[Ukrainski Pravda] It's bugout time boys, girls and vatniks.
Ivan Fedorov, the mayor of Melitopol, says that the Russians’ "evacuation" of the occupied part of the Zaporizhzhia Oblast is happening too quickly, and huge queues have formed at the Chongar checkpoint on the road from Melitopol to Crimea.
Recalling the way things happened in Tokmak, Fedorov said that starting on Friday, buses or convoys of buses have been departing from the city once every 20-30 minutes, carrying "only a third of civilians, and the rest are disguised military personnel." According to the mayor, these buses are mostly going to Berdiansk, where the civilians are staying, while military personnel continue to be taken to Mariupol. Also, in Tokmak, there are crazy queues for bread, and most gas stations are out of gasoline.
Fedorov also stated that the "evacuation" is not just taking place in the 16 settlements which the invaders have publicly announced.
"Using the example of my native Melitopol, we can see the following situaiton: since yesterday, buses have been standing on the territory of Gymnasium No.1 and the central Peremohy Square, taking away mostly collaborators and those insane enough to have agreed with the invaders to go somewhere else. Additionally, today, the Russians withdrew from some administrative office buildings. For example, they left Bohdan Khmelnytskyi Street, 70, where their propaganda Z-TV was located, the executive committee of the Melitopol City Council at Hrushevskyi Street, 5, and other administrative buildings, burning all the documents there," the mayor said.
At the same time, on Telegram, he posted a photo of queues at the Chongar checkpoint on the way from occupied Melitopol to Crimea.
In Mykhailivka, [the Russians] used cars stolen from local residents to take away all [looted] property and the employees of [occupation] financial institutions.
Fifteen buses have arrived to Dniprorudne to evacuate Russian occupation administration workers, officers of the so-called ’people’s militia’, and their families. Military personnel from the Russian occupation forces are looting office equipment stores and stealing cars on a large scale."
As a thinking man or woman, if the probability of a luxury item being destroyed during fighting was high and almost guaranteed - would you watch it be destroyed, or would you take it and try to protect it?
Let's circle back to the why: On Thursday, Rogov stated that Kiev has amassed sufficient soldiers in the front lines to start a counteroffensive. On Friday, acting governor of the Zaporozhye Region Yevgeny Balitsky indicated that Ukraine may launch a counteroffensive in the next days or even hours. Residents of 18 villages along the front lines have been relocated for safety reasons farther into the area, according to Balitsky.
"There were assumptions that the counteroffensive in the Zaporozhye Region might start on May 5 or 6, but this did not happen. However, a high probability of the [ukr] counteroffensive being launched in the upcoming days still persists.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] 1. In the city, PMC "Wagner" continues to storm the block of high-rise buildings on the western outskirts. Today, attacks on the last fortifications of the Armed Forces of Ukraine + intensified by the evening, in addition to Artemovsk, they began to cover Bogdanovka, Orekhovo-Vasilyevka, Chasov Yar and other villages to the west of the city.
Also during the day there were strikes against the Slavic-Kramatorsk agglomeration. Fights in the city are in the nature of squeezing the enemy out of the city house by house. According to Prigogine, no prisoners are taken. The shells for the Wagner seem to have been allocated, which the enemy also notes, complaining about the increased fire damage of the APU grouping in the city and west of Artemovsk.
2. From the point of view of logistics, the situation of the operational encirclement of the AFU grouping in the city remains. All roads to the city are shot through, which leads to regular losses in vehicles to the west of the city. Nevertheless, the enemy, despite the losses, is trying to hold on to supplies and even drives additional equipment into the city to replace the destroyed one.
Rumors that the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Artemovsk have run out of equipment do not correspond to reality. There are also tanks and AFVs.
3. Khromovo, Bogdanovka, Orekhovo-Vasilyevka, Krasnoye, Novomarkovo - under the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Our attack aircraft have not yet entered these villages.
Syrsky said today that the task is to keep Artemovsk at least until May 9th. In fact, they repeat the situation with the agony of the remnants of the Mariupol grouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at Azovstal, which was also given the task last year not to capitulate until May 9, after which it capitulated shortly after the holidays.
However, Prigozhin has already reported that there is no task to take the city by the date. The primary task is to grind as many forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as possible while the Battle of Artyomovsk is going on.
PS. At night, Hours Yar and Artemovsk are equalized with cast iron.
Also, arrivals in the region of Konstantinovka and Kramatorsk
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Korrespondent] 20:48 Zelensky said in an evening video message about the preparation of an important legislative initiative for Ukrainian society. Also, according to him, sanctions decisions against the Russian Federation are being prepared. "We are looking forward to international meetings at various levels in Kiev. We are talking with partners about weapons that will help us do more to restore peace. We are working out in great detail with partners new steps in helping Ukraine, we expect them in the near future - exactly what we need for our strength on advanced, for the protection of our sky, for justice against terrorists and for the faster restoration of peace for the entire Ukrainian land. I will definitely inform you about those decisions that can be discussed publicly," the president said.
19:59 Ukraine received the first three of 16 Israeli radars manufactured by RADA Electronic Industries for the missile detection system, writes Israel Defense. At least 14 Ukrainian military personnel were trained in the use of these radars in March, according to the publication. Funds for radars in the amount of 14 million euros were raised in Lithuania. Israeli radars detect air threats - they can identify types of aircraft and missiles, understand their trajectory, and send out alerts.
19:24 The Russians, under the pretext of evacuating civilians, are taking out looted property from the front-line settlements of the Zaporozhye region, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said. So, from Mikhailovka on cars taken from local residents, all property is taken out together with employees of "financial institutions". And 15 buses arrived in Dniprorudne to evacuate representatives of the occupation administration and the "people's militia" along with their families. Russian servicemen massively rob stores with office equipment and steal cars.
