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From the Russian Perspective: Operation on Denazification of Ukraine: operational summary June 6th (updated)
2022-06-07
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[NewsFrontInfo] 22:35 Ukrainian media report:

Our source in the OP said that Zaluzhny reported to Zelensky about the difficult situation in Severodonetsk and the losses among the military special forces.

The counteroffensive attempt bogged down on the first day, but Bankova Street continues to insist on the need for street fighting and the creation of the city as a symbol of heroic resistance to Russian aggression.

The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine again asks the President to withdraw troops to the high ground in Lisichansk and not to spend reserves on PR campaigns in order to maintain the combat effectiveness of the group and not undermine the authority of the command.

21:37 Special Forces of the RF Armed Forces in the Zaporozhye directionfall apartspecial group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

22:00 The 1,300th prisoner was taken.

20:56 English can get the status of the language of business communication in Ukraine, media reports referring to Shmyhal.

17:39 A new group of volunteers has gone to Ukraine to carry out tasks within the framework of a special operation, Ramzan Kadyrov said. "These are ready-made specialists who have been trained at the Russian University of Special Forces in Gudermes," the head of Chechnya emphasized.

12:34 Ministry of Defense published new footage of the combat work of the Russian MLRS "Grad" during a special operation in Ukraine.

11:11 In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed:

▪️190 aircraft,
▪️129 helicopters,
▪️1,127 unmanned aerial vehicles,
▪️330 anti-aircraft missile systems,
▪️3,424 tanks and other armored fighting vehicles,
▪️473 installations of multiple launch rocket systems,
▪️1,795 field artillery pieces and mortars,
▪️3,446 units of special military vehicles.

11:04 The Melitopol School of Culture and the Medical College have returned to work. From Thursday, students will return to full-time classes. By the end of June, teachers plan to complete the academic year.

10:24 Russian liberators have taken almost 60 percent of the Zaporozhye region under control.

09:50 The UK will provide Ukraine with American-made M270 MLRS, which are capable of hitting targets at a distance of up to 80 km, Reuters writes with reference to the country's Defense Minister Ben Wallace.

08:51 Effects of strikes on the Darnitsa car repair plant, where military equipment was being prepared for shipment to the front. Calibrated by the RF Armed Forces.

08:50 Results of the fire damage on the night of June 5-6, 2022:

Last night was relatively calm for Ukraine. Artillery strikes were carried out mainly on the positions of the Ukrainian army. The Armed Forces of Ukraine, in turn, fired at the border village of Tyotkino, Glukhovsky district, Kursk region:

The largest number of "arrivals" was recorded in the Kharkiv region. Attacks were made against enemy positions in Lozovaya, Merefa and Kharkov itself.

The head of the Poltava region, Dmitry Lunin, said that Ukrainian air defense systems shot down a flying missile of the Russian Armed Forces.

08:33 The main results of the SVO in Ukraine for June 5, 2022:

In the north of the Kharkiv region, the Armed Forces of Ukraine launched a counteroffensive.

Fights in Tsupovka and Great Passages.

Clashes in the vicinity of Ternovaya.

There are active battles in the Nikolaev-Kherson direction.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine occupied Davydov Brod and entrenched themselves on the southern bank of the Ingulets River.

The RF Armed Forces are counterattacking the enemy near the village of Belaya Krynnitsa.

08:30 Personnel sorties of Su-34 fighter-bombers during a special operation in Ukraine.

08:27 Another foreign mercenary was eliminated by the Russian armed forces in Ukraine. 43-year-old Brazilian Andre Bahi from Porto Alegre was killed at an unidentified location. He is reported to have been a veteran of the French Foreign Legion.
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08:04 Auto-da-fé in the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zaporozhye direction. Joy over the “downed Russian litak” turned into zrada - Ukrainian Air Defense Forces killed the Su-27 of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, passing it off as an enemy aircraft.
Nothing the Russians haven't done in the past.
Posted by:badanov

#10  No problem. I'll leave it in the bin. But note this:

Artillery strikes were carried out mainly on the positions of the Ukrainian army.

"Mainly" -- so some were against civilian targets?

Or "intelligence development of the battlefield:" AKA: launching an artillery strike on a probable location of enemy troops.
Posted by: badanov   2022-06-07 15:17  

#9  ^ It's called war, Rob. Some of the shells might have hit civilians, some of them might have hit cow pastures.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2022-06-07 14:48  

#8  No problem. I'll leave it in the bin. But note this:

Artillery strikes were carried out mainly on the positions of the Ukrainian army.

"Mainly" -- so some were against civilian targets?
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2022-06-07 11:02  

#7  Fatvinger. New bad-guy movie.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-06-07 08:20  

#6  Please re-post Rob. My ifone fatvinger, sorry.
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-06-07 08:18  

#5  
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2022-06-07 08:07  

#4  Would that we could extradite to the diminished post-war Ukraine the Nuland cabal who put them where they are now.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-06-07 07:37  

#3  Most excellent analysis of the current tactical situation.
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-06-07 07:27  

#2  *pity that more people did not know of Colonel Reisner and have access to his expert, neutral commentary
Posted by: Jean-Paul   2022-06-07 06:08  

#1  A clear, detailed, neutral and objective expert summary of the Battle for Donbas is here, delivered by Colonel Markus Reisner, Head of Research and Development at Austria's Theresan Military Academy (that's the Austrian version of Saint-Cyr or West Point -- though considerably older, dating from 1751 and Empress Maria Theresa's reign; Rommel taught there in 1938-1939).

Reisner's excellent summary is otganized along four main levels of analysis: Time, Terrain, Information and Force. He discusses how each of these four works to the advantage or disadvantage of the combatants. He does not gloss over the Russians' failures from May 2-6 in the northern river crossings, praises the Ukrainians' "cleverness" in using small boats to transport a few troops at a time across the river and also does not mince words in saying the Russian forces were "annihilated" in their last attempt to cross the river in the northwest part of the Donbas before they transitioned their forces east and south.

Reisner also makes clear the enormous disadvantages faced by the Ukrainians and the failure of their forces to hold the high positions which their special forces occupied in the south. The Ukrainians are extraordinarily vulnerable outside of these few pockets. They are trying to fill in the large gaps with their lightly armed, poorly trained Territorial troops who have been overrun by the Russians' "flower" i.e. multi-pronged thrust north, west and south that began in late May.

He also provides an objective and fascinating overview of how the aging Soviet-era Russian tanks are actually "perfectly" suited to the conditions of this Battle for the Donbas.

Reisner also provides an expert overview of the severe limitations on the Ukrainians' ability to make effective use of the artillery they've been given recently, noting that the Czech and Polish artillery supplied are not the recent NATO hubs but much older Soviet-era materiel.

In sum this is the best and most objective military analysis that anyone has provided.

A pity that more people did not know of Colonel Reisner and gave access to his expert, neutral commentary back in February and March.
Posted by: Jean-Paul   2022-06-07 06:06  

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