UAV raid on Dubna and Zelenograd, counterattacks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Liman direction, “tire protection” in service with the RF Armed Forces. What's happening at the front • The Insider • RIMA — Russian Independent Media Archive
UAV raid on Dubna and Zelenograd, counterattacks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Liman direction, “tire protection” in service with the RF Armed Forces. What's happening at the front
The Russian Ministry of Defense reported on the capture of the village of Konstantinovka in a new area in the border strip of the Sumy region
Vladimir Zelensky: Ukrainian troops left the Kursk region “from one direction” and re-entered “from another”
In the Liman direction, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are conducting counterattacks on the southern flank of the Russian bridgehead on the right bank of the Zherebets River
In the Pokrovsk direction, Russian flank coverage east of Mirnograd is expanding
Massive UAV raid on Moscow and the Moscow region - more than 40 drones are reported to have been intercepted
The video recorded “arrivals” at at least three military-industrial complex enterprises in Zelenograd and Dubna
The German government announced the allocation of €5 billion for the production of weapons and ammunition for Ukraine
The Russian military has introduced “tire protection” of artillery barrels from FPV drones
Situation at the front
In the Kursk direction, the Russian Armed Forces advanced into the Sumy region in a new section from the state border .
The Russian Ministry of Defense announced the capture of the village of Konstantinovka in the Sumy region, located significantly west of the current zone of control of the Russian Armed Forces in the region. On the DeepState map, the village and its surroundings are classified as a “gray zone” . “Voenkor” Yuri Kotenok confirms the information about Konstantinovka and talks about the continuation of fighting in Yunakovka and Vodolagi. In addition, he notes the “straightening” of the LBS between Belovody and Lokney.
Vladimir Zelensky said that the Russian Armed Forces are amassing more than 50 thousand people on the borders of the Sumy region to prepare offensive actions and create a “buffer zone” up to 10 km deep. According to Zelensky, Ukrainian troops left the Kursk region “from one direction,” but now “entered from a different direction,” apparently referring to the Tyotkin area.
In the Kupyansk direction , Russian troops are advancing from the border to a bridgehead on the right bank of the Oskol River .
Yuri Kotenok talks about the crossing of the state border by the Russian Armed Forces and the capture of the village of Stroevka to the northeast of the bridgehead on the right bank of Oskol. In addition, he notes the advance of the Russians 1 km north of Topol and 1.5 km from Kamenka to Kolodeznoye.
IFS - engineering and fortification structures.
“Flag sticking” is the installation of a flag of one side or another in a populated area or at a strategically important position, designed to indicate presence or create the appearance of such. The word is borrowed from the jargon of space exploration enthusiasts and originally meant a limited interplanetary manned mission with no serious scientific objectives.
KAB - adjustable aerial bomb. In Russian arsenals there are products with the letter code “KAB”, but in Ukraine this is also the name for conventional Russian aerial bombs equipped with a planning and correction module (UMPC), as well as Western-made adjustable aerial bombs used by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
LBS - line of combat contact.
The “gray zone” is a territory located between the parties to the fighting, but not fully controlled by any of them.
DeepState is a Ukrainian project that maintains a regularly updated map of territory control in the combat zone in Ukraine and publishes reports on the situation at the front based on open source intelligence (OSINT) and information from the Ukrainian military.
UAV - unmanned aerial vehicle. Used as an umbrella term for various categories of unmanned aircraft systems - from small copters and FPV drones to large reconnaissance and attack drones such as Bayraktar TB2 and loitering munitions such as Shahed.
“Locationally lost” is the wording used in the reports of the Air Force of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in relation to Russian long-range drones that were either neutralized using electronic warfare systems or turned out to be drones - decoys that did not carry a warhead and fell without causing harm.
"Shahed" is the name of a family of Iranian kamikaze drones, specifically the Shahed-131 and Shahed-136. Localized Russian versions are called “Geran-1” and “Geran-2” and are produced at the site of the Alabuga SEZ in Tatarstan. The flight range of the Geran-2 drone is up to 2.5 thousand km, the weight of the warhead is up to 90 kg.
