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More Russian stuff blowing up, including reports of a Russian ship hitting a mine [1]
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Date: 2023-10-11
There are many reports today that the Vasily Bykov-class patrol ship Pavel Derzhavin blew up in the harbor of Sevastopol after apparently hitting a mine. Confirmation from the Russians has not come yet.
x Reportedly, a large patrol ship Pavel Derzhavin of the Black Sea Fleet blew up in Sevastopol today. It is unclear what happened exactly.
Waiting for official confirmation. pic.twitter.com/RPBhSyhcBn — Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) October 11, 2023
This report says it was blown up by a Russian mine. Oh, I hope that turns out to be true.
x 💥 "Pavel Derzhavin" of the Russian Navy blew up on a Russian sea mine – information to be confirmed
The patrol ship was on an external raid, in occupied Sevastopol pic.twitter.com/If6FYN2UOr — Ukrainska Pravda in English (@pravda_eng) October 11, 2023
x 👍The ship "Pavel Derzhavin" could have been blown up by a mine
Previously, we reported that on the outer roadstead of Sevastopol, for unknown reasons, the patrol ship "Pavel Derzhavin" of project 22160 of the "Vasily Bykov" type exploded.
Similar information was provided by… pic.twitter.com/jxeBy57R9D — Jürgen Nauditt 🇩🇪🇺🇦 (@jurgen_nauditt) October 11, 2023
Previously, we reported that on the outer roadstead of Sevastopol, for unknown reasons, the patrol ship "Pavel Derzhavin" of project 22160 of the "Vasily Bykov" type exploded. Similar information was provided by the speaker of the Odessa OBA Sergei Bratchuk. However, he did not provide any details, adding only that the ship “according to preliminary information, was blown up by a mine.” Several subscribers from Sevastopol told us that at about 10 o'clock in the morning they heard a dull explosion. And the Crimean Wind monitoring group discovered a ship and a boat in the sea near Sevastopol during the day. Judging by the size of the ship - approximately 60 meters - it could only be a minesweeper.
A Ukrainian soldier fires a missile (maybe a Stinger, I can’t tell) and takes down a Russian drone.
A cluster munition strikes an ammo dump and a big bavovna ensues.
x Ukraine War
Cluster munitions in action
Aerial scouts from the 77th separate airmobile brigade, together with the artillery unit from the 45th brigade, destroyed a Russian ammunition magazine with a cluster launch.
In the action, around 10 invading soldiers were destroyed.… pic.twitter.com/ZUrQs6VgEC — ACONTECENDO (@Acontece_ndo) October 11, 2023
The driver never stopped to check on the guys in the back.
x Orc Jumping class 😜 pic.twitter.com/MSaRKsw5Rx — Getty (@region776) October 10, 2023
Narrator: They always leave the hatch open.
x The 8th SSO regiment destroyed a Russian tank by dropping a grenade into the open hatch.
Lesson: never leave the hatch open! pic.twitter.com/r3M6okE3OP — NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (@NOELreports) October 11, 2023
Russia in the last several days has launched an offensive to try to surround the city of Avdiivka, which is northwest of Donetsk, heavily fortified and has withstood numerous Russian attempts to capture it.
The new push comes from two directions — from the north of the city pushing west toward Berdychi and from the south pushing to the west of the city. The video from yesterday that showed a BREM armored recovery vehicle falling off the road ahead of an armored column was part of the drive from the south.
The objective of this offensive seems to be to put enough pressure on Avdiivka to force Ukraine to shift reserves from the south to reinforce Avdiivka. It isn’t working so far and Russia has taken crippling losses in both armor and infantry.
Russia is having the same problem here that Ukraine has had in the south — to take territory you need to cross open fields that leave you open to artillery, ATGMs, drones, etc.
x The Russian attacks against Avdiivka appear to come from two directions. One coming from Vodyane in the south and another one from Krasnohorivka in the northeast. Ukrainian forces efficiently holding ground and inflicting devastating losses upon the Russian army.#Ukraine… pic.twitter.com/E1G9og20Nl — (((Tendar))) (@Tendar) October 11, 2023
x VIDEO of Avdiivka taken this morning. There is so far hardly any sound of artillery fire & very little fighting, after Russia`s huge losses yesterday. Only an aircraft can be heard in the distance.#Ukraine #Ukrainewar #UkraineRussiawar #Russia
https://t.co/AcaJJ0cRmC pic.twitter.com/jtOH6fYu6x — raging545 - @
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Big bavovna.
x Work of the 116th Territorial Defense Brigade. A Russian tank and crew blown up by a mine. Reported as Avdiivka direction. pic.twitter.com/g6eckS3S1g — NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (@NOELreports) October 11, 2023
The loss of all those tanks is bad enough, but losing so many experienced tank crews is difficult to overcome.
x Avdiivka is not the only sector where Russians are losing a lot of gear. Coming from the Lyman-Kreminna front this video shows 15 knocked out Russian tanks, including three T-90M.
