Russian special military operation in Ukraine #16

Now that the ukrainian forces are advancing outside of kharkov, whats stopping the russians from bombarding them to pulp with aircraft and artillery? Instead the ukrainians seem to be chilling in forests and villages, with not a worry in their hearts.

I still don't understand the importance of the shipilovka heights. Why are the russians so focused on that chokepoint.

In order to wrap up the bridge massacre, I see 2 arguments floating around:

Allegedly the russian 75th mechanized brigade is operating in the donbass, and it operates unupgraded BMP-1s. BroSINT on twitter is saying that this was the brigade that got struck.

Was it possible that its was an LDNR formation that got struck, and the ukrainian vehicles were captured previously by the LDNR?



Also,
Whats stopping the russians from jamming control signals of Ukrainian light UAVs? It seems like the russians haven't used absolutely any EW, apart from demining operations. Are they paranoid that NATO will recieve their EW frequencies? Why is it so important that NATO surveillance doesn't recieve Russian EW signals?

limb wrote:Now that the ukrainian forces are advancing outside of kharkov, whats stopping the russians from bombarding them to pulp with aircraft and artillery? Instead the ukrainians seem to be chilling in forests and villages, with not a worry in their hearts.

According to holes map , they are being engaged all along the front

Arkanghelsk wrote:

limb wrote:Now that the ukrainian forces are advancing outside of kharkov, whats stopping the russians from bombarding them to pulp with aircraft and artillery? Instead the ukrainians seem to be chilling in forests and villages, with not a worry in their hearts.

According to holes map , they are being engaged all along the front

That was just AD working, Im talking about artillery strikes and airstrikes, as well as armor advances.

limb wrote:

Arkanghelsk wrote:

limb wrote:Now that the ukrainian forces are advancing outside of kharkov, whats stopping the russians from bombarding them to pulp with aircraft and artillery? Instead the ukrainians seem to be chilling in forests and villages, with not a worry in their hearts.

According to holes map , they are being engaged all along the front

That was just AD working, Im talking about artillery strikes and airstrikes, as well as armor advances.

Check the map, cruise missiles and precision strikes are ongoing

Hole wrote:

Isos wrote:

limb wrote:Why don't we see the X-58U missile used in the VKS fr SEAD. It's superior to the X-31, with a speed of mach 4.5 instead of Mach 3 and 250km range instead of 110km.

They barely showed what weapons they are using.

Kh-31 does the job since Ukrainian AD are limited to 75km compare to 110km for kh-31. Kh-58 is for THAAD and patriots. It also keep the stocks of a good missiles in case of a war against nato.

They also used smerch and iskander against AD. Smerch being the best on the front, cost-effectivness.

Kh-31PD has a range of 260km.
Kh-58U has a range of 285km if launched from a MiG-25. Which is gone. The Kh-58UShK for the Su-57 has roughly the same range as the Kh-31PD.

First variant of kh-31 which must be the one used in this conflict have a basic range of 110km.

Arkanghelsk wrote:

limb wrote:

Arkanghelsk wrote:

limb wrote:Now that the ukrainian forces are advancing outside of kharkov, whats stopping the russians from bombarding them to pulp with aircraft and artillery? Instead the ukrainians seem to be chilling in forests and villages, with not a worry in their hearts.

According to holes map , they are being engaged all along the front

That was just AD working, Im talking about artillery strikes and airstrikes, as well as armor advances.

Check the map, cruise missiles and precision strikes are ongoing

On the outskirts of kharkov? Im talking about strikes against enemy formations.

franco wrote:

limb wrote:

Arkanghelsk wrote:

limb wrote:

Arkanghelsk wrote:

limb wrote:Now that the ukrainian forces are advancing outside of kharkov, whats stopping the russians from bombarding them to pulp with aircraft and artillery? Instead the ukrainians seem to be chilling in forests and villages, with not a worry in their hearts.

According to holes map , they are being engaged all along the front

That was just AD working, Im talking about artillery strikes and airstrikes, as well as armor advances.

Check the map, cruise missiles and precision strikes are ongoing

On the outskirts of kharkov?  Im talking about strikes against enemy formations.

https://twitter.com/ZimermanErik/status/1526271782570938370/photo/1

Potential #Russian counterattack in Cherkaski & Prudianka earlier today in the #Kharkov region.  This could threaten to cutoff UA troops further north. Meanwhile, UA sources claiming UA has crossed the river east of Staryl Saltiv & are attacking #Zarichne. Large thermal footprint

Great news , that huge force west of belgorod can run riot on left Ukrainian flank,

It's like a lion playing with a mouse

Arkanghelsk wrote:

franco wrote:

limb wrote:

Arkanghelsk wrote:

limb wrote:

Arkanghelsk wrote:

limb wrote:Now that the ukrainian forces are advancing outside of kharkov, whats stopping the russians from bombarding them to pulp with aircraft and artillery? Instead the ukrainians seem to be chilling in forests and villages, with not a worry in their hearts.

According to holes map , they are being engaged all along the front

That was just AD working, Im talking about artillery strikes and airstrikes, as well as armor advances.

Check the map, cruise missiles and precision strikes are ongoing

On the outskirts of kharkov?  Im talking about strikes against enemy formations.

https://twitter.com/ZimermanErik/status/1526271782570938370/photo/1

Potential #Russian counterattack in Cherkaski & Prudianka earlier today in the #Kharkov region.  This could threaten to cutoff UA troops further north. Meanwhile, UA sources claiming UA has crossed the river east of Staryl Saltiv & are attacking #Zarichne. Large thermal footprint

Great news , that huge force west of belgorod can run riot on left Ukrainian flank,

It's like a lion playing with a mouse

I just hope that there is a lot more destruction of ukrainain forces in that area than reports are saying.

Do you guys think that south front has turned into quasi-pro-ukrainian propaganda? In their videos they show more photos of destroyed russian equipment than ukrainian, and also keep claiming russian heavy losses and failed attacks.

Im kind of concerned about the showing of BMD-4s and BMP-3s in the conflict. there is phtographical of at least 50 being destroyed so far by ukrainian forces and around 20 being captured. I thoight thought  that they should be very hard to capture, since if they break down they can easily be recovered due to light weight.

franco wrote:Ukrainian forces here are no threat, just a diversion to keep them occupied.  

How fortified is ugledar, nikolaev and gyulyaipole ATM?

Maybe it's true, once Donbass falls, and majority of VSU is eliminated

NATO has 2 choices, either give up, or enter Ukraine

So Russia moves slow knowing the confrontation is coming and it wants sufficient forces and weapons for when push comes to shove

Kinzhals will rain on NATO armor as it crosses into Ukraine

Arkanghelsk wrote:Maybe it's true, once Donbass falls, and majority of VSU is eliminated

NATO has 2 choices, either give up, or enter Ukraine

So Russia moves slow knowing the confrontation is coming and it wants sufficient forces and weapons for when push comes to shove

Kinzhals will rain on NATO armor as it crosses into Ukraine

So far, slow advance means that ukrainians are reinforcing normally.

I just don't understand how M777s arrived in donbass.

Arkanghelsk wrote:Is Kharkov insignificant? General Staff not really addressing tactical picture of Kharkov

The guys at Duran have stated that the Russian/LPR forces near Kharkov are just a screening force to protect that flank while the real battle goes on in the Donbass.