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Ukraine – Russian Missile Strike Hits Swedish Instructors
A Russian missile strike on the Ukrainian Military Institute of Communications in Poltava has at least killed 41 and wounded two hundreds. Other sources claim higher numbers.
Poltava is about 120 kilometer from the Russian border. The warning times after the missile launch was allegedly too short for everyone to reach the bunkers.
The Institute of Communications is training radio and radar operators. Its main multi-story building has been completely destroyed.
Britta Ellwanger, a (former?) Swedish volunteer with the Ukrainian army wrote that Swedish friends of hers, also volunteering with the Ukrainian army, were among those who died in the strike.
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Sweden had promised to gift two Swedish AWACS planes to Ukraine:
Sweden has announced sending its Saab 340B AEW&C (Airborne Early Warning and Control) aircraft to Kyiv, as per an announcement made by its defense ministry on May 29, 2024.
Given the nature of the Institute of Communications in Poltava it is likely that the Swedes were training Ukrainian operators for those.
One wonders why the training was not held elsewhere.
The Swedes should have remembered the history of that city:
The Battle of Poltava[e] (8 July 1709) was the decisive and largest battle of the Great Northern War. The Russian army under the command of Tsar Peter I defeated the Swedish army under the command of Carl Gustaf Rehnskiöld. The battle put an end to the status of the Swedish Empire as a European great power, as well as its eastbound expansion, and marked the beginning of Russian supremacy in eastern Europe.
Swedish and NATO attempts to change that status of Russia in eastern Europe more than 300 years after it had been achieved has ended in failure.
Now including Kursk front losses, Ukrainian losses for September 3rd, as reported by the Russian defence ministry. This does not include losses away from the front line, for example the hit on the Pokrovsk concentration of forces:
– Russia Kursk front: 400 troops, 12 LAV/HMV, 12 motor vehicles, 3 artillery pieces, 1 MLRS, 1 EW system
– Sever Group (Kharkov): 150 troops, 1 tank, 1 LAV/HMV, 3 motor vehicles, 1 MLRS.
– Zapad Group (Luhansk area): 450 troops, 2 motor vehicles, 4 artillery pieces.
– Yug Group (Donetsk north): 710 troops, 6 motor vehicles, 4 artillery pieces, 1 EW system.
– Tsetr Group (Donetsk south): 490 troops, 4 LAV/ HMV, 3 motor vehicles, 2 artillery pieces.
– Vostok Group (southern front): 150 troops, 3 motor vehicles, 2 artillery piece.
– Dnepr Group: 60 troops, 2 motor vehicles, 1 artillery piece.
In total: 2,410 troops (about 2,500 to 3,000 with undercounting: 75,000 to 90,000 a month). Above average.
1 tank, 17 HMV/Light Armoured Vehicle (12 in Kursk), 31 motor vehicles (12 in Kursk). Further evidence of the transformation of the Ukrainians to an infantry using HMV/light armoured vehicles, “technicals” (pickup trucks with mounted weapons), and civilian vehicles for mobility. Even becoming true in the Kursk front, the Ukrainian reserves of armoured vehicles now seem to be very significantly spent.
2 MLRS (1 in Kursk), 16 artillery pieces (3 in Kursk), below average, at a rate of about 500 a month. 2 EW systems (1 in Kursk). These are still catastrophic daily loss levels of such valuable systems, but also point to a depletion of Ukrainian artillery and specialist systems.
Total losses so far for the Ukrainians in the Kursk front have been 9,300 troops, 80 tanks, 38 IFV, 70 APC, 561 LAV/HMV, 273 motor vehicles, 68 artillery pieces, 20 MLRS, 17 EW systems, 7 counter-battery systems
In addition, the Russians have become adept at shooting down and jamming Ukrainian (i.e. Western manufactured) guided bombs, missiles, rockets and the mostly locally-made drones. It has been noted in the Pokrovsk area that Russian drones seem to be able to operate with little EW interference. The rate at which the Russians are destroying the Ukrainians EW systems is extremely high.
Posted by: Roger | Sep 3 2024 16:09 utc | 51
At a briefing on September 3, the official representative of the Ministry of Defense Igor Konashenkov reported on new successes of the Russian army in the zone of the special military operation (SMO).
According to operational data, over the past 24 hours, units of the “South” group have defeated formations of the 24th, 32nd, 100th, 117th mechanized, 46th airmobile, 10th assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the 116th territorial defense brigade. Up to 710 militants, 6 vehicles, a self-propelled howitzer “Paladin”, a howitzer, a self-propelled howitzer “Akatsiya”, a D-30 howitzer, 5 field ammunition depots and an electronic warfare station “Anklav-N” have been destroyed.
Units of the Sever group in the Volchansk, Bryansk and Liptsov directions defeated the formations of the 36th Marine Brigade, the 103rd and 114th territorial defense brigades. More than 150 militants, a tank, an armored combat vehicle, 3 cars and a Grad MLRS combat vehicle were destroyed.
Units of the “West” group inflicted losses on the manpower and equipment of the 14th, 44th, 116th mechanized brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the 117th territorial defense brigade, and repelled a counterattack by the assault group of the 30th mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Up to 450 militants, 2 vehicles, a Krab self-propelled howitzer, an FH-70 howitzer, 2 D-20 howitzers and 9 field ammunition depots were destroyed.
Units of the “Vostok” group defeated the formations of the 31st, 72nd mechanized brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the 129th territorial defense brigade, and repelled 3 counterattacks of assault groups of the 72nd mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Up to 150 militants, 3 vehicles and 2 self-propelled howitzers “Krab” were destroyed.
Units of the “Center” group defeated the formations of the 31st, 53rd mechanized, 142nd infantry, 95th airborne assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the 109th territorial defense brigade, and repelled 7 counterattacks of assault groups of the 59th motorized infantry, 144th infantry, 25th airborne brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the 12th and 14th brigades of the National Guard. Up to 490 militants, 3 pickups, 4 combat armored vehicles, a “Paladin” self-propelled gun and a D-30 howitzer were destroyed.
Units of the Dnepr group defeated concentrations of manpower and equipment of the 128th Mountain Assault Brigade, 141st Infantry Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, 37th Marine Brigade and 39th Coastal Defense Brigade. Up to 60 militants, 2 vehicles and an Msta-B howitzer were destroyed.
Operational-tactical aviation, UAVs, missile forces and artillery of the Russian Armed Forces destroyed a depot of aviation weapons, and carried out strikes on concentrations of Ukrainian Armed Forces manpower and military equipment in 149 districts.
Russian air defense systems shot down a MiG-29 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force, three HIMARS missiles and 37 UAVs.
In total, since the beginning of the military operations, the Russian Armed Forces have destroyed 642 aircraft, 283 helicopters, 30,987 UAVs, 575 air defense systems, 17,811 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,435 MLRS combat vehicles, 13,985 field artillery pieces and mortars, as well as 25,539 units of special military vehicles of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Posted by: Siberianrhod | Sep 3 2024 17:19 utc | 93
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