from the WSJ review of the letter
What is most striking about the seven-page, single-spaced letter dated March 21, 1994, is that Nixon anticipated a more belligerent Russia, the rise of someone like Vladimir Putin, and worsening relations between Moscow and Kyiv. Nixon, who was 81, had just returned from a two-week trip to Russia and Ukraine.
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Fore-warned in DC, is usually classified and hidden with the Ark of the Covenant to avoid actions that might disrupt the M.I.C., and the flow $$$$$$ back to certain pockets.
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It is apocryphally attributed to Churchill: "Americans can be counted on to stumble upon the truth, but then, they pick themselves up and carry on in the wrong direction undeterred."
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Did Nixon advocate the expansion of NATO? I don't see that in the letter. And what would he have predicted the Russian response to that would be? Nixon, unlike our current president was pragmatic, not foolish. He also wanted peace.
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[Korrespondent] 22:17 The service center for the repair of Leopard tanks has started working in Poland, Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak said. According to him, the first two tanks have already arrived from Ukraine at the Bumar plant in Gliwice.
21:43 Complete demining of Ukraine will take about 757 years - provided that the territory will be demined by 500 groups of sappers, writes The Washington Post, citing experts.
Oh dear. The journalist skipped all his degree courses requiring numbers, I suspect. Perhaps they should consult the Roomba people for advice, or Ukrainian farmers.
The publication notes that now Ukraine is the most mined country in the world. The amount of unexploded ordnance in Ukraine is unprecedented in the past 30 years - there is nothing like it anywhere else, said Greg Crowther, Mines Advisory Group program director.
21:36 Zelensky said in an evening video message that he convened a meeting of the Ukraine-NATO Council due to the suspension of the grain corridor: "We discussed with Mr. Stoltenberg our steps to unblock and ensure the permanent operation of the grain corridor. In our cooperation, we have moved to a new, higher level - the level of the Ukraine-NATO Council. And this mechanism can work. I turned to Jens with a proposal to immediately convene such a Council for appropriate crisis consultations. One of these days the meeting will take place. Cree we can overcome the problem with security in the Black Sea."
The president also said that the territorial recruitment centers, the military commissariats, are now being checked: "Each 'cabinet' violation somewhere in the military hierarchy, any attempt to somehow get rich there humiliates our soldiers, our heroes. Responsibility for violations is inevitable."
20:51 The German concern Rheinmetall announced that it had launched a new production line at its plant in Unterlus to solve the problem of a shortage of ammunition for Gepard self-propelled anti-aircraft guns transferred to Ukraine. The company plans to transfer 300,000 new shells to Ukraine, 40,000 of them this year.
19:54 The Russians fired twice today from the MLRS Kupyansk, Kharkiv region - the territory of a private enterprise was damaged, one person died, the regional prosecutor's office said.
19:50 The prosecutor's office of the Sumy region clarified that the Russians fired artillery from the village of Ugroedy of the Krasnopol community today - one person was killed, four were injured. In addition, an enemy dropped an explosive device from a drone on civilian objects in the center of Seredina-Buda, two people were injured.
17:48 Deutsche Welle reports that its operator Yevhen Shilko was wounded by Russian cluster munitions in Druzhkovka, Kramatorsk district, Donetsk region, 23 km from the front line. During the attack, one Ukrainian soldier was killed, and several other soldiers were seriously injured.
15:59 Ryanair is considering the possibility of resuming flights in Ukraine before the end of the year, the first direction may be Kiev-Lviv, the executive director of the airline, Michael O'Leary, said in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine. He referred to the experience of Israel, where aviation continues to operate despite missile launches: "Planes land every day in Tel Aviv, which is located just 10 minutes from the West Bank, where missiles are launched. It was determined that it was safe to fly and they could protect the aircraft. Therefore, I see no reason why we cannot return flights."
To resume a limited number of flights to Kyiv and Lvov, Ukraine must convince the European Aviation Safety Agency and insurance companies that it can provide security. If this can be done, Ryanair is ready to operate these flights.
15:45 Zelensky said that he had a telephone conversation with Stoltenberg: "We discussed the implementation of the agreements reached during the Vilnius summit of the Alliance, as well as further actions for Ukraine's integration into NATO. We shared our assessments of the current situation in the Black Sea and the risks it poses to global food security. We identified the priority and future steps necessary to unblock and operate the Black Sea grain corridor."
14:57 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced that the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Pyatikhatki region of the Zaporozhye region launched an artillery strike on a group of "journalists" of the Russian editions of RIA Novosti and Izvestia. As a result of the Ukrainian strike, allegedly by cluster munitions, four people were injured, one of them, "military commander" Rostislav Zhuravlev, died.
14:06 The Department of Strategic Communications of the Armed Forces of Ukraine announced that the Defense Forces destroyed the oil depot and warehouses of the Russian army in the Oktyabrsky Krasnogvardeysky district of Crimea.
13:12 The Russians hit one of the villages of the Krasnopol community of the Sumy region from artillery - one person died, four were injured, the OVA reported. Residential buildings and civil infrastructure facilities were damaged.
12:39 Aksyonov confirmed that as a result of a drone attack in Crimea, a detonation occurred at an ammunition depot, there were no casualties. According to him, a decision was made to evacuate the population within a radius of 5 km from the emergency site to temporary accommodation points, and to minimize risks, it was also decided to suspend traffic on the Crimean railway.
11:46 Governor of the Belgorod region Vyacheslav Gladkov said that on Friday the Armed Forces of Ukraine allegedly fired at the village of Zhuravlevka in the Belgorod region, including "three cluster munitions from the MLRS."
