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🇮🇱⚔🇵🇸Israel-Gaza Conflict: May 16-17 (Recap)

1️⃣ South Africa urged the UN’s top court to order a halt to Israel’s assault on Rafah, saying attacks on the southernmost Gaza city “must be stopped“. South Africa’s ambassador to the Netherlands, Vusimuzi Madonsela, told the International Court of Justice: “Seven months ago, South Africa could not have imagined that Gaza would be largely wiped off the map.”

2️⃣ Thousands of Palestinian civilians in northern Gaza are cut off from water and food after a week-long Israeli incursion that has led to heavy casualties on both sides.

3️⃣ Israel plans to deploy more troops and “intensify” its ground invasion of southern Rafah in defiance of global warnings over the fate of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian civilians sheltering in the war-battered city.

4️⃣ An estimated 600,000 people have fled Israeli attacks in Rafah in the past week and another 100,000 in Gaza’s north.

5️⃣ The US House of Representatives has passed legislation aimed at forcing Biden’s administration to reverse its decision to halt a shipment of bombs to Israel.

6️⃣ Israel will abolish its free trade agreement with Turkey and impose a 100 percent tariff on imports in retaliation for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s decision to halt exports until there is a ceasefire in Gaza.

7️⃣ The Israeli military has confirmed two of its tanks have killed five Israeli soldiers and wounded another seven, in another friendly-fire incident in Gaza.

At least 35,272 people including more than 15,000 children, have been killed and over 79,205 injured in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7. The death toll from the October 7 attack in Israel stands at 1,139.

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⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦⚔️ RFAF Advances on the #Kharkov Front by the End of 16 May 2024⚡️

🇷🇺 The RFAF 👉 advance towards #Liptsy continues (Map 2), Additional, the Russian control zone southwest of #Lukyantsy has been extended (also Map 2, see tricolour).
🔵 An RFAF advancement from #Bugrovatka in the village of #Staritsa (Map 3 westwards) is also recorded.
🟡 In #Volchansk itself (Map 3 eastwards) there is still no clear confirmation of control of the northern part of the town beyond the river, while advances continue.

🎬 Video recording of the RFAF is marked with Russian tricolour.

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⚡️🇮🇱🇵🇸⚔️ Escalation in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Zone until the End of 16 May 2024⚡️

🔹In the northern #GazaStrip, Israeli troops are conducting an operation in the eastern part of Jabaliya. In the south of Gaza City, counter-terrorism raids have ended in the Az-Zeitun area, where civilians began to return after the withdrawal of the Israel Defence Forces.

🔹In the south of the Enclave, fighting also continues in the vicinity of Rafah. The Israeli military command approved a plan to expand the scale of offensive operations, but there is no talk of an attack on the city yet.

🔹In the West Bank, Israeli security forces have carried out the largest campaign of raids in recent memory. In addition, IDF militants have been attacked in Huwwara and Haifa, resulting in several injuries.

🔹From #Iraq, Iran's proxies of the Islamic Resistance reported on the launch of kamikaze drones at the Haifa Oil Refinery and a certain facility in Eilat. However, there have been once again no reports of explosions or activation of Israeli air defence systems.

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⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦⚔️Military Expert Boris Rozhin on the Situation in the #Avdeyevka Direction on 16 May 2024 at 23:56⚡️

🔻1. #Netaylovo:
🟡The RFAF have advanced to the western outskirts of the village.
🟡Reports of complete control of #Netaylovo are still ahead of events. The enemy still maintains a presence on the western outskirts, but the village is actually been lost for the AFU.
🟡After its capture and cleansing, the RFAF will begin to probe the enemy's defences on the near approaches to #Karlovka.
🟡We can expect increased pressure on #Yasnobrodovka from the east and southeast.

🔻2. #Novopokrovskoye:
🟡The RFAF continue to press from the north and northeast towards the outskirts of the settlement.
🟡The enemy is stubbornly resisting and still retains control of the village.
🟡West of #Semyonovka, the RFAF are continuing to advance. During the day, the enemy lost a number of positions.

