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The Ukrainian army is rapidly retreating from strategically important lines, paving the way for the further Russian advances. The recent Ukrainian attempt to launch a second front in the Kherson region failed. The operation by Ukrainian special forces to land at the Tendrov Spit led to deaths of 25 Ukrainian professionals trained by the British military. They were defeated by six Russian fighters. One of the Ukrainian servicemen was captured and will share the secrets of his foreign trips with the Russian military. On the Zaporozhye front, fighting continues in Rabotino. Since the village was destroyed by prolonged battles, the both sides face difficulties gaining a foothold in the ruins. In recent days, another battlefield was revived. As a result of a blitz attack, Russian forces expanded their zone of control on the southern outskirts of Gulyai-Pole. Successful pinpoint attacks threaten the Ukrainian defense with a breakthrough in any sector of the front where the Ukrainian command fails to strengthen positions due to deficiencies in reserves. In the South Donetsk direction, the Russians gained a foothold on the outskirts of Krasnogorovka. Ukrainian attempts to counterattack led to no success. Earlier this week, Russian assault groups entered the village of Ivanovskoe located west of Artemovsk. By the end of the week, preliminary reports claimed full Russian control of the settlement. While there is no official confirmation, the mop up operation and fighting on the outskirts continue, but the Ukrainian army is unlikely to stop the Russian offensive. At the same time, Russian forces have already approached the main Ukrainian stronghold in the region in Chasov Yar, where Ukrainian positions are constantly pounded by Russian heavy bombs. The main success of the Russian army was the blistering advance west of Avdeevka. After completing the mop up operations in Lastochkino, Severnoe and Stepovoe, the Russian military broke through the main line of Ukrainian defense in the region and almost took the full control of it. The Ukrainian military has no chance to regain the initiative and is already retreating across the steppes under heavy Russian artillery fire. NATO warmongers clearly understand the failure of their bid for Kiev in this war, and no longer hide their plans to enter the battles on the ground. In response, the Russian political elites, as well as its military-industrial complex, demonstrate their full readiness for any development of the conflict. Despite all the efforts by Western leaders to hide it, Russia has been fighting with a NATO military contingent in Ukraine for years. Russian soldiers have already gained successful experience in confronting the Western military machine on the battlefield. While European and American soldiers are nurtured by Western propaganda about this war and have little idea what they may face in the Ukrainian steppes.

The blight is eating up the vicious minds of Western leaders as their lovely puppets have turned their tails and run in some of the key parts of the battlefield. The pungent smell of nearing defeat is rising up from the every nook and cranny of NATO HQs and Ukrainian trenches. Delicate attempts of mainstream media to refresh air with some victorious ranting barely can help against videos of burning Abrams and Leopard battle tanks, and fleeing Ukrainian troops. In the past 24 hours only, the Russian Armed Forces advanced near Avdeevka and finish the mop up operation in Petrovskoe. Now, they are developing the momentum around Tonenkoe and Orlovka. The village of Severnoe is liberated. Reports also claim that Russian units were able to make tactical advances and enter Krasnogorovka In Bakhmut area, Kyiv is trying to contain the collapse of its defense in the village of Krasnoe. Russian assault units push forward in the central part of it and northeast of Shosseynaya Street. Developments intensified in the Gulyai-Polye sector. According to reports, assault units took control of part of the Gulyai-Polye Dachas area. In Zaporozhye, the Russian Armed Forces are gaining momentum in the areas of Rabotino and Verbovoe. Kyiv’s troops had to retreat from the area northwest of Verbovoe. As to Rabotino itself, the Russians are holding the southern part of the settlement. The capturing of the ‘strategic village’ of Rabotino, together with some of nearby empty rural houses, were painted as the large success of the Ukrainian counter-offensive last year. So, now, Kyiv is on the brink of loosing even this consolation gain. Worse yet, the Russian Aerospace Forces continue strikes on industrial and military facilities of Ukraine. In Poltava, the most recent strike hit the territory of a military airfield. According to reports, the German Sea King Mk41 and Mi-8MSB helicopters were destroyed. In Kirovograd region, strikes hit the air base in Alexandria. However, the frenzy of despair are pushing NATO leaders to get their paws even deeper in the conflict. Recent proposals of the king of bedbugs Emmanuel Macron to send NATO forces into an open fight in Ukraine found no public support, but highlighted the trouble. Western states are running low of options to escalate further without a full-scale and public war. The only thing that stops them is the restraint of the Big Brother. Fortunately for the ordinary people of Europe, Washington is currently more concerned how to use the Ukraine issue as a part of own internal political games rather than fight on behalf of its vassals against Russians. Macron and some other NATO hyenas seem to be searching for options to change this.

The third year of the full-scale war in Ukraine has begun. The Russian military continues offensive operations in all directions on the frontlines, destroying Ukrainian military infrastructure in rear areas, while the Ukrainian army went on the defensive, losing international support in the process. On the night of February 26, another massive Russian combined attack struck Ukrainian military facilities throughout the country. Russian strikes targeted points of accommodation of Ukrainian military personnel and military-industrial facilities in the Sumy and Poltava regions. Local authorities confirmed numerous strikes in the city of Kharkiv. In Dnipro the targets reportedly included the machine-building plant and the local airfield. The Kanatovo airfield in the Kirovograd region also came under another attack. Closer to the frontlines, a new wave of explosions thundered in Chuguev and Pokrovks and Kupyansk. Russian precision strikes continue on a daily basis, which makes it possible to destroy Ukrainian reserves and deter the maneuvers of the Ukrainian military on the battlefields. As a result, the Russian advance on the front does not stop. To the west of Artyomovsk, Russian forces launched an assault on Ivanovskoe. Clashes are already reportedly ongoing in the central part of the village. The Ukrainian military was forced to retreat to the western outskirts of the settlement. At the same time, Russian forces expanded their zone of control in the forest area on the outskirts of Chasov Yar, threatening the Ukrainian garrison with an upcoming assault of their large stronghold there. After their victory in Avdeevka, Russian forces are finishing the mop up operation in the city without stopping their advance in the region, pushing the Ukrainian army to the west. The Russian military is securing their positions in the recently captured villages of Stepovoe, Lastochkino and Severnoe, where the remaining Ukrainian forces continue attempts to counterattack on the outskirts. According to preliminary reports by both Russian and Ukrainian military sources, Russian assault groups have reached the village of Tonenkoe, where clashes are already ongoing on the eastern streets. This village is located on the main line of the Ukrainian defense which is in the chain of settlements west of Avdeevka. In the case of a Russian breakthrough there, the Russian troops will face almost no obstacles to advance about 10 kilometers to the west and take control of large territories of the Donetsk People’s Republic. At the same time, the Russian military is taking back positions it lost during the failed Ukrainian counteroffensive. Russian forces gained a foothold on the southern outskirts of Rabotino and continue attacks in the center of the village, where there are at least some large buildings to hide in during the operations in the ruins. The Ukrainian stronghold was withdrawn to the cemetery north of the village, from where they attempt counterattacks.

