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From the Russian Perspective: Operation on Denazification of Ukraine: operational summary May 27th (updated)
2022-05-28
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[NewsFrontInfo] 23:01 A source in the OP said that Zaluzhny asked Zelensky for permission to urgently withdraw the Armed Forces of Ukraine from Severodonetsk and Lysichansk. Our grouping in two days can be completely surrounded, which will lead to terrible consequences, like in Mariupol, only in an accelerated format, since the city is not ready to keep all-round defense for a long time.

21:41 US will not fight over Ukraine, including at sea - Pentagon.

21:15 Ukrainian military lead fire from the Polish portable anti-aircraft missile system Piorun.

21:14 The Ministry of Construction of Russia has created a department that will oversee the restoration of the liberated territories of the DPR and LPR - the press service of the department.

20:16 The Council of the UOC decided on the complete independence and independence of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. The decision was made under pressure from the authorities and the Nazis, who for many years rotted the Orthodox Church, took away churches and eventually threatened to ban the Church.

20:15 Ramzan Kadyrov showed footage with captured NATO weapons, which continue to be found untouched in the liberated territories in the LPR.

20:15 Summons in Ukraine distribute already through viber.

19:11 In Melitopol started sale of sim cards of a Russian mobile operator.

19:10 To Melitopol today arrived three tons of humanitarian aid from Crimea is food, medicine and hygiene products.

19:10 AFU fired at the village of Zernovo in the Suzemsky district of the Bryansk region today. According to locals, the border post came under fire. It is known that there are wounded. At the same time, information about the victims among the border guards diverges on the network, but there is no official confirmation yet.

18:15 Putin assured that he is ready to actively discuss with Ukraine the issue of the exchange of prisoners, said the Austrian Chancellor.

18:15 Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi said that in a conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin, he “did not see hope for peace” in Ukraine.

17:21 Captured Ukrainian border guard told about deception by the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the unwillingness of people to fight.

"We dug something in the rain, everyone got wet. Then they took me to the positions, maybe the Right Sector, and they told me to dig there. They tried to communicate with us, but it was clear that they were inadequate, most likely drug addicts.

Everyone was in a very bad mood, no one wanted to fight, and we all wanted to leave there as soon as possible. We did not want to go there, we were brought there by fraudulent means. We were promised that we would stand far away, at checkpoints and check cars and documents, but still they deceived us and took us there."

17:20 The United States, Ukraine, Germany and Poland, contrary to the bioweapons convention, did not notify the UN of joint experiments, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

16:20 Ukrainian refugees are massively evicted from hotels in Spain before the start of the tourist season. Apartments for Ukrainian refugees are paid from the Spanish Red Cross fund, but the organization will no longer be able to sponsor summer rate accommodation in resort areas.

16:18 Russian reconnaissance and strike drones Orlan/Inohodets accept participation in the Special Military Operation. Drones not only correct the work of artillery, but also independently strike at the enemy.

15:23 To Kherson delivered humanitarian aid. The Russian military near the Dnieper market distributed food packages to the residents of the city.

15:23 Shops Mikhailovka and the villages of Timoshevka, Vasilyevsky district, are gradually switching to a bi-currency system.

15:22 Air defense of the Russian army works on targets in the sky over Kherson.

14:00 AFU fired at the village of Novovoskresenskoye in the Kherson region from the Uragan MLRS with 9M27K3 cluster rockets with PFM-1S anti-personnel mines (the infamous Petals). Each rocket projectile carries 312 of these mines. Earlier, we reported that there was evidence of the shelling of the village of Solokhi in the Belgorod region using cluster munitions 9M27K 220-mm MLRS Uragan.

13:18 War criminals in Ukraine must receive adequate sentences so that neo-Nazism does not raise its head - Slutsky.

13:18 Since the beginning of the war between the Russian Federation and Ukraine, the United States has supplied Ukraine with 23,800 tons of weapons and military equipment. Such data was announced in the Transportation Command of the armed forces of the United States.

13:18 The head of the Center for Territorial Defense of Dnepropetrovsk confirmed information about a Russian missile attack on a military training ground in the region. According to him, the barracks located at the facility were hit by an Iskander ballistic missile. 10 people were killed and 35 others were injured. Previously, they all served in parts of the National Guard.

13:17 Seizure of weapons issued by Kyiv to the population should be one of the first tasks after the end of hostilities - Aksyonov.

