Good piece by Thomas Newdick on Russia’s Kh-38ML laser-guided missile, the munition 🇷🇺 most frequently uses to strike bridges near the front lines in 🇺🇦, likely including at least some of the four bridges 🇷🇺 has struck during its Kharkiv offensive (example below).…

Lancet strikes on a RAK-SA-12 MLRS on HMMWV south of Vovchans’k and a third 2S22 Bohdana self-propelled howitzer. (I added the other two, already posted above, for reference.)

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Correction: This is a bridge between Sadove and Kup’yans’k-Vuzlovyi in Karkiv Oblast (across the Oskil River), not in Velyka Novosilka, Donetsk Oblast. Appears to be a Kh-38ML laser-guided missile directed by an Orlan-30 UAV. Posted in mid-April. The Russians struck the adjacent…

Russia's Uralvagonzavod said it delivered batches of T-90M and T-72B3M tanks. The latter, allegedly shipped a week ago, have factory-installed 'Krysha' anti-drone roof screens.

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The Project 22800 small missile ship “Typhoon” and Project 22160 patrol ship “Viktor Velikiy” were launched at Russia’s Zelenodolsk Shipyard.

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Kadyrov released footage of troops from Akhmat-West Battalion in Ohirtseve, Kharkiv Oblast. He said they took the village along with troops from 153rd Tank Regiment & 41st Motor Rifle Regiment.

153rd is part of 47th Guards Tank Division, 1st Guards Tank Army, and 41st is part of…

May 5 video released by Russian troops from 30th Motor Rifle Brigade (2nd Combined Army Army) who say their unit led the charge toward Ocheretyne, taking SNT “Zarya” (SE of Ocheretyne) and entering the village, enabling other units to take the rest. (Ukrainian analyst Konstantin…

With all eyes on Kharkiv, Russia reportedly also advanced near Chasiv Yar. This may have something to do with the reported redeployment of the 92nd Assault Brigade to the Kharkiv direction. Russia is setting conditions to cross the canal south of Chasiv Yar.…

New U.S. aid package for Ukraine under presidential drawdown authority.

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Unguided rocket strikes in Chasiv Yar's Kanal microdistrict by Russian Su-25 attack aircraft. Looks like they launched over Bakhmut and turned around near Khromove, around 3-3.5 km from Chasiv Yar.

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Footage from the last few days showing Lancet loitering munition strikes by crews from Russia’s “North” grouping targeting a “FrankenSAM” Buk-M1 (in Kharkiv Oblast), a 2S6 Tunguska (in Sumy Oblast), and a Strela-10 (location unclear). Also, a missile/guided rocket strike on…

“Vadym Ivaneshchenko, a spokesperson for Ukraine’s 42nd Brigade, which is fighting around Hlyboke, said Russian forces were approaching their positions. He said his unit was ‘fully equipped’, though more drones and electronic warfare equipment were always needed.”

The videos…

Footage from the past few days showing artillery fire by crews from Russia’s “North” grouping targeting Ukrainian positions using precision-guided rounds. They’re said to be Krasnopol laser-guided shells, but in the first video at least some of the rounds look more like Smelchak…

Russia’s Kurganmashzavod said it delivered another batch of BMP-3 infantry fighting vehicles (the fourth this year, by my count) along with a batch of BMD-4M airborne IFVs. The company said it supplied add-on armor kits (688A-sb6-2KP), anti-drone roof screens, and Nakidka…

Russian counter-battery fire apparently using a Krasnopol laser-guided shell, reportedly near Pishchane, Kharkiv Oblast. Posted May 5.

As the war has gone on, Russia has seemed to lean more heavily on Krasnopol, particularly for counter-battery.

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Small group of Russian troops in Vovchans'k, Kharkiv Oblast, south of the meat processing plant (50.29883, 36.92536).

'They come in groups like this of three to five soldiers,' the commander of a UAV recon unit from Ukraine's 57th Brigade said. 'They are advancing in a…

Footage from Hlyboke (first video) and Vovchans'k.

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A destroyed AFU T-64BV obr 2017 and a Lancet strike on a T-72, both reportedly near Lyptsi.

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