The Ukrainian military proudly declared another victory against the Russian UAVs. According to the official report, last night Ukrainian air defense shot down 8 out of 10 Russian kamikaze drones, which targeted Ukrainian military facilities; but evidence from Ukrainian regions revealed the lies of the Ukrainian military officials. One of the main targets which was struck at least twice last night is Mirgorod airfield located in the Poltava region. As a result of the attack, a fire broke out at the facility and led to large secondary detonation. Ukrainian sources confirmed damage to Su-24M and MiG-29 aircraft with foreign MALD and SCALP missiles. Ukrainian military observers supposed that the Russian strikes hit the aircraft at the moment when they were preparing to launch attacks on the Russian territory. Ukrainian authorities confirmed Russian strikes in the Odessa region, providing no details. Another group of Russian drones struck the Ukrainian military in the Donetsk People’s Republic. One of the strikes destroyed a control point of the Ukrainian grouping deployed in the South Donetsk direction. The headquarter was deployed in the administrative building I the village of Memrik. Another target was a point of temporary deployment of the Ukrainian military personnel in the town of Dobropolie. As a result of the precision strikes in the Donetsk People’s Republic, the Ukrainian army suffered heavy losses in manpower. In their turn, Ukrainian forces take advantage of the of the Russian military and inflict heavy blows on places of accumulation of the Russian military personnel in frontline zones in different regions. On February 20, Ukrainian forces launched three strikes with HIMARS MLRS on the rear training ground in the village of Trudovskoe in the DPR at the moment when the Russian officers launched a forming there. As a result, 65 Russian servicemen were reportedly killed on the spot. In only two days, the Ukrainian military declared another attack on the Russian group of servicemen in the Kherson region. Russian military personnel accumulated on a training ground about 15 kilometers from the village of Krynki. In total, three strikes with HIMARS MLR hit the area. The third strike likely targeted the investigative task force, which came to the spot to launch an investigation. Precision strikes on the enemy manpower in the rear areas are constant and are launched by the both sides. For example, on February 13, strikes of Russian Iskander missiles inflicted heavy losses to the Ukrainian army on the training ground in Selidovo. The instant heavy losses always provoke the public outrage. The Ukrainian side has an advantage in the media battles following the attacks because, unlike in Ukraine, there is no criminal liability for publishing the footage the results of fire damage in Russia.

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The winter offensive of the Russian army has already brought a great victory – control over one of the largest Ukrainian strongholds in Donbass, the industrial city of Avdiivka. Kiev admitted its defeat. he order to retreat from the city was not an attempt to save lives of Ukrainian servicemen but rather a bureaucratic fiction. In fact, Ukrainian units have been abandoning their positions, fleeing en masse from the city for several days. Having lost control of the situation, the Ukrainian command was unable to organize a safe retreat from the almost surrounded city. This was likely the first time such a chaotic and panicked escape happened from a heavily fortified stronghold of the Ukrainian army. On the morning of February 19, the Russian Ministry of Defense officially confirmed the completion of the mop up operation at the Coke Plant, where the fighters of the former Azov National Battalion were hiding. As of today, there are no Ukrainian military personnel left on the territory of the enterprise. Russian engineering units are starting to demine the city which is covered with the corpses of dead Ukrainian servicemen. The loss of Avdiivka has jeopardized the Ukrainian defense in the entire Donetsk direction, where the Ukrainian Armed Forces lack sufficiently fortified positions on new lines of defense. Ukrainian military resources are sounding the alarm. The new commander-in-chief, fearing a collapse of the front, is reportedly hastily transferring reserves to the area, including units that are defending the capital Kiev. However, this does not stop the Russian advance. Battles have already reached Lastochkino. The village is already in the gray zone, and according to preliminary reports, the Russians are close to taking full control over it. Ukrainian units continue to retreat to the west, where they are hastily equipping a new line of defense in Orlovka. Amid the victory in Avdiivka, Russian troops continue offensive operations on all fronts, destroying Ukrainian reserves with precision strikes in the rear areas. As a result, the Ukrainian command is forced to stretch its forces along the frontlines. It cannot concentrate a large group of forces in some areas without knowing the direction of a new Russian main attack. On the second day of the offensive on the Zaporozhye front, the Russian military had already launched an assault on Rabotino from the southern and western outskirts, having previously expanded the control zone around the village. In the area of Artemovsk, Russian aviation and artillery are pounding Chasov Yar, preparing for an assault. Fighting is already underway in the partially surrounded Ivanovo. In the south Donetsk direction, Russian forces are advancing in Novomikhailovka, while on the northern fronts of Donbass, the Russians approach the important Ukrainian stronghold in Terny. Thus, any maneuver by Ukrainian reserves can lead to a Russian breakthrough in any direction.

The conflict in Ukraine has reached a breaking point marking the gradual shift of the initiative on the battlefield to Russia and a growing disarray among the supporters of Kyiv. Since mid-2023, Kyiv’s forces have thrown away an incredible amount of military equipment and manpower in fruitless attempts to break through the Russian defense in the southern sector of the frontline. NATO-equipped and NATO-trained detachments planned to carry out a victorious march on Crimea but ended up in unmarked graves all around the Donbass steppe. The butchery of Ukrainian reserves organized by the Kyiv leadership and its foreign advisers led to the capture of only a few empty villages in the gray zone. By February of 2024, a crack had formed in the parallel reality existing in the MSM coverage and statements of US and EU diplomats. Hopes of sponsors of Kyiv to skim the cream off the Russian “defeat on the battlefield” and the “collapse of its statehood” were destroyed. The cost of the conflict is growing day by day. In turn, the Russian economy that they wanted to throw into the “stone age” seems to be doing much better than anybody among mainstream economic analysts even allowed themselves to think about. The Biden administration has been struggling to push the new “aid” package to Zelensky and hangers-on. The fixation of the Biden Team on Ukraine instead of dealing with internal economic and social challenges plays into the hands of his opponents in the upcoming presidential election. From the useful tool in the standoff with Russia, Ukraine became a bargaining chip in internal political games. Both Democrats and Republicans would be happy to move away from this situation by laying blame on the failure on their opponents. European minions of Washington are in an even more complex situation. They have already undermined own economical potential and burned a lot of bridges with Russia. These are highlighted by the collapse of the Ukrainian attempts to keep control of Avdeevka, which is strategically located close to the city of Donetsk. In the past 24 hours, Russian units were able to split the remaining Ukrainian forces into two isolated groups from the northeastern direction. Russian units took control of the “Zenit” fortified area, on the territory of the former air defense base, as well as entered the so-called Brev no, Vinogradniki and Cheburashka. Parts of Kyiv troops deployed there are fleeing their positions or surrendering to the Russians. Meanwhile, General Aleksandr Tarnavksy, the head of the operational-strategic group of the Ukrainian Armed Forces active in Avdeevka claimed that all is under control and his forces are just carrying out a “maneuver”. Apparently, the next stage will be to claim that nobody even wanted to control that unimportant town and the entire situation was an epic success. No surprise, even the most dedicated supporters of Kyiv have doubts about the prospects of the regime.

