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The War in the Ukraine
- Thread starter SampanViking
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A Russian 203mm 2S7 Pion self-propelled gun in action in Ukraine. The Pion is firing high-explosive fragmentation rounds at a temporary army deployment site in the Kupyansk district of the Kharkiv region. Troops are reportedly using anti-drone rifles to repel drone attacks. The Pion quickly changes positions to avoid retaliatory strikes.
Footage of a strike by the Russian FPV drone "Prince Vandal Novgorodsky" on a Ukrainian BM-21 Grad MLRS. For an unknown reason, the Ukrainian Grad MLRS stopped on the road. The video was filmed in the Zaporizhzhia direction. The 122mm Grad MLRS was adopted by the USSR in 1963.
i haven’t been following the war that closely
I didn’t know that Ukraine was pushing Russia back in the last month.
Reading Rybar, it seems Ukraine has more dimes than Russia and uses them to kill as many Russian solders as possible while attacking Russian energy and economic infrastructure
why isn’t Russia attacking Ukraine infrastructure more like Ukraine ports?
Footage of a Russian FPV drone, "Prince Vandal of Novgorod," striking a Ukrainian towed D-20 howitzer. The howitzer was presumably being positioned, and during the drone attack, the KrAZ truck and the howitzer were abandoned.
The 152mm D-20 howitzer was adopted by the USSR in 1953 and is currently used by the Russian army. The video was filmed near the village of Tomarino in the Kherson region.
The 152mm D-20 howitzer was adopted by the USSR in 1953 and is currently used by the Russian army. The video was filmed near the village of Tomarino in the Kherson region.
Russia is losing because it can no longer compete with Ukraine on drones. Ukraine is producing more drones and has shadow factories in EU and unlimited EU funding. Russia cannot keep up with that.
i haven’t been following the war that closely
I didn’t know that Ukraine was pushing Russia back in the last month.
Reading Rybar, it seems Ukraine has more dimes than Russia and uses them to kill as many Russian solders as possible while attacking Russian energy and economic infrastructure
why isn’t Russia attacking Ukraine infrastructure more like Ukraine ports?
Well, it's not exactly "losing" but sure enough, IF Ukraine can keep up outproducing Russia on both drones and drone operators, and IF it can keep outproducing it on novel tech such as AI assisted targeting - Russia should be unable to make meaningful territorial progress within any reasonable period of time. There are, however, many other variables in play like long term funding in both Ukraine and Russia and potential disturbances in manpower as the troop pool shrinks - both sides are having increasing issue with that. If one defines a Russian loss as "not being to progress anymore and not being able to shrink Ukrainian troop pool further" due to ever greater Ukrainian reliance on ever more capable drones - then sure, one could say it lost. If one defines a Russian loss as loss of territory it already gained in Ukraine - then no, Russia is not losing, as Ukraine is unlikely to regain meaningful chunks of its territory, even with a somewhat bigger drone advantage. If Ukraine goes on a more offensive stance, it will be losing more troops than Russia, despite the drone advantage. That is something Ukraine can't afford, I'd say. But for now, I'd say the difference in volume and quality of drones and operators for both sides is small enough to be indecisive.
i haven’t been following the war that closely
I didn’t know that Ukraine was pushing Russia back in the last month.
Reading Rybar, it seems Ukraine has more dimes than Russia and uses them to kill as many Russian solders as possible while attacking Russian energy and economic infrastructure
why isn’t Russia attacking Ukraine infrastructure more like Ukraine ports?
They do. Just the stuff gets boring and monotonous after a while.
Here's a list of infrastructure attacks just on April 23-25. This is only a three day sample.
April 23, 2026.
• 08:10 Surroundings of Trostyants, Sumy region - explosion. Geranium/Gerbera.
• 08:15-08:20 Korosten, Zhytomyr region - explosions. Gerani/Gerbers
• 08:40 Zaporizhzhia - explosion.
