anymore. We are being shelled by artillery and bombarded with drones,” Nikola told German broadcaster ZDF.
@Slavyangrad
Firing sacks in Krynki in Kherson oblast and Verboye and Novprokopovka in Zaporozhie oblast continue to function as firing sacks, as they should.
Vulnerable positons along the line of defense are meant to attract enemy attention. Russia funnels the enemy into a firing sack. It fixes the enemy in place. Those forces become unable to advance and unable to retreat.
Meanwhile, Ukraine provides a steady flow of forces for Russian artillery and drone forces to attrit. Ukraine has refused to play the attrition game optiong for territorial gains instead. They've largely failed on that since the land grab in Kherson.
Due to the extreme EW advantage (above provided by @militarysummary) in that area, the enemy cannot provide any drone support, artilery support, or air support. This may be slightly different in Krynki, but it's a similar process.
@Slavyangrad
Marinka. December 2023.
The city (or rather, what’s left of it) has already been practically liberated by our troops; a piece remains on the northwestern outskirts.
@Slavyangrad
Video of Russian fortifications.
Since 1991 Russia has created, while Ukraine has taken that time to learn how to beg, blame, and steal. I wonder which army will be better prepared this winter?
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Photos of the destruction that befell the Hamed area of Khan Yunis after the Israeli bombing
@Slavyangrad
The Rooks Have Arrived. Artemovsk direction.
In unique footage, a copter filmed the flight of a pair of Su-25s during combat work.
All the same, attack aircraft are scumbags, in the good sense of the word, to carry out tasks above the battlefield, where everything that can shoot at them, to support their brothers on the ground with fire where even tanks are not always able to do so - this is strong.
@Slavyangrad
Novorossiysk paratroopers destroyed two Ukrainian infantry fighting vehicles using artillery and the Kornet ATGM near Verbovoye in the Zaporozhye region
@Slavyangrad
❗️American patrol boats for Ukraine were blocked in Poland
On the Polish-Ukrainian border, protesters from the nationalist Confederation party blocked the transport of new patrol boats for Ukraine, BelVPO reports.
Protesters said that this “expensive yacht” was designed as humanitarian aid, with the manufacturer’s logo printed on the cover.
#source (https://t.me/ukraina_ru/178891)
Boris "Colonel Cassad" Rozhin:
The IDF is developing an offensive north of Khan Yunis, seeking to cut the southern part of the Gaza Strip into two parts and complicate the interaction of Hamas and Islamic Jihad forces in the enclave, although the presence of tunnels under the enclave complicates the implementation of these plans.
#Source (https://t.me/boris_rozhin/105410?single)
Ukrainian channel Rezident:
Battle for Avdeevka: “the noose is tightening.”
Thus, in the Avdeevsky sector, Russian troops slowly but surely continue to push through the defenses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. On the northern flank, the main clashes are taking place in the area of the railway line near Stepovoy; fighting continues near the Avdeevsky coke plant, where for now the main efforts of the Russian Armed Forces are concentrated on the fire defeat of a powerful strong point.
Russian troops also successfully advanced south of Novokalinovo, occupying strongholds along the reservoir. Having advanced across the railway track, the position of the Russian Armed Forces significantly improved in the context of the attack on Novokalinovo.
To the west of Avdeevka, assault detachments of the Russian Armed Forces, supported by artillery and aviation, occupied important positions on the hills east of Severny. Similarly, it was possible to capture strongholds to the west, which worsens the position of the Ukrainian Armed Forces not only in Severny, but also in the south in Pervomaisky.
And we remind you that if Ukraine loses Avdiivka, Russian troops will enter operational space. Next are Slavyansk and Kramatorsk, plus left-bank Ukraine can be cut into two parts - two huge “cauldrons”. Therefore, the Ukrainian authorities are trying to save Avdiivka at any cost, transferring units there from other directions and exposing them. But the losses in manpower and the successes of the Russian Armed Forces in the Avdeevsky sector affect the morale of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which simplifies the assault on the lines by Russian troops.
#source (https://t.me/rezident_ua/20693)
🇵🇱 🇺🇦 Poland transferred 18 Krab self-propelled howitzers to Ukraine
Another 56 are being prepared for transfer, PAP reported on Sunday.
@Slavyangrad
Boris "Colonel Cassad" Rozhin:
Avdeevka. 03.12.2023
1. Our troops continue to gain a foothold in the industrial zone and expand the zone of control around it. The enemy is no longer making serious attempts to return to the industrial zone.
2. Active assault operations continue in the Stepovoy area. In the village itself there is no progress yet, but to the south of the village there is. The enemy acknowledges the deterioration of the situation in this area. The village itself is virtually unsuitable for defense - almost all the buildings are destroyed, as are some of the basements. It is very difficult for us and the Ukrainian Armed Forces to cling to him.
3. There is no significant progress yet to the west of Krasnogorovka. The enemy's counterattacks also did not bring him any significant results. The main losses in armored vehicles of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were suffered to the north-west of Avdiivka.
