Another Russian T-72BM just after cooking off ...Quickfire wrote:
All airspace in the east is now closed. Seems so many incursions that it's the only way to handle the situation given jamming, monitoring for larger scale incursions (Russian paras again massed near Moscow but could be for Arctic exercise), managing Kharkhiv air-bridge and moving stuff on to Dnipro for the next phase of the war.
Skirmishes in four areas yesterday and today. Seems lull before was result of regrouping.
Russians moving Grad rockets west from Rostov on the road to Novoazovsk and Mariupol in Ukraine.
Footage from a few days ago of a skirmish outside Donetsk on the road to Luhansk. Gives an idea of the tension around no man's land. Ignore the perhaps misleading title, these are Ukrainians trying to figure out where the frontline is and which bits of road they can still use. Also note the infrastructure already destroyed during the Russian retreat in late August. And the sang froid of the dude in the arctic fat suit. Reckon he might be an older Afghanets who are numerous in Ukraine.
Apparently Donetsk airport is no longer officially considered a priority target by the Russians ... even though the 'Novorossiya republic' air force that will be based there has been painted up and ready to move from Rostov for two months now. This has led to a lot of curious propaganda in the last days including such as this on Russian TV - features (obviously fake) OSCE observers escorting the last Ukrainian cyborgs from the airport ...
However, the Russians are back in the old terminal and surrounding ruins. Perhaps they anticipate finally capturing the whole area sooner rather than later.
In the interim, Ukraine is still moving heavy kit to the front.
