Kiev Is Burning

[Roman Alymov]

FiberFPVs compilation, Kursk region https://t.me/boris_rozhin/153681

[Roman Alymov]

Another safari in Russia ended badly Brit, 18, killed by Russian drone minutes into first mission on Ukraine frontline as pal says 'he didn't stand a chance' | The Sun

[Roman Alymov]

Video from the first days of "big war": UkrArmy soldiers in the truck from towed artillery column are watching and filming RusArmy column passing by, nobody is killing them as pro-Russians were under strict order to minimise enemy casualties

https://t.me/milinfolive/141307

[Roman Alymov]

Drone-directed Iskander-M strike on pro-Ukr vehicles in cover, Sumy region https://t.me/anna_news/75940

[Roman Alymov]

Helmet cam view of pro-Rus infantry movements somewhere near Pokrovsk https://t.me/anna_news/75974

[Roman Alymov]

Fiber FPVs vs. UAT Gyurza MRAP and M2A2 Bradley ODS-SA IFV. Pokrovsk https://t.me/milinfolive/141374

Location https://t.me/creamy_caprice/8299

Edited February 5, 2025 by Roman Alymov

[Roman Alymov]

Wreck of French VAB, Krasnogorovka https://t.me/boris_rozhin/153697

[TrustMe]

Extremely interesting view of the Russian Aerospace Force actions in Ukraine  ...

 

https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Journals/Military-Review/English-Edition-Archives/January-February-2025/Meeting-Expectations/

[glenn239]

2 hours ago, TrustMe said:

Extremely interesting view of the Russian Aerospace Force actions in Ukraine  ...

 Russia is not trying to build an American-style air force. NATO should not expect an aggressive RADF with a well-integrated attack capable of asserting aerial superiority over a given territory. NATO should expect more standoff weapons, such as the loitering munitions and glide bombs, to be employed in future conflicts. These assets will augment Russia’s doctrine by increasing the RADF’s ability to overwhelm enemy air defenses. The Russians will employ barrages of relatively accurate standoff munitions at static targets. Rather than inspiring reform, the high losses of crewed assets and assessed success of standoff weapons entrenches the RADF in its assumptions. 

 

Nothing to see in Ukraine boys, move along!  

The lethality of Ukrainian air defenses against conventional non-stealthy Russian aircraft is obviously the primary impetus of Russian tactics.  The few times that larger Russian formations have found themselves in the crosshairs of systems capable of simultaneous engagements like the Patriot, they've paid a brutal price.   For the article to suppose from this that future Russian tactics with the next generation of stealthy platforms, (S-70, etc) will be similar, this seems premature.  A more grounded assumption might be that the Russian military industrial base cannot support a USAF sized air force and will be forced by matters of economy to rely on increasingly sophisticated drone and missile forces to negate Western airpower, while evolving their airpower in a Western offensive direction as more appropriate platforms to such missions come into operation.

Also not sure that the language of Russian "barrage" tactics against "fixed" targets is being fully accountable to the facts as we are seeing them.

Edited February 6, 2025 by glenn239

[Roman Alymov]

Today early in the morning pro-Ukrainians (or NATO?) launched another offencive out of Sudja in SE direction, reportedly by two columns - one directly through Cherkasskaya Konopel'ka village, anither one over fields, ib general direction of Ulanok village.

As usual in such cases, events are covered with fog of war, pro-Rus TG is full of drone videos of enemy armor attacked by drones.Seems like wide mix of armot is taking part 

M1126 Stryker https://t.me/milinfolive/141426

T-64B https://t.me/milinfolive/141420 

The same T64B,  Wisent 1 MC,  Cougar H https://t.me/milinfolive/141411

Bergepanzer 2 and M113 IFV https://t.me/milinfolive/141403

MRAP of unidentified type and IMR-2 https://t.me/milinfolive/141419

More drone videos compilation https://t.me/NeoficialniyBeZsonoV/43509  https://t.me/warriorofnorth/5986

Note Western tanks are not taking part, so quite likely it is distraction attempt.