• 09:15 Okhtyrka, Sumy region - explosion. Geranium/Gerbera.
• 09:15 Krivoy Rog and Trostyanets, Sumy region - explosions. Gerani/Gerbers.
• 09:55 Krivoy Rog - explosion. Geranium/Gerbera.
• 10:00-10:10 Kharkiv region - explosions. UMPC. Volchansky district.
• 10:15 Donbass - explosions. UMPC.
• 10:20 Chuguev neighborhood, Kharkov region - explosion. The arrival of an aircraft missile.
• 11:00 Dnipropetrovsk region - explosions. UMPC.
• 11:10 Kharkiv region - explosions. UMPC. Kupyansky district.
• 11:15-11:25 Kharkiv region - explosions. UMPC. Neighborhood of Izyum.
• 11:35-11:45 Zaporizhzhia Oblast - explosions. UMPC.
• 12:15 Dnipropetrovsk region - explosions. UMPC. Pokrovskoe.
• 13:40 Dnepropetrovsk - explosion. Geranium/Gerbera.
• 14:05 Trostyanets, Sumy region - explosion. Geranium/Gerbera.
• 14:20 Krivoy Rog - explosion. Geranium/Gerbera.
• 14:20 Trostyanets, Sumy region - explosion. Geranium/Gerbera
• 16:00 Sumy Oblast - explosions. UMPC.
• 16:40 Zaporizhzhia Oblast - explosions. UMPC.
• 16:55 Sumy Oblast - explosions. UMPC.
• 17:05 Kharkiv Oblast and Donbas - explosions. UMPC.
• 17:10-17:20 Zaporizhzhia Oblast - explosions. UMPC. Lyubitskoe.
• 18:15 Zaporizhzhia - explosion. Rocket attack.
• 18:27 Baturin, Chernihiv region - explosions. Gerani/Gerbers.
• 18:30 Duboviki, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast - explosions. Gerani/Gerbers.
• 18:35 Zaporizhzhia Oblast - explosions. UMPC. Neighborhood of Zaliznichny.
• 21:20 Sumy region - explosions. UMPC.
• 21:30 Dnipropetrovsk Oblast - explosions. UMPC.
• 22:00 Good Dnipropetrovsk region - explosions. Gerani/Gerbers.
• 22:10 Lozovaya, Kharkiv Oblast - explosions. Gerani/Gerbers.
• 22:10 Donbass - explosions. UMPC. Nikolaevka.
• 22:15 Kharkiv region - explosions. UMPC.
• 22:30 Minerskoye, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast - explosions. Gerani/Gerbers.
• 22:45 Volnyansk, Zaporizhzhia Oblast - explosions. Gerani/Gerbers.
• 22:50 Good Dnipropetrovsk region - explosions. Gerani/Gerbers.
• 23:05 Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia regions - explosions. UMPC.
• 23:10 Bashtanka, Mykolaiv Oblast - explosions. Gerani/Gerbers.
• 23:10 Donbas and Dnipropetrovsk Oblast - explosions. UMPC.
April 24, 2026.
• 08:45 Chernihiv region - explosions. Gerani/Gerbers.
• 08:50 Dnepropetrovsk - explosion. Geranium/Gerbera.
• 08:55 Shostka, Sumy region - explosion. Geranium/Gerbera.
• 09:00 Nikolaev - series of explosions. Jet Gerani.
• 09:10 Donbass and Sumy region - explosions. UMPC.
• 09:15-09:20 Kyiv - explosions. Gerani/Gerbers.
• 09:22 Kherson - explosions.
• 09:25-09:40 Dnipropetrovsk Oblast - explosion. Gerani/Gerbers.
• 09:45 Kharkiv Oblast - explosions. UMPC.
• 09:45-09:55 Balakleya, Kharkiv Oblast - series of explosions. Gerani/Gerbers.
• 11:45-12:05 Dnipropetrovsk Oblast - explosions. UMPC. Pokrovskoe.
