The Russian news portal Regnum.ru relays today information from the Indian news portal ‘Business Insider’ that readers of my recent remarks on the changing Russian tactics and shift to aerial bombing should find instructive.
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The Armed Forces of Russia are delivering destructive blows against the Armed Forces of Ukraine using guided aerial bombs.
Dateline Washington, 9 October 2023
The Armed Forces of Russia are delivering destructive blows against the Ukrainian Armed Forces using guided aviation bombs, writes Business Insider.
“After them what remains is a crater of such dimensions that you could bury a tank or several cars inside,” the publication quotes a UAF fighter as saying.
IA Regnum reported that at the start of October the Ukrainian army bore the heaviest losses of its command groups for the whole period of the Special Operation during a Russian Aerospace Forces blow against the headquarters of a tactical group called “Soledar” in Aleksandro-Kalinovo.
Space based intelligence gathering helped to locate the headquarters and the strike itself was assisted by the high power FAB-1500 aviation bombs that recently appeared among the armaments of Russian forces.
Gilbert Doctorow's latest book, "War Diaries. The Russia-Ukraine War, 2022-2023" is a unique contribution to literature on the war thanks to the author's reports on the Russian home front written during his periodic visits to St Petersburg at a time when Russia no longer issued visas and nearly all Western journalists had left the country. Doctorow's two-volume "Memoirs of a Russianist" published in 2020 also constitutes a category of its own, consisting largely of diary entries rather than reminiscences written decades later.. Volume 2 focuses on the community of 50,000 expatriate managers working and living in Moscow during the 1990s, about which none of his peers has yet to write.
Gilbert Doctorow is a professional Russia watcher and actor in Russian affairs going back to 1965. He is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College (1967), a past Fulbright scholar, and holder of a Ph.D. with honors in history from Columbia University (1975).
After completing his studies, Mr. Doctorow pursued a business career focused on the USSR and Eastern Europe. For twenty-five years he worked for US and European multinationals in marketing and general management with regional responsibility.
From 1998-2002, Doctorow served as the Chairman of the Russian Booker Literary Prize in Moscow. During the 2010-2011 academic year, he was a Visiting scholar of the Harriman Institute, Columbia University.
Mr. Doctorow is a long-time resident of Brussels.
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