(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . More Russian stuff blowing up, plus how Ukraine enhanced its long-range missile capability [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2023-10-02 Russian soldiers flee towards cover from the tungsten shrapnel. x Destroying a 203mm Russian 2C7 "Peony" by a GMLRS rocket with tungsten carbide balls fired by an M270 MLRS / M142 HIMARS rocket launcher. pic.twitter.com/ZQT42wPZ5o — PStyleOne1 (@PStyle0ne1) October 2, 2023 Burn, baby, burn x In Rostov-on-Don, partisans have reportedly set fire to a warehouse with military uniforms. The SKRYPACH partisan movement took responsibility for the attack. pic.twitter.com/bStWSeLw3e — NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (@NOELreports) October 2, 2023 Direct hit on a dug-in Russian T-62M with a rocket. You can see the rocket coming in on the slow-motion video. Russia ends up bombing its own minefield. x This video shows the extreme accuracy of Russian aviation (nice job missing literally the entire town) and also sympathetic detonations in a minefield caused by a 500kg bomb. The bomb destroyed a lot of mines. pic.twitter.com/cSgbO4RaY1 — Andrew Perpetua (@AndrewPerpetua) October 2, 2023 WARNING: This video shows (at a distance) a Russian soldier getting blown out of a trench. x 🇷🇺Russian soldier got precisely bombed out of his trench by 🇺🇦Ukrainian national guardsmen of the 12th Operational Brigade «Azov» in the Kreminna Forest, Luhansk Region. pic.twitter.com/e4pxWKBRMJ — Cloooud |🇺🇦 (@GloOouD) October 2, 2023 Video showing earlier shelling damage to a park in Kharkiv. x Feldman Ecopark yesterday. 01.10.2023. Kharkiv. It was not an ammunition depot. pic.twitter.com/yZMUbubiNQ — Oriannalyla 🇺🇦 (@Lyla_lilas) October 2, 2023 Ukraine says the attack in Smolensk yesterday damaged a factory that makes cruise missiles. x On 1 October, several explosive drones hit an aircraft factory in the western Russian city of Smolensk. Now, a Ukrainian spy agency confirms the attack and says it has disrupted the production of Kh-59 cruise missiles. https://t.co/rzqZchKMh9 — Euromaidan Press (@EuromaidanPress) October 2, 2023 This is a potent deep-strike missile that Ukraine has been using for a few months. x First video of the launch of modernized 5V28 anti-aircraft missile from S-200V air defense system of the Ukrainian army against a ground target. (I didn't add the music but it slaps anyway). Ukrainian weapon production is getting stronger, creativity at the top level, and with… pic.twitter.com/rqW6qDxHua — Dmitri (@wartranslated) October 2, 2023 This Forbes article from August explains how the converted 5V28 missiles from old Russian S-200 air-defense systems — with new radar guidances systems — have greatly increased Ukraine’s long-range ground strike capability. The revised missile has a range of about 250 miles and a maximum speed of about Mach 4. In any event, the 5V28 possesses the range to threaten Russian forces across occupied Ukraine as well as deep into Russia proper. On July 28, a Ukrainian 5V28 narrowly missed the Russian bomber base in Tagarong, 20 miles from the border with Ukraine. Three weeks earlier, a 5V28 blew up an industrial site in Bryansk, in Russia around 110 miles from the Ukrainian border. And while the Kremlin claimed it has shot down 5V28s—most recently over occupied Crimea on Aug. 12—there are good reasons to be skeptical. The footage the Russians have provided as proof of the intercepts isn’t very convincing. “The Russians keep claiming 5V28 missile kills but with no claimed intercept footage having the obvious evidence like big brown-black clouds of burned AK27F/TG02 propellant in the sky,” Telenko explained. Ukraine should be able to put these to good use. x 🇦🇺🇺🇦 An Australian company handed over the "drone killer" Slinger to Ukraine, – representative of Electro Optic Systems 👀 Previously, we signed a contract for 160 systems. pic.twitter.com/8JA1k2fnvM — MAKS 23 👀🇺🇦 (@Maks_NAFO_FELLA) October 2, 2023 Another smart Russian opts out of the war. x Russian Pilot Defects Ukrainian Media: "A pilot of the Russian National Guard (Rosgvardia) with the call sign "Havre" went on a vacation to the UAE and surrendered himself at the US embassy. The pilot with the surname "Havrynchenko" said that he no longer wanted to fight… pic.twitter.com/IV1gT8WZEF — OSINT (Uri) 🇺🇦 (@UKikaski) October 2, 2023 What do you do when the captured Russian tank breaks down and you can’t figure out how to fix it? Call Tech Support, of course — in Russia. The T-72B3, a product of Uralvagonzavod in Nizhny Tagil, is one of Russia’s newer tanks. And unlike, say, the T-64BV, the T-80U or the T-72AMT, Ukrainian industry doesn’t have much experience with the type. So when a Ukrainian tanker with the callsign “Kochevnik” ran into problems with his captured Russian T-72B3—problems local expertise couldn’t immediately solve—he called Uralvagonzavod tech support. And incredibly, the help line actually helped. Militarnyi captured Kochevnik’s calls on video. Kochevnik serves in the Ukrainian army’s 54th Mechanized Brigade, which fights around Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine and operates mostly Soviet-vintage equipment including T-64 tanks and BMP fighting vehicles. It also owns some of Ukraine’s ex-Russian T-72B3s. Kochevnik was trolling the Russians, mostly. But his gripes with his 45-ton, three-person tank were real. The tank had been spewing oil. Its compressors weren’t working. The electrical turret-rotation mechanism kept failing, forcing the crew to rotate the turret with a hand crank. x YouTube Video Hopefully one day soon this underground school can become a museum to show what people had to do during the war. x The first underground school in Ukraine will be built in Kharkiv It will protect Ukrainian kids from Russian missile and kamikaze drone attacks.https://t.co/94zBW6NtiL — Euromaidan Press (@EuromaidanPress) October 2, 2023 Russia has been moving Russians into Mariupol and is building road and rail lines to the city. x Satellite imagery from Planet Labs reveals Russia is constructing a highway from Rostov-on-Don to 🇷🇺-occupied Mariupol, as reported by Radio Liberty's. A comparison between October 2022 & 2023 images shows the new route, far from existing settlements. Additionally, a new… pic.twitter.com/WEYsomGLLm — Sviat Hnizdovskyi (@s_hnizdovskyi) October 2, 2023 The Heritage Foundation spouts Russian propaganda. x What a remarkable misrepresentation of facts. It is embarrassing beyond words. Is that why Russia 🇷🇺 cites Heritage? — Jason Jay Smart (@officejjsmart) October 2, 2023 Speaking of spouting Russian propaganda, Elon continues to compete with Putin for most hated man in Ukraine. x E*** is a f****** ***** ******* pic.twitter.com/viX8HWPXrN — Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 (@reshetz) October 2, 2023 Ramzan Kadyrov wants to turn Chechnya into a North Korea-style hereditary kingdom. x Ramzan Kadyrov supported the decision to appoint his daughter Aishat Kadyrova as Deputy Prime Minister of Chechnya. In this case, she will run the republic if something happens to her father. pic.twitter.com/IE99zaJ03p — NEXTA (@nexta_tv) October 2, 2023 Rest in peace. x The American volunteer soldier Dalton “Gimli” Medlin from Texas has been killed in battle against the Russian Army. The info has been confirmed by his brother-in-arms @IhateTrenches Rest in Peace Hero 🇺🇸🇺🇦 pic.twitter.com/4lVMQyWpdo — Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) October 1, 2023 Some comic relief. Turn up the volume. x Pretty woman, walking down the street pic.twitter.com/U5sVtPGyzu — IgorGirkin (@GirkinGirkin) September 29, 2023 Ukrainian special agent Arnold comes ashore in Crimea on a recon mission. x Residents of the temporarily occupied Crimea are watching the exercises of the Black Sea Fleet#BSF pic.twitter.com/6qI4Ud1XyI — PStyleOne1 (@PStyle0ne1) October 2, 2023 x Special operations dog.. pic.twitter.com/VxucDEn8LJ — UkrARMY cats & dogs (@UAarmy_animals) October 1, 2023 [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/10/2/2196897/-More-Russian-stuff-blowing-up-plus-how-Ukraine-enhanced-its-long-range-missile-capability Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/