The speaker of the Air Force of Ukraine, Yuriy Ignat, said that work is underway in several regions of the country to "modernize" military airfields in anticipation of possible deliveries of F-16s.

(I don't have any pictures of Ignat.)

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❗️ The Russian army hit the pillars of the bridge in the Odessa region with the help of water drones

Ukrainian media report that aquatic drones attacked a drawbridge in Zatoka, Odessa region. The authorities of the Kyiv regime have not yet confirmed the information.

This infrastructure facility has been hit before. In particular, rockets flew along the railway track of the bridge, but now the supports were attacked.

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❗️ Confirmed the hit on the bridge.

⚡️You will get fucked up. But, 2 hours ago, the bridge in Zatoka was attacked ON THE SUPPORTS by a water drone that emerged from the darkness not far from the bridge. The information is 100% correct.

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The Chinese Foreign Ministry wonders why the Western media "ignored" the investigation of Seymour Hersh.

"Washington and these "free and professional" American and European media have been mysteriously silent on Hersh’s revelations about Nord Stream." Is it because they knew about it all along? Or do they just not care about the truth as long as people believe their version of the story?

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💥Geranium flew to the facility in Dnepropetrovsk.

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And here comes the video of how the underwater drone hit the bridge. According to incoming information, the area around the bridge is cordoned off. Outsiders are not allowed.

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Marshal Zhukov on unnecessary losses.

“For many days, units of the 49th Army have been criminally conducting frontal attacks on the settlements of Kostino, Ostrozhnoye, Bogdanovo, Potapovo, and, suffering huge losses, have no success.
It should be clear to every elementary military literate person that the above villages represent a very advantageous and warm defensive position. The area in front of the villages is under full shelling, and despite this, criminally carried out attacks continue in the same place, and as a result of the stupidity and indiscipline of the unfortunate organizers, people pay with thousands of lives without bringing any benefit to the Motherland.
If you want to be left in your positions, I demand:
Stop criminal attacks in the forehead of the settlement;
Cease frontal attacks on heights with good shelling;
Advance only along ravines, forests and low-fired terrain;
Immediately break through between the settlements and, without stopping at their final mastery, tomorrow capture Sloboda, Rassvet and wedge in to Levshin.

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This concerns not only and not so much the sensational story with Ugledar, but in principle.

In general, I would like the conclusions from failures and mistakes to be made and the troops to continue to learn how to fight in modern warfare. As, for example, our troops are now advancing on Kupyansk and in the Krasnolimansk direction, as well as PMC "Wagner" in Artemovsk.

The Red Army also did not immediately become the strongest army in the world - it went through a difficult and bloody path of learning, including from its own mistakes. This training made it possible to reach Berlin.

PS. An important clarification on Ugledar, many suffered that the equipment of the 155th Marine Brigade was allegedly lost - this is not so. Losses were suffered by another part of allies, which was supposed to support our marines at the dachas of Ugledar.

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Good numbers for the number of trips to Bandera from Bakhmut - more than 500 for this day 😊

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In Krivoy Rog, Geranium flew through the thermal power plant, which had already been hit during the day. Finished off 🫡

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Explosions in Kherson are reported again.

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Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Mao Ning: The Nord Stream gas pipeline is a major transnational infrastructure. The explosion incident had a serious negative impact on the global energy market and the global environmental environment. If the reports of Hersh's investigations are true, this is unacceptable and such actions must be held accountable. The American side must report to the world.

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We want to say thanks to our friends from Black Mountian Analysis.

Also, we strongly recommend that you read this article. It is long read but of extreme importance.
SLG will publish few big texts in next several days which should provide new perspectives and, perhaps shed some light on the conflict.

Black Mountain Analysis
War update
Polish buildup,

Polish troop build-up
Basics

Currently there are hot discussions about why Poland is overtly and covertly mobilising troops. There are talks about the mobilisation of some additional 300.000 troops. I won’t discuss this number, since no one has the real numbers, but I’m sure, there is a mobilisation ongoing. And a re-location of huge parts of the Polish army to Western Ukrainian and Belarus borders.
But why?
In the next chapter I will discuss several scenarios, that I consider as likely. Moreover, I’ll assign probabilities in percentage, of how probable I consider the given scenario. Keep in mind that these are my assumptions. Not confirmed facts.

Scenarios

A: Double pinning operation (45%):
The Belarussian army has a certain purpose in this war. Not what many think, that it would invade Ukraine. It certainly won’t. And there is no reason for it. The Belarussian army is there, to pin down Ukrainian troops in the north, so that they can’t be used in the east. Moreover, it is there, to react, in case there would be a Polish/Baltic incursion into Western Ukraine.
By building up a huge and significant army right at the Belarussian and Ukrainian border, the Poles are doing essentially the same. They are forcing the Russians and Belarusians, to take them into their calculations and contingency plans.
Belarus and Russia now need even more troops, equipment and logistics to guard the Western part of Belarus. Those are troops, that can’t be used in the fight against Ukraine. Or additional troops need to be raised for this anti pinning effort. This is costly und uncomfortable, because of the distance and logistics situation. That is very simple and straightforward. I would do the same.
B: Incursion into the Western parts of Ukraine (10%):
I won’t explain this scenario too much since it is discussed ever since everywhere. The Poles would annex some parts of Western Ukraine in this scenario. They would do it under the pretext of a humanitarian intervention or peacekeepers of things like that.
I think there were real considerations, to do that. But I also think, that Mr. Patrushev and Mr. Sullivan had their discussion about what are real red lines for which parties, in Istanbul. And I think, this option is totally off the table. Western Ukraine is the geopolitical key for Russia, to implement its main strategic goal. The new draft treaty for European security. Maybe I will explain this point another time, but not here. This is strategic stuff, that I won’t discuss in an operational update.
And even if there weren’t an exchange of red lines between Sullivan and Patrushev, the Poles understood very well, what they could expect after such a move. The had a good development of their industry and logistics within the last years. They achieved a lot. If they would move into Western Ukraine, they wouldn’t have any protection by NATO, whatsoever. The army would leave a country, that is slightly prosperous, and if this army wouldn’t be destroyed totally, which it probably would, it would come back into a country without industry and infrastructure. It would come back into the stone age. (Time travel for dummies)
Keep in mind. Poland is not Ukraine. Russia considers Ukraine as Russia, that’s why Russia is trying to avoid much damage and casualties in the civil population. Poland is indeed an enemy state. They chose it themselves. All Russia weapons, that you can imagine, that deal out the biggest damage, apart from nuclear weapons, would be used instantly against all valuable targets, without taking into consideration collateral damage, in Poland. Infrastructure, industry and military. Essentially Poland would be back in the stone age.