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The fire at the oil depot in Proletarsk, Rostov Region, has not been extinguished for three days.
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The Rosrezerv oil depot in Proletarsk, Rostov Region, has not been extinguished for three days. The area of the fire has reached 10 thousand square meters, the head of the Proletarsky District administration reported. "Baza" writes that 22 fuel tanks are burning.
Another tank exploded at the oil depot in Proletarsk.
There are more than 600 rescuers on site, trying to stop the fire from spreading further. They work in shifts. According to the governor, two fire trains and an Emergencies Ministry plane are also involved.
🔥 "It's so f***ing hot, let's run!" The moment one of the tanks at the oil depot in Proletarsk was depressurized
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FPV drones attack Russian military engineering equipment near the Seim River in the Kursk region.
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The same pontoon crossing of Russians across the Seim River in Kurshchyna.
Operators of the Special Operations Forces of the Requiem group unit helped cut Russian logistics with your drones, hitting a couple of pieces of engineering equipment🔪
So that the Russians die when they try to escape, throw them on a new riverbed👇
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It has become known what happened to the missing Russian pontoon crossing across the Seim River in the Kursk region
Ukrainian blogger and volunteer Sergey Sternenko posted a video from an FPV drone, filmed in the area of one of the two pontoon crossings built by the Russian army across the Seim River in the Kursk region, between the villages of Zvannoye and Glushkovo. The day before, Radio Liberty published satellite photographs of this crossing, from which it followed that between August 18 and 19 it disappeared, and smoke was visible 500 meters from it in a photo taken on Monday.
It turned out that this smoke was the result of a drone strike on a Russian military truck heading towards the pontoon bridge. Near the bridge, engineering equipment can be seen in the video, which was also attacked by a drone. The pontoon bridge itself in the drone video is "moored" along the Russian-controlled bank of the river.
The Russian army has begun constructing pontoon bridges across the Seim River in the Kursk region after the Ukrainian Armed Forces destroyed or seriously damaged three fixed bridges in the area, making it impossible for Russia to supply its troops and hampering their possible retreat. As a reminder, you can find our constantly updated interactive map of the fighting in the Kursk region at this link.
Operators of the Special Operations Forces of the "Requiem group" division inflict damage on the engineering machines of the Russians in Kurshchyna
Location: north of Hlushkovo/west of Shagarovo, Kursk region
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Russian military has built a new pontoon crossing near the one that disappeared after the Ukrainian Armed Forces attack
A satellite image from August 20 shows that a new crossing over the Seim River in the Kursk region between the villages of Zvannoye and Glushkovo has appeared literally 500 meters upstream. In addition, traces of fighting in the area of the village of Krasnooktyabrsky can be seen in photographs from space. Russian "war correspondents" wrote about fighting in this place three days ago, but, according to them, they did not affect the settlement itself. At the same time, the image from August 20 shows numerous traces of fires in Krasnooktyabrsky itself.
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The second pontoon bridge built across the Seim River by the Russian military has disappeared, and near the place where it was there is smoke, presumably from an explosion.
New satellite images taken today, August 19, show that the pontoon bridge previously built by the Russian military between the villages of Zvannoye and Glushkovo in the Kursk region of Russia has disappeared - and smoke is rising 500 meters away. Earlier, the fire near the bridge was spotted by NASA's FIRMS satellites, which record fires on the earth's surface. The Russian army began setting up pontoon bridges across the Seim River after attacks by Ukrainian troops advancing from the south on fixed bridges in the area. Another pontoon bridge, built east of the village of Glushkovo, is still visible in the August 19 image.
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Satellites detected large-scale fires in the Kursk region near where Russians built a pontoon bridge across the Seim.
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Air defense of the Ground Forces destroyed 90 enemy aerial reconnaissance and attack UAVs in a week.
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Air defense of the Ground Forces destroyed 90 enemy aerial reconnaissance and attack UAVs in a week, among them:
🔸 Unmanned aerial vehicle Shahed-131/136 — 19 units;
🔸Aircraft Orlan-10/30 — 7 units;
🔸BpLA Zala — 38 units;
🔸BpLA Lancet — 14 units;
🔸Supercam UAV — 4 units;
🔸BpLA Privit-82 — 6 units;
🔸 Blyskavka Blyskavka air defense system - 2 units;
Thanks to the soldiers for effective combat work. Glory to everyone who protects Ukraine!