18:26 Czech President Petr Pavel warned Ukraine against a hasty counter-offensive: “Some may be tempted to push them to show some results. But if the counter-offensive fails, it will be extremely harmful for Ukraine, because there will be no other such case, according to at least this year."
17:57 In the Bakhmut area, the Russians have increased the intensity of shelling from heavy weapons, began to use more advanced equipment and are regrouping troops, Alexander Syrsky, commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said following a visit and meeting with commanders of combat units. According to him, this indicates that the enemy does not intend to change his plans and is doing everything possible to take Bakhmut under control and continue offensive operations.
"As of today, the Defense Forces manage to frustrate the enemy's plans in the Bakhmut direction. But the Russians still hope to capture the city before May 9. Our task is to prevent this," Syrsky stressed.
17:11 It is almost impossible to evacuate from the city of Chasov Yar, near Bakhmut, due to the constant shelling of the Russians, said the head of the military administration, Sergei Chaus. According to him, a bridge was blown up near the city, which also makes it difficult to evacuate. "A certain number of people remained there, we are considering options for how they can be taken out. It is impossible to leave, but you can walk," Chaus added.
16:38 Inspector General of the Bundeswehr Karsten Breuer visited Ukraine this week, Zaluzhny said: "He described the situation at the front and spoke about the preparation of the Security and Defense Forces for the upcoming actions to liberate our territory."
15:50 The United States asked Turkey for access to the S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems purchased from Russia, but Ankara refused, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said. According to him, "it was contrary to our independent policy." In addition, he said that Turkey received offers to send the S-400 to Ukraine, but also did not agree to this.
14:37 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that at night 22 Ukrainian attack drones were detected by air defense means over the Black Sea, all of them were allegedly destroyed.
13:56 The FSB announced that it had stopped an attempt at "sabotage" planned by "Ukrainian intelligence" at an airfield in the Ivanovo region using drones. The object was allegedly A-50 radar detection and control aircraft. Members of the "DRG", allegedly recruited by the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, were detained after landing in the Tula region.
13:10 Prigozhin said that he was promised to be given ammunition and weapons "as much as we need" to continue further actions. “We are sworn that everything that is necessary will be placed on the flank so that the enemy does not cut us off. We are told that we can act in Artemovsk as we see fit. And they give us Surovikin as a person who will make all decisions within the framework of military operations PMC Wagner in cooperation with the Ministry of Defense," he added.
12:29 Yermak said he had a telephone conversation with Biden's national security adviser Jake Sullivan, briefing him on the situation at the front, the preparation of the Defense Forces to liberate Ukrainian territories, and the urgent needs of the Ukrainian army.
11:47 Russia currently has neither the military, nor the economic, nor the political potential to attempt a large-scale offensive anywhere in Ukraine, military intelligence chief Kirill Budanov said in an interview with YahooNews. At the same time, he added that the Russian Federation is still capable of conducting serious defensive operations - and this is a problem that Ukraine will have to face.
According to Budanov, Russia is trying to accumulate a certain stock of missiles in order to disrupt the Ukrainian counteroffensive. "However, the truth is that the Russians have reduced their missile stockpile to almost zero," he added.
At the same time, Budanov admitted that Russia knows how to act in the information space, therefore, even an imaginary missile attack on the Kremlin will be shown as a "victory", arguing that in this way they allegedly managed to prevent the greatest catastrophe in the history of mankind. "It sounds like a joke, but the Russians perceive such nonsense," the major general explained.
Answering a journalist's question about the alleged involvement of the Ukrainian special services in the elimination of a number of Russian public apologists for the war against Ukraine, Budanov refused to confirm or deny this information: "All I will comment is that we killed Russians and will kill Russians anywhere in the world until the complete victory of Ukraine.
10:24 The speaker of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Yuri Ignat, said that the Russians learned too early about the successful downing of the Dagger with the help of the Patriot air defense system: "We should be glad that we have such weapons, but it's too early to rejoice, because there are few of them, much more of these systems are needed, to protect our big cities, infrastructure and nuclear power."
10:11 The Russians launched a missile attack on the town of Balakliya, Izyumsky district, Kharkiv region. According to preliminary information, the S-300 missile hit the territory of one of the car parks, five people were injured, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said.
08:56 In the Kherson region over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, six people were killed, four were injured. In the Donetsk region, five were injured, according to the IVA.
08:47 At night, the Russians fired five X-22 missiles from Tu-22M3 strategic aircraft in the Nikolaevsky district, OK Pivden reported. In the Olshansky and Konstantinovsky communities, the building of an industrial enterprise was damaged, and a hit on an open area was also recorded. Dry grass caught fire outside the enterprise, no one was injured.
08:44 Reznikov said in an interview with The Washington Post that expectations from the Ukrainian counter-offensive operation are "overestimated in the world" - the majority is waiting for "something huge", and this can lead to "emotional disappointment." According to the minister, Western partners need another example of success, because they must show it to their peoples. “But we cannot say what the scale of this success will be. 10 km, 30 km, 100 km, 200 km? Ideally, the offensive should cut the rear lines of Russian troops and reduce their offensive capabilities,” Reznikov added.
08:36 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of May 7.
personnel - about 194,430 (+660) people liquidated,
tanks - 3723 (+6),
armored combat vehicles - 7248 (+10),
artillery systems - 3010 (+18),
MLRS - 554 (+2),
air defense systems - 306 (+0),
aircraft - 308 (+0),
helicopters - 294 (+0),
UAV operational-tactical level - 2572 (+18),
cruise missiles - 947 (+0),
ships/boats - 18 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 5952 (+16),
special equipment - 380 (+5).
