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Russian Perspective: Operation to Denazify Ukraine: Operational Brief May 11th (updated)
2023-05-12
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Kindly note that several entries in this article may have been removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.

[NewsFrontInfo] 21:59 The enemy attacked the residential areas of Gorlovka from the 122mm BM-21 Grad MLRS, there are casualties, residential buildings, a technical school and a gas pipeline are damaged.

one civilian was killed and seven wounded.

Houses damaged by the shelling of VFU at the following addresses: st. Nesterova, 83, st. Nesterova, 85 (Central-City district of Gorlovka), said the mayor of the city Ivan Prikhodko. Damaged "Gorlovsky multidisciplinary technical school 37" at the address: st. Pushkinskaya, 59.

20:34 Today in Melitopol, an attempt was made on the chairman of the court of the Zaporozhye region.

As a result of the assassination attempt, the judge was not injured, but two guards were injured, they are in a medical facility, they are provided with all the necessary assistance.

20:28 Video- Krasnopol's defeat of a Ukrainian armored vehicle with personnel in the Limansk direction.

19:37 Another disabled Ukrainian Ural truck -video

19:33 Zelensky will not forgive PR on Snake Island

Why will the Armed Forces of Ukraine necessarily go on a counteroffensive?! As soon as there is a relative calm at the front, Zelensky and the generals of the Armed Forces of Ukraine immediately begin to be reminded of their crimes.

Today we wrote that 5,600 mobilized Ukrainian Armed Forces came under missile attack in the center of Desna, while the entire command of the unit was evacuated.

A little later, reports appeared in which the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and their relatives remind Zelensky and Budanov about the mass death of special forces during an attempted media assault on a piece of rock - Snake Island.

Part of the militants of the SSO of Ukraine refused to storm and were sent to the infantry, but the team was still found ... and it was destroyed, the nationalist reports on Facebook.

18:40 Enemy snipers destroyed in Bakhmut
Ruslan Demchenko, born in 1989 - sniper of the 1st assault squad of the 2nd assault platoon of military unit T0950. Killed near Artemovsk after losing a sniper duel to a Russian fighter.
Also liquidated is the sniper of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Nikolai Zaichenko, originally from Lvov.

18:38 DPR artillery destroys the personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Avdievka direction -video

Artillerymen of the 1st Donetsk Army Corps delivered accurate strikes against the identified enemy manpower in the Avdievka direction. The enemy suffered losses in manpower.

17:47 The Russian Federation is extremely negative about the supply of Storm Shadow long-range cruise missiles by Britain to Kyiv, an adequate response will be required.

This was stated by the press secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov.

17:45 In Ternopil, the "safari" for men continues -video

Local Tg channels write that representatives of the military registration and enlistment office were chasing a conscript with a machine gun.

16:55 Another Ukrainian armored personnel carrier destroyed near the highway Chasov Yar - Artemivsk -video

16:53 Announced supplies of Storm Shadow missiles by the British will apparently be the first real transfer of Western long-range weapons, which the Ukrainians have been demanding from the very beginning. The full range of this product is 560 km, however, available reports indicate the intention to supply an export version of the missile, the range of which is limited to 270-290 km.

The missile, on the one hand, is easy to operate - it only needs the coordinates of the target to launch, and is stable on the route - since in addition to GPS it also has an inertial guidance system and TERCOM - a terrain tracking system that compares navigation system data with an electronic map and the terrain itself using a radio altimeter, supplemented in modern versions of this system with a digital camera.

This increases the resistance of the missile to electronic warfare and allows you to go at really low altitudes. It is planned to launch it, judging by the same Western sources, from Soviet aircraft - fortunately, nothing is required from the weapons control system of the aircraft itself, and the coordinates can be transmitted from the ground, or even loaded on the ground even before being suspended on the carrier.

The carriers, according to the same Western sources, will be Soviet aircraft, most likely, the Su-24 and Su-27, on the internal pylons of which ammunition of a similar mass can be hung. There remains only the technical issue of reworking launchers, but it has already been resolved on other Western ammunition.

Are there problems and errors in this process? Yes, as with any weapon. Missing items and their loss due to technical reasons were noted both in Storm Shadow and in their French version of Sсalp, but these problems, like with any weapon, can be solved with time.

For us, this is a new threat. Such a product is many times more dangerous than a sawn-off Soviet "swift" or "flight", which flies much higher and, due to a more primitive guidance system, is more vulnerable to electronic warfare. Of course, it is possible to shoot down Storm Shadow, but this is no less difficult target than domestic missiles of the corresponding generation, such as Kh-59MK2 or Kh-101.

Therefore, I repeat again: the best means of our air defense in this war, including against these missiles, is to isolate the theater of operations and destroy the enemy's military infrastructure.

15:43 The military of the Armed Forces of Ukraine showed how in one yard in Bakhmut PMCs destroyed equipment from different NATO countries -video

A Ukrainian militant walked through one of the yards of Artemovsk (Bakhmut) and took pictures of the destroyed ones: a
Canadian Senator armored car;

Turkish armored vehicle BMC Kirpi
American HMMWV (Humvee)
lined with BMP-2.
Part of the equipment is not identified.

