Global SITREP B3-22: Please Stand By... Part II

The "Ghost of Kyiv"

UPDATE 12 March 2022: The Ukrainian Air Force pilot dubbed The Ghost of Kyiv had his image released by Ukraine's Ministry of Defense yesterday. This pilot's name is being withheld for the time being, but that fact of the matter is that all of Ukraine's pilots are the Ghost of Kyiv. They have been very busy flying missions, landing, rearming, re-fueling and going on second and third missions every day. There are apparently about 50 Ghosts performing these strike missions every day. When additional MiG-29s arrive from NATO countries that donate them to the UAF there will be that many more Ghosts of Kyiv in the skies over Ukraine.

Kyiv and Ukraine as a whole are now within a 24-48 hour period which will go a long way in determining the near-term course of the war. The expectation is for the TOS-1A (image below) and other tactical artillery and rockets to initiate a first attempt to level the city center of Kyiv, while the Russian Air Force and rocket forces strike ever deeper into western Ukraine. There is also the spectre of NBC warfare emerging at some point soon, and it may be dependent on how well Ukraine's ground and air forces continue to perform during this period, and how quickly the promised defensive weapons from NATO arrive in country and get deployed to the front in the east. There are also false flag operations going on that are intended to widen the war. Almost anything is possible this weekend.

Russian TOS-1A Thermobaric MLRS in Brovary, Ukraine

11 March 2022: In the now viral video taken by a Ukrainian Raybaktar TB-2 drone that was loitering over a Russian armored column in the Kyiv suburb of Brovary, the presence of a Russian Army TOS-1A Thermobaric MLRS within that column is clearly evident. It is seen within the red circle in the image above. 

Ukrainian militia, believed to have been the Azov Battalion, launched a combat effective ambush of this column, forcing its retreat back down the highway in had used in enterer Brovary. Accurate anti-tank missle fire appears to have deliberately not targeted the TOS-1A vehicle as setting of its highly lethal ordnance would have certainly oblitered the immediate urban area and all human beings seen in the image. The identified geolocation of the above image in Brovary was within 1 mile of Kyiv city limits and 4 miles from downtown Kyiv when the forced retreat by Ukrainian ambush occurred.

The designed combat role for the TOS-1A weapon system is to provide fire support against lightly armored enemy vehicles, munition depots and exposed enemy ground troops. There is zero valid military reason to see the TOS-1A in this civilian-populated setting unless its amended combat role in the anticipated assault on Kyiv is to eradicate entire sections of the city and whats left of its human underground habitation, including the sum of Ukrainian defense forces in the city. 

TOS-1A Thermobaric MLRS Launching

There are confirmed reports containing both ground and satellite imagery of TOS-1A MLRS appraoching Kyiv along every axis of approach from the west, northeast and south. Kyiv, it would appear, is to be literally leveled and depopulated, piece by piece, according to an assessment of the intel contained in the reports.  The use of the TOS-1A against Kyiv is assessed to be when a number of the systems encircle the city at a distance of approximately 3 miles. This course of action is reinforced by new reports of Russian armored columns widely dispersing into smaller towns and wooded areas outside of Kyiv.