“Black day” for Russian strategic aviation, train crashes in the Bryansk and Kursk regions. What's happening at the front • The Insider • RIMA — Russian Independent Media Archive
Ukrainian drone raids on strategic aviation airfields - more than 10 combat aircraft were damaged and destroyed
Ukrainian sources - Operation Web was prepared for 1.5 years and took place under the personal control of Vladimir Zelensky
Military experts acknowledge significant damage to Russian aviation, but doubt that the balance of power will change in favor of Ukraine
Z-channels write about the “black bottom”, “Russian Pearl Harbor” and sneer at the protection from tires on damaged aircraft
Passenger and freight trains crashed in the Bryansk and Kursk regions - probably, we are talking about Ukrainian sabotage
On the night of June 1, a record number of drones were launched across Ukraine during the entire war - 472 units
After the Russian missile attack on the test site, the commander of the Ground Forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Mikhail Drapaty, submitted his resignation.
The Russian Armed Forces increased the offensive zone in the Sumy region to 30 km in width and up to 5–8 km in depth
Mutual shelling and sabotage
The day before, a large-scale sabotage operation called “The Web” was carried out - according to Vladimir Zelensky, a total of 117 Ukrainian FPV drones attacked Russian air bases, including strategic aviation. Ukrainian media, citing sources, wrote that the operation against the air component of Russia’s “nuclear triad” had been prepared for 18 months.
Judging by the photograph of SBU head Vasily Malyuk published on the same day, five airfields were chosen as targets for the operation:
Olenya in the Murmansk region
Diaghilevo in the Ryazan region
Belaya in the Irkutsk region
Ivanovo-Severny in Ivanovo region
Ukrainian in the Amur region
OSINT - intelligence using open sources of information ( Open source intelligence, English ).
The “nuclear triad” is the components of strategic nuclear forces: land (missile forces), sea (nuclear submarines with ballistic missiles, SSBNs) and air (strategic bombers).
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.
Rob Lee is a senior fellow in the Eurasia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) in Philadelphia and one of the most widely cited experts on the Russian-Ukrainian war.
A theater of war is a theater of military operations, the territory, the airspace above it and the adjacent water area where combat operations are taking place.
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.
ZhBU is a stationary reinforced concrete arch-type shelter designed to protect aircraft from attacks by fire weapons at airfield bases.
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.
Fighterbomber is a Russian pro-war Telegram channel close to the Russian Aerospace Forces. Regularly publishes insider information about Russian aviation. The author is considered to be retired Russian pilot Ilya Tumanov.
Tatarigami_UA is a reserve officer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the founder of the OSINT group Frontelligence Insight, who regularly publishes reviews of the situation at the front.
Cluster munitions are munitions that open up upon approaching a target, scattering small submunitions, which in turn explode, affecting a large area. Due to their indiscriminate nature and the danger of unexploded submunitions to civilians, they are banned in most countries around the world, with the exception of Russia, Ukraine and the United States, among others.
OTRK is an operational-tactical missile system. Designed to hit targets at a relatively long distance, most often from 100 to 500 km.
OVA is a regional military administration, the highest body of state power in a particular region of Ukraine during a period of martial law.
“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 decoy drones that did not carry a warhead and fell without causing damage.
SAM - anti-aircraft missile system.
SAM - anti-aircraft guided missile.
"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.
GUR - Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine ( Head Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Ukrainian ). Ukrainian military intelligence. The head is Major General Kirill Budanov.
DRG - sabotage and reconnaissance group; This is usually the name given to any formation that crosses the front line and operates behind enemy lines.
The Ukrainian Defense Forces (SDF) is a collective term meaning all Ukrainian law enforcement agencies taking part in hostilities. In addition to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, they include, in particular, the National Guard, the State Border Service, the National Police, the Main Intelligence Directorate and the SBU.
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.
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.
Storm Shadow / SCALP-EG - air-launched cruise missiles of the French-British development Storm Shadow / SCALP-EG ( Système de Croisière Autonome à Longue Portée–Emploi Général, French; “multipurpose high-precision long-range cruise missile with autonomous guidance”). The mass of the warhead is 450 kg, the range of the modifications transferred to Ukraine, apparently, does not exceed 300 km.
“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.
Pocket is a slang term for a piece of terrain surrounded by the enemy on three sides. It is considered a tactically disadvantageous position, since units defending in the "pocket" often experience supply problems and are at risk of complete encirclement.
BMP is an infantry fighting vehicle. An armored tracked or wheeled combat vehicle designed for the safe transportation of personnel to the front line of combat operations, their fire support and combat as part of mechanized units. It has moderate security and is mainly armed with machine gun and cannon systems. In the Soviet and Russian school of military engineering, it also serves as the name of specific vehicles when adding the serial number of the model: BMP-1, BMP-2, BMP-3.
Oryx is a military-themed project based on open source intelligence (OSINT). Created by two Dutch analysts who previously collaborated with the Bellingcat investigative project. It is considered the most reliable aggregator of data on visually confirmed losses of weapons, military and special equipment during the war in Ukraine.
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.
Electronic warfare is electronic warfare, one of the types of military-technical activities associated with the suppression of radio-electronic means and components of enemy control, communications and reconnaissance systems and with the protection of one’s own similar systems. In the Russian-Ukrainian war, the term “electronic warfare” is increasingly associated with systems designed to counter enemy drones.
“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.
Mobile air defense groups are units armed with artillery and machine gun mounts mounted on vehicles, designed to quickly travel to the routes of enemy drones in order to intercept them.
MLRS is a multiple launch rocket system. It is a installation that fires rockets (colloquially “missiles”) one after another, which increases the firepower of the salvo.
SAU is a self-propelled artillery unit.
SBU Head Vasily Malyuk above maps of five Russian military airfields
The Insider
At the present time , there is visual evidence of successful raids on two airfields: Olenya and Belaya .
According to satellite images of the Olenya airfield dated May 26, 2025, there were :
11 units of Tu-95MS strategic bombers
5 units of military transport An-12
40 Tu-22M3 long-range bombers
OSINT - intelligence using open sources of information ( Open source intelligence, English ).
The “nuclear triad” is the components of strategic nuclear forces: land (missile forces), sea (nuclear submarines with ballistic missiles, SSBNs) and air (strategic bombers).
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.
Rob Lee is a senior fellow in the Eurasia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) in Philadelphia and one of the most widely cited experts on the Russian-Ukrainian war.
A theater of war is a theater of military operations, the territory, the airspace above it and the adjacent water area where combat operations are taking place.
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.
ZhBU is a stationary reinforced concrete arch-type shelter designed to protect aircraft from attacks by fire weapons at airfield bases.
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.
Fighterbomber is a Russian pro-war Telegram channel close to the Russian Aerospace Forces. Regularly publishes insider information about Russian aviation. The author is considered to be retired Russian pilot Ilya Tumanov.
Tatarigami_UA is a reserve officer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the founder of the OSINT group Frontelligence Insight, who regularly publishes reviews of the situation at the front.
Cluster munitions are munitions that open up upon approaching a target, scattering small submunitions, which in turn explode, affecting a large area. Due to their indiscriminate nature and the danger of unexploded submunitions to civilians, they are banned in most countries around the world, with the exception of Russia, Ukraine and the United States, among others.
OTRK is an operational-tactical missile system. Designed to hit targets at a relatively long distance, most often from 100 to 500 km.
OVA is a regional military administration, the highest body of state power in a particular region of Ukraine during a period of martial law.
“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 decoy drones that did not carry a warhead and fell without causing damage.
SAM - anti-aircraft missile system.
SAM - anti-aircraft guided missile.
"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.
GUR - Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine ( Head Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Ukrainian ). Ukrainian military intelligence. The head is Major General Kirill Budanov.
DRG - sabotage and reconnaissance group; This is usually the name given to any formation that crosses the front line and operates behind enemy lines.
The Ukrainian Defense Forces (SDF) is a collective term meaning all Ukrainian law enforcement agencies taking part in hostilities. In addition to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, they include, in particular, the National Guard, the State Border Service, the National Police, the Main Intelligence Directorate and the SBU.
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.
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.
Storm Shadow / SCALP-EG - air-launched cruise missiles of the French-British development Storm Shadow / SCALP-EG ( Système de Croisière Autonome à Longue Portée–Emploi Général, French; “multipurpose high-precision long-range cruise missile with autonomous guidance”). The mass of the warhead is 450 kg, the range of the modifications transferred to Ukraine, apparently, does not exceed 300 km.
“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.
Pocket is a slang term for a piece of terrain surrounded by the enemy on three sides. It is considered a tactically disadvantageous position, since units defending in the "pocket" often experience supply problems and are at risk of complete encirclement.
BMP is an infantry fighting vehicle. An armored tracked or wheeled combat vehicle designed for the safe transportation of personnel to the front line of combat operations, their fire support and combat as part of mechanized units. It has moderate security and is mainly armed with machine gun and cannon systems. In the Soviet and Russian school of military engineering, it also serves as the name of specific vehicles when adding the serial number of the model: BMP-1, BMP-2, BMP-3.
Oryx is a military-themed project based on open source intelligence (OSINT). Created by two Dutch analysts who previously collaborated with the Bellingcat investigative project. It is considered the most reliable aggregator of data on visually confirmed losses of weapons, military and special equipment during the war in Ukraine.
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.
Electronic warfare is electronic warfare, one of the types of military-technical activities associated with the suppression of radio-electronic means and components of enemy control, communications and reconnaissance systems and with the protection of one’s own similar systems. In the Russian-Ukrainian war, the term “electronic warfare” is increasingly associated with systems designed to counter enemy drones.
“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.
Mobile air defense groups are units armed with artillery and machine gun mounts mounted on vehicles, designed to quickly travel to the routes of enemy drones in order to intercept them.
MLRS is a multiple launch rocket system. It is a installation that fires rockets (colloquially “missiles”) one after another, which increases the firepower of the salvo.
SAU is a self-propelled artillery unit.
Satellite image of Olenya airfield in the Murmansk region from May 26, 2025
AviVector
OSINT analysts refuted Ukrainian media reports about the transfer of 40 Tu-22M3 missile carriers from the Belaya airbase to the Olenya airbase hit by drones ( geolocation ). So far, two videos of aircraft attacks on Olenya, filmed directly from a drone, have been released.
OSINT - intelligence using open sources of information ( Open source intelligence, English ).
The “nuclear triad” is the components of strategic nuclear forces: land (missile forces), sea (nuclear submarines with ballistic missiles, SSBNs) and air (strategic bombers).
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.
Rob Lee is a senior fellow in the Eurasia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) in Philadelphia and one of the most widely cited experts on the Russian-Ukrainian war.
A theater of war is a theater of military operations, the territory, the airspace above it and the adjacent water area where combat operations are taking place.
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.
ZhBU is a stationary reinforced concrete arch-type shelter designed to protect aircraft from attacks by fire weapons at airfield bases.
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.
Fighterbomber is a Russian pro-war Telegram channel close to the Russian Aerospace Forces. Regularly publishes insider information about Russian aviation. The author is considered to be retired Russian pilot Ilya Tumanov.
Tatarigami_UA is a reserve officer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the founder of the OSINT group Frontelligence Insight, who regularly publishes reviews of the situation at the front.
Cluster munitions are munitions that open up upon approaching a target, scattering small submunitions, which in turn explode, affecting a large area. Due to their indiscriminate nature and the danger of unexploded submunitions to civilians, they are banned in most countries around the world, with the exception of Russia, Ukraine and the United States, among others.
OTRK is an operational-tactical missile system. Designed to hit targets at a relatively long distance, most often from 100 to 500 km.
OVA is a regional military administration, the highest body of state power in a particular region of Ukraine during a period of martial law.
“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 decoy drones that did not carry a warhead and fell without causing damage.
SAM - anti-aircraft missile system.
SAM - anti-aircraft guided missile.
"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.
GUR - Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine ( Head Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Ukrainian ). Ukrainian military intelligence. The head is Major General Kirill Budanov.
DRG - sabotage and reconnaissance group; This is usually the name given to any formation that crosses the front line and operates behind enemy lines.
The Ukrainian Defense Forces (SDF) is a collective term meaning all Ukrainian law enforcement agencies taking part in hostilities. In addition to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, they include, in particular, the National Guard, the State Border Service, the National Police, the Main Intelligence Directorate and the SBU.
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.
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.
Storm Shadow / SCALP-EG - air-launched cruise missiles of the French-British development Storm Shadow / SCALP-EG ( Système de Croisière Autonome à Longue Portée–Emploi Général, French; “multipurpose high-precision long-range cruise missile with autonomous guidance”). The mass of the warhead is 450 kg, the range of the modifications transferred to Ukraine, apparently, does not exceed 300 km.
“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.
Pocket is a slang term for a piece of terrain surrounded by the enemy on three sides. It is considered a tactically disadvantageous position, since units defending in the "pocket" often experience supply problems and are at risk of complete encirclement.
BMP is an infantry fighting vehicle. An armored tracked or wheeled combat vehicle designed for the safe transportation of personnel to the front line of combat operations, their fire support and combat as part of mechanized units. It has moderate security and is mainly armed with machine gun and cannon systems. In the Soviet and Russian school of military engineering, it also serves as the name of specific vehicles when adding the serial number of the model: BMP-1, BMP-2, BMP-3.
Oryx is a military-themed project based on open source intelligence (OSINT). Created by two Dutch analysts who previously collaborated with the Bellingcat investigative project. It is considered the most reliable aggregator of data on visually confirmed losses of weapons, military and special equipment during the war in Ukraine.
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.
Electronic warfare is electronic warfare, one of the types of military-technical activities associated with the suppression of radio-electronic means and components of enemy control, communications and reconnaissance systems and with the protection of one’s own similar systems. In the Russian-Ukrainian war, the term “electronic warfare” is increasingly associated with systems designed to counter enemy drones.
“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.
Mobile air defense groups are units armed with artillery and machine gun mounts mounted on vehicles, designed to quickly travel to the routes of enemy drones in order to intercept them.
MLRS is a multiple launch rocket system. It is a installation that fires rockets (colloquially “missiles”) one after another, which increases the firepower of the salvo.
SAU is a self-propelled artillery unit.
It is believed that most of the Tu-22M3 aircraft at the Olenya airfield are uncombat-ready aircraft that have been there for a long time - donors of spare parts, and several more aircraft (up to seven units) of this type, in addition to the Belaya and Olenya, are located at the Shaikovka airfield in the Kaluga region.
OSINT - intelligence using open sources of information ( Open source intelligence, English ).
The “nuclear triad” is the components of strategic nuclear forces: land (missile forces), sea (nuclear submarines with ballistic missiles, SSBNs) and air (strategic bombers).
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.
Rob Lee is a senior fellow in the Eurasia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) in Philadelphia and one of the most widely cited experts on the Russian-Ukrainian war.
A theater of war is a theater of military operations, the territory, the airspace above it and the adjacent water area where combat operations are taking place.
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.
ZhBU is a stationary reinforced concrete arch-type shelter designed to protect aircraft from attacks by fire weapons at airfield bases.
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.
Fighterbomber is a Russian pro-war Telegram channel close to the Russian Aerospace Forces. Regularly publishes insider information about Russian aviation. The author is considered to be retired Russian pilot Ilya Tumanov.
Tatarigami_UA is a reserve officer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the founder of the OSINT group Frontelligence Insight, who regularly publishes reviews of the situation at the front.
