Located in a residential area

I can't vouch for these statements. The first was also reportedly stated by the DoD a few weeks ago.:


*More than 60% of Russian missiles do not hit the target

*Two-three out of ten missiles do not launch or explode during the flight, - Newsweek reports, citing data from the US Department of Defense.

Slava Ukraini!

Lol

Scholz is bragging about an investment in the military of $105 million. What are they buying? Half a fighter jet? https://t.co/Sp1pqV2hoJ

— Anders Östlund (@andersostlund) May 26, 2022

Hey, works for Hamas.

Deodorant use. Impressive.

US Special Forces veteran, founder of AFGfree.org Perry Blackburn

Russians don't have complete control in red zones signed on maps as occupied

The Ukrainians are fighting a brilliant military strategy of using “Defense in Depth” which they learned to do quite quickly. It stalls and confuses the Russians because it includes multiple levels of simultaneous attacks from conventional and irregular forces. Retired US Special Forces Lieutenant Colonel Perry Blackburn described these in an exclusive interview for Ukrinform (click for article).

May have been a translation error - in German "million" is "Millionen" while "billion" is "Milliarden".

Close. It is magnesium. The MZ-21 munition.

Sorta like dragon's breath shotgun ammo...
Looking at it, I bet there's titanium oxide or Zirconium in there too. Magnesium is kinda anticlimactic by itself.

Second hand?!?! We are giving some of the best stuff in our inventory. Stingers, Javelins, M777s, Mk-19s, M2s, Harpoon, Caesar, Brimstone, Switchblade, etc, etc, etc. Not to mention modern communications and modern Counter battery radar. Sure we give them EDA level stuff like M113s and M-114s but they are getting a ton of modern, first line, kit.

The infamous "butterfly mine". The date code on the 122mm(?) rocket appears to indicate 11-1989.

The tweet seems to indicate these mines had self-destruct, and my response is: "yeah fuckin' right"!

#Ukraine: UA forces reportedly hit RU-controlled Novovoskresenske, Kherson Oblast with 2 9M27K3 cluster MLRS rockets- each containing 312 infamous PFM-1S land mines. Whilst being very small they leave horrible injuries, though this time they should at least self-destruct in time. pic.twitter.com/kxis5dB7Tj

— \uD83C\uDDFA\uD83C\uDDE6 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) May 26, 2022

Units that fired these over civilian areas should have a place held for them at the Hague, or failing that, should get the Operation "Wrath of God" treatment.

Meh. They really do have a fuse in them that causes a bang after a couple of days.

IIRC they are  also really simple to demine. Like blanket and a stick stuff.

-edit-
They use a liquid explosive. There's a pill in them that dissolves and should inactivate the explosive after a week.
(supposedly)

The source for that appears to be a Russian channel.

Russian forces come closer to encircling Ukraine troops in east

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-says-russia-shells-more-than-40-towns-donbas-push-2022-05-26/

Russia forces reach key highway from Donbas cities
Kyiv says 25 battalions involved in assault
Shells hit Kharkiv where Russians had been pushed back
Russia warns West against giving long-range arms

KYIV/SVITLODARSK, Ukraine, May 26 (Reuters) - Advancing Russian forces came closer to surrounding Ukrainian troops in the east, briefly seizing positions on the last highway out of a crucial pair of Ukrainian-held cities before being beaten back, a Ukrainian official said on Thursday.

Three months into its invasion of Ukraine, Russia has abandoned its assault on the capital Kyiv and is trying to consolidate control of the industrial eastern Donbas region, where it has backed a separatist revolt since 2014.

Thousands of troops are attacking from three sides to try to encircle Ukrainian forces in Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk. If the two cities straddling the Siverskiy Donets river fall, nearly all of the Donbas province of Luhansk would be under Russian control.

"Russia has the advantage, but we are doing everything we can," said General Oleksiy Gromov, deputy chief of the main operations department of Ukraine's general staff.

