Operation Bloodhound - Red Shadow Air Cushion Landing Craft

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Outgoing Russian Grad rockets from Donetsk suburbs, filmed early March.



More outgoing apparently from Luhansk more recently

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Two huge resupplies convoys in from Russia over last 72 hours, Ukrainian checkpoint at Yasinovata got a taste of things to come yesterday.

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If you remember the Ukraine helos in combat with Russian special forces and militas south of Slovyansk just east of Kramatorsk airstrip from summer 2014 ...



... You'll probably recognise this video that came to light later from Semenovka environs. Russian tourist a bit too casual but perhaps not so surprising.

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Russian armour near Shakhtarsk.

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Fighting around Avdeevka Industrial Zone from mid- March



More recent footage, though this is mainly for the camera's benefit.

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Sounded like the Q jets were up today, thick cloud could only hear them.

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New Russian footage from Avdeevka.

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+1 month old footage of the usual around Avdeevka



Muscovites pulled back from planned offensive, for now at least.

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Russian armoured column near Luhansk on 27 April.



Didn't launch the planned offensive, had a fortnight off, now turning up the heat again to the usual simmer.

Too bad Russian-Hazara-Persian-Hezbollah-Iraqi-Syrian Army remnants just got their supply lines cut east of Homs, might delay the Donbass offensive for even longer.

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Meanwhile in Londinium.

In a book published on Wednesday, 2017 War With Russia, Shirreff argues that the events in Crimea have destroyed the post-cold-war settlement and set the stage for conflict, beginning next year.

In a chilling scenario, he predicts that Russia, in order to escape what it believes to be encirclement by Nato, will seize territory in eastern Ukraine, open up a land corridor to Crimea and invade the Baltic states.

Shirreff, who was deputy supreme allied commander Europe from 2011 to 2014 and before that served in Northern Ireland, Iraq and the Balkans, is risking his reputation by making such a bold prediction. But he claims his narrative is closely modelled on his Nato experience of war-gaming future conflicts.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/m ... -commander

Journos present at RUSI launch were sceptical.