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Ukraine’s Race to Hold the Line The days of lightning battlefield breakthroughs may be over. N Anti-tank ditch 1 2 Dragon’s teeth 1 mile 3 Trenches This defensive line in southern Ukraine runs a staggering 27 miles. 25 miles KHERSON N Anti-tank ditch 1 Dragon’s teeth 2 1 mile 3 Trenches This defensive line in southern Ukraine runs a staggering 27 miles. 10 miles Anti-tank ditch 1 Dragon’s teeth 2 3 Trenches 15 miles Ditches. 25 miles N 1 Anti-tank ditch 2 Dragon’s teeth 1 mile 3 Trenches This defensive line in southern Ukraine runs a staggering 27 miles.

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☆ Russian assault to capture Ukraine's 2nd-largest city can't be ruled out, commander says
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-31 | by ( Nathan Rennolds | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The head of Ukraine's armed forces said a Russian offensive against Kharkiv could not be ruled out. AdvertisementThe commander in chief of Ukraine's armed forces has said a Russian attack on Kharkiv could not be ruled out. Russian forces inflicted a strike on a residential area district using a modernized UMPB D-30 guided bomb, Kharkiv, north-eastern Ukraine, March 27, 2024. The bomb, also known as a "gliding bomb," has been adapted with a guidance system and wings, enabling Russian forces to employ "stand-off" tactics and strike targets from long range. AdvertisementSuch weapons help Russian forces supplement their "inadequate" stocks of air-launched missiles and allow them to avoid using free-fall bombs that put pilots closer to the firing line, the think tank says.

Persons: Oleksandr Syrskyi, —, Ukrinform, Vladimir Putin, Putin, Sergey Bolvinov, Vyacheslav Madiyevskyy, Volodymyr Tymoshko Organizations: Kharkiv, Service, Ukrainian Soviet, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Associated Press, Publishing, Getty Images, Reuters, International Institute for Strategic Studies Locations: Russian, Ukraine, Kharkiv, Ukrainian, Russia, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist, Getty Images Russia

☆ East Ukraine's Kharkiv builds underground schools as Russia keeps up attacks
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( Vitalii Hnidyi | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/3] Workers build a heavily fortified underground school that will allow children to safely return to in-person studies, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kharkiv region, Ukraine November 15, 2023. Schools in the region of around 2.5 million people, which borders Russia, were forced into online learning after the Kremlin's February 2022 invasion. More are planned by the end of next year, Korotovskykh said, adding that 817 educational facilities across the Kharkiv region had been damaged or ruined during Russia's invasion. Ukrainians are now bracing for another winter of likely Russian air strikes targeting critical infrastructure, which last year caused widespread blackouts across the country. Reporting by Vitalii Hnidyi; Writing by Dan Peleschuk Editing by Gareth Jones and Andrew HeavensOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Vyacheslav Madiyevskyy, Anton Korotovskykh, Korotovskykh, Serhiy Petrulyanis, Vitalii Hnidyi, Dan Peleschuk, Gareth Jones, Andrew Heavens Organizations: Workers, REUTERS, Rights, Schools, Russian, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Ukraine, Kharkiv region, Rights KHARKIV, Ukraine's Kharkiv, Russia, Kharkiv

☆ For 250 years, US troops could tow their cannons around the battlefield. The war in Ukraine shows they won't have that luxury in the future.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-31 | by ( Michael Peck | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

That raises questions for the US military about whether towed guns can stay ahead of the enemy. AdvertisementAdvertisementAs the Ukraine war has proven, the effectiveness of artillery rests on more than its range or the destructive power of its shells. Rolyn KropfThe Ukraine war has featured an array of towed and self-propelled artillery in a variety of calibers and manufactured by numerous nations. Advocates of self-propelled howitzers point to their superior protection and their ability to rapidly displace after firing. However, the US Army's next-generation Extended Range Cannon Artillery will essentially be an upgraded M109A7 Paladin with a more powerful gun.