08:27 The Russian army continues to focus its main efforts on the Limansky, Bakhmutsky, Avdeevsky and Maryinsky directions. Heavy battles are being fought for Bakhmut and Marinka, over the past day the enemy has made about 50 attacks, the General Staff said in the morning report .
The General Staff also confirmed the information that the Russians are evacuating local residents of Energodar, Zaporozhye region, in the direction of Berdyansk and Primorsk, to local recreation centers. Moreover, only those who have Russian passports are being evacuated, and in the first place, those who received Russian citizenship in the first months of the occupation.
07:41 The Russians hit Nikopol from heavy artillery at night, fired more than ten shells. One person died, two more were injured. Seven private houses and a high-rise building, gas pipelines, and power lines were damaged in the city, the head of the OVA, Serhiy Lysak, said.
06:39 At night, an enemy reconnaissance drone was discovered in the airspace of Kiev, it was destroyed, said the head of the KGVA Sergey Popko.
06:16 "Governor" of Sevastopol Mikhail Razvozhaev announced the attack of more than ten Ukrainian drones. According to him, the air defense forces and electronic warfare equipment allegedly repelled the attack, one drone fell in the forest, two were shot down over the sea, objects in the city were not damaged.
03:48 The head of the IAEA, Rafael Grossi, said that the situation around the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant is becoming "more and more unpredictable and potentially dangerous." According to him, the agency's experts received information that the evacuation of residents began from Energodar, where most of the station's personnel live. Explosions are also regularly heard near the nuclear power plant.
00:04 In the Sverdlovsk region, two warehouses with gunpowder burned down on an area of 960 square meters. m, according to the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:03 Right now, seven Tu-22M3 strategic missile carriers have been lifted into the air and are flying to strike at Ukraine, monitoring channels report. 21:00 Ukrainian KRAZ were successfully demilitarized by artillerymen of the RF Armed Forces
21:00 Work assault aviation of the RF Armed Forces according to the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
19:35 The defeat of the Ukrainian 155mm howitzer M777 with the help of the Lancet kamikaze drone -video
19:33 KIA mercenaries who fought on the side of the Kyiv regime
Name lists of foreign fighters were published by colleagues from LostArmour. Note that it includes only mercenaries, whose data was found out from open sources. The actual number of foreigners killed could be much higher.
19:31 Banderburger?
“Bandera with homemade beef”. Approximately so called a bun with a cutlet in the Norwegian McDonald's, which you can order if you want to support Ukraine.
But no!
Bandera people rejoiced early - Homestyle Bandera Beef has nothing to do with Ukraine. This is a reference to Mexican cuisine - in the composition of nachos, guacamole and pico de gallo sauces, and the word "bandera" itself is in Spanish, the flag.
18:25 “The road of death” to Artemovsk (Bakhmut) is littered with disabled equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine —video
18:22 Burning vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the road near Krasnoye (it has been under fire control of the RF Armed Forces for a long time) to the west of Krasnoye -video
18:21 Eliminated another US Nazi mercenary
Christopher Campbell is the fiancé of director Oles Sanin's daughter.
He previously served in Iraq and Kuwait with the 82nd Airborne Division.
He arrived in Kyiv in 2022, fought in Azov and the Foreign Legion. He was 27 years old. Destroyed in April near Artyomovsk.
According to open data, this is at least the ninth destroyed American fighter during the war.
The bride decided to bury him in the territory temporarily occupied by the Nazis, so Washington is relieved of the obligation to acknowledge the loss of a US citizen and evacuate the body.
17:35 Police officers destroyed ammunition left by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Chaplynka
The police found in Chaplynka in an abandoned building a plastic bag with 10.2 kg of artillery powder, and in a field at a distance of 1.2 km - 60 head fuses, three artillery shells of 152mm caliber, ten rounds of 30mm caliber and nine 14.5mm caliber, three warheads for 122mm BM-21 installation "Grad", two starting engines and one shot for a grenade launcher.
All dangerous finds were destroyed at the place of discovery.
17:34 Handing out subpoenas at the checkpoint… We will shoot if you don’t accept the subpoena… KYIV 05/07/2023 —video
16:41 Such a picture is now all over Ukraine -video
Because of Zelensky's criminal orders, Ukrainian cemeteries are replenished every day with fresh graves of those who refused to lay down their arms and raise their hands up.
16:40 Footage of the night strike of Russian troops on targets in Zaporozhye -video
According to preliminary data, the stationing point of the personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was hit
16:38 "I'm afraid of you...Down with the war!" —video
Mobilization in Ukraine proceed normally (c) Danilov
15:32 The defeat of the American Avenger air defense system by a kamikaze drone -video
In the Ugledar direction, Russian loitering ammunition destroyed the American Avenger air defense system at the front, which the Pentagon recently sent to Kyiv to protect against UAVs.