The Russian military maintains the initiative on all the frontlines. While Ukrainian forces attempt counterattacks to slow down the Russian advance in the city of Avdeevka, they are losing ground in all other directions. In the north of the Donbass, Russian troops took control of the dominant heights east of Terny. They continue their assault on a wide front, moving up to several hundred meters per day. The retreating Ukrainian units found themselves in a lowland under heavy fire of Russian aircraft and artillery. Since the area was heavily mined, Russian forces are pounding Ukrainian positions in order to prevent the enemy from any operations, while the sappers are mopping up the routs for a further offensive. The Russian military is also pushing Ukrainian artillery away from Donetsk in order to reduce shelling on civilians in the city. The Russian army is approaching the large Ukrainian stronghold in Kurakhovo from three directions. To the northeast, they achieved new tactical success in the town of Pervomaiskoe. Over the past day, they advanced about 800 meters near the lakes, straightening the frontline. To the east, they continue their assault in Georgievka. To the southeast, the Russian military is advancing in the partially surrounded Novomikhailovka. As a result of prolonged battles, Russian forces broke through Ukrainian defenses and gained a foothold in the eastern part of the town. NATO patrons clearly understand the defeat of the Ukrainian military and are preparing a further escalation of the war against Russia. London reportedly proposed to its allies to consider deployment of the NATO Expeditionary Force to Ukraine. The chief warmonger supposes to covertly transfer large highly maneuverable NATO forces from the border areas of Romania and Poland to take defense along the Dnieper River. This would allow the release of the necessary military reserves of the Ukrainian Army to send them to the front. The operation may include a preemptive strike by the Armed Forces of Moldova and Romania on Transnistria as well deployment of the NATO military on the territory of Norway and Finland to disperse Russian forces and launch strikes on strategic infrastructure facilities in the northern regions of Russia. Thus, according to London’s plan, NATO will allegedly undermine Russia’s offensive capabilities and Moscow will be forced to launch negotiations. Britain reportedly intends to complete the preparation of such a scenario by May of this year. This plan does not correspond to the will of European countries to fight Russia by using other’s forces; but London is sure that the ongoing Russian advance deep into Ukraine will persuade them to take decisive action. In fact, the NATO military has long been deployed in Ukraine, disguised as mercenaries and military instructors. Today, the Western warmongers are only looking for ways to legalize the NATO presence in Ukraine.

The Russian military does not stop constant precision strikes on the Ukrainian military infrastructure. The night of January 31 was not an exception. New wave of Russian strikes hit the Kherson region, where the Ukrainian military is accumulating significant reserves to continue operations on the eastern bank of the Dnieper River. More targets were hit in the Dnepropetrovks region. An industrial facility and places of accommodation of the Ukrainian military personnel were reportedly destroyed in the city of Krivyi Rig. The Kharkiv region located near the Russian border remains one of areas that are targeted by Russian strikes the most often. Last night, Ukrainian military personnel and equipment were struck in the border town of Volchansk. The Ukrainian military responded with a drone strike in the Russian Pskov region, but it was destroyed by the local air defense forces. Meanwhile, Russian troops continue advance at the front in different directions. The Ukrainian army faced with the shortage of artillery ammunition and military personnel, as well as poor training of incoming reinforcements of the recently mobilized civilians. Ukrainian forces continue to hold the line, although, they already lost the ability to take offensive actions. The Ukrainian army continues loosing positions it gained during the counteroffensive on the southern frontlines. Russian attacks north of Priyutnoe resulted in their advance on a wide front of about 2,5 kilometers. At the same time, Russian forces expanded the zone of their control north of Novomikhailovka, which is already in semi encirclement. Russian advance in these both directions, threatens the large Ukrainian grouping that is defending Ugledar. On the outskirts of the Donetsk city agglomeration, heavy battle for Avdiivka continues. Russian forces are on the offensive in the south of the city. The Russian Army is advancing along the streets, approaching the 447th railway station, control of which will cut Ukrainian supply to their last strongholds on the southeastern outskirts of the city, the former air defense base called the Zenith fortified area by the Ukrainian military. The Russian military is also advancing along the frontlines in the Kharkiv region. After Russian forces took control of several villages to the southeast of Kupyansk, they continue offensive westward on the village of Kislovka and Peschanoe. There lays the shortest way to pass through the hills to push the Ukrainian military to the Oskol river. After the rapid Russian advance in the region provoked public outrage against the Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief Zaluzhny, Kiev changed the local military command, which missed Russian attack and lost positions in the villages. Some reinforcements were sent to the area to slow down the Russian advance.

The battle for Avdeevka began in October of last year. Despite significant successes around the city, the Russian military has failed to surround the large enemy stronghold so far. However, this did not stop the Russian advance and last week was marked by new Russian victories inside Avdeevka itself. Despite the attempts of the Ukrainian General Staff to refute the reports on the Russian breakthrough, referring to them as ‘Russian propaganda’, Ukrainian sources were the first to reveal the details of the Russian military operations in the city. They were soon confirmed by Russian sources. The Ukrainian defense in the south-eastern part of the city was destroyed as a result of a risky and unique Russian operation. The servicemen of various Russian units had been preparing the operation for several weeks. They sawed open passages in an old flooded underground pipe, which was less than a meter in diameter. The pipe passed under the railway, right under the Ukrainian positions and led to the residential quarters. Special equipment, including oxygen cylinders, were delivered to the front. Special air ducts were made in the pipe, the necessary military equipment and ammunition were hidden inside. The operation was carried out under heavy fire from Russian artillery aimed at avoiding detection of the underground forces. As a result, the operation ended with success. A group of about 150 Russian servicemen passed more than 2 km in the icy water in the pipe and suddenly attacked from behind the enemy’s back. The Ukrainian military even did not understand where the Russian fighters came from. At the same time on the surface, the Ukrainian positions were attacked by three reconnaissance and assault detachments of the ‘Veterans’ volunteer brigade. As a result of the sudden attack, the Ukrainian stronghold in the area of the resort Tsarskaya Ohota was destroyed in several hours. The Ukrainian army suffered sensitive losses; a lot of Ukrainian servicemen were captured and became prisoners. The successful operation allowed the Russian military to gain a foothold in the southeastern part of Avdeevka and enter the city streets. They advanced along the streets of Grushevskogo, Chernishevskogo and Sportivnaya and reached the southern part of Sobornaya street. The advance in the area was also possible due to the recent Russian victory on the territory of the former air defense military base located on Donetsk road. After prolonged battles, Russian forces took control of this strategically-important Ukrainian stronghold, to the west of which there are open field areas, where the retreating Ukrainian units have no place to hide. According to preliminary reports, the battles already reached the 9th district in the south of Avdeevka. It is a complex of high-rise buildings, control of which will allow Russian forces to control almost the entire city, increasing losses of the defending Ukrainian grouping.