Persons: —, James Rainey, Tom, Vyacheslav Madiyevskyy, Caesar, Rainey, Michael Peck Organizations: Service, US Army, US Army Futures Command, Association of, United, Washington DC, Spc, British L119, Getty, Publishing, Cannon Artillery, US Army Yuma, US, Artillery, Defense, Foreign Policy, Twitter, LinkedIn Locations: Ukraine, United States, Washington, Germany, Russian, British, Sicily, Kharkiv Region, Yuma, Forbes

☆ Hroza, Ukraine missile strike: No military targets in village hit by 'inhuman' Russian attack, officials say
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-06 | by ( Vasco Cotovio Radina Gigova Svitlana Vlasova Helen Regan | Vasco Cotovio | Radina Gigova | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Members of Ukraine's emergency services at the scene of a Russian missile strike in the village of Hroza, Kharkiv region, eastern Ukraine on October 5. At least 16 people were injured, including an 11-month-old baby, said Oleh Syniehubov, the head of Kharkiv region’s military administration. Ukraine's emergency services work through the night digging through the rubble in the aftermath of a Russian missile attack. Police and military experts work at the site of a Russian military strike in Hroza. The Ukrainian military has since been trying to resist advances from Moscow.

Persons: ” Sergey Bolvinov, Vasco Cotovio, CNN Bolvinov, ”, Ihor Terekhov, Terekhov, Oleh Syniehubov, Dmytro Chubenko, Chubenko, Hroza, Volodymyr Zelensky, ” Zelensky, Pedro Sánchez, Olaf Scholz, Zelensky, Vyacheslav Madiyevskyy, Karine Jean, Pierre, Sofiia Gatilova Organizations: Ukraine CNN, CNN, Hroza, Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor’s, RBC, Spanish, White, Ukraine, Police, NATO, Ukrainian Locations: Hroza, Ukraine, Russian, Ukrainian, Kupiansk, Kharkiv, Kramatorsk, Dnipro, Granada, Spain, Germany, “, Kyiv, Moscow, Russia

☆ Russian missile strike on Ukraine village kills 51 during memorial to fallen soldier
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-05 | by ( Vitalii Hnidyi | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

It also appeared to be one of the biggest civilian death tolls in any single Russian strike. Some of them were mourners gathering in the cafe after a service for a fallen soldier from the village. [1/3]Rescuers work at a site of a Russian military strike in the village of Hroza, in Kharkiv region, Ukraine, October 5, 2023. The missile hit during a service marking the reburial in his home village of a soldier who had died in action elsewhere. This is a terrible tragedy," Klymenko told Ukrainian television.

Persons: Zelenskiy, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Vyacheslav Madiyevskyy, Serhiy Bolvinov, Oleksandr Mukhovatyi, Mukhovatyi, Ihor Klymenko, Klymenko, Rustem Umerov, Olena Harmash, Yuliia, Timothy Heritage, Andrew Heavens, Ron Popeski David Gregorio, Rod Nickel Organizations: Suspilne, Regional, Political Community, REUTERS, Prosecutors, Thomson Locations: Kyiv, Spain HROZA, Ukraine, Russian, Ukrainian, Hroza, Kharkiv, Spain, Moscow, Kupiansk, Kharkiv region, Russia

CNN —A Russian missile strike killed at least 51 people in a village near the eastern Ukrainian city of Kupiansk on Thursday, officials say, in what would be one of the deadliest attacks against civilians since the conflict began. Moscow’s forces targeted a cafe and a shop in Hroza, in the Kharkiv region, soon after midday local time (5 a.m. Hroza is located about 40 kilometers from the frontlines of the war near Kupiansk, the city in Kharkiv that Russian forces seized early on in the war before losing it a year ago. The Ukrainian military has since been trying to resist advances from Moscow. The UN’s humanitarian coordinator in Ukraine said images arriving from the scene of the attack “are absolutely horrifying,” accusing Russian forces of carrying out a war crime.

Persons: Ihor Klymenko, Dmytro Chubenko, Oleh Synehubov, Vyacheslav Madiyevskyy, Klymenko, ”, “, Rustem Umerov, Volodymyr Zelensky, ” Zelensky, Europe’s, Denys Shmyhal, ” Shmyhal, ” Denise Brown Organizations: CNN, Ukrainian, Ukrainian Defense, NATO, “, Ukranian, Russian Locations: Russian, Ukrainian, Kupiansk, Hroza, Kharkiv, Kramatorsk, Hrova, Ukraine, Pervomaiske, Moscow, Russia, Kyiv, Granada, Spain, “ Russia

☆ Ukraine Steps Up Evacuation Calls as Russia Attacks in Northeast
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-29 | by ( Constant Méheut | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Ukrainian forces retook it in a lightning counteroffensive in the Kharkiv region last September. But since then, Russian forces have constantly pounded the area with artillery, making it practically impossible to go back to everyday life. Farther south, in the eastern Donetsk region, Ukrainian officials said on Tuesday that five people died in Russian strikes. The prosecutor’s office of the Donetsk region said on Telegram that Russian forces had most likely used cluster munitions in their attack. Both Russia and Ukraine have used the controversial weapons, which are known to cause indiscriminate harm to civilians.