Cluster munitions are munitions that open up upon approaching a target, scattering small submunitions, which in turn explode, affecting a large area. Due to their indiscriminate nature and the danger of unexploded submunitions to civilians, they are banned in most countries around the world, with the exception of Russia, Ukraine and the United States, among others.
OTRK is an operational-tactical missile system. Designed to hit targets at a relatively long distance, most often from 100 to 500 km.
OVA is a regional military administration, the highest body of state power in a particular region of Ukraine during a period of martial law.
“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 decoy drones that did not carry a warhead and fell without causing damage.
SAM - anti-aircraft missile system.
SAM - anti-aircraft guided missile.
"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.
GUR - Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine ( Head Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Ukrainian ). Ukrainian military intelligence. The head is Major General Kirill Budanov.
DRG - sabotage and reconnaissance group; This is usually the name given to any formation that crosses the front line and operates behind enemy lines.
The Ukrainian Defense Forces (SDF) is a collective term meaning all Ukrainian law enforcement agencies taking part in hostilities. In addition to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, they include, in particular, the National Guard, the State Border Service, the National Police, the Main Intelligence Directorate and the SBU.
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.
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.
Storm Shadow / SCALP-EG - air-launched cruise missiles of the French-British development Storm Shadow / SCALP-EG ( Système de Croisière Autonome à Longue Portée–Emploi Général, French; “multipurpose high-precision long-range cruise missile with autonomous guidance”). The mass of the warhead is 450 kg, the range of the modifications transferred to Ukraine, apparently, does not exceed 300 km.
“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.
Pocket is a slang term for a piece of terrain surrounded by the enemy on three sides. It is considered a tactically disadvantageous position, since units defending in the "pocket" often experience supply problems and are at risk of complete encirclement.
BMP is an infantry fighting vehicle. An armored tracked or wheeled combat vehicle designed for the safe transportation of personnel to the front line of combat operations, their fire support and combat as part of mechanized units. It has moderate security and is mainly armed with machine gun and cannon systems. In the Soviet and Russian school of military engineering, it also serves as the name of specific vehicles when adding the serial number of the model: BMP-1, BMP-2, BMP-3.
Oryx is a military-themed project based on open source intelligence (OSINT). Created by two Dutch analysts who previously collaborated with the Bellingcat investigative project. It is considered the most reliable aggregator of data on visually confirmed losses of weapons, military and special equipment during the war in Ukraine.
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.
Electronic warfare is electronic warfare, one of the types of military-technical activities associated with the suppression of radio-electronic means and components of enemy control, communications and reconnaissance systems and with the protection of one’s own similar systems. In the Russian-Ukrainian war, the term “electronic warfare” is increasingly associated with systems designed to counter enemy drones.
“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.
Mobile air defense groups are units armed with artillery and machine gun mounts mounted on vehicles, designed to quickly travel to the routes of enemy drones in order to intercept them.
MLRS is a multiple launch rocket system. It is a installation that fires rockets (colloquially “missiles”) one after another, which increases the firepower of the salvo.
SAU is a self-propelled artillery unit.
Eyewitnesses captured on video how the drones flew out of the cabins on a truck . As reported by Baza, the truck driver was detained; according to him, he did not know about the nature of the cargo. Near Olenegorsk, local residents filmed a video of drones taking off from a truck and trying to shoot them down with small arms.
OSINT - intelligence using open sources of information ( Open source intelligence, English ).
The “nuclear triad” is the components of strategic nuclear forces: land (missile forces), sea (nuclear submarines with ballistic missiles, SSBNs) and air (strategic bombers).
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.
Rob Lee is a senior fellow in the Eurasia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) in Philadelphia and one of the most widely cited experts on the Russian-Ukrainian war.
A theater of war is a theater of military operations, the territory, the airspace above it and the adjacent water area where combat operations are taking place.
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.
ZhBU is a stationary reinforced concrete arch-type shelter designed to protect aircraft from attacks by fire weapons at airfield bases.
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.
Fighterbomber is a Russian pro-war Telegram channel close to the Russian Aerospace Forces. Regularly publishes insider information about Russian aviation. The author is considered to be retired Russian pilot Ilya Tumanov.
Tatarigami_UA is a reserve officer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the founder of the OSINT group Frontelligence Insight, who regularly publishes reviews of the situation at the front.
Cluster munitions are munitions that open up upon approaching a target, scattering small submunitions, which in turn explode, affecting a large area. Due to their indiscriminate nature and the danger of unexploded submunitions to civilians, they are banned in most countries around the world, with the exception of Russia, Ukraine and the United States, among others.
OTRK is an operational-tactical missile system. Designed to hit targets at a relatively long distance, most often from 100 to 500 km.
OVA is a regional military administration, the highest body of state power in a particular region of Ukraine during a period of martial law.
“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 decoy drones that did not carry a warhead and fell without causing damage.
SAM - anti-aircraft missile system.
SAM - anti-aircraft guided missile.
"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.
GUR - Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine ( Head Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Ukrainian ). Ukrainian military intelligence. The head is Major General Kirill Budanov.
DRG - sabotage and reconnaissance group; This is usually the name given to any formation that crosses the front line and operates behind enemy lines.
The Ukrainian Defense Forces (SDF) is a collective term meaning all Ukrainian law enforcement agencies taking part in hostilities. In addition to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, they include, in particular, the National Guard, the State Border Service, the National Police, the Main Intelligence Directorate and the SBU.
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.
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.
Storm Shadow / SCALP-EG - air-launched cruise missiles of the French-British development Storm Shadow / SCALP-EG ( Système de Croisière Autonome à Longue Portée–Emploi Général, French; “multipurpose high-precision long-range cruise missile with autonomous guidance”). The mass of the warhead is 450 kg, the range of the modifications transferred to Ukraine, apparently, does not exceed 300 km.
“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.
Pocket is a slang term for a piece of terrain surrounded by the enemy on three sides. It is considered a tactically disadvantageous position, since units defending in the "pocket" often experience supply problems and are at risk of complete encirclement.
BMP is an infantry fighting vehicle. An armored tracked or wheeled combat vehicle designed for the safe transportation of personnel to the front line of combat operations, their fire support and combat as part of mechanized units. It has moderate security and is mainly armed with machine gun and cannon systems. In the Soviet and Russian school of military engineering, it also serves as the name of specific vehicles when adding the serial number of the model: BMP-1, BMP-2, BMP-3.
Oryx is a military-themed project based on open source intelligence (OSINT). Created by two Dutch analysts who previously collaborated with the Bellingcat investigative project. It is considered the most reliable aggregator of data on visually confirmed losses of weapons, military and special equipment during the war in Ukraine.
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.
Electronic warfare is electronic warfare, one of the types of military-technical activities associated with the suppression of radio-electronic means and components of enemy control, communications and reconnaissance systems and with the protection of one’s own similar systems. In the Russian-Ukrainian war, the term “electronic warfare” is increasingly associated with systems designed to counter enemy drones.
“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.
Mobile air defense groups are units armed with artillery and machine gun mounts mounted on vehicles, designed to quickly travel to the routes of enemy drones in order to intercept them.
MLRS is a multiple launch rocket system. It is a installation that fires rockets (colloquially “missiles”) one after another, which increases the firepower of the salvo.
SAU is a self-propelled artillery unit.
According to satellite images of the Belaya airfield in the Irkutsk region dated May 31, 2025, there were :
7 units of Tu-160 strategic bombers
6 units of Tu-95MS strategic bombers
2 units of Il-78M tanker aircraft
6 units of An-26 military transport
2 units of military transport An-12
39 Tu-22M3 long-range bombers
30 units of MiG-31 fighter-interceptors
OSINT - intelligence using open sources of information ( Open source intelligence, English ).
The “nuclear triad” is the components of strategic nuclear forces: land (missile forces), sea (nuclear submarines with ballistic missiles, SSBNs) and air (strategic bombers).
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.
Rob Lee is a senior fellow in the Eurasia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) in Philadelphia and one of the most widely cited experts on the Russian-Ukrainian war.
A theater of war is a theater of military operations, the territory, the airspace above it and the adjacent water area where combat operations are taking place.
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.
ZhBU is a stationary reinforced concrete arch-type shelter designed to protect aircraft from attacks by fire weapons at airfield bases.
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.
Fighterbomber is a Russian pro-war Telegram channel close to the Russian Aerospace Forces. Regularly publishes insider information about Russian aviation. The author is considered to be retired Russian pilot Ilya Tumanov.
Tatarigami_UA is a reserve officer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the founder of the OSINT group Frontelligence Insight, who regularly publishes reviews of the situation at the front.
Cluster munitions are munitions that open up upon approaching a target, scattering small submunitions, which in turn explode, affecting a large area. Due to their indiscriminate nature and the danger of unexploded submunitions to civilians, they are banned in most countries around the world, with the exception of Russia, Ukraine and the United States, among others.
OTRK is an operational-tactical missile system. Designed to hit targets at a relatively long distance, most often from 100 to 500 km.
OVA is a regional military administration, the highest body of state power in a particular region of Ukraine during a period of martial law.
“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 decoy drones that did not carry a warhead and fell without causing damage.
SAM - anti-aircraft missile system.
SAM - anti-aircraft guided missile.
"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.
GUR - Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine ( Head Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Ukrainian ). Ukrainian military intelligence. The head is Major General Kirill Budanov.
DRG - sabotage and reconnaissance group; This is usually the name given to any formation that crosses the front line and operates behind enemy lines.
The Ukrainian Defense Forces (SDF) is a collective term meaning all Ukrainian law enforcement agencies taking part in hostilities. In addition to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, they include, in particular, the National Guard, the State Border Service, the National Police, the Main Intelligence Directorate and the SBU.
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.
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.
Storm Shadow / SCALP-EG - air-launched cruise missiles of the French-British development Storm Shadow / SCALP-EG ( Système de Croisière Autonome à Longue Portée–Emploi Général, French; “multipurpose high-precision long-range cruise missile with autonomous guidance”). The mass of the warhead is 450 kg, the range of the modifications transferred to Ukraine, apparently, does not exceed 300 km.
“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.
Pocket is a slang term for a piece of terrain surrounded by the enemy on three sides. It is considered a tactically disadvantageous position, since units defending in the "pocket" often experience supply problems and are at risk of complete encirclement.
BMP is an infantry fighting vehicle. An armored tracked or wheeled combat vehicle designed for the safe transportation of personnel to the front line of combat operations, their fire support and combat as part of mechanized units. It has moderate security and is mainly armed with machine gun and cannon systems. In the Soviet and Russian school of military engineering, it also serves as the name of specific vehicles when adding the serial number of the model: BMP-1, BMP-2, BMP-3.
Oryx is a military-themed project based on open source intelligence (OSINT). Created by two Dutch analysts who previously collaborated with the Bellingcat investigative project. It is considered the most reliable aggregator of data on visually confirmed losses of weapons, military and special equipment during the war in Ukraine.
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.
Electronic warfare is electronic warfare, one of the types of military-technical activities associated with the suppression of radio-electronic means and components of enemy control, communications and reconnaissance systems and with the protection of one’s own similar systems. In the Russian-Ukrainian war, the term “electronic warfare” is increasingly associated with systems designed to counter enemy drones.
“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.
Mobile air defense groups are units armed with artillery and machine gun mounts mounted on vehicles, designed to quickly travel to the routes of enemy drones in order to intercept them.
MLRS is a multiple launch rocket system. It is a installation that fires rockets (colloquially “missiles”) one after another, which increases the firepower of the salvo.
SAU is a self-propelled artillery unit.
Satellite image of the Belaya airfield in the Irkutsk region from May 31, 2025
AviVector
The governor of the Irkutsk region, Igor Kobzev, confirmed ( 1 , 2 ) a drone attack on a military unit in the village of Sredny in the Usolsky district, where a high alert regime was introduced and a section of the federal highway R-255 was temporarily closed with a detour organized. Judging by the geolocation , at least several drones hit aircraft at the airfield.
OSINT - intelligence using open sources of information ( Open source intelligence, English ).
The “nuclear triad” is the components of strategic nuclear forces: land (missile forces), sea (nuclear submarines with ballistic missiles, SSBNs) and air (strategic bombers).
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.
Rob Lee is a senior fellow in the Eurasia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) in Philadelphia and one of the most widely cited experts on the Russian-Ukrainian war.
A theater of war is a theater of military operations, the territory, the airspace above it and the adjacent water area where combat operations are taking place.
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.
ZhBU is a stationary reinforced concrete arch-type shelter designed to protect aircraft from attacks by fire weapons at airfield bases.
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.
Fighterbomber is a Russian pro-war Telegram channel close to the Russian Aerospace Forces. Regularly publishes insider information about Russian aviation. The author is considered to be retired Russian pilot Ilya Tumanov.
Tatarigami_UA is a reserve officer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the founder of the OSINT group Frontelligence Insight, who regularly publishes reviews of the situation at the front.
Cluster munitions are munitions that open up upon approaching a target, scattering small submunitions, which in turn explode, affecting a large area. Due to their indiscriminate nature and the danger of unexploded submunitions to civilians, they are banned in most countries around the world, with the exception of Russia, Ukraine and the United States, among others.
OTRK is an operational-tactical missile system. Designed to hit targets at a relatively long distance, most often from 100 to 500 km.
OVA is a regional military administration, the highest body of state power in a particular region of Ukraine during a period of martial law.
“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 decoy drones that did not carry a warhead and fell without causing damage.
SAM - anti-aircraft missile system.
SAM - anti-aircraft guided missile.
"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.
GUR - Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine ( Head Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Ukrainian ). Ukrainian military intelligence. The head is Major General Kirill Budanov.
DRG - sabotage and reconnaissance group; This is usually the name given to any formation that crosses the front line and operates behind enemy lines.
The Ukrainian Defense Forces (SDF) is a collective term meaning all Ukrainian law enforcement agencies taking part in hostilities. In addition to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, they include, in particular, the National Guard, the State Border Service, the National Police, the Main Intelligence Directorate and the SBU.
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.
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.
Storm Shadow / SCALP-EG - air-launched cruise missiles of the French-British development Storm Shadow / SCALP-EG ( Système de Croisière Autonome à Longue Portée–Emploi Général, French; “multipurpose high-precision long-range cruise missile with autonomous guidance”). The mass of the warhead is 450 kg, the range of the modifications transferred to Ukraine, apparently, does not exceed 300 km.
“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.
Pocket is a slang term for a piece of terrain surrounded by the enemy on three sides. It is considered a tactically disadvantageous position, since units defending in the "pocket" often experience supply problems and are at risk of complete encirclement.
BMP is an infantry fighting vehicle. An armored tracked or wheeled combat vehicle designed for the safe transportation of personnel to the front line of combat operations, their fire support and combat as part of mechanized units. It has moderate security and is mainly armed with machine gun and cannon systems. In the Soviet and Russian school of military engineering, it also serves as the name of specific vehicles when adding the serial number of the model: BMP-1, BMP-2, BMP-3.
Oryx is a military-themed project based on open source intelligence (OSINT). Created by two Dutch analysts who previously collaborated with the Bellingcat investigative project. It is considered the most reliable aggregator of data on visually confirmed losses of weapons, military and special equipment during the war in Ukraine.
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.
Electronic warfare is electronic warfare, one of the types of military-technical activities associated with the suppression of radio-electronic means and components of enemy control, communications and reconnaissance systems and with the protection of one’s own similar systems. In the Russian-Ukrainian war, the term “electronic warfare” is increasingly associated with systems designed to counter enemy drones.
“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.
Mobile air defense groups are units armed with artillery and machine gun mounts mounted on vehicles, designed to quickly travel to the routes of enemy drones in order to intercept them.
