From "The Analyst":
RUSSIAN LOSSES STAGGERING DESPITE UKRAINIAN SHORTAGES
I can only imagine what Ukraine could have done with a full arsenal of artillery shells.
Average death rate so far this month for the Russians is 890 per day.
The total is just short of 450,000 since the war began.
Yesterday alone saw the loss of 24 APC’s, 13 tanks, 40 pieces of artillery and 39 fuel tankers and support vehicles. And they gained little more than a treeline.
This is happening without US aid. How much more could we have seen with it?
There now seems to have been 7 aircraft at the Yeysk airbase officially destroyed. At least 1 Tu-160 was said to have been damaged at Engels-2 airbase with possibly two more involved, but not badly.
The Russians lost a major piece of EW warfare in occupied Kherson, hiding under a petrol station awning, knocked out by a HIMARS strike.
Ukrainian artillery use dropped to a near all time low in late March but seems to have picked up again in the last week.
A fully operational Lancet-3 drone was captured intact so that will now be dismantled to find out how it works.
There’s a little talk that the Lancet’s cross wings have actually proved to be less than ideal. The system caused drifting and a number have been seen missing targets badly.
In other bizarre Russian news, their own incompetence is now regarded as the cause for the collapse of the Omsk dam. Obviously someone is being investigated and prosecuted because there has to be blame - but not who is really responsible. That shut down another oil refinery.
Saboteurs blew up another oil pipeline from Siberia.
In other news, there is confirmation that Russian missile targets are being supplied by Chinese reconnaissance satellites. Chinese satellite positioning and use suggests this is now ongoing.
There’s now belief that Kharkiv is now the subject of a Russian culture war offensive. They know they can’t take it but it’s been the subject of much speculation on Russian TV. They see the city as a cultural, scientific and educational centre - which it has long been. Erasing it and everything that makes it part of Ukraine is entirely in line with Putin’s weird philosophy and views on Ukrainian non-existence as a separate people, with their own language and culture.
This is why Ukraine needs air defences and others.
Culture and identity matter, destroy the buildings and infrastructure that maintain it is their way of saying you don’t exist.
They can say it but it’s not true. Culture is people and people have memories. Look how fast Russia reinvigorated its own imperial past and religions when communism collapsed 70 years after its supposed destruction of that culture.
You don’t break people so easily.
Especially Ukrainians.
Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦!