Reports: Russia Hits NATO Member Romania With Kamikaze Drone. Although Kremlin strike planners probably didn’t intend to hit a NATO member, Romania’s military launched F-16s fighters and said it would investigate. The Iran-manufactured Shahed robot plane reportedly struck and blew up in the vicinity of the Danube River shoreside hamlet of Plaura, in southeastern Romania. From
Ukrainian social media video recorded at river port city of Izmail, opposite Plaura, showed an orange flash lighting up the night horizon and a booming blast on the Romanian side of the river.
Flames and smoke reaching hundreds of meters into the sky were visible following the explosion. A Russian kamikaze drone strike against Izmail had been in progress at the time. Anti-aircraft gunners, missile operators and tactical jamming teams in engagements across the country knocked down 17 Shahed kamikaze drones, six reconnaissance drones and two loitering strike drones, the official Kyiv statement said. “Most” of the kills were, per that report, in the airspace above the southwestern Odesa region, where the Danube separates Ukraine and Romania.
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/36310
Russian UAVs Again Enter NATO Airspace During Drone Attack on Ukraine. Ukrainian air defenses shot down 25 of 38 Russian Shaheds, while three drones again strayed into NATO member Romania. Russian troops launched a drone attack on Ukraine early Thursday, July 25, with three of the 38 drones straying into NATO airspace in Romania, according to Air Force Commander Mykola Oleschuk via Telegram.
The Air Force reported that Russian troops deployed 38 Shahed-131/136 attack UAVs, targeting Ukrainian infrastructure in several regions, including the southern Odesa region and central Ukraine.
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/36352
(26-07-2024, 02:36 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: [ -> ]ISW Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, July 25, 2024
Latest from the Institute for the Study of War.
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/36393
The Russian went on to bombs NATO Romania’s.
Reports: Russia Hits NATO Member Romania With Kamikaze Drone. Although Kremlin strike planners probably didn’t intend to hit a NATO member,
Romania’s military launched F-16s fighters and said it would investigate. The Iran-manufactured Shahed robot plane reportedly struck and blew up in the vicinity of the Danube River shoreside hamlet of Plaura, in southeastern Romania. From
Ukrainian social media video recorded at river port city of Izmail, opposite Plaura, showed an orange flash lighting up the night horizon and a booming blast on the Romanian side of the river.
Flames and smoke reaching hundreds of meters into the sky were visible following the explosion. A Russian kamikaze drone strike against Izmail had been in progress at the time.
https://youtube.com/shorts/ZfrW73pV1bs?s...xYF5HkqxkR
Ukrainian Drones Attack 3 Russian Air Bases – Damage Supersonic Bomber. Main Directorate of Intelligence (HUR) coordinated morning attacks on Russian air bases hundreds of miles away from one another – also an oil refinery. Source Says.
About 100 miles southeast of Moscow, at around 6 a.m. Saturday, July 27 the sounds of at least three explosions rang out at Dyagilevo air base, which serves as a training center for the Russian military’s strategic bomber force. And in the same, Ryazan Oblast, Ukraine’s Main Directorate of Intelligence (HUR) also struck an oil field with kamikaze drones, a source in Ukrainian intelligence told Kyiv Post Saturday afternoon.
A couple of hours later, the Astra Telegram channel published what was reported to be video of a robot plane in Ryazan Oblast and photos of a column of black smoke rising from the Dyagilevo air base. One person posting on social media, and calling their Ryazan-city home “just a stone’s throw” from air base, said: “My window was open, I almost shit myself from the sounds.
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/36479
(23-07-2024, 02:03 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: [ -> ]Hungary's Orban Met Up With Putin In Moscow Following Trip To Kyiv, Angering EU Officials.
https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-orban-vis...22024.html
EU stripped Hungary of EU meeting over Ukraine stance
Hungary described move as a "completely childish
Germany Sends Additional Tanks, Radar and Ammunition for Gepard. In coordination with Denmark, will transfer eight additional Leopard 1A5 tanks, total Leopard 1A5 tanks provided to Ukraine to 58, upfrom previous count 50 Ukrainian military has received a new shipment of 21,000 rounds of ammunition for Gepard self-propelled anti-aircraft guns.
“There was a spectacular hunt for the invaders who managed to leave the burning vehicles by our attack drone operators,” the paratroopers said.