4. In the Severny area (south of Avdeevka) there is some progress in our favor, but the start of fighting for Severny itself is still a long way off. The enemy's defense here is quite strong so far.
5. Avdeevsky coking plant and the Khimik microdistrict continue to be processed, including by the industrial plants.
6. Bad weather makes it difficult for both sides to conduct military operations.
7. The enemy continues to transfer reinforcements from other directions near Avdeevka. The Berdychi-Orlovka-Tonenkoe-Severnoe area, which ensures the preservation of communications with Avdievka, will be retained by the enemy command at any cost.
#source (https://t.me/boris_rozhin/105414)
8 Israeli military personnel and 3 civilians were injured as a result of the defeat of an IDF infantry fighting vehicle on the Lebanese-Israeli border.
The Lebanese paramilitary group Hezbollah claimed responsibility for the missile attack.
#source (https://t.me/new_militarycolumnist/123297?single)
Battles near Kremennaya: our troops managed to occupy a number of Ukrainian positions. Ukrainian Armed Forces counterattack
➖Despite the positional course of the war in the Krasnolimansk direction , units of the "🅾️" group from time to time move forward, capturing enemy positions.
➖So, on the Torsky ledge there is progress in the forest plantations where the 60th and 63rd brigades were sitting. Our fighters have gained a foothold, and artillery helps them stay on occupied lines.
➖In Serebryansky forestry, after a long period of treatment of the supporter of the 67th brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with artillery and UR-77, our attack aircraft were able to capture him and gain a foothold. The Ukrainian command sent the 12th Special Forces Brigade "Azov" to correct the situation, which, despite all its pathos, cannot do this.
➖The Ministry of Defense reported the successful repulsion of attacks by 60 , 63 and 67 enemy brigades and the capture of Ukrainian militants.
💬What do the enemies say?
💥The press secretary of the command of the Ukrainian Ground Forces said that Russian troops have a large supply of gliding bombs and are carrying out strikes with their help on the Kupyansk-Liman line.
➖Ukrainian military observer Konstantin Mashovets said that Russian troops carried out a tactical offensive west and south of Kremennaya.
➖Earlier, he stated that parts of the Russian army resumed an offensive operation in the Liman direction in order to oust Ukrainian troops from the left bank of the Zherebets River.
#source (https://t.me/btr80/12583?single)
The Israeli Air Force carries out retaliatory strikes against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon.
#Source (https://t.me/genshtab24/41352)
Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation (3 December 2023)
▫️ In Kupyansk direction, units of the Zapad Group of Forces, aviation, and artillery inflicted fire damage on manpower and hardware of AFU 14th mechanised and 25th airborne brigades near Sinkovka and Berestovoye (Kharkov).
One ammunition depot of the AFU 113th Territorial Defence Brigade was eliminated near Liptsy (Kharkov).
The enemy lost up to 95 servicemen, one AFV, two motor vehicles, and one D-30 howitzer.
▫️ In Krasny Liman direction, units of the Tsentr Group of Forces and artillery repelled one attack launched by assault groups of the AFU 60th Mechanised Btigade near Yampolovka (DPR).
Strikes were delivered at clusters of manpower of AFU 63rd mechanised and 12th special forces brigades near Yampolovka (DPR) and Serebryansky forestry.
The enemy lost up to 250 servicemen and two motor vehicles.
▫️In Donetsk direction, units of the Yug Group of Forces supported by artillery inflicted fire damage on AFU manpower and hardware near Kurdyumovka, Andreyevka, and Kleshcheyevka (DPR).
The AFU losses were up to 300 servicemen killed and wounded, one IFV, two motor vehicles, one D-20, one D-30 howitzers, as well as one Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system.
▫️In South Donetsk direction, units of the Vostok Group of Forces and artillery inflicted fire damage on manpower of AFU 72nd mechanised and 79th air assault brigades near Novomikhailovka and Ugledar (DPR).
The enemy's losses amounted to up to 85 servicemen killed and wounded, one AFV, two motor vehicles, one Akatsiya self propelled artillery system, and one Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system.
▫️ In Zaporozhye direction, units of the Russian Group of Forces, helicopters, artillery, and heavy flamethrower systems repelled one attack launched by assault groups of the AFU 82nd Air Assault Brigade close to Verbovoye (Zaporozhye).
In addition, servicemen of the AFU 46th Airmobile Brigade were defeated close to Rabotino (Zaporozhye).
The enemy's losses amounted to up to 20 servicemen and two motor vehicles.
▫️ In Kherson direction, the Russian Group of Forces' units inflicted fire damage on AFU manpower close to Matiyasovo and Novosyolovka (Nikolaev), and Tyaginka (Kherson).
The AFU lost up to 65 servicemen, two motor vehicles, three Gvozdika self propelled artillery systems, and one Bukovel-AD electronic warfare station.
