Destruction of the Ukrainian AN/TPQ-50 radar on a Hummer chassis by Lancet in the Kharkov region

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New footage of yesterday's Russian missile attack on the Novaya Poshta building in Odessa, video posted by residents

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Devastating Russian aerial glide bombs are gnawing away at his men’s positions in a new tactic.

Yet, to retreat carries no promise of safety — the rear defensive lines meant to give them cover barely exist.

“It’s necessary to increase the pace of building fortifications … so that when we retreat, we will retreat to a prepared position, These fortifications are not enough.”

“There was an absence of responsibility. ... People didn’t understand that fortifications can save your life if you do it in advance,” said Oleksandr, a commander with the 47th.

“Many people thought we wouldn’t need to prepare such lines. They didn’t expect a new Russian offensive.”

In March, Ukraine’s 67th was rotated in to hold positions . “I would be hard-pressed to describe them as ‘positions,’” said a serviceman. With nowhere to take cover and the Russian barrages, they retreated.

“We lost department commanders, platoon commanders, company commanders and sergeants,” he said.

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For those who love destroyed bridges.

Russian aviation, using a high-precision Kh-38ML missile, destroyed the bridge over the Mokrye Yaly River connecting Vremevka and Velikaya Novoselka.

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Moscow's army continues to advance. According to experts, their breakthrough is at a strategic point. While Ukraine has to improvise its defense, the Kremlin is developing a new weapon.

The prospects for Ukraine in its defensive battle against Russia are becoming increasingly bleak, and a victory for Moscow is getting closer.

According to Colonel Markus Reisner, the situation is now so dramatic that the Ukrainian front lines could collapse and a breakthrough to the Dnipro, appears possible. Then Moscow would most likely have won the war.

The devastating area effect of its rocket volleys makes TOS-3 a brutal breakthrough weapon even bunkers cannot withstand.

Colonel Reisner told WELT that the TOS-3 was an “even more devastating version” of the previous models. “TOS-3 is capable of firing its absolutely deadly thermobaric missiles further. It can fire rockets 15 km - and therefore  cannot be successfully attacked by “FPV” drones,” said Reisner. The new weapon hits more precisely.

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We learned how to fire a mortar from a YouTube video. Ukrainians talk about the combat training system in the Fourth Reich.

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Assault on Kislovka. Atmospheric footage.

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"Soviet-era attitudes to disability hinder Ukrainian fighters’ recovery" an absolute horrible story described by Politico

“I could still see then,” he recalled. “Then I came round and I couldn’t see, I was tied to a bed, I had a tube down my throat... I thought: I’m a prisoner. But then: Why are they treating me this way, am I a prisoner?”

Kosyuk realized he was in the military hospital in the eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro. He had to wait another day until the staff told him he had permanently lost his sight. Over three months, Kosyuk’s other injuries healed, and he was given ocular prostheses that matched his original brown eye color. But in spring 2023, he was discharged to start life again with no assistance or support. “They sent us home with nothing,” Kosyuk’s mother Anastasia said. “We thought we were alone. He was 19 years old, and all the lights had been turned out.”

According to Ukraine’s Ministry of Social Policy, the number of Ukrainians with disabilities has increased by 300,000 since the February 2022 full-scale invasion by Russia. The country’s Ministry of Veteran Affairs has said there may eventually be 5 million veterans and family members, many of whom will need help for physical and psychological trauma.

The concern among many patients and their families is that Ukraine is historically ill-equipped to deal with disability, a hangover from Soviet days where disabled people were kept out of sight. [Asbery: Everything bad is Soviet 🙄]

Oleksandr Ishchenko, who attended a rehabilitation course for blind veterans along with Kosyuk in February in Lvov, a city in western Ukraine. He lost his eyes after being brutally injured while serving in the territorial defense forces. Now, on top of learning how to navigate the world without vision, he struggles with the fear that others, including his family, are horrified by the sight of his injuries.

This attitude of hiding away disabled people still lingers, according to Anna Horkun, project manager for HAB Lvov Habilitation Centre, a halfway house between medical treatment and independent living. “The administrators of the building asked us to cover the windows, because the sight of our disabled spoils the picture,” Horkun said. “For part of society, it’s an interference in their lives. But this is a huge part of all our lives now.”

Asbery's Opinion: Since 1991 it's never Ukraine's fault it always someone else's fault.

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Soldiers from the 155th brigade, which took over the defense of Ocheretino, believe that the Ukrainian command is responsible for its fall.
“My company was literally destroyed. We carried out tasks in the most difficult conditions, and no one cared. We both went on the attack without support and with stupid command, and defended with virtually no support and with the same stupid command,” wrote one Ukrainian soldier on X.

Retired general Krivonos said that the dominance of Ocheretino’s high-rise apartment buildings over the surrounding steppe could have served as an effective deterrent against Russian troops and prevented the town’s takeover
“This is a serious systemic failure."

“This is a breakthrough.. at a strategic level. Russians will only increase pressure,” Kiev military analyst Mikhail Zhirokhov. “It will get worse. It will be very difficult to hold other cities and the line.”

Another analyst noted, he is pessimistic about Ukraine's overall chances.

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Electronic warfare in action. Footage of an FPV drone of the private NATO army of the Armed Forces of Ukraine that lost control and crashed under the influence of the Russian EW system.

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China’s first tropical spaceport, Wenchang, is proof of national swagger.

Here, Russia, has been invited to open a branch in Wenchang with room for 10,000 students of aerospace engineering. The prime site is evidence that space co-operation, is surging ahead.

Examples abound in a study published by a research arm of the USAF. The study details Russia’s willingness to help China build missile-warning/defence systems, and to sell it advanced rocket engines. With  agreements to link up, Beidou and Glonass. The two countries have pledged to build a base on the Moon and to work together on detecting space debris—(useful for tracking an adversary’s satellites). The study quotes Xi Jinping, linking technical co-operation with Russia to plans for “the reform of the global governance system” (ie, pushing America from centre stage).

China wants to harness Russia’s decades of expertise in space. Russia’s space programme needs China’s money. It has also wanted access to Chinese components.

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