“Grill”, also known as “visor”, is a lattice structure installed on armored vehicles and other objects. Initially, the Russian military hoped that it would save tanks from Javelin anti-tank systems, but later both sides began to use them to protect against ammunition dropped from drones and from kamikaze drones.
BMD - airborne combat vehicle. A class of tracked armored vehicles of Soviet and later Russian production, serving as an infantry fighting vehicle for airborne units. The main feature of the BMD is the ability to land from aircraft, which negatively affects the level of security and reliability. By analogy with the Soviet BMP nomenclature, the BMD model range is marked with serial numbers: BMD-1, BMD-2, BMD-3, BMD-4.
CIT is an investigative group, Conflict Intelligence Team, created in 2014 by Ruslan Leviev. The organization studies the activities of Russian military and mercenaries in Ukraine, Syria and Africa, and since 2022 it regularly covers and analyzes the events of the Russian-Ukrainian war.
FPV drones are drones that are controlled by an operator in the first person (First Person View) . The advantage of such systems is that the operator clearly sees where the drone is flying (most often a kamikaze), which allows, for example, to fly into shelters and hit individual unprotected elements of military equipment.
Air defense - air defense. The branch of the military and the generally accepted name for forces and assets, down to individual weapons systems, designed to cover military and other strategically important objects from air attack weapons.
OSINT - intelligence using open sources of information ( Open source intelligence, English ).
The situation in the north of the Kupyansk direction according to Yuri Kotenok
Voenkor Kitten
In the Liman direction , the Ukrainian Armed Forces are counterattacking in the south of the Russian bridgehead on the right bank of the Zherebets River .
Yuri Kotenok admits that the Russian Armed Forces were unable to gain a foothold in Kolodezy and Mirny and were driven out by Ukrainian troops, which led to the loss of an important logistics route through the dam. In addition, he writes that in the center of Redkodub the Ukrainian Armed Forces are offering “fierce resistance.”
In the Pokrovsk direction , the flank coverage of the Russian Armed Forces east of Mirnograd is increasing (until 2016 - Dimitrov) .
According to DeepState, Russian troops advanced near Troitsky on the western flank and towards Yablonovka and Malinovka (until 2016 - Ulyanovka) on the eastern flank, expanding the flank coverage of Mirnograd.
A Ukrainian soldier, the host of the Telegram channel “Officer ✙,” writes that Russian troops managed to enter the southern outskirts of Popov Yar. He describes massive enemy air strikes in this area - 40-50 air strikes per day. According to Yuri Kotenok, the Russian Armed Forces have occupied Poltavka and are clearing this settlement, while simultaneously developing an offensive on Rusin Yar, and have gained a foothold in Popov Yar.
In the south-Donetsk direction, the Russian military came close to the junction of the borders of Zaporozhye and Dnepropetrovsk regions .
The Russian Ministry of Defense announced the capture of the village of Zelenoye Pole; as confirmation, a video with a “flag stick”was posted . This statement is confirmed by the authors of the Z-channel “Warrior DV” ( geolocation ). “Voenkor” Kotenok writes that after the capture of Green Field, the Russian Armed Forces reached the Ukrainian IFS line at the junction of the Zaporozhye and Dnepropetrovsk regions.
IFS - engineering and fortification structures.
“Flag sticking” is the installation of a flag of one side or another in a populated area or at a strategically important position, designed to indicate presence or create the appearance of such. The word is borrowed from the jargon of space exploration enthusiasts and originally meant a limited interplanetary manned mission with no serious scientific objectives.
KAB - adjustable aerial bomb. In Russian arsenals there are products with the letter code “KAB”, but in Ukraine this is also the name for conventional Russian aerial bombs equipped with a planning and correction module (UMPC), as well as Western-made adjustable aerial bombs used by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
LBS - line of combat contact.
The “gray zone” is a territory located between the parties to the fighting, but not fully controlled by any of them.
DeepState is a Ukrainian project that maintains a regularly updated map of territory control in the combat zone in Ukraine and publishes reports on the situation at the front based on open source intelligence (OSINT) and information from the Ukrainian military.