The Russian command has been trying to seize the positions of the 79th separate air assault brigade near the villages of Kostyantynivka and Paraskoviivka for a long time.
https://mil.in.ua/en/news/tauride-brigad...sk-region/
According to the plan, Ukrainians will be trained abroad, serve in the Ukrainian Defense Forces, and then return to their home country.I n the Czech Republic, as in Poland, participation in training would be voluntary. The Ministry of Defense is collecting additional information from Poland on the formation of the so-called Ukrainian Legion. When we have it, we will consider our possibilities of involvement,” Defence Ministry spokesman David Polak to iDNES.cz said. According to the latest data from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, more than 100,000 Ukrainian men aged 18 to 65 are living in the Czech Republic.
Ukraine is expected to take conservative approach to their deployment. Washington Post said, first few F-16s will likely be used in defensive roles rather than mixing it up with Russian MiGs & Sukhois. it’s still not known what operating restrictions have been imposed by NATO donating the aircraft. At first, F-16s will operate well out of harm’s way, shooting down drones doing other defensive tasks. Ukraine says training process for pilots is an issue b'cos it takes more than 6-mths to get them the language & technical skills they need to operate a Western aircraft using much different systems & control doctrines than old Soviet airframes they normally fly, since only best Ukrainian pilots are selected for F-16 training, their commanders are loathe to lose them b'cos of gaps they leave in the ranks of experienced pilots.
Despite all problems, Ukraine is still welcoming the addition F-16s, particularly their longer-range radars & flexibility, the fear factor they will instill in opposing Russian pilots, makes sense for the Ukrainians to integrate the F-16s slowly.
https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/293260/
F-16s in Ukraine, Impossible Turned Possible’ – Ukraine at War Update for Aug 1. Have long-awaited US-made F-16 fighters finally appeared over Ukrainian skies? Wagner element sighted among troops in Venezuela; Ukrainian drone shoots down helicopter.
F-16s spotted over Lviv?
F-16 warplanes were allegedly spotted over the Lviv's central square on July 31 after various reports confirmed that the fighter aircraft were indeed in Ukraine. Late in the evening on Wednesday social media channels began showing images of a what appears to be an F-16 flying through a blue sky above Lviv’s Rynok Square. Kyiv Post has not been able to independently verify any of the F-16 images or video media, and the likelihood of digital manipulation has already been suggested.
Ukraine will not officially confirm the arrival of F-16. In this matter, ‘the fog of war is very useful,’” Mykhailo Podolyak, advisor to the head of the Office of the President, is reported to have said on various Telegram channels. Earlier in the day, Bloomberg reported that Ukraine had finally received its first F-16s.
Also on Wednesday, Lithuania’s foreign minister & US official told Reuters, the first batch of long-awaited F-16 jets had arrived in Ukraine. 
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/36688
Russia suffers big losses has 'minor gains' on eastern front, Ukraine received 6 F-16s from Netherlands, The Times reports.
After Russia's Kharkiv offensive failed, Moscow began concentrating efforts in the east, "throwing everything they have" in the Pokrovsk direction, Ukraine's acknowledged an increasingly difficult situation in Pokrovsk direction as battlefield monitoring indicate steady progress of Russian troops westward. The Russian forces are concentrating largest number of solduers, largest number of weapons & KAB bombs, everything they have, in Pokrovsk direction". The Russia launched offensive northern part of Kharkiv back in May. &
Is push eventually ran out of steam as Ukrainian forces halted Moscow's advance & suffer heavy losses but they has "minor gains" in places in Ukraine's east, Ukraine's Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi said on Aug. 1.
https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-latest-18/
Poland and Ukraine to form a military unit from Ukrainians in Europe. Will it be effective?.
Ukrainian Legion members are expected to be trained and equipped in Poland, with the right to return to Europe after rotation in Ukraine. Kyiv and Warsaw have agreed to form & jointly train a new army brigade on Polish soil, betting the initiative could help recruit some of scores of Ukrainian men living in Poland & other EU countries.
The so-called Ukrainian Legion, a fresh initiative to boost Ukraine’s military manpower more than two years into Russia’s full-scale invasion, will be the first army formation to recruit Ukrainian volunteer fighters from abroad — including those who fled across the border to avoid being drafted to fight in the war and long-time Ukrainian residents of other countries.
Formation of the Ukrainian Legion, whose troops will be sent to fight in Ukraine against Russia’s invading forces following boot camp, is a key element of a bilateral security agreement inked on July 8 between Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk.
"Ukrainian Legion will train in Poland & equipped with help of our partners. Every Ukrainian citizen who decides to join Legion will be able to sign a contract with Armed Forces of Ukraine," Zelensky said at the time with Tusk at his side.
https://kyivindependent.com/poland-and-u...effective/
Ukrainian drone barrage madly on its regions. Kyiv says hit Russia airfield Russian saying Ukrainian forces overnight targeted multiple Russian regions with a massive drone barrage. On Saturday Ukrainian forces targeted multiple Russian regions with a massive drone barrage.
