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Russian seasonal advance

in 2025
Winter: 890km2
Spring: 960km2
Summer: 1631km2
Autumn: 1275km2 (+150km2)*

Russian army size increased from 600K to 730K over this period
November 21, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Ternopil
Before and After
November 19, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Western Ukraine is under attack.
Ternopil and Lviv were hit.
Will assume Russians are aiming at gas and energy infrastructure.

Paper tiger can only fight with civilians.
November 19, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Settlements layout around Zaporizhzhia.
November 19, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Deadliest SBS day ever.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
The "death of modern war theory" is a strange paradox: two comparable armies have beaten each other down to a point where continuing the war should be impossible, yet the side with even a slight advantage keeps going because it cannot afford to stop.
November 16, 2025 at 3:35 PM
At the end of every year Artillery leaving GSUA reports.

Will return by February.
November 16, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Lyman and Beyond

The situation around Lyman is pretty straightforward: secure the flanks, cut the supply routes, and only then take the town. Everything else depends on that. Yarova and Yampil are the keys on the sides, and cutting the roads feeding Lyman is the other half of the job.
November 15, 2025 at 5:32 PM
GSUA Barrages update

350 shellings using over 1500 munitions, that makes ~4 shells per barrage, significant drop from previously reported 8.

It highlight a significant change in the war approach.
November 15, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Another November KAB decline.

Average numbers have dropped from 200 to 100 in a month.

The Weather cant explain this drop.
November 14, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Combined attacked focused on Kyiv this time.

405/430 Drones
6/6 Kalibr
6/9 Iskander
2/3 Kinzhal
0/1 Zirkon

Drones and Missiles directly hit 13 locations, 44 more were damaged with debris.

Numbers magically improves when enemy attack defended locations.
November 14, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Dew point rule

Gusts, Humidity, Percipitation to predict front behavior.

Drones wont fly in a fog due to poor visibility: high humidity, minimal wind, no percipitation.
Drones wont fly in a strong winds, that usually comes with stronger gusts, no matter the percepitation and visibility.
November 9, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Magyar stats decryption

here are SBS percentage of all the registered monthly hits.
Jan: 20% — 55649
Feb: 18% — 53286
Mar: 18.5% — 64264
Apr: 19.5% — 63010
May: 21% — 63259
Jun: 31.5% — 62247
Jul: 36% — 64624
Aug: 35.5% — 60032
Sep: 35.5% — 66537
Oct: 33.5% — 78000*
November 7, 2025 at 12:29 PM
1 for Borova
2 in Kupians
3 to Lyman
November 5, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Terrarasha Avdiivka
November 3, 2025 at 5:46 PM
The front has a limit.
You cannot cover everything. Each army can only handle a certain capacity - men, logistics, command, and attention. Once you exceed it, you lose control and start wasting people. 🔽
November 2, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Gorushko October - 10360 new records.
November 1, 2025 at 5:33 PM
October in two pictures
November 1, 2025 at 4:41 PM
GSUA Summary
Over the month, Russians carried out 5378 attacks, expanded by 360km2 across all the fronts: capturing 253km2, graying out 106km2 at a cost of 31270 IvanZ.

They attacked 239 different settlements, 41 of them for the first time, and 66 not mentioned since September.
October 31, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Striking October
October 31, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Donbas after Pokrovsk

Dont expect big changes after Pokrovsk. Yeah its a hit but not a turning point. Just another town on the long road west. Russians will keep crawling 100-200 meters a day spreading pressure along the 60 km front slipping between defense points and grinding through positions.
October 30, 2025 at 8:50 PM
The Green Belt Update.

23000km2: a death zone 450km in length and up to 85km deep.
October 28, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Pantsyr-XS
October 26, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Leaked russian missile prices

9М728 Iskander-K: ~ $1.5 M
9М729 Iskander-K ER: $1.4 – $1.8 M
3М14 Kalibr: ~ $2 M
3М-14С Kalibr: $2 – $2.3 M
Kh-101: $2 – $2.4 M
Product 506: $4.2 M
9М723 Iskander-M: $2.4 - $3 M
9-С-7760 Kinzhal: $4.5 M
3М22 Zirkon $5.2 – $5.6 M

militarnyi.com/uk/articles/...
Від «Калібра» до «Кинжала»: скільки насправді коштують російські ракети
Скільки насправді коштують російські крилаті ракети «Калибр» та Х-101, балістичний «Искандер», а також гіперзвукові «Кинжал» та «Циркон».
militarnyi.com
October 23, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Shell army

There is this idea that people below a certain level should not serve in the army, that they are too dumb for it. But it is not really about intelligence. It is about how complex the job is. Big armies always settle around the population median anyway.
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October 22, 2025 at 7:24 PM