UAV - unmanned aerial vehicle. Used as an umbrella term for various categories of unmanned aircraft systems - from small copters and FPV drones to large reconnaissance and attack drones such as Bayraktar TB2 and loitering munitions such as Shahed.
“Locationally lost” is the wording used in the reports of the Air Force of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in relation to Russian long-range drones that were either neutralized using electronic warfare systems or turned out to be drones - decoys that did not carry a warhead and fell without causing harm.
"Shahed" is the name of a family of Iranian kamikaze drones, specifically the Shahed-131 and Shahed-136. Localized Russian versions are called “Geran-1” and “Geran-2” and are produced at the site of the Alabuga SEZ in Tatarstan. The flight range of the Geran-2 drone is up to 2.5 thousand km, the weight of the warhead is up to 90 kg.
“Grill”, also known as “visor”, is a lattice structure installed on armored vehicles and other objects. Initially, the Russian military hoped that it would save tanks from Javelin anti-tank systems, but later both sides began to use them to protect against ammunition dropped from drones and from kamikaze drones.
BMD - airborne combat vehicle. A class of tracked armored vehicles of Soviet and later Russian production, serving as an infantry fighting vehicle for airborne units. The main feature of the BMD is the ability to land from aircraft, which negatively affects the level of security and reliability. By analogy with the Soviet BMP nomenclature, the BMD model range is marked with serial numbers: BMD-1, BMD-2, BMD-3, BMD-4.
CIT is an investigative group, Conflict Intelligence Team, created in 2014 by Ruslan Leviev. The organization studies the activities of Russian military and mercenaries in Ukraine, Syria and Africa, and since 2022 it regularly covers and analyzes the events of the Russian-Ukrainian war.
FPV drones are drones that are controlled by an operator in the first person (First Person View) . The advantage of such systems is that the operator clearly sees where the drone is flying (most often a kamikaze), which allows, for example, to fly into shelters and hit individual unprotected elements of military equipment.
Air defense - air defense. The branch of the military and the generally accepted name for forces and assets, down to individual weapons systems, designed to cover military and other strategically important objects from air attack weapons.
OSINT - intelligence using open sources of information ( Open source intelligence, English ).
In the weekly infographics of military clashes, the Ukrainian OSINT resource “Eye of Horus ✙ News and Analytics” shows a decrease in the intensity of fighting by 2% compared to the previous week in almost the entire LBS. The largest number of attacks (403) were recorded in the Pokrovsk direction.
Mutual shelling and sabotage
The Air Force of the Ukrainian Armed Forces reported a raid on the night of May 28 by 88 Shahed- type drones, as well as other unspecified types. Of these, 34 were shot down, another 37 were “locally lost.” Also, five Iskander-M / KN-23 ballistic missiles and a Kh-59/Kh-69 guided aircraft missile were fired into Ukraine.
After a UAV raid on the Kharkov region, one person was killed and seven were injured, including one child. Ten hits were reported in the residential sector and one in a civilian enterprise, which started fires.
The Russian Ministry of Defense reported on the destruction of 296 drones over the Moscow region, as well as over the Bryansk, Belgorod, Vladimir, Voronezh, Ivanovo, Kaluga, Kursk, Oryol, Ryazan, Smolensk, Tver, and Tula regions on the night of May 28. Contrary to usual practice, the agency does not provide a breakdown of the number of intercepted drones by region.
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin wrote that on the night of May 28 , 33 UAVs attacking the city were shot down . Governor of the Moscow region Andrei Vorobyov announced42 intercepted drones .
Zelenograd (an administrative district within Moscow) was attacked and a fire started there. Sobyanin reported that there were no casualties. The UAV exploded in the immediate vicinity of one of the buildings of the Elma technology park, and a car parked nearby burned down. One of the downed drones fell on the Ivolga train, which was standing near the Kryukovo station. As Astra wrote , this building houses part of the premises of the Microelectronics plant.
In Dubna, near Moscow, the target of the raid was the drone developer Kronstadt: at least one UAV exploded on its territory ( geolocation ). Local residents who filmed the attack said that at least three drones hit the enterprise.
IFS - engineering and fortification structures.