13:17 Negotiations with Ukraine are frozen by the decision of Kyiv, this contrasts with Zelensky's words about the need for negotiations at the highest level - Peskov.

12:40 Cossacks who wish to obtain Russian citizenship are constantly coming and leaving their data, although the documents have not yet been accepted - the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

12:39 On the night of May 27, Ukrainian troops fired at the civilian population of the city of Vasilyevka, Zaporozhye region. As a result of the shelling, several private houses and utility rooms on the street were damaged. Lenin, there were no dead or injured.

12:14 In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 180 aircraft, 127 helicopters, 1,027 unmanned aerial vehicles, 324 anti-aircraft missile systems, 3,281 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 438 multiple rocket launchers, 1,693 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 3,218 units of special military vehicles.

12:14 Missile troops and artillery hit 77 command posts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 412 areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment, as well as 53 artillery firing positions. As a result of a strike on a pontoon company, another attempt to build a pontoon crossing of the Armed Forces of Ukraine across the Seversky Donets River was thwarted in the area of ​​​​the settlement of Zavgorodnee, Kharkiv region.

12:14 Russian air defense systems shot down one MiG-29 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force over the village of Belyary, Odessa region.

12:13 Operational-tactical and army aviation hit 44 areas of concentration of manpower and Ukrainian military equipment. As a result of air strikes, more than 250 nationalists were killed, 84 units of weapons and military equipment were disabled, including nine tanks, five Grad multiple rocket launchers, ten field artillery guns and 22 vehicles for various purposes.

12:13 In the Gusarovka area of ​​the Kharkiv region, a Ukrainian air defense guidance and target designation radar was destroyed.

12:13 In the Barvenkovo ​​area, the launcher of the Buk-M1 anti-aircraft missile system and the radar for illumination and guidance of the Ukrainian S-300 anti-aircraft missile system were destroyed.

12:12 High-precision air-based missiles of the Russian Aerospace Forces near the village of Bakhmut of the Donetsk People's Republic struck at the positions of the 10th Mountain Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Seven command and observation posts and thirteen areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment were hit.

12:12 APU leads the fire from the 155-mm FH-70 howitzers transferred by Italy. In addition to guns, trucks were also handed over.

12:11 A train with fuel arrived at the Panyutino railway station north of Lozova, Kharkiv region, to provide units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. After unloading, fuel and lubricants were transported to warehouses in Orelka, from where the fuel will be distributed to destinations.

First of all, deliveries go to the Donbass, then to other regions. The Ukrainian command is also actively using vehicles to transport fuel: recently a large convoy of tank trucks passed through Dnepropetrovsk to supply units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Soledar and Zaporozhye directions.

10:41 The port of Skadovsk will be repaired so that by the autumn there will be an opportunity to ship and send grain - the head of the military-civilian administration of the Skadovsky district of the Kherson region Sergey Shvaiko.

10:40 Head of the Border Service of the FSB of Russia Vladimir Kulishov:

"About 250 supporters of Ukrainian nationalists were identified among refugees heading from Ukraine to Russia."

10:39 Zaporozhye region has switched to Moscow time, there will be no more clock changes for winter and summer time - Vladimir Rogov, member of the main council of the region's CAA.

09:34 Kherson and Zaporozhye regions are switching to the Russian telephone code +7, new operators have entered the regions - RIA Novosti with reference to the adviser to the head of Crimea.

09:32 The fourth batch of humanitarian aid from residents, entrepreneurs and volunteers of Crimea will go to Melitopol.

08:11 Terodefense of Zaporozhye uses Maxim machine gun mounted on the Soviet car LuAZ-969.

Posted by:badanov

#22  Ha! Me Fred! Preening I am.
Posted by: Philing Bumble3071   2022-05-28 23:59  

#21  Zelensky's days are numbered. Talk now of a coup to depose him unless peace talks begin.

Go ahead, Jolly Joker: find a rhyme for Zelensky.
Posted by: On The Fritz   2022-05-28 23:57  

#20  Sorry, Herr Fred. Your sarcasm can't hide your ignorance. Ukraine is collapsing.