MLRS is a multiple launch rocket system. It is a installation that fires rockets (colloquially “missiles”) one after another, which increases the firepower of the salvo.
SAU is a self-propelled artillery unit.
As in the Murmansk region, the use of quadcopters flying out of cabins on a truck has been recorded there.
OSINT - intelligence using open sources of information ( Open source intelligence, English ).
The “nuclear triad” is the components of strategic nuclear forces: land (missile forces), sea (nuclear submarines with ballistic missiles, SSBNs) and air (strategic bombers).
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.
Rob Lee is a senior fellow in the Eurasia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) in Philadelphia and one of the most widely cited experts on the Russian-Ukrainian war.
A theater of war is a theater of military operations, the territory, the airspace above it and the adjacent water area where combat operations are taking place.
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.
ZhBU is a stationary reinforced concrete arch-type shelter designed to protect aircraft from attacks by fire weapons at airfield bases.
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.
Fighterbomber is a Russian pro-war Telegram channel close to the Russian Aerospace Forces. Regularly publishes insider information about Russian aviation. The author is considered to be retired Russian pilot Ilya Tumanov.
Tatarigami_UA is a reserve officer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the founder of the OSINT group Frontelligence Insight, who regularly publishes reviews of the situation at the front.
Cluster munitions are munitions that open up upon approaching a target, scattering small submunitions, which in turn explode, affecting a large area. Due to their indiscriminate nature and the danger of unexploded submunitions to civilians, they are banned in most countries around the world, with the exception of Russia, Ukraine and the United States, among others.
OTRK is an operational-tactical missile system. Designed to hit targets at a relatively long distance, most often from 100 to 500 km.
OVA is a regional military administration, the highest body of state power in a particular region of Ukraine during a period of martial law.
“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 decoy drones that did not carry a warhead and fell without causing damage.
SAM - anti-aircraft missile system.
SAM - anti-aircraft guided missile.
"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.
GUR - Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine ( Head Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Ukrainian ). Ukrainian military intelligence. The head is Major General Kirill Budanov.
DRG - sabotage and reconnaissance group; This is usually the name given to any formation that crosses the front line and operates behind enemy lines.
The Ukrainian Defense Forces (SDF) is a collective term meaning all Ukrainian law enforcement agencies taking part in hostilities. In addition to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, they include, in particular, the National Guard, the State Border Service, the National Police, the Main Intelligence Directorate and the SBU.
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.
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.
Storm Shadow / SCALP-EG - air-launched cruise missiles of the French-British development Storm Shadow / SCALP-EG ( Système de Croisière Autonome à Longue Portée–Emploi Général, French; “multipurpose high-precision long-range cruise missile with autonomous guidance”). The mass of the warhead is 450 kg, the range of the modifications transferred to Ukraine, apparently, does not exceed 300 km.
“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.
Pocket is a slang term for a piece of terrain surrounded by the enemy on three sides. It is considered a tactically disadvantageous position, since units defending in the "pocket" often experience supply problems and are at risk of complete encirclement.
BMP is an infantry fighting vehicle. An armored tracked or wheeled combat vehicle designed for the safe transportation of personnel to the front line of combat operations, their fire support and combat as part of mechanized units. It has moderate security and is mainly armed with machine gun and cannon systems. In the Soviet and Russian school of military engineering, it also serves as the name of specific vehicles when adding the serial number of the model: BMP-1, BMP-2, BMP-3.
Oryx is a military-themed project based on open source intelligence (OSINT). Created by two Dutch analysts who previously collaborated with the Bellingcat investigative project. It is considered the most reliable aggregator of data on visually confirmed losses of weapons, military and special equipment during the war in Ukraine.
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.
Electronic warfare is electronic warfare, one of the types of military-technical activities associated with the suppression of radio-electronic means and components of enemy control, communications and reconnaissance systems and with the protection of one’s own similar systems. In the Russian-Ukrainian war, the term “electronic warfare” is increasingly associated with systems designed to counter enemy drones.
“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.
Mobile air defense groups are units armed with artillery and machine gun mounts mounted on vehicles, designed to quickly travel to the routes of enemy drones in order to intercept them.
MLRS is a multiple launch rocket system. It is a installation that fires rockets (colloquially “missiles”) one after another, which increases the firepower of the salvo.
SAU is a self-propelled artillery unit.
Random passers- by tried to use stones and sticks to place the drones in flight near the populated area of Malta ( geolocation ). Russian military pilot and military blogger Alexei Voevoda said that one of these people was the regiment commander, who “was just driving by at that moment.” Governor Kobzev promised to reward the men who tried to shoot down the drones with improvised means, noting that they risked their lives.
OSINT - intelligence using open sources of information ( Open source intelligence, English ).
The “nuclear triad” is the components of strategic nuclear forces: land (missile forces), sea (nuclear submarines with ballistic missiles, SSBNs) and air (strategic bombers).
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.
Rob Lee is a senior fellow in the Eurasia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) in Philadelphia and one of the most widely cited experts on the Russian-Ukrainian war.
A theater of war is a theater of military operations, the territory, the airspace above it and the adjacent water area where combat operations are taking place.
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.
ZhBU is a stationary reinforced concrete arch-type shelter designed to protect aircraft from attacks by fire weapons at airfield bases.
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.
Fighterbomber is a Russian pro-war Telegram channel close to the Russian Aerospace Forces. Regularly publishes insider information about Russian aviation. The author is considered to be retired Russian pilot Ilya Tumanov.
Tatarigami_UA is a reserve officer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the founder of the OSINT group Frontelligence Insight, who regularly publishes reviews of the situation at the front.
Cluster munitions are munitions that open up upon approaching a target, scattering small submunitions, which in turn explode, affecting a large area. Due to their indiscriminate nature and the danger of unexploded submunitions to civilians, they are banned in most countries around the world, with the exception of Russia, Ukraine and the United States, among others.
OTRK is an operational-tactical missile system. Designed to hit targets at a relatively long distance, most often from 100 to 500 km.
OVA is a regional military administration, the highest body of state power in a particular region of Ukraine during a period of martial law.
“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 decoy drones that did not carry a warhead and fell without causing damage.
SAM - anti-aircraft missile system.
SAM - anti-aircraft guided missile.
"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.
GUR - Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine ( Head Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Ukrainian ). Ukrainian military intelligence. The head is Major General Kirill Budanov.
DRG - sabotage and reconnaissance group; This is usually the name given to any formation that crosses the front line and operates behind enemy lines.
The Ukrainian Defense Forces (SDF) is a collective term meaning all Ukrainian law enforcement agencies taking part in hostilities. In addition to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, they include, in particular, the National Guard, the State Border Service, the National Police, the Main Intelligence Directorate and the SBU.
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.
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.
Storm Shadow / SCALP-EG - air-launched cruise missiles of the French-British development Storm Shadow / SCALP-EG ( Système de Croisière Autonome à Longue Portée–Emploi Général, French; “multipurpose high-precision long-range cruise missile with autonomous guidance”). The mass of the warhead is 450 kg, the range of the modifications transferred to Ukraine, apparently, does not exceed 300 km.
“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.
Pocket is a slang term for a piece of terrain surrounded by the enemy on three sides. It is considered a tactically disadvantageous position, since units defending in the "pocket" often experience supply problems and are at risk of complete encirclement.
BMP is an infantry fighting vehicle. An armored tracked or wheeled combat vehicle designed for the safe transportation of personnel to the front line of combat operations, their fire support and combat as part of mechanized units. It has moderate security and is mainly armed with machine gun and cannon systems. In the Soviet and Russian school of military engineering, it also serves as the name of specific vehicles when adding the serial number of the model: BMP-1, BMP-2, BMP-3.
Oryx is a military-themed project based on open source intelligence (OSINT). Created by two Dutch analysts who previously collaborated with the Bellingcat investigative project. It is considered the most reliable aggregator of data on visually confirmed losses of weapons, military and special equipment during the war in Ukraine.
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.
Electronic warfare is electronic warfare, one of the types of military-technical activities associated with the suppression of radio-electronic means and components of enemy control, communications and reconnaissance systems and with the protection of one’s own similar systems. In the Russian-Ukrainian war, the term “electronic warfare” is increasingly associated with systems designed to counter enemy drones.
“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.
Mobile air defense groups are units armed with artillery and machine gun mounts mounted on vehicles, designed to quickly travel to the routes of enemy drones in order to intercept them.
MLRS is a multiple launch rocket system. It is a installation that fires rockets (colloquially “missiles”) one after another, which increases the firepower of the salvo.
SAU is a self-propelled artillery unit.
In addition, attempts were announced to attack the airfields of Ukrainka and Dyaghilevo , but without any visual evidence of actual attacks on aircraft.
The governor of the Amur region, Vasily Orlov, claimed that a drone raid on the Ukrainka military airfield was prevented . According to reports , the truck with the drones simply did not reach the target, caught fire and subsequently exploded on the Chita-Khabarovsk highway. According to Orlov, the driver was injured by the explosion, but survived.
OSINT - intelligence using open sources of information ( Open source intelligence, English ).
The “nuclear triad” is the components of strategic nuclear forces: land (missile forces), sea (nuclear submarines with ballistic missiles, SSBNs) and air (strategic bombers).
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.
Rob Lee is a senior fellow in the Eurasia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) in Philadelphia and one of the most widely cited experts on the Russian-Ukrainian war.
A theater of war is a theater of military operations, the territory, the airspace above it and the adjacent water area where combat operations are taking place.
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.
ZhBU is a stationary reinforced concrete arch-type shelter designed to protect aircraft from attacks by fire weapons at airfield bases.
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.
Fighterbomber is a Russian pro-war Telegram channel close to the Russian Aerospace Forces. Regularly publishes insider information about Russian aviation. The author is considered to be retired Russian pilot Ilya Tumanov.
Tatarigami_UA is a reserve officer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the founder of the OSINT group Frontelligence Insight, who regularly publishes reviews of the situation at the front.
Cluster munitions are munitions that open up upon approaching a target, scattering small submunitions, which in turn explode, affecting a large area. Due to their indiscriminate nature and the danger of unexploded submunitions to civilians, they are banned in most countries around the world, with the exception of Russia, Ukraine and the United States, among others.
OTRK is an operational-tactical missile system. Designed to hit targets at a relatively long distance, most often from 100 to 500 km.
OVA is a regional military administration, the highest body of state power in a particular region of Ukraine during a period of martial law.
“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 decoy drones that did not carry a warhead and fell without causing damage.
SAM - anti-aircraft missile system.
SAM - anti-aircraft guided missile.
"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.
GUR - Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine ( Head Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Ukrainian ). Ukrainian military intelligence. The head is Major General Kirill Budanov.
DRG - sabotage and reconnaissance group; This is usually the name given to any formation that crosses the front line and operates behind enemy lines.
The Ukrainian Defense Forces (SDF) is a collective term meaning all Ukrainian law enforcement agencies taking part in hostilities. In addition to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, they include, in particular, the National Guard, the State Border Service, the National Police, the Main Intelligence Directorate and the SBU.
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.
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.
Storm Shadow / SCALP-EG - air-launched cruise missiles of the French-British development Storm Shadow / SCALP-EG ( Système de Croisière Autonome à Longue Portée–Emploi Général, French; “multipurpose high-precision long-range cruise missile with autonomous guidance”). The mass of the warhead is 450 kg, the range of the modifications transferred to Ukraine, apparently, does not exceed 300 km.
“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.
Pocket is a slang term for a piece of terrain surrounded by the enemy on three sides. It is considered a tactically disadvantageous position, since units defending in the "pocket" often experience supply problems and are at risk of complete encirclement.
BMP is an infantry fighting vehicle. An armored tracked or wheeled combat vehicle designed for the safe transportation of personnel to the front line of combat operations, their fire support and combat as part of mechanized units. It has moderate security and is mainly armed with machine gun and cannon systems. In the Soviet and Russian school of military engineering, it also serves as the name of specific vehicles when adding the serial number of the model: BMP-1, BMP-2, BMP-3.
Oryx is a military-themed project based on open source intelligence (OSINT). Created by two Dutch analysts who previously collaborated with the Bellingcat investigative project. It is considered the most reliable aggregator of data on visually confirmed losses of weapons, military and special equipment during the war in Ukraine.
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.
Electronic warfare is electronic warfare, one of the types of military-technical activities associated with the suppression of radio-electronic means and components of enemy control, communications and reconnaissance systems and with the protection of one’s own similar systems. In the Russian-Ukrainian war, the term “electronic warfare” is increasingly associated with systems designed to counter enemy drones.
“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.
Mobile air defense groups are units armed with artillery and machine gun mounts mounted on vehicles, designed to quickly travel to the routes of enemy drones in order to intercept them.
MLRS is a multiple launch rocket system. It is a installation that fires rockets (colloquially “missiles”) one after another, which increases the firepower of the salvo.
SAU is a self-propelled artillery unit.
Finally, the attack on the Dyaghilevo airfield was confirmed by Governor Pavel Malkov, the Telegram channel Helicopterpilot, close to the Russian army aviation, wrote that the drones did not reach their goals.
As Ukrainian bloggers and media reported ( 1 , 2 ), citing sources, the operation against Russian strategic aviation took 1.5 years to prepare , its progress was directly controlled by Vladimir Zelensky. As part of it, FPV drones were transported to Russia, hidden in wooden cabins on trucks, which were opened remotely at the right moment. Zelensky himself noted that the “office” of the operation was located in close proximity to the regional department of the FSB (probably in the Chelyabinsk region).
OSINT - intelligence using open sources of information ( Open source intelligence, English ).
The “nuclear triad” is the components of strategic nuclear forces: land (missile forces), sea (nuclear submarines with ballistic missiles, SSBNs) and air (strategic bombers).
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.
Rob Lee is a senior fellow in the Eurasia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) in Philadelphia and one of the most widely cited experts on the Russian-Ukrainian war.
A theater of war is a theater of military operations, the territory, the airspace above it and the adjacent water area where combat operations are taking place.
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.
ZhBU is a stationary reinforced concrete arch-type shelter designed to protect aircraft from attacks by fire weapons at airfield bases.
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.
Fighterbomber is a Russian pro-war Telegram channel close to the Russian Aerospace Forces. Regularly publishes insider information about Russian aviation. The author is considered to be retired Russian pilot Ilya Tumanov.
Tatarigami_UA is a reserve officer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the founder of the OSINT group Frontelligence Insight, who regularly publishes reviews of the situation at the front.
Cluster munitions are munitions that open up upon approaching a target, scattering small submunitions, which in turn explode, affecting a large area. Due to their indiscriminate nature and the danger of unexploded submunitions to civilians, they are banned in most countries around the world, with the exception of Russia, Ukraine and the United States, among others.
OTRK is an operational-tactical missile system. Designed to hit targets at a relatively long distance, most often from 100 to 500 km.
OVA is a regional military administration, the highest body of state power in a particular region of Ukraine during a period of martial law.
“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 decoy drones that did not carry a warhead and fell without causing damage.
SAM - anti-aircraft missile system.
SAM - anti-aircraft guided missile.
"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.
GUR - Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine ( Head Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Ukrainian ). Ukrainian military intelligence. The head is Major General Kirill Budanov.
DRG - sabotage and reconnaissance group; This is usually the name given to any formation that crosses the front line and operates behind enemy lines.
The Ukrainian Defense Forces (SDF) is a collective term meaning all Ukrainian law enforcement agencies taking part in hostilities. In addition to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, they include, in particular, the National Guard, the State Border Service, the National Police, the Main Intelligence Directorate and the SBU.