“Flag sticking” is the installation of a flag of one side or another in a populated area or at a strategically important position, designed to indicate presence or create the appearance of such. The word is borrowed from the jargon of space exploration enthusiasts and originally meant a limited interplanetary manned mission with no serious scientific objectives.
KAB - adjustable aerial bomb. In Russian arsenals there are products with the letter code “KAB”, but in Ukraine this is also the name for conventional Russian aerial bombs equipped with a planning and correction module (UMPC), as well as Western-made adjustable aerial bombs used by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
LBS - line of combat contact.
The “gray zone” is a territory located between the parties to the fighting, but not fully controlled by any of them.
DeepState is a Ukrainian project that maintains a regularly updated map of territory control in the combat zone in Ukraine and publishes reports on the situation at the front based on open source intelligence (OSINT) and information from the Ukrainian military.
UAV - unmanned aerial vehicle. Used as an umbrella term for various categories of unmanned aircraft systems - from small copters and FPV drones to large reconnaissance and attack drones such as Bayraktar TB2 and loitering munitions such as Shahed.
“Locationally lost” is the wording used in the reports of the Air Force of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in relation to Russian long-range drones that were either neutralized using electronic warfare systems or turned out to be drones - decoys that did not carry a warhead and fell without causing harm.
"Shahed" is the name of a family of Iranian kamikaze drones, specifically the Shahed-131 and Shahed-136. Localized Russian versions are called “Geran-1” and “Geran-2” and are produced at the site of the Alabuga SEZ in Tatarstan. The flight range of the Geran-2 drone is up to 2.5 thousand km, the weight of the warhead is up to 90 kg.
“Grill”, also known as “visor”, is a lattice structure installed on armored vehicles and other objects. Initially, the Russian military hoped that it would save tanks from Javelin anti-tank systems, but later both sides began to use them to protect against ammunition dropped from drones and from kamikaze drones.
BMD - airborne combat vehicle. A class of tracked armored vehicles of Soviet and later Russian production, serving as an infantry fighting vehicle for airborne units. The main feature of the BMD is the ability to land from aircraft, which negatively affects the level of security and reliability. By analogy with the Soviet BMP nomenclature, the BMD model range is marked with serial numbers: BMD-1, BMD-2, BMD-3, BMD-4.
CIT is an investigative group, Conflict Intelligence Team, created in 2014 by Ruslan Leviev. The organization studies the activities of Russian military and mercenaries in Ukraine, Syria and Africa, and since 2022 it regularly covers and analyzes the events of the Russian-Ukrainian war.
FPV drones are drones that are controlled by an operator in the first person (First Person View) . The advantage of such systems is that the operator clearly sees where the drone is flying (most often a kamikaze), which allows, for example, to fly into shelters and hit individual unprotected elements of military equipment.
Air defense - air defense. The branch of the military and the generally accepted name for forces and assets, down to individual weapons systems, designed to cover military and other strategically important objects from air attack weapons.
OSINT - intelligence using open sources of information ( Open source intelligence, English ).
Another blow in Dubna hit the building of the Raduga design bureau, manufacturer of the X-101 and X-59/X-69 missiles (geolocation 1 , 2 ).
IFS - engineering and fortification structures.
“Flag sticking” is the installation of a flag of one side or another in a populated area or at a strategically important position, designed to indicate presence or create the appearance of such. The word is borrowed from the jargon of space exploration enthusiasts and originally meant a limited interplanetary manned mission with no serious scientific objectives.
KAB - adjustable aerial bomb. In Russian arsenals there are products with the letter code “KAB”, but in Ukraine this is also the name for conventional Russian aerial bombs equipped with a planning and correction module (UMPC), as well as Western-made adjustable aerial bombs used by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
LBS - line of combat contact.
The “gray zone” is a territory located between the parties to the fighting, but not fully controlled by any of them.
DeepState is a Ukrainian project that maintains a regularly updated map of territory control in the combat zone in Ukraine and publishes reports on the situation at the front based on open source intelligence (OSINT) and information from the Ukrainian military.
UAV - unmanned aerial vehicle. Used as an umbrella term for various categories of unmanned aircraft systems - from small copters and FPV drones to large reconnaissance and attack drones such as Bayraktar TB2 and loitering munitions such as Shahed.
