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Russian losses now exceed 19,800
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Russian losses now exceed 19,800
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The Ukrainian army has begun to equip the IRIS-T SLM air defense system command posts, previously received from Germany, with additional armor. The additional armor was developed by the Ukrainian Metinvest Group and is designed to protect the IRIS-T SLM air defense system from fragments; the company does not report whether the armor protects against drones. The additional armor consists of 8 mm thick plates made of 30ХН2МА steel. When equipping the IRIS-T SLM air defense system with armor, the weight of the IRIS-T SLM command post increases by 2.6 tons. According to Metinvest, this does not affect the mobility of the system.
Technical information about the German IRIS-T SLM air defense system used by the Ukrainian army
Technical information about the German IRIS-T SLM air defense system used by the Ukrainian army
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Ukraine is at war. of course every man is called off. that’s not kindergarten.
also, Putin sends 18y young russians to die in Ukraine.
that’s a dead end.
other will copy russian aggression.
The US, China, and who knows Germany, Japan.
Trump threatens to annex Canada, Panama and Greenland. Maybe more. he does not rule out using the military.
what you going to do?
who wants wars with the US?
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Footage has been published of a strike by a Russian Iskander-M ballistic missile on a Ukrainian 5N63S command post with a 30N6 illumination and guidance radar of the S-300PS air defense system. The video was filmed from afar in the Pavlograd area of the Dnipropetrovsk region. Despite the low quality of the video, this clip is interesting because it shows a virtual confrontation between Soviet and Russian weapons. The S-300PS air defense system was developed in the USSR in 1982 and can hit targets at flight speeds of up to 1200 m/s. Ukraine previously had about 200 S-300PS/PT launchers in service. Ballistic missiles are a difficult target even for new air defense systems. As expected, the Ukrainian S-300PS air defense system, armed with 5V55R missiles, was unable to shoot down the Iskander-M missile. The speed of the Iskander-M missile at the final stage of flight reaches 2100 meters m/s. As a result of the Iskander-M missile strike, the Ukrainian command post 5N63S of the S-300PS air defense system was destroyed. At the end of the video, an evacuation group arrived at the radar.
Assessing Ukraine casualties
the west estimates
Ukraine army suffers
400,000-500,000 men dead and wounded
about Ukraine civilian casualties, difficult to estimate but the siege of Mariupol by the russian army the Ukraine civil population suffered up to 88,000 deaths.
so what that means for Ukraine in this war of attrition?
although the russians as aggressor suffer about 3:1 in men and materials, similar casualty rate in WW1 avd 2, russian population remain untouched, they can continue.
the west estimates
Ukraine army suffers
400,000-500,000 men dead and wounded
about Ukraine civilian casualties, difficult to estimate but the siege of Mariupol by the russian army the Ukraine civil population suffered up to 88,000 deaths.
so what that means for Ukraine in this war of attrition?
although the russians as aggressor suffer about 3:1 in men and materials, similar casualty rate in WW1 avd 2, russian population remain untouched, they can continue.
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As battles against Russia intensify, Ukraine’s manpower struggles worsen
Ukrainian soldiers say Russia is waging fierce battles in the east while they attempt a renewed offensive in Kursk.
Servicemen of 24th Mechanized Brigade, named after King Danylo, of the Ukrainian Armed Forces rest at their position on a front line in Chasiv Yar in the Donetsk region [Handout: Oleg Petrasiuk/Press Service of the 24th King Danylo Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces via Reuters]
By Mansur Mirovalev
Published On 7 Jan 20257 Jan 2025
Kyiv, Ukraine – As Ukrainian forces fight in the western Russian region of Kursk, they are encountering a new enemy – elite North Korean servicemen.
On Sunday, Ukrainian infantry and armoured vehicles resumed an offensive in three directions in Kursk, trying to fence their toehold in the district centre of Sudzha that they had seized in August.
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end of listBy Tuesday, they occupied at least three villages northeast of Sudzha – and inflicted losses on the North Koreans that fight in separate units under Russian command.
“We thinned their ranks – they have losses, although Kim didn’t just send ordinary servicemen,” a Ukrainian soldier told Al Jazeera, referring to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
He did not disclose his name, details and exact whereabouts of the battles in accordance with wartime regulations.
South Korean and US officials have said Kim deployed more than 10,000 elite soldiers to Kursk. Hundreds are understood to have been killed there already.
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More than 450km (280 miles) south of Kursk, another Ukrainian serviceman keeps repelling waves of Russian infantrymen near the key southeastern city of Pokrovsk.
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“Looks like they send a new brigade every day,” the serviceman told Al Jazeera.
Russians keep advancing despite a reported lack of tanks and armoured vehicles.
“They keep pushing. The only problem they have is their equipment, they can’t throw it around the way they did three or four months ago,” he said.
But the biggest problem his unit – as well as all of Ukraine’s armed forces – faces is a dire shortage of manpower.
Last week, Ukrainian troops retreated from the eastern town of Kurakhove, which Russian troops claimed control of on Monday.
Kyiv’s forces have also lost a key coal mine near Pokrovsk and could be about to lose Ukraine’s biggest lithium deposit in Shevchenkove.
“The Kurakhove defence installations have been taken over just because we didn’t have anybody there,” the serviceman said. “The most motivated soldiers have been killed, the new ones lack training and motivation.”
He also cited poor decisions made by commanding officers, alleging they want to appease their superiors and do not value the lives of servicemen.
“I’ve been wounded so many times because of the commanders’ stupidity,” he said.
Russians ‘looting’ in Donetsk town
The Russian forces that seized Kurakhove are looting abandoned apartments, a local woman alleged.“They’re breaking into apartments that haven’t been damaged by shelling, they steal everything they can carry away,” Olena Basenko, a former sales clerk from Kurakhove who is looking for her elderly aunt who refused to leave the town, told Al Jazeera.
