Dan

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Documenting battles/units in Ukraine; Tracking vehicle losses for Oryx list + WarsSpotting, emphasis on vehicle ID/geo-location. Previous Syria + Nagorno-Kara.

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🇺🇦Vovcha/Mokri Yaly river counter attack. Today 37th Marine and 79th Air Assault bdes announced the clearance of Novokhatske. 'The enemy was driven from their positions, suffered losses, and retreated'. 🇺🇦moves started quietly in May under an OPSEC embargo.

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Byakhovo, Kursk Oblast, Russia, August. 🇺🇦158th Mechanised Bde report destroying a🇷🇺column heading towards the front. At least 5 vehicles seen at 51.280648, 34.881009 then strikes around 51.263457, 34.877941 (see geo⬇️) Two Ulans ATVs + an Ulan-2 destroyed + a 2nd Ulan-2 struck.

14. Vovchansk, July. Another failed🇷🇺Vovcha river bridging attempt. A hybrid bridging vehicle, a folded out TMM-3 bridge on a truck, is hit by🇺🇦57th Motorised Bde. Also at least 4 quads on the same route. Their crossing attempt fails. See 2 geos in link⬇️.

Film of UAF 2-day counterattack northeast of Bila Hora (SW Bakhmut front) + trolling Prigozhin. Includes a tank going bunker-crushing. 3rd Assault Bde as part of Tactical Group Azov claim: 64 KiA RuAF (another 87 WiA or still to be clarified) 5 PoWs, destruction of BMPs/mortars.

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SW of Avdiivka, 23.08.23. Must watch. Intense combat scenes as the recce Company of🇺🇦59th Motorised Brigade (made up of Ukrainians + foreign volunteers) storm RuAF positions on height 105-106. They succeed, inflicting 22 KIA + 2 POWs on the RuAF, for the loss of 2 WIA + a HMMWV.

Vovchansk, mid-May With no bridges left over the Vovcha River for vehicles/logistics, RuAF have long struggled to expand control towards Bilyi Kolodyaz. Two recent bridging attempts failed. Here 57th Motorised Bde destroy two KrAZ-255 based pontoon hybrids.

Dobropillya/Kucheriv Yar front, 22nd July. Large🇷🇺attack reported. Unclear if towards former, latter, to north, or multi axis. Tanks seen near Fedorivka, Mayak + Shakhove. 🇺🇦Border Guard Unmanned Systems Regt 'Phoenix' report 9 tanks, 2 AFVs, 3 Grads + dozens of troops destroyed.

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North of Yalta, Novopavlivka front, early Nov. 🇺🇦46th Airmobile Bde inform that 2🇷🇺tanks + 2 AFVs using fog, tried to cross the Vovcha River from the south next to the blown bridge. Reportedly they hit remote mines, got stuck, then burned by FPVs. Also there an older🇺🇦MRAP wreck.

'FAILSAFE' time again! The new SBU film just dropped. Full film in link, the clip with the A-50 AWACS aircraft here. At least two A-50s are hit in their radomes. Depending on the damage, that could leave Russia with only 2 to 4 operational A-50s remaining (depending upon sources)

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Kursk Oblast. 🇺🇦SOF, 6th 'Ranger' Special Purpose Regt claim a dozen Russian KIA in a raid. Weapons and equipment were reportedly captured. After sniping and hand grenading at least 4🇷🇺KIA are shown. They make several calls for RuAF to surrender, but unclear for now if any POWs.

1. Novopokrovka - Mala Tokmachka axis, 23.07. 🇺🇦118th Mechanised Bde report stopping a🇷🇺attack before it reached their positions, destroying in the 1st wave a T-72B + mine roller, 3 BMPs + 4 buggies. Also 38 KIA + 3 WIA. 2 BMP-3s shown closer in next tweet.

Tetkino, Kursk. Maybe the 1st significant gain from this UAF jaunt across the border so far. 🇺🇦troops clear a reported🇷🇺company stronghold. Presumably they took the treeline just to the north too. If current and not a raid, UAF have significantly narrowed the corridor to Tetkino.

Chasiv Yar, 06.03.25. Donbas Batt,🇺🇦NGU 18th Slovyansk Bde show new and clearer scenes of the mass🇷🇺BMD-2 attack along the railway, which they repulsed alongside🇺🇦24th Mechanised Bde. The film shows 7 of the 12 BMD-2 destroyed/abandoned that day, incl. 1 previously undocumented.

13. North Vovchansk, July. A new🇷🇺AFV with a mine plough, possibly a MT-LB, is destroyed at 50.302250, 36.928444. Its rear door left open, it burns after at least 3 strikes by🇺🇦9th Recon Battalion. Also hits on🇷🇺troops inc. near railway in west Vovchansk.

Myrolyubivka/Pokrovsk front Five Russians were captured by 4 scouts from the recce company of the🇺🇦National Guard 14th Assault Bde Chervona Kalyna, after their positions had been pre-located. The first 3 are flushed out easily, the last 2 after a firefight.