Some nice photos.

structure of the 155th separate mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces "Anna Kyivska" being formed.



NATO has assigned training of personnel and equipping the brigade with equipment to France. As of September 2024, it was announced that 2.3 thousand Ukrainian servicemen out of 4.5 thousand of the regular number were trained:

▪️1st tank battalion (31 Leopard 2A4 tanks, reconnaissance and air defense platoons);
▪️ 1st, 2nd, 3rd mechanized battalions (40 VAB (French armored personnel carrier) each, fire support, reconnaissance and air defense platoons, mortar battery);
▪️28th Rifle Battalion (3 rifle companies, a fire support company, a reconnaissance platoon, and a mortar battery);
▪️ Artillery group (18 CAESAR self-propelled guns and 20 Milan ATGMs);
▪️ Reconnaissance Company (18 AMX-10RC), an air defense platoon, an engineering battalion, and a UAV unit.

The likely brigade commander will be Colonel Dmitry Ryumshin, who was the commander of the 33rd Separate Mechanized Brigade in 2023, led the 47th Separate Mechanized Brigade during the defense of Avdiivka from January 2024, and was dismissed from his post in March 2024.

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Leopard 1A5 - 2024-10-28 - Kurakhovo, DPR

Results for October 29, 2024:

· The positions of the Russian Armed Forces north of Chasov Yar have been clarified
· The city of Selidovo of the Donetsk People's Republic has been officially liberated
· The Russian Armed Forces are storming Kurakhovo from the east. To the south, the offensive on the city and its supply routes continues. During the offensive on a broad front, the village of Yasnaya Polyana and the village of Bogoyavlenka (Dobrovolye) were liberated
· In the Kramatorsk direction, units of the "Southern" group of forces occupied more advantageous lines and positions and liberated the settlement of Katerinovka of the Donetsk People's Republic.
· In the Krasnoarmeysk direction, units of the "Center" group of forces, as a result of active actions, liberated the settlement of Gornyak of the Donetsk People's Republic.
· In the Velikonovoselkovsky direction, units of the "East" group of forces improved the situation along the front line and liberated the settlement of Dobrovolye of the Donetsk People's Republic.

AFU losses:

Personnel – 2240
Armored vehicles – 8, including:
Tank – 1 “Leopard”
BBM – 2 (including 1 “Kozak” and 1 “Kirpi”)
BMP – 2
APC – 3 (including 1 “M113”)
Auto – 26
Art – 15, including:
SACS “CAESAR” – 1
D-20 – 3
D-30 – 4
Msta-B – 1
“Pion” – 1
M101 – 1
M198 – 1
M777 – 2
MLRS M142 HIMARS – 1
EW station “Anklav-N” – 4
Defeated airfield infrastructure facilities of the Ukrainian Air Force and the control center for unmanned systems of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
Field ammunition depot – 3
Ammunition depot – 4
HIMARS (rs) – 3
UAV – 98

Kurahovka


Kruglyakovka

Ukraine is America's next Vietnam/Iraq/Afghanistan - spend endless treasure and have nothing to show for it, not for America, not for Afghanistan/Iraq/Vietnam/Ukraine.


What is the expectation here? A victorious Ukraine? Impossible.
A seriously degraded Russia? Evidently not happening and will not happen.

What then??