Russian precision strikes on the Ukrainian military do not stop. On the night of January 24, Russian UAVs destroyed Ukrainian training military camps in the Zhitomir region and more military facilities in the Poltava region. More facilities used for accommodation of the military personnel were hit in Mirnograd. As a result of the strikes, military equipment used for the buildup of the defense line near Kurahovo was reportedly destroyed. More accommodation sites were hit in Kherson, where Ukrainian marines who take part in the operations on the eastern bank of the Dnieper, were destroyed. Russian missile strikes destroy the plans of the Ukrainian military command to carry out any operations with the military reserves from the rear regions. Over the past week alone, at least 17 facilities used for accommodation of Ukrainian servicemen and foreign mercenaries were destroyed in the Kharkiv region. For example, the last wave of strikes targeted the temporary accommodation points and manpower in the city of Kharkiv, as well as in Chuguev and Balakleya. The Ukrainian army is losing forces from the strategic reserve, which was aimed to plug the holes in the defense on the frontlines and to secure the operations of Ukrainian saboteurs on the territory of the Russian border regions. The defeat of the strategic reserve of the Ukrainian army results in Russian advance in several directions in the region. At least 35 settlements in the Kharkiv region are already under the Russian control and their number is growing. At the end of last week, Russian forces took control of the village of Krahmalnoe, which allows them to expand the zone of their control south of Kupyansk, secure their control of the strategically important road and push Ukrainian forces towards the Oskol river, where their maneuvers will be complicated and losses will increase. At the same time, the bad dreams of the Ukrainian command about the Russian offensive across the border in the Kharkiv region may soon come true. On January 23, Ukrainian units reportedly retreated from the village of Pletnevka located near the Russian border northeast of Kharkiv. Russian artillery has been pounding Ukrainian positions in the area for several days. As a result, Russian troops managed to cross the border and conduct the mop up operation in the area, threatening the Ukrainian grouping in the main Ukrainian border stronghold in Volchansk. Some reports claimed Russian control of the village but some other denied this, saying that the Russian military stepped back across the border. The operation in the village is unlikely to mark the beginning of another large ground offensive in the Kharkiv region in the coming days, but it clearly demonstrates the weakness of the Ukrainian defense along the border.

A Russian response to the recent bloody attack on the crowded market in Donetsk was not long in waiting. On the morning of January 23, dozens of Russian drones and missiles targeted Ukrainian military facilities throughout the country. Sirens sounded in all regions of Ukraine immediately after Russian strategic bombers took off from airfields in the rear areas. There were several waves of combined strikes in the morning hours. While the first wave missiles were cruising over the country, the overloaded Ukrainian air defense was forced to use scarce anti-aircraft missiles. Meanwhile, the second wave of missiles came into the country, mocking the Ukrainian air defenses and moving from one region to another. According to the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Russia struck with air-launched cruise missiles and ground-launched ballistic missiles. The targets of the strikes were military facilities in the Kharkiv, Poltava and Dnipro regions and in Kiev. As usual, representatives of the Ukrainian regime again announced the “destruction” of all missiles that attacked the country’s capital. According to a representative of the Kiev administration, there were about 20 missiles in total. The claims from Kiev raise only one question: if the almighty Ukrainian air defense forces are so effective, why then does Zelensky continue traveling around the globe begging for more air defense systems and other weapons? Even the residents of the Ukrainian capital did not believe in this lie and filmed videos that clearly show the arrival of Russian missiles on targets. According to preliminary local reports, as a result of the Russian attack, facilities in the Boryspil airport area in Kiev, as well as the airfield in Pavlograd, were either damaged or destroyed. In Kharkiv, the targets were several bases used to house Ukrainian troops and foreign mercenaries, and military depots. During the attack, Ukrainian sources in Kiev and Kharkiv confirmed attacks on civilian high-rise buildings, not by Russian strikes, but again by Ukrainian air defense missiles, which the Ukrainian military places directly in residential areas. The ongoing Russian attacks interrupt the operation of various Ukrainian military-industrial facilities, used for production and repair of military equipment, as well as warehouses and logistic hubs necessary for the timely transfer of reinforcements to the frontlines. At the same time, Russian troops continue their offensives in almost all directions from Kherson to Kupyansk, and Ukrainian losses in manpower and equipment are growing. The Ukrainian military has passed the point of no return. Their obsolete equipment is rapidly destroyed, and new supplies from NATO are not enough to plug the holes. As a result of the shortage of equipment, the elite Ukrainian troops have switched to horses.

