Some updates from Ukraine war on 24, January 2024
Ukraine Shot Down Russian Plain with Ukraine POW’s for Exchange.
Ukraine first bragged that they shot down Russian military cargo plane, but after more evidence showed that on board was Ukraine 65 POW’s included in a exchange deal they tried to justify downing civilian plane. The Russian military said its radar registered the launch of two missiles from Ukraine’s Kharkiv region which borders the Russia Belgorod region.
The Ukrainian military intelligence spokesman, Andrii Yusov, confirmed that a prisoner swap was to happen Wednesday but was not going ahead.
Russians Breakthrough in Battle for Avdiivka
Pro Russian reliable sources posted on their telegram channels that Russian used underneath pipe to bypass Ukraine lines. The pipe about one mile long long was filled up and Russian soldiers cleared it during active fighting and explosions to conceal the loud noise. The assault teams landed behind Tsarskaya Okhota and neutralised Ukraine defence and captured Tsarskaya Okhota in few hours. All UAF south of Tsarskaya Okhota were encircled and all UAF attempts to deblock them failed. The RUF managed to hold the position and bring reinforcements. UAF suffered heavy casualties and RUF advanced further and created foothold on Soborna, Sportyva and Chernyshevskoho street.
Daria Trepova jailed for 27 years for handing bomb to war blogger
Darya Trepova, 26, was convicted by a St Petersburg court of charges, including terrorism, in connection with the death of blogger Vladlen Tatarsky Tatarsky an influential military blogger.
She told the trial she was acting under orders from a man in Ukraine whom she knew as “Gestalt” , who had been sending her money and instructions for several months before the café bombing.
“Maxim combined many hypostases within himself: he fought in the Donbass, he wrote about the conflict and was an excellent publicist who formulated his ideas perfectly, very accurately and to the point,” Evgeny Poddubny, a prominent Russian war correspondent, said.
Russian forces have transformed T-80 tanks into deadly multiple rocket launchers.
Footage appearing on Telegram , Russian forces added the Navy’s RBU-6000 rocket launchers to the T-80 tank chassis.
When Russia began these rocket launchers Western countries and Ukraine laughed, mocking Russia that it was suffering weapons shortages. These are 1960s weapons likely pulled out of storage but potent. Why use modern weapons when the old ones are equally effective with some dangerous update.
RBU-6000 is a Soviet anti-submarine rocket launcher with a fixed dual-plane gun installation with twelve radially located barrels.
It is unclear how the aiming will work and loading the launcher will be mostly manually.
It is unclear if the naval-land artillery fusion systems have been used on the frontlines, no video of the weapons in action has so far been found on many of the leading Russian groups.