Persons: Vyacheslav Madiyevskyy, Oleh Syniehubov, Mr, Syniehubov, Emile Ducke, Pavlo Kyrylenko, Thomas Gibbons, Neff Organizations: Reuters, The New York Times, RUSSIA Kyiv Kharkiv Kupiansk Locations: Kupiansk, Ukraine, Russian, Ukrainian, Kharkiv, RUSSIA, RUSSIA Kyiv Kharkiv Kupiansk Dnipro R, UKRAINE Volgograd, Azov CRIMEA, Donetsk, Russia

☆ Ukrainians torn by evacuation calls as Russian shells fall in northeast
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-20 | by ( Maria Starkova | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/4] Red Cross volunteers help local residents to evacuate from the city of Kupiansk-Vuzlovyi in Kharkiv region, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kharkiv, Ukraine August 15, 2023. Regional authorities announced a mandatory evacuation of civilians from near the Kupiansk front earlier this month due to daily Russian shelling. At 1:20 p.m., the second shelling of the city center injured three civilian men, including an emergency medical assistant, and a 20-year-old woman. Russia denies deliberately targeting civilians in its invasion of Ukraine, which has killed thousands, uprooted millions, and destroyed cities. Reporting by Maria Starkova in Lviv, Ukraine; Writing by Elaine Monaghan in Washington; Editing by Paul SimaoOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Vyacheslav Madiyevskyy, Dmytro Lozhenko, Oleh Synehubov, Lozhenko, Maria Starkova, Elaine Monaghan, Paul Simao Organizations: Red Cross, REUTERS, Thomson Locations: Kupiansk, Vuzlovyi, Kharkiv, Ukraine, Russia's, Kupiansk district, Russia, Lviv, Washington

☆ A fired general's pleas from the front lines reveal Ukraine is bloodying Russian forces in a critical fight
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-14 | by ( Ryan Pickrell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

He said Russia is struggling to knock out Ukrainian artillery while Russian forces suffer "mass deaths." The counter-battery fight is critical in the counteroffensive, and it looks like Ukraine has an edge. After he was fired, he revealed publicly that Ukraine is bloodying his forces in an important fight, the artillery battle. In this fight, Ukraine relies heavily on rocket artillery systems like the High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, or HIMARS, or howitzers like the 155mm M777s. Russian artillery can have the same effect on Ukraine though if left unanswered, which is a reason why the counter-battery fight matters.

Persons: Ivan Popov, Popov, vilely, Serhii Mykhalchuk, Jack Watling, Gen, Valery Zaluzhny, Vyacheslav Madiyevskyy, Jake Sullivan, Patrick Hinton, Hinton Organizations: Service, Artillery, Arms Army, Getty, High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, Royal United Services Institute, Washington Post, Publishing, Hudson Institute, NATO, Systems, National, AP, Forbes, British Army's Royal Artillery, Staff's, Military Sciences Research, RUSI Locations: Russian, Ukraine, Russia, Wall, Silicon, Ukrainian, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk Oblast, Kharkiv Region, U.S, Kherson region, Hinton

☆ Ukraine is rebuilding its shattered cities even as Russia keeps attacking. Now kindergartens come with bomb shelters.
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-24 | by ( Sinéad Baker | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

But Ukraine and its backers say work to repair and rebuild should not wait until the war is over. Estonia, Ukraine's neighbor and one of its biggest allies during the war, is helping with multiple rebuilding projects, including the bomb-sheltered kindergarten. Oleksandra Azarkhina, Ukraine's deputy infrastructure minister, told Insider that Ukraine wants to rebuild facilities like kindergartens so that people can still have normal lives, despite the war. One Zhytomyr resident, Sofiia Zinchuk, told Insider she felt "wonderful" when she heard the kindergarten would be built. It shows that we're not going to comply with destructions and inconveniences," she told Insider.