11:41 The head of the Odesa OVA Oleg Kiper showed a photo of the granary, which Russia hit with missiles:
11:23 "Head" of the Crimea Sergey Aksyonov said that Ukraine allegedly made "an attempt to raid using UAVs on the infrastructure facilities of the Krasnogvardeisky district." Local publics write about explosions in the area of the Oktyabrskoye village: some report a strike on an ammunition depot, others about a UAV hitting an airfield and an oil depot. For unknown reasons, traffic was blocked on the Kerch bridge.
10:55 According to the State Border Service, as of July 22, there are about 5,000 mercenaries of the PMC Wagner in Belarus, spokesman of the State Border Guard Service Andrei Demchenko said in a commentary to the UP. At the same time, he stressed that such a number does not pose an immediate threat to Ukraine, however, the Defense Forces must be ready for any situations, including preventing provocations at the border.
Meanwhile, the Belaruska Gayun monitoring group reports that Prigozhin registered the company in the Osipovichi district of the Mogilev region of the Republic of Belarus, namely, in the village of Tsel, where the Wagnerites' field camp is located. The company is registered under the name Concord Management and Consulting LLC, Prigozhin is listed as the head.
09:17 At night, the Russians attacked from the southeast with five Shahed-136/131 strike drones - all of them were destroyed, the Air Force command said. In addition, nine operational-tactical reconnaissance drones were destroyed over the past day.
08:52 Russian tactical nuclear weapons have already been deployed in Belarus, CNN reports with reference to US intelligence. At the same time, high-ranking US officials do not believe that Lukashenka will have any control over the arsenal - most likely, it will be completely controlled by Russia.
08:31 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of July 22:
personnel - about 241,330 (+640) people liquidated,
tanks - 4140 (+7),
armored combat vehicles - 8096 (+16),
artillery systems - 4629 (+19),
MLRS - 693 (+1),
air defense systems - 448 (+8),
aircraft - 315 (+0),
helicopters - 310 (+0),
UAV operational-tactical level - 3944 (+11),
cruise missiles - 1298 (+0),
ships/boats - 18 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 7159 (+14),
special equipment - 691 (+5).
08:15 As a result of yesterday's shelling of New York in the Donetsk region, four people were killed, said the head of the OVA Pavel Kirilenko. Two more died in Druzhba. Five people in the area were injured during the day.
07:43 On the evening of July 21, the Russians fired artillery at Nikopol in the Dnepropetrovsk region: three people were injured, eight private houses, outbuildings, and a power line were damaged. At night, the enemy shelled the city again, hit the industrial enterprise, people were not injured. The Russians also attacked the region with a drone, presumably Shahed, which was shot down by air defense forces, said the head of the OVA, Sergei Lysak.
07:22 The Russian army is concentrating its main efforts on the Kupyansky, Limansky, Bakhmutsky, Avdeevsky and Maryinsky directions - more than 40 clashes have occurred over the past day, the General Staff said in the morning summary . The defense forces continue their offensive in the Melitopol and Berdyansk directions, and consolidate on the achieved lines.
Kindly note that several entries in this article may have been removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.
[NewsFrontInfo] 21:43 ATGM calculation destroys enemy armored vehicle in the Zaporozhye direction 20:41 Russian troops covered enemy soldier on the Dnieper Islands
19:15 Artillery of the Russian Federation strikes exactly at the stronghold of the Armed Forces of Ukraine - video
19:14 Column of fire: militants on an infantry fighting vehicle flew into a fuel tank in Donbass,destroyingequipment, supplies of fuel and lubricants and personnel
In the rear of the Artyomovsky Front, in the occupied city of Konstantinovka, the Ukrainian military inflicted worthy damage on the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
18:12 Meanwhile, in Ukraine, burials of soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are in full swing - video
The policy of the West to “fight to the last Ukrainian” is being steadily implemented
Unfortunately, the realization of the “stupefaction” of the population by the leadership of Ukraine comes to the Ukrainian resident only with the loss of his loved ones
18:09 Fighting in the Lisichansk direction: the 6th Brigade destroys the enemy - video
Artillery of the 6th Brigade of the Southern Group of Forces in the Lisichansk direction destroys the positions of the Nazis
17:11 Two padded Ukrainian infantry fighting vehicles M2A2 ODS-SA "Bradley" made in the USA in the NWO zone
17:09 FPV-drone "Brave" hit the positions of the Nazis near Kremennaya — video
During aerial reconnaissance, enemy fortifications were discovered. Without delay, our shock UAV inflicted a fire defeat.
16:08 Supreme Council of the Russian Federation eliminated in the Zaporozhye direction of a nationalist from the Ivano-Frankivsk region Mikhail Savenko, born in 1993.
Denazized as a result of shelling near the village of Zeleny Gay, Zaporozhye region.
16:06 Another successfully destroyed ukrotank by Russian military personnel in the zone of the NMD - video
15:11 KA-52 attack helicopter gunships “Alligators” of the grouping [V] destroy enemy equipment advancing on the Vremevsky ledge — video
Guided missiles "Whirlwind" from a Ka-52 helicopter hit three units of enemy equipment.
15:10 Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported that, according to confirmed data, on July 6, as a result of a group strike with sea-based long-range precision weapons, a large number of Polish and German mercenaries were destroyed on the territory of the Academy of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Lviv.
In total, about 4,990 foreign fighters were destroyed during the special military operation. Another 4,910 mercenaries fled the areas of hostilities, leaving the territory of Ukraine.
The RF Armed Forces will continue the targeted destruction of foreign mercenaries on the territory of Ukraine.
