10/ MOBILITY KILL: vehicles can be immobilised if their tracks or road wheels break, or their gears or engines are damaged. The crew could repair a broken track, but this is a lot harder under fire. Mobility-killed tanks in Ukraine have often been seen abandoned, like this T80BV.
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Near Miss: Explosive Shell 30m Away Can Disable Armoured Vehicle
8/ How close does a near miss have to be? The study found that a high explosive fragmentation shell exploding 30 m (100 ft) away can cause severe damage to an armoured vehicle, potentially disabling it – as happened to this tank in the study.
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US Study on Soviet Artillery Effects
5/ How close does a miss have to be to still be effective? The US Army sought to find out through its four-year Soviet Artillery Effects (SAE) Study, which took place from 1988 onwards. It used its own 155 mm artillery to simulate the effects of Soviet 152 mm weapons.
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Hitting a tank without a direct hit
1/ How do you knock out a tank without hitting it directly? This is the question posed by the video below, which shows Russian armoured vehicles being targeted by Ukrainian artillery in the Donbas in early May. A short 🧵 on near misses versus armour. pic.twitter.com/C8X73lzdSL
— ChrisO_wiki (@ChrisO_wiki) 7 juin 2022How do you take out a tank without striking it directly? That's the question raised by the video below, which shows Russian armored vehicles being targeted by Ukrainian artillery in the Donbas in early May. A short look at near misses versus armor.
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Pro-Kremlin separatists confirm death of Russian General Kutuzov
Pro-Kremlin separatists in #Ukraine on Tuesday, June 7, confirmed the death of another #Russian general, Roman #Kutuzov, during Moscow’s military campaign in the country.
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Volunteer: Vehicles at the front lines are changed more often than socks
Volunteer Morochenets on the need for vehicles at the front lines: "Under constant shelling, they have to be changed more often than socks." VIDEO https://censor.net/ua/v3346486
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Russian Orthodox Church Synod Annexes Crimean Eparchies of UOC-MP
The Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church has annexed the Crimean eparchies from the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate. https://censor.net/ua/n3346480
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Guerrilla against Russian officials grows in occupied areas
Russia slowly gains ground in Donbas. Local Ukrainian counterattacks on June 5 forced Russian troops to focus on holding defensive lines north of Kharkiv City. Guerrilla attacks against Russian-appointed officials in occupied territories are rising.
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Children in Mariupol forced to learn LPR anthem
Russian occupiers are preparing for 'Russia Day' in Mariupol: Children are being forced to learn the anthem of the so-called 'Luhansk People's Republic' (LPR).
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Russian Orthodox Church takes full control of Ukrainian eparchies in occupied Crimea
Russian Orthodox Church takes full control of Ukrainian eparchies in occupied Crimea. Russia’s Orthodox Church decided to move the Dzhankoi, Simferopol, and Feodosia eparchies of the Moscow-controlled Ukrainian Orthodox Church under the direct authority of Patriarch Kirill.