Seven months ago, the Kremlin began pulling out of long-term storage BTR-50 tracked armored personnel carriers, up-arming them in some cases and sending them toward the front line in Ukraine.
It was a remarkable development. The BTR-50 is old. As its designation implies, it was designed and first fielded in the 1950s.
And while the modern Russian army hung on to a few specialized BTR-50 variants for support roles, for front-line roles it long ago replaced the aged, vulnerable APCs with much-improved wheeled BTR-60s, BTR-70s and BTR-80s. There even are a few experimental BTR-90s with combat forces in Ukraine.
But after 21 months of hard fighting that has cost the Russian military thousands of fighting vehicles, the Kremlin is desperate for replacement APCs. Seventy-year-old BTR-50s sometimes are the best it can do.
There’s a cost to deploying an obsolete, thinly-protected BTR, however. And that cost was evident last week as a multi-regiment Russian force made a frantic, late-season push toward Avdiivka, a free settlement in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk Oblast, just north of Donetsk City, the seat of a pro-Russian separatist “republic.”
A BTR-50 was among the Russian losses after Ukrainian mines, artillery, drones and anti-tank teams smashed several long columns of armored vehicles attempting to flank Avdiivka from the south and north.
In a heady several days of fighting, the Russians lost scores of vehicles. It seems one BTR-50 rolled over a mine, exploded and flipped upside down. A Ukrainian drone captured the carnage as the bodies of the BTR’s occupants spilled onto the road.
Any vehicle is vulnerable to mines and other heavy anti-tank munitions. But a BTR-50 is especially vulnerable.
The BTR-50P—one of the main variants of the old vehicle—is a 15-ton, diesel-fueled armored tractor with two crew and space for up to 20 passengers. It usually packs a heavy machine gun.
The Soviet Union developed the BTR-50P in the early 1950s. It entered service in 1954 and, for the next 12 years, was the Soviet army’s mainstay fighting vehicle. BTR-50 crews would haul infantry into battle, protect the soldiers as they dismounted then support them with its machine gun.
The BTR-50P is lightly-armed and thinly-armored, however. When the heavier, and more heavily-armed, BMP-1 debuted in 1966, thousands of BTR-50Ps cascaded to second-line units.
The BTRs hauled artillery, engineers and anti-aircraft guns until MT-LB tractors began displacing the older vehicles from those roles, too. As of last year, the Russian army operated just a handful of aged BTR-50Ps plus somewhat more modern BTR-50PU command vehicles.
But as losses of newer BTRs, BMPs and MT-LBs spiked, and factories struggled to produce enough replacement vehicles, the Kremlin this spring began reactivating some of the potentially hundreds of BTR-50s that had been languishing in long-term storage.
There was some speculation that the war-reserve BTRs would fill second-line roles as command posts or artillery-support vehicles. But then careful observers spotted some of the 15-ton vehicles with 23-millimeter autocannons in place of their usual heavy machine guns.
It was apparent the Russians planned to send the up-armed APCs close to the front, either as infantry-support vehicles or crude air-defense systems.
In those roles, the geriatric BTRs were all but doomed. At least one of them blew up and flipped over in a pile of its deceased former occupants on a road outside Avdiivka.
Tragically for the BTR’s crew and passengers, the Russians’ Avdiivka offensive seems to be mostly symbolic: an effort to achieve some kind of victory in advance of the coming winter, when the cold weather and wet ground might make further advances—by either side—difficult.
As a symbol, the attack so far has failed. If the assault stands for anything, it stands for failure. The Kremlin sent troops to die in an obsolete vehicle as part of an ill-prepared force pursuing an objective with little real military value.
Fixed, thanks for the correction. I copied the headline from another source.
It helps to get lower, but they were screwed regardless.
Cats wants to touch grass. 😿
Hamas went in and massacred civilians and took hostages. Zelenskyy can clearly emphathize with Israel at this point in time without any further motivation necessary.
Excuse me, but this is "the situation".
https://sopuli.xyz/post/4775539
In this video you can see several helicopters and an ammo warehouse burning