The first confirmed loss of these complexes after their transfer to Kyiv and, apparently, the first real combat loss since the Avenger was put into service with the US Army more than 30 years ago
15:23 Highlights of the briefing Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation:
Assault detachments continue to conduct offensive operations and have captured two quarters in the northwestern and western parts of the city of Artemovsk;
During the night, 22 Ukrainian attack drones are suppressed over the Black Sea;
The losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kupyansk direction amounted to 85 people, the warehouse of the “Right Sector” was destroyed;
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation destroyed more than 340 military and mercenaries of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in a day in the Donetsk direction;
Since the beginning of the special military operation, Russian air defense systems have destroyed over 4,000 Ukrainian drones;
The RF Armed Forces defeated units of two brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of the settlements of Bogdanovka and Stupochki in the DPR;
The Russian Armed Forces destroyed two US-made counter-battery radars near the settlements of Novgorodskoye and Artemovo in the DPR;
The RF Armed Forces hit the command post of the 124th Territorial Defense Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the communications center of the 81st Airmobile Brigade;
The troops of the Russian Federation destroyed up to 75 military units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Krasnolimansky direction in a day;
The command post of the Center for Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was suppressed on Veliky Island in the Kherson region;
Russian troops stopped the activities of two DRGs in the Yuzhno-Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions, and up to 55 Ukrainian soldiers were destroyed.
14:27 Russian army destroyed Deputy Commander of the 91st Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Captain V. Bondarenko with the call sign “Phoenix” was liquidated in the battles in Donbas.
It is specified that he “performed a combat mission and carried out armed resistance to the Russian army” near the village of Novoselka, Volnovakhsky district of the DPR.
14:25 In Donbass eliminated militant so-called. battalion them. Dzhokhar Dudayev Andrey Maksimenko. He left to kill innocents back in 2014 as part of the punitive national battalion “Dnepr”
13:29 Crews of helicopters of the army aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces in the zone of the NMD -video
13:26 Russian military destroyed a group of Ukrainian sappers
A group of sappers of the state emergency service of the Kyiv regime was found in the Kherson region. It was hit by artillery. As a result of the work of the artillerymen, six enemy sappers were eliminated, including Major Igor Solovyov.
12:22 Radical patriots instead of the Mother of God pagan goddess Nemesis. This is how Ukrainians imperceptibly replace the true faith with satanic cults. And they are happy!
12:21 This is whatcallousness, indifference to the family. At first, the documents were incorrectly filled out, then they were not brought on the appointed day. When they brought it, it turned out that the body of a completely different person. “They saw a greedy pardon.” This is the flip side of hypocritical pomposity and grandiloquent speeches - the indifference of the bureaucratic machine
11:17 the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation destroyed enemy gun mount and mortar crew in the Kherson region
Yesterday, in the Olgovka area, artillery fire destroyed a 120mm mortar crew and ammunition for it - five fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were liquidated, two were wounded.
In addition, a self-propelled gun 2S1 "Gvozdika" with a caliber of 122mm with a crew of five people and ammunition was destroyed at night in the Dneprovsky area.
11:16 Analysis of anotherpositionalair defense area (Danilovka, Kiev region, reference 50.251971, 30.175487), destroyed at the beginning of the NMD.
9612 ZRDN 96 ZRB was armed with 12 launchers 5P851 of the S-300PT complex. As a result, four destroyed launchers are reliably visible on the satellite map, but judging by the localization of the impact marks, six launchers and part of the TPK were destroyed.
11:14 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
10:17 As a result of night attacks of the Nikolaev areadamagedan industrial enterprise,” admits local Gauleiter Kim. In the slang of Bandera, “industrial enterprise” usually means “base of the Armed Forces of Ukraine”.
10:16 All Ukrainians who praise Nazism and exalt the image of Stepan Bandera must be declared enemies of the people, said Witold Gadovsky, vice president of the Association of Polish Journalists. He emphasized that all supporters of Nazism are anti-Polish criminals.video
Earlier it was reported that the inhabitants of Poland were furious because of the Nazi symbols of the refugees from Ukraine.
09:14 Explosions in Zaporozhye and Dnepropetrovsk regions -video
Shelling of Ukrainian-controlled Nikopol on video
09:13 Explosions thunder in Ukraine, missiles rush to targets -video
Finally, around 00:56 an explosion occurred in the Odessa region.
Threat to Krivoy Rog.
Ukrainian air defense is trying to shoot them down along the way of missiles and kamikaze drones “Shahid/Geran”.
Explosions in the Beryslavsky district of the Kherson region.
08:12 In Donbass eliminated Ukrainian officer, senior lieutenant Vasily Gretchin. A native of the Ivano-Frankivsk region. 46 years old.
08:06 Our Grandfathers are back in combat formation and are going to beat the Nazis together with our fighters -video
In battle with grandfathers and great-grandfathers: the military in the NVO zone placed portraits of veterans of the Great Patriotic War on artillery and went with them to attack the enemy.
So they had their "Immortal Regiment" in combat positions. The military attacked the nationalists from self-propelled guns 152mm 2S3 "Acacia" and 122mm BM-21 MLRS "Grad-M"
Final day for Wagner to capture Bakhmut or the Moscow Victory Day parade will be a big letdown. Rumors Putin would cancel his appearance or even the parade. Currently rumors parade scheduled and Putin will attend. Entertainment will be provided courtesy of a $500,000 bounty from a Ukrainian banker mogul for anyone landing a drone on Red Square. A crash landing is still a landing. Right?
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:55 Over the past day Representationreportedabout 40 facts of firing by the VFU.
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy made 17 artillery attacks from 155mm and 152mm artillery.
On Gorlovsky 18 artillery attack from 152mm artillery.
On Volnovakhskoe five artillery attacks from artillery 155mm and 152mm. Having fired 187 units of various ammunition.
Under enemy fire were areas of seven settlements of the Republic: Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district), Shirokaya Balka, the capital city of Donetsk (Kiev, Kuibyshevsky, Kirovsky, Petrovsky districts), Makeevka (Chervonogvardeysky district), Blagodatnoye, Olginka, Vladimirovka.
Over the past day, information was received about the death of a civilian - a man, in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk.
