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Analysis of the current situation: On the whole, I’m pretty unbothered by things and the following map shows why; the AFU has yet to reach the first major defensive line despite their successes today. Their struggles to advance so far have been against the…
🇷🇺🇺🇦 AFU continues to struggle against the screening line of the Russian defensive belt, and have yet to reach the forward main line.
Intel Slava
Analysis of the current situation: On the whole, I’m pretty unbothered by things and the following map shows why; the AFU has yet to reach the first major defensive line despite their successes today. Their struggles to advance so far have been against the…
Addendum:
While the current poor weather has enabled the AFU advance, it’s also imposed operational constraints that will have negative consequences once the rains stop.
As others have noted, the past 24 hours have seen the AFU advance largely restricted to the lowlands where the local main (paved) road is. This is likely because the rains and resulting mud restrict their off road mobility.
As a result, they are forming a bulge surrounded by Russians with the high ground advantage for artillery on two sides and are in largely open terrain once the rains stop and Russian air power returns. This will have predictable results…
While the current poor weather has enabled the AFU advance, it’s also imposed operational constraints that will have negative consequences once the rains stop.
As others have noted, the past 24 hours have seen the AFU advance largely restricted to the lowlands where the local main (paved) road is. This is likely because the rains and resulting mud restrict their off road mobility.
As a result, they are forming a bulge surrounded by Russians with the high ground advantage for artillery on two sides and are in largely open terrain once the rains stop and Russian air power returns. This will have predictable results…
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🇺🇸🇺🇦 By far the funniest thing about this offensive so far is how all of the Western Twitter “experts” have cope and seethe threads up today trying to explain away the AFU losses incurred so far. Noticeably, they all have the same talking points, were posted…
As a final closing thought for now, we noted the other day there was a pretty obvious ad hoc Ukrainian propaganda effort underway on Twitter to downplay their losses. A lot of the same culprits are now doing an obvious effort to play up their gains today.
They’re making a lot of sensational claims, they’re throwing out terms, etc but in total there’s a noticeable lack of supporting evidence and many of their claims are outright contradictory. Case in point, I’ve seen it claimed the dam that was destroyed today cut off Russian troops in one of the villages…the Pro Ukrainian accounts seem to have forgot that they had previously announced they controlled the village in question, so one wonders how exactly those two statements can be true at the same time.
Main takeaway all should have right now is that, despite their successes, they’ve categorically failed to achieve any sort of operational breakthrough.
They’re making a lot of sensational claims, they’re throwing out terms, etc but in total there’s a noticeable lack of supporting evidence and many of their claims are outright contradictory. Case in point, I’ve seen it claimed the dam that was destroyed today cut off Russian troops in one of the villages…the Pro Ukrainian accounts seem to have forgot that they had previously announced they controlled the village in question, so one wonders how exactly those two statements can be true at the same time.
Main takeaway all should have right now is that, despite their successes, they’ve categorically failed to achieve any sort of operational breakthrough.
Intel Slava
Addendum: While the current poor weather has enabled the AFU advance, it’s also imposed operational constraints that will have negative consequences once the rains stop. As others have noted, the past 24 hours have seen the AFU advance largely restricted…
🇷🇺🇺🇦 “One of the worst parts about this counteroffensive is that 🇺🇦 has started it without proper AD or air support and is knowingly sacrificing its men in hopes to achieve at least some tactical breakthroughs along the frontline by throwing bodies against well prepared 🇷🇺 defenses.”
- Olga Bazova
- Olga Bazova
🇷🇺🇺🇦 Looks like there are definitely 2, maybe 3 Leopard 2R in this field. Along with what looks like a Bergepanzer 2.
That would be fully 50% of the entire Leopard 2R fleet in the entire world.
- Fennec Radar
That would be fully 50% of the entire Leopard 2R fleet in the entire world.
- Fennec Radar
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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Looks like there are definitely 2, maybe 3 Leopard 2R in this field. Along with what looks like a Bergepanzer 2. That would be fully 50% of the entire Leopard 2R fleet in the entire world. - Fennec Radar
🤡 We remember how khokhols organized flash mobs for the transfer of "Leopards" to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. They believed that German tanks were the key to victory.
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🇷🇺🇺🇦 OBTF "Kaskad" burns armored vehicles from US at the tip of the Vremevsky ledge, which was occupied by the Armed Forces of Ukraine
🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russian KA-52 hunting bradley infantry fighting vehicles
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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Destruction by artillery strike of the Ukrainian air defense system FV4333 Stormer HVM in the Ugledar direction
🇺🇦 In the Zaporizhia direction, Russian special forces are celebrating the work of Ukrainian detachments. A unit of the 12th brigade of "Azov" finished off the crew stuck in a wrecked tank south of Malaya Tokmachka : the militants drove up in a pickup truck and executed their wounded.
The motives in this case are not entirely clear, because usually the bodies are taken - as well as the equipment. Maybe there were some personal scores. There is a version that in this way they do not allow the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation to replenish the exchange fund.
