Whiskey's Briefing Room II

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Time for a new briefing thread to prevent forum errors.

In this thread go battlefield analysis, intel and reports, as in the past I used both the media and discussion threads for this. It needs its own thread.

This thread can also be used for military weapon/vehicle/aircraft/equipment/
ordinance media, identification and discussion.

Posts do not have to relate to the current Ukraine/Russia war. Feel free to contribute with analyses, graphics, reports, intel, satellite photos, etc. Military veterans and subject matter experts of all nationalities are highly encouraged to participate with their own knowledge, training and experience.

What this thread is not for: Posts of a non analytical or non technical nature. No propaganda.

For a list of hashtags used in this thread go HERE

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Battle for Hostomel Airport - Animated Analysis

[WonderMomma]

"Our Defender sees his love for the first time in five months after returning from Russian captivity!"

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Hit white arrow next to my name in the quote to see OP

Originally Posted by WonderMomma

I've been seeing multiple sources saying something about a huge report or announcement that's supposed to be coming on Monday that's likely to ruin Prigozhin's career.

"A Russian human rights activist from the Gulagu net organization, Osechkin, said that on Monday he would publish evidence of Yevgeny Prigozhin's direct involvement in the executions of Ukrainian soldiers. According to him, he has evidence for 20 of such cases, as well as the fact that Prigozhin personally ordered the killing of prisoners."

Two Russian soldiers confess to indiscriminately killing civilians... and more, on the orders of Prigozhin.

ARTICLE
Source: https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/04/17/7398225/

OTHER RELATED SOURCES
https://euromaidanpress.com/2023/04/...led-civilians/
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/...er-come-clean/
https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/202...vk-vagner-news
https://www.radiotavisupleba.ge/a/32367602.html
https://www.la.lv/video-gulagu-net-p...sus-pec-kartas
https://focus.ua/uk/voennye-novosti/...j-gulagu-video
https://www.swissinfo.ch/spa/ucrania...rania/48441176
https://www.polskieradio.pl/396/7818...B5%D1%80%C2%BB
https://www.err.ee/1608950773/wagner...pmist-bahmutis
https://patrioty.org.ua/politic/naka...et-463080.html
https://www.dw.com/ru/prigovor-karam...jny/a-65352749
https://www.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf20230417_96771347
(there are more but I'm stopping at that)



"I shot a 5-year-old in the head": Wagner convicts confess to killing children in Bakhmut and Soledar
ALONA MAZURENKO — MONDAY, 17 APRIL 2023, 15:01

A Russian organisation has released videos in which Russian convicts from the Wagner Group confess to murdering Ukrainian children in Bakhmut and Soledar. According to one of the killers, unarmed 15-year-old Ukrainians "can hardly be called civilians".

Source: Gulagu.net [a Russian anti-corruption, anti-torture human rights organisation and website – ed.]

Details: The human rights activists posted the testimonies of two former Wagner Group unit commanders who were recruited to join Yevgeny Prigozhin's mercenaries from Russian penal colonies.

They are Azamat Uldarov from Saratov Oblast, a former prisoner from Correctional Labour Colony No. 13 of the Russian Office of the Federal Penitentiary Service (pardoned by a decree of the President of the Russian Federation dated 23 August 2022), and Alexei Savichev from Voronezh Oblast, a former prisoner from Correctional Labour Colony No. 1 (pardoned by Putin's decree dated 2 September 2022).

The criminals are now in Russia.

Over the course of a week, they gave testimonies in video and audio interviews, telling Vladimir Osechkin, the founder of Gulagu.net, the details of how they shot more than 20 Ukrainian children and teenagers, blew up a pit containing more than 50 wounded prisoners and so-called "500s" (soldiers who decided to stop fighting and refused to carry out orders to kill Ukrainians), and mopped up residential buildings, killing everyone, even the children.

One of the Wagnerites admits that he "shot a 5-year-old girl in the head" when they went to Soledar and Bakhmut: "She screams – she’s a small child, you know. I shot a five- or six-year-old girl in the head. A killshot."

Quote from Uldarov: "I carried out the order with this very hand, I killed children. You understand, by order. The fact that we… We were given an order to mop up and kill everyone… We went there and we killed everyone – women, men, pensioners and children, including little ones, five-year-olds."

The terrorists said the command to mop up Bakhmut came from Prigozhin. He ordered that no one should be spared – neither elderly people nor children. All were to be killed. In Soledar, he said, it was even worse.

Uldarov also said he had "mopped up" the basement of a nine-storey building in Bakhmut where there were 300-400 civilians, 40 of whom were children. He added that he "had no choice" and that he had an order to kill everyone.

The terrorist stated that this happened in March 2023.

Quote from Savichev: "Civilians were coming outside. And the order was: everyone aged 15 and over – all of them were to be shot on sight. 20-24 people were shot, 10 of them were teenagers aged 15 and 17."

Asked how many unarmed civilians they had killed in February 2023, Savichev replied that 15-year-old Ukrainians "can hardly be called civilians".