A total of 18 residential buildings were damaged in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk and the Nikitovsky district of Horlivka, as well as 4 civilian infrastructure facilities.
Previous 59 artillery attacks were recorded from the side of the VFU per day.
21:34 Job artillery on the PVD of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with subsequent detonation of the ammo in one of the directions
20:18 Ukrainian troops shelled the Kirovsky district of Donetsk and Blagodatnoye settlement in two hours, firing 14 rounds of the “NATO” caliber of 155mm, reports representation DPR at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC).
19:24 Russian military destroyed artillery installation of Ukrainian troops near Avdievka
17:59 Artillery of the group of troops "South" inflicts attacks on the positions of the Ukrainian military in the northern direction.
16:54 Fiery hell in Bakhmut continues
PMC "Wagner" strikes with incendiary ammunition on the area turned into a fortress of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
The militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine film how in the evening our fighters cover one of the last quarters where the enemy has concentrated forces with volleys from the 122mm BM-21 Grad MLRS.
16:54 Adjustment of fire on the Ukrainian T-80, which was blown up by mines in the Zaporozhye region
15:48 Consequences of the artillery attack of the Petrovsky district of Donetsk by Ukrainian militants
14:41 The main thing from the briefing of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation:
-- Assault detachments continue to conduct offensive operations and have captured two quarters in the northwestern and western parts of the city of Artemovsk;
-- During the night, 22 Ukrainian attack drones are suppressed over the Black Sea;
-- The losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kupyansk direction amounted to 85 people, the warehouse of the “Right Sector” was destroyed;
-- The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation destroyed more than 340 military and mercenaries of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in a day in the Donetsk direction;
-- Since the beginning of the special military operation, Russian air defense systems have destroyed over 4,000 Ukrainian drones;
-- The RF Armed Forces defeated units of two brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of ??the settlements of Bogdanovka and Stupochki in the DPR;
-- The Russian Armed Forces destroyed two US-made counter-battery radars near the settlements of Novgorodskoye and Artemovo in the DPR;
-- The RF Armed Forces hit the command post of the 124th Territorial Defense Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the communications center of the 81st Airmobile Brigade;
-- The troops of the Russian Federation destroyed up to 75 military units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Krasnolimansky direction in a day;
-- The command post of the Center for Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was suppressed on Veliky Island in the Kherson region;
-- Russian troops stopped the activities of two DRGs in the Yuzhno-Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions, and up to 55 Ukrainian soldiers were destroyed.
13:39 Artillerymen of the Southern Military Districtwork outon the strongholds of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zaporozhye direction
12:36 Another video from the road to Artemovsk
On the sides of the highway going through the village of Ivanovskoye, lined Ukrainian armored vehicles are noticeable.
11:17 “The Lancet” destroyed American howitzer in the Kherson region
The victim of the Russian kamikaze drone was the 155mm M777. Even the camouflage net did not help the Ukrainian military to hide.
10:05 Video- We beat the enemy - these fascists!
There must be well-trained fighters on the line of combat contact. Including from among those called up as part of the partial mobilization of military personnel.
Therefore, in the rear areas of the special military operation, training is constantly going on with units that should soon go to the forefront.
In the course of training, instructors emphasize the practical component. The elements of combat must be worked out so that at the necessary moment they work at the level of a reflex. This can be achieved only by numerous repetitions at the training ground.
First, there is a detailed explanation - what and how. Then a demonstration of the execution of one or another element. And only then the practical work. But, as they say, up to a sweat. This is what allows our servicemen to carry out the tasks assigned to them with minimal losses on their part.
Even at the firing line there is no static. Soldiers were taught how to group correctly when firing from different positions. So they fix it: shooting while standing, kneeling, lying down. And so many times in a row. Used up the store, recharged and again - great. And so not only from the AK-12, but also from the PKT, SVD and other types of weapons. After such numerous trainings, the personnel of the assault units are ready to act in any conditions.
Among the servicemen honing their professional skills is one mobilized from the Chelyabinsk region with the call sign "Khabib". The soldier emphasizes that at each training session they are given the opportunity to practice shooting with various weapons: machine guns, machine guns, sniper rifles, underbarrel and hand-held anti-tank grenade launchers.
“I am in the DPR, we are fulfilling the assigned tasks - we are beating the enemy, these fascists. Soon the victory will be ours. I want to say hello to my relatives, to the whole Urals. Hold on, thanks for your help!" - the attack aircraft told about himself.
09:48 Chronicle of blows and mutual shelling in the NWO zone for the night from May 6 to May 7, 2023
At night, Russian troops launched a massive strike against targets in Ukraine. According to preliminary data, the Shkolny airfield in Odessa, accumulations of equipment in Nikolaev, and a personnel deployment point in Zaporozhye were hit. In the Sumy, Kharkiv and Cherkasy regions, the activity of the Geran-2 UAV was observed.
Ukrainian drones made a massive raid on Sevastopol and Guards. Over 20 drones were shot down by air defense crews and landed by electronic warfare. Victims, destructions and victims managed to be avoided.
In the Sumy region, the artillery of the Russian Armed Forces hit enemy concentrations in Sopych and Boyar-Lyozhachih, and in Chernihiv region - in the area of Zarechye and Leonovka.
In the Kharkiv region, Russian forces discovered and destroyed the points of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of Strelechya, Kazachya Lopan and Neskuchnoye.
In the Starobelsky direction, units of the RF Armed Forces launched artillery strikes on enemy positions in the areas of Dvurechnaya, Peschanoe and Stelmahovka.