Russia's Ministry said in that its air defense systems “intercepted & destroyed” a total of 75 drones over a number of regions that lie on the border with Ukraine or not far from it.
Starting on Belgorod, Krasnodar, Kursk, Oryol, Rostov, Voronezh, and the Ryazan region deeper inside Russia. One of those drones was also shot down over Azov sea, statement said.
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wir...-112534439
German developers are demonstrating a new drone in Ukraine called HCX which is immune to radio -frequency jamming and detection because it communicates with its operator via a fiber-optic cable. Small drones have become ubiquitous in this conflict; Ukraine plans to build more than a million this year. But radio-frequency jamming has also stepped up. In a recent speech, French Army Chief of Staff Gen. Pierre Schill claimed that 75% of drones in Ukraine were taken down by electronic warfare breaking the link between drone and operator, suggesting that the reign of the drone could soon be over.
The HCX made by from HIGHCAT, based in Konstanz, Germany, unspools a fiber-optic cable as it flies. This supplies a high-bandwidth data link immune to radio interference. And because there are no radio emissions, neither the operator nor the drone can be located and targeted.
Flying By Fiber -- HIGHCAT co-founder Jan Hartmann explains that the cable only exerts about 8 ounces/ 250 grams of force on the drone, so it does not obstruct flight. It has a flight range of up to 12 miles / 20 kilometers. The drone drops cable behind it like a trail of breadcrumbs, so there is no tangling.
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The fiber is pretty strong - flying over trees and water is no problem,” says Hartmann. “Flying in circles is also fine, and the drone can even fly backwards.”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambli...n-ukraine/
‘The Enemy Have Broken Through’ – Forces Push Back Ukraine’s Army in Donetsk. The Russian army is pushing westward toward Pokrovsk continues west of Donetsk, near administrative border of the Donetsk & Zaporizhzhia regions. August 5, 2024. Over past few days, Russian have made significant progress in Donetsk advancing in the area of seven settlements, reports from Deep State. The Russian army is pushing westward to Pokrovsk, a crucial logistics hub for Ukrainian forces in Donbas, its offensive west of city of Donetsk near administrative border of Donetsk Zaporizhzhia. Ukrainian counterattacks involving tanks were not able to halt Russian advance.
Russian assaulting from 3 axes in Pokrovsk area, attacking from north, bypassing east. Assault op are ongoing west of Serhiivka. situation around Toretsk has worsened too, frontline situation analysis says, Russian troops have advanced several k/m. threatens to encircle Ukrainian troops fortified in positions established since 2015. If Russian advance continues at this pace, Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) may soon need to retreat from positions.
Toretsk itself remains under Ukrainian control but has endured massive shelling for over a mth, with attacks from artillery & aircraft guided bombs.
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/36889
Ukraine Had A Chance To Blow Up Russia’s Best Warplanes On The Tarmac. The White House Said —And Now It’s Not Too Late.
It time Ukrainian do the same to Russia.
There was a rare opportunity to deliver a major blow against the KAB infrastructure earlier this summer, when the Russian air force’s 47th Guards Bomber Aviation Regiment parked dozens of Su-
34s—out of roughly 100 in service—in open at Voronezh Malshevo air base in southern Russia 100 miles from the border with Ukraine.
Voronezh Malshevo is a reasonably well-defended base,
so Ukrainians pleaded for permission to fire their best American-made Army Tactical Missile System rockets at the base. The ATACMs are almost impossible to intercept.
But administration of U.S. Pres. Joe Biden said no. “Our policy has not changed,” Jake Sullivan, Biden’s national security advisor, told reporters last month. As before, Ukraine would only be allowed to fire ATACMS at targets in Russian-occupied Ukraine. The Russians observed the heated diplomacy regarding ATACMS—and made a rare proactive decision to pull the Su-34s from Voronezh Malshevo and other border airfields.
“Between the second half of June and mid-July, Russian forces relocated a lion’s [share] of valuable military assets away from the border area with Ukraine,” Frontelligence Insight noted. The departure of Su-34s from Voronezh Malshevo was among “the most notable movements.”Today many of the Su-34s are at bases hundreds of miles from the border.
They’re invulnerable to Ukrainian drones—but Ukraine farthest-flying models range more 1,000 miles.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/20...-too-late/
Ukraine open a new front to fight: Moscow:
Clashes with Ukrainian back troops on Russian soil. Time to return their dead back to the Russia federation. A sign reading "Kursk for u!" with a Z letter, a tactical insignia of Russian troops in Ukraine, outside village of Bolshoe Zhirovo, Kursk region, which borders Ukraine.