 

[Roman Alymov]

More fiberFPV strikes https://t.me/dva_majors/64022

[Roman Alymov]

Reportedly the first case of German PzH2000 SPG destroyed by fiberFPV drone (not Lancet of guided shell), Donetsk region https://t.me/infomil_live/14755

Not clear why this SPG was positioned just 8 km from contact line....

Edited February 6, 2025 by Roman Alymov

[Roman Alymov]

"00:00 The 1st wave of the enemy's roll towards Ulanok, February 6, 2025, time 10.08, the beginning of the APU attack

02:24 The 2nd wave of the attack, the same direction, time 10.40. 03:54 - enemy vehicles begins to burn

04:25 The 3rd wave of the roll, the same direction, going the same way to Ulanok, time 11.59

05:15 The 4th wave rolled in, it's hard to call it a wave, it was the enemy's SOF group jumping on 2 Stryker armored personnel carriers, the group split up. The 1st group went deep into the Cherkassky Konopelky, the 2nd group began to try to dig in there. Footage of an dismounts landing under the fire of the Russian Army and attempts by the Ukrainian Armed Forces to push armored vehicles to the rear using other vehicles are visible."

https://t.me/c/1688853451/285068

[bojan]

1 hour ago, Roman Alymov said:

...Not clear why this SPG was positioned just 8 km from contact line....

In order to be able to fire deep into Russian territory.

[Roman Alymov]

8 hours ago, bojan said:

In order to be able to fire deep into Russian territory.

This explanation is correct but too simplistic, as position of this SPG (dugout with cover) is too good to be constructed from scratch in "dead zone". More likely, this SPG was operating from this places for some time with relative impunity, but

1) Contact line movement and

2) Rapid pgogress of fiberFPV drones that are not only totally imune to EW, but are also providing much better "picture" for operator, 

made this position unsafe  - but crew of this SPG (or their command) failed to understand that in time/

  FiberFPV vs. rare Uragan MLRS launcher, Sumy region

https://t.me/infomil_live/14764

FiberFPV vs. BM-21 Grad MLRS

https://t.me/infomil_live/14766

Pro-Ukr video  - soldier filming his SUV (with EW devices) destroyed by fiberFPV https://t.me/milinfolive/141454

[Roman Alymov]

Geran' drone with lights somewhere over Kiev https://t.me/infomil_live/14765

    Not clear why lights are installed - may be, to attract small arms fire....

[seahawk]

10 hours ago, Roman Alymov said:

Reportedly the first case of German PzH2000 SPG destroyed by fiberFPV drone (not Lancet of guided shell), Donetsk region https://t.me/infomil_live/14755

Not clear why this SPG was positioned just 8 km from contact line....

A beautiful kill. Nice skill by the operators of the drones.

[Roman Alymov]

Wreck of CV9040C IFV, Kursk region https://t.me/milinfolive/141472

 

[alejandro_]

On 2/5/2025 at 6:15 PM, Roman Alymov said:

Video from the first days of "big war": UkrArmy soldiers in the truck from towed artillery column are watching and filming RusArmy column passing by, nobody is killing them as pro-Russians were under strict order to minimise enemy casualties

https://t.me/milinfolive/141307

There also accusations of Ukrainian officers in that region ordering men to stand down, with the government investigating/having investigated what happened. Viktor Nazrov, former chief of staff and aide of general Zaluzhnyi in the early days of the war, was asked about this in an interview, but he claims it was due to inferiority in numbers.

https://www.bbc.com/ukrainian/articles/cde9rw8rzjgo?fbclid=IwY2xjawIMFyNleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHSqh-xTLPd80EukngnseJXJXpLCt2ToScn5TwnKh5di4lhFLnhlNW3NkCQ_aem_v2fON8cGPBmW2DzbzIZEng

The interview is worth reading by the way.