14:14 The main thing from the briefing Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation:
As a result of a group strike with sea-based weapons of the RF Armed Forces on the Academy of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Lvov, a large number of Polish and German mercenaries were destroyed;
Russian troops repulsed three attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of Harvest and Priyutnoye in the DPR in a day;
The Armed Forces of Ukraine lost up to 190 people in the Yuzhno-Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions in a day;
In the Krasnolimansky direction, the actions of the sabotage and reconnaissance group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were suppressed in a day;
The RF Armed Forces will continue to purposefully destroy foreign mercenaries on the territory of Ukraine;
Russian troops over the past day hit the point of temporary deployment of foreign mercenaries in the Chernihiv region;
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation repelled seven attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Krasnolimansky direction, destroyed up to 170 soldiers;
In the Kupyansk direction in the LPR, the Ukrainian DRG was destroyed;
Russian troops destroyed the aviation fuel depot of the Ukrainian Air Force at the Kanatovo airbase in the Kirovohrad region;
Losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine per day in the Kupyansk direction amounted to 110 fighters;
A total of 14 attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were successfully repelled in the Donetsk direction, more than 280 Ukrainian fighters were destroyed;
Over the past 24 hours, the RF Armed Forces have shot down 15 HIMARS shells, three HARM missiles, one Storm Shadow missile and 15 APU drones;
The Russian Armed Forces destroyed two field camps of foreign mercenaries in the Donetsk direction.
14:12 Enemy offensive near Orekhov: NATO armored vehicles are on fire in the fields - video
Zaporizhia direction, defense zone of 42 Motorized Rifle Division of the 58 Army, area of the settlement. Rabotino - Willow:
During the offensive that began in the morning from Russian artillery, FPV drones and ATGM missiles, the enemy suffered significant losses.
At least four units of armored vehicles were burned and knocked out, including the American Bradley infantry fighting vehicles.
The fighting continues, the enemy does not stop trying to break through.
13:17 Destroyed in the zone of the NMD transport of ammunition of the Ukrainian army - video
13:15 The more Bradley, the less Bradley - video
Another tarantass for the infantry of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was burned by artillerymen of the 72nd Motorized Rifle Brigade of the Southern Group of Forces in the Artyomovsk direction.
On the frames you can also see several KIAs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
12:05 Sun of the Russian Federation eliminated Sergeant of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Yuri Paliychuk.
He was born in 1978 in the Ivano-Frankivsk region. He served as the commander of the anti-aircraft missile squad.
12:04 At night "Geranium" worked on military and infrastructure facilities of Ukraine
This night, the Russian military used the Geran UAV against military and infrastructure facilities in Ukraine. Explosions sounded in the Nikolaev, Kirovograd and Dnipropetrovsk regions. Missile strikes were carried out on the rear areas of the enemy in Kramatorsk, Slavyansk and Konstantinovka.
The head of the Ukrainian regional regional military administration, Serhiy Lysak, confirmed the strike on an industrial enterprise in Nikopol, Dnepropetrovsk region.
11:22 "Lancets" massively destroy enemy military equipment near Artemovsk - video
In videos 1 and 2, drones hit enemy self-propelled guns camouflaged in a forest plantation, 1 of them in the Kleshcheevka area.
On the 3rd, a blow was struck near Kleshcheevka on the IMR-2 engineering demining vehicle on the western bank of the Seversky Donets-Donbass canal.
On the 4th, a Polish self-propelled gun “Krab” was destroyed, which also tried to disguise itself in a forest belt near the village of Aleksandro-Shultino (48.473434, 37.820980).
11:19 Ukrainian fascists demonstrate the American armored car International MaxxPro, which was successfully blown up by a TM-62M anti-tank mine - video
10:26 The vaunted NATO equipment that was supplied to the Kiev regime is on fire - video
The footage shows the destroyed group M2 Bradley (M2 Bradley) - an American-made infantry fighting vehicle, and the T-64 tank.
10:24 Soldiers of the Dnipro group of troops destroyed equipment and manpower of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kherson region
As a result of fire damage by formations of the Dnepr group of troops in the island zone:
- an attempt by the Armed Forces of Ukraine to force the Dnieper in the area of Kizomys was stopped, as a result of fire damage, three boats and 15 militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed.
As a result of fire damage by formations of the Dnepr grouping of troops in the Kherson direction:
- an attempt by the Armed Forces of Ukraine to cross the Dnieper in the Antonovka area was thwarted, as a result of fire damage, two boats and 19 militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed;
- two mortar crews of 120mm caliber and ammunition for them were destroyed, losses: six militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed, three were injured of varying severity in the areas of Pridneprovsky and Ivanovka.
As a result of fire damage by formations of the Dnepr grouping of troops in the Kakhovka direction, the following were destroyed:
- the position of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Mikhailovka area, losses: five militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed, four were injured of varying severity.
09:39 RF Armed Forces continue to continuously cover the positions of the Ukronazis with fire - video
09:36 An attempt to land units of the VFU was not successful - video
Effective footage of the work of our military personnel from the Dnepr group, who powerfully and mercilessly destroy militants on Antonovsky Island.
About 20 blows were inflicted on the enemy, as a result of which more than 55 militants were instantly eliminated.
08:12 July 20, 2023 in the Zaporozhye direction by Russian troopsdestroyedDeputy Chief of Intelligence of the 44th Separate Artillery Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Major Dmitry Berezyuk. A native of the Khmelnitsky region.
08:06 Russian Armed Forces destroyed a group of saboteurs in the Kupyansk direction.
[NewsFrontInfo] 23:58 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 07/22/2023 to 00:00 07/23/2023
Over the past day Representation reported about 56 facts of firing by the VFU.
Information was received about the death of a civilian - a woman, inKirovsky districtDonetsk.
Three civilians received injuries of varying severity in the Kievsky district of Donetsk and the Chervonogvardeysky district of Makeevka.
9 residential buildings were damaged in Kievsky, Kirovsky and Petrovsky districts of Donetsk. Damage to civil infrastructure facilities was not recorded.
Under enemy fire were areas of six settlements of the Republic: Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district), Mikhailovka, Yasinovatsky district, the capital city of Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky, Kirovsky, Kievsky, Petrovsky districts), Makeevka (Chervonogvardeysky district), Luhanske.
