Russia Ukraine Update Thread - part 3

This vid shows a MASSIVE attack on some kind of vast Russian missile/ammo storage area.
The cook offs just keep on going-even after the sun rises.

The video gives the location as "235 miles east of Moscow"

Possibly the most explosive event of the war that I have seen video of at least-It looks like multiple volcanos erupting all at once...30 000 tins of munitions went up according to the vid.

If that doesn't make a dent in Russian supplies,I don't know what will-

a reply to: onestonemonkey

Thankfully those munitions won't now be going off in Ukraine.

There seem to have been a Hell of a lot of them.

a reply to: worldstarcountry

originally posted by: Irishhaf
a reply to: worldstarcountry

sorry I cant take anyone serious that uses the word masterpiece to describe the russian military at this point.

Yes, that's actually a good example of why that history legends guy is such a clown and can't be taken seriously. To put more context to Vuhledar for people who haven't been following closely, the fact is that Russia has wanted to take Vuhledar since the beginning of the invasion in February 2022. Russian performance has been so disastrous there in losing huge numbers of troops and armored vehicles, that the Russian general in charge of Vuhledar operations was fired last year, though it's questionable if Russia has any competent general left to take the empty places from those they fire. It's actually quite emabarrassing for Russia that they don't have Vuhledar already, considering how many resources they've already expended in failed attemts to take it, so the Russian Vuhledar embarrassment is about as far from a masterpiece as you can get.

Battle of Vuhledar

Main battle (24 January – 15 February 2023)

That's 1 and 3/4 years ago and Russia had superior armor and number of forces, and completely failed in the Battle for Vuhledar, losing a huge amount of armored vehicles in a very short period of time. Russia also lost a huge number of soldiers though some of the claims about Russian personnel losses were likely exagerrated, but even the true number of Russian losses were still far greater than Ukraine's losses.

The Ukrainian military announced almost the entire Russian 155th Naval Infantry Brigade was destroyed and Russia has lost 130 units of equipment, including 36 tanks. In the same announcement, they also claimed that the Russians were losing 150-300 marines killed per day in the battle.[63][18] General Rustam Muradov, commander of the Eastern Military District and of the Vuhledar offensive came under fire for the failure to achieve the objective.[64] On 13 February, a Russian soldier from the 3rd Company of the 155th Brigade said that 500 soldiers had been killed during one assault, and that he was one of only eight survivors from his 100-man company.[7][65] On 15 February, Ben Wallace, the British Secretary of State for Defence, said that over 1,000 Russian troops had been killed over just two days, and that an entire Russian brigade had effectively been "annihilated".[66] In a video appeal to Russian President Vladimir Putin published on 25 March 2023, around 20 members of a unit tasked with assaulting Vuhledar, identified as the Storm Squad, the 5th Brigade of the 1st Corps of the Russian 8th Army, claimed that their commanders were utilizing anti-retreat troops to force them to advance. They stated that up to 304 of its members had been killed, including the company's commander, and that 22 had been wounded.

That's just through February 15, 2023, and of course Russia has been trying to take Vuhledar ever since. Losses have been huge, and a Russian general was fired in 2023 over the disastrous failures at Vuhledar under his command:

On 14 March, a Ukrainian soldier found a notebook apparently belonging to an as-yet unnamed Russian officer. The notebook seemed to provide a daily tally of manpower in a battalion-size assault group. A hundred soldiers attacked Ukrainian positions on 2 March, according to the notes. Just 16 came back. Two days later, 116 Russians attacked. Twenty-three survived. On 4 March, 103 soldiers left their bivouac. Just 15 came back. The next day, out of 115 attackers, three returned. According to the notes, that single Russian formation lost 377 troops in just a few days.[70]

On 3 April the Moscow Times reported that the Russian general in charge of the Vuhledar offensive, Rustam Muradov, had been dismissed.[71] The British Ministry of Defence described the event as the "most senior Russian military dismissal of 2023."[72]

So of all the ridiculous things to try to brag about, Russia's performance at Vuhledar should be at the bottom of the list, but the clown at history legends thinks this almost 2 year string of failures is somehow a "masterpiece". I don't see how anybody can stand to listen to such misrepresentations. He does get a lot of pro-Russian comments to his videos, but I don't know how many are from Russian bots.

Russia was always going to eventually grind ukraine down through sheer numbers a 3 or 4-1 KD ratio isnt good enough for Ukraine to make up the difference.

this isnt a pro ukraine post, its marveling at the hoops people jump through to try and make this special military operation not look like the death of a nation.

Fair enough. Vuhledar will likely fall eventually just as Bakhmut and Avdiivka did. In those previous settlements Russia took, once they had completely levelled the towns to nothing but rubble, there wasn't much left to defend except a rubble pile, so Ukraine withdrew. That seems to be the Russian mode of operation, level a town, then when nothing is left to defend but rubble, Ukraine withdraws and Russia moves in to the rubble pile. Russia continues to take losses occupying the rubble piles since the occupying Russians also don't have much in the way of cover.

a reply to: Arbitrageur

No kidding. Every Russian assault these days is a replay of the fighting in the rubble of Stalingrad.

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18 September Update

A source within Ukrainian special services told Ukrainian outlet Suspilne on September 18 that drone operators from Ukraine's Security Service (SBU), Ukraine's Main Military Intelligence Directorate (GUR), and Ukraine's Special Operations Forces (SSO) struck a facility at the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) Main Missile and Artillery Directorate's 107th Arsenal in Toropets, Tver Oblast. Suspilne's sources stated the facility stores Iskander missiles, Tochka-U ballistic missiles, anti-aircraft missiles, and artillery ammunition . . .

Ukrainian forces recently advanced in Glushkovsky Raion west of the main Ukrainian salient in Kursk Oblast amid continued Ukrainian assaults in and west of the salient. Russian forces regained positions within the salient.

Russian forces recently advanced along the Kupyansk-Svatove-Kreminna line, within Toretsk, southwest of Donetsk City, and in eastern Zaporizhia Oblast.

More at URL above.

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