Moscow claims clashes with Ukrainian back troops in Russia's Kursk region, (Kyiv hasn't commented).
Russian pro-war Telegram channels wrote that a sabotage econnaissance with heavy equipment had entered Kursk region in the morning. Kursk region lies at border with Ukraine's Sumy Oblast, experiencing daily attacks by liberation soldiers
Russia's Ministry claimed around 5 p.m. local time that up to 500 soldiers of Ukraine's 22nd Separate Mechanized Brigade, equipped with 15 tanks and 20 armored vehicles, had allegedly attacked Russian units border settlements of Nikolaevo-Darino and Oleshnya in the Kursk region.
3 anti-Kremlin Russian armed groups units launched incursions into Belgorod & Kursk oblasts from Ukraine, resulting in clashes with Russian forces in several settlements. A spokesperson of Ukraine's military intelligence, confirmed to Kyiv Independent at the time, anti-Kremlin militias' raids made Moscow "change plans" on a possible new attack in Ukraine's northern sector.
When asked by Kyiv Independent about Russian claims on Aug. 6, the Freedom of Russia Legion, which was involved in two raids, the Gen Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces refused to comment.
https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-...sian-soil/
Russia locomotive has affected maintenance in the country has led to a rise in malfunctions on the network's trains, an increase in the number of vehicles being suspended, Russian newspapers Vedomosti & Kommersant reported in Feb/March this year. State-owned Russian Railways faces "imminent collapse" amid shortage locomotives, driven by Western-imposed sanctions imposed over war in Ukraine, a Russian Telegram channel has reported.
The outlet, widely believed to have ties to Russian security agencies, citing an unnamed source, that railway network's deputy head Sergei Kobzev told his subordinates at an internal meeting "that the situation is critical. The complete collapse entire railroad network in the country could happen in days," channel said. "[Russian Railways] chiefs have been ordered to work to point of exhaustion. Those who fail to cope are threatened dismissal and 'execution.' This is the motivation...
(06-08-2024, 10:25 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: [ -> ]'Fierce Fighting' Erupts in Russia's Border Region Amid Ukrainian Raid. "Against the backdrop of massive enemy strikes by aircraft-type UAVs [uncrewed aerial vehicles]. Kyiv launched an attack on "several sections" of the border, the account said, adding: "Artillery duels are underway." Another Russian military blogger described "fierce fighting" on the border in Kursk and in Belgorod, another border region southeast of Kursk, this morning 4 enemy tanks approached border" of Kursk region, a prominent Russian military blogger reported on Tuesday. Russian military bloggers are often used as sources for Moscow's war in Ukraine are typically aligned with Kremlin. Russian independent news outlet Astra & Ukrainian news outlets also reported border clashes on Tuesday.
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-...id-1935014
Ukraine war latest: Russian offensive expected to wind down; more battles in Russia's Kursk region reported.
Russian offensive expected to wind down within 2 months, Budanov says
Putin meets top Russian officials over Kursk region situation as more battles reported
Meanwhile Ukrainian FPV drone hit Russian Mi-28 helicopter in 'historic' feat, SBU source says
Ukrainian special forces raid Russian-occupied island in Black Sea
https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-latest-20/
Soldiers of the 53rd Mechanized Brigade conducted successful counteroffensive actions in New York town, Donetsk region. The video was published by the brigade’s press service. During street battles in New York, the military managed to recapture school No. 38, located in the northern part of the town, from the Russian invaders.
Worth noting intense battles are currently being fought in town for control of every street, clearing large buildings of enemy forces could significantly strengthen Ukrainian Defense Forces’ defensive.
Both combat aircraft & helicopters are involved in supporting Ukrainian defenders, constantly shelling enemy positions, enemy has numerical & significantly outmatched by Ukrainian Forces in the number of FPV drones, which play a crucial role in destroying Russian armored vehicles. Due to FPV drones, the Ukrainian troops are also destroying Russian air defense systems.
A destroyed Russia tank in Kurakhove. Aug 2024. Frame from video for 79th Air Assault Brigade.
https://mil.in.ua/en/news/53rd-brigade-l...-new-york/
Ukraine war latest: Battles in Kursk Oblast ongoing in 2 districts, day 3 on Russia territory.
3 hundreds Russian soldiers has been captured in Kursk Oblast battles, Ukraine's state claims
Russia closes 3 train stations in Kursk Oblast for passenger transport. Any Ukrainian ops in 'Russian border regions' will benefit future talks with Moscow, presidential advisor says
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/08/4/7468922/
