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During the day, Ukraine announced four times (at the time of publication) an air alert across the country due to Russian Mig 31K fighters. During these alerts, the Ukrainian Air Force reported ballistic missile launches. Explosions were heard in Kyiv, Khmelnytsky region and Dnipro. According to the Air Force, during the second alert due to […]
Yesterday, Russians launched at least 15 Shahed attack drones from the Balaklava district of the temporarily occupied Crimea. This is a new UAV launch pad located south of Sevastopol. This is stated in today’s message of British intelligence in the X network. In early December, Russian officials said they had intercepted 41 Ukrainian UAVs that […]
Kyivstar is currently unable to provide a timeframe for the mobile operator to resume full operations after the hacker attack. This was announced by Kyivstar CEO Oleksandr Komarov. According to him, the company itself did not provide information about the launch in 4-5 hours. “It was a very powerful hacker attack on the company’s virtual […]
The Russian Armed Forces are transferring another large unit to the older T-62M. At the beginning of the full-scale war, the 59th Guards Separate Tank Regiment was equipped with various versions of the T-72. This was reported by OSINT researcher Naalsio, who studies the Russian army and its losses. The researcher established from the video […]
Fierce fighting continues near Avdiivka and Maryinka, with Russians launching a massive offensive against Ukrainian positions. According to General Oleksandr Tarnavsky, commander of the Tavria operational and strategic grouping, over the past two days the enemy has been increasing its pace and intensifying its use of aviation and armored vehicles in massive offensives. Guided aerial […]
Russians equip their Shahed UAVs with a warhead from an unknown missile. From its own sources, Defense Express received photographs of combat parts from Shahed-136 kamikaze drones shot down during a raid on the night of December 11, 2023. These UAVs belong to the conditional modification of the “Geranium-K”, i.e., Russian-made “Shaheds”, which have their […]
To protect the airspace, Ukrainian radio engineering troops use the latest radar station 80K6KS1 “Phoenix-1”. The photo of the installation was published by the Air Force Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The Phoenix-1 three-coordinate radar detection station was developed in Ukraine and put into service only in 2021. The system is designed to […]
Ukrainian troops defending Avdiivka defeated a Russian convoy of vehicles. Among the lost vehicles was a rare APC-90 Rostock. This became known from a video of the 110th Separate Mechanized Brigade named after Lieutenant General Marko Bezruchko. Ukrainian Armed Forces defeated the occupiers during an assault near Krasnohorivka. Among the armored vehicles, the observers identified […]
The pilots of a Russian Ka-52 reconnaissance and combat helicopter filmed the moment when another similar occupant helicopter was shot down by a Ukrainian MANPADS missile. The crew of the downed helicopter ejected. Russian social media reported that the pilots had allegedly survived and returned to combat missions. The video was published by Russian telegram […]
The press service of the 44th Separate Mechanized Brigade published a series of photos showing that our military are already using 120-mm Rak self-propelled mortars manufactured by Polish Huta Stalowa Wola on the battlefield against the Russian occupation forces. “A competent mortar commander is a master sergeant, a skillful and responsible serviceman, a worthy comrade-in-arms. […]