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy made 50 attacks from the MLRS, 155mm artillery.
On Gorlovsky three artillery attacks from 152mm artillery.
On Yasinovatsky three artillery attack from artillery 155mm and 152mm.
Having fired 175 units of various ammunition.
A previous 38 artillery attacks were recorded from the side of the VFU per day.
21:06 Statements of head of the press center of the West group. Main:
-- During the hostilities in the Kupyansk direction, the crew of the Su-34 fighter-bomber of the Zapad group of forces launched an air strike on the point of temporary deployment of units of the 14th Separate Mechanized Brigade in the area of n. Petropavlovka settlement.
-- Artillery of the grouping destroyed the DRG from the 14th Separate Mechanized Brigade in the area of ??the settlement. Ivanovka village.
-- In addition, the fire of 152mm Msta-S self-propelled artillery mounts, anti-tank systems, towed guns 152mm "Gyatsint-B" and 122mm D-30 howitzers struck at the positions of the 14th Separate Mechanized Brigade and territorial defense units in the area of the settlement. p. Kislovka, Novoselovskoe.
19:53 Statements of head of the press center of the Vostok group. Main:
-- In the South-Donetsk direction, the advanced units of the Vostok group of forces, with the support of artillery, liquidated two reconnaissance groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area west of Makarovka.
-- In the course of counter-battery combat, a mortar crew east of Urozhayne, a 152mm Msta-B howitzer in the area of Velikaya Novoselka, and a counterbattery station of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of Vodyanoye were destroyed.
-- Army aviation hit concentrations of militants in the Staromayorsky area. The crew of the Osa anti-aircraft missile system shot down two Fury and two Valkyrie UAVs.
18:57 Personnel successful work of our fighters on enemy equipment in the Kherson direction
17:40 Broken armored group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine of four M2A2 Bradley ODS-SA combat vehicles and one T-64BV tank in the Rabotino area of the Zaporozhye region.
16:33 Russian kamikaze drone “Lancet-3” destroyed SAM "Strela-10" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kherson region
16:31 Russian artillery destroyed already the third Slovenian tank M-55S of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Zaporozhye
15:37 Consequences of artillery attacks of the Kirovsky district of Donetsk by Ukrainian militants, as a result of which a woman died
14:45 Russian kamikaze drone “Lancet-3” destroyed American howitzer M777 of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zaporozhye region.
14:00 Enemy drones shot down near Sadovoye - RF Ministry of Defense
In addition, over the past 24 hours, more than 30 AFU militants, two combat armored vehicles, two cars and two 122mm D-30 howitzers were destroyed in the Kherson direction.
12:55 Consequences of artillery attacks of the Kirovsky district of Donetsk from the 122mm BM-21 Grad MLRS
The rounds hit the apartment building. As a result of the shelling, a woman born in 1968 was wounded.
12:54 Over the past day, the enemy has made 44 attempts to shell peaceful towns and villages of the Zaporozhye region in the Pologovsky, Tokmaksky and Vasilyevsky directions.
This morning, the enemy made an attempt to break through the defenses in the area of Novodanilovka and Novoprokrovka, suffered significant losses during the battle and retreated in the direction of Malaya Tokmachka.
On the Vasilyevsky direction, the enemy is regrouping in positions remote from the first line, probing the front in the direction of Rabotino. Our units remain in their positions.
In the morning, the movement of enemy infantry was revealed. The 58th army, together with the Sudoplatov battalion, destroyed the enemy infantry in the Pyatikhatki-Lobkovy area.
In the Pologovsko-Orekhovsky direction, the situation is unchanged, our guys carried out a sweep northeast of Rabotino.
The situation remains tense, the enemy uses the so-called exhaustion tactics, does not spare his manpower, as a result of which he suffers significant losses.
12:53 Residential multi-storey building was damaged due to artillery attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Petrovsky district.
According to the JCCC, due to artillery attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, six housing constructions in Kievsky, Kirovsky, Kuibyshevsky and Petrovsky districts of Donetsk were damaged. Damage to civilian infrastructure facilities was not recorded.
12:32 Consequences of artillery attacks of the Petrovsky district of Donetsk by Ukrainian militants
11:17 Statements of head of the press center of the "South" grouping. Main:
-- Subdivisions of the "Southern" grouping of troops thwarted two enemy attempts to conduct reconnaissance in force in the Lisichansk direction by sabotage groups of the 10th Mountain Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
-- The crew of the multiple launch rocket system "Tornado-S" inflicted a defeat on the accumulation of manpower of the 77th Separate Airmobile Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of the settlement of Menkovka.
-- During the counterbattery fight, the artillery of the group destroyed an enemy 120mm mortar in the area of the Belaya Gora settlement and a 122mm Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer at a firing position near Maksimilyanovka.
11:16 Zaporozhye direction, n.p. Rabotino:
The morning offensive bogged down, artillery, FPV and ATGMs worked hard and the enemy stopped. The situation has stabilized.
At 05:50, an offensive began with forces of two tanks, three Bradleys and infantry up to 70 people, the enemy was badly defeated by artillery, ATGM operators and FPV drones. Once again, the enemy did not have success.
At 6:30 another two ravings jumped out but were scared away by artillery and left towards the forest belt, aerial reconnaissance is underway.
11:15 A report from the Zaporozhye direction south of Orekhov transmits:
From early morning our aerial reconnaissance records the movement of lightly armored vehicles of the enemy, as well as the transfer of a certain number of enemy manpower closer to our positions. Of the enemy equipment, mainly NATO BMD and tanks. Howitzers were also found.
Currently, the identified targets are being processed by our gunners from the 152mm MSTA-S self-propelled guns and mortar crews. VKS is also in touch. We are working.