The Russian military has been congratulating their Ukrainian colleagues on the holidays all night long. Facilities across the entire country came under the massive New Year attack. Local sources reported more than 100 strikes in almost all regions. Today’s attack has become the most powerful one in recent months. It is comparable to the strikes launched in the early days of the war. The Ukrainian military complained that the Russian Aerospace Forces used various drones and all available types of missiles, except for Kalibrs. About 110 different missiles were reportedly launched. The targets included warehouses, seaport infrastructure, fuel depots, military bases, airfields, etc. A series of explosions thundered in the Odessa region, where the port and positions of air defense forces on the outskirts were hit. Another Ukrainian air defense system deployed in a residential area was filmed failing and missiles fell on civilians. At least two dead and 15 wounded were reported in Odessa. This once again confirms that Russian strikes are aimed at destroying military infrastructure, and do not target civilians. More strikes at civilian buildings were reported in Kiev and Dnepropetrovsk, which were also the result of unprofessional work of the Ukrainian air defense forces. Ukrainian authorities confirmed the damage to various industrial facilities across the country, hiding their real military losses. Dozens of strikes hit targets in almost all regions. For example, at least eight strikes were reported in the capital, including in the area of the Boryspil airfield. Secondary detonation confirmed destruction of some military facilities in the industrial area. Many targets came under attack in the Lviv region, which remains the main logistics hub through which military supplies are coming from NATO. Some of the targets there included the notorious Yavorovsky training ground and barracks of the local Army Academy, which likely hosted foreign specialists. New wave of strikes hit the Mirgorod and Starokonstantinov airfields. Despite Zelensky’s attempts to hide the defeat, the year of 2023 is ending with Russian victories. Russian forces took control of Bakhmut and Soledar, which destroyed Ukrainian defense on a large part of the Donbass front. In the end of the year, Russians launched offensive in the Donetsk direction, took full control of Maryinka and are grinding Ukrainian forces in Avdeevka. Ukrainian defense along the southern Donbass front is already collapsing. This are only some of the Russian strategic victories, which prevented the Ukrainian military from gaining any advantage on the front. As a result, the counteroffensive turned into disaster for the Ukrainian army. Today, Kiev has nothing left but to hunt on the disabled, women and the elderly in a new wave of mobilization in order to continue the war to the last Ukrainian.

In less than two years of active hostilities, the regular Ukrainian army was finished off. The command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has asked Kiev to call up 500 thousand more soldiers. Even military officials themselves admit that this demand is not feasible, and the deputies in Kiev complains that the country has no money for this. The Ukrainian military complains that the mobilization process has slowed down significantly. Everyone who wanted to fight is already at the front, in captivity or in graves. There are no volunteers left in the country, and the massive hunt for soldiers on the streets is not enough to close the holes in the Ukrainian ranks. Recently, roadblocks appeared on the streets in cities across the country, where all people are stopped in search of new cannon fodder. Meanwhile, Kiev is ready to return refugees from abroad. Some European countries have already announced their agreement to extradite conscripts who escaped from mobilization. Abroad, Kiev hunts not only on its citizens, but also on mercenaries. Ukrainian officials believe that recruiting should be carried out not in Lviv and Kiev, but “somewhere in Somalia, Congo, Yemen.” There, the Ukrainian army will be able to find many soldiers with rich combat experience. Kiev experts do not bother how the combat experience of these foreign fighters is suitable for Ukrainian battles. However, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have already reportedly lowered the requirements for candidates for their so-called Foreign Legion. Now mercenaries are not required to know Ukrainian or English, as well as have any special skills. All these measures were not enough to man the Ukrainian army. The Government of Ukraine has introduced a bill on “improving mobilization.” Fearing public discontent, information about it was quickly removed from the official website of the Verkhovna Rada. The media spread the main points of how Kiev will strengthen mobilization. As required by the Pentagon, the draft age will be lowered to 25 years. The summonses will be able to find the addressee by e-mail. Those liable for military service who did not report to military units on time will be restricted in their rights. For example, they will be banned from conducting any operations with their property, receive benefits and services from the state, they will be denied loans, etc. According to the new bill, the category of limited fitness for military service will be abolished, and a large category of disabled people could be sent to the front. Even one-eyed and dwarfs will be subject to mobilization, while the deputies of the Verkhovna Rada will remain untouchable. Hundreds of thousands of new soldiers need not only to be caught on the streets, but also trained and equipped. Kiev’s patrons from the West will have to pay for this.

While Zelensky travels the world in search of money and weapons, and Washington allegedly counts the latest aid packages for Ukraine, Europe continues attempts to support the life of the dying Kiev regime. The Daily Telegraph stated that several European leaders are calling on Britain to lead a new coalition of countries that will provide military assistance to the war-torn country. In Europe, interest in supporting Ukraine in its conflict with Russia is sharply decreasing. Germany and France, which previously were leaders in providing aid to Kiev, have now lost their positions and are not seeking to restore them. The proposal to transfer the leadership to the UK could be a new impetus for the war in Ukraine. So, to strengthen Ukraine’s maritime capability, the United Kingdom and Norway are going to create a new coalition that will supply ships and cargo vehicles to Kiev. In addition, the member countries promise to provide long-term support to Ukraine, including military training to improve security on the Black Sea. The British Ministry of Defense has already promised to transfer two Sandown-type minesweepers to Ukraine. These ships are designed to demine the coastline and ensure the safe passage of large vessels. London also hopes that this will help Kiev strengthen its ability to operate at sea and increase exports of Ukrainian products. The vessels will be purchased by Ukraine through the UK export credit agency – UK Export Finance. Meanwhile, at the end of November, France began the transfer of four FPB 98 MKI patrol boats for the Ukrainian State Border Service. The contract worth 136.5 million euros was signed by the National Border Guard Service of Ukraine with the French company Ocea back in 2019. On November 24, the UHL Fusion cargo ship with four patrol boats on board headed to the Black Sea. On December 4, it reappeared in the Bosphorus Strait, still with its cargo. Real-time vessel tracking sites confirm that Fusion arrived at the port of Constanta on the same day. Considering the risks, four patrol boats were unloaded in Romania. Then the Ukrainian crews will probably take over the controls and transfer them to Ukraine on their own. Earlier, Kiev received four more French boats delivered in May and August this year to the Romanian port of Constanta, after which they were moved to Izmail. In total, according to the contract, the French should supply Ukraine with 20 patrol boats. Currently, Kiev does not have the opportunity to transfer boats to the Dnieper River, as previously planned. However, they also risk becoming an easy target for Russian strikes on the Danube.

The Ukrainian military continues to flee from their positions on different fronts, while Russian strikes finish off Ukraine’s infrastructure, which was working for the needs of the front. Since the evening of December 11, Russian Geran UAVs have been striking targets in the Odessa and Mykolaiv regions. Explosions thundered in the Uman in Cherkasy region. Kamikaze drones were spotted flying over the Kirovograd region. In the early morning, Russian missiles launched precision strikes on targets in Ochakov in the Mykolaiv region and in the Kharkiv region. The Russian offensive does not stop on the frontlines. In recent months, the Ukrainian command has had to hastily transfer reserves from different directions to the area of the Donetsk urban agglomeration, where, the reinforcements are primarily aimed to delay the fall of another Ukrainian fortress – Avdeevka. To date, the actions of the Ukrainian military command have not stopped the advance of Russian units. According to reports from the front, the battle for Avdeevka began on December 11. Having broken through the Ukrainian defenses near the industrial zone in the eastern part of the city, Russian armored groups entered the residential areas along Kolosova Street. Simultaneously with the attacks in the city, the Russians are increasing pressure on Ukrainian fortifications in the villages south of Avdeevka. Meanwhile, Ukrainian troops are losing positions in the northern part of the city, allowing the Russians to get closer to the Coke and Chemical plant. Ukrainian military observers confirm Russian successes in the Bakhmut region. Russian forces launched an offensive towards Ivanovskoye to the southwest of the city. If advancing units manage to take control of the dominant heights in the village area, this will significantly intensify fire on the Ukrainian strongholds in all nearby settlements. The Russian military notes that months ago their attacks on the outskirts of Bakhmut were almost impossible due to heavy fire from Ukrainian artillery. However, now the Ukrainian shelling has significantly decreased, and the enemy infantry often surrenders and retreats. This is largely due to the need for the Ukrainian command to hastily transfer units in order to “patch holes” in the defense in other directions. However, the low morale of Ukrainian soldiers also plays a significant role. There have been occasions where entire Ukrainian units have left their positions at the first opportunity in different areas of the front. Unwilling to fight, some Ukrainian units are surrendering en masse.

