Blinding the Artillery - The Counter-Battery Campaign Intensifies

Welcome back to Frontline Updates. I'm your host. Today is February 22, 2026, and the Russian Ministry of Defense has released its daily briefing. The headline is a massive combined strike on Ukrainian military-industrial and energy infrastructure, a strategic opening to the day's operations. But as we dig into the ground sectors, a pattern emerges that demands our attention. In a single 24-hour period, Russian forces report destroying three US-made AN/TPQ-50 counter-battery radars and one AN/TPQ-36 radar. They also report destroying multiple Ukrainian 155mm artillery systems, including the domestically produced Bogdana and the Polish-supplied Krab. This is not random attrition. This is a systematic campaign to blind Ukrainian artillery and degrade its most capable systems. To help us understand the operational logic behind these strikes, we are joined by Colonel A.C. Oguntoye. Colonel Oguntoye is an Infantry Officer with deep expertise in combined arms operations and the artillery duel that defines this war. Colonel, welcome back. Today's briefing is a masterclass in the application of operational art to the counter-battery fight. We're going to walk through each sector, but we'll keep coming back to this central theme: the effort to achieve artillery supremacy through the systematic destruction of Ukrainian sensors and shooters. Let's begin." #RussiaUkraineWar #MilitaryBriefing #SpecialMilitaryOperation #Donetsk #Zaporizhzhia #Sumy #Kharkiv #Dnipropetrovsk #OperationalUpdate #DefenseAnalysis #Geopolitics #WarReport #February222026 #MilitaryAnalysis #SITREP #DeepStrikes #AirDefense #CounterBattery #Bogdana #Krab #HIMARS #bf6 #mw3