All good! Ukrainian drone operator dodges Russian TOR-2M missile, then catches up to it.The highlight of this attack was the phenomenal reaction of a Ukrainian drone operator who managed to dodge a Russian missile fired at his drone.
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I am Ukrainian. My country has been invaded by Russia. In this video I will tell you what happened on the four hundred and sixty sixth day of the war.
Day 466: Jun 04
Today there is a lot of good news. In the Belgorod region, after seeing that Russian forces were simply incapable of holding off even small assault groups, the Freedom of Russia Legion and Russian Volunteer Corps decided to rapidly increase the scale of their operations.
The insurgent forces opened 7 more lines of attack and managed to secure at least 4 settlements, namely, Solntsevka, Sereda, Maryno, and Leninskiy; while the fights are taking place in 9 more settlements, including Zibrovka, Shebekino, and Voznesenovka. Combat footage confirms the ongoing operations in multiple settlements.
Russian officials were forced to admit that the issue was not resolved and started a massive evacuation. At the moment, Russian forces lost control over 200 square kilometers of the Belgorod region. The crisis continues to escalate, and more and more sources start to consider Belgorod as a new front line.
The scale of the operation also implies that the losses increase, which is why the commander of the Russian Volunteer Corps asked the Head of the Belgorod region to swap prisoners of war. The Head of the Belgorod region declined the offer, called them terrorists, and said that he doubted that Russian soldiers were alive anyways.
The Head of the Wagner Group, Prigozhin, immediately responded by viciously criticizing the decision to basically abandon Russian soldiers and said that it costs nothing to organize a regular prisoner exchange that happens all the time anyways.
Simultaneously, it was revealed that the Russian Ministry of Defense tried to ambush and kill the withdrawing Wagner forces from Bakhmut. Prigozhin said that his troops noticed strange activity in the rear, and when they checked the roads, it turned out that someone completely mined them as if planning to take out the whole convoy.
Prigozhin said that they demined the area, but when withdrawing, they were hit with artillery fire that was probably supposed to take out the survivors after the mines detonated. The Wagner forces conducted an internal raid and took captive the artillery crew that fired at them. Later they showed a video with the commander of the Russian 72nd Brigade, that confessed that a group of 12 people under his command fired at Wagner forces.
Prigozhin saw an opportunity in all these situations and basically said that for security reasons, he would not report when and where his forces deploy and that all operations would be conducted at his discretion, bypassing the Russian Ministry of Defense.
Prigozhin immediately took action and started redeploying certain elements of his forces to the Belgorod region, claiming that if the Russian Ministry could not do its job and protect the Russian people, then he would do it himself. The Head of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, recognized this opportunity as well and also said that he could help.
In the meantime, Russian forces started losing Bakhmut. The moment the Wagner Group withdrew from the city and the DPR units became solely responsible for Bakhmut, Ukrainians entered the southwestern part of the city. Russian analysts are extremely worried that Ukrainians will leverage these gains in order to conduct a pincer movement on Klischiivka and breach the most formidable strong point without even storming it.
Today a fighter from the Aidar battalion reported that they are exacerbating the situation by blocking the rotation process with artillery fire and based on the intercepted radio exchanges, Russians in Klischiivka may soon abandon their positions from lack of food and sheer exhaustion.
However, the biggest news by far comes from the south. Here, Ukrainians launched a series of mechanized assaults. During the first stage of the offensive operation, Ukrainians opened 2 lines of attack: toward Novodarivka and Neskuchne.
Russian sources reported that Ukrainians used up to 2 motorized rifle companies with several T-72 tanks. As a result, Russian defense was breached, and Russian troops retreated.
Overall, Ukrainians managed to advance by 2 and, in some places, by 5 kilometers in 1 day and secure 2 settlements.
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All good! Ukrainian drone operator dodges Russian TOR-2M missile, then catches up to it.The highlight of this attack was the phenomenal reaction of a Ukrainian drone operator who managed to dodge a Russian missile fired at his drone.
All good!
“A TOR tried to shoot down our suicide drone. But the pilot saved the drone - he manually diverted it from the missile, and then “captured” the target and caught up with the enemy SAM trying to escape,” the special service wrote.
Namely, three Tor-2M SAMs, a Buk-M1, three Nona self-propelled artillery systems, three infantry fighting vehicles, two tanks, an electronic warfare station, and enemy fortifications were taken out in the attack.
Artillery also destroyed another 84 units of enemy weapons, including seven tanks, six Grads MLRSs, 11 cannons, six self-propelled artillery systems, 21 armored vehicles, and other equipment thanks to the SBU’s adjustments of their fire.
The ZZ’s in Russia schtick is as lame as libs saying “drumpf”. Stupid.
“The ZZ’s in Russia”
I did not create the title. Denys Davydov is the Ukrainian author.
Ruzzia is a neologism or new word that has been created following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Denys Davydov is a Ukrainian that had suffered the 2014 & now extended to 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
“A TOR tried to shoot down our suicide drone. But the pilot saved the drone - he manually diverted it from the missile, and then “captured” the target and caught up with the enemy SAM trying to escape,” the special service wrote.
I don't agree that the drone pilot manually diverted the drone from the missile. Here's the link again:
https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1664955265664397314
Here's my analysis:
The kamikaze drones in this video are not the FPV drone seen in many of the recent videos.
Since the BUK-M1 and TOR-2M systems are located well behind the FEBA, these new drones must have long range radio or satellite communications.
The drones also have a self-track (TV) capability (terminal guidance). Once the drone is "Locked Onto" the target, the drone flys itself into the target.
The TOR-2M missile shot starts at 31 seconds on the video.
The TOR-2M missile is command guided with an RF proximity fuze.
I believe the TOR-2M missile missed the drone because the fuze did not function. This indicates that the drone is very stealthy.
I did not see any maneuvering by the drone during time-of-flight (TOF) of the missile.
The drone was probably optically tracked and not tracked by the TOR-2M radar.
IMHO, this drone type is a significant upgrade to UKR SEAD (Suppression of Enemy Air Defense).
“The drone was probably optically tracked and not tracked by the TOR-2M radar. IMHO, this drone type is a significant upgrade to UKR SEAD (Suppression of Enemy Air Defense)”
I totally defer to your superior knowledge. I shared this video because I find this whole air assault weapons as well as defense utterly amazing!
I believe that this video encapsulates the high-tech battlefield.
It is a very important video & thanks for posting.
Btw, we are the bad guys there. Globalism is the enemy and we are being used as the muscle to impose it. America is Woke. We waste all to advance Wokeness.
Russians are the good guys there- unless you are a commie globalist.
The New Atlas has proved to be one of the most accurate reports on this war. The results have been very close to what they report.
You need to stop lying. This thread is post after post of you reporting propaganda to yourself. Then you have people who challenge your posts removed.
It is a pattern of yours and should not be allowed here.
It is very suspect to see a thread with most of the posts coming totally from one person and numerous removed posts.
Caution of New Atlas as source for information. When fact-checked the New Atlas definitely does not use a balanced geopolitics perspective to the point commentary is active disinformation.
Puke worthy and disingenuous bullshat borderline laugh worthy.
Truth isn’t in your vocabulary.
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