This memo was reportedly found with the documents of a Russian servicemen KIA in Ukraine.

Some points are fairly standard, but some are curious. Short thread:

1. Wear proper attire; do not wear patches or other  insignia identifying your unit.

2. Be reserved while dealing with the civilians in "liberated areas", do not seek contact with them, do not accept any food or other items from them.

3. Use first person: WE advance, etc.

4. Tell civilians in "liberated areas" that Russia is here forever, and advise them to only use official Russian info sources.

5. Refer to the Ukrainian troops only as Nazis/nationalists, militants, invaders; tell locals that we are in war with NATO.

6. In case of incidents (traffic incidents, servicemen under influence of alcohol/drugs, injuries or fatalities among civilians, etc.) identify yourself as a Wagner PMC combatant.

7. Servicemen are not banned from occupying empty housing in "liberated areas" but only if it is confirmed that the residents are no longer present in the same settlement. The same applies to vehicles. In emergencies, it is allowed to remove residents if it's authorised.

8. Any statements in relation to Russia's military and political leaders should only be in positive light.

The Governor for the Belgorod Region of Western Russia has posted pictures of Fortifications that they have begun to build on the Border with Ukraine; the Line of Fortifications has been dubbed the “Notch Line” and consists of Trenches, Barbed Wire, and Anti-Tank Barricades.  However these Fortifications would require Manpower which they currently do not posses; there have been talks previously of Cities/Regions along the Border with Ukraine such as Belgorod establishing “Territorial Defense Units” that could man these Defenses if the need arises.

Ukraine Weapons Tracker
@UAWeapons

It was recently reported that a number of ancient BTR-50 APCs were delivered to Russian forces in #Ukraine- we obtained a photo of one of them.

This unit appears to be a BTR-50PU command&staff subvariant, adopted in 1958, however it is unclear for what role it will be used now.

Originally Posted By 4xGM300m:
https://i.imgur.com/GB7UeMk.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/CwbVZT7.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/LiZg3wk.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/DvFVlQX.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/poYh7nW.jpg

Bereg-E
Coastal mobile artillery system A-222E 130mm

Originally Posted By Jack67:


Oh, so that’s what they look like before the GMLRS hit.  I’ve only seen the “after” pictures.  ;)

Originally Posted By 4xGM300m:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhdeenWoIcw

Originally Posted By 4xGM300m:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kW1nGHunAkc



Holy f... shit.

Originally Posted By 4xGM300m:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kW1nGHunAkc



Holy f... shit.

Counting Down: List Of Russian Army Equipment Not Yet Destroyed In Ukraine

Updated with:

- Object 169 MBT
- Bashkiria APC

Originally Posted By Jack67:


If you like that, you are going to LOVE Chelyabinsk.  Horrid industrial pollution (it used to be called “The Cleveland of Russia”).  

One of the Andreev Bay workers recalls:

The first time I came there, I was shocked: I have never seen such a nightmare, did not even conceive it was possible. Just imagine an enormous black windowless building atop of a cliff. Entry into the building #5 was decorated by deformed trucks previously used for carrying nuclear fuel and half-torn-down heavy gates. Inside, the building was dilapidated, electric equipment in dangerous condition, the roof letting through sights of the Aurora Borealis, and, most terrifyingly, colossal beta particle contamination levels and travelling gamma waves reflected from plates and walls. Building #5 was completely radioactive inside. If a drop of water happened to fall on your head, you had to be decontaminated for a long time, since the drop contained tens of thousands of beta particles.

Андреева губа : Andreeva (Andreyeva) Bay
Spent Nuclear Fuel storage site

HIGHLY Radioactive area. Also spelt Andreyeva Bay.
Andreyeva Bay, also known as Installation 928-III, is the largest storage facility in the Northern Fleet for radioactive waste, particularly spent nuclear fuel. Although the storage facility was built in the 1960s, is in need of modernization, and is inaccessible by rail, it remains operational. Reportedly, 21,000 spent fuel rods (equivalent to about 90 nuclear reactors) are stored in three concrete containers, which have been filled to capacity since early 1990.

As a result of the termination of spent fuel transportation to Mayak in 1997, new deliveries of containers of spent nuclear fuel are stored at Andreyeva Bay out in the open and unprotected. TK-11 and TK-18 containers, storing 35 spent fuel rods each, are located on the grounds of the facility and may potentially develop cracks and leak radioactivity.

Thirty-two such containers, which have been stored in the open, are leaking radioactivity. During the summer of 1998, the Norwegian government spent about $800,000 on a project to direct a brook into an underground channel so that it would not run near underground pools and containers storing radioactive materials. Since 2002, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom have initiated assistance projects for Andreyeva Bay. (Source: www.NTI.org)

06/02-2003

At this time, a new storage site for solid radioactive waste has been completed at Andreeva Bay. However, it is still awaiting Minatom's evaluation as to whether it meets safety requirements, and has consequently not yet been commissioned. In addition to the storage sites listed below, there are entire other buildings and areas in Andreeva Bay that are radioactively contaminated and should be treated as radioactive waste during upgrading of the base.