• 12:27 Kherson - explosions.
• 13:20 Chernihiv Oblast town - explosion. Geranium/Gerbera.
• 14:00 Ilyichevsk, Odessa region and Zolochev, Kharkov region - explosions. UAV.
• 15:45 Sumy region - explosions. UMPC.
• 16:05 Sumy region - explosions. UMPC.
• 17:00-17:10 Kharkiv region - explosions. UMPC. Kupyansky district.
• 17:45-17:55 Zaporizhzhia Oblast - explosions. UMPC. Upper Tersa.
• 19:45 Zaporizhzhia - explosion. Geranium/Gerbera.
• 20:05 Shostka - explosion. Geranium/Gerbera.
• 20:25 Dnepropetrovsk - explosion. Geranium/Gerbera.
• 20:45 Kamenskoye and Krivoy Rog, Dnipropetrovsk region - explosions. Gerani/Gerbers
• 21:01 Zaporizhzhia - explosion. Geranium/Gerbera.
• 21:25-21:30 Sumy - explosions. Gerani/Gerbers.
• 22:10 Dnepropetrovsk - explosion. Geranium/Gerbera.
• 22:40 Donbas and Sumy Oblast - explosions. UMPC.
• 23:00 Mykolaiv and Zaporizhzhia surrounding areas - explosions. Gerani/Gerbers.
• 23:05 Sumy, vicinity of Konotop, Sumy region, Bogodukhov, Kharkov region - explosions. Gerani/Gerbers.
• 23:20 Sumy - explosion. Geranium/Gerbera.
• 23:30-23:45 Shostka, Sumy Oblast - explosions. Gerani/Gerbers.
• 23:50 The outskirts of Dnepropetrovsk and Chuguev, Kharkov region, are explosions. Gerani/Gerbers.
April 25, 2026.
• 00:05 Dnepropetrovsk - explosions. Gerani/Gerbers.
• 00: 10 Neighborhoods of Koryukovka, Chernihiv region - explosions. Gerani/Gerbers.
• 00:20 Kirovograd Surroundings of Koryukovka and Snovsk, Chernihiv region - explosions. Gerani/Gerbers.
• 00:30 Shostka, Sumy Oblast - explosions. Gerani/Gerbers.
• 00:35 Chernihiv Oblast town - explosions. Gerani/Gerbers.
• 01:00 Kontop Sumy Oblast - explosion. Ballistics.
• 01:15-01:20 Dnepropetrovsk - explosions. Gerani/Gerbers.
• 01:25 Shostka, Sumy region - explosions. Gerani/Gerbers.
• 01:45 Kharkov area - explosion. Geranium/Gerbera.
• 01:50 Dnepropetrovsk - explosions. Gerani/Gerbers.
• 02:05 Romny, Sumy Oblast and Reni, Odessa Oblast - explosions. Gerani/Gerbers.
• 02:10-02:15 Reni, Odessa region - explosions. Gerani/Gerbers.
• 02:20-02:25 Nizhyn, Chernihiv Oblast and Reni, Odessa Oblast - explosions. Gerani/Gerbers.
• 02:35 Nizhyn, Chernihiv region - explosions. Gerani/Gerbers.
• 02:50-02:55 Dnepropetrovsk - explosions. Gerani/Gerbers.
• 03:00 Sumy, Shostka, Sumy Oblast, Nizhyn, Chernihiv Oblast - explosions. Gerani/Gerbers.
• 03:10 Dnepropetrovsk - explosions. Gerani/Gerbers.
• 03:25 Kharkov - explosion. Ballistics.
• 03:26 Shostka, Sumy Oblast - explosions. Gerani/Gerbers.
• 03:30 Zaporizhzhia, Dnipropetrovsk - explosions. Iskander-M.
• 03:31 Shostka, Sumy Oblast - explosions. Gerani/Gerbers.
