Hello everybody! Another ‘rather quick and dirty’ update for today. So much so, I’ll leave out the list of abbreviations. STRATEGIC For nearly three months the social media was brimming with reports about the Russians running out of food and fuel, lacking communications, then running out of troops and similar…

Hello everybody! Just a short update today, for I’m busy elsewhere (sorry, but I’ve got to pay my bills), while there are few important developments in the Donbass. On popular request, I’m back to the practice of starting this one with the list of Abbreviations: AAB — Airborne Assault Brigade…

Hello everybody! After a (work-intensive) weekend, I’ll try to catch with most important developments on battlefields of the Ukraine War. AIR & NAVAL On 21 May, Tu-22M-3s of the VKS have attempted to hit one of bridges spanning Dnipro via the Khortytsia island, in Zaporizhzhia. Ukrainians reported damage on a…

Good morning everybody! Here’s another ‘mini-update‘, largely focusing on the Battle of Donbass — because the situation in the Popasna area remains a major crisis: there’s a major Russian breakthrough in this area, and the RFA is half-way through cutting off the concentration of Ukrainian forces in the Severodonetsk-Lysychansk area. …

Good morning everybody! Bad news from the Popasna area, thus another ‘unplanned’ update. To start with, sorry, can’t but start with a complaint about the media: by all the reports about Putin taking over the command on the battlefield, bypassing even Gerasimov (i.e. not only Shoygu), etc., it turns out…

Good morning everybody! STRATEGIC The British media reports that Putin — closely assisted by the Chief-of-General Staff, Valeriy Gerasimov — is meanwhile micromanaging the war in Ukraine at operational and tactical levels all the way down to the level of a brigadier or colonel, i.e. a commander of the battalion…

Good morning everybody! Several dramas are unfolding in Ukraine today, thus here an ‘unplanned’ update. STRATEGIC President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is officially opposing NATO-membership of Finland and Sweden. Typically, the Western media is de-facto zip-lip on Erdogan’s reasoning. At most, it’s mentioning his complaints about Sweden and Finland…

Good morning everybody! STRATEGIC On Saturday, 14 May, it was the 80th day of Putin’s planed two-weeks-special-operation… The pearl of the day was delivered by the Keystone Cops in Moscow when, obviously in reaction to all the reporting about destruction of their XYth bridgehead on Siversky Donets, they claimed to…

This is in reaction to different ‘comments’ I’ve received in response to my summaries over the last few days. I’ve posted something similar on my Facebook account already three months ago, but, it seems it’s about the time to ‘repeat the exercise’ here. The reason is that the mass of…