Ukraine Situation Report: Greek S-300 SAMs May Be Headed To Ukraine

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Although the S-300PS formula can fire other types of interceptors, the 5V55R missile, which has semi-active radar terminal direction (SARH), is the main type that can be had in Ukraine and has a declared maximum diversity of 56 miles and can attack. Targets at higher altitudes. Until the arrival of the U. S. -supplied Patriot, the U. S. In the U. S. , the S-300 was the formula for long-diversity, maximum-endurance air defense in Ukraine.

As well as the S-300PS, Ukraine also employs much smaller numbers of the S-300V1 (SA-12 Gladiator/Giant). This is carried on tracked transport-erector-launcher (TEL) vehicles, for improved cross-country mobility and also differs in having an inbuilt anti-ballistic missile (ABM) capability.

With a long-standing need for new and better air defense formulas, Ukraine’s stock of S-300s has gained symbolic momentum in the past, with the supply of a formula from Slovakia, in the form of a single battery of the upgraded S-. 300,300UMP. This was delivered in April 2022.

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However, Bulgaria rejected its entire S-300PMU system.

As for Greece, the only other existing NATO operator, this country has gained 12 S-300PMU-1 systems, an improved edition of the S-300PMU that, among other things, features an upgraded 30N6E radar and has firing capability. 48N6 interceptors. The 48N6, whose variants have indicated maximum levels between 90 and 160 miles, uses the so-called Missile Guidance System (TVM) that combines radio steering with semi-active radar steering in the terminal phase of flight. This alone would be a primary merit in the face of the dwindling stockpiles of S-300 missiles used in the past in Ukraine.

Greece’s S-300s have attracted allies to conduct exercises opposed to them over the years, especially Israel, which faces risky systems in Syria and Iran.

Previously, Greece had been reluctant to supply Ukraine with its still-capable S-300PMU-1 systems, but it turns out that the U. S. government’s promise to provide fifth-generation fighters has finally led to a renewal of the heart.

Before diving into more developments from the conflict in Ukraine, The War Zone readers can review our previous coverage here.

As Ukraine continues its crusade of long-range drone attacks on Russian energy infrastructure, Moscow is now contemplating much stricter flight restrictions on those facilities. Reuters reports that Russian newspaper Vedomosti today submitted proposals that would help protect electricity infrastructure, the Russian Energy Ministry reported. It has not yet made an official statement on the issue.

According to Vedomosti, the new plan would prevent planes from flying over electrical infrastructure, unless they are army aircraft tasked with protecting those facilities, or if they carry official Russian posts or visiting foreign officials. At the same time, those aircraft would require “special permission” to operate in designated areas.

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Establishing such zones would not save Ukraine from launching attacks, but it would mean that Russian air defense could operate with fewer restrictions and be better able to deal with the risk of one-way drone attacks. On the other hand, the big question arises as to whether Russia has the ability to identify anything more than symbolic air defense zones at a few key energy infrastructure nodes. Russian air defenses are already under pressure due to the demands of the war in Ukraine, as well as the need for local military infrastructure. key cities, etc.

Today, the latest Ukrainian drone strike came against a Russian-powered target, in this case the Slavneft-Yanos oil refinery, in the city of Yaroslavl, northeast of Moscow. Regional governor Mikhail Yevrayev showed the attempted attack, but Russia claimed to have defeated the drones, adding electronic warfare equipment.

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However, previous Ukrainian attacks have been effective.

On January 21, Russian energy company Novatek was forced to suspend some of its operations at the Ust-Luga complex, located in the Gulf of Finland, about 180 miles west of St. Petersburg, after a drone attack would cause a fire there. Read more about this attack and its implications here.

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Two days earlier, a drone strike hit an oil depot in the western Bryansk region on the border with Ukraine, sparking a primary fire.

The day before, on Jan. 18, another Russian oil terminal in the Baltic Sea struck by drones in a raid on St. Petersburg, but Russian officials claimed the attack had failed. You can read more about this attack here.

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Overall, Ukraine has maintained a steady pace of drone attacks on Russian power infrastructure since the beginning of the year.

In addition to being an effective way to “return the war to Russia,” Ukraine’s long-range drone moves offer an alternative way to retaliate as the scenario along the front lines remains deadlocked, for both sides. For Ukraine, in particular, the battlefield scenario is also made more complicated by long delays in obtaining monetary and military aid from its Western allies.

On the battlefield, Russia claims its forces have taken the village of Tabaivka in Ukraine’s eastern Kharkiv region. Although the Russian Defense Ministry first made this claim, Ukrainian authorities have denied it.