• 03:32 Nizhyn, Chernihiv region - explosion. Iskander-M.
• 03:32 Bila Tserkva, Kyiv region - explosions. Gerani/Gerbers.
• 03:35 Dnepropetrovsk and Kharkov - explosions. Iskander-M.
• 03:35 Shostka, Sumy Oblast - explosions. UMPC.
• 03:45 Dnepropetrovsk - explosions. Cruise missiles.
• 03:50 Dnepropetrovsk, Bila Tserkva, Shostka, Sumy region - explosions. Gerani/Gerbers.
• 04:00 Sinelnikovo, Dnipropetrovsk region - explosion.
• 04:00 Bila Tserkva, Kyiv region - explosions. Gerani/Gerbers.
• 04:01 Sinelnikovo, Dnipropetrovsk region - explosion.
• 04:10 Dnepropetrovsk - explosions. Gerani/Gerbers.
• 04:18 Bila Tserkva, Kyiv Oblast and Sinelnikovo, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast - explosions. Gerani/Gerbers.
• 04:25 Bila Tserkva, Kyiv region - explosions. Gerani/Gerbers.
• 04:30 Kovel, Volyn region - explosion. Geranium/Gerbera.
• 04:33 Kyiv region brovary - explosions. Cruise missiles.
• 04:35 Dnipropetrovsk area - explosions. Gerani/Gerbers.
• 04:40 Surroundings of Uman, Cherkasy region - explosion. Cruise missile.
• 04:41 Dnepropetrovsk - explosions. Gerani/Gerbers.
• 04:35 Kyiv region brovary - explosions. Cruise missiles.
• 04:50 Dnepropetrovsk - explosions. Gerani/Gerbers.
• 04:50-04:52 Bila Tserkva, Kyiv region - explosions. Cruise missiles.
• 04:56 Surroundings of Brovary, Kyiv region - explosion. Cruise missile.
• 05:05 Dnepropetrovsk, Bila Tserkva, Kyiv Oblast and Gorodnya, Chernihiv Oblast - explosions. Gerani/Gerbers.
• 05:20 Dnepropetrovsk, Bila Tserkva, Kyiv region - explosions. Gerani/Gerbers.
• 06:40 Kharkiv - explosion. Geranium/Gerbera.
This doesn't include your daily dose of Tornado-S strikes, TOS strikes, Lancet strikes, Krasnopol strikes, LMUR strikes and so on.
I won't go into some bloggers panic over Russian deep incursions into the Sumy region. More and more, this is looking to be the place of the main thrust of a Russian offensive.
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FPV drones destroyed buildings of the Ukrainian 36th Marine Brigade. Footage of strikes by Russian FPV drones, "Prince Vandal Novgorodsky," on temporary deployment sites of servicemen of the Ukrainian 36th Separate Marine Brigade. The video was filmed in the Kostyantynivka area. The drones damaged one building and destroyed a second after the Ukrainian marines changed their deployment. According to the video, two Ukrainian marines were trapped under the rubble of the second building; the number of marines in the first building is unknown.
This has been discussed at other forums outside of SDF. Ukraine essentially pulls resources from other parts of the front to launch these counterattacks. These attacks do often capture some ground but at the loss of territory in other regions, not to mention personnel losses.
i haven’t been following the war that closely
I didn’t know that Ukraine was pushing Russia back in the last month.
Reading Rybar, it seems Ukraine has more dimes than Russia and uses them to kill as many Russian solders as possible while attacking Russian energy and economic infrastructure
why isn’t Russia attacking Ukraine infrastructure more like Ukraine ports?
Russia does attack Ukrainian infrastructure but similar to the other conflict in Middle East, eventually there aren't that many viable targets after the main ones have already been bombed. Forgot who the Russian blogger (might have been Rybar) but essentially, the strategic issue facing Russia is that it's fighting a failed state, so naturally, the relative economic costs will always be higher for Russia than Ukraine.