Refer to the site map (picture above) to identify where the
Radioactive waste is stored at the following locations:

3. Site 3 — waste stored in concrete bunker;
4. Site 7 — waste stored in concrete bunker;
5. Site 7a — waste stored both in concrete bunker and in open area;
6. Site 9 — open storage area for containers with waste under construction;
7. Site 67 — concrete bunker for high activity solid waste, filled to capacity, poor technical condition;
8. Site 67a — concrete bunker for high activity solid waste;
9. Site 7d — built in the 1990s to store high activity filtering material used in reactors. Seven concrete bunkers are in direct contact with water in the bay. The idea was to reduce the activity of the material by blending it with the seawater. The grids holding the material, which is in the form of small round pellets, have rusted away and the water is washing the pellets out into the bay.

Ukraine: Remains of an unexploded Russian Lancet loitering munition finally allows us to take a look at the one of the warhead variants which may help with assessing damage- the drone is armed with a factory-made KZ-6 demolition shaped charge.

This charge weights ~3kg and consists of 1.8KG of TG-40 explosives. In the best case it can penetrate up to 215mm of rolled homogeneous armour.

You can now explore #Russian tactical symbols: https://ukr.warspotting.net/reading/tactical_symbols/ With their purpose somewhat similar to friend/foe signs we've covered earlier, they predate #Ukraine️ invasion and make up much more extensive variety ...or mess, depending on how close you look into it.

Originally Posted By 4xGM300m:
https://i.imgur.com/bDySoaY.jpg

S300/S400 pod assembly line

No date given.

Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov (Russian: Илья́ Ива́нович Ивано́в, August 1 [O.S. July 20] 1870 – March 20, 1932) was a Russian and Soviet biologist who specialized in the field of artificial insemination and the interspecific hybridization of animals. He is famous for his controversial attempts to create a human-ape hybrid by inseminating three female chimpanzees with human sperm.

Ukraine: A so-called Russian "Kartograf" reconnaissance UAV was shot down by the Ukrainian army in the East.

This is a relatively secretive drone with an unknown official designation. It is believed to be used to create terrain plans.

Rashists is dragging reactivated T-54/55 tanks to #Ukraine from the Far East
According to InformNapalm, the trash is coming from the 111th Central Tank Reserve Base, Khabarovsk Territory. This is one of the largest storage bases for Russian armored vehicles.

Originally Posted By armoredman:
That has to be a joke, Babylon Bee style stuff right there. Those would need so much rebuild just to move, and would have a life expectancy of seconds on a modern battlefield.

Originally Posted By armoredman:
That has to be a joke, Babylon Bee style stuff right there. Those would need so much rebuild just to move, and would have a life expectancy of seconds on a modern battlefield.

Originally Posted By 4xGM300m:


Still can't wrap my head around this. Maybe they will rebuild them as ARVs or something else.

Time will tell.

The Yakovlev family from the Bolshoi Naryn, Buryatia, Russia handed over their personal GAZ-69 car to the fighters in the zone of a special military operation. The house where the Yakovlev family lives is also wonderful. The psychiatrist is waiting for them.

Captured Russian ASVK 12.7mm anti-materiel rifle fitted with 1P71 sight.

The ∆V-04, a one-way UGV which delivers a TM-62 (or similar) to target. Developed by the Russian Avtobot group. Its a parallel development to a very similar Ukrainian design. I recently spoke to the designers of the Ukrainian version, article coming soon.

A lot going on in this photo of a TM-83 off-route mine shared by Kalinouski Regt sappers. Appears to be a MON 200 (or similar) under it as a booby trap. Looks like the TM-83 is damaged too.

The ERA modules of the turret side and rear and side skirts.

Kontakt-5 with those 4S22 explosive elements in a spaced armor/ceramic shelf housing.

Originally Posted By Dracster:
"The operator of the Kamikaze drone "Lancet-3" together with his ward. In the last photo, the ZALA VTOL hybrid UAV, from which targets for the Lancet are detected, as well as hits are recorded, which we then observe."

Originally Posted By Dracster:
(The Ukrainians may not have to attack the bridge again.)

"Five S-STS "Akhmat" armored vehicles collided on the "Crimean bridge", four of them were badly damaged"

Originally Posted By Dracster:
"AMN-590951 armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Russia in the SVO zone."

Originally Posted By Dracster:
Crimean beach fortifications

Originally Posted By kozaki:



What the hell?



Bunch of fucking drunks.

This is the Russian OZ-1 (OЗ-1), a high-explosive (HE), shaped-charge (SC), entrenching tool designed to assist in digging a one-man fox-hole in frozen or hard soil