But in general, the Ukrainian bodies of information and psychological warfare, in conjunction with the punitive detachments, solve one simple task on the Zaporozhye sector of the front: to prevent their own mobilized from doubting what is happening, and for the survivors to tell about the realities of the front.
Therefore, among the Ukrainian formations, rumors are spreading about the capture of Tokmak , non-existent losses and fake photos of “leopards”. And then again they are driven in waves to the Russian positions
The motives in this case are not entirely clear, because usually the bodies are taken - as well as the equipment. Maybe there were some personal scores. There is a version that in this way they do not allow the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation to replenish the exchange fund.
But in general, the Ukrainian bodies of information and psychological warfare, in conjunction with the punitive detachments, solve one simple task on the Zaporozhye sector of the front: to prevent their own mobilized from doubting what is happening, and for the survivors to tell about the realities of the front.
Therefore, among the Ukrainian formations, rumors are spreading about the capture of Tokmak , non-existent losses and fake photos of “leopards”. And then again they are driven in waves to the Russian positions
🇮🇹Former Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi has died.
At one time he took part in organizing the aggression against Libya. Then he tried to justify his complicity in this crime by the fact that the globalists gave him money.
At one time he took part in organizing the aggression against Libya. Then he tried to justify his complicity in this crime by the fact that the globalists gave him money.
🇺🇲🇺🇦🇷🇺 The offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine through the eyes of Western media
Wall Street Journal : “According to the 28-year-old soldier, as soon as the regiment crossed the road beyond Malaya Tokmachka, the Russians began to fire at them from Grads. "The fields were mined. Russian helicopters and jet fighters were buzzing overhead," the fighter said.
According to the soldier, one of the Leopards was hit and put out of action. " They were just waiting for us ... positions were prepared everywhere. It was a steel wall. It was terrible ," says the military.
"The plan was to move south towards the Russian-occupied city of Tokmok... The other two units would also be advancing towards Tokmok from different directions," one of the soldiers said.
A fighter with the call sign "Finn", who is fighting near Velikaya Novoselka, says that because of the rains and in the swampy terrain, the MaxxPro armored vehicles lose their effectiveness.
"They were made for urban combat and the desert. In our reality, they can get through, but this is a fight ," he said.
AFP : A mechanized unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine that took part in the recent attacks near Orekhovo in the Zaporozhye region lost six of its nine American Bradley infantry fighting vehicles.
Only one BMP was able to avoid any damage. Probably two more were damaged, but could be repaired and returned to service.
Answering an AFP question about the results of the offensive on this sector of the front, one of the Ukrainian servicemen pointed “zero” instead of answering with his fingers .
WSJ : "There were more of them than we expected," said a 35-year-old platoon leader in Ukraine's 21st Mechanized Brigade, who took part in the assault near Orekhov in southern Zaporizhia.
Successes near Orekhov "turned out to be less than expected." The first Ukrainian attacks failed when an armored column ran into a minefield and was hit by return fire.
Kyiv's task is "to confuse the Russians about where the main attack will take place," said Ben Hodges, a former commander of NATO forces in Europe. In his opinion, such a blow has not yet been dealt.
"When the main thrust of the Ukrainian offensive comes, it will probably involve formations with several hundred tanks and infantry fighting vehicles," the article says.
Wall Street Journal : “According to the 28-year-old soldier, as soon as the regiment crossed the road beyond Malaya Tokmachka, the Russians began to fire at them from Grads. "The fields were mined. Russian helicopters and jet fighters were buzzing overhead," the fighter said.
According to the soldier, one of the Leopards was hit and put out of action. " They were just waiting for us ... positions were prepared everywhere. It was a steel wall. It was terrible ," says the military.
"The plan was to move south towards the Russian-occupied city of Tokmok... The other two units would also be advancing towards Tokmok from different directions," one of the soldiers said.
A fighter with the call sign "Finn", who is fighting near Velikaya Novoselka, says that because of the rains and in the swampy terrain, the MaxxPro armored vehicles lose their effectiveness.
"They were made for urban combat and the desert. In our reality, they can get through, but this is a fight ," he said.
AFP : A mechanized unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine that took part in the recent attacks near Orekhovo in the Zaporozhye region lost six of its nine American Bradley infantry fighting vehicles.
Only one BMP was able to avoid any damage. Probably two more were damaged, but could be repaired and returned to service.
Answering an AFP question about the results of the offensive on this sector of the front, one of the Ukrainian servicemen pointed “zero” instead of answering with his fingers .
WSJ : "There were more of them than we expected," said a 35-year-old platoon leader in Ukraine's 21st Mechanized Brigade, who took part in the assault near Orekhov in southern Zaporizhia.
Successes near Orekhov "turned out to be less than expected." The first Ukrainian attacks failed when an armored column ran into a minefield and was hit by return fire.
Kyiv's task is "to confuse the Russians about where the main attack will take place," said Ben Hodges, a former commander of NATO forces in Europe. In his opinion, such a blow has not yet been dealt.
"When the main thrust of the Ukrainian offensive comes, it will probably involve formations with several hundred tanks and infantry fighting vehicles," the article says.