Task & Purposes Chris Cappy analyzes the Battle of Avdiivka with a focus on why Russia would be pursuing capturing the City in spite of the heavy casualties they've suffered.
Update on Russian and Ukrainian Documented Losses in the Battle of Avdiivka. Interesting that the 47th Mechanized which was in Zaporizhzhia recently (replaced by another unit) is defending Avdiivka. Documented recently as having lost one Leopard 2A6 Tank and three Bradley's as abandoned.
There are reports Russia will be trying for a third large offensive in the Avdiivka area. Recently an assault was repelled in nearby Vuhledar as well.
Russian forces conducted a notably larger series of drone strikes throughout Ukraine on November 3. The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Russian forces launched four dozen Shahed-131/-136 drones from Kursk Oblast and Primorsko-Akhtarsk, Krasnodar Krai,
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Update on Russian and Ukrainian Documented Losses on the Zaporizhzhia Front.
$425 million military aid package for Ukraine from the United States. Nothing exceptionally new but more munitions replenishment it seems, plus drones and
Vampire laser guided advanced precision kill weapon systems from L3 Harris reportedly.
Swedish PM Announces Four More Archer SPG's will be joining the eight already in Ukrainian Service in the near future.
Farmers in Mykolaiv, which used to be the frontline up until the Fall of 2022 with the Ukrainian Counteroffensive in Kherson, detail some of the difficulties in operating a farm in fields littered with mines, munitions and wreckage.
@Hromadske: “All fields are littered with military wreckage. Somewhere less, somewhere more. There are fields we haven’t even stepped on because it’s too dangerous.” The full-scale war has completely upended the ent...…
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Rest in Peace Ihor Dubyk. A sixty year old Ukrainian Territorial Defense soldier who was captured in Mariupol in May of 2022, almost eight months in Russian captivity and torture, lost thirty kilograms before being exchanged on December of 2022. He returned to service next February and died in fighting last month.
200 днів провів у полоні та схуд на 30 кг: на фронті загинув захисник Маріуполя, якого обміняли кілька місяців тому (available in English as well)