On the Bakhmut (Artemovsky) direction, Russian forces hit enemy concentrations in Bakhmut, Chasovoy Yar and Konstantinovka.
In the Donetsk direction, enemy positions were discovered and destroyed in the area of Avdievka, Maryinka, Pobeda and Pervomaisky.
In turn, Ukrainian formations randomly shelled Gorlovka, Makeevka and Donetsk.
In the Yuzhnodonets direction, the enemy was discovered and destroyed in the vicinity of Ugledar and Prechistovka.
In the Zaporozhye region, the RF Armed Forces attacked enemy positions in Malaya Tokmachka and Gulyaipole.
At night, the enemy attacked the village of Bogatoe: two people were killed.
In the Dnipropetrovsk region, Russian artillery worked on the firing points of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Nikopol.
On the southern sector of the front, Russian troops worked on enemy concentrations in the vicinity of Kherson and Zolotoy Balka.
At night, Ukrainian units attacked the civilian infrastructure of Nova Kakhovka, Alyoshek and Kakhovka.
09:17 Captured "Humvee" now performs the tasks of PMC "Wagner" -video
Wagner operators “privatized” the NATO equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine abandoned in Artemovsk and put it into operation. Despite the unpresentable appearance, the car is on the move and ready for operation.
09:09 Official summary of Representative offices of the DPR in the JCCC from 00:00 06.05.2023 to 00:00 07.05.2023
Over the past day, the Representation reported 59 facts of firing by the AFU.
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy made 34 artillery attacks from the MLRS, artillery 155mm and 152mm.
On Gorlovsky 17 artillery attacks from 152mm artillery.
On Yasinovatsky two artillery attacks from 152mm artillery.
On Volnovakhskoe six artillery attacks from MLRS, artillery 152m.
By releasing 303 units of various ammunition.
Under enemy fire were areas of seven settlements of the Republic: Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district), Yasinovataya, Yakovlevka, the capital city of Donetsk (Kiev, Kuibyshevsky, Kirovsky, Petrovsky districts), Makeevka (Chervonogvardeysky district), Aleksandrovka, Vladimirovka.
Over the past day, information was received about the death of two civilians in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk.
Four civilians received injuries of varying severity, incl. child born in 2013, in the Petrovsky and Kuibyshevsky districts of Donetsk.
Damaged six residential buildings in the Petrovsky and Kuibyshevsky districts of Donetsk, Aleksandrovka. Damage to civil infrastructure facilities was not recorded.
In the previous day, 62 artillery attacks were recorded from the side of the VFU.
08:07 Enemy had tried to attack Crimea, the Russian army repelled the blow
At least one aircraft-type UAV was shot down near Sevastopol and fell in the area of Cape Fiolent, scattering fragments almost 100 meters. No casualties.
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[REGNUM] What exactly the Ukrainian punishers will do in the (let's say the impossible) recaptured former Ukrainian territories has long been clear to them. And they don't even hide it. And what will the liberal democratic West do when this neo-Nazi terror begins?
The question “What is the West fighting for in Ukraine?” seems either naive-amateurish, asked by a person, completely divorced from information flows and the current global foreign policy agenda, or rhetorical - requiring no answer. After all, everything is clear to everyone. The West is fighting to restore the territorial integrity of democratic Ukraine, which has been brazenly trampled on by authoritarian Russia. Moreover, this act of “trampling” stretched out for almost a decade: in 2014 it was Sevastopol, Crimea and Donbass, and in 2022 it was the DPR, LPR, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions.
Therefore, today the “collective West” informs itself and the rest of the world that it intends to fight with us “until the last Ukrainian” so that Ukraine returns to the “1991 borders”. So, pacifists of all stripes and “people of good will” in general will think, is the West right? After all, on his part, this is a “just war” for the restoration of “justice?”
This one-way "combination" is what the West is "betting" in its global propaganda campaign. It seems to him that the bet is a win-win. But what if she turns out to be beaten? If in fact the "combination" has a continuation and turns into a "two-move" at least? As a result of what the West will be in zugzwang? The question now is, what should be this winning "move" for Russia? And does it actually exist?
So, the West, the United States in the first place, and its puppet Zelensky have been promoting their uncomplicated thesis about a “just war” on all international platforms, in all international and Ukrainian media and at all convenient and inconvenient occasions every day for many years in a row. Under this thesis, the West has put together a serious coalition, and Zelensky is conducting a total mobilization of his own population. Both the coalition and the Ukrainian population repeat like a mantra that they are waging a just liberation war against "Russian aggression" in order to restore the territorial integrity of the independent democratic state "Ukraine."
And indeed: after all, it is an indisputable fact that in 1991, after Russia, Ukraine and Belarus denounced the union treaty of December 30, 1922, as the countries that established it (in the absence of the fourth founder - the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic), as part of the former Ukrainian SSR there was the whole Donbass, and the Crimea, and even the hero city of Sevastopol. Although the status of the latter remained uncertain, since, as the base of the Soviet Black Sea Navy, it was a closed city and was directly subordinate to Moscow. It was so? Was. You can't argue against the fact.
But there is no need to "shove". Suffice it to recall that next to the aforementioned fact there is another, no less indisputable fact. Namely, the coup d'état on February 22, 2014, committed against the legitimate government of the legally elected President Viktor Yanukovych. Perfect by whom? Militants of the neo-Nazi Bandera group "Right Sector" (an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation) with political, diplomatic, informational and (secretly financial) support from the United States.
And with the direct complicity of the ambassadors of Germany, France and Poland, who acted as "guarantors" of the peaceful transit of power and immediately did not give a damn about their own guarantees, when the Bandera fighters began to storm the government quarter and the residence of the President of Ukraine.
