Blood for the Baron!

Russian forces attacking Shuyrokino again c. two or three days ago.

Fighting around Pisky.

Drone footage of Russian army field base over 15KM inside Ukraine, pictured first on 20 May and then on 5 June.



5 June footage starts around 2:22.

Wildfires after sustained Russian mortar fire overnight near Stanitsya Luganskaya.

Short compilation of Norwegian intercepts of Russian fighter/bomber/AWACS/EW-ELINT over the Baltic only since 1st May.



Sweden releases more info on its multiple problems during intercepts (mainly from dispensed flares) tomorrow.

You're better than the BBC, mate. Thank you.

Russian generals confirmed operational inside Ukraine (although at least one missing from the pics (Lt. Gen. Lentsov of the JCCC in Luhansk - he's interviewed at the start of the Ostrovsky vid) and a few others already rotated out)



Rare for Ukraine to openly confirm and even rarer for outsiders to confirm Ukrainian intel.

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2 ... eparatists

The Baron wrote:You're better than the BBC, mate. Thank you.

Danke schön Herr Graf von Eisenblut!* **
My World Service gone by ... I miss it so.



*Should upload Luhansk airport pics over last couple months, major forward base, noone ever repatriated all the bodies of the Paras who died defending it, most maudlin now it is ensconced with all manner of foreign armour.

** Should upload pics/vids of the mechanised training conducted out of Luhansk and southern environs including the makeshift forward bases. But never got round to that yet, either ... maybe this weekend.

Quickfire wrote:
Sweden releases more info on its multiple problems during intercepts (mainly from dispensed flares) tomorrow.

Seems Swedes pulled that briefing. Perhaps because the popular Swedes in general and particular think that the NATO Baltic Air Patrol does ALL the intercepts over the Baltic.

... But it doesn't.

Some evidence today that Russians have pulled back from positions in Shyrokyne east of Mariupol, abandoned bunkers, VCPs and HQ. Could be temporary.

Here's some footage from inside a Ukrainian T64 involved in fighting there recently (think it's actually from inside a BTR ...)



Russian forces firing on Ukrainian positions around Shyrokyne a couple of days ago.



Incoming Russian starshells around Pisky the night before.