Volodymyr Fityo, head of communications for Ukraine’s grassroots forces, spoke on national television: “This corresponds to reality. Fighting is taking up positions near this town.

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In a recent CNN report, Ukrainian officials warned that Russia is exhausting offensive operations across much of the front line, as the Ukrainian military struggles to hold its positions as its ammunition stockpiles begin to run out. ‘Escape.

While statements such as these are also engineered to help free up the funding logjam in Washington, it is meanwhile clear that especially heavy fighting is taking place in the Kharkiv region. In particular, reports identify a strip of land where the regions of Kharkiv and Luhansk meet.

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In addition to Tabaiivka, this domain includes the nearby village of Krokhmalne, from which Ukrainian forces recently withdrew, under continued pressure from Russia. Ukraine said those troops then took up more advantageous defensive positions on high ground.

Recently, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine claimed that its troops had faced thirteen attacks in the region: around Krokhmalne, in Tabaiivka northwest of the village, and in Stelmakhivka in the south.

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“The enemy is focused on a large number of artillery strikes and seeks to advance,” a spokesman for the Ground Forces Command told Ukrainian television about the scene near Krokhmalne.

Elsewhere, Ukrainian forces also say they are facing increased pressure from the Russians further southeast in the area around Bakhmut, which was the scene of intense fighting last winter.

“The enemy is gathering forces. . . they attack every day,” Sergeant Oles Maliarevych of the 92nd Separate Brigade told Ukrainian television.

Maliarevych addressed the growing risk posed by drones, noting that Russia now operates far more drones than Ukraine.

As part of efforts to close the drone gap, Ukraine is asking civilians to build FPV-style drones at home.

For example, artist and jeweler Violetta Oliynyk became aware of FPV drone manufacturing, after learning how to combine them with the Victory Drones and “Drone in Every Home” initiatives.

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The target of this FPV drone had an incredibly tight leak, after the drone plunged into the windshield of the vehicle they were traveling in. The vehicle is a UAZ-452 4×4 off-road truck, better known as a Bukhanka, a type that has been targeted by FPV drones several times in recent months.

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Apparently returned to service after a long period of storage, this MiG-29 Fulcrum fighter of the Ukrainian Air Force carries a new nose, in the shape of a “shark’s mouth”. Another photo of the same aircraft shows it armed with an AGM across the United States-88 High-Speed Anti-Radiation Missile (HARM) for the Defense Suppression mission.

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The Ukrainian Air Force’s resources are most strikingly described in the tweet below, with a Su-24 Fencer attack aircraft armed with a SCALP-EG air-launched cruise missile provided across France. The weapon bears the slogan “From Paris with love, Rachysty, go to hell,” which means “From Paris with love, fascist Russia, go to hell. “The plane, on the other hand, is yellow (and also blue), identity symptoms have been applied, to lessen the threat of friendly attacks. fire incidents and a sort of nose at the front of the fuselage.

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Prospects for a new EU aid circular to Ukraine appear to have improved, with Hungary signaling it is now in a position to back the $54 billion plan.

Balázs Orbán, the most sensible political adviser to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán (no relation), said Hungary was ready to use the European Union budget for the proposed aid package for Ukraine, Reuters reports. Balázs Orbán said Hungary had sent a proposal to the European Union in Brussels over the weekend.

“Brussels is blackmailing Hungary as if there is no tomorrow, even though we have proposed a compromise,” Orbán said of the secret plan to sabotage Hungary. the Hungarian economy if it decides to block the plan for Ukraine again.

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Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has continuously criticized the European Union over Kyiv and has tried to maintain relations with Moscow since Russia ended its invasion of Ukraine just two years ago.

In December, the Hungarian leader blocked a revision of the European Union budget that included aid to Ukraine. Hungary has delayed Sweden’s application for NATO membership.

As President Joe Biden pushes Congress to approve $61 billion in new aid to Ukraine, NATO leader Jens Stoltenberg said the U. S. military’s investment in Kyiv also has a major deterrent to China.

Speaking during a stopover in Washington, Stoltenberg said: “The point is that Ukraine has continued support, because we have to perceive that this is being closely monitored through Beijing. “

The NATO Secretary General is in the United States to ask Congress to continue investment in Ukraine. In particular, the investment has been blocked by Republican lawmakers who do not accept easy adjustments to U. S. border control policy in exchange for their approval of aid to Ukraine.

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Stoltenberg’s stopover in the United States comes as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warns on his return that the European Union alone will not be able to help Ukraine financially and militarily if the United States drastically reduces its contributions.

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A report by the British Ministry of Defence’s intelligence service says growing resistance to Russian mobilisation efforts is leading to an increase in arson attacks on enlistment offices in that country.

