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☆ Who are Ukraine's 82nd Air Assault Brigade? A new elite unit armed with the best Western gear seems to have Russia rattled.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-21 | by ( Sinéad Baker | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Ukraine's elite 82nd Air Assault Brigade appears to have joined its counteroffensive fight. Ukraine's 82nd Air Assault Brigade created a stir when it joined the attack. The area has been the scene of intense fighting and where Ukraine says it has made small gains, Ukraine's Kyiv Post reported. This would mean that the 82nd battalion alone would have half of Ukraine's best infantry armored vehicles from its NATO allies, the Kyiv Post reported. And the Kyiv Post reported that the infantry vehicle component only began training in March.

Persons: Insider's Rebecca Rommen, Vladimir Solovyov, Rybar, Michael Clarke Organizations: Air Assault Brigade, Service, Ukraine's, Ukraine's Kyiv Post, Stryker, Challenger, Politico, 82nd, NATO, Kyiv Post, Forbes, Telegraph Locations: Wall, Silicon, Ukrainian, Russia, Ukraine, Robotyne, Ukraine's Kyiv, Kyiv, Verbove

☆ Ukraine says it downed 2 Ka-52 attack helicopters, which Russia calls the world's best, in a single morning
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-17 | by ( Sinéad Baker | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Ukraine said it shot down two Russian Ka-52 attack helicopters on Thursday morning. But Ukraine has been fighting back: Independent weapons monitoring group Oryx said 40 Ka-52 helicopters have been confirmed as damaged or destroyed through visual evidence. The group added that in total 88 Russian helicopters have been confirmed as destroyed in Ukraine, with 12 more damaged and one captured. Insider reported in November 2022 that Ka-52s have been used more than any other attack helicopter by Russia in its full-scale invasion, which began in February 2022. Nico Lange, a Ukraine expert at the Munich Security Conference, told The Economist that Ka-52 attack helicopters are being picked off "piece by piece" by Ukrainian forces, in a sign that Ukraine is now making progress in its counteroffensive efforts.

Persons: Mykola Oleshchuk, Insider's Rebecca Rommen, Nico Lange Organizations: UK intel, Service, 47th Mechanized Brigade, Facebook, NATO, Kremlin, UK Ministry of Defence, Munich Security Conference Locations: Ukraine, UK, Wall, Silicon, Russian, Robotyne, Zaporizhzhia, Bakhmut, Donetsk, Russia, Kyiv

☆ Ukraine is figuring out how to destroy the Ka-52 helicopters and mobile artillery holding back its offensive, expert says
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-17 | by ( Sinéad Baker | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Ukraine is picking off Russia's Ka-52 helicopters and self-propelled artillery, an expert said. Nico Lange, a Ukraine expert at the Munich Security Conference, said Ukraine's counteroffensive, which began in June, had started to make more progress in the last two weeks. And that number does not include two Ka-52 helicopters that Ukraine said it shot down on Thursday morning. Oryx also records 350 destroyed pieces of Russian self-propelled artillery, with 29 more damaged, seven abandoned, and 10 captured. But Lawrence Freedman, a war expert at the UK's King's College London, told The Economist that Ukraine is making progress.

Persons: Nico Lange, Russia's, Insider's Rebecca Rommen, Oleksii Reznikov, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Lawrence Freedman Organizations: Service, Munich Security, UK Ministry of Defence, NATO, Kremlin, King's College London, Economist Locations: Ukraine, Russian, Wall, Silicon, Russia, Zaporizhzhia, Kyiv

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