What a disaster for the Russian army.
Source:
https://t.co/e7Edeuq8nJ#Ukraine #Lyman #Kreminna pic.twitter.com/qluHA7Ez5k — (((Tendar))) (@Tendar) October 11, 2023
This would be quite a visit.
x Scoop: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wants to visit Israel in a show of solidarity with the country amid the fighting in Gaza. Ukrainian and Israeli officials tell me initial talks about it have taken place. My story on @axios
https://t.co/zn2tDNsAwT — Barak Ravid (@BarakRavid) October 11, 2023
A thoroughly Russian story of a soldier who died in the Bakhmut meat grinder. The soldier had property back home that his relatives stood to inherit. But when they got his coffin and opened it … uh oh … wrong dead guy.
No problem, the other guy got buried instead.
Maybe they should call it the Grave of the Unknown Soldier.
x 2/ Important Stories reports on the 'burial' of 42-year-old Mikhail Smirnov, formerly a builder from Rzhev. After being mobilised in October 2022 he was sent to train as a tank driver. He was last heard from in August 2023, when he told friends he was near Bakhmut. — ChrisO_wiki (@ChrisO_wiki) October 11, 2023
3/ He was declared dead in late September and a body was brought back to Rzhev in a closed coffin. However, his friends became suspicious after discrepancies emerged. His death certificate gave the wrong year of birth and the personal belongings were clearly not his. 4/ Smirnov's friends insisted on opening the coffin and found a different body inside. Although the face was unrecognisable, the body had molars which Smirnov lacked and had black hair, while Smirnov's was grey. As a result, the planned funeral was cancelled. 5/ The case aroused anger in the town. Smirnov's friend Nikolai comments: "Our city is small, people walk around and say: “What's going on? What about the other mothers who were forbidden to open the coffins... Who did they bury?”" 6/ The misidentification seems to have happened in Tver, where Russian bodies are processed before being sent to their home towns. "The guys who bring coffins to the Tver region say that every other day about 30 people arrive here," Nikolai says. 7/ "What outrages everybody is that you guys send them there to fight, but you don’t take any fingerprints or do any genetic testing. Dogs are not treated like our guys. Even the guards are fingerprinted. How will you now look for a person all over Russia?" 8/ However, even though the case is still under investigation, on 8 October the funeral was un-cancelled. The Rzhev Municipal District announced that "a farewell to Mikhail Smirnov, who died heroically during a special military operation" would take place on 9 October. 9/ The unknown man was buried in Rzhev's Shchupinsky cemetery at the insistence of the local administration and his relatives, who are however very distant. Nikolai says: 10/ "They said that [DNA tests] would be ready within three months, and the [municipal] administration insisted that he needed to be buried, just so that he wouldn’t lie there in the morgue. Not in his parents’ grave, but still as Mikhail Smirnov. 11/ "Because the money was allocated, but the relatives – well, what do they want ... They are extremely distantly related, they didn’t even communicate with the living Misha, they don’t care. 12/ "They need to become related as soon as possible: Misha still has a house and a two-room apartment in Rzhev." The relatives have not explained themselves and have refused to comment to the media.
They’d all be alive if they had stayed home.
x Exhibition of the dead, Surgutsky District, Russia. pic.twitter.com/19ZxuF0jv4 — KIU • Russian Officers killed in Ukraine 🇨🇿🇺🇦 (@KilledInUkraine) October 11, 2023
If this can intercept Lancets, Ukraine will need many of them.
x Great Britain will hand over MSI-DS Terrahawk Paladin to Ukraine as part of the air defence package. It is a platform which can track and destroy drones and protect critical national infrastructure.
https://t.co/fqg0a2vMRZ — NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (@NOELreports) October 11, 2023
An army of drones — even with a success rate of 30%, 10k drones would equal 3,000 hits.
x “The first 5,000+ FPV drones from Operation Unity are already in Ukraine. Next, the drones will be supplemented with Ukrainian-made munitions. There will be 10,000 FPV drones in total. These drones were purchased thanks to the joint collection of UNITED24, Povarnys Alive and… pic.twitter.com/JLrZOz29Xo — Samuel Bendett (@sambendett) October 11, 2023
This is not good news.
x Thermal imagers are one of the most sought-after items by Russian volunteer groups acquiring and building drones. Now a Russian FPV drone may have one built in.
https://t.co/sx2dhWrsG7 — Samuel Bendett (@sambendett) October 11, 2023
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
x How Russian battalion commanders motivate their men:
https://t.co/IKV4EJOEsg — ChrisO_wiki (@ChrisO_wiki) October 10, 2023
Took them long enough.
x Xerox leaves Russia in response to Ukraine invasion
One of the world leaders in printing and document management technologies is selling its Russian subsidiary and discontinuing its operations in Russia.
https://t.co/s5A0v6a3Fp — Euromaidan Press (@EuromaidanPress) October 11, 2023
Hopefully they’ll find homes safe from the shelling.
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