“Locationally lost” is the wording used in the reports of the Air Force of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in relation to Russian long-range drones that were either neutralized using electronic warfare systems or turned out to be drones - decoys that did not carry a warhead and fell without causing harm.
"Shahed" is the name of a family of Iranian kamikaze drones, specifically the Shahed-131 and Shahed-136. Localized Russian versions are called “Geran-1” and “Geran-2” and are produced at the site of the Alabuga SEZ in Tatarstan. The flight range of the Geran-2 drone is up to 2.5 thousand km, the weight of the warhead is up to 90 kg.
“Grill”, also known as “visor”, is a lattice structure installed on armored vehicles and other objects. Initially, the Russian military hoped that it would save tanks from Javelin anti-tank systems, but later both sides began to use them to protect against ammunition dropped from drones and from kamikaze drones.
BMD - airborne combat vehicle. A class of tracked armored vehicles of Soviet and later Russian production, serving as an infantry fighting vehicle for airborne units. The main feature of the BMD is the ability to land from aircraft, which negatively affects the level of security and reliability. By analogy with the Soviet BMP nomenclature, the BMD model range is marked with serial numbers: BMD-1, BMD-2, BMD-3, BMD-4.
CIT is an investigative group, Conflict Intelligence Team, created in 2014 by Ruslan Leviev. The organization studies the activities of Russian military and mercenaries in Ukraine, Syria and Africa, and since 2022 it regularly covers and analyzes the events of the Russian-Ukrainian war.
FPV drones are drones that are controlled by an operator in the first person (First Person View) . The advantage of such systems is that the operator clearly sees where the drone is flying (most often a kamikaze), which allows, for example, to fly into shelters and hit individual unprotected elements of military equipment.
Air defense - air defense. The branch of the military and the generally accepted name for forces and assets, down to individual weapons systems, designed to cover military and other strategically important objects from air attack weapons.
OSINT - intelligence using open sources of information ( Open source intelligence, English ).
According to an UNIAN agency source in the Ukrainian special services, the operation was carried out by the SBU.
“Voenkor” Alexander Kots is indignant at people who record air defense work and “arrivals” on video, after which these videos end up on the Internet:
“We need to ban this program, ‘You’re your own director.’ It’s one thing to show the consequences of attacks on civilian targets. Another is to upload footage of air defense operations and drone strikes onto the Internet in almost real time.”
Analysts of the Ukrainian OSINT project “CyberBoroshno” analyzed images of the Saki airfield in occupied Crimea and came to the conclusion that between May 1 and 5, the command post for controlling the Orion UAV and, possibly, the UAV itself of this type were probably hit with the help of an FPV drone .
According to the calculations of CIT volunteers, in the 24 hours from 20:00 on May 26 to 20:00 on May 27, at least one civilian was killed in Russia and Ukraine, including in the occupied territories, and another 39 were injured.
Weapons and military equipment
German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius and his Ukrainian counterpart Rustem Umerov signed an agreement in Berlin to finance the production of Ukrainian-made long-range weapons. In total, the German government will allocate about €5 billion to support the Ukrainian armed forces , including the production of weapon systems, supplies of ammunition and air defense systems. There are also plans to create a permanent Enduring Action on Air Defense initiative to long-term strengthen Ukrainian air defense together with international partners.
An OSINT researcher under the nickname imi (m) published a photo of a Russian howitzer with car tires strung on its barrel, apparently in the hope of protecting it in this way from FPV drones . As far as we know, Ukrainian operators most often aim at the barrel. Ukrainian military observer Alexander Kovalenko notes that tires are used en masse to protect equipment in the Russian Armed Forces, just like, say, logs for additional armor. He sneers at the “unparalleled Russian military-industrial complex,” suggesting that Russian enterprises file a patent for these types of “bus protection.”
IFS - engineering and fortification structures.
“Flag sticking” is the installation of a flag of one side or another in a populated area or at a strategically important position, designed to indicate presence or create the appearance of such. The word is borrowed from the jargon of space exploration enthusiasts and originally meant a limited interplanetary manned mission with no serious scientific objectives.