10:32 Front-line summary for the morning of 07/22/2023
In the Zaporozhye direction, the opposing sides exchanged artillery strikes. The RF Armed Forces also used aviation in some places. Ukrainian units were under fire in Lobkove, Pyatikhatki, Tavriysky, Novodanilovka, Malaya Tokmachka, Yegorovka, Belogorye, Zheleznodorozhny, Gulyaipole and Malinovka. Russian - in Zherebyanki, Rabotin, Verbovoe and Novopokrovka.
At the Ugledarsky sector, the RF Armed Forces counterattacked from the direction of Priyutnoye, and the Armed Forces of Ukraine tried to advance near Staromayorsky and Urozhayny. Both sides are unsuccessful. Russian troops shelled Ukrainian positions in Makarovka, Blagodatny, Bolshaya Novosyolka, Zolotoy Niva, Vugledar and Vodyany (not to be confused with the settlement of the same name northwest of Donetsk).
On the Donetsk front, the RF Armed Forces, with the support of artillery, carried out assault operations near Novomikhailovka, in Maryinka and near Nevelskoye. No promotion. Russian artillery worked for the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Pobeda, Georgievka, the city of Krasnogorovka, Zhelanny Pervoi, Pervomaisky, Karlovka, Severny (a settlement west of Avdeevka) and Avdeevka. The Russian Aerospace Forces attacked Alexandropol. The Armed Forces of Ukraine were hit in Donetsk and Gorlovka.
In the Bakhmut direction, Russian units counterattacked from Andreevka and in the Orekhovo-Vasilyevka area. The Armed Forces held their positions. The Russian Armed Forces shelled Ukrainian units in Aleksandro-Shultin, Stupochki, Ivanovsky, Chasovoy Yar, Bogdanovka, Markov, Vasyukovka, Rozdolovka, Disputed and Verkhnekamensky. They themselves were under attack in Ozaryanovka, Kurdyumovka, Andreevka, Kleshcheevka, Bakhmut, Yagodny and Berkhovka.
In the Lugansk direction, Russian troops conducted offensive operations in the Sinkovka area. Artillery of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation delivered strikes against the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Belogorovka, Torskoy, Nevsky, Kislovka, Kucherovka, Kupyansk, Zapadny, Monachinovka, Dvurechnaya, Figolevka, Krasny Pervy, Kamenka and Topolyakh.
09:17 Bradley cemetery in Zaporozhye direction — video
09:16 Criminal Kyiv regime continues to shell the civilian infrastructure of the settlements on the left bank of the Kherson region, yesterday during the day the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired from barrel artillery:
-- n.p. Aleshki fired 32 rounds;
-- Nine rounds were fired at the village of Radensk;
-- Five rounds were fired at the Solontsy settlement;
-- n.p. Kazachi Lagery 12 rounds.
Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure are being specified.
During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the settlement Naked Pier, n.p. Peschanovka, n.p. Korsunka, settlement Kardashinka, n.p. Kostogryzovo firing a total of 36 rounds from cannon artillery
Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure to be confirmed
08:26 Another goal worked out - video
Artillery units of the Western Military District continue the systematic destruction of nationalists in the special operation zone.
Kupyanskoye direction
Crews of 152mm self-propelled guns "Msta-S" hit the accumulation of manpower, weapons and military equipment, firepower, destroy defensive structures and suppress the control points of Ukrainian militants.
08:11 Tough battle of the Orekhov Spartans: Mobilized guys from Moscow and the Moscow region repelled eight enemy attacks near Rabotino - video
The 6th company of the 1429th Motorized Rifle Regiment defended a stronghold northeast of the village of Rabotino on the Zaporozhye front.
On the morning of July 17, the company's positions were subjected to a massive fire raid, including the use of Excalibur high-precision projectiles and cluster munitions.
The enemy, using the results of fire damage, attacked our defending unit with superior forces.
Acting courageously, skillfully and in a coordinated manner, the soldiers of the 6th motorized rifle company, being under constant enemy fire, repelled 8 fierce attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
As a result of the heroic actions of the unit, the enemy suffered significant losses: more than 40 militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, armored personnel carriers and 2 pickup trucks were destroyed.
Being seriously wounded, the commander of the 6th company, Senior Lieutenant Aleksey Melnikov, continued to manage the battle without leaving his subordinates. The officer died from his wounds. He and the personnel of the company are presented for state awards.
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[ColonelCassad] The Drive, an American web resource, published an interesting article by Howard Altman "A Sobering Analysis Of Ukraine's Counteroffensive From The Front", which contains critical thoughts on the offensive actions of the Ukrainian armed forces, expressed by a senior fellow at the British International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) and the Center for New American Security (CNAS) Franz-Stefan Gadi after his trip with a group of military analysts to the war zones in Ukraine.
A team of military analysts recently visited the front lines in Ukraine to get up close and personal with the most brutal ground war in Europe in generations. After spending time with Ukrainian forces fighting under massive Russian artillery salvos, helicopter and tank attacks, drone strikes and minefields, one of them returned with a sharp assessment of why the Ukrainian counter-offensive is moving more slowly than some expected.
Franz-Stefan Gady, a senior fellow at the Institute for International Strategic Studies and the Center for a New American Security, says it became clear to him after his trip to Ukraine that the country is struggling with how to use its forces. Once in combat, Ukrainian troops sometimes display poor tactics and a lack of coordination between units.
In doing so, they have to contend with still deeply entrenched bureaucracy, strife, and constant reliance on "Soviet-style thinking." And then there are the Russians who “put up tough resistance.”
Conversely, there is no single reason - such as a lack of more Western weapons, including long-range weapons systems and additional mine-clearing equipment - that would be the reason for the "lack of progress," the analyst argues.
