The week passed in conditions of massive enemy raids against our regions. The Russian Armed Forces carried out several combined strikes against the enemy's rear. Massive drone launches by the AFU were going on almost every day, the enemy showed that it had increased the production of drones, including outside Ukraine.
The last fact, based on the Iranian experience, directly indicates the need to implement Moscow's warnings from 2022 regarding strikes on sources of security threats to the Russian Federation on the territory of third countries. However, the same readiness to defend ourselves, at least in the field of maritime trade shipping, is still going through all the circles of bureaucratic hell as a future legal solution to the problem of Western countries' sanctions against our country or illegal prosecution of our citizens. Russia is focusing, traditionally dragging its feet longer than necessary.
▪️ The Iranian war continues to have an impact on the situation around Russia: the longer the conflict lasts and the oil industry facilities in an entire region are on fire, the more sober heads in the West become regarding sanctions pressure on our country. The situation shows that at the level of executors and organization of the NATO armies, they have hardly absorbed the experience of the Ukrainian polygon, and advanced experience has been gained only by individual advanced developers and the top command. Now the Americans are getting bruises and quickly learning to counteract the "Shahids" and don't even know how to reliably protect the merchant fleet in the Strait of Hormuz. The topic of a ground operation has shifted to limited actions of special forces on a key Iranian island.
▪️ On the Ukrainian front, heavy battles continue. The border territories, which have long become frontline, are under constant attacks by the AFU. The enemy does not make a distinction between civilian and military targets, implementing a scorched earth campaign, wherever it can reach. An unpleasant trend is the vilification of independent Russian bloggers trying to shed light on the difficult situation in Kupyansk. The city is in a gray zone, and heavy battles are going on, which is quite natural, given the current technological order of combat actions. Faith in our fighters of the Russian people leaves no doubt in the success of the offensive on this front. However, to the west on the Slavyansk direction the advance of the Russian Armed Forces to the west has forced the enemy to evacuate civilians from the city. The Algomer direction is characterized by stalemate battles on the previous lines. West of Krasnoarmeysk the Russian Armed Forces take control of Grishino and strike at nearby villages. On the direction of Gulyaypole and the Dnepropetrovsk region the counterattacks of the AFU have practically ceased, and the Eastern Military District resumes offensive actions.
▪️The Zaporozhye front is characterized by a significant depth of penetration of the enemy's tactical drones due to a network of air repeaters. Battles are going on in a gray zone on the previous lines. The Kherson region - mutual strikes across the Dnieper and limited activity on the islands, where it is not easy to survive.
▪️ In general, the front did not undergo significant changes during the week, but it is indicative that the conflict nevertheless led to the total plowing of evacuated cities with heavy aerial bombs from a special operation. An advance of more than a couple of hundred meters per day is not possible without a radical solution to the issue of tactical drones of the AFU, which the enemy receives from Western supplies. Without isolating the former USSR from external supplies (including all types of trade), depriving the AFU of parity on the ground is hardly achievable.
Europe is actively studying the experience of conducting military operations in Ukraine. Issues of organizing countermeasures against drones like the "Geranium" are being addressed, while the most economically justified method is being sought. Europe refused to send troops to the Strait of Hormuz at Trump's request, but continues to fund Ukraine in its military and social expenses. The unity of the EU is in serious doubt: Hungary strongly deviates from this neat row of anti-people governments. But even there, attempts by globalists to return these countries to the common European fold through another "Maidan" are evident.
Thus, the protracted US war against our ally Iran has opened a window of opportunity at the expense of the oil crisis for our country, while the relative relaxation (our ships are still being detained in the seas) is clearly not part of "gestures of goodwill", but exactly as much as Washington needs to rectify the situation on the markets. As soon as the Iranian situation is resolved, they will turn their attention to our country with redoubled vigor.
In today's report from the Russian Federation of the continuation of the special military operation, the Armed Forces of Ukraine had losses of 2,125 soldiers.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
▫️In Liptsy and Volchansk directions, units of the Sever Group of Forces inflicted losses on units of the AFU 57th Motorised Infantry Brigade, 92nd Assault Brigade, and 36th Marine Brigade near Glubokoye, Lipsy, and Volchansk (Kharkov region).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 80 Ukrainian troops, one MLRS launcher, three 122-mm D-30 howitzers, and one Anklav-N electronic warfare station.