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.
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.
Storm Shadow / SCALP-EG - air-launched cruise missiles of the French-British development Storm Shadow / SCALP-EG ( Système de Croisière Autonome à Longue Portée–Emploi Général, French; “multipurpose high-precision long-range cruise missile with autonomous guidance”). The mass of the warhead is 450 kg, the range of the modifications transferred to Ukraine, apparently, does not exceed 300 km.
“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.
Pocket is a slang term for a piece of terrain surrounded by the enemy on three sides. It is considered a tactically disadvantageous position, since units defending in the "pocket" often experience supply problems and are at risk of complete encirclement.
BMP is an infantry fighting vehicle. An armored tracked or wheeled combat vehicle designed for the safe transportation of personnel to the front line of combat operations, their fire support and combat as part of mechanized units. It has moderate security and is mainly armed with machine gun and cannon systems. In the Soviet and Russian school of military engineering, it also serves as the name of specific vehicles when adding the serial number of the model: BMP-1, BMP-2, BMP-3.
Oryx is a military-themed project based on open source intelligence (OSINT). Created by two Dutch analysts who previously collaborated with the Bellingcat investigative project. It is considered the most reliable aggregator of data on visually confirmed losses of weapons, military and special equipment during the war in Ukraine.
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.
Electronic warfare is electronic warfare, one of the types of military-technical activities associated with the suppression of radio-electronic means and components of enemy control, communications and reconnaissance systems and with the protection of one’s own similar systems. In the Russian-Ukrainian war, the term “electronic warfare” is increasingly associated with systems designed to counter enemy drones.
“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.
Mobile air defense groups are units armed with artillery and machine gun mounts mounted on vehicles, designed to quickly travel to the routes of enemy drones in order to intercept them.
MLRS is a multiple launch rocket system. It is a installation that fires rockets (colloquially “missiles”) one after another, which increases the firepower of the salvo.
SAU is a self-propelled artillery unit.
Drones used to attack Russian airfields
Lachen write
Russian OSINT analysts found out from a photo posted in Ukrainian resources that containers with drones were most likely collected in a warehouse in Chelyabinsk with a rental rate of 350 thousand rubles per month. His supposed address is Sverdlovsky Trakt, 28A. From there, the trucks probably went to the Murmansk, Irkutsk regions, and also to the Amur region, since they had Chelyabinsk license plates. Presumably, the drones themselves were purchased in Russia, and the warheads were delivered from Kazakhstan. Clash Report reported that drones used artificial intelligence to shoot down aircraft . He was allegedly trained on samples of the Tu-95MS and Tu-22M3, located in the museum of long-range and strategic aviation in Poltava.
OSINT - intelligence using open sources of information ( Open source intelligence, English ).
The “nuclear triad” is the components of strategic nuclear forces: land (missile forces), sea (nuclear submarines with ballistic missiles, SSBNs) and air (strategic bombers).
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.
Rob Lee is a senior fellow in the Eurasia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) in Philadelphia and one of the most widely cited experts on the Russian-Ukrainian war.
A theater of war is a theater of military operations, the territory, the airspace above it and the adjacent water area where combat operations are taking place.
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.
ZhBU is a stationary reinforced concrete arch-type shelter designed to protect aircraft from attacks by fire weapons at airfield bases.
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.
Fighterbomber is a Russian pro-war Telegram channel close to the Russian Aerospace Forces. Regularly publishes insider information about Russian aviation. The author is considered to be retired Russian pilot Ilya Tumanov.
Tatarigami_UA is a reserve officer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the founder of the OSINT group Frontelligence Insight, who regularly publishes reviews of the situation at the front.
Cluster munitions are munitions that open up upon approaching a target, scattering small submunitions, which in turn explode, affecting a large area. Due to their indiscriminate nature and the danger of unexploded submunitions to civilians, they are banned in most countries around the world, with the exception of Russia, Ukraine and the United States, among others.
OTRK is an operational-tactical missile system. Designed to hit targets at a relatively long distance, most often from 100 to 500 km.
OVA is a regional military administration, the highest body of state power in a particular region of Ukraine during a period of martial law.
“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 decoy drones that did not carry a warhead and fell without causing damage.
SAM - anti-aircraft missile system.
SAM - anti-aircraft guided missile.
"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.
GUR - Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine ( Head Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Ukrainian ). Ukrainian military intelligence. The head is Major General Kirill Budanov.
DRG - sabotage and reconnaissance group; This is usually the name given to any formation that crosses the front line and operates behind enemy lines.
The Ukrainian Defense Forces (SDF) is a collective term meaning all Ukrainian law enforcement agencies taking part in hostilities. In addition to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, they include, in particular, the National Guard, the State Border Service, the National Police, the Main Intelligence Directorate and the SBU.
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.
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.
Storm Shadow / SCALP-EG - air-launched cruise missiles of the French-British development Storm Shadow / SCALP-EG ( Système de Croisière Autonome à Longue Portée–Emploi Général, French; “multipurpose high-precision long-range cruise missile with autonomous guidance”). The mass of the warhead is 450 kg, the range of the modifications transferred to Ukraine, apparently, does not exceed 300 km.
“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.
Pocket is a slang term for a piece of terrain surrounded by the enemy on three sides. It is considered a tactically disadvantageous position, since units defending in the "pocket" often experience supply problems and are at risk of complete encirclement.
BMP is an infantry fighting vehicle. An armored tracked or wheeled combat vehicle designed for the safe transportation of personnel to the front line of combat operations, their fire support and combat as part of mechanized units. It has moderate security and is mainly armed with machine gun and cannon systems. In the Soviet and Russian school of military engineering, it also serves as the name of specific vehicles when adding the serial number of the model: BMP-1, BMP-2, BMP-3.
Oryx is a military-themed project based on open source intelligence (OSINT). Created by two Dutch analysts who previously collaborated with the Bellingcat investigative project. It is considered the most reliable aggregator of data on visually confirmed losses of weapons, military and special equipment during the war in Ukraine.
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.
Electronic warfare is electronic warfare, one of the types of military-technical activities associated with the suppression of radio-electronic means and components of enemy control, communications and reconnaissance systems and with the protection of one’s own similar systems. In the Russian-Ukrainian war, the term “electronic warfare” is increasingly associated with systems designed to counter enemy drones.
“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.
Mobile air defense groups are units armed with artillery and machine gun mounts mounted on vehicles, designed to quickly travel to the routes of enemy drones in order to intercept them.
MLRS is a multiple launch rocket system. It is a installation that fires rockets (colloquially “missiles”) one after another, which increases the firepower of the salvo.
SAU is a self-propelled artillery unit.
Place for assembling and equipping containers with drones in Chelyabinsk
Lachen write
The drivers of the trucks that were traveling to the Murmansk, Irkutsk, Ryazan and Ivanovo regions were questioned by investigators. According to their stories, they entered into an agreement to transport modular cabins. During the journey, unknown persons guided their actions, including transmitting the exact time and place of stops. The landlords of the warehouse in Chelyabinsk were also detained . The owner of the trucks turned out to be 37-year-old Artyom Timofeev, a native of Zhitomir, who previously lived in Kiev. In 2018, he moved to Miass in the Chelyabinsk region and received a Russian passport.
OSINT - intelligence using open sources of information ( Open source intelligence, English ).
The “nuclear triad” is the components of strategic nuclear forces: land (missile forces), sea (nuclear submarines with ballistic missiles, SSBNs) and air (strategic bombers).
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.
Rob Lee is a senior fellow in the Eurasia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) in Philadelphia and one of the most widely cited experts on the Russian-Ukrainian war.
A theater of war is a theater of military operations, the territory, the airspace above it and the adjacent water area where combat operations are taking place.
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.
ZhBU is a stationary reinforced concrete arch-type shelter designed to protect aircraft from attacks by fire weapons at airfield bases.
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.
Fighterbomber is a Russian pro-war Telegram channel close to the Russian Aerospace Forces. Regularly publishes insider information about Russian aviation. The author is considered to be retired Russian pilot Ilya Tumanov.
Tatarigami_UA is a reserve officer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the founder of the OSINT group Frontelligence Insight, who regularly publishes reviews of the situation at the front.
Cluster munitions are munitions that open up upon approaching a target, scattering small submunitions, which in turn explode, affecting a large area. Due to their indiscriminate nature and the danger of unexploded submunitions to civilians, they are banned in most countries around the world, with the exception of Russia, Ukraine and the United States, among others.
OTRK is an operational-tactical missile system. Designed to hit targets at a relatively long distance, most often from 100 to 500 km.
OVA is a regional military administration, the highest body of state power in a particular region of Ukraine during a period of martial law.
“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 decoy drones that did not carry a warhead and fell without causing damage.
SAM - anti-aircraft missile system.
SAM - anti-aircraft guided missile.
"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.
GUR - Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine ( Head Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Ukrainian ). Ukrainian military intelligence. The head is Major General Kirill Budanov.
DRG - sabotage and reconnaissance group; This is usually the name given to any formation that crosses the front line and operates behind enemy lines.
The Ukrainian Defense Forces (SDF) is a collective term meaning all Ukrainian law enforcement agencies taking part in hostilities. In addition to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, they include, in particular, the National Guard, the State Border Service, the National Police, the Main Intelligence Directorate and the SBU.
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.
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.
Storm Shadow / SCALP-EG - air-launched cruise missiles of the French-British development Storm Shadow / SCALP-EG ( Système de Croisière Autonome à Longue Portée–Emploi Général, French; “multipurpose high-precision long-range cruise missile with autonomous guidance”). The mass of the warhead is 450 kg, the range of the modifications transferred to Ukraine, apparently, does not exceed 300 km.
“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.
Pocket is a slang term for a piece of terrain surrounded by the enemy on three sides. It is considered a tactically disadvantageous position, since units defending in the "pocket" often experience supply problems and are at risk of complete encirclement.
BMP is an infantry fighting vehicle. An armored tracked or wheeled combat vehicle designed for the safe transportation of personnel to the front line of combat operations, their fire support and combat as part of mechanized units. It has moderate security and is mainly armed with machine gun and cannon systems. In the Soviet and Russian school of military engineering, it also serves as the name of specific vehicles when adding the serial number of the model: BMP-1, BMP-2, BMP-3.
Oryx is a military-themed project based on open source intelligence (OSINT). Created by two Dutch analysts who previously collaborated with the Bellingcat investigative project. It is considered the most reliable aggregator of data on visually confirmed losses of weapons, military and special equipment during the war in Ukraine.
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.
Electronic warfare is electronic warfare, one of the types of military-technical activities associated with the suppression of radio-electronic means and components of enemy control, communications and reconnaissance systems and with the protection of one’s own similar systems. In the Russian-Ukrainian war, the term “electronic warfare” is increasingly associated with systems designed to counter enemy drones.
“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.
Mobile air defense groups are units armed with artillery and machine gun mounts mounted on vehicles, designed to quickly travel to the routes of enemy drones in order to intercept them.
MLRS is a multiple launch rocket system. It is a installation that fires rockets (colloquially “missiles”) one after another, which increases the firepower of the salvo.
SAU is a self-propelled artillery unit.
Analyst Emil Kastehelmi of the OSINT group Black Bird Group concludes that the Ukrainian operation resulted in significant damage to the fleet of expensive strategic bombers , which Russia moved to airfields remote from the theater of operations to protect against such attacks.
Rob Leebelieves that despite the obvious success of Operation Web, it is unlikely to affect the Kremlin's position on continuing the war , since previous attacks on Russian territory did not create political pressure on Vladimir Putin. At the same time, he recognizes the decline in missile strike capabilities against Ukraine and the need to redirect resources to defending facilities far away from the combat zone.
OSINT - intelligence using open sources of information ( Open source intelligence, English ).
The “nuclear triad” is the components of strategic nuclear forces: land (missile forces), sea (nuclear submarines with ballistic missiles, SSBNs) and air (strategic bombers).
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.
Rob Lee is a senior fellow in the Eurasia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) in Philadelphia and one of the most widely cited experts on the Russian-Ukrainian war.
A theater of war is a theater of military operations, the territory, the airspace above it and the adjacent water area where combat operations are taking place.
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.
ZhBU is a stationary reinforced concrete arch-type shelter designed to protect aircraft from attacks by fire weapons at airfield bases.
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.
Fighterbomber is a Russian pro-war Telegram channel close to the Russian Aerospace Forces. Regularly publishes insider information about Russian aviation. The author is considered to be retired Russian pilot Ilya Tumanov.
Tatarigami_UA is a reserve officer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the founder of the OSINT group Frontelligence Insight, who regularly publishes reviews of the situation at the front.
Cluster munitions are munitions that open up upon approaching a target, scattering small submunitions, which in turn explode, affecting a large area. Due to their indiscriminate nature and the danger of unexploded submunitions to civilians, they are banned in most countries around the world, with the exception of Russia, Ukraine and the United States, among others.
OTRK is an operational-tactical missile system. Designed to hit targets at a relatively long distance, most often from 100 to 500 km.
OVA is a regional military administration, the highest body of state power in a particular region of Ukraine during a period of martial law.
“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 decoy drones that did not carry a warhead and fell without causing damage.
SAM - anti-aircraft missile system.
SAM - anti-aircraft guided missile.
"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.
GUR - Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine ( Head Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Ukrainian ). Ukrainian military intelligence. The head is Major General Kirill Budanov.
DRG - sabotage and reconnaissance group; This is usually the name given to any formation that crosses the front line and operates behind enemy lines.
The Ukrainian Defense Forces (SDF) is a collective term meaning all Ukrainian law enforcement agencies taking part in hostilities. In addition to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, they include, in particular, the National Guard, the State Border Service, the National Police, the Main Intelligence Directorate and the SBU.
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.
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.
Storm Shadow / SCALP-EG - air-launched cruise missiles of the French-British development Storm Shadow / SCALP-EG ( Système de Croisière Autonome à Longue Portée–Emploi Général, French; “multipurpose high-precision long-range cruise missile with autonomous guidance”). The mass of the warhead is 450 kg, the range of the modifications transferred to Ukraine, apparently, does not exceed 300 km.
“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.
Pocket is a slang term for a piece of terrain surrounded by the enemy on three sides. It is considered a tactically disadvantageous position, since units defending in the "pocket" often experience supply problems and are at risk of complete encirclement.
BMP is an infantry fighting vehicle. An armored tracked or wheeled combat vehicle designed for the safe transportation of personnel to the front line of combat operations, their fire support and combat as part of mechanized units. It has moderate security and is mainly armed with machine gun and cannon systems. In the Soviet and Russian school of military engineering, it also serves as the name of specific vehicles when adding the serial number of the model: BMP-1, BMP-2, BMP-3.
Oryx is a military-themed project based on open source intelligence (OSINT). Created by two Dutch analysts who previously collaborated with the Bellingcat investigative project. It is considered the most reliable aggregator of data on visually confirmed losses of weapons, military and special equipment during the war in Ukraine.
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.
Electronic warfare is electronic warfare, one of the types of military-technical activities associated with the suppression of radio-electronic means and components of enemy control, communications and reconnaissance systems and with the protection of one’s own similar systems. In the Russian-Ukrainian war, the term “electronic warfare” is increasingly associated with systems designed to counter enemy drones.
“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.
Mobile air defense groups are units armed with artillery and machine gun mounts mounted on vehicles, designed to quickly travel to the routes of enemy drones in order to intercept them.
MLRS is a multiple launch rocket system. It is a installation that fires rockets (colloquially “missiles”) one after another, which increases the firepower of the salvo.
