May in two pictures

Made an update for a map so you can right click through brigades and Armies.

Record number of Shahed - 8150, 7476 were intercepted.

GSUA reported 6867 clashes - absolute record. 3036 (44%) - apparently AFU attacks. Number of defensive actions hasn't changed. Russian offensive hasn't started, it's all AFU and that's may explain a lot of the recent events.

There were 211 missiles strikes, 112 were intercepted. Ballistic missile usage has almost recovered to pre-Votkinsk levels, while Kinzhals have returned in noticeable numbers, apparently after some upgrades.

Striking May

Season of the Weak Arrows: Spring 2026 Retrospective Russia entered spring with three objectives and left it with none of them meaningfully advanced. The primary effort was always Kramatorsk. Zaporizhzhia was the secondary push.

MoD RF apparently leaked AG Dniepr map. probably someone got desperate of debt.

Russian "Green" offensive started on May 13, but May gains are lowest in 2 years.

Strike on Kyiv: Multiple "production" blocks were hit, Lukianivska destroyed - again. Destroyed car boxes in Bila Tserkva. 549/600 – Shahed 44/54 – Cruise 11/30 – Ballistic 0/3 – Zircon 0/2 – Kinzhal 0/1 – Oreshnik 19 missiles were lost 54 locations hit, 23 damaged.

Defense geometry isn't accidental. 3rd and 12th Army Corps, fortifications defines the playground.

Siege Orbits Besieging should usually be avoided. The prescription: go wide, suppress the perimeter, strangle the supply lines. The further the interdiction from the urban core, the better — a force that can collapse logistics before the street fight begins never has to enter the streets at all.

Kupiansk No more red paint

When you see destroyed Russian trucks along the Melitopol–Mariupol highway, keep in mind the other territories that remain away from the spotlight.

Gray zone decay. Drones ensure that the area is cleared before the first units arrive. Similar to the "fire wall" russians used to implement with artillery. Pain disappear without constant pressure.

The Half-Life of Control Maps lie slowly. A colored zone on a operational overlay implies permanence — a held village, a secured tree line, a defended ridge. But color is a claim, not a fact, and the gap between the two widens the moment the ink dries.

MoD RF: Air defence systems shot down eight guided aerial bombs, one U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS projectile, one Flamingo long-range cruise missile, one Neptune-MD long-range guided missile, and 1,054 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.

Reliable ally. Post Trump world will be full of opportunities.

0/3 Kh-47 Kinzhal aeroballistic missiles; 12/18 Iskander-M/S-400 ballistic missiles; 29/35 Kh-101 cruise missiles; 1362/1428 strike UAVs. 15 missile and 23 strike UAVs hits were recorded at 24 locations, as well as the fall of downed (fragments) UAVs at 18 locations.

Air-defence no more

Magyar April LIA: USF - 10581; SBU - 6285; AFU - 17367. Efficiency - LIA per unit a Month: AFU - 3.14; USF - 15.2; Birds - 30.6. Estimated Size Birds - 130 units; USF - 695 units; AFU - 5530 units.

Pixels update by @en.zona.media You can barely distinguish the published weekly samples. Data supply is controlled by the government and absolutely artificial.

The USF total volume of 41 162 targets on 94 006 sorties is 3.4x greater than Rubicon's 12 064 with 79 906 sorties. Russian main drone unit did as many sorties as entire USF, but with far lower efficiency.

Kyiv in three days

AFU hit Su34 and Su57 It can be the first ever 5th gen plane loss

Rybar to Suriyak maps comparison

April in two pictures

Russians are building up, AFU hunting them down. Almost no attacks but astronomical losses.

April Summary Russians exchanged 32620 Z in 5128 attacks for 144 km2 extension: 135km2 red, 9km2 grey. More borderline incursions inflation - no progress, just cheating 6247 unarmored transport hit - grey zone keeps growing. Pokrovsk remain the main assault direction 108 attack at Dnipro front

Striking April

Perm one of the main oil transit nodes

Portal from Perm to Perm

Putin ask for the Victory Parade ceasefire

The Invisible Wall Modern battlefields are becoming transparent. Cheap drones now hover over front lines for hours, feeding live video to operators who can call in artillery, direct strike teams, or simply watch and wait.

March KAB trend wasn't supported by April. number will be about 6500

Sick Kostiantynivka 3D spin

AFU defense of Chasiv Yar is crucial for Kostiantynivka defense as it controls the entrance to the city. The main issue should be the same as everywhere - sparse and suppressed defense with gaps in drone surveillance that allows the enemy to slip into the gaps.

Exaggerated topography of the Huliapilske area where russians were able to slip through AFU defense the most. There are very convenient river valley with no settlements on the way from Myrne, and old AFU ditches crossing the area from Zaliznychne.

Mashovets Huliaipole On the Huliaipole direction, Russian Eastern Grouping command is conducting offensive actions with the 5th Combined Arms Army toward Orikhiv and the area northeast of it.

Mediazona April pixels

Mashovets Kostiantynivka Summary Russia has entered a decisive phase of the Kostiantynivka campaign, concentrating major forces to seize Kostiantynivka and Druzhkivka as a gateway toward Kramatorsk.

The best SBS day so far

Mashovets Orikhiv summary Russian forces are attempting to resume offensive operations across several axes, but their efforts remain fragmented and largely ineffective.

The Hero of our time - Cursed support man

Mashovets Huliaipole Russian forces are trying to resume offensive momentum toward Huliaipole, while simultaneously stabilizing the situation on the Novоoleksandrivka axis after Ukrainian counterattacks.

SBS ceasefire

The current international situation is increasingly shaped by a shift away from cooperative alliances toward raw, interest-driven competition among major powers.

When have you heard "2% make a third of results" the last time? The latest MoD report stated 151K targets while SBS hit 37K ≈24%; GSUA reports only material hits. March spike of field units efficiency cant be ignored. *Totals are estimated as no Delta information for Winter months.

Novorossiysk celebrating high oil prices

The Rise of Drone Doctrine in Modern War Drone warfare is no longer experimental. What's happening on the Ukrainian front isn't just armies picking up a new toy — it's the early, messy formation of actual doctrine.