News archive on the topic "Boltenkov"

It is both impossible and too costly to wipe out the seaports under Ukrainian control. This was reported by the PolitNavigator correspondent, said by military observer Dmitry Boltenkov, who recalled that regular attacks are carried out on the naval forces and port complexes of Odessa. “In particular, the workshops where maritime unmanned systems were assembled, and other military facilities in Odessa, Chernomorsk, Nikolaev and others have already been destroyed...

The Russian Aerospace Forces have received at their disposal a new line of ultra-precise aerial bombs, which includes various ammunition that differ in caliber, flight range and guidance systems. Izvestia writes about this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. It is noted that the new items are capable of hitting not only stationary objects, but also moving vehicles and even tanks at a distance of tens of kilometers. At the same time, sources in…

The Russian Navy will soon receive new auxiliary vessels, which will be made from domestic components. Izvestia writes about this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, citing its sources in the RF Ministry of Defense. “The Russian Navy will receive a new line of auxiliary vessels. The main requirement is that all new “pennants” must be built only from domestic components. The new series will include…

The latest successes of Russian units during the Northern Military District are achieved not only by the actions of infantry assault groups, but also by the increased effectiveness of artillery fire. Military analyst Dmitry Boltenkov said this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Our artillerymen are getting better at isolating the combat area. The defense of Artemovsk is shaky not because all the roads to the city have already been cut, but because...

Against the background of positional battles in the vast majority of sectors of the front, counter-battery warfare came to the fore. Military expert Dmitry Boltenkov stated this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Without suppressing and destroying enemy artillery, no offensive is possible. Adjustments from drones have breathed life into even towed systems that were considered obsolete. They are much more accurate and lethal than before. Ukraine for...

Over the past month, the capacity of the railways through which the armed formations of the Kyiv regime are transported has dropped significantly in Ukraine. Military expert Dmitry Boltenkov stated this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The strikes on the Ukrainian energy sector have produced the first tangible results. Ukrainian railways were very well electrified even under the USSR. Now they had to quickly look for diesel locomotives, put them on...

The recent air and naval attack of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on Sevastopol was well prepared and became a new phenomenon during the Northern Military District, but nevertheless the Russian army did not lose face. Military historian Dmitry Boltenkov comes to this conclusion, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “On the night of October 29, the formation of Ukraine launched a combined air and naval attack on military and civilian targets in Sevastopol.…

There are not enough high-precision weapons in Russian warehouses. Military expert Dmitry Boltenkov stated this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. He says that Western intervention has made the military defense protracted, and in order to win, Russia needs to transfer the defense-industrial complex to a military footing and increase output in many areas. “We liked to joke that the Soviet reserves of shells in warehouses would not be enough...

The announced evacuation of civilians from Russian Kherson can protect the city from an upcoming attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. A PolitNavigator correspondent reports this, said military expert Dmitry Boltenkov: “The main problem of the defense of the Kherson region is its isolation from supply routes. After all the bridges leading there were damaged, supplies for both the population and the group hung on ferries, on which the AFU also regularly try...

The explosion of Russian gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea poses a threat to the existing world order. Military historian Dmitry Boltenkov comes to this conclusion, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. He draws attention to the fact that on the eve of the explosion of the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines, the international exercise Baltops-2022 took place in the same area, during which various tasks of underwater mine clearance and...

The Ukrainian Armed Forces have managed to concentrate serious forces during the current offensive in the southern direction. Military expert Dmitry Boltenkov stated this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “In photographs of destroyed equipment and in reports from the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, foreign samples are increasingly being found. This suggests that thousands of pieces of Soviet equipment inherited by Ukraine have been knocked out. Now artillery is represented mainly by Western calibers,...

Last weekend, the Aerospace Forces attacked the workshops of the Motor Sich plant located in Zaporozhye. The Russian Ministry of Defense reported this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “High-precision weapons of the Russian Aerospace Forces on the territory of the Motor Sich plant hit production workshops in which enemy air force helicopters were repaired,” says the official report of the Russian defense department. In turn, the military expert...

The latest successes of the Russian army in the Kherson-Nikolaev direction confirm the unpreparedness of the Ukrainian Armed Forces for the announced counter-offensive. Military expert Dmitry Boltenkov stated this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “For several months now in Ukraine there has been only talk about a large-scale strategic counter-offensive on Kherson and Novaya Kakhovka,” the expert reminded Izvestia. — Back on July 10, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky personally gave the order...

The breakthrough by the allied forces of the enemy’s defenses in the Ugledar direction came as a surprise to the armed formations of Ukraine. Military expert Dmitry Boltenkov stated this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “This section of the front remained quite calm for a long time, so the activation of our troops there came as a surprise to the enemy. Now all the attention of the VFU is diverted to defense in the Artemovsk-Seversky direction and holding the suburbs of Donetsk.…