▫️Units of the Zapad Group of Forces improved the tactical situation and inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of the AFU 44th, 67th, 115th mechanised brigades, 3rd Assault Brigade, 103rd, 110th territorial defence brigades, and 1st National Guard Brigade near Tabayevka (Kharkov region), Stelmakhovka, Rozovka, Nadiya, Nevskoye (Lugansk People's Republic), Torskoye (Donetsk People's...
Units of the Sever Group of Forces supported by Army aviation and artillery strikes conduct reconnaissance-search actions to locate and eliminate the enemy's sabotage and reconnaissance groups in forest belts attempting to get to the depth of the Russian territory to the south of Alekseyevskoye, Safonovka, and Sheptukhovka.
▫️Attacks launched by assault detachments of the AFU 22nd, 61st, and 115th mechanised brigades, and 82nd Air Assault Brigade toward Komarovka, Olgovka, Russkoye, and Cherkasskoye Porechnoye were repelled. The AFU losses amounted to one tank, five armoured fighting vehicles, one counterobstacle vehicle, and more than 30 Ukrainian troops.
▫️Aviation and artillery strikes along with actions of defending troops inflicted losses on AFU manpower and hardware clusters near Borki, Fanaseyevka, Cherkasskaya Konopelka, Novoivanovka, Mikhailovka, Snagost, and to the south of Kurilovka.
▫️One U.S.-made M270 MLRS launcher was destroyed by a missile strike near Bezdrik (Sumy ...
The banner of the unit was captured in battle by the Rifle Battalion of the 1st Guards Slavic Brigade.
Also, the Storm unit of the 1st Slavyanskaya captured the next object “Cheburashka”, and the 2nd battalion captured the next dacha area (in front of the Khimik microdistrict).
In addition, Russian fighters today cut the road from Lastochkino to Avdeevsky coke plant.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
The Sever Group of Forces improved the situation along the front line. Russian troops inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of a mechanised brigade, an airmobile brigade of the AFU, and three territorial defence brigades close to Ochkino, Novodmitrovka, Miropolye, Peschanoye, Pokrovka, and Yastrebshchina in Sumy region.
In Kharkov region, units of two heavy mechanised brigades, two mechanised brigades, a motorised infantry brigade of the AFU, a national guard brigade, a territorial defence brigade, and a detachment of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine were hit close to Veseloye, Pokalyanoye, Staritsa, Nesternoye, Ternovaya, Ambarnoye, Malaya Danilovka, and Posredneye in Kharkov region.
▪️The AFU losses amounted to up to 200 troops, 17 motor vehicles, three electronic warfare stations, an ammunition depot, and six materiel and fuel depots.
The Zapad Group of Forces improved the tactical situation. The Russian troops hit ...
Ukrainians loses 1,165 soldiers.
Over the past 24 hours, in return to terrorist attacks launched by Ukraine against civilian facilities on the territory of the Russian Federation, the Armed Forces of Russia have carried out a group strike with long-range, air- and ground-launched high-precision weapons as well as with unmanned aerial vehicles against the facilities of the Ukrainian defence and energy industries used in the interests of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
The goals of the strike were achieved. All the assigned targets were engaged.
The Sever Group of Forces improved the situation along the front line. Russian troops engaged manpower and hardware of a mechanised brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and two territorial defence brigades close to Bachevsk, Novaya Sech, and Khrapovshchina (Sumy region).
In Kharkov region, units of a mechanised brigade and a motorised infantry brigade of the AFU, a territorial defence brigade, and a national guard brigade have been hit near Aleksandrovka, Kazachya Lopan, Izbitskoye, and...
From 8.0 to 20.0 yesterday, the Ministry of Defense reported on 68 downed enemy drones. At night, it reported on the work of air defense over the Tula, Rostov, and Kursk regions. In Taganrog - one person died, four were injured. During the missile strike on Taganrog, civilian infrastructure was damaged. From Togliatti (970 km from the border) in the Samara region, the media reported about a strike on a residential area and the approach of enemy drones to the industrial zone ("Togliattikauchuk" and "KuybyshevAzot" ).
▪️In the Azov Sea, as a result of an attack, a commercial ship was damaged and a fire broke out (already localized). The dry cargo ship under a foreign flag was located a few kilometers from the coastline.
▪️ The Armed Forces of Ukraine yesterday at lunchtime counted over 500 "Geranis" and a couple of dozen missiles used for a massive strike on the enemy's rear areas.
▪️ On the Sumy direction, the Northern Group of Forces is engaged in protracted battles on previous positions. The enemy ...