According to the British Ministry of Defense, these attacks “are likely due to a heightened sense of dissatisfaction with the war among the Russian population. “

Since the start of the full-scale invasion in February 2022, there have been 220 recorded attacks on Russian military enlistment offices, 113 of those taking place in the last six months.

The weekend saw a new wave of Russian drone and missile attacks on targets in Ukraine, as the winter air offensive continues.

There are reports of civilian and infrastructure movements across Ukraine, but no initial reports of casualties.

The Ukrainian Air Force said on the Telegram messaging app that Russia attacked the central Poltava region with two ballistic missiles fired from the Iskander-M (SS-26 Stone) short-range ballistic missile system, while three S-300 series surface-to-air missiles were used to hit ground targets in the Donetsk region in the east.

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A Shahed-136 drone shot down in Ukraine reportedly has several modifications aimed at making it harder to intercept, adding purported unobservable measurements. The black-painted Shahed have been in use for several weeks, with a new type of foam coating intended to diminish their radar signature. The black color scheme is designed to make Shaheds harder to spot at night through air defense operators and possibly has some radar evasion properties as well. The drone in the demonstration is also said to be armed with a thermobaric warhead, which would increase lethality against certain types of targets.

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The Russian drone in the next video is a ZALA 421, a small surveillance type that is seen being successfully engaged by an unidentified Western-supplied ground-based air defense system. The drone remains intact enough to deploy its recovery parachute after having been intercepted by the Ukrainian missile.

German drone manufacturer Quantum-Systems has begun to deliver 100 examples of its Trinity drones to Ukraine.

The drones will basically be used for surveillance, as well as combat damage assessment.

Typical of the Trinity series is the Trinity Pro, which offers a maximum flight time of 90 minutes, a maximum area coverage of 1,700 acres, and a range under remote control guidance of up to 4.6 miles from the operator.

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Next comes another example of Ukrainian defense innovation, with an unidentified explosive device that was modified in the field to achieve additional destructive effect. The small device, perhaps intended to be transported via an FPV drone, was wrapped with the cutting chain of a chainsaw, intended to fragment once it exploded.

Another thing you might not expect to see on the battlefield is the Russian RBU-6000 naval rocket launcher. Faced with the scarcity of more suitable weapons and a probable surplus of these naval weapons, the anti-submarine formula adapted for use on land. use, with the launcher fixed on a Ural-4320 6×6 truck chassis.

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Developed in the 1950s, the RBU-6000 features a 12-tube launcher and is used to propel unguided intensity rates propelled through rockets. While it’s unclear what kind of payload gets into its terrestrial version, the fundamental intensity rate carries a highly explosive warhead that weighs around 50 pounds.

Ukraine’s security service says that it has uncovered a major corruption scheme relating to the country’s purchase of mortar shells, vital ammunition needed to maintain the fight against Russia.

According to the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), Defense Ministry officials conspired with workers from the Lviv Arsenal, the main arms supplier, as a component of the operation. This would have resulted in the diversion of approximately $40 million that was intended to be used to acquire 100,000 mortar shells in the fall of 2022.

While Ukraine’s defense ministry appears to have delivered nearly all of the funds to the Lviv Arsenal, the SBU says that the ammunition was never delivered. Instead, it says some of the funds had been transferred to foreign bank accounts, including in the Balkans.

Five other people were charged and one user arrested while trying to cross the border into Ukraine, according to a CNN report.

“The Ministry of Defence continues to fight uncompromisingly against those who divert the supply of weapons. We have no position for corrupt officials,” Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Dmytro Klymenkov said in a statement on Saturday.

Corruption has been a major hurdle in the way of Kyiv’s efforts to join both NATO and the European Union. In the past, this has led to the dismissal of all officials in charge of regional military recruitment centers and it also cost the job of then-Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov.

Both continue to make claims following the apparent downing of a Russian army Il-76 Candid transport plane in the western Belgorod region on the border with Ukraine last week.

A Ukrainian military intelligence officer told CNN they had proof that only five bodies had been moved from the crash site to a nearby morgue. This contradicts Moscow’s claim that there were 74 other people on board, all of whom died. They are believed to be 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war, six team members and three other members.

While Moscow claims the plane was carrying Ukrainian prisoners of war, Ukrainian sources say it was carrying Russian missiles intended to be used in actions against Ukraine.

So far, Russia has provided little visual evidence to suggest that a giant number of POWs were aboard the plane; he has now posted a video that he says shows prisoners being bussed to the Il-76 at the airport. Chkalovsky Army Air Base in the Moscow Region.

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That’s all for now.

Contact the author: thomas@thedrive. com

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