SAU is a self-propelled artillery unit.
Tatarigami_UAconcludes that to truly change the balance of power in favor of Ukraine, it is necessary to stop the advance of the Russian Armed Forces on the front line and at the same time increase Russian costs in the war - not only financial, but also strategic. According to him, although the attack does not directly affect the situation on the battlefield, it significantly undermines Russia’s long-term strategic capabilities, many of which are a legacy of the Soviet era and cannot be restored in the foreseeable future.
In Z-environment , raids on Russian airfields caused a storm of criticism :
Fighterbomber (more than 550 thousand subscribers on Telegram) noted that Russian air defense could not do anything with FPV drones launched from such a short distance, and at the same time ironized that the bombers could not protect the tires laid out on the wings of some aircraft. In addition, the author of the channel believes that the responsible persons will receive “not pussy, but a medal” for tires on strategic aircraft
“military correspondent” Alexander Yaremchuk (58 thousand subscribers on Telegram) believes that the revision of Russia’s nuclear doctrine due to the damage caused to carriers of nuclear weapons is an open question, but in any case, it will be necessary to urgently review the “standards for the protection of critical military infrastructure” , since geographical remoteness and layered air defense systems cannot protect against a drone delivered to the target on a truck
the author of the Z-channel “VETERAN'S NOTES 🇷🇺” (more than 332 thousand subscribers) recognizes the “creativity” of the enemy during a “complex special operation” under the supervision of “NATO intelligence services” and calls the incident “Russian Pearl Harbor”
military pilot and author of the Telegram channel “Voevoda Broadcasts” (over 160 thousand subscribers) Alexey Voevoda writes ( 1 , 2 ) that he is “already used to it” and does not count on punishing the perpetrators, but at the same time proposes ( 1 , 2 ) as a response to strike Kiev with Iskanders with nuclear charges or “indicatively” shoot half a thousand prisoners “under camera” . According to him ( 1 , 2 ), the military on the ground did everything that was required, the FSB bears responsibility for what happened, but the “level of failure” is comparable only to the retreat from Kharkov in the fall of 2022
“military correspondent” and military volunteer Vladimir Romanov (over 135 thousand subscribers on Telegram) laments that the bombers damaged as a result of the attacks were “built in the times of the ̶ts̶i̶v̶i̶l̶i̶z̶a̶ts̶i̶i̶ of the Soviet Union" and therefore belong to "non-renewable strategic resources"
"military correspondent" Alexander Sladkov (more than 840 thousand subscribers on Telegram) cites the point of view of a certain "comrade in arms" about the potential threat from the so-called "people's military-industrial complex", hinting that the assembly of drones for attack was "covered up" by talk of production for the needs of the Russian Armed Forces
the odious pro-Russian military blogger Boris Rozhin, known as Colonelcassad (more than 800 thousand subscribers on Telegram) talks about the complete failure of airfield security structures and the lack of reinforced concrete structures for aircraft
Propagandist Anastasia Kashevarova (about 250 thousand subscribers on Telegram) complains about the allegedly daily recruitment of “migrants and Russian citizens” to carry out “terrorist attacks”
RT “military correspondent” Alexander Simonov (over 135 thousand subscribers on Telegram) sprinkles ashes on his head , calling the incident “a dark day for strategic aviation”
“military correspondent” and military volunteer Alexey Zhivov (over 110 thousand subscribers on Telegram) also laments about the “rainy day” (though already in Russian history) and mocks the governor of the Murmansk region, who announced the work of air defense systems using tactical FPV drones
RT “military correspondent” Andrei Filatov (almost 170 thousand subscribers on Telegram) criticizes the middle level of the Russian Armed Forces, which is “mirrored in cuts and raiding,” and says that “the brain of the army is insanity,” generally experiencing “Spanish shame” from what is happening
the authors of the Z-channel “Two Majors” (more than 1.2 million subscribers on Telegram) believe that the operation carried out by the SBU “is not a nuclear escalation, it is a direct undermining of the nuclear strategic balance of power ”
“military correspondent” and military volunteer Roman Alekhin (over 170 thousand subscribers on Telegram) blames it all on “the lack of employees in structures that are related to security within the country” and “cuts in the Ministry of Defense in previous years”
Helicopterpilot (more than 40 thousand subscribers on Telegram) considers reinforced concrete shelters for aircraft or underground hangars to be the only panacea for such attacks
Immediately after the attack, Ukrainian sources stated that 41 aircraft were hit - this can be considered the upper limit of the result envisaged within the operation. Ukrainian military journalist Yuriy Butusov announced 116 launched drones out of 150 imported (the total number of warheads on them is 300, that is, two per drone), Vladimir Zelensky spoke about 117 UAVs used. An official statement from the SBU later repeated information about 41 aircraft hit and damage in the amount of $7 billion .
OSINT analysts have so far counted, based on objective monitoring footage from drones and satellite images, up to 12 affected Tu-95MS and Tu-22M3 bombers, as well as one An-12 .
OSINT - intelligence using open sources of information ( Open source intelligence, English ).
The “nuclear triad” is the components of strategic nuclear forces: land (missile forces), sea (nuclear submarines with ballistic missiles, SSBNs) and air (strategic bombers).
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.
Rob Lee is a senior fellow in the Eurasia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) in Philadelphia and one of the most widely cited experts on the Russian-Ukrainian war.
A theater of war is a theater of military operations, the territory, the airspace above it and the adjacent water area where combat operations are taking place.
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.
ZhBU is a stationary reinforced concrete arch-type shelter designed to protect aircraft from attacks by fire weapons at airfield bases.
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.
Fighterbomber is a Russian pro-war Telegram channel close to the Russian Aerospace Forces. Regularly publishes insider information about Russian aviation. The author is considered to be retired Russian pilot Ilya Tumanov.
Tatarigami_UA is a reserve officer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the founder of the OSINT group Frontelligence Insight, who regularly publishes reviews of the situation at the front.
Cluster munitions are munitions that open up upon approaching a target, scattering small submunitions, which in turn explode, affecting a large area. Due to their indiscriminate nature and the danger of unexploded submunitions to civilians, they are banned in most countries around the world, with the exception of Russia, Ukraine and the United States, among others.
OTRK is an operational-tactical missile system. Designed to hit targets at a relatively long distance, most often from 100 to 500 km.
OVA is a regional military administration, the highest body of state power in a particular region of Ukraine during a period of martial law.
“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 decoy drones that did not carry a warhead and fell without causing damage.
SAM - anti-aircraft missile system.
SAM - anti-aircraft guided missile.
"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.
GUR - Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine ( Head Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Ukrainian ). Ukrainian military intelligence. The head is Major General Kirill Budanov.
DRG - sabotage and reconnaissance group; This is usually the name given to any formation that crosses the front line and operates behind enemy lines.
The Ukrainian Defense Forces (SDF) is a collective term meaning all Ukrainian law enforcement agencies taking part in hostilities. In addition to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, they include, in particular, the National Guard, the State Border Service, the National Police, the Main Intelligence Directorate and the SBU.
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.
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.
Storm Shadow / SCALP-EG - air-launched cruise missiles of the French-British development Storm Shadow / SCALP-EG ( Système de Croisière Autonome à Longue Portée–Emploi Général, French; “multipurpose high-precision long-range cruise missile with autonomous guidance”). The mass of the warhead is 450 kg, the range of the modifications transferred to Ukraine, apparently, does not exceed 300 km.
“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.
Pocket is a slang term for a piece of terrain surrounded by the enemy on three sides. It is considered a tactically disadvantageous position, since units defending in the "pocket" often experience supply problems and are at risk of complete encirclement.
BMP is an infantry fighting vehicle. An armored tracked or wheeled combat vehicle designed for the safe transportation of personnel to the front line of combat operations, their fire support and combat as part of mechanized units. It has moderate security and is mainly armed with machine gun and cannon systems. In the Soviet and Russian school of military engineering, it also serves as the name of specific vehicles when adding the serial number of the model: BMP-1, BMP-2, BMP-3.
Oryx is a military-themed project based on open source intelligence (OSINT). Created by two Dutch analysts who previously collaborated with the Bellingcat investigative project. It is considered the most reliable aggregator of data on visually confirmed losses of weapons, military and special equipment during the war in Ukraine.
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.
Electronic warfare is electronic warfare, one of the types of military-technical activities associated with the suppression of radio-electronic means and components of enemy control, communications and reconnaissance systems and with the protection of one’s own similar systems. In the Russian-Ukrainian war, the term “electronic warfare” is increasingly associated with systems designed to counter enemy drones.
“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.
Mobile air defense groups are units armed with artillery and machine gun mounts mounted on vehicles, designed to quickly travel to the routes of enemy drones in order to intercept them.
MLRS is a multiple launch rocket system. It is a installation that fires rockets (colloquially “missiles”) one after another, which increases the firepower of the salvo.
SAU is a self-propelled artillery unit.
Satellite image of the consequences of the raid on the Belaya airfield in the Irkutsk region
Chris Biggers
So far, the maximum estimate of damage is provided by a researcher under the nickname Intelschizo - according to his calculations, 15 aircraft were damaged and destroyed . At the same time, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that several pieces of aircraft had caught fire.
On the night of June 1, in the Vygonichsky district in the Bryansk region, as a result of an explosion, a road bridge collapsed onto the railway tracks, which led to the derailment of the Klimov-Moscow train.
OSINT - intelligence using open sources of information ( Open source intelligence, English ).
The “nuclear triad” is the components of strategic nuclear forces: land (missile forces), sea (nuclear submarines with ballistic missiles, SSBNs) and air (strategic bombers).
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.
Rob Lee is a senior fellow in the Eurasia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) in Philadelphia and one of the most widely cited experts on the Russian-Ukrainian war.
A theater of war is a theater of military operations, the territory, the airspace above it and the adjacent water area where combat operations are taking place.
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.
ZhBU is a stationary reinforced concrete arch-type shelter designed to protect aircraft from attacks by fire weapons at airfield bases.
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.
Fighterbomber is a Russian pro-war Telegram channel close to the Russian Aerospace Forces. Regularly publishes insider information about Russian aviation. The author is considered to be retired Russian pilot Ilya Tumanov.
Tatarigami_UA is a reserve officer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the founder of the OSINT group Frontelligence Insight, who regularly publishes reviews of the situation at the front.
Cluster munitions are munitions that open up upon approaching a target, scattering small submunitions, which in turn explode, affecting a large area. Due to their indiscriminate nature and the danger of unexploded submunitions to civilians, they are banned in most countries around the world, with the exception of Russia, Ukraine and the United States, among others.
OTRK is an operational-tactical missile system. Designed to hit targets at a relatively long distance, most often from 100 to 500 km.
OVA is a regional military administration, the highest body of state power in a particular region of Ukraine during a period of martial law.
“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 decoy drones that did not carry a warhead and fell without causing damage.
SAM - anti-aircraft missile system.
SAM - anti-aircraft guided missile.
"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.
GUR - Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine ( Head Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Ukrainian ). Ukrainian military intelligence. The head is Major General Kirill Budanov.
DRG - sabotage and reconnaissance group; This is usually the name given to any formation that crosses the front line and operates behind enemy lines.
The Ukrainian Defense Forces (SDF) is a collective term meaning all Ukrainian law enforcement agencies taking part in hostilities. In addition to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, they include, in particular, the National Guard, the State Border Service, the National Police, the Main Intelligence Directorate and the SBU.
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.
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.
Storm Shadow / SCALP-EG - air-launched cruise missiles of the French-British development Storm Shadow / SCALP-EG ( Système de Croisière Autonome à Longue Portée–Emploi Général, French; “multipurpose high-precision long-range cruise missile with autonomous guidance”). The mass of the warhead is 450 kg, the range of the modifications transferred to Ukraine, apparently, does not exceed 300 km.
“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.
Pocket is a slang term for a piece of terrain surrounded by the enemy on three sides. It is considered a tactically disadvantageous position, since units defending in the "pocket" often experience supply problems and are at risk of complete encirclement.
BMP is an infantry fighting vehicle. An armored tracked or wheeled combat vehicle designed for the safe transportation of personnel to the front line of combat operations, their fire support and combat as part of mechanized units. It has moderate security and is mainly armed with machine gun and cannon systems. In the Soviet and Russian school of military engineering, it also serves as the name of specific vehicles when adding the serial number of the model: BMP-1, BMP-2, BMP-3.
Oryx is a military-themed project based on open source intelligence (OSINT). Created by two Dutch analysts who previously collaborated with the Bellingcat investigative project. It is considered the most reliable aggregator of data on visually confirmed losses of weapons, military and special equipment during the war in Ukraine.
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.
Electronic warfare is electronic warfare, one of the types of military-technical activities associated with the suppression of radio-electronic means and components of enemy control, communications and reconnaissance systems and with the protection of one’s own similar systems. In the Russian-Ukrainian war, the term “electronic warfare” is increasingly associated with systems designed to counter enemy drones.
“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.
Mobile air defense groups are units armed with artillery and machine gun mounts mounted on vehicles, designed to quickly travel to the routes of enemy drones in order to intercept them.
MLRS is a multiple launch rocket system. It is a installation that fires rockets (colloquially “missiles”) one after another, which increases the firepower of the salvo.
SAU is a self-propelled artillery unit.
According to the latest available information, seven people were killed and 104 injured . Traffic in the area has already been restored . In the Z-channel "Informant" they recall that a Ukrainian DRG was previously spotted a few kilometers from the place where the bridge collapsed. It also became known that the A-240 overpass was under repair at the time of the collapse. In addition, Alexander Bogomaz wrote about the “discovery of track damage” on the Unecha-Zhecha section.
In the Zheleznogorsk district of the Kursk region, a railway bridge over a highway collapsed while a freight train was passing across it. Three train crew members were injured . The regional authorities promise to restore both rail and road connections in this area within four days.
The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation first announced the initiation of criminal cases under the article “terrorist attack” due to the explosion of the bridge, but then changed the wording to “collapse.” At the same time, the Main Intelligence Directorate issued a statement about the bombing of a Russian military train in the occupied territory of the Zaporozhye region near Melitopol. This information, citing sources, was refuted by pro-Russian sources ( 1 , 2 ).
The Ukrainian Air Force reported repelling the following air attacks:
On the night of May 31, 107 UAVs of the Shahed type and other unidentified types, two unidentified jet UAVs, two missiles from the S-300 air defense system and three Kh-59/Kh-69 guided missiles were launched across Ukraine. Of these, 39 UAVs and all three Kh-59/Kh-69 missiles were shot down, another 30 UAVs were “locally lost”
On the night of June 1, a record 472 UAVswere launchedacross Ukraine , as well as four Kh-101 and Iskander-K cruise missiles and three Iskander-M / KN-23 ballistic missiles. Of these, 210 UAVs and three cruise missiles were shot down, and another 172 UAVs were “locally lost.” The authors of the Ukrainian resource “Eye of Horus ✙ News and Analytics” suggest that for an attack of such magnitude it is necessary to accumulate drones for about a week
On the night of June 2, the territory of Ukraine was attacked by 80 drones, as well as three Iskander-M / KN-23 ballistic missiles and an Iskander-K cruise missile. Of these, 15 UAVs were shot down, another 37 were “locally lost.” No missile interceptions reported
According to the prosecutor's office of the Zaporozhye region, on the night of May 31, a 9-year-old girl was killed and a 16-year-old boy was wounded as a result of an air bomb attack on the village of Dolinka in the Pologovsky district.
