‌Dan (Twitter)

7. This undoubtedly happened. But I also recall cases where RuAF readily concentrated armour + soft skins into small areas without being canalised or just seemed sloppy. Skybyn near Brovary and Kamyanka dam in Kharkiv Region (both March) first come to mind.
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@MikkoLaaksonen1:
12/x Like #Finland doctrine: "Thus, Ukrainian defence plans aimed at using manoeuvre forces to fix and canalise attackers to enable their destruction by concentrated artillery fire"

‌IgorGirkin (Twitter)

RT @holosameryky: У середу Пентагон США уклав контракт на 1,2 мільярда доларів з Raytheon Technologies Co (RTX.N) на шість національних передових зенітно-ракетних систем (NASAMS) для України, повідомили у відомстві
https://ukrainian.voanews.com/a/kontrakt-ukraina/6857712.html?nocache=1

The Lookout (Twitter)

RT @DefenceU: Every day, Ukraine is expecting another massive missile attack on our cities and villages.
Thank you to our Norwegian partners for making the lives of our citizens much, much safer.
🇺🇦🤝🇳🇴 https://twitter.com/DefenceU/status/1598283676604895232/video/1

‌Dan (Twitter)

9. In this regard it would be interesting to see a study one day on kills per system set against numbers deployed; as well as for the lesser-used systems. Currently, I do not know of any baseline, but I suspect Stugna-P figures would be good.
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@MikkoLaaksonen1:
16/x "It took 30 days to prepare crews
arriving from military units to properly employ #Stugna-P. #Javelin, by contrast, was much easier to employ, requiring days to train crews, while personnel
could be trained to use #NLAW in hours"

‌Status-6 (Twitter)

RT @OrenCNN: The US is considering a program to dramatically expand the training of Ukrainian forces to as many as 2,500 per month, multiple officials tell CNN.

With @KatieBoLillis @NatashaBertrand and @kylieatwood

http://www.cnn.com/2022/11/30/politics/us-military-expanding-training-ukraine/index.html

‌Dan (Twitter)

10. And in one case I heard of, Ukraine's fast air was flying from a relatively forward operating base. I'm Interested to know after the war how often their units would shift airbases and what kind of improvised airstrips were used.
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@MikkoLaaksonen1:
21/x An important element of the training was working out the survivability of units through the ability to disperse aircraft from the main airfields to operational ones. (..) training of maintenance crews, to carry out pre-flight preparation of aircraft in field conditions

Dan (Twitter)

@vmanulik Yes as well as a few tanks captured. It's where the 6th thank regiment, 90 Guards Tank Division charged down one highway. Commander was killed and then they parked up all together in a huge bunch without dispersing, got hit and then turned and run.

Dan (Twitter)

@StephenShilcock Thanks. I will need some more time.

MotolkoHelp (Twitter)

⚡️Two MiG-31K of the Russian Aerospace Forces with reg.numbers RF-92462 and RF-92339 took off from Machulishchy airfield at 14:12 and 14:25 (Kyiv time).
According to our information, they are leaving Belarus and flying to Savasleika airfield (Nizhny Novgorod oblast, Russia).

‌Dan (Twitter)

11. Important to remember. The UAF considered (as many did) that the Russian main effort would initially be aimed at destroying Ukraine's ability to wage war in the Donbass.
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@MikkoLaaksonen1:
25/x First, an assessment of #Russian forces north of #Kyiv concluded that they lacked sufficient troops to effectively isolate and seize the city. The offensive was therefore viewed as a diversionary deployment, aimed at drawing and fixing #Ukrainian forces away from #Donbas.

MotolkoHelp (Twitter)

We note that the branch of the 4th state center for training of aviation personnel and military testing of the Ministry of Defense of Russia is located there.