15:41 Highlights of new Briefing of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation:

The Airborne Forces of the Russian Federation provide support to assault detachments and pin down units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the flanks in the battles for Artemovsk;

The RF Armed Forces destroyed more than 110 military units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Yuzhnodonetsk and Zaporozhye directions;

The losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kupyansk direction amounted to 125 soldiers, the ammunition depot was destroyed;

In the Donetsk direction, up to 230 Ukrainian military and foreign mercenaries were destroyed per day;

Russian troops destroyed up to 65 soldiers and two howitzers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Krasnolimansky direction in a day;

More than 650 Ukrainian planes and helicopters were destroyed by the Russian army during the special operation;

The RF Armed Forces destroyed the AFU artillery ammunition depot near Kramatorsk in the DPR;

The Russian Armed Forces destroyed the ammunition depot of the 124th Territorial Defense Brigade near the city of Kherson;

Air defense systems of the Russian Federation shot down a Ukrainian Su-25 aircraft in the Kherson region in a day;

The RF Armed Forces hit the manpower and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of ​​​​the settlements of Krasnoye, Kalinovka and Chasov Yar in the DPR.


14:23 Another vehicle of the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed in the zone of the NMD —video

14:22 Evacuation of the wrecked Novator armored car of the Ukrainian army -video

13:25 On telegram channels commander Bakhmut group of Syrsky published a post with a photo

The fact that the general was not eliminated during the missile attack is still not confirmed. The photo with the Nazis from Azov * that appeared on the net was taken last week.

13:23 Bandera tankers adore Hitler -video

And why take them prisoner, because after the war they will return home and remain Nazis. Better let them go to meet their idols Bandera and Hitler.

12:41 Artillerymen of the Southern Military District are methodically dismantling the point of temporary deployment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, discovered by our scouts, in the Orekhovsky direction -video

12:40 The pages of the Nazis of the 3rd "Azov" brigade in social networks are inundated with messages about liquidated in Bakhmut, militants who tried to regain their lost positions.

11:33 The RF Armed Forces attacked the locations of Ukrainian militants in Zaporozhye, Kramatorsk and Konstantinovka at night -video

This night, our servicemen hit the military facilities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Zaporozhye, Konstantinovka and Kramatorsk temporarily occupied by Kiev.

As a result of the fire damage, the train with material property in Malokaterinovka was destroyed. Also, up to 100 VSUshnikov were liquidated, which were located in the school building.

11:32 The RF Armed Forces destroyed the deployment point of the territorial defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kherson direction -video

On the right bank of the Kherson region, our soldiers liquidated the deployment point of one of the units of the 121st Brigade of the territorial defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

10:34 Destroyed and disabled vehicles of the Ukrainian army at the entrance to Artemovsk (Bakhmut) —video

10:31 The situation in Artemovsk (Bakhmut) through the eyes of the enemy -video

Assault units and artillerymen of PMC “Wagner” continue to hit positions and fight against the Nazis who had taken refuge in the city

09:47 According to information received from a source in Kherson, tonight on industrial zone in the city of Kherson, an artillery strike was carried out on an ammunition depot of one of the units of the 124th Brigade of the territorial defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Was destroyed, such ammunition as rockets for the MLRS "Alder", for 152mm howitzers 2A65 Msta-B, shells for firing from 122mm howitzers D-30., mines for mortars.

As a result of the fire damage, the unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine suffered losses: 18 servicemen were eliminated, 12 were injured and seven units. automotive equipment disabled.

09:45 At night, fire was inflicted defeat on the PVD of foreign mercenaries in Zaporozhye.

A missile attack destroyed a train with material property in Malokaterinovka.

By artillery forces in Malokaterinovka, he was sent to the Bandera PVD in the school building, in which there were up to 100 people of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

09:22 Air Raidannouncedin Sumy, Poltava, Kirovograd, Kharkiv, Dnepropetrovsk regions of Ukraine, as well as parts of Zaporozhye, Donetsk and Kherson regions controlled by Kyiv.

08:14 In Donbass liquidated another Ukrainian sniper Nikolai Zaichenko. A native of the Lviv region

08:12 In Artyomovsk, Wagner was a stormtrooper sentto Bandera, deputy commander of the group of the 8th Regiment of the SOF Dmitry Kramar.

Officer 404 - SSO Lieutenant Volodka Obodenko - Obidnenko was also disposed of there.

Another one flew into a pig hole - the commander of the special forces of the MTR Oleksandr Chernigov, he was the commander of the ELITE group of the 73rd Naval Special Forces center.

Today, we also received media SSOs for borscht, the info is being specified, but their donators are already asking questions, they say, whom we helped. Lots of wounded and even more KIAs.

If you look from the side of a fighter, then their name does not carry any level of coolness, they are liquidated and destroyed by ordinary guys, it's not just about cool equipment, but about spirit and skills. They are used to shooting at civilians, but here they don’t take out real resistance. Well, Zelensky sends everyone to the meat, even the “Elite units”

08:10 Explosions that were heard temporarily occupied by the Nazis in the city of Zaporizhia, sounded in the nearest suburb of the regional center.

As a result of the hit, a fire started (pictured) and detonation of the ammunition of the APU militants.

In the morning, the Zelensky regime will show a funnel in an open field and say that “there are no losses”)

08:07 It was restless at night at the border. There were several skirmishes with UkrainianNazisin the Belgorod and Kursk regions.

Posted by:badanov

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