[Roman Alymov]

2 hours ago, alejandro_ said:

There also accusations of Ukrainian officers in that region ordering men to stand down, with the government investigating/having investigated what happened. Viktor Nazrov, former chief of staff and aide of general Zaluzhnyi in the early days of the war, was asked about this in an interview, but he claims it was due to inferiority in numbers.

   It is not clear in fact - since at least Alexey Arestovich claim all this "general's case" is the attempt by Zelensky's Gov to place the blame for failed war on Army (including Gen. Zaluzhny who is still under investigation for treason, following this criminal case opened in early days of "big war"). Still, nobody was formally acused or prosecuted for such orders - so quite likely they were never given.

    By the way another interesting case in fresh interview by Arestovich is his claim RusArmy logistisc is 2.5 times faster then UkrArmy one (despite of longer routes to transport forces) one and that UkrArmy do not gave enough trucks to move even one brigade at once. Of course, it can be falce claim to fool RusArmy command  (at abput 1:17:00)

 

[Roman Alymov]

P.S Arestovich on Gen. Zaluzhny case (from 1:55:10)

 

[Roman Alymov]

Small personal experience. I just had a long conversation with the "other side". An incoming call to my mother-in-law, a sweet girl says to her, "Russian Post, temporary storage warehouse, we have your parcel, where should we deliver it to?" On the smartphone screen, the number is displayedas "Russian Post". My mother-in-law starts talking to her on speakerphone (because at that moment she was cooking something in the kitchen), I come up and pick up the conversation, to arrange a demonstration for my mother-in-law and my wife. Gradually from "What's the package?" - "From Ozone*" - "And we didn't order anything"- "But where should I send it?" - "To the Novorossiya relief fund" - "Oh, i mean seriously", "You're such a nasty man" - "I'll take it as a compliment" and so on, they moved on to discussing everyday life, told her old joke "Girl, are you a Muscovite?  - "Of course, why**?", she was indignant, "I wasn't shokin"–"Of course you weren't, but I don't need it, I can see it anyway" and so on, in general, for about 30 minutes a small talk on the topic "What difference does it make what language to speak, in every state in the United States says in its own way"- "That's what your Zelensky said, What's the difference" and the like, they say, "Not everything is true that they tell on TV"- "So I don't watch it"- "And I don't watch it either"- "Well, you see, but you tell me about the TV". The girl was 8 years old when the Maidan happened (so now she is 19 yo), and her parents are now "under occupation" in the Donetsk region. In the end, she seemed to burst into tears and switched out. My mother-in-law and  wife listened to all this in silence, i hope it was good lesson not to trust people on phone.
    All this is good, with temptation to understand and forgive (if not "hug and cry together") – but if there were a grandmother or grandfather in my place, then this 19-year-old sweet girl would have looted their bank accounts without batting an eye. Be careful with phone calls.

* Russian version of Amazon

** This "why" - "что"in Russian, is pronounced in special way all across South Russia, including "Ukraine", something like "шо" ("sho" like "shok") , even got special name "шокание" - "shokin"

[Roman Alymov]

On the second day of pro-Ukr attack near Sunja, weather improved and Lancets came to action

https://t.me/milinfolive/141491

[glenn239]

1 hour ago, Roman Alymov said:

    All this is good, with temptation to understand and forgive (if not "hug and cry together") – but if there were a grandmother or grandfather in my place, then this 19-year-old sweet girl would have looted their bank accounts without batting an eye. Be careful with phone calls.

Happens all the time over here.

[Yama]

4 hours ago, glenn239 said:

Happens all the time over here.

Yea it's extremely common, I have warned my own relatives about them and they have so far managed to avoid the scams (to my knowledge). Often the scammers try to look for names which are typical for elder generation, who are less savvy about electric banking and postal procedures.

Just wait when AI chatbots start doing these, the calls will increase hundredfold.