▫️ Operational-Tactical and Army Aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Groups of Forces of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation hit one command post of the air defence control and warning centre of the AFU Vostok Air Command near Dnepropetrovsk, fuel depots close to Mirgorod (Poltava) and Khmelnitsky, one ammunition depot in Nikolaev region, as well as manpower and military hardware in 107 areas.
▫️ Russian air defence and electronic warfare systems have shot down eight UAVs near Podkuychansk (LPR), Slavnoye, Belogorovka (DPR), Peschanoye, Vinogradovka (Kherson), Verbovoye (Zaporozhye), as well as two S-200 anti-aircraft guided missiles converted to hit ground targets, and one HIMARS MLRS projectile.
@Slavyangrad
‼️Avdeevka direction, south side, AFU abandon positions.
In quick order.
#source (https://t.me/avdeevkaru/41437)
Tank Denazification of the Ukrainian military in the Avdeyevka direction.
#Source (https://t.me/avdeevkaru/41456)
Via Boris "Colonel Cassad" Rozhin:
The atmosphere of a Ukrainian trench in the Marinka area.
Video https://t.me/xoxol_uk
#Source (https://t.me/boris_rozhin/105434)
It’s difficult for a Banderaite to dig his own grave in winter, maybe it’s better to call the Volga
#Source (https://t.me/Belarus_VPO/53440)
🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 “The Russians have a total advantage”: enemy analysis of the battles on the northern face of the Avdeevsky ledge
▪️ Russian troops, depending on the area, are steadily carrying out assault operations, concentrating mainly on Stepovo and its outskirts. The delivery of equipment and personnel takes place in Krasnogorovka, and it is the village that is the main point of concentration of forces, with which they further move west along the plantings.
▪️The Russians are trying to occupy all the landings between the railways in order to secure the flank and deliver already harassing attacks on Ocheretino.
▪️ North of Stepovoye, the Russian Armed Forces are trying to take landings to reach Berdychi and encircle the village. In the most populated area, the Russians sit in the eastern part. Recently, with fighting, they were already able to reach the center of the village.
▪️ To the south of the village, the Russians are advancing in large numbers through the landings, trying to pressurize Stepovoye and secure the assault groups, who are having a hard time taking measures against the AKHZ. It was in these landings that a video was shot of the execution of Ukrainian Armed Forces military personnel.
▪️ The Russian Armed Forces periodically climb into the pumping station, and in recent days they have also entered the private sector south of the pond.
▪️The most offensive thing: Russians have a total advantage in manpower.
#Source (https://t.me/RVvoenkor/57614)
NGP RaZVedka:
⚠️ Brief summary of the situation in the Avdeevsky direction.
Last night, enemy targets on the southern flank, in the area of SNT Vinogradniki, were attacked from the TOS-1A Solntsepek.
The intensity of cannon artillery strikes has also increased.
Enemy units in the area of the industrial zone are conducting reconnaissance in force, with the aim of uncovering our firing points defending the front edge of the industrial zone.
Particularly desperate ones/those who have made a mistake/lost at cards/illiquid (underline as appropriate) come within range of throwing a grenade, after which they receive an instant demob with the assistance of our tigers.
The enemy is also trying to revive the second line of defense, which they had previously abandoned, moving their fire weapons and equipping firing points near residential buildings, in which there are still civilians.
There is also information that due to heavy losses, in the ranks of the Avdeevka garrison of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the number of conscientious objectors is growing - military personnel who refuse to carry out the tasks assigned by the command, even under the threat of criminal prosecution, this is also due to the fact that reserves removed from the second echelon and deep rear, a certain part of which has no experience in conducting combat operations of such intensity.
#Source (https://t.me/negumanitarnaya_pomosch_Z/12812)
Archangel Spetsnaz:
🪖 Airborne troops on the northern flank of Bakhmut took the " nursery ".
This is a large, difficult-to-reach landing with a support point.
The enemy suffered losses from 80 to 100 people.
Two pickup trucks, 2 infantry fighting vehicles, and one artillery piece were destroyed.
#Source (https://t.me/rusich_army/12041)
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Geraniums headed towards Krivoy Rog Changed direction and are flying towards Kirovograd
⚡️ Group of Geraniums in the direction of Zhytomyr region
⚡️ Explosions in the Kirovograd region
#Source (https://t.me/ukraina_ru/178947)
Arestovich on the inevitability of a military coup in Ukraine: Where are things going? To the fact that the situation will be solved in an extraordinary way. Let me tell you what I mean by extraordinary solution: it is either a military coup or "Maidan-3" - conditionally speaking, some kind of popular uprising.
Or the authorities will suddenly come to their senses and take some extraordinary measures, something like a government of national consent, a government of national salvation, and so on. Or elections. Four options. But elections in wartime are in themselves an extraordinary way, because they will be organized in extraordinary conditions, in an extraordinary way.
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War Reports - 2023-12-05 (Breaking News)
Experience of the war in Ukraine. American M-113 of the Israeli army with anti-drone visors attached by welding. t.me/warhistoryalconafter/135138?single
