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The pushes would result in huge casualties for both Ukraine and the invading Russians, who were increasingly reinforcing the invasion forces with a shield of former convicts. Russian forces have also clung on to the city's symbolic importance after a string of setbacks last year. The city sits on an important intersection of supply routes and, when fighting started in May 2022, was judged a vital staging point for assaults deeper into Donbas. The video, originally 11 minutes long, starts with the Ukrainian forces turning off from a stretch of open land. The clip shows the "Da Vinci Wolves" Ukrainian volunteer corps suppressing Russian forces trying to cross no-mans-land and assault a fortified position. Klupov also said the brigade are ready to be called on at any time, from any place.

I feel in a war of attrition or a straight full on battle mass vs mass Ukraine loses, even with Russian failures and incompetence. There is also Russian air superiority east of the Dnieper, though not air dominance. I think a Ukrainian infiltration team would be better off, sneaking across the border to Belgorod, where Russian forces are regrouping, & then laying the landmines the Russian left in Ukraine. I’m surprise Ukraine hasn’t tried to take out the bridge that was built from Crimea to Russia. The bridge has been a major suppy route for Russia’s forces coming through from Crimea.

Today that it was not able to identify a legitimate military target at, or close to, the scene of the strike. The Chernihiv Regional Administration reported that 47 people – 38 men and nine women – were killed in the strike. Footage shows eight munitions being dropped in close succession and falling in a line, typical of such a bombing run.

“Russia reserves the right to take the harshest possible measures in response to the terrorist attacks by the Kyiv regime,”  it added. However, Germany and Britain have so far declined to send jets, saying they do not have the F-16s that Ukraine wants. They say the time required to train pilots and the substantial support crews needed to send their Eurofighter Typhoon jets meant they would be of little immediate use. A senior government source told Reuters this month that Kyiv would consider allowing Russian ammonia to transit its territory for export on condition that the Black Sea grain deal is expanded to include more Ukrainian ports and a wider range of commodities. Ukraine, Putin said, had chosen the path of attempting “to intimidate Russia, Russian citizens and attacks on residential buildings”.
Events on the ground, and paucity of information mean that it is  difficult to assess the situation clearly. What is true is this conflict has changed everything we know about the post-Cold War world. Though total losses of the Ukrainian AF are unknown, recent footage of Turkish-built Ukrainian TB2 drones destroying at least two Buk SAMs and convoys shows that armed UAVs are still active and taking a toll of Russian ground forces.

There’s the field interrogation of captured prisoners – filthy, cold, bruised and often injured, sometimes blindfolded and on their knees, mumbling name, rank and serial number through dry, swollen lips. There’s hour after hour of grim, exhausted looking troops bouncing along on the roofs of armoured vehicles, suddenly smiling at the camera and sounding their horns, the streets behind them stumps of concrete where houses used to be. Soldiers hunker down in the windowless shell of an apartment in a ruined city, darting out to shoot at something and running back. A soldier is in a muddy foxhole, shooting at an enemy the viewer can’t see. Bullets from the invisible enemy tear up the parapet as the soldier flinches.
“In the world of fakes we live in, the authenticity of the footage must be checked,” he said in a conference call with reporters. Do not expect that it will be forgotten, that time will pass,” he said in a video. The International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin for war crimes, accusing him of personal responsibility for the abductions of children from Ukraine. The Kremlin called the footage “horrible” but said it needed to be verified.

A Ukrainian soldier miraculously survived unscathed after a bullet whizzed just over his head during a shoot-out with Russian soldiers. Of the war's wider effects on the Ukrainian population you will glean little from Russian media, nor is there any frank coverage of war-crime allegations. A report broadcast in February 2023 by the Russian network NTV shows an "armoured group" of the 331st in action in Luhansk. But it just tends to confirm the impression we've gleaned from other sources that the regiment survives as small detachments able to spearhead certain missions.

However, in an example of how fast-moving the situation is, on 1 March it was reported that this promise had been walked back, with both Poland and Slovakia now saying they would not supply MiGs to Ukraine. Meanwhile, the European Union surprised the world by announcing that it will supply fighter jets to Ukraine via its Member states. This was understood to be either MiG-29s from Poland and Slovakia as these could be deployed and flown into action by Ukrainian pilots in the quickest time - with the Ukrainian Parliament announcing that it would receive 70 ex-Soviet combat aircraft.
At least one SA-22 short range air defence vehicle was also spotted abandoned in deep mud in Kherson in the south, highlighting some of the logistic challenges. Despite its massive superiority in combat aircraft (some 300+ combat aircraft vs Ukraine's less than 100) Russia's air force has been conspicuously absent in the air war - a fact noted by several defence experts and analysts. Only now are larger strike packages of Su-30 and Su-34s being assembled. This is a far cry from the US/Western air power doctrine, which stress large packages of strike, SEAD and escorts to overwhelm the enemy on Day 1 of any air campaign.