It was so? Was. And against this fact, too, it would seem, you can not trample. But, it turns out, there is no need to shove here either. And you just need to correctly name this fact. This, according to the US and its allies, and the neo-Nazi Kiev regime that has since emerged, was not a “coup d'etat” as “Kremlin propaganda” claims, but rather a democratic “revolution of dignity.” That is, the “Ukrainian people”, who groaned for three years under the yoke of the totalitarian dictatorship of Yanukovych, finally “straightened their shoulders”, threw off the hated “yoke” and rushed towards democracy. In order to soon become a full-fledged member of the European Union, then NATO, and finally find their own "quiet corner" in the "Garden of Eden" of Western civilization.
And everything would be fine if it were not for the pernicious, as the first president of independent Leonid Kravchuk once said, "imperial Russia." It was she who first "annexed" the city of Sevastopol and the autonomous republic of Crimea. It was she who "captured" the Donbass - the territories of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions. It was she, that same predatory Russia, who blocked the road to a bright European future for worthy Ukrainian revolutionaries.
And here is a stop. Everything listed in the previous paragraph does not already belong to the realm of indisputable facts, but to the realm of highly controversial interpretations not based on facts. And these are the indisputable facts. After the coup d'état in Kyiv on February 22, 2014, at first, the Sevastopol residents refused to recognize Bandera's power and elected their own "people's mayor" Alexei Chalov. Then the Crimeans followed the example of the Sevastopolites and also refused to recognize the Kyiv putschists.
Yes, they were helped by a detachment of Russian special forces, which was part of the Black Sea Fleet, and this help allowed them to avoid bloodshed. None of the Ukrainian parts of the peninsula began to defend the notorious “independence” on the territory of Crimea with weapons in their hands. Not a single Ukrainian soldier died in those days, and nothing like the massacre on the Kiev Maidan, either in Sevastopol, or in Simferopol, or in any other Crimean city, happened.
The neo-Nazi inside of the "revolutionary" Kyiv regime manifested itself almost immediately. Having dispersed the former legally elected Verkhovna Rada, the triumphant Banderists with their first legislative act abolished the right of millions of Donbass residents to use their native Russian language in public. Donetsk, Lugansk, Kharkov, Dnepropetrovsk, Zaporozhye and other cities of Novorossiya rose in response.
And when the Kiev junta sent combat units of the Ukrainian armed forces against the civilians of Donbass and Novorossiya, including artillery, tanks and even aircraft, many volunteers from Russia went to the aid of the Russians to protect them from direct physical extermination.
And the main fact remains undeniable: in Sevastopol, in the Crimea and in the Donbass in the spring of 2014 there was an uprising of the population of these territories, which, being Russian in language, culture, worldview and faith, exercised its right to “self-determination up to secession”. That is, in response to Bandera's Western Ukrainian "Revolution of Gidnosti" - their own national liberation revolution. Which went down in history under the name "Russian Spring".
Then there were referendums in Sevastopol, in the Crimea and in the Donbass. Then Sevastopol and Crimea became part of the Russian Federation as new subjects. Even later, it was February 24, 2022, when the Americans, who did not give a damn about our national interests in general and our main interest - ensuring national security - forced us to launch a special military operation. As a result, Russia, again after the referenda, was joined by four more subjects of the Federation - the DPR, the LPR, the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions.
And now, after we have restored all the facts, let's return to the original question: what is the Kiev regime for, armed not only "to the teeth", but also to quite recently unimaginable limits by the American, British and European Union " well-wishers”, what is he fighting for? Why day after day sends more and more waves of mobilized to the bloody slaughter?
The answer is for restoring Ukraine within the 1991 borders. For this, it is possible and necessary, according to the former stand-up comedian Zelensky and his Western patrons, to put hundreds of thousands, and if necessary, millions, of Ukrainians in the grave. OK. Put. And let's say the unacceptable: we conquered territories that used to be part of Ukraine. Sevastopol, Crimea, Donbass and part of New Russia.
And now the most important, most obvious, but at the same time the most hidden from everyone question: what will the hypothetically victorious Zelensky and his various security services do with the people of these territories? With Russian citizens living there? With those who, by their free will, bound themselves, their future and the future of their descendants with Russia forever?! With millions of Russians, not only by blood, but by their spiritual structure, by their well-being, by language and culture.
This is the real rhetorical question. Because the answer to it is known in advance: they will do what Russia did not allow Zelensky’s predecessors to do, in 2014-2015 it took this people under its protection, which, according to the Bandera rulers themselves, was subject to ethnic cleansing and outright genocide. Which they began to carry out for eight years, either blocking the access of water and electricity to the Crimea, or shelling the peaceful cities of Donbass with all types of artillery, or conducting total “cleansing operations” in the territories left for one reason or another by Russian troops (Kupyansk, right-bank Kherson ).
What exactly the Ukrainian punishers will do in the (let's say the impossible) recaptured former Ukrainian territories has long been clear to them. And they don't even hide it.
But then the last question: what will the liberal democratic West do when this neo-Nazi terror begins? When will the physical extermination of hundreds of thousands and even millions of people start - and it will inevitably begin when the goal set by the West is achieved to inflict a "strategic defeat on Russia on the battlefield"?!
Maybe it's time to directly ask the West about it? And ask publicly, openly and loudly - on all international platforms! At the UN General Assembly, at the UN Security Council, at the OSCE session, where we are still present. At any international forums where we act as participants, and especially at those where we act as organizers and hosts. As, for example, at the International St. Petersburg Legal Forum, which will be held in St. Petersburg on May 10-13 this year.