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“Some ‘liberators’ they are,” she said sarcastically referring to Moscow’s pledge to “liberate” Ukraine from President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s “neo-Nazi junta” – Russian claims that have been debunked throughout the war.
Ukraine’s shortage of manpower has led some analysts to doubt Kyiv’s push to resume the Kursk offensive.
“Zelenskyy’s strategy is to amass brigades with equipment in the rear only to solemnly lose them in the land of Kursk to gain 1.5km [1 mile] of farmland,” Nikolay Mitrokhin, a researcher with Germany’s Bremen University, told Al Jazeera.
The units that are advancing in Kursk could instead have been used to defend Kurakhove, he said.
However, others see the Kursk offensive as a chance to gain an important bargaining chip.
Ukraine may try to seize a Russian nuclear power plant in the town of Kurchatov that lies about 70km (45 miles) northeast of Sudzha and could attempt to seize Kursk’s regional capital 30km (20 miles) farther away.
If successful, the takeover of Kurchatov may become a significant strategic gain, according to the former deputy head of Ukraine’s general staff of armed forces.
“We didn’t want to make things worse, but we need to,” Lieutenant General Ihor Romanenko told Al Jazeera.
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Kyiv may also invade the nearby Russian region of Bryansk, dealing a heavy blow to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s domestic reputation, he said.
“It will be painful to Putin, and if there is an offensive somewhere in Bryansk or some other regions, it will make him think,” Romanenko said.
Some Russians ridicule Putin’s policies that led to the first foreign invasion of western Russia since World War II.
“If the grandpa from the bunker is so wise, why do we have Ukrainians on Russian land? Something must be wrong,” Roman, a 48-year-old Muscovite who served in a tank unit in the 1990s, told Al Jazeera, deriding the Russian president.
Bryansk borders Ukraine and has been repeatedly attacked by two Ukrainian military units made up of pro-Ukrainian Russian fighters.
Romanenko said Putin’s decision to ramp up Russia’s offensive in southeastern Ukraine signifies a “fiasco” of Trump’s “peace plan”.
“This approach ended with a fiasco because Putin rejected the version proposed by Trump’s team,” he said.
Trump has offered few details of the plan, but, according to his team, it may include the establishment of a “demilitarised zone” along the current front line, Kyiv’s ceding of Russia-occupied areas and a delay of Ukraine’s NATO membership.
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Ukraine’s sea drone weapons
At the end of last year, Ukraine scored a small victory that may herald huge losses in Russian navy bases and civilian seaports.On December 31, Ukrainian sea drones, or un-piloted vessels armed with small missiles, attacked Russian helicopters in the bay of Sevastopol, the main naval base in annexed Crimea.
Ukraine claimed to have shot down two helicopters, killing all 16 crew members.
Moscow acknowledged no losses but said its forces destroyed four Ukrainian unmanned aircraft and two sea drones.
The attack showed that sea drones could wreak havoc on Russian port and naval infrastructure along the Black Sea, Bremen University’s Mitrokhin said.
Furthermore, Kyiv could use sea drones for attacks on the Russian navy in the Baltic, Barents and White Seas and in the Pacific.
“There is so much infrastructure there that it will be hard to cover it even with boom barriers, let alone protect them from all sides like in Sevastopol or [the Crimean port of] Feodosiya,” he said.
A serviceman of the 13th Operative Purpose Brigade ‘Khartiia’ of the National Guard of Ukraine prepares to fire a Giatsint-B howitzer towards Russian troops at a position on a front line in the Kharkiv region [File: Sofiia Gatilova/Reuters]
Meanwhile, the ongoing war of attrition tests Ukraine and Russia’s economies.
The Russian economy has “partially adapted to the pressure from [Western] sanctions, but it currently enters the inflation shock of overheating and slower growth” because of the Central Bank’s high percentage rates, Kyiv-based analyst Aleksey Kusch said.
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The Ukrainian economy is “in shock” because of severely damaged energy infrastructure and a lack of labour force, he said.
But hydrocarbon exports help Russia’s economy recover from the shock, while Ukraine is kept afloat by Western financial aid.
“It creates a certain parity effect amid resistance to war,” Kushch told Al Jazeera.
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin attends the Orthodox Christmas liturgy at the Church of St George the Victorious on Poklonnaya Hill in Moscow, January 7, 2025 [Vyacheslav Prokofyev/Sputnik via Reuters]
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‘We didn’t have anybody there’: Kyiv’s troops struggle as Russia advances
Ukrainian soldiers say Russia is waging fierce battles in the east while they attempt a renewed offensive in Kursk.
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The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine has launched an investigation into the supply of defective 120 mm mortar shells to the Ukrainian army. It is worth noting that Ukrainian servicemen have already begun to report defective 82 mm mortar shells as well. As reported by Ukrainian soldiers themselves, the 120 mm mortar shells supplied by Ukroboronprom got stuck in the mortar barrel, fell after firing next to the mortar, or did not work at all. According to media reports, the defective batch turned out to be quite large - more than 100 thousand pieces. At the same time, Ukroboronprom, which produces these shells, accused the Ukrainian military of negligent storage of ammunition.
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An episode of work in the Zaporizhia region of Ukraine, servicemen of the Stavropol airborne assault regiment of the Russian group of troops "Dnepr". The mobile crew uses, presumably, a homemade buggy, armed with an ATGM "Kornet". ATGM "Kornet" is capable of hitting targets at a distance of up to 8000 meters. The tactics of such crews, rapid movement to a given position and leaving it. Presumably, a stronghold of the Ukrainian army was fired upon.
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