Monday, October 05, 2015

Ukraine War Update: Атака летающих лягушек эскадры?




Both sides claim they are withdrawing their tanks and weapons other than rifles.  The verification is reported to take place through use of drones.  In the LNR, the above picture immediately cropped up.  That'd be really hard to see from the air.

However, the OSCE has noted concentrations of armor and their drones being jammed south of Donetsk.

OTOH, a TOS-1 has been verified by the OSCE.  That's bad news and only a mere handful exist in the world.  The Russians own all of them, so no chance of this being Ukrainian and swiped.  The world know the Russians directly intervened at this point, but even so.  This is short of a WMD, but its a weapon of significant destruction at least.

The real odd news is the DNR has been claiming they were under attack by aircraft for two nights running.  They even fired off SAMs to shoot something down last night.  The first night they claimed it was drones they were shooting at.  The second night they ditched the claim they were shooting at drones.

Despite what has been said at the Ukrainian ATO HQ, there have been several attacks along the contact line.  Most are pretty small and use automatic grenade launchers and smaller weapons, not even mortars.  Shells of some sort hit Makiivka on October 3rd.  Given its location, its hard to see how the UAF did it.

There's another round of readiness drills in Russia just kicking off.  Every time there is one, the Russians send troops somewhere.  Supposedly, 300 different units are involved.  Makes for a great cover to determine where the troops are being pulled from.

Something not said by most is both sides are drilling the shbit out of their troops.  Some false positive reports of artillery attacks and whatnot do come from that.  However, the number of drills is impressive.

Oddly, the flags of the DNR (Donetsk People's Republic) are disappearing in Donetsk.  Why or how, I haven't a clue.  Its been noted for a bit, but seems to be accelerating.

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