☆ Russia's invasion of Ukraine was a 'geopolitical earthquake' that defined 2022 and has transformed the world for years to come
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-24 | by ( John Haltiwanger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

An unthinkable, nightmare scenario was now a reality — the largest military conflict in Europe since World War II had begun. The war, which is still raging on, will continue to shape the world in the year to come and likely long after. "Russia's invasion of Ukraine represented a geopolitical earthquake, scrambling the entire chessboard of global politics," Ivo Daalder, a former US ambassador to NATO, told Insider. Some experts have warned that the nuclear dangers posed by the Ukraine war after are "far worse" than the Cuban missile crisis, which occurred 60 years ago this past October. Indeed, the global dimensions of the Ukraine war could make it an era-defining fight.

☆ The Ukraine war has often been a grinding artillery battle. These are the big guns being sent in to pound Russian forces.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-02 | by ( Michael Peck | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Its array of 122 mm, 152 mm and 203 mm cannon mirrored those used by Russia's military. Denice LopezGermany and the Netherlands have already delivered 10 of the German-designed Panzerhaubitze 2000 armored self-propelled 155 mm howitzers to Ukraine. 1st Class Mikki SprenkleFrance's Caesar is a 155 mm howitzer mounted on a six-wheeled truck. Jacob BradfordThe Zusana-2 is a Slovakian wheeled 155 mm self-propelled howitzer. RCH-155The turret of the RCH 155, armed with a 155 mm gun, is unmanned and controlled from the drive module.

☆ Explainer: Why drones pose a different challenge for Ukraine than missiles
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-20 | by ( Peter Graff | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Both are types of aircraft that fly to a target and explode when they get there, but they pose different threats. Missiles, each costing hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars, fly fast, are hard to shoot down and carry a huge explosive payload. Germany sent the first of four IRIS-T air defence systems to Ukraine last week. DRONESUnmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, can be used for surveillance or as a platform to fire munitions at the ground. Russia has already used hundreds of them against Ukraine in just the past few weeks, and is believed to have acquired as many as 2,000 from Iran.

☆ A Kharkiv bomb shelter: the only home baby Zhenia has known
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-14 | by ( Vitalii Hnidiy | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

KHARKIV, Ukraine, Oct 14 (Reuters) - Wide-eyed and gripping a stuffed blue rabbit, six-month-old Zhenia settles into his pram before being walked along a Kharkiv factory forecourt - a treat to be savoured for someone who has lived in a bomb shelter since he was born. Pushing the buggy is his mother, 39-year-old Olha Shevchenko. 1/4 Olha Shevchenko, 39, and her husband Evgen look for their things in their house, damaged by the Russian military strike, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues in Kharkiv October 12, 2022. REUTERS/Vyacheslav Madiyevskyy Read More"I knew this bomb shelter because when I was a little girl I saw it with my grandpa. With renewed shelling of Kharkiv making it increasingly dangerous for them to be outside, the family have worked hard to make the shelter as liveable as possible.

☆ Ukraine's troops have been highly effective with the M777 howitzer, but US troops can turn it into a 'giant sniper rifle'
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-18 | by ( Alex Hollings | Sandboxx News | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

US troops also have a new targeting system that makes the M777 even more precise. LCpl Samantha L. Jones/USMCIn 1979, the M198 155mm medium-towed howitzer entered service for the United States. While it would take two C-130s to deliver an M198 artillery system to the battlefield, the entire M777 setup could arrive in just one. That's more than all of the 155mm artillery rounds fired by the entire US military in the 2003 invasion of Iraq. US soldiers with the Joint Effects Targeting System Target Laser Designation System at Fort Greely in Alaska.

☆ The US has given Ukraine nearly 1 million 155 mm artillery shells. Now it's looking for US companies to build more of them.
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-13 | by ( Michael Peck | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

The US Army is looking for companies that can build up to 12,000 155 mm artillery shells a month. The US had sent 126 M777 cannons and more than 800,000 rounds of 155 mm ammunition to Ukraine as of early September. Last year, the Army wanted to cut funding for the production of 155 mm shells that had been approved by Congress. The US has also been sending M982 Excalibur GPS-guided 155 mm shells to Ukraine. Canada has shipped 155 mm shells to Ukraine and is now asking South Korea to replenish its stocks.

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