There are at least eight videos from eight units, posted on Ukrainian social media, all of them refusing to carry out suicidal missions. Each of these units presents a formal demand to President Zelensky and the Ukrainian General in Command of the Ukrainian Armed Forces:

13th Battalion of 58th Motorized Infantry Brigade

2nd Company of the 46th Rifle Battalion

3rd Platoon of the 46th Infantry Battalion

115th Brigade

3rd Platoon of the 115th Brigade

71st Jaeger Infantry Brigade

Ukrainian 14th Brigade: 6th Battalion, 4th, 5th, and 6th companies

Cherkasy Territorial Defense
Posted by: On The Fritz   2022-05-28 23:54  

#19  ^ Aiming in general direction of visitors and Steshin types (whom I also enjoy), not at you Burgers, least of all badanov.
Posted by: Philing Bumble3071   2022-05-28 23:53  

#18  Pull Tolstoy and Vlad from your shelves!
Yes, prepare! Putin's humanist elves,
Spilling ink over blood
And Ukrainian mud,
Must help Russians think well of themselves!

Only be sure always to call it please "research."
Posted by: Philing Bumble3071   2022-05-28 23:43  

#17  "Kämpfe nicht mit Russen. Auf jede List reagieren sie mit einer unvoraussehbarer Dummheit.”
Posted by: On The Fritz   2022-05-28 23:31  

#16  CNN is now preparing their viewers for Ukraine's defeat in the Donbas - "GAME OVER," according to CNN's retired colonel military analyst.

Posted by: Oil Derek   2022-05-28 22:38  

#15  Who is to blame for raising these "glaring disparities between what they expected the war to be like and what they experienced"?

Who gave them the impression that could defeat a great power military when they "went into battle underequipped and outgunned"?

Very well then, so perhaps it's the foolish arrogance of "Western military veterans who ... have experienced only asymmetrical insurgencies" — unlike "this type of war, with contested airspace, unrelenting rocket bombardment, and swarms of drones with sophisticated thermal targeting technology...."

Ultimately though the blame rests with the Wesyern politicians, the defense contractors and the media figures who lied to the public and pretended that Russia is not a great power with great resolve and overwhelming force, fighting for what the Russians believe is their very existence as a great nation. Saying it implying otherwise was a Big Lie.
Posted by: Jean-Paul   2022-05-28 21:09  

#14  Total clownshow. Poor deluded fools. The WaPo reporters continue their sad tale:

"...Russian artillery pounded their position a half-hour later, and [American mercenary] Dakota’s team withdrew under the cover of night. About a week later he felt nauseated and carsick. He was diagnosed with a brain injury linked to his proximity to the shelling, he said, and left for home toward the end of April. He has been in recovery ever since.

Other volunteers described different frustrations. Pascal, a veteran of the German army, was on a team with Cancel, the American killed in combat in late April. Problems arose during their first mission, he said.

The team suspected their two-way radios were being monitored by Russian forces, and they lacked extra batteries, forcing them to rely on unsecured cellphones and WhatsApp to communicate. Soon after they exchanged plans, their position was attacked by Russian artillery, he said.

The volunteers felt underinformed during many of their missions, not knowing where they were — and, vitally, where the Russians were, Pascal said. The day Cancel was killed, he said, they took fire from a position they believed to be Ukrainian but didn’t have radio communication to confirm. Two members of the team ventured out to investigate. Gunfire sounded, and they never returned, he said.
The remaining team members came under heavy fire, including artillery rounds, from the same direction, Pascal said. One team member was killed in the shelling. Pascal and another volunteer turned their attention to Cancel, who had be struck by shrapnel, he said. They applied tourniquets in a fruitless attempt to stop the bleeding. Their bodies were left behind as Pascal and another survivor withdrew.

That was Pascal’s last mission. He later crossed into Poland. Miller, the American volunteer, met him at a bar in Warsaw and noted how shaken up he seemed. They stepped outside and Miller consoled him, using Google Translate to find the right words in German. They hugged.

From the beginning, we had no chance,” Pascal said in an interview. “I was asking myself why I survived and the others did not.”
Posted by: Oye Come Va   2022-05-28 21:02  

#13  My, how the Narrative shifts. The latest Washington Post story from Ukraine, published 3 hours ago, details how American mercenaries got the crap beaten out of them.

Ukraine war veterans are coming home, reckoning with difficult fight
Americans and other foreign fighters who’ve taken up arms against Russia describe glaring disparities in what they expected and what they experienced

By Alex Horton, Razzan Nakhlawi and Souad Mekhennet
THE WASHINGTON POST
May 28, 2022 at 7:07 p.m. EDT

In interviews with The Washington Post, foreign fighters from the United States and elsewhere described glaring disparities between what they expected the war to be like and what they experienced. They recalled going into battle underequipped and outgunned...