KAB - adjustable aerial bomb. In Russian arsenals there are products with the letter code “KAB”, but in Ukraine this is also the name for conventional Russian aerial bombs equipped with a planning and correction module (UMPC), as well as Western-made adjustable aerial bombs used by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
LBS - line of combat contact.
The “gray zone” is a territory located between the parties to the fighting, but not fully controlled by any of them.
DeepState is a Ukrainian project that maintains a regularly updated map of territory control in the combat zone in Ukraine and publishes reports on the situation at the front based on open source intelligence (OSINT) and information from the Ukrainian military.
UAV - unmanned aerial vehicle. Used as an umbrella term for various categories of unmanned aircraft systems - from small copters and FPV drones to large reconnaissance and attack drones such as Bayraktar TB2 and loitering munitions such as Shahed.
“Locationally lost” is the wording used in the reports of the Air Force of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in relation to Russian long-range drones that were either neutralized using electronic warfare systems or turned out to be drones - decoys that did not carry a warhead and fell without causing harm.
"Shahed" is the name of a family of Iranian kamikaze drones, specifically the Shahed-131 and Shahed-136. Localized Russian versions are called “Geran-1” and “Geran-2” and are produced at the site of the Alabuga SEZ in Tatarstan. The flight range of the Geran-2 drone is up to 2.5 thousand km, the weight of the warhead is up to 90 kg.
“Grill”, also known as “visor”, is a lattice structure installed on armored vehicles and other objects. Initially, the Russian military hoped that it would save tanks from Javelin anti-tank systems, but later both sides began to use them to protect against ammunition dropped from drones and from kamikaze drones.
BMD - airborne combat vehicle. A class of tracked armored vehicles of Soviet and later Russian production, serving as an infantry fighting vehicle for airborne units. The main feature of the BMD is the ability to land from aircraft, which negatively affects the level of security and reliability. By analogy with the Soviet BMP nomenclature, the BMD model range is marked with serial numbers: BMD-1, BMD-2, BMD-3, BMD-4.
CIT is an investigative group, Conflict Intelligence Team, created in 2014 by Ruslan Leviev. The organization studies the activities of Russian military and mercenaries in Ukraine, Syria and Africa, and since 2022 it regularly covers and analyzes the events of the Russian-Ukrainian war.
FPV drones are drones that are controlled by an operator in the first person (First Person View) . The advantage of such systems is that the operator clearly sees where the drone is flying (most often a kamikaze), which allows, for example, to fly into shelters and hit individual unprotected elements of military equipment.
Air defense - air defense. The branch of the military and the generally accepted name for forces and assets, down to individual weapons systems, designed to cover military and other strategically important objects from air attack weapons.
OSINT - intelligence using open sources of information ( Open source intelligence, English ).
Russian howitzer with “tire protection”
imi(m)
In the Z-channel “Military Informant” they demonstrate a remarkable example of homemade additional armor for the BMD -2. The tower is protected by a “barbecue” with pieces of rubberized material, which gives the car the appearance of a hut, and sheets of metal are welded onto the sides.
IFS - engineering and fortification structures.
“Flag sticking” is the installation of a flag of one side or another in a populated area or at a strategically important position, designed to indicate presence or create the appearance of such. The word is borrowed from the jargon of space exploration enthusiasts and originally meant a limited interplanetary manned mission with no serious scientific objectives.
KAB - adjustable aerial bomb. In Russian arsenals there are products with the letter code “KAB”, but in Ukraine this is also the name for conventional Russian aerial bombs equipped with a planning and correction module (UMPC), as well as Western-made adjustable aerial bombs used by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
LBS - line of combat contact.
The “gray zone” is a territory located between the parties to the fighting, but not fully controlled by any of them.
DeepState is a Ukrainian project that maintains a regularly updated map of territory control in the combat zone in Ukraine and publishes reports on the situation at the front based on open source intelligence (OSINT) and information from the Ukrainian military.
UAV - unmanned aerial vehicle. Used as an umbrella term for various categories of unmanned aircraft systems - from small copters and FPV drones to large reconnaissance and attack drones such as Bayraktar TB2 and loitering munitions such as Shahed.