“The narrative that Ukraine’s progress so far has been slow only because of a lack of arms supplies and support is one-sided and not shared by the military we spoke to who are actually fighting and in command on the front lines,” Gadi said in an analytical Twitter post he published on July 18 and detailed later in this article .
Let's not forget that the United States and its allies have already provided Ukraine with tens of billions of dollars worth of military aid with promises to keep deliveries.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian officials have pointed to minefields in particular as a key factor in the pace of advancement, but Ukrainians say they are making slow but steady progress.
Gadi visited Ukraine with a group that included Konrad Muzyka, an independent defense analyst specializing in Russia and Belarus and director of Rochan Consulting; Rob Lee, Senior Fellow at the Institute for Foreign Policy Studies, and Michael Kofman, Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment and Chief Fellow at the CNA.
It's one thing to study conflict, Gadi said, but it's priceless to get into a war zone and talk to those who fight there.
“We have formed an informal research group to get a better understanding of the war based on field research,” Gadi told The War Zone on July 19. “We just think it was important to go there to really get a feel for what was going on and talk to people to get a sense of the environment, to get an idea of the people involved in these fights on the Ukrainian side, to see the terrain and so on.”
This allows researchers to "always come back with lots of new ideas that you can't get from afar," Gadi said. “We always come back with more new data that we can use in our analysis to get a better idea of the conflict. So we went to different parts of the front line.”
According to him, during the visits they visited the Zaporozhye region and Donbass, although he declined to provide more specific details.
Gadi shared the group's thoughts in a long 16-part tweet that is as insightful as it is concise.
Here are Gadi's conclusions:
1.) By and large, there is an infantry battle (squad, platoon and company) with artillery support on most of the front line. This has several implications.
First: Progress is measured in yards/meters, not kilometers/miles due to mobility restrictions.
Second: Mechanized formations are rarely introduced into battle due to the lack of means to ensure their maneuver. This includes an insufficient number of demining equipment, air defense equipment, anti-tank systems, etc.
2.) Ukrainian forces have not yet mastered combined arms combat on a scale. Their actions are more sequential than synchronized. This creates various problems on the offensive and, in my opinion, is the main reason for the slow progress.
3.) Ukrainian forces defaulted to a strategy of attrition, relying on sequential fire rather than maneuver. This is why cluster munitions are critical to maintaining the current intensity of the fire: it weakens the Russian defenses to a degree that allows for maneuver.
4.) As most observers know, minefields are a problem. They limit the room for maneuver and slow down the advance. But much more than the minefields themselves, Ukraine's ability to break through Russian defenses is affected by Ukraine's inability to conduct complex combined arms operations at scale. The lack of a large-scale integrated combined-arms approach makes Ukrainian forces more vulnerable to Russian ATGMs, artillery, etc. on the offensive. So it's not just about weapons. I simply did not observe any systematic destruction of the Russian defensive system.
5.) The nature of this offensive is likely to change only if there is a more systematic approach to breaking through the Russian defenses, perhaps combined with a severe degradation of Russian morale, which could lead to a sudden or gradual collapse of the Russian defenses. I suspect that in the absence of a sudden collapse of the Russian defenses, this will remain a bloody struggle of attrition, with the gradual introduction of reserves in the coming weeks and months.
6.) There is limited evidence of systematic deep attacks [meaning long-range missile strikes] that methodically destroy Russian C2 [command and control] / [depots] of ammunition.Despite rationing on the Russian side, ammunition is available to them, and the Russians seem to have a pretty good ISR [information, observation, reconnaissance] of the battlefield.
There was also no need for the Russians to deploy operational reserves to repel Ukrainian attacks. There is also evidence of a reduction in the impact of HIMARS strikes due to effective Russian countermeasures (this is important to keep in mind in relation to assessing any potential tactical impact of the delivery of ATACMS missiles).
Russian forces, even if severely weakened and out of ammunition, are likely to be able to delay or repulse Ukrainian platoon or company-level attacks unless these attacks are better coordinated and synchronized across a wider front line.
7.) The quality of Russian troops is different. According to the Ukrainians we spoke with, attrition has hit them hard, but they are defending their positions well. They were quite flexible at the tactical level and generally defended themselves in accordance with the Soviet-Russian doctrine.
8.) Artillery [ammunition] rationing in Russia is real and is happening in reality. Ukraine maintains firepower in barrel artillery, while Russia maintains superiority in MLRS in the south. However, only one local fire superiority in some calibers is not enough to break through the Russian defenses.
9.) The additional influx of weapons systems (e.g. ATACMS, air defense systems, tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, etc.), while important for sustaining the war effort, is unlikely to have a decisive tactical impact without adaptation and better integration.
Ukraine will have to better synchronize and adapt current tactics, without which Western weaponry will not be tactically decisive in the long run. This is happening, but the work is going slowly (most of the NATO-style military would have even more problems with this than the Ukrainians, in my opinion).
10.) The above is also true for actions to overcome mines and obstacles.Additional demining equipment is needed and will be useful (especially portable demining systems), but is not critical without better integration of fire and maneuver at scale.
Again, I can't stress enough how difficult this is to pull off in wartime.
One-sided explanations for failures (eg lack of demining equipment) do not reflect reality. For example, some Ukrainian attacks were stopped by Russian ATGMs before they even entered the first Russian minefield.
11.) There is a shortage of artillery barrels [to replace them] [in the Armed Forces], which is difficult to solve, given the pace of their production and delivery times.
12.) So far, Ukraine's approach to this counter-offensive has consisted primarily of direct attacks on Russian positions, supported by rudimentary deep strikes. And no, these direct attacks are not just reconnaissance attacks.
13.) There is evidence of tactical cyber operations supporting the closure of kinetic chains of destruction. This is cyber intelligence that helps identify and track targets on the battlefield. Starlink remains absolutely key to Ukrainian command and control.