🔻3. #Ocheretino breakthrough:
🟡The RFAF continue to put pressure on the enemy in the direction of #Sokol and #Novoaleksandrovka, as well as on the enemy's fortified area covering #Kalinovo from the south.
🟡The control zone around #Ocheretino continues to expand.
🟡In the coming week, we can expect an intensification of attacks on #Kalinovo and #Novoalexandrovka.

📌In general, west of #Avdeyevka. the RFAF continue to develop the initiative, while the enemy, even at the expense of transferred reserves, cannot fully stabilise the front.
🟡Strengthening in some areas, the enemy is faced with the need to retreat in others. At the same time, even according to official estimates, the current line of defence around #Ocheretino is perceived as temporary, where the task is to contain and slowly withdraw, preventing a repeat of the "Ocheretino breakthrough" in the direction of #Krasnoarmeysk.
🟡In the context of intense fighting for #ChasovYar and the offensive of the RFAF in the #Kharkov direction (intense fighting for #Volchansk and #Liptsy), maintaining a high intensity of hostilities west of #Avdeyevka creates a serious dilemma for the AFU in terms of the distribution of remaining reserves.
🟡The General Staff of the RFAF takes into account the factor of overstrain of enemy reserves. Whether it will be possible to use this factor to find a new vulnerability in the enemy's front, we will see in the coming weeks.

📜 Boris Rozhin specially for the Voenkor Kotenok Channel

🗺 @Olegtsarov's latest Avdeyevka Map added👆

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📋🇷🇺🇺🇦⚔️ Two Majors #Report #Summary for the Morning of 17 May 2024; pub. 06:52📍

🗓 On the third night, the enemy attacked #Sevastopol. The governor reported that small arms were used in repelling the UAV attack, debris from downed UAVs fell on the Sevastopol Substation, and there was a partial blackout. Around 04:00, dozens of UAVs and more than 5 unmanned boats are claimed to have been destroyed. As of 06:30, monitoring channels were reporting an ongoing battle with the drone boats since the night. Satellite imagery (see also on bottom👇) of the enemy has been published showing the results of previous attacks on #Belbek Airfield, with two burned aircraft reported.

💥In #Krasnodar Territory, up to 10 UAVs attacked an oil refinery in #Novorossiysk, two more in #Tuapse, and fires broke out.

🔹In the #Kharkov direction, the Russian Army continues offensive actions. There is heavy fighting in #Volchansk, our troops are attacking on the outskirts of #Liptsy. The enemy is pulling up reserves, using FPV-drones. The RFAF are shelling enemy positions with TORNADO-S MLRS and FABs with UMPC. In the #Liptsy direction, Russian troops have advanced 300 to 600 m deep towards the village of #Liptsy. In the #Volchansk direction, our assault groups gained a foothold on the northern outskirts of #Volchansk town and advanced to a depth of 450 m.

💥In the #Belgorod region, the enemy is responding to the successes of the RFAF with attacks on the peaceful population. At night in the #Oktyabrsky settlement a kamikaze drone attacked a car with a driver and 3 passengers (a mum, a dad and a child). The woman died on the spot. The father with the wounded 4-year-old child and the driver travelled by hitchhiking to a medical facility in #Belgorod. The child could not be saved. The strikes of two UAVs of aircraft type hit #Belgorod and #Pushkarnoye, Belgorod district.

🔹In the #Pokrovskoye direction, fighting at the #Ocheretino ledge at #Arkhangelskoye.

🔹On the #Vremyevka ledge, heavy fighting in #Staromayorskoye and #Urozhaynoye.

🔹On the #Zaporozhye front, in #Rabotino the situation remains difficult. The enemy is trying to counterattack, uses a lot of UAVs. Report about the advance of our troops northwest of #Verbovoye.

💥In the #Kursk region, #Gueyvo, #Sverdlikovo, #Gornal, Nikolayevo-Daryino and #Lebedevka of the Sudzhansky district, the Sudzha Checkpoint, the village of #Gordeyevka of the Korenevsky district, the settlements of #Krasnooktyabrsky and Novy Put, the village of Popovo-Lezhachi of the Glushkovsky district were shelled. An explosive device was dropped from a Ukrainian copter near the village of #Gorodishche, Rylsk district. Near #Gornal, Sudzhansky district, AFU copters dropped 5 explosive devices. In #Tyotkino, an explosive device dropped from a drone damaged the roof of a private car. In the afternoon, 2 drops were recorded in #Tyotkino, and another in the village of #Volfino in the Glushkovsky district.
🛡Electronic Warfare equipment suppressed copters near the villages of #Gordeevka and #Troitskoye in the Korenevsky district, the village of #Gorodishche in the Rylsky district, the Sudzha Checkpoint, the village of #Oleshnya and the villages of #Zaoleshenka and #Gornal in the Sudzhansky district.