“Locationally lost” is the wording used in the reports of the Air Force of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in relation to Russian long-range drones that were either neutralized using electronic warfare systems or turned out to be drones - decoys that did not carry a warhead and fell without causing harm.
"Shahed" is the name of a family of Iranian kamikaze drones, specifically the Shahed-131 and Shahed-136. Localized Russian versions are called “Geran-1” and “Geran-2” and are produced at the site of the Alabuga SEZ in Tatarstan. The flight range of the Geran-2 drone is up to 2.5 thousand km, the weight of the warhead is up to 90 kg.
“Grill”, also known as “visor”, is a lattice structure installed on armored vehicles and other objects. Initially, the Russian military hoped that it would save tanks from Javelin anti-tank systems, but later both sides began to use them to protect against ammunition dropped from drones and from kamikaze drones.
BMD - airborne combat vehicle. A class of tracked armored vehicles of Soviet and later Russian production, serving as an infantry fighting vehicle for airborne units. The main feature of the BMD is the ability to land from aircraft, which negatively affects the level of security and reliability. By analogy with the Soviet BMP nomenclature, the BMD model range is marked with serial numbers: BMD-1, BMD-2, BMD-3, BMD-4.
CIT is an investigative group, Conflict Intelligence Team, created in 2014 by Ruslan Leviev. The organization studies the activities of Russian military and mercenaries in Ukraine, Syria and Africa, and since 2022 it regularly covers and analyzes the events of the Russian-Ukrainian war.
FPV drones are drones that are controlled by an operator in the first person (First Person View) . The advantage of such systems is that the operator clearly sees where the drone is flying (most often a kamikaze), which allows, for example, to fly into shelters and hit individual unprotected elements of military equipment.
Air defense - air defense. The branch of the military and the generally accepted name for forces and assets, down to individual weapons systems, designed to cover military and other strategically important objects from air attack weapons.
OSINT - intelligence using open sources of information ( Open source intelligence, English ).
Russian BMD-2 with homemade additional protection
Military Informant
The Russian military showed a video of cutting the fiber optic cable of a Ukrainian drone using the blades of a quadcopter. The fiber optic drone then lost control and crashed into the ground.
IFS - engineering and fortification structures.
“Flag sticking” is the installation of a flag of one side or another in a populated area or at a strategically important position, designed to indicate presence or create the appearance of such. The word is borrowed from the jargon of space exploration enthusiasts and originally meant a limited interplanetary manned mission with no serious scientific objectives.
KAB - adjustable aerial bomb. In Russian arsenals there are products with the letter code “KAB”, but in Ukraine this is also the name for conventional Russian aerial bombs equipped with a planning and correction module (UMPC), as well as Western-made adjustable aerial bombs used by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
LBS - line of combat contact.
The “gray zone” is a territory located between the parties to the fighting, but not fully controlled by any of them.
DeepState is a Ukrainian project that maintains a regularly updated map of territory control in the combat zone in Ukraine and publishes reports on the situation at the front based on open source intelligence (OSINT) and information from the Ukrainian military.
UAV - unmanned aerial vehicle. Used as an umbrella term for various categories of unmanned aircraft systems - from small copters and FPV drones to large reconnaissance and attack drones such as Bayraktar TB2 and loitering munitions such as Shahed.
“Locationally lost” is the wording used in the reports of the Air Force of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in relation to Russian long-range drones that were either neutralized using electronic warfare systems or turned out to be drones - decoys that did not carry a warhead and fell without causing harm.
"Shahed" is the name of a family of Iranian kamikaze drones, specifically the Shahed-131 and Shahed-136. Localized Russian versions are called “Geran-1” and “Geran-2” and are produced at the site of the Alabuga SEZ in Tatarstan. The flight range of the Geran-2 drone is up to 2.5 thousand km, the weight of the warhead is up to 90 kg.
“Grill”, also known as “visor”, is a lattice structure installed on armored vehicles and other objects. Initially, the Russian military hoped that it would save tanks from Javelin anti-tank systems, but later both sides began to use them to protect against ammunition dropped from drones and from kamikaze drones.