14.) The quality of the Ukrainian officers and non-commissioned officers we met seems to be excellent, and morale remains high. However, there are some problems with the quality of the troops, arising from the recruitment of increasingly less able-bodied and older men.
15.) The narrative that Ukraine’s progress so far has been slow only because of a lack of arms supplies and support is one-sided and not shared by the military we spoke to who actually fight and command on the front lines.
16.) It goes without saying that in a war of attrition, more artillery ammunition and armaments are always needed and must be constantly supplied.Western support for Ukraine must certainly continue, as there is still the prospect that the counter-offensive will succeed. But the front line soldiers we spoke to know only too well that the lack of progress is most often due to the specific use of forces, poor tactics, lack of coordination between units, bureaucratic red tape/strife, Soviet-style thinking, etc... - and the Russians putting up stiff resistance.
We asked Gadi to dig a little deeper into a couple of the comments he made.
On July 18, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States Armed Forces, General Mark Milley, told reporters thatThe US and its allies have trained 17 brigade combat teams — 63,000 Ukrainian troops — in combined arms combat. Other brigades are in the training phase.
But Ukraine is having trouble on the battlefield executing these coordinated large-scale actions because of the tight training timelines when it faces "one of the most powerful armies in the world," Ghadi told us.
Ukraine “probably does a lot of combined arms operations at the small unit level, but I think it needs to scale up,” he said.
The US is “probably expecting some results with all the help and military hardware it has provided,” Gady said. -“The main idea here was to train mechanized brigades equipped with Western weapons in combined arms combat. I think this approach has had some setbacks. I'm not sure it failed across the board. I think it just needs a more concerted effort."
However, Gadi was quick to point out that “no Western armed forces can carry out this kind of combined arms action on a large scale, with the exception of the United States. But even the United States military will find it very difficult to break through these defensive layers, because no Western army in the world currently has the experience of breaking through the defenses in depth that the Russians have built in southern and eastern Ukraine.”
For a long time, since they first arrived on the battlefield in Ukraine, the M142 HIMARS high-mobility missile systems have acquired an almost mythical status for Ukraine. The GMLRS they fired had a longer range (about 50 miles) than the available Ukrainian MLRS or cannon artillery, and had a devastating effect, especially on Russian logistical hubs.
But Russia has found ways to counter the GMLRS, Gadi said when asked to elaborate on what he said in his post.
“Russian electronic warfare seems to be affecting the successful application of GMLRS,” he told us. - "The Russian layered integrated air and missile defense seems to have had an impact too, and it has also been able to shoot down some of those GMLRS."
As a result , "I think it's fair to say that the HIMARS effect from last summer is definitely over," Gady said. “So I think we should keep this in mind when we think about other long-range precision munitions that have been provided to Ukraine. Russia will sooner or later find opposition to them.”
The views put forward by Gadi and his colleagues provide a far more sober picture of the Ukrainian counteroffensive than what emerges from official statements from Kyiv and the Pentagon.
When asked to sum up his assessment, Gadi told us the following.
“This is a hard-fought battle characterized by high rates of attrition, and Ukrainian forces are slowly getting results,” he said. “The potential for Ukrainian military success still exists.”
Gadi said he and his colleagues would provide more information about their trip to Ukraine in the future.
Title shortened to fit from: The main direction of the strike of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the change of tactics and "parcels" in the coffins: Results of the first stage of the offensive of Ukraine. By Dmitri Stehin
A sniper with the call sign "Moskva" shared his thoughts on the current situation at the front. "BOYS! THE NEW YORK TIMES WRITES ABOUT YOU"
It was the best front road in my memory, and I have seen enough of them. At an inconspicuous junction, I turned off the Azov Corridor highway (along which Russian holidaymakers are now rushing to Crimea - read a report about this on KP.RU) and drove to where a couple of weeks ago the first attempt of the widely publicized “counterattack” of the Armed Forces of Ukraine ended so shamefully.
My friends, standing near Rabotino and Orekhov, inconspicuous settlements that have not crawled out of the world media for a month, hurt not only the Bandera people - the “well-wishers” of Ukraine were also humiliated. There are no more boastful articles in the Western press with such June headlines: "German cats go out to hunt Russian mice." The tone has changed. Now they are counting the money of European and American taxpayers, burned in the Azov steppes, and cautiously talking about the "arising military impasse" and "the echo of the First World War."
To the lads fighting on the Zaporozhye front, I diligently forwarded links to these articles to The New York Times or The Washington Post with the obligatory comment: “Boys! They write about you." The boys were pleased, it was felt.
WHY A SNIPER WANTS CHILDREN'S PUREESH Pureesh being baby food.
Despite the excellent asphalt, you can’t really accelerate on this road - blocks are every few kilometers. And I successfully tore templates in standard dialogs:
- Hello, where are you going?
- In ...., I'm taking baby food and cigarettes to my sniper friends.
Why baby food?
- A sniper lies in ambush, sucked on "Frutonyanya", applesauce, smoked a cigarette, bam! One enemy is gone! Will you have puree? Help yourself!
- No thanks, I'm not a sniper. And you go (thoughtfully). Hello snipers!
MINES OF THE WILD STEPPE
When I arrived, the sniper with the call sign “Moskva” was already dressed from head to toe in military uniform. Judging by the modest tuned SVD (Dragunov sniper rifle. - Ed.), He was not going to hunt. For hunting, he has another device of 12.7 caliber and three meters long, if measured with a muzzle brake-compensator. I guessed:
- I’m going to check the “secrets”, wherever in the forest camp (that’s what forest plantations are called in the NWO. - Auth.) We’ll lie down and talk. Are we going?
We arrived quickly, but it took a long time to park and enter the "forest camp". "Moskva" wandered along the roadside tenaciously peering into the thick grasses of the great Wild Steppe. Along the way, he explained to me:
- Petals okay, they lie on top of this grass. The most unpleasant thing is the German magnetic mines. Placed remotely. During the "counter-offensive" they mined our supply and rotation routes. There was a situation when our wounded could not be taken out for 12 hours.