💥In the #DPR, four civilians were killed by Nazi strikes and three others were injured, including a girl born in 2018.

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⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦⚔️ Frontline #Summary for the Morning of 17 May 2024; pub. 08:08⚡️

🔴On the #Zaporozhye Front, fierce fighting continues in the area of the #Rabotino locality. The RFAF are advancing further and further on the eastern outskirts of the village. (Fig. 1)

🔴On the #Donetsk Front, urban fighting continues in #Krasnogorovka. The line of contact is without special changes. There are tactical successes of the RFAF in #Netaylovo, where Russian troops are pushing the AFU further towards the western outskirts of the settlement.
🟡In the area of #Umanskoye, the frontline without significant changes. Fighting continues at the foot of #Novopokrovskoye.
🟡Towards #Novoaleksandrovka, the RFAF also continue to advance. (Fig. 2)

🔴In the #ChasovYar Direction, without special changes. The RFAF continue to press the AFU defences in the eastern suburbs of #ChasovYar. Also, Russian forces are seeking to develop an offensive from the direction of #Bogdanovka and west of #Ivanovskoye (#Krasnoye). (Fig. 3)

🔴On the #Kharkov Front, fighting has begun on the outskirts of the #Liptsy locality.
🟡In #Volchansk, urban fighting continues. (Fig. 4)

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⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦⚔️ RFAF Advance in #Belogorovka of #Seversk Sector in #Svatovo Direction⚡️

🇷🇺 The RFAF successfully advanced in the village of #Belogorovka (#LPR).

🇺🇦 The basis of the AFU defence is the 81st Separate Airmobile Brigade, as well as part of the attached units of the Territorial Defence and the 3rd Separate Tank Brigade.

🔵 At the same time, at least part of the brigades that were previously stationed there, the National Guard "Frontier" and the 54th Mechanised Infantry Brigade have been transferred to the north.

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⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦⚔️ #Summary for the Morning of 17 May 2024: 08:02⚡️

🇺🇦 By PETRENKO ✙ REPORTS

🔴 In the #Kharkov region, the fighters of the 13th Brigade "Charter) repelled an attack by an enemy infantry unit on the eastern outskirts of #Liptsy, but the enemy infantry gained a foothold in the forest west of #Lukyantsev, from where the attack took place. Fire damage to enemy manpower in the area of:
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💬 Reported on 16 May 2024, 19:34 ⭐️ Map 1

🔴 In the #Kupyansk-#Svatovo front section, Russian troops continue to press along the railway north of #Kislovka with the aim of subsequent attacks in the direction of #Ivanovka, southeast of which the enemy is also trying to improve its tactical positions.
🟡 To the west and south of #Krakhmalnoye, the enemy occupied a section up to 4.97 km wide to a depth of 1.71 km and continues attacks in the direction of the #Berestovoye village, to the north of which the fighters of the 110th AFU Territorial Defence Brigade destroyed by a mine with FPV drones an enemy tank at point:
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⭐️ Map 2

🔴 In the #ChasovYar direction, a high rate of fighting remains on the eastern outskirts of #Kalinovka, on the territory of the Stupki-Golubovskiye-2 Nature Reserve and in the #Ivanovskoye area. The situation has not changed significantly.

🔴 #Pokrovskoye direction: a high rate of fighting remains in the area of #Arkhangelskoye, east of #Novopokrovskoye, and southwest of #Semyonovka. The situation in #Netaylovo is being clarified.

🔴 In the #Velikonovosyolka direction, the enemy continues attacks in the southern part and west of #Staromayorskoye and in the southern part of #Urozhaynoye. The situation has not changed significantly.

⚠️ My comments are marked with ⭐️. Most of his grey zones you can see red. Otherwise the map is really good:

📍 Updated Map

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