Luhansk governor Serhiy Gaidai said around 50 Russian soldiers had reached the highway and "managed to gain a foothold", even setting up a checkpoint.

"The checkpoint was broken, they were thrown back ... the Russian army does not control the route now, but they are shelling it," he said. It was possible Ukrainian troops would leave "one settlement, maybe two. We need to win the war, not the battle," he said.

"It is clear that our boys are slowly retreating to more fortified positions - we need to hold back this horde," Gaidai added.

Western military analysts see the battle for the two cities as a potential turning point in the war, now that Russia has redefined its principal objective as capturing the east.

'SOBERING'
Reuters journalists in Russian-held territory further south saw proof of Moscow's advance in Svitlodarsk, where Ukrainian forces withdrew earlier this week.

The town is now firmly under control of pro-Russian fighters, who have occupied the local government building and hung a Soviet hammer and sickle flag at the door.

Drone footage filmed by Reuters of the nearby abandoned battlefield showed craters pockmarking a green field surrounded by wrecked buildings. Pro-Russian fighters were milling about in trenches.

Russia's recent gains in the Donbas follow the surrender of Ukraine's garrison in Mariupol last week, and suggest a shift in momentum after weeks in which Ukrainian forces had advanced near Kharkiv in the northeast.

"Recent Russian gains offer a sobering check on expectations for the near term," tweeted defence analyst Michael Kofman, director of Russian studies at the U.S.-based CNA think-tank.

Russian troops have broken through Ukrainian lines at Popasna, south of Sievierodonetsk, and are threatening to encircle Ukrainian forces, he wrote.

Ukrainian interior ministry adviser Vadym Denisenko told a briefing 25 Russian battalions were attempting to surround the Ukrainian forces.

The head of Ukraine's armed forces, Valeriy Zaluzhny, called on Telegram for more Western arms, particularly "weapons that will allow us to hit the enemy at a big distance".

Russia's foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, later warned that any supplies of weapons that could reach Russian territory would be a "a serious step towards unacceptable escalation".

HOMES DESTROYED
A few weeks ago, it was Ukrainian forces that were advancing, pushing Russian troops back from the outskirts of Kharkiv towards the Russian border.

But Moscow appears to have halted its retreat there, retaining a strip of territory along the frontier and preventing Ukrainian troops from cutting Russian supply lines that run east of the city to the Donbas.

Russian shelling killed at least seven civilians and wounded 17 in Kharkiv, local authorities said, as Russian forces dug in and maintained control of positions in villages to the north. read more

"It's loud here but it's home at least," said Maryna Karabierova, 38, as another blast could be heard nearby. She had returned to Kharkiv after fleeing to Poland and Germany earlier in the war. "It can happen at any time, at night, during the day: this is what life is here."

Russia did not immediately comment on the situation in Kharkiv. It has denied targeting civilians in what it calls its "special military operation" in Ukraine.

The Donbas advance has been backed by massive artillery bombardment. Ukraine's armed forces said more than 40 towns in the region had been shelled in the past 24 hours, destroying or damaging 47 civilian sites, including 38 homes and a school.

ESCALATION
Western countries led by the United States have provided Ukraine with long-range weaponry, including M777 howitzers from Washington and Harpoon anti-ship missiles from Denmark.

Washington is even considering providing Kyiv with a rocket system that can have a range of hundreds of kilometers, and has held discussions with Kyiv about the danger of escalation if it strikes deep inside Russia, U.S. and diplomatic officials told Reuters. read more

"We have concerns about escalation and yet still do not want to put geographic limits or tie their hands too much with the stuff we're giving them," said one U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity.

Ukraine's foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, said during a question and answer session over Twitter that "without multiple launch rocket systems, we won't be able to push them back." He said that if Russia were to request a ceasefire, "we will think twice, three times before agreeing to it".