On the night of December 8, the Russian military launched another massive attack on Ukrainian military facilities throughout the country. According to the Ukrainian military, 7 Russian Tu-95MS strategic missile carriers launched 19 X-101 and X-555 missiles. Heavy explosions thundered in the capital of Ukraine. At least 5 Russian missiles struck the city of Kharkiv, and another hit a target in the region. An industrial enterprise that served the needs of the military came under attack in the city of Pavlograd in the Dnipropetrovsk region. Russian strikes were also reported in the Mykolaiv region. Meanwhile, Russian forces continue to advance in various directions at the front. In recent days, they managed to achieve new gains in the Bakhmut area. The Russians have straightened the entire front line west of Khromovo. They are surrounding Bogdanovka and approached its northern and eastern outskirts. The town is located in a lowland, so encirclement from several directions gives Russian troops a significant advantage and increases Ukrainian losses. The Russians are finishing the mop up operation on the southwestern outskirts of Bakhmut, in the gardens. They also recently gained a foothold on one of the dominant heights west of Kleshcheyevka and began strikes on the supply routes of the Ukrainian grouping, preparing to expand their zone of control. The Russians begin their offensive towards the large Ukrainian stronghold in Seversk. They are launching attacks along the entire front line in this direction. Russian troops have already entered Veseloye and are attacking Spornoe to the southeast of the city, while approaching the stronghold from the west. The Russians are not stop their assault in Avdeevka. According to recent reports from the front, they entered the territory of the coke and chemical plant from the north. The Ukrainian military are hiding in the fortified underground facilities, while their last supply road came under Russian fire control. Ukrainian units are losing a large amount of equipment in attempts to transfer reinforcements from Orlovka. In the Kherson region, Ukrainian forces attempt not to lose their stronghold in Krynki on the eastern bank of the Dnieper, but they have significantly reduced their operations due to heavy Russian artillery fire.

Things are getting worse for Kiev not only on the battlefield, but also in the political arena. Russian forces have carried out another massive attack on Ukrainian military facilities throughout the country for the fifth night in a row. Several targets were struck in the Zhytomyr region. One of them was a large ammo depot with NATO ammunition near Berdichev. Russian strikes continue pounding the military airfield in Starokonstantinov in the Khmelnitsky region on a daily basis. Due to the lack of alternative options, Ukrainians do not lose hope of deploying the cherished F-16 aircraft there, despite the ongoing Russian shelling, which destroys the infrastructure at the facility. Since yesterday evening, several explosions have sounded in Odessa. One of the targets was reportedly the Shkolny airfield. More Russian drone strikes struck facilities near Kropyvnytskyi. Ukrainian units were also hit near Kharkiv during their rotation to the Kupyansk region. Meanwhile, Russian forces do not stop their advance at the front. On the northern flank of Bakhmut, they cut an important road and began encircling Bogdanovka. Over the past 24 hours, the Russians have also improved their positions on the southern flank. On the southwestern outskirts of Bakhmut, they repelled Ukrainian forces from the dachas district and took control over the road to Ivanovskoe. Their further advance will allow them to reach the rear of the Ukrainian grouping, which is now repelling Russian attacks near Kleshcheyevka. Russian forces maintain their initiative on other directions in the Donbass, although the front lines have not undergone significant changes over the past 24 hours. Another defeat awaited Kiev in its strategic rear, in Washington. On December 5, Zelensky suddenly canceled his video call to U.S. senators who were supposed to vote on President Joe Biden’s request to allocate an additional $106 billion to Ukraine and Israel. It turned out that the senators themselves did not want to listen to the Kiev president. Republicans left the briefing before Zelensky’s speech, as they did not receive a response from the Democrats to their proposals. Republicans insist that U.S. support for Ukraine should be combined with measures to strengthen the US border. Regarding Ukraine, representatives of both parties in the US Congress are concerned about the future of this country as a sovereign and independent state. The senator from the Democrats told the media that some of the US congressmen are not sure that Ukraine will still exist as an independent state in a year, and will not become part of Russia. While the Americans are deciding whether Kiev is a Russian city or a Ukrainian one, Washington has reached the “bottom of the barrel” in the ability to provide military assistance to the war-torn country. According to the US State Department, about 97% of the resources have been exhausted.

Despite the efforts of military commissars to hunt for new soldiers on the streets the mobilization efforts in Ukraine have failed. The Ukrainian army is suffering from a shortage of personnel. The number mobilized no longer covers the losses at the front. While the number of women in Ukrainian trenches has already decreased, Kiev sends children to the battlefield. The head of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service already warned that London and Washington had ‘recommended’ Ukrainian authorities to reduce the conscription age to 17 and raise it to 70 year olds. Kiev is already changing legislation according to its orders from the West. Draft law on raising the military age up to 70 years has already been registered in the Ukrainian parliament. In May, the conscription age was lowered to 25; but this was not enough to continue fighting for the interests of the West. The new Minister of Defense of Ukraine proposed to further lower the military age. Educational institutions were obliged to transfer lists of students aged 16 and over. Naive Ukrainians hope that teenagers will not be called to the front, but will be involved in safer work in the rear; but the hypocritical Kiev regime does not even spare children. As the NATO patrons ‘advised’, 17-year-old Ukrainian boys are already dying at the front. The first victims are orphans. The combat reserve of minors is already being formed in Western Ukraine, where orphans are gathered for military training in the educational camp “Haidamatskaya Sich”. Underage conscripts are then sent to the 103rd Territorial Defense Brigade. This unit was formed in the Lviv region. Initially, it was supposed to involve underage soldiers in the rear areas of the Kharkiv region, but the commander sent them to the front, where the “detachment of children” was used as an assault unit. As a result, the losses were not long in coming. Vladimir Sachal, a 17-year-old orphan who died in the village of Novoselovskoye, in the LPR, became the first officially confirmed victim. Meanwhile, the number of Ukrainian teenagers in Russian captivity is growing rapidly. One of the young prisoners said that he was taken to the front from the college. His father hid from mobilization in the forest, and his mother went to Poland for a better life. Without any descent training, he was sent into a meat grinder assault, where he was captured by the Russians, and thus, fortunately his life was saved. Just as Germany created “Hitler Youth” detachments comprised of children in 1944, Ukraine is already sending the youth to slaughter. The Kiev regime is not concerned about the future of its people. It copes perfectly with the task from its foreign patrons to empty Ukrainian lands and transfer them to the needs of the “prosperous West”.