That is, to ask, ask and ask until the most inveterate "pacifist" and a person of "good will" who demands "peace" right "here and now" with the help of the withdrawal of Russian troops from the former Ukrainian territories wake up to the usual common sense . To tell fans of the formula “a bad world is better than a good quarrel” that for such a “bad world” they will have to pay hundreds of thousands and even millions of lives of Russian people.
#1
We are expediting the downfall of Russia by eliminating the young men needed for population growth. Since Russia is already on a negative population growth this is just a little push.
#4
Nothing to lose. Just some obsolete equipment and a little cash in exchange for making life tough on the Rooskies. Literally no downside and the hilarious part is Ukraine might even win!
In part because of a cabal of native ukrainian speakers of western ukrainian and baltic decent that have tremendous influence over Western Liberal Democracies and their Woke Agenda.
No new drilling will occur while this war continues. Too much risk for project to be targeted by cruise missiles. If anything, projects to improve the yield of existing wells might go forward.
#9
Thanks to Bidet's "war on fossil fuels," the major oil companies all just recorder record profits for the fiscal year past. They have no need to prospect in a war zone.
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Linked article date is Jul 19, 2013.
Nothing happened. Ukranian gas production is 1/4 the rosy projections for 2020. The offshore oil rigs (guessing from before 2013) have been attacked or seized by the Russians.
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#8, 10: It takes time for the Russian Bots to catch up. I mean they talked to people, time/date unknown
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The real question is why is Russia still fighting in Ukraine?
Pride? I've read they lost more soldiers in a year than the US lost in 10 years in Vietnam. That has to hurt a nation that already has demographic issues.
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[[REGNUM] There are chances to extend the grain deal, which expires on May 18. This was announced on May 7 by the official representative of the President of Turkey, Ibrahim Kalin, on the air of the Haberturk TV channel .
Kalyn expressed hope for the extension of the grain deal and specified that there is every chance for this. The representative of the Turkish leader noted that I hope for the extension of the grain deal, there are chances in this regard.
"The necessary efforts are being made in this direction," the representative of the Turkish leader said.
Earlier , REGNUM reported that the Russian Foreign Ministry confirmed information about a four-party high-level meeting on the grain deal, which will take place in the near future.
The participants in this meeting are representatives of the parties to the agreements of the Black Sea Grain Initiative, that is, Russia, Turkey, the UN and Ukraine.
The UN, Turkey and Ukraine are awaiting Russia's agreement to extend the grain deal, which expires in less than two weeks, on May 18. Russia, for its part, demands to fulfill a number of conditions regarding the unblocking of the export of its grain.
[REGNUM] In the commercial port of Mariupol, the loading of the first vessel with grain from the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) was completed. This was announced on May 7 by the acting head of the region Denis Pushilin .
"As planned, the first vessel loaded with grain from the Donetsk People’s Republic was loaded at the Mariupol Commercial Seaport," Pushilin wrote in a message on the Telegram channel.
Where the ship will go is not specified. The Acting Head of the Republic added that for the supply of grain, they decided to use ships operated by the Federal Autonomous Institution "RosKapStroy", delivering building materials to Mariupol.
"This approach, when building materials are delivered to the port and grain back, will make it possible to reduce the cost of logistics by several times, as well as significantly unload checkpoints on the roads," Pushilin is sure.
In addition, the head of the DPR added, this will provide an opportunity to revive one of the most important sectors of the republic's economy - agriculture. According to Pushilin, the port can also ship grain from neighboring regions.
Steps to launch a grain terminal in the port of Mariupol were discussed in mid-April with DPR Prime Minister Yevgeny Solntsev and heads of relevant departments during a recent visit to the region by Minister of Agriculture Dmitry Patrushev .
As REGNUM reported , Pushilin announced plans to send grain from the Mariupol seaport on April 14. He stressed that this will allow grain to be supplied to the domestic market of the country at competitive prices, which will ultimately contribute to the development of agricultural producers in the republic.
Commentary by Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets
Prigozhin announced that he had received an order to supply ammunition to Russian fighters
Surovikin was entrusted (and thank God) to supervise the interaction
Everything in life is known by results.
I consider the result of the Chief of the General Staff negative - this is the loss of the first stage of the operation in the Kiev direction and the retreat from their positions, and in the Kharkov direction, where the units of the Defense Ministry hastily "regrouped" retreated, and Gerasimov at that very time showed the President exercises in the Far East.
And in relations with Wagner, Gerasimov could not build a relationship diagram and the result is obvious.
God bless Surovikin good luck, I hope a really worthy military leader.
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[RUSVESNA] The curator of Wagner PMC Yevgeny Prigozhin has just announced that they promised to give the missing weapons and ammunition to his unit, and Major General Surovikin was assigned as a commander to interact with the Ministry of Defense.
“Tonight we received a combat order for the first time in all this time, in which, if we remove the secret data, the bottom line is the following: they promise to give us as much ammunition and weapons as we need to continue further actions, we swear that everything will be on the flank exposed, which is necessary so that the enemy does not cut us.
We are told that we can act in Artyomovsk as we see fit, and they give us Surovikin as a person who will make all decisions in the framework of the military operations of the Wagner PMC in cooperation with the Ministry of Defense, and this is the only person with the star of an army general who knows how to fight.
There is no more reasonable person with this star.
And another important detail, yesterday in our closed chats I specifically asked a question to all junior commanders, who immediately brought it to the attention of the fighters: if someone wants, he can go to other military formations.
Everyone unequivocally answered “no”, and in an obscene, naturally characteristic form for PMC Wagner,” the statement says.
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