The latest Rybar map, with Izyum shown as fallen.
A conflicting report says that the fight is not yet over.
HIMARS attack
Lads there's no way there was 10k troops there. A few thousand at best. I'd say that number came from earlier in the war when Russia was putting everything into the Donbass. Back when they pushed Ukraine out of Lyman etc and across the river. There was probably 10k then. But since many have been killed or relocated to the defence of Kherson.
putrid imprisons and kills his enemies. That doesn't make them good or bad, they are just people who he see's as a threat for various reasons. It's another, of so many, example of how the West doesn't listen to others. It's as if there's Western Europe, some inconvenient countries, then russia. Two of those three sides have talked over the other side for decades and here we are, deaf to their knowledge. I don't believe navalny is any saviour.
The withdrawal from Kharkiv is "a gesture of good will" from Russia prior to engaging in peace talks. Statement is heavily laced with sarcasm. Russians are furious right now.
Big question here is how orderly the retreat is, if its a disorderly collapse, they're going to leave a lot of heavy kit behind that will be hard to replace, if its orderly they can abandon munitions but then resupply and try push back at a later point
It doesn't seem too orderly considering they are leaving a lot of equipment behind. Lots of videos of intact bunkers, leaving food, clothing and equipment behind.
An orderly withdrawal would have at least scuttled equipment and boobytrapped the trenches.
It doesn't even seem like they are retreating to a specific point.
It's not orderly at all. Anything that isn't readily available to be driven away will be abandoned.
More gas money wasted
Sigh. Putin kills children.
Yes, he does. What's your point exactly?
The use of two counter-rotating sets of rotors instead of a tail rotor seems to be a Russian thing only. I wonder how much more/less safe and efficient it really is.
What kind of deal? Unless you are saying that the Russians will be pushed back into Russia within the month? (inc Crimea) now that would be some result all right, but these are the only circumstances I can see Ukraine agreeing with.
thats the sort of stuff they can rekit. artillery, AA, signals and radar units are the stuff that they won't be able replace easily and if the roads are clogged by all of their units hightailing it at the same time in a panic rather than orderly withdrawals theres a real possibility the Ukranians will inheirit some handy kit as happened on the Kyiv retreat
Hopefully, thats the case and the Russians get twatted by Ukranian artillery the whole way out
The rotors are suppose to blow off during ejection on the Alligator, even if ejection worked and you were'nt chopped up into sushi, I'm not sure that being exploded out of a cockpit at MACH silly when you're only at treetop level is much of a help
I think that originally came from naval helicopters such as the Ka-25 Hormone. The counter-rotating rotor design simply uses less hangar space, which is a major consideration on a warship. The image below, which shows a more modern Kamov Ka-27 Helix on the flight deck of the guided missile destroyer Vice Admiral Kulakov, demonstrates this advantage. I took that image back in 2012, when the Vice Admiral Kulakov made a courtesy visit in Cobh.
When the request for designs for what would later become the Ka-50 & Ka-52 went out in the late 1980s, the Kamov design bureau simply built their helicopter around the coaxial rotor system that they'd had literally decades of experience with at that point. Furthermore, the design had proven itself in a number of naval and utility helicopters already, often in harsh conditions.
What's this about?
And Boeing sikorsky have two helicopters in the American future lift helicopter program using similar set ups, the Raider and Defiant with the addition of a pusher prop
I cannot see Ukraine ( and others ) either forgiving or more important, forgetting what Russia has done to them for generations at least, regardless of what the US thinks. And I would not blame them. Russia has removed itself so far outside the pale, restoring to the fold will take multiple years. 50 years down the road, it will still be remembered, and unforgiven, it will be a dark stain on Russian history.
The joke now is that the largest military aid to Ukraine now comes from … Russia 😂
Oh in all the excitement, Russia captures a hill elsewhere
I thought that it looked very risky..
Izyum confirmed liberated
Great to see mass movement of people back to Russia....instead of millions of Ukrainian Refugee's heading for safety.
Or they want the area clear of civilians before they drop the big one on the Ukrainian troops?
I think that’s the optics Russia want, that’s what they have left to them, optics.
That Twitter woman is a moron. Navalny worse than Putin, no such thing as opposition in Russia, the war is an expression of Russia's collective consciousness? Funnily enough a lot of hardcore Putin supporters would probably love these statements.
I wonder if this is a way for a base camp to be established rapidly for relief columns from Russia?
It's bizarre, almost like the media was more interested in Ukraine when it was all bad news than when there are significant positives to report.
Will they just start levelling the towns they left with long range artillery?
Do they have much left?
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