Failing Ukrainian brigade cut unauthorized absences by 70%. How did they do it?
The 53rd Mechanized Brigade, once scattered and losing positions, now leads Ukraine’s Ground Forces in soldiers returning to the ranks.
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Most Ukrainian brigades are short of troops. One that filled its ranks is helping push Russia back in Operation Vivaldi.
That brigade is the 125th Heavy Mechanized, a rare exception in an army where almost every unit fights short-handed, and its turnaround is one reason Operation Vivaldi worked.
Ukraine may already be pushing Operation Vivaldi across the Zherebets River. It’s a risky gamble
Two mappers put Ukrainian troops on the river’s eastern bank this week, including at Terny, where Russia crossed in 2024 and kept pushing until Vivaldi drove it back.
Starlink helped Ukraine pull off Operation Vivaldi. Now Starlink could help Russia take the ground back
The operation retook 277 square kilometers north of Lyman. The drones that now hold that line lose their Starshield link above about 160 km/h.
Russia is back at Dobropillia a year after it failed there. Now it’s the southern jaw of a pincer on Donbas’s last big free cities
This time Russia brought another army, and Dobropillia’s defenders have until the leaves fall to stop it.
Ukraine’s 3rd Army Corps took the lessons of the failed 2023 counteroffensive into Operation Vivaldi. It fought small, and won.
Five months in, it has erased 18 months of Russian advances toward Sloviansk.
Armored assaults aren’t dead. Robots got the credit, but it was Ukrainian infantry in armored trucks that reversed a year of Russian gains near Lyman
Robots cleared the mines and blew up the bunkers, but soldiers still had to ride in and hold the ground.
In Ukraine’s Vivaldi offensive, nobody rides in the BTR-60s. Bulgaria’s old troop carriers go into Russian bunkers packed with mines
Too thinly armored for infantry, 110 Bulgarian-donated BTR-60s now go into Russian bunkers near Lyman packed with anti-tank mines and nobody inside.
Vivaldi counteroffensive advanced after Ukraine took Russia’s drones out of the fight, ISW assesses
Armored vehicles reached heavy Russian fortifications in the Lyman sector without coming under drone attack, which the analysts read as a sign of Ukrainian drone overmatch.
Ukraine outfoxes Russia near Donetsk’s fortress belt with Soviet BTR-60s rebuilt as kamikaze robots, storms a key hub and takes 250 Russian prisoners
Russia burned its reserves on a feint while the 3rd Army Corps took Nove, closing Vivaldi's decisive third season, its commander says.
New Vivaldi tactic: Ukraine’s ground robots, each carrying two Bullspike grenade launchers, attack Russian positions and then detonate inside their shelters
Ukraine's 3rd Army Corps used grenade-launcher ground robots to clear Russian positions during Vivaldi.
Ukraine is saving Donetsk Oblast with world’s first-of-its-kind operation: Vivaldi counteroffensive drops robots directly from heavy bombers 10 kilometers behind Russian lines
Heavy drones delivered the robots more than 10 kilometers into the Russian rear during Operation Vivaldi near Lyman.
Ukraine’s Vivaldi operation cleared 85 square kilometers near Lyman. A soldier who fought it says one thing was hardest of all
Well-sited Russian defenders spot an assault group crossing open ground and fight it at a distance, he says.
Russia was sure the terrain made this village impossible to take—Ukraine walked in anyway
Days of reconnaissance, drone strikes, and artillery went into the 66th Brigade's push on Serednie. When the village fell, Russian channels called the liberation footage an AI fake.
Ukraine’s Third Army Corps won’t just hold Donetsk fortress cities. It’s building mission to pull civilians out of them
A dedicated fund is opening to pay for more trips, more often.
Ukraine retook 240 square km north of Lyman and nobody reported it for three months
The 3rd Army Corps attacked on 22 May and nobody outside the army reported it until late August. Whether it changes the war is the one thing the analysts do not agree on.
For first time, Ukraine shows its British Rapid Ranger air-defense system mounted on Spanish off-road chassis. Its crews call it “close-range storm”
This 500-kilogram missile system is designed to catch what radar misses.
Ukraine’s secret counteroffensive is more successful than we thought
The Ukrainian 3rd Army Corps has cut across a dangerous Russian salient in the east. All without telling anyone.
Ukraine’s secret counteroffensive takes the pressure off Sloviansk
Under strict operational security, the Ukrainian 3rd Army Corps has been counterattacking north of Lyman. For months now.
ISW: Russia gains ground in Kostiantynivka but Fortress Belt stays out of reach
Russia's strategy of stacking armies on one Donetsk Oblast city is producing slow infiltration, not the operational breakthrough Moscow needs to crack the fortified chain, ISW says.