NBC news reporting that Prigozhin announced Wagner was leaving Bakhmut on May 10. There is a serious disconnect in Russian leadership.Prigozhin better have a lot of guys around him at all times making sure he doesn't accidentally fall out of a window.
Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin launched a screaming, expletive-filled tirade at Putin's war chiefs as he stood next to dozens of his mens' corpses in Ukraine
"You animals are hanging out in expensive clubs!" a furious Prigozhin shouted, naming Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and General Valery Gerasimov.www.yahoo.com
If Ukraine can take back Melitopol, that would be a massive victory destroying the land bridge to Crimea.
What’s nice about that video, aside from the two chicks going at it, is the absence of men for the most part. Any dude in a uniform with a 3 day pass should not walk out of that club alone.
Unfortunately we have people in our own government who resemble that idiot…
I agree. And in an attempt to be fair, they (CNN I think) reported last night that Ukraine had just upstaged the Russian guy before he did that with the flag. So it may have been Ukraine that started this spat.
Artillery losses are my #1 followed by tanks and apvs. Russia uses their artillery to take out civilian populations along with cruise missiles but you can’t shoot down a cruise missile if it isn’t fired.
Add MLRS to that list. Taking them out stops long range terror attacks as well.
CNN’s Oren Liebermann contributed to this report.
The jamming is only as good as the tools in the area. I’ve seen a lot of videos of Switchblades going after EW vehicles recently. The extra benefit is how expensive they are.This is not good news.
May 6, 2023 Russia-Ukraine news
Russian-installed authorities in the Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine announced evacuations will start in the area due to "intensified shelling."www.cnn.com
Russia has been thwarting US-made mobile rocket systems in Ukraine more frequently in recent months, using electronic jammers to throw off its GPS guided targeting system to cause rockets to miss their targets, multiple people briefed on the matter told CNN.
Ukrainian military officials, with US help, have had to come up with a variety of different workarounds as it continues to use the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS), which has been perhaps the most revered and feared piece of weaponry in Ukraine’s fight.
But in recent months, Ukraine's systems have been rendered increasingly less effective by the Russians’ intensive blocking, five US, British and Ukrainian sources tell CNN, forcing US and Ukrainian officials to find ways to tweak the HIMARS’ software to counter the evolving Russian jamming efforts.
“It is a constant cat-and-mouse game” of finding a countermeasure to the jamming, a Pentagon official said, only to then have the Russians counteract that countermeasure. And it is not clear how sustainable that game is in the long term.
Electronic warfare is carried out by both sides, up and down the front line where there is heavy drone activity used for surveillance and in partnership with artillery targeting.
With a major Ukrainian counteroffensive expected to start very soon and Ukraine’s reliance on HIMARS, solutions are even more of a priority so that Ukrainian troops can make significant headway.
CNN’s Oren Liebermann contributed to this report.
Demining in conflict areas is a hero’s task.
I expect the allied crowd can continue to find work arounds, but not in every event. Any missed HIMAARS is a missed opportunity.
They’re jamming the GPS signals the GMLRS rockets use. It’ll be a cat and mouse game for a while. It’d be nice if we could mix up the rockets they use and include a better inertial guidance package. Israel and Turkey both have rocket systems that would work.