Both former Wagner unit commanders also said that Prigozhin had personally given the criminal orders for the executions and killing.

One of the occupiers also said that once, the Wagnerites got drunk and captured 15 Kadyrovites because they did not want to fight.

Savichev also said that the Wagner fighters were threatened with death if they spoke to journalists.

Note: The information about the occupiers has been published by the Russian human rights organisation and website Gulagu.net. Thanks to this organisation, Russian military personnel and security forces who "repented" have left the territory of Russia. One of the "evacuees", former paratrooper Pavel Filatyev, later turned out to be involved in war crimes in Ukraine.

The Gulagu.net video lasts 77 minutes. None of the occupiers said they repented of their crimes in Ukraine. In addition, Uldarov is drunk throughout the filming.

Uldarov also admitted that Wagnerites do not take prisoners and it is their practice to kill Ukrainian soldiers: "Mainly with a knife. We cut their throats. We film it. When Prigozhin said sledgehammer, we’d take a sledgehammer and kill with a sledgehammer. That’s his method. He is a horrible person."

Uldarov also stated that he wanted to return to the front and continue fighting.


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VIDEOs: Attached is just snippets (w/English subs) of the full video available on youtube (no English subtitles) which I've linked below.

➡️1. ""She's a little kid, 5 or 6 years old. I took a killshot. We were told to let no one out". Russian project Gulagu net published a video with the confessions of two convicts, ex-commanders of Wagner PMC subdivisions - Azamat Uldarov and ex convict Aleksey Savichev. They admit to killing Ukrainian children and civilians in Bakhmut and Soledar."

➡️2. ""There were about 60 people there. I was given an order: come, blow it up and set on fire." - destroying a pit with wounded and those who decided to leave combat and refused to kill Ukrainians.

Russian project Gulagu net published a video with the confessions of two convicts, ex-commanders of Wagner PMC subdivisions - Azamat Uldarov and ex convict Aleksey Savichev.

These confessions are direct grounds for criminal cases against Prigozhin and his accomplices for series of violent murders, war crimes and crimes against humanity."

➡️3. "If someone from Wagner didn't obey orders, their "heads were tied up to their genitals," and then they were passed on to federal security service, never to be seen again.

Russian project Gulagu net published a video with the confessions of two convicts, ex-commanders of Wagner PMC subdivisions - Azamat Uldarov and ex convict Aleksey Savichev.

Both of them said that Prigozhin personally gave orders to shoot and kill and approved terrorist methods and violence."

➡️4. ""There was an order to shoot everyone 15 and older. We shot about 10 of these 15, 16, 17 year olds. "

Russian project Gulagu net published a video with the confessions of two convicts, ex-commanders of Wagner PMC subdivisions - Azamat Uldarov and ex convict Aleksey Savichev.

If it weren't for Putin's and Prigozhin's complicity, these people would be imprisoned, but Russian authorities sent them to war instead, teaching them to kill other people beforehand."

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In full on YT:

#civilian #warcrime

[WonderMomma]

"Vladimir Kara-Murza, Russian oposition activist, was sentenced to 25 years of prison.

He was found guilty of state treason, spreading "false" information about the Russian army and being affiliated with an "undesirable organisation""

[WonderMomma]

"The Ombudsman's Office has received dozens of videos of public executions of Ukrainian soldiers by Russians, Dmytro Lubinets, the Verkhovna Rada's human rights commissioner, told Ukrayinska Pravda in an interview.

The videos showed the cutting off of heads, genitals, ears, noses, limbs, phalanges on hands, and more. Some of the Russians were identified. One of the executioners has already died."


#warcrime

VIDEO: "Head of @ DI_Ukraine Kyrylo Budanov: Ukrainian counteroffensive is " going on schedule" but he won't announce its specific plans. "

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- A Leopard 2a4 was damaged in Poland while Ukrainian tankers were training. According to the source two Leopards hit each other. It looks like one Leopard got up onto the other's front slope and separated the turret from hull. I've never seen anything like this before.

A serious code brown moment for that crew.... hopefully no one was hurt badly

[WonderMomma]

1. "assembling a 105mm projectile .."

2. Automatic machine gun in action on a Leopard 2A4

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"Ukrainian tankers successfully completed a short 30-day Leopard 2A4 mastering course in Poland.

The training took place first on virtual tanks, then on full simulators, and after that they trained on real Leopard 2A4s."

[WonderMomma]

Ain't this a bitch?
Start an illegal invasion.
Piss off most of the world and they will take your shit.


"Canada will hand over the confiscated Russian An-124 "Ruslan" aircraft to Ukraine as part of new Canadian sanctions against Russian enterprises. - Prime Minister of Ukraine. "




VIDEO: there has been massive flooding over the last week with lots of rain and swelling rivers. I have never seen a vehicle like this, very cool.

"Ukrainian rescuers continue to eliminate the consequences of the spring flood

The affected people were brought 24 tons of drinking water and food.

At the moment, 225 houses remain flooded, of which 187 are country houses, almost 11 thousand hectares of farmland in the Rivne, Volyn and Cherkasy regions."