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Moscow expects Ukraine to accept its demands at any future peace talks. It wants Kyiv to recognise Russian sovereignty over the Crimea peninsula Moscow seized in 2014, and the independence of separatist-claimed territory. read more

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Putin must not be permitted to impose peace terms. read more

"There will be no dictated peace," Scholz said in Davos. "Ukraine will not accept this, and neither will we."

Kinda like when I was in high school and you could get a Russian hooker for some deodorant or a pair of blue jeans.

On another forum I frequent, the breakthrough at Popasna was due to Ukr TD units pulling off the line unauthorized and leaving a large gap to exploit.

Apparently, the TD unit commanders were frustrated they believed they were not getting enough support from air or artillery.

It has caused a row between the regular army and the TD units, as the regular forces have been fighting under the same conditions since February.

This info is all from a Ukrainian. Says there are issues with TD units not wanting to fight outside of a units "home" territory. Which is what the case is with the Popasna TD troops. They were rotated in from the western part of Ukraine.

‘Time’ is a bitch. They can only keep their economy afloat for so long as their reserves will run out and they will start to default. And then their economy tanks, and it tanks virtually overnight. Putin is counting on the west feeling the pain and relenting due to the west’s own economic pain. I think the west sees this through to the point the Russian economy craters. And it will crater virtually overnight. That is why Putin is so desperate right now. These Russian offensives are an attempt to stave off this financial damage. Ukraine has surprised us thus far. I think they will continue to surprise us. We are at a tippping point but I think Ukraine commits their reserves and it doesn’t go well for Russia, and the west continues to decouple from Russian energy and this gets worse and worse for Russia.

We will see. If what I think happens over the coming 60 days, and my optimistic predictions on it prove true, Russia sues for peace in two months.

That’s kind of a random blast without details. What do you mean?

A visual aid on the Fire Control System
Thanks Ron.

According to U.S. officials to CNN, the Biden administration is preparing to send Ukraine long-range rocket systems like the MLRS & HIMARS.

— Global: MilitaryInfo (@Global_Mil_Info) May 26, 2022

It’s Ukraine, not NATO. If it was the totality of NATO, just the forces in theater, they’d be in Moscow in two weeks, maybe three. No way to prove that theorem but that is what I think.

Thanks JTF, that really makes it clear.

What forum?

Agreed

If someone wants to fight an area defense, and fight for every square inch of terrain, that's an option.

This looks like a mobile defense.  UA Infantry are attriting tanks and UAVs are attriting everything, while the Russians burn up artillery and the UA infantry fall back.  The idea would be for the defenders to counterattack and regain the ground when a vulnerability opens up.  Its really 1917 German tactics 101 from the Western front, where fighting for every square inch under the threat of superior enemy artillery would get you to lose lots of people for nothing.

IF we hear of a failed Ukrainian tank counterattack and IF we see pictures of hundreds of Ukrainian wrecks, start worrying. We're not close to that point.

Video captures the moment missile strikes right next to a Azov fighter, recording himself pic.twitter.com/n8TQLyLjrT

Russia Ukraine Conflict  (@Russiaconflict) May 26, 2022

https://community.battlefront.com/topic/140931-how-hot-is-ukraine-gonna-get/page/804/#comments

Correct me where I am wrong. This would be like Virginia national guard being called up to join the fight in california, then getting mad because it sucks and  they want to fight to protect Virginia, not california. And regular army getting mad at them because regular army has been fighting in conditions just as shitty all along.

"Media hype, Defenders of Snake Island the Ghost of Kiev, and Smug Satisfaction! aside"

That comment right there is all I needed to read in his post that told me his mindset and opinion on the matter.

PLEASE let this be true.  They really need some standoff capability.

No, more like a state guard. Technically there’s a reason they are called territorials.

It is more like a voluntary official state militia (for Virginia let's use the Virginia Defense Force https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Defense_Force) being sent to California.