According to the head of the Zaporizhzhya Regional Military Administration, Ivan Fedorov, on the evening of June 1, as a result of an attack using three guided bombs on the village of Kopani, Vozdvizhenskaya community, a 67-year-old man was killed and three people were wounded . Residential buildings were destroyed.
Also on the evening of June 1, as a result of attacks on the village of Ternovatoe, three women were killed ; a store and nearby houses were partially destroyed by the blast wave.
As a result of a missile attack on Kharkov on the morning of June 2, six people were injured, including one child, said the mayor of the city, Igor Terekhov. According to his data, in May, due to Russian attacks in the city, 204 residential buildings were damaged, including 101 high-rise buildings.
In Konstantinovka, as a result of Russian airstrikes on the night of June 2, a woman was killed and four civilians were injured, Donetsk region police reported.
The day before, as a result of a missile attack on the location of a training unit of the Ukrainian Ground Forces, 12 people were killed and 60 were injured. The Ground Forces statement separately noted that no personnel meetings or formations were taking place at the time of the strike, and most of the troops were in shelters. A video of the alleged strike was published by the Russian Ministry of Defense, specifying that it was carried out by an Iskander OTRK missile (judging by the footage, with a cluster warhead ) at the Novomoskovsk training ground in the Dnepropetrovsk region.
OSINT - intelligence using open sources of information ( Open source intelligence, English ).
The “nuclear triad” is the components of strategic nuclear forces: land (missile forces), sea (nuclear submarines with ballistic missiles, SSBNs) and air (strategic bombers).
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.
Rob Lee is a senior fellow in the Eurasia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) in Philadelphia and one of the most widely cited experts on the Russian-Ukrainian war.
A theater of war is a theater of military operations, the territory, the airspace above it and the adjacent water area where combat operations are taking place.
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.
ZhBU is a stationary reinforced concrete arch-type shelter designed to protect aircraft from attacks by fire weapons at airfield bases.
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.
Fighterbomber is a Russian pro-war Telegram channel close to the Russian Aerospace Forces. Regularly publishes insider information about Russian aviation. The author is considered to be retired Russian pilot Ilya Tumanov.
Tatarigami_UA is a reserve officer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the founder of the OSINT group Frontelligence Insight, who regularly publishes reviews of the situation at the front.
Cluster munitions are munitions that open up upon approaching a target, scattering small submunitions, which in turn explode, affecting a large area. Due to their indiscriminate nature and the danger of unexploded submunitions to civilians, they are banned in most countries around the world, with the exception of Russia, Ukraine and the United States, among others.
OTRK is an operational-tactical missile system. Designed to hit targets at a relatively long distance, most often from 100 to 500 km.
OVA is a regional military administration, the highest body of state power in a particular region of Ukraine during a period of martial law.
“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 decoy drones that did not carry a warhead and fell without causing damage.
SAM - anti-aircraft missile system.
SAM - anti-aircraft guided missile.
"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.
GUR - Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine ( Head Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Ukrainian ). Ukrainian military intelligence. The head is Major General Kirill Budanov.
DRG - sabotage and reconnaissance group; This is usually the name given to any formation that crosses the front line and operates behind enemy lines.
The Ukrainian Defense Forces (SDF) is a collective term meaning all Ukrainian law enforcement agencies taking part in hostilities. In addition to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, they include, in particular, the National Guard, the State Border Service, the National Police, the Main Intelligence Directorate and the SBU.
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.
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.
Storm Shadow / SCALP-EG - air-launched cruise missiles of the French-British development Storm Shadow / SCALP-EG ( Système de Croisière Autonome à Longue Portée–Emploi Général, French; “multipurpose high-precision long-range cruise missile with autonomous guidance”). The mass of the warhead is 450 kg, the range of the modifications transferred to Ukraine, apparently, does not exceed 300 km.
“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.
Pocket is a slang term for a piece of terrain surrounded by the enemy on three sides. It is considered a tactically disadvantageous position, since units defending in the "pocket" often experience supply problems and are at risk of complete encirclement.
BMP is an infantry fighting vehicle. An armored tracked or wheeled combat vehicle designed for the safe transportation of personnel to the front line of combat operations, their fire support and combat as part of mechanized units. It has moderate security and is mainly armed with machine gun and cannon systems. In the Soviet and Russian school of military engineering, it also serves as the name of specific vehicles when adding the serial number of the model: BMP-1, BMP-2, BMP-3.
Oryx is a military-themed project based on open source intelligence (OSINT). Created by two Dutch analysts who previously collaborated with the Bellingcat investigative project. It is considered the most reliable aggregator of data on visually confirmed losses of weapons, military and special equipment during the war in Ukraine.
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.
Electronic warfare is electronic warfare, one of the types of military-technical activities associated with the suppression of radio-electronic means and components of enemy control, communications and reconnaissance systems and with the protection of one’s own similar systems. In the Russian-Ukrainian war, the term “electronic warfare” is increasingly associated with systems designed to counter enemy drones.
“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.
Mobile air defense groups are units armed with artillery and machine gun mounts mounted on vehicles, designed to quickly travel to the routes of enemy drones in order to intercept them.
MLRS is a multiple launch rocket system. It is a installation that fires rockets (colloquially “missiles”) one after another, which increases the firepower of the salvo.
SAU is a self-propelled artillery unit.
The commander of the Ground Forces, Mikhail Drapaty, submitted his resignation, explaining that he could not ensure the implementation of his orders (obviously issued in the wake of previous similar incidents). At the time of writing this report, nothing is publicly known about the reaction of the higher command to Drapatoy’s report.
Meanwhile, the authorities of the Sumy region of Ukraine announced mandatory evacuation in 11 more settlements of the Sumy region due to Russian shelling. Thus, the number of settlements in the Sumy region subject to mandatory evacuation has increased to 213.
According to estimates by the Shahed Tracker resource, as a result of attacks on the territory of Ukraine using Shahed-type UAVs in May, the following was recorded:
148 confirmed hits
14 unconfirmed hits
147 fires
7 power outages (two of them major)
The Russian Ministry of Defense reported on repelling the following air raids:
On May 31, three drones were intercepted: one each over the Belgorod and Kursk regions and the Crimean Peninsula
in the afternoon and evening of June 1, 86 UAVs were destroyed: 61 over Kursk, 18 over Belgorod, four over Bryansk, two over Lipetsk and one over Oryol region
on the night of June 2, 162 UAVs were intercepted : 57 over Kursk, 31 over Belgorod, 27 over Lipetsk, 16 over Voronezh region, 11 each over Bryansk and Ryazan regions, six over Oryol region, two over the Crimean Peninsula and one over Tambov region. Also in the report on June 2, the department reported two downed Storm Shadow missiles and four JDAM bombs
On the night of May 31, Ukrainian drones attacked the Lgov and Rylsky districts of the Kursk region. According to Acting Governor Alexander Khinshtein, 14 people were injured. The site of the attack in Rylsk was geolocated by the Ukrainian channel “Dnipro Osint ⟨ Garbuz ⟩”, which claims that Russian military personnel were stationed in the affected building.
In the village of Proletarsky in the Belgorod region, a woman was killed and a child was injured as a result of a drone attack. This was announced by the regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov.
According to estimates by CIT volunteers, during the period from 20:00 on May 29 to 20:00 on May 30, at least four civilians were killed in Russia and Ukraine, including in the occupied territories, and another 62 were injured. Last weekend, 18 civilians were killed and another 91 were injured.
Situation at the front
In the Kursk direction , the offensive zone of the Russian Armed Forces increased to 30 km in width and to 5–8 km in depth .
The Russian Ministry of Defense announced the capture of the villages of Vodolagi and Alekseevka in the Sumy region. DeepState analysts, in turn, acknowledged the loss of Vladimirovka and Konstantinovka in the Sumy region (the Russian Ministry of Defense wrote about the capture of these settlements on May 26 and May 28 , respectively). DeepState did not confirm the occupation of Alekseevka, reporting only the enemy’s advance in this village. Project analysts also noted the advance of the Russian Armed Forces in the village of Alexandria. Judging by the project map, the Russian offensive zone in the Sumy region has increased to 30 km in width (taking into account the “gray zone”) and up to 5–8 km in depth.
A Ukrainian serviceman, the host of the Telegram channel “Officer,” wrote on May 31 about the Russian Armed Forces crossing the border in the Konstantinovka area and noted that now the Russians are attacking in groups not of 3–4, but of 8–10 people, and are also trying to attack Ukrainian logistics with drones. On the same day, he reported the destruction of more than 10 Russian motorcyclists who attacked Konstantinovka.
Ukrainian military observer Konstantin Mashovets writes that the Russian Armed Forces are expanding the “buffer zone” in the Sumy border area. In particular, they managed to advance in the direction of Kondratovka and in the Lokni area, as well as between Alekseevka and Novonikolaevka and occupy part of Alekseevka. Mashovets assumes that the Russian military is trying to reach the Alekseevka - Yablonovka line, but the SOU do not allow this, holding Novonikolaevka and the area south of the Vodolagi - Belovody line. Also, Ukrainian troops did not allow the enemy to penetrate into the territory of the Sumy region in the Oleshnya region. However, Mashovets states that so far the offensive of the Russian Armed Forces cannot be stopped.
In the Kupyansk direction , Ukrainian sources dispute the control of the Russian military over the village of Stroevka .
DeepState writes about the border village of Stroevka, the capture of which was previously reported by the Russian Ministry of Defense. According to project analysts, Russian DRGs in this area enter forest belts and even tried to enter the village itself, but they are in no hurry to gain a foothold there, which is why Stroevka is marked on the map as a “gray zone.”
In the Liman direction , the Russian Armed Forces are expanding the bridgehead on the right bank of the Zherebets River .
DeepState analysts write that Russian troops have advanced into Redkodub and near Karpovka on the right bank of the Zherebets River. The pro-Russian OSINT channel “Slivochny Caprice” geolocates Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian military personnel in the eastern part of Karpovka, confirming the entry of the Russian Armed Forces into this populated area.
OSINT - intelligence using open sources of information ( Open source intelligence, English ).
The “nuclear triad” is the components of strategic nuclear forces: land (missile forces), sea (nuclear submarines with ballistic missiles, SSBNs) and air (strategic bombers).
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.
Rob Lee is a senior fellow in the Eurasia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) in Philadelphia and one of the most widely cited experts on the Russian-Ukrainian war.
A theater of war is a theater of military operations, the territory, the airspace above it and the adjacent water area where combat operations are taking place.
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.
ZhBU is a stationary reinforced concrete arch-type shelter designed to protect aircraft from attacks by fire weapons at airfield bases.
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.
Fighterbomber is a Russian pro-war Telegram channel close to the Russian Aerospace Forces. Regularly publishes insider information about Russian aviation. The author is considered to be retired Russian pilot Ilya Tumanov.
Tatarigami_UA is a reserve officer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the founder of the OSINT group Frontelligence Insight, who regularly publishes reviews of the situation at the front.
Cluster munitions are munitions that open up upon approaching a target, scattering small submunitions, which in turn explode, affecting a large area. Due to their indiscriminate nature and the danger of unexploded submunitions to civilians, they are banned in most countries around the world, with the exception of Russia, Ukraine and the United States, among others.
OTRK is an operational-tactical missile system. Designed to hit targets at a relatively long distance, most often from 100 to 500 km.
OVA is a regional military administration, the highest body of state power in a particular region of Ukraine during a period of martial law.
“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 decoy drones that did not carry a warhead and fell without causing damage.
SAM - anti-aircraft missile system.
SAM - anti-aircraft guided missile.
"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.
GUR - Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine ( Head Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Ukrainian ). Ukrainian military intelligence. The head is Major General Kirill Budanov.
DRG - sabotage and reconnaissance group; This is usually the name given to any formation that crosses the front line and operates behind enemy lines.
The Ukrainian Defense Forces (SDF) is a collective term meaning all Ukrainian law enforcement agencies taking part in hostilities. In addition to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, they include, in particular, the National Guard, the State Border Service, the National Police, the Main Intelligence Directorate and the SBU.
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.
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.
Storm Shadow / SCALP-EG - air-launched cruise missiles of the French-British development Storm Shadow / SCALP-EG ( Système de Croisière Autonome à Longue Portée–Emploi Général, French; “multipurpose high-precision long-range cruise missile with autonomous guidance”). The mass of the warhead is 450 kg, the range of the modifications transferred to Ukraine, apparently, does not exceed 300 km.
“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.
Pocket is a slang term for a piece of terrain surrounded by the enemy on three sides. It is considered a tactically disadvantageous position, since units defending in the "pocket" often experience supply problems and are at risk of complete encirclement.
BMP is an infantry fighting vehicle. An armored tracked or wheeled combat vehicle designed for the safe transportation of personnel to the front line of combat operations, their fire support and combat as part of mechanized units. It has moderate security and is mainly armed with machine gun and cannon systems. In the Soviet and Russian school of military engineering, it also serves as the name of specific vehicles when adding the serial number of the model: BMP-1, BMP-2, BMP-3.
Oryx is a military-themed project based on open source intelligence (OSINT). Created by two Dutch analysts who previously collaborated with the Bellingcat investigative project. It is considered the most reliable aggregator of data on visually confirmed losses of weapons, military and special equipment during the war in Ukraine.
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.
Electronic warfare is electronic warfare, one of the types of military-technical activities associated with the suppression of radio-electronic means and components of enemy control, communications and reconnaissance systems and with the protection of one’s own similar systems. In the Russian-Ukrainian war, the term “electronic warfare” is increasingly associated with systems designed to counter enemy drones.
“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.
Mobile air defense groups are units armed with artillery and machine gun mounts mounted on vehicles, designed to quickly travel to the routes of enemy drones in order to intercept them.
MLRS is a multiple launch rocket system. It is a installation that fires rockets (colloquially “missiles”) one after another, which increases the firepower of the salvo.
SAU is a self-propelled artillery unit.
“Military correspondent” Yuri Kotenok also writes that the Russian Armed Forces managed to enter Karpovka and start fighting for the village. At the same time, he confirms the counterattack of the SOU in the Mirny area, which complicated Russian logistics in the Belogorye and Kolodezey areas.
Ukrainian military observer Konstantin Mashovets reports that the Russian military managed to advance south of Green Valley on the right bank of the Zherebets River, but attacks on Torskoye on the left bank of the river were unsuccessful.
In the Bakhmut direction , fighting continues for Stupochki south of Chasov Yar .
The Russian military man, the host of the Telegram channel “Temny”, writes about the successes of the Russian Armed Forces, in particular in the Shevchenko area and at the Blok-9 mine in Chasovoy Yar. He also writes about successes in Stupochki, achieved, among other things, thanks to attacks on logistics routes to Konstantinovka and the positions of Ukrainian UAV operators. According to his information, in response, the Ukrainian Armed Forces began to transfer infantry to the village and “actively cover everything.” Military blogger Anatoly Radov states that the southern part of Stupochek remains under the control of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
In the Toretsk direction , the Russian Armed Forces are advancing west of Toretsk (until 2016 - Dzerzhinsk) and north of the city .
DeepState writes that Russian troops have advanced near Gnatovka. On the project map, the entire “pocket” south of Zarya west of Toretsk is either occupied by the Russian Armed Forces or designated as a “gray zone.”
“Voenkor” Kotenok writes that Russian forces have occupied the village of Dyleevka north of Toretsk and are now trying to clear out the resulting “pocket” in the area of the village of Dyleevka located southwest. He also reports on the capture of Dachny (until 2016 - Gorky) and the gradual advance to Konstantinovka and Druzhkovka.
