Ukraine

Today’s Ukraine SITREP is about harpoons, hard-learned lessons about an infantry squad bunching up, and Russian military movements in the country.

In the aftermath of the Bucha Massacre, Russia had been booted out of the UN Human Rights Council with 93 votes in favor, 24 opposed, and 58 abstained from the resolution.

Russian Forces have allegedly launched a missile strike on evacuees in Kramatorsk, killing 39 and injuring 100 more.

The United Kingdom is planning to send the Mastiff and Jackal armored vehicles to Ukraine in another military assistance package along with a number of anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles.

Russia’s “elite” 38th Separate Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade has been obliterated by Ukrainian forces. Reports have also surfaced that it was bombed by its own bombers due to communication issues.

Germany’s foreign intelligence service, the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), obtained intercepted radio communications, revealing that Russian soldiers and the Wagner Group were responsible for the Bucha mass killings.

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley has said that the war in Ukraine could be “measured in years,” while Retired United States Army Maj. Gen. Michael “Mike” Repass said that Russia’s invasion has peaked. What do you think about their predictions?

A lone Ukrainian T-64BV main battle tank engaged a Russian armored column by itself in Nova Basan, destroying multiple vehicles in the process.

Our Ukraine SITREP for April 6th. President Biden walks back his walk back on regime change in Russia, Zelensky can’t count on the US for a security guarantee, Sean Penn and Mig 29s for Ukraine, and General Milley’s murky crystal ball gazings.

The Russian Army is a Uniformed Rabble, Not A Professional Army In November of 2001, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov announced plans for long-overdue reforms to the Russian Army.  The new army would be a scaled-down and and more professional army of armored forces who would be paid well, equipped well, and trained well.  This […]

An unspecified Russian VDV unit (Airborne Forces) operating in Bucha was presented with state awards in Kyiv before they had left following alleged mass civilian killings in the region.

Conscripts from the Russian-backed Donbas separatists were reportedly using Mosin-Nagant rifles first produced in 1891 to fend off the Ukrainians on the frontlines.