BMD - airborne combat vehicle. A class of tracked armored vehicles of Soviet and later Russian production, serving as an infantry fighting vehicle for airborne units. The main feature of the BMD is the ability to land from aircraft, which negatively affects the level of security and reliability. By analogy with the Soviet BMP nomenclature, the BMD model range is marked with serial numbers: BMD-1, BMD-2, BMD-3, BMD-4.
CIT is an investigative group, Conflict Intelligence Team, created in 2014 by Ruslan Leviev. The organization studies the activities of Russian military and mercenaries in Ukraine, Syria and Africa, and since 2022 it regularly covers and analyzes the events of the Russian-Ukrainian war.
FPV drones are drones that are controlled by an operator in the first person (First Person View) . The advantage of such systems is that the operator clearly sees where the drone is flying (most often a kamikaze), which allows, for example, to fly into shelters and hit individual unprotected elements of military equipment.
Air defense - air defense. The branch of the military and the generally accepted name for forces and assets, down to individual weapons systems, designed to cover military and other strategically important objects from air attack weapons.
OSINT - intelligence using open sources of information ( Open source intelligence, English ).
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IFS - engineering and fortification structures.
“Flag sticking” is the installation of a flag of one side or another in a populated area or at a strategically important position, designed to indicate presence or create the appearance of such. The word is borrowed from the jargon of space exploration enthusiasts and originally meant a limited interplanetary manned mission with no serious scientific objectives.
KAB - adjustable aerial bomb. In Russian arsenals there are products with the letter code “KAB”, but in Ukraine this is also the name for conventional Russian aerial bombs equipped with a planning and correction module (UMPC), as well as Western-made adjustable aerial bombs used by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
LBS - line of combat contact.
The “gray zone” is a territory located between the parties to the fighting, but not fully controlled by any of them.
DeepState is a Ukrainian project that maintains a regularly updated map of territory control in the combat zone in Ukraine and publishes reports on the situation at the front based on open source intelligence (OSINT) and information from the Ukrainian military.
UAV - unmanned aerial vehicle. Used as an umbrella term for various categories of unmanned aircraft systems - from small copters and FPV drones to large reconnaissance and attack drones such as Bayraktar TB2 and loitering munitions such as Shahed.
“Locationally lost” is the wording used in the reports of the Air Force of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in relation to Russian long-range drones that were either neutralized using electronic warfare systems or turned out to be drones - decoys that did not carry a warhead and fell without causing harm.
"Shahed" is the name of a family of Iranian kamikaze drones, specifically the Shahed-131 and Shahed-136. Localized Russian versions are called “Geran-1” and “Geran-2” and are produced at the site of the Alabuga SEZ in Tatarstan. The flight range of the Geran-2 drone is up to 2.5 thousand km, the weight of the warhead is up to 90 kg.
“Grill”, also known as “visor”, is a lattice structure installed on armored vehicles and other objects. Initially, the Russian military hoped that it would save tanks from Javelin anti-tank systems, but later both sides began to use them to protect against ammunition dropped from drones and from kamikaze drones.
BMD - airborne combat vehicle. A class of tracked armored vehicles of Soviet and later Russian production, serving as an infantry fighting vehicle for airborne units. The main feature of the BMD is the ability to land from aircraft, which negatively affects the level of security and reliability. By analogy with the Soviet BMP nomenclature, the BMD model range is marked with serial numbers: BMD-1, BMD-2, BMD-3, BMD-4.
CIT is an investigative group, Conflict Intelligence Team, created in 2014 by Ruslan Leviev. The organization studies the activities of Russian military and mercenaries in Ukraine, Syria and Africa, and since 2022 it regularly covers and analyzes the events of the Russian-Ukrainian war.
FPV drones are drones that are controlled by an operator in the first person (First Person View) . The advantage of such systems is that the operator clearly sees where the drone is flying (most often a kamikaze), which allows, for example, to fly into shelters and hit individual unprotected elements of military equipment.
Air defense - air defense. The branch of the military and the generally accepted name for forces and assets, down to individual weapons systems, designed to cover military and other strategically important objects from air attack weapons.
OSINT - intelligence using open sources of information ( Open source intelligence, English ).