In the Pokrovsk direction , Russian troops are expanding the flank coverage of the Pokrovsk agglomeration (until 2016 - Krasnoarmeysk) and Mirnograd (until 2016 - Dimitrov) .
DeepState analysts recognized the capture of Elizavetovka on the eastern flank of the Pokrovsk direction (the Ministry of Defense wrote about the capture of the village on April 13). The author of the Telegram channel “Officer” talks about Russian attacks in the area of Poltavka and Popov Yar and predicts that in the event of further expansion of the salient at the junction of the Pokrovsky and Toretsk directions, one will have to think not about the defense of Konstantinovka and Pokrovsk, but “how to successfully get out of these bags.”
Ukrainian military officer Stanislav Bunyatov writes that the Russian Armed Forces bring reserves to Udachnoye on the western flank and storm it, and Ukrainian fighters suffer losses, but hold their positions. Yuriy Kotenok talks about the battles in Novosergeevka, Novonikolayevka and Orekhov, noting that the nature of the battles is influenced by the high density of the use of Ukrainian strike UAVs.
Konstantin Mashovets reports ( 1 , 2 ) about ongoing intense fighting southwest and northeast of Pokrovsk. According to his assessment, on the eastern flank of the direction northeast of Vozdvizhenka, the pace of the offensive of the Russian Armed Forces slowed down. He also notes minimal advances by Russian forces towards Yablonovka and Stepanovka and a successful Ukrainian counterattack south of Popov Yar. Attempts to advance towards Mirnograd to Novoekonomicheskoe and Nikolaevka, according to Mashovets, did not bring success.
On the western flank of the direction, the successes of the Russian Armed Forces were more significant - for example, the Russians managed to enter Novoaleksandrovka and advance between it and Novonikolayevka, as well as south of Kotlyarovka, and expand the wedge by 1.5 km to the south and southeast of Troitsky, however, here too the offensive is held back by counterattacks of the SOU.
In the southern Donetsk direction , the Russian Armed Forces are developing an offensive west of Velikaya Novoselka .
The Russian Ministry of Defense announced the capture of the village of Novopol. Z-channel “Warrior DV”, close to the Russian group of troops “Vostok”, publishes footage of attacks on a populated area and a “flag attack” in its central part ( geolocation ).
OSINT - intelligence using open sources of information ( Open source intelligence, English ).
The “nuclear triad” is the components of strategic nuclear forces: land (missile forces), sea (nuclear submarines with ballistic missiles, SSBNs) and air (strategic bombers).
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.
Rob Lee is a senior fellow in the Eurasia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) in Philadelphia and one of the most widely cited experts on the Russian-Ukrainian war.
A theater of war is a theater of military operations, the territory, the airspace above it and the adjacent water area where combat operations are taking place.
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.
ZhBU is a stationary reinforced concrete arch-type shelter designed to protect aircraft from attacks by fire weapons at airfield bases.
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.
Fighterbomber is a Russian pro-war Telegram channel close to the Russian Aerospace Forces. Regularly publishes insider information about Russian aviation. The author is considered to be retired Russian pilot Ilya Tumanov.
Tatarigami_UA is a reserve officer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the founder of the OSINT group Frontelligence Insight, who regularly publishes reviews of the situation at the front.
Cluster munitions are munitions that open up upon approaching a target, scattering small submunitions, which in turn explode, affecting a large area. Due to their indiscriminate nature and the danger of unexploded submunitions to civilians, they are banned in most countries around the world, with the exception of Russia, Ukraine and the United States, among others.
OTRK is an operational-tactical missile system. Designed to hit targets at a relatively long distance, most often from 100 to 500 km.
OVA is a regional military administration, the highest body of state power in a particular region of Ukraine during a period of martial law.
“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 decoy drones that did not carry a warhead and fell without causing damage.
SAM - anti-aircraft missile system.
SAM - anti-aircraft guided missile.
"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.
GUR - Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine ( Head Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Ukrainian ). Ukrainian military intelligence. The head is Major General Kirill Budanov.
DRG - sabotage and reconnaissance group; This is usually the name given to any formation that crosses the front line and operates behind enemy lines.
The Ukrainian Defense Forces (SDF) is a collective term meaning all Ukrainian law enforcement agencies taking part in hostilities. In addition to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, they include, in particular, the National Guard, the State Border Service, the National Police, the Main Intelligence Directorate and the SBU.
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.
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.
Storm Shadow / SCALP-EG - air-launched cruise missiles of the French-British development Storm Shadow / SCALP-EG ( Système de Croisière Autonome à Longue Portée–Emploi Général, French; “multipurpose high-precision long-range cruise missile with autonomous guidance”). The mass of the warhead is 450 kg, the range of the modifications transferred to Ukraine, apparently, does not exceed 300 km.
“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.
Pocket is a slang term for a piece of terrain surrounded by the enemy on three sides. It is considered a tactically disadvantageous position, since units defending in the "pocket" often experience supply problems and are at risk of complete encirclement.
BMP is an infantry fighting vehicle. An armored tracked or wheeled combat vehicle designed for the safe transportation of personnel to the front line of combat operations, their fire support and combat as part of mechanized units. It has moderate security and is mainly armed with machine gun and cannon systems. In the Soviet and Russian school of military engineering, it also serves as the name of specific vehicles when adding the serial number of the model: BMP-1, BMP-2, BMP-3.
Oryx is a military-themed project based on open source intelligence (OSINT). Created by two Dutch analysts who previously collaborated with the Bellingcat investigative project. It is considered the most reliable aggregator of data on visually confirmed losses of weapons, military and special equipment during the war in Ukraine.
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.
Electronic warfare is electronic warfare, one of the types of military-technical activities associated with the suppression of radio-electronic means and components of enemy control, communications and reconnaissance systems and with the protection of one’s own similar systems. In the Russian-Ukrainian war, the term “electronic warfare” is increasingly associated with systems designed to counter enemy drones.
“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.
Mobile air defense groups are units armed with artillery and machine gun mounts mounted on vehicles, designed to quickly travel to the routes of enemy drones in order to intercept them.
MLRS is a multiple launch rocket system. It is a installation that fires rockets (colloquially “missiles”) one after another, which increases the firepower of the salvo.
SAU is a self-propelled artillery unit.
DeepState writes that Russian troops have advanced into Bogatyr. Konstantin Mashovets confirms the advance of the Russian Armed Forces by 100–150 meters in the central part of Bogatyr, noting that the enemy “seeks to hold positions” occupied north of the Zaporozhye-Donetsk highway in the area of the same Bogatyr and Otradny.
In the Kherson direction, the Russian military is conducting “senseless” attacks on Antonovsky dachas .
A Russian serviceman, author of the channel “Callsign《OSETIN》,” writes ( 1 , 2 ) that the Russian command continues senseless attacks on Ukrainian positions at Antonovsky Dachas on an island adjacent to the left bank of the Dnieper. He does not understand the point of such assault operations with large losses, given that, according to him, Ukrainian fighters in this area do not pose a particular threat and suffer the main losses from attacks by Russian KAB and UAVs.
In May 2025, the number of Russian attacks increased by 19% compared to April , DeepState states based on reports from the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The daily average increased from 154.8 to 183.6 attacks. If in April the number of Russian assaults exceeded 190 per day only twice, then in May there were already 13 such days, DeepState notes.
DeepState also reports that in May 2025 , the Russian Armed Forces occupied 449 km² of Ukrainian territory , while over the previous three months the rate of advance did not exceed 200 km² per month. Analysts specify that 200 km² were occupied at the junction of the Pokrovsk and Toretsk directions, another 110 km² in the Sumy region, 45–50 km² each in the Bogatyr area in the south Donetsk direction and near the administrative border of the Dnepropetrovsk region in the Pokrovsk direction.
OSINT - intelligence using open sources of information ( Open source intelligence, English ).
The “nuclear triad” is the components of strategic nuclear forces: land (missile forces), sea (nuclear submarines with ballistic missiles, SSBNs) and air (strategic bombers).
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.
Rob Lee is a senior fellow in the Eurasia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) in Philadelphia and one of the most widely cited experts on the Russian-Ukrainian war.
A theater of war is a theater of military operations, the territory, the airspace above it and the adjacent water area where combat operations are taking place.
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.
ZhBU is a stationary reinforced concrete arch-type shelter designed to protect aircraft from attacks by fire weapons at airfield bases.
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.
Fighterbomber is a Russian pro-war Telegram channel close to the Russian Aerospace Forces. Regularly publishes insider information about Russian aviation. The author is considered to be retired Russian pilot Ilya Tumanov.
Tatarigami_UA is a reserve officer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the founder of the OSINT group Frontelligence Insight, who regularly publishes reviews of the situation at the front.
Cluster munitions are munitions that open up upon approaching a target, scattering small submunitions, which in turn explode, affecting a large area. Due to their indiscriminate nature and the danger of unexploded submunitions to civilians, they are banned in most countries around the world, with the exception of Russia, Ukraine and the United States, among others.
OTRK is an operational-tactical missile system. Designed to hit targets at a relatively long distance, most often from 100 to 500 km.
OVA is a regional military administration, the highest body of state power in a particular region of Ukraine during a period of martial law.
“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 decoy drones that did not carry a warhead and fell without causing damage.
SAM - anti-aircraft missile system.
SAM - anti-aircraft guided missile.
"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.
GUR - Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine ( Head Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Ukrainian ). Ukrainian military intelligence. The head is Major General Kirill Budanov.
DRG - sabotage and reconnaissance group; This is usually the name given to any formation that crosses the front line and operates behind enemy lines.
The Ukrainian Defense Forces (SDF) is a collective term meaning all Ukrainian law enforcement agencies taking part in hostilities. In addition to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, they include, in particular, the National Guard, the State Border Service, the National Police, the Main Intelligence Directorate and the SBU.
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.
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.
Storm Shadow / SCALP-EG - air-launched cruise missiles of the French-British development Storm Shadow / SCALP-EG ( Système de Croisière Autonome à Longue Portée–Emploi Général, French; “multipurpose high-precision long-range cruise missile with autonomous guidance”). The mass of the warhead is 450 kg, the range of the modifications transferred to Ukraine, apparently, does not exceed 300 km.
“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.
Pocket is a slang term for a piece of terrain surrounded by the enemy on three sides. It is considered a tactically disadvantageous position, since units defending in the "pocket" often experience supply problems and are at risk of complete encirclement.
BMP is an infantry fighting vehicle. An armored tracked or wheeled combat vehicle designed for the safe transportation of personnel to the front line of combat operations, their fire support and combat as part of mechanized units. It has moderate security and is mainly armed with machine gun and cannon systems. In the Soviet and Russian school of military engineering, it also serves as the name of specific vehicles when adding the serial number of the model: BMP-1, BMP-2, BMP-3.
Oryx is a military-themed project based on open source intelligence (OSINT). Created by two Dutch analysts who previously collaborated with the Bellingcat investigative project. It is considered the most reliable aggregator of data on visually confirmed losses of weapons, military and special equipment during the war in Ukraine.
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.
Electronic warfare is electronic warfare, one of the types of military-technical activities associated with the suppression of radio-electronic means and components of enemy control, communications and reconnaissance systems and with the protection of one’s own similar systems. In the Russian-Ukrainian war, the term “electronic warfare” is increasingly associated with systems designed to counter enemy drones.
“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.
Mobile air defense groups are units armed with artillery and machine gun mounts mounted on vehicles, designed to quickly travel to the routes of enemy drones in order to intercept them.
MLRS is a multiple launch rocket system. It is a installation that fires rockets (colloquially “missiles”) one after another, which increases the firepower of the salvo.
SAU is a self-propelled artillery unit.
The pace of territorial advancement of the Russian Armed Forces in the Ukrainian theater of operations
DeepState
Reuters published a Ukrainian memorandum presented to Russia ahead of the June 2 talks in Istanbul. It talks about an unconditional ceasefire for 30 days, with the possibility of extension and international monitoring of its compliance. As for the terms of the future peace treaty, Ukraine reserves the right to join the EU and NATO and does not accept restrictions on the number of SDF or a ban on the deployment of foreign troops. Also among the Ukrainian conditions are a discussion of territorial issues based on the current line of contact only after a stable ceasefire has been established, international non-recognition of the annexation of Ukrainian territories, a gradual easing of sanctions against Russia with the possibility of their renewal, and the use of frozen Russian assets to restore Ukraine until reparations are paid. Subsequently, the full text of the memorandum was published in Ukrainian and English.
During the negotiations in Istanbul, which lasted about an hour, the Ukrainian side handed over a list of Ukrainian children taken to Russia and demanded their return. Following the meeting, the head of the Ukrainian delegation, Defense Minister Rustem Umerov, said that the Russian side refused an unconditional ceasefire and a meeting of the leaders of the two countries, but agreed to the exchange of seriously wounded and seriously ill prisoners, as well as prisoners under the age of 25 . The head of the Russian delegation, Vladimir Medinsky, in turn, said that the Russian side proposed a truce for 2-3 days in certain sections of the front to collect the bodies of the dead.
Losses
OSINT researcher Cyrus, based on data from Oryx , notes that in May 2025, the losses of Russian tanks and infantry fighting vehicles decreased sharply. Artillery losses also fell, although not as significantly. Cyrus doubts that the decrease in losses can be explained by the accumulation of armored vehicles for the summer offensive.
OSINT - intelligence using open sources of information ( Open source intelligence, English ).
The “nuclear triad” is the components of strategic nuclear forces: land (missile forces), sea (nuclear submarines with ballistic missiles, SSBNs) and air (strategic bombers).
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.
Rob Lee is a senior fellow in the Eurasia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) in Philadelphia and one of the most widely cited experts on the Russian-Ukrainian war.
A theater of war is a theater of military operations, the territory, the airspace above it and the adjacent water area where combat operations are taking place.
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.
ZhBU is a stationary reinforced concrete arch-type shelter designed to protect aircraft from attacks by fire weapons at airfield bases.
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.
Fighterbomber is a Russian pro-war Telegram channel close to the Russian Aerospace Forces. Regularly publishes insider information about Russian aviation. The author is considered to be retired Russian pilot Ilya Tumanov.
Tatarigami_UA is a reserve officer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the founder of the OSINT group Frontelligence Insight, who regularly publishes reviews of the situation at the front.
Cluster munitions are munitions that open up upon approaching a target, scattering small submunitions, which in turn explode, affecting a large area. Due to their indiscriminate nature and the danger of unexploded submunitions to civilians, they are banned in most countries around the world, with the exception of Russia, Ukraine and the United States, among others.
OTRK is an operational-tactical missile system. Designed to hit targets at a relatively long distance, most often from 100 to 500 km.
OVA is a regional military administration, the highest body of state power in a particular region of Ukraine during a period of martial law.
“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 decoy drones that did not carry a warhead and fell without causing damage.
SAM - anti-aircraft missile system.
SAM - anti-aircraft guided missile.
"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.
GUR - Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine ( Head Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Ukrainian ). Ukrainian military intelligence. The head is Major General Kirill Budanov.
DRG - sabotage and reconnaissance group; This is usually the name given to any formation that crosses the front line and operates behind enemy lines.
The Ukrainian Defense Forces (SDF) is a collective term meaning all Ukrainian law enforcement agencies taking part in hostilities. In addition to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, they include, in particular, the National Guard, the State Border Service, the National Police, the Main Intelligence Directorate and the SBU.
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.
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.
Storm Shadow / SCALP-EG - air-launched cruise missiles of the French-British development Storm Shadow / SCALP-EG ( Système de Croisière Autonome à Longue Portée–Emploi Général, French; “multipurpose high-precision long-range cruise missile with autonomous guidance”). The mass of the warhead is 450 kg, the range of the modifications transferred to Ukraine, apparently, does not exceed 300 km.