The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) have sustained serious losses while advancing in the Gaza Strip as a result of the fierce resistance from the Hamas Movement and other Palestinian armed factions. The IDF launched its ground operations October 27, advancing along al-Rasheed Street on the coast of Gaza, near the city of Beit Lahia in the northeastern part of the Strip and in Wadi Gaza, right to the south of Gaza City. Israeli troops were met with fierce resistance from Palestinian fighters, who targeted dozens of vehicles with rocket-propelled grenades, anti-tank guided missiles (ATGM) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs). Drones, rockets and mortars were also used to target IDF gatherings inside and near Gaza. On October 31, the IDF said that two soldiers from the 84th “Givati” Brigade were killed during clashes in Gaza. And on November 1, the IDF admitted that 11 soldiers from the same brigade were killed after a Namer armored personnel carrier they were in was destroyed in Gaza by an ATGM. Two other soldiers from the 77th “Oz” Armor Battalion of the 7th Armored Brigade were killed after their main battle tank was destroyed by an IED in the Strip. This battalion only operates advanced Merkava Mark 4M tanks. On the same day, another soldier from the 749 Battalion of the “Bislamach” Brigade was killed by mortar fire on the border of Gaza. The next day, November 2, a commander in the 7007th Battalion of the “Etzioni” Brigade was killed during clashes inside Gaza, according to the IDF. As of November 2, IDF advance in al-Rasheed Street and near the city of Beit Lahia came to a halt as a result of the fierce Palestinian resistance.However, Israeli troops managed to expand their control in Wadi Gaza, reaching a point located just under one kilometers away from Gaza’s beach. The IDF’s main plan appears to be to besiege then occupy the northern part of Gaza, including Gaza City. So far, Israeli troops have been advancing in fields and open areas. In order to achieve their goals, they will have to enter highly-dense urban areas where heavy human and material losses are inevitable. Israel has already stepped up strikes on urban areas in northern Gaza in an attempt to displace remaining civilians and pave routes for its troops. More than 1,000 civilians were reportedly killed or wounded in a single strike on the Jabalia refugee camp on October 31. The recent Israeli losses and the heavy bombardment against civilians will likely encourage Palestinian fighters in northern Gaza until death.

Over the night of October 25, new waves of Russian strikes hit Ukrainian military facilities throughout the country. Explosions thundered in the Cherkassy, Khmelnitsky, Kherson regions as well as in Kyiv. The Ukrainian authorities confirmed damage to an infrastructure facility in the Khmelnytsky region. The local media claimed that Russian strikes hit the Starokonstantinov airfield, which is coming under Russian fire on a regular basis. Russian missiles are unlikely to damage Ukrainian aircraft at the airfield. Thanks to NATO reconnaissance support, they take off immediately when Russian strategic aviation prepares for attack. But Russian precision strikes destroy large warehouses there, including those with NATO missiles. On the other hand, the Ukrainian military and their NATO partners turned out to be unprepared for Russian strikes with upgraded UAVs at the airfields in the rear areas. Over the past month, the Russian Lancet, whose range was reportedly increased, hit at least three Ukrainian aircraft at parking lots in the Krivyi Rih and Mykolaiv regions. Russian strikes in the deep rear areas are not the only threat for the remaining Ukrainian warplanes. They are still often intercepted by Russian air defense forces during the combat missions over the frontlines. Russian Defense Minister claimed that Russian forces received some complexes that allowed to shot down 24 Ukrainian planes in five days. It turned out to be the S-400 Triumph air defense system in conjunction with the A-50 long-range radar detection aircraft. Indeed, the Russian military reported the destruction of an increased number of Ukrainian aircraft over the past week. According to the Russian military, two MiG-29s were shot down in the DPR and Kirovograd region on October 25. One more L-39 combat training aircraft was shot down in the Dnipropetrovsk region. The interception of the record number of seven Ukrainian MiG-29 fighter jets was reported on October 20. In its turn, the Ukrainian military responds with rare but fruitful attacks on the Russian rear airfields. Which are only possible thanks to NATO weapons and reconnaissance means. On October 17, Ukrainian forces test launched ATACMS missiles that were recently supplied by the US. They struck at the airfield of Russian front-line aviation near Berdyansk. After the identification of fragments of ammunition, it was considered that Ukrainians used the entire long-range arsenal of M-142 HIMARS or M-270 MLRS installations, including ATACMS MGM-140A Block 1 missiles, GMLRS M31ER and GLSDB missiles with GBU-39 gliding bomb. The strike was carried out with cluster munitions. On the same day, Ukrainian forces attacked the Russian dual-use airfield in Lugansk, also with cluster munitions. Russian officials did not disclose the losses. According to the most daring unofficial estimates, 9 Russian helicopters were destroyed at the both airfields. While the Russian military is keeping Ukrainian Air Force at bay, eliminating its aircraft with constant strikes in rear and on the frontlines, it is losing its own aircraft due to its blunders.