...the conflict has drawn Western military veterans who either have never deployed into combat previously or have experienced only asymmetrical insurgencies — not this type of war, with contested airspace, unrelenting rocket bombardment, and swarms of drones with sophisticated thermal targeting technology.
Posted by: Oye Como Va   2022-05-28 20:55  

#12  Hopefully it drives Nuland into a padded room.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-05-28 17:35  

#11  Good analysis here by Alexander Mercouris.

"The United States is in danger of running out of weapons it can supply to Ukraine from [the United States'] own stocks... Ukraine is running out of men, ammunition, supplies and weapons, and the West, instead of being able to replace those lost supplies, is depleting its own stocks of weapons."

Thus the curious use of "lend-lease," a program of new production of future stocks rather than sales out of existing weapons inventories. This approach, based upon future production, has never been applied since World War II.

The implied depletion of western weapons stocks would also fit with what appear to be Pentagon and Intelligence Community directives to the politicians to reduce their commitments to Ukraine -- so as to enable the US backfill its own dangerously low reserves of critical weapons and supplies.
Posted by: Jean-Paul   2022-05-28 17:27  

#10  Another reason why the GOP doesn't deserve one thin dime in contributions.
Posted by: DooDahMan   2022-05-28 16:26  

#9  Not to worry, the GOPe will hang onto it like a dog with a bone.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-05-28 15:23  

#8  Gummint always picks losers.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-05-28 15:21  

#7  Don't tell me we've spent tens of billions of USD backing yet another loser? How can this be ?

Should have stayed the fok out of it.

Posted by: Besoeker   2022-05-28 14:57  

#6  dems won't be far behind when the polling shows no advantage in it for them

They were just waiting for a potent New Narrative to cast off the collapsing Ukraine Narrative. Texas - NRA - GunViolence - Trump fits the bill, perfectly.

Now it's Emily Litello time for Ukraine
Posted by: Oye Como Va   2022-05-28 14:52  

#5  If the media is giving up on it, the dems won't be far behind when the polling shows no advantage in it for them
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-05-28 14:48  

#4  In my opinion Russia always plays the long game. I see desperate measures more and more on the Ukraine side.
Posted by: Dale   2022-05-28 14:37  

#3  Wait, what...? You mean the Ukrainians are getting pounded and retreating on every front? But we were told as recently as a week ago that they were winning.

Now the Narrative is that they're collapsing. Mutinies, desperation, dwindling ammo, death and despair.

So today the NY Times' main dispatch from the Donbas front -- conveniently buried beneath some dozen or so flood-the-zone pieces about Gun Violence and Evil Republicans -- warns of impending doom:

Under the fire of Russia’s long-range arsenal and facing a desperate need for ammunition and weapons, Ukrainian forces remain outgunned on the long and pockmarked eastern front, according to military analysts, Ukrainian officials and soldiers on the ground.

But...but... you told us it was the Russians who were "outgunned" and "desperate." How can this be? You mean you lied?

My how the Narrative Turns. You almost expect them to announce that western leaders are begging the Russians to talk peace, with Russia holding all the cards
Posted by: Oye Como Va   2022-05-28 14:34  

#2  The United States, Ukraine, Germany and Poland, contrary to the bioweapons convention, did not notify the UN of joint experiments, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

Nor was the UN informed of the unicorn fart testing. Because neither happened.

More Russian prep to use something nasty and blame everyone else.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2022-05-28 05:06  

#1  Zaluzhny asked Zelensky for permission to urgently withdraw the Armed Forces of Ukraine from Severodonetsk and Lysichansk. "Our grouping in two days can be completely surrounded, which will lead to terrible consequences, like in Mariupol, only in an accelerated format, since the city is not ready to keep all-round defense for a long time."

It's going to be truly horrific because unlike Mariupol, the slaughter will not take place in drips over weeks, and hidden from view inside a closed industrial plant, but rapidly and out in the open along the roads west and south of Lysychansk.

There are a few elite battalions remaining but most of the Ukrainian troops now have no experience, next to no training, and little ammunition. They will be slaughtered if a cease fire us not called within the next week.
Posted by: Billy Budd   2022-05-28 00:25  

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