“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.
Pocket is a slang term for a piece of terrain surrounded by the enemy on three sides. It is considered a tactically disadvantageous position, since units defending in the "pocket" often experience supply problems and are at risk of complete encirclement.
BMP is an infantry fighting vehicle. An armored tracked or wheeled combat vehicle designed for the safe transportation of personnel to the front line of combat operations, their fire support and combat as part of mechanized units. It has moderate security and is mainly armed with machine gun and cannon systems. In the Soviet and Russian school of military engineering, it also serves as the name of specific vehicles when adding the serial number of the model: BMP-1, BMP-2, BMP-3.
Oryx is a military-themed project based on open source intelligence (OSINT). Created by two Dutch analysts who previously collaborated with the Bellingcat investigative project. It is considered the most reliable aggregator of data on visually confirmed losses of weapons, military and special equipment during the war in Ukraine.
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.
Electronic warfare is electronic warfare, one of the types of military-technical activities associated with the suppression of radio-electronic means and components of enemy control, communications and reconnaissance systems and with the protection of one’s own similar systems. In the Russian-Ukrainian war, the term “electronic warfare” is increasingly associated with systems designed to counter enemy drones.
“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.
Mobile air defense groups are units armed with artillery and machine gun mounts mounted on vehicles, designed to quickly travel to the routes of enemy drones in order to intercept them.
MLRS is a multiple launch rocket system. It is a installation that fires rockets (colloquially “missiles”) one after another, which increases the firepower of the salvo.
SAU is a self-propelled artillery unit.
Monthly dynamics of Russian tank losses
Cyrus
The “Sonyashnik🦅” channel, close to the Air Force of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, provides footage of the defeat of a Russian air defense system by an AGM-88 HARM anti-radar missile, reportedly launched from a Ukrainian Su-27 fighter 40 km east of Rylsk in the Kursk region ( geolocation ).
OSINT - intelligence using open sources of information ( Open source intelligence, English ).
The “nuclear triad” is the components of strategic nuclear forces: land (missile forces), sea (nuclear submarines with ballistic missiles, SSBNs) and air (strategic bombers).
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.
Rob Lee is a senior fellow in the Eurasia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) in Philadelphia and one of the most widely cited experts on the Russian-Ukrainian war.
A theater of war is a theater of military operations, the territory, the airspace above it and the adjacent water area where combat operations are taking place.
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.
ZhBU is a stationary reinforced concrete arch-type shelter designed to protect aircraft from attacks by fire weapons at airfield bases.
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.
Fighterbomber is a Russian pro-war Telegram channel close to the Russian Aerospace Forces. Regularly publishes insider information about Russian aviation. The author is considered to be retired Russian pilot Ilya Tumanov.
Tatarigami_UA is a reserve officer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the founder of the OSINT group Frontelligence Insight, who regularly publishes reviews of the situation at the front.
Cluster munitions are munitions that open up upon approaching a target, scattering small submunitions, which in turn explode, affecting a large area. Due to their indiscriminate nature and the danger of unexploded submunitions to civilians, they are banned in most countries around the world, with the exception of Russia, Ukraine and the United States, among others.
OTRK is an operational-tactical missile system. Designed to hit targets at a relatively long distance, most often from 100 to 500 km.
OVA is a regional military administration, the highest body of state power in a particular region of Ukraine during a period of martial law.
“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 decoy drones that did not carry a warhead and fell without causing damage.
SAM - anti-aircraft missile system.
SAM - anti-aircraft guided missile.
"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.
GUR - Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine ( Head Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Ukrainian ). Ukrainian military intelligence. The head is Major General Kirill Budanov.
DRG - sabotage and reconnaissance group; This is usually the name given to any formation that crosses the front line and operates behind enemy lines.
The Ukrainian Defense Forces (SDF) is a collective term meaning all Ukrainian law enforcement agencies taking part in hostilities. In addition to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, they include, in particular, the National Guard, the State Border Service, the National Police, the Main Intelligence Directorate and the SBU.
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.
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.
Storm Shadow / SCALP-EG - air-launched cruise missiles of the French-British development Storm Shadow / SCALP-EG ( Système de Croisière Autonome à Longue Portée–Emploi Général, French; “multipurpose high-precision long-range cruise missile with autonomous guidance”). The mass of the warhead is 450 kg, the range of the modifications transferred to Ukraine, apparently, does not exceed 300 km.
“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.
Pocket is a slang term for a piece of terrain surrounded by the enemy on three sides. It is considered a tactically disadvantageous position, since units defending in the "pocket" often experience supply problems and are at risk of complete encirclement.
BMP is an infantry fighting vehicle. An armored tracked or wheeled combat vehicle designed for the safe transportation of personnel to the front line of combat operations, their fire support and combat as part of mechanized units. It has moderate security and is mainly armed with machine gun and cannon systems. In the Soviet and Russian school of military engineering, it also serves as the name of specific vehicles when adding the serial number of the model: BMP-1, BMP-2, BMP-3.
Oryx is a military-themed project based on open source intelligence (OSINT). Created by two Dutch analysts who previously collaborated with the Bellingcat investigative project. It is considered the most reliable aggregator of data on visually confirmed losses of weapons, military and special equipment during the war in Ukraine.
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.
Electronic warfare is electronic warfare, one of the types of military-technical activities associated with the suppression of radio-electronic means and components of enemy control, communications and reconnaissance systems and with the protection of one’s own similar systems. In the Russian-Ukrainian war, the term “electronic warfare” is increasingly associated with systems designed to counter enemy drones.
“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.
Mobile air defense groups are units armed with artillery and machine gun mounts mounted on vehicles, designed to quickly travel to the routes of enemy drones in order to intercept them.
MLRS is a multiple launch rocket system. It is a installation that fires rockets (colloquially “missiles”) one after another, which increases the firepower of the salvo.
SAU is a self-propelled artillery unit.
The In Factum channel believes that this is the first known footage of the successful use of a missile of this type, although it has been in service with the Air Force since 2022.
Weapons and military equipment
The Multilateral Sanctions Monitoring Team (MSMT), founded in 2024, has released its first report on military-technical cooperation between Russia and the DPRK. According to the document, since September 2023, the DPRK has transferred to Russia more than 20 thousand containers with 9 million shells of various calibers and at least 100 units of KN-23 / KN-24 ballistic missiles, 200 units of 170-mm self-propelled guns and 240-mm MLRS .
The Russian special forces detachment “Nomad”, which is engaged in the fight against Ukrainian drones, including with the help of mobile air defense groups , demonstrated the use of a combat laser against a Ukrainian UAV. The Ukrainian channel “Social-Pobutovy Magazine “Vodograi”” identified the installation as a Chinese-made LASS (Low-Altitude Laser Defending System) complex, also known as Silent Hunter, which, in addition to Russia, was also supplied to Iran.
Ukraine has signed a license agreement for the use of NATO software, which, in particular, will allow the integration of F-16 and Mirage-2000 fighters, Patriot air defense systems and other Western air defense systems into the unified Link-16 information system, said Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine Ekaterina Chernorenko. The Z-channel “Military Informant” recalls that the first F-16 lost by Ukraine in August 2024, according to one version, could have been shot down by “friendly fire” from the Patriot air defense system precisely because of the lack of such a connection.
Ukrainian military expert Andrey Tarasenko demonstrates a folding “barbecue” on the Russian Strela-10 air defense system, which, when folded, completely changes the silhouette of the vehicle and is additionally equipped with electronic warfare systems. Tarasenko ironically calls the car a possible nominee for the “Grill of the Year” award.
OSINT - intelligence using open sources of information ( Open source intelligence, English ).
The “nuclear triad” is the components of strategic nuclear forces: land (missile forces), sea (nuclear submarines with ballistic missiles, SSBNs) and air (strategic bombers).
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.
Rob Lee is a senior fellow in the Eurasia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) in Philadelphia and one of the most widely cited experts on the Russian-Ukrainian war.
A theater of war is a theater of military operations, the territory, the airspace above it and the adjacent water area where combat operations are taking place.
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.
ZhBU is a stationary reinforced concrete arch-type shelter designed to protect aircraft from attacks by fire weapons at airfield bases.
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.
Fighterbomber is a Russian pro-war Telegram channel close to the Russian Aerospace Forces. Regularly publishes insider information about Russian aviation. The author is considered to be retired Russian pilot Ilya Tumanov.
Tatarigami_UA is a reserve officer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the founder of the OSINT group Frontelligence Insight, who regularly publishes reviews of the situation at the front.
Cluster munitions are munitions that open up upon approaching a target, scattering small submunitions, which in turn explode, affecting a large area. Due to their indiscriminate nature and the danger of unexploded submunitions to civilians, they are banned in most countries around the world, with the exception of Russia, Ukraine and the United States, among others.
OTRK is an operational-tactical missile system. Designed to hit targets at a relatively long distance, most often from 100 to 500 km.
OVA is a regional military administration, the highest body of state power in a particular region of Ukraine during a period of martial law.
“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 decoy drones that did not carry a warhead and fell without causing damage.
SAM - anti-aircraft missile system.
SAM - anti-aircraft guided missile.
"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.
GUR - Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine ( Head Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Ukrainian ). Ukrainian military intelligence. The head is Major General Kirill Budanov.
DRG - sabotage and reconnaissance group; This is usually the name given to any formation that crosses the front line and operates behind enemy lines.
The Ukrainian Defense Forces (SDF) is a collective term meaning all Ukrainian law enforcement agencies taking part in hostilities. In addition to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, they include, in particular, the National Guard, the State Border Service, the National Police, the Main Intelligence Directorate and the SBU.
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.
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.
Storm Shadow / SCALP-EG - air-launched cruise missiles of the French-British development Storm Shadow / SCALP-EG ( Système de Croisière Autonome à Longue Portée–Emploi Général, French; “multipurpose high-precision long-range cruise missile with autonomous guidance”). The mass of the warhead is 450 kg, the range of the modifications transferred to Ukraine, apparently, does not exceed 300 km.
“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.
Pocket is a slang term for a piece of terrain surrounded by the enemy on three sides. It is considered a tactically disadvantageous position, since units defending in the "pocket" often experience supply problems and are at risk of complete encirclement.
BMP is an infantry fighting vehicle. An armored tracked or wheeled combat vehicle designed for the safe transportation of personnel to the front line of combat operations, their fire support and combat as part of mechanized units. It has moderate security and is mainly armed with machine gun and cannon systems. In the Soviet and Russian school of military engineering, it also serves as the name of specific vehicles when adding the serial number of the model: BMP-1, BMP-2, BMP-3.
Oryx is a military-themed project based on open source intelligence (OSINT). Created by two Dutch analysts who previously collaborated with the Bellingcat investigative project. It is considered the most reliable aggregator of data on visually confirmed losses of weapons, military and special equipment during the war in Ukraine.
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.
Electronic warfare is electronic warfare, one of the types of military-technical activities associated with the suppression of radio-electronic means and components of enemy control, communications and reconnaissance systems and with the protection of one’s own similar systems. In the Russian-Ukrainian war, the term “electronic warfare” is increasingly associated with systems designed to counter enemy drones.
“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.
Mobile air defense groups are units armed with artillery and machine gun mounts mounted on vehicles, designed to quickly travel to the routes of enemy drones in order to intercept them.
MLRS is a multiple launch rocket system. It is a installation that fires rockets (colloquially “missiles”) one after another, which increases the firepower of the salvo.
SAU is a self-propelled artillery unit.
Russian nominee for the “Mangal of the Year” award
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OSINT - intelligence using open sources of information ( Open source intelligence, English ).
The “nuclear triad” is the components of strategic nuclear forces: land (missile forces), sea (nuclear submarines with ballistic missiles, SSBNs) and air (strategic bombers).
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.
Rob Lee is a senior fellow in the Eurasia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) in Philadelphia and one of the most widely cited experts on the Russian-Ukrainian war.
A theater of war is a theater of military operations, the territory, the airspace above it and the adjacent water area where combat operations are taking place.
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.
ZhBU is a stationary reinforced concrete arch-type shelter designed to protect aircraft from attacks by fire weapons at airfield bases.
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.
Fighterbomber is a Russian pro-war Telegram channel close to the Russian Aerospace Forces. Regularly publishes insider information about Russian aviation. The author is considered to be retired Russian pilot Ilya Tumanov.
Tatarigami_UA is a reserve officer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the founder of the OSINT group Frontelligence Insight, who regularly publishes reviews of the situation at the front.
Cluster munitions are munitions that open up upon approaching a target, scattering small submunitions, which in turn explode, affecting a large area. Due to their indiscriminate nature and the danger of unexploded submunitions to civilians, they are banned in most countries around the world, with the exception of Russia, Ukraine and the United States, among others.
OTRK is an operational-tactical missile system. Designed to hit targets at a relatively long distance, most often from 100 to 500 km.
OVA is a regional military administration, the highest body of state power in a particular region of Ukraine during a period of martial law.
“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 decoy drones that did not carry a warhead and fell without causing damage.
SAM - anti-aircraft missile system.
SAM - anti-aircraft guided missile.
"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.
GUR - Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine ( Head Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Ukrainian ). Ukrainian military intelligence. The head is Major General Kirill Budanov.
DRG - sabotage and reconnaissance group; This is usually the name given to any formation that crosses the front line and operates behind enemy lines.
The Ukrainian Defense Forces (SDF) is a collective term meaning all Ukrainian law enforcement agencies taking part in hostilities. In addition to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, they include, in particular, the National Guard, the State Border Service, the National Police, the Main Intelligence Directorate and the SBU.
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.
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.
Storm Shadow / SCALP-EG - air-launched cruise missiles of the French-British development Storm Shadow / SCALP-EG ( Système de Croisière Autonome à Longue Portée–Emploi Général, French; “multipurpose high-precision long-range cruise missile with autonomous guidance”). The mass of the warhead is 450 kg, the range of the modifications transferred to Ukraine, apparently, does not exceed 300 km.
“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.
Pocket is a slang term for a piece of terrain surrounded by the enemy on three sides. It is considered a tactically disadvantageous position, since units defending in the "pocket" often experience supply problems and are at risk of complete encirclement.
BMP is an infantry fighting vehicle. An armored tracked or wheeled combat vehicle designed for the safe transportation of personnel to the front line of combat operations, their fire support and combat as part of mechanized units. It has moderate security and is mainly armed with machine gun and cannon systems. In the Soviet and Russian school of military engineering, it also serves as the name of specific vehicles when adding the serial number of the model: BMP-1, BMP-2, BMP-3.
Oryx is a military-themed project based on open source intelligence (OSINT). Created by two Dutch analysts who previously collaborated with the Bellingcat investigative project. It is considered the most reliable aggregator of data on visually confirmed losses of weapons, military and special equipment during the war in Ukraine.
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.
Electronic warfare is electronic warfare, one of the types of military-technical activities associated with the suppression of radio-electronic means and components of enemy control, communications and reconnaissance systems and with the protection of one’s own similar systems. In the Russian-Ukrainian war, the term “electronic warfare” is increasingly associated with systems designed to counter enemy drones.
“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.
Mobile air defense groups are units armed with artillery and machine gun mounts mounted on vehicles, designed to quickly travel to the routes of enemy drones in order to intercept them.
MLRS is a multiple launch rocket system. It is a installation that fires rockets (colloquially “missiles”) one after another, which increases the firepower of the salvo.