The bloody war between Israel and Palestinian forces, which resulted in thousands of victims in three days, shocked the world community. The abrupt escalation in the Middle East was also a big blow for the Kiev regime. The Ukrainian authorities, after discrediting their Western partners and spending multiple billions in aid, have now lost their leading position in the international agenda. As a professional showman, but an incompetent politician, Zelensky tried his best to reattract public attention. He bluntly claimed that Kiev has accurate data from unknown sources that Russia is behind the war in the Middle East. According to Zelensky, Moscow’s goals are to create “a new source of pain, to undermine world unity and to destroy freedom in Europe.” This is despite the fact that Russia has become one of the few states that have called on both sides for an immediate ceasefire. Zelensky is already trying to link Ukraine to Israel under the flag of countries “suffering from terrorism.” Having designated Russia and Iran as their common enemies, he again called on the West to provide the ‘victims’ with everything necessary for protection. Hiding behind the tragedy in Israel and Palestine, the head of Ukraine brazenly begs for more weapons. Zelensky hypocritically equated the brutality of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with the fake massacre in Bucha and the alleged genocide of Ukrainians. However, from the very beginning of the military operation, the Russian military ensured the safety of the civilian population of Ukraine by providing numerous humanitarian corridors to the detriment of their own military goals, while the Kiev Nazis used the civilian population as a human shield, including in war-torn cities like Mariupol and Bakhmut. Last night, Russian forces hit Ukrainian facilities, including granaries used for the storage of weapons, in the Mykolaiv and Odessa regions. Surprisingly, the massive strikes by “Russian terrorists” did not kill a single Ukrainian. At the same time, local residents filmed the faulty Ukrainian air defense throwing missiles in all directions. All Kiev’s lies about strikes on civilian infrastructure have been refuted. Ukrainian cities have never suffered from the massive bombing like those in Gaza today. And not a single civilian was taken hostage like hundreds of Israelis captured by Hamas. As a result, Kiev is forced to stage massacres, like in Bucha, or themselves launch the real ones, like in Konstantinovka, Kramatorsk, and other eastern towns. While the public has tired of Kiev’s lies and demands, the Ukrainian military is likely to launch new bloody provocations in the nearest future. Meanwhile, Washington is not pleased by the fact that the weapons transferred to Ukraine have emerged in the hands of Palestinian militants. The corrupt Ukrainian authorities, who freely sold Western weapons on the black market, thus enriching themselves from the war, now risk driving the last nail in the coffin of the Kiev regime.

Shukhrat Adilov went to the front as a volunteer. In order not to worry the family, he came up with a legend that he went to the north to guard the oil rig. Memories of the most terrible "business trip" do not let him go even at work. The man spent two months under the sounds of mines and shelling. I saw my comrades dying, I was wounded myself. And now he can barely hold back tears when he remembers the atrocities of the neo-Nazis.

The ‘summer offensive’ of the Kyiv regime softly entered October under the permanent cover of MSM claims about its ‘large successes’ against the ‘retreating Russian forces’. However, loud headlines don’t really help on the battlefield and Kyiv continues to bang its head against the forward defense line of the Russians in Zaporozhye region and other parts of the frontline. This little disconnect between propaganda and reality causes a blind rage of the Ukrainian leadership that is in a permanent need of some ‘visual confirmation’ of its successes. The capturing of a few ‘strategic’ abandoned buildings in the gray zone appeared to be not so convenient for foreign sponsors of the Ukrainian advance. So, Kiyv increases strike attempts to hit targets behind the frontline. Kyiv forces fired more than 70 different munitions at Belgorod over the past 24 hours. Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov noted that among these two shrapnel munitions were dropped from a drone at Murom in the Shebekinsky district. A local village was also attacked with a kamikaze drone. The attacks resulted in no casualties. However, one of the communications infrastructure facilities was damaged. In addition, Russian forces shot down two drones over the village of Novostroyevka-Vtoraya. During the same period, Kiev forces carried out a total of 35 shelling attacks targeting the territory of Donetsk city. The increase of attacks followed a failed attempt by Ukrainian commandos to land in the Crimean Peninsula on October 4. The attempt was accompanied with a massive drone attack. The Russian FSB published the video of the questioning of one of the attackers who was captured alive. He claimed that the Ukrainian unit, consisting of 16 people, departed from Odessa Region using high-speed watercraft, such as boats and water scooters. According to public data, most of them died under Russian strikes near the Russian shore, one was captured and at least two were reportedly able to flee back to Ukraine. The interesting fact is that in the published video, the saboteur said that the group’s goal was to take photos and videos against the backdrop of the Ukrainian flag on the territory of the Russian peninsula. This ‘strategic task’ fully corresponds with all actions of the current Kyiv regime that is more focused on PR victories and sucking of foreign money than on reaching any kind of peace on the territory of what once was called Ukraine. These developments come amid the continuing positional clashes in Zaporozhye region and around Bakhmut. Kyiv units still continue attempts to penetrate the Russian defense lines there. However, now, the attacks mostly involve large number of infantry units, which are supported by military equipment only in the case of ‘potential success’. Kyiv obviously considers that ordinary infantrymen are much cheaper than fancy NATO equipment.

The Ukrainian offensive on various fronts has entered the stage of another lull. In the coming days, Kiev is expected to make a final breakthrough attempt in order to achieve any results of its summer campaign. The main direction of the strike should be the front south of Orekhov. To date, the fronts on the Zaporozhye region remain unchanged. To the south of Orekhov, Ukrainian forces continue attempts to expand the control zone near Verbovoye and west of Rabotino. So far, all their attacks have been repelled. In the area of Velikaya Novoselka, the Ukrainian military curtailed attempts to break through the Russian defense, limiting itself to small assaults for purely tactical purposes. Artillery duels continue along the frontlines. Ukrainian artillery has a clear advantage in the speed of target detection and the opening of accurate fire. While Russian gunners balance them with a large number of artillery systems and shelling with heavier munitions. Both sides, taking advantage of the lull, are rotating battered units. Several Ukrainian brigades have been withdrawn to the rear for replenishment. Ukrainian Marine brigades from the Zaporozhye direction have been reportedly transferred to the Kherson region for replenishment, where they can take part in assault across the Dnieper in a few weeks. In the area of Artemovsk, Ukrainian forces continue attacks along the Kleshcheyevka—Andreevka—Kurdyumovka line, in an attempt to cross the railway and gain a foothold in the villages. In their turn, Russian forces are entrenching in the Orekhovo-Vasilyevka area to the northwest of Artemovsk. The intensification of fighting in this direction is also expected. The Ukrainian command is forced to transfer reinforcements to the area in order to counterattack in the north and gain a foothold in the south. On the other hand, fighters of the Redoute PMC and the Volunteer Corps arrived to reinforce the Russian grouping and launch counterattacks on previously lost positions. These units include former fighters of the Wagner PMCs, who came under the control of the Ministry of Defense after the Prigozhin mutiny on June 24. Meanwhile, on the northern fronts, Russian forces continue their tactical advance west of Svatovo, taking control of about a couple of strongholds per day. In the Kupyansk area, they still put pressure on the Ukrainian defense in the area of Sinkovka, Petropavlovsk and Kislovka. With precise air strikes, Russian aircraft destroyed another crossing over the Oskol River, complicating the military supplies of the Ukrainian units. To allow Ukrainian soldiers to save their lives and surrender, the Russian military launched a special radio channel “Volga”. According to reports from the front, over the past month, almost 11 thousand servicemen of the Ukrainian army contacted the Russians through this channel and surrendered.