- Can sappers remove these magnetic mines?
- Theoretically, yes. But it is dangerous and difficult, plus they are put on self-destruction, usually after four hours. Yes, and there is no point in removing them. The enemy will simply mine again. The same path or road.
- But what to do?
Moscow laughs: - Secret! Not for the newspaper. Even if it is Komsomolskaya Pravda.
THEY HAVE BIG LOSSES
We drove the car under the trees, camouflaged it with a net and found a barely noticeable path. Lie down. "Moscow" put the SVD into the tunnel, pierced in the "zelenka". Everything is quiet. Our helicopters have passed. A couple of times banged in the distance. This is what I started with:
- Is it quiet now?
Moscow confirmed:
- Yes, calm. Prior to that, they had been trying for a whole month to reach the Crimea and the Sea of Azov through our positions. It didn't work out, they had big losses. They even changed their tactics.
- How?
- At first they used armored vehicles, thinking that this would help them. Our ATGMs (ATGM-anti-tank guided missile. - Auth.), artillery and aviation inflicted very serious damage on them. Now they use armor only as a means of delivering infantry. And they are trying to overwhelm us with “meat”.
- And have we changed something in tactics?
- The enemy still has superiority in manpower. Ours, on orders, withdraw from their positions, artillery begins to work. We have superiority in artillery. And not only. Then we go back...
DRONE CREW IS EQUALIZED TO INTELLIGENCE
Moskva says what many wanted to hear:
- At the beginning of the CBO, quadrocopters were exotic for us, now they are commonplace. I myself, for example, learned to work with them. I am glad that there are more "industrial" kamikaze drones, our same "Lancets".
- I know that you are not using a Russian copter. Like many. How do you rate our Lancets?
- Well, it’s difficult to visually assess, they work deep behind the front line - 10-15 kilometers, but what the guys-operators of the Lancets show is impressive! I think this is promising, we need to develop further.
- Do you lose a lot of quadcopters? I had a conversation here with Alexander Khodakovsky (battalion commander of the Vostok, deputy head of the National Guard of the DPR, - Ed.), and he is a commander who is very deeply immersed in this topic, up to participation in development and testing. So, according to him, ten lost “birds” a week is the norm.
Moscow agrees:
- Yes, we also have 10 drones a week. But on a stretch of up to four kilometers. The enemy now has a priority in the fight against our drones and their crews. They equate the destruction of one drone crew to the destruction of a reconnaissance company. They take their role so seriously. If they see that the crew of the drone is moving into position, they can also see the cases by the bags - they don’t spare shells, they hit from all the barrels. Feel the threat from these fighters.
EXPECTED MORE FROM LEOPARDs
"Moscow" confirms - yes, it was they, near the city of Orekhov and the village of Rabotnoye, that had the direction of the main attack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
- They tried to advance along the entire front, but the main efforts were made here. They spared neither people, nor equipment, nor ammunition.
- Now how does the enemy feel?
- Demoralized. Regroups. Probes other places. So far, the formula of the battle "to the last Ukrainian" is still in effect.
- Can we say that "Western technology screwed up"?
- Compared to the PR with which they started their "counterattack" - yes. They expected incredible achievements from her, but she still burns. There is a threat, but nothing serious.
- You once said that the same "Leopards" had an unpleasant property for us ...
"Moscow" without hesitation lists:
- Good, accurate guns, stabilization and guidance systems. And thermal imaging sights allow them to operate at night with high efficiency. Therefore, now they use the "Leopards" only by shooting from closed positions.
- They don't fit any closer?
- They are afraid. We eat them. ATGMs, helicopters with anti-tank missiles. So, even their superiority in night combat cannot be realized.
MANY MERCENARIES
- Were there many foreigners during the counteroffensive?
- A lot of. In the walkie-talkies they heard Polish, English, French speech. But they left here in coffins, mostly.
- Do you think the foreigners were there for the “smell”, like “USA and Europe are with us”, or did it give the enemy some kind of qualitative advantage?
“Moskva” does not agree, says that they punched the biographies of mercenaries according to the documents found:
Most are retirees. But what was their combat experience? War against civilians in Syria and Afghanistan?
Moskva summarizes with such sarcasm:
- Well, try to make war against our trained and fired army... Did you like it? Happened?
I left the snipers with a light heart. I liked the mood, the confidence of the people who calmed the messengers of hell.
“Moskva” said goodbye: “We have no right to retreat, we are protecting not only those who are now traveling to Crimea along the “corridor”, but the whole country. And we understand this well. Write so people don't worry." I wrote word for word.
INSTEAD OF AFTERWORD
"Trying to get into the joint"
Late at night, when I was already approaching Donetsk, “Moskva” sent a message: “So the dill regrouping is over, they are trying to get into the junction between our regiments.”
However, in the morning another, very short message came from my friend: “2 units were shot down in the Rabotino area. M113 "(2 American armored personnel carriers" Bradley ").
[Ukrinform] The Russian command mobilized into the occupation army as "volunteers" a group of Uzbekistan citizens, who arrived in the captured city of Mariupol for construction works.
That’s according to the General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces, Ukrinform reports.
"Citizens of Uzbekistan were spotted in the units of the Russian occupying forces stationed in the temporarily occupied Horlivka, Donetsk region. They had earlier arrived in the city of Mariupol to carry out construction works. Upon arrival, they were stripped of their passports and mobilized to join the occupying forces as volunteers," the report reads.
[FoxNews] How the two countries are working together and the tactics they use
This week, the U.S. imposed new sanctions on Russia and entities based in other countries in an effort to continue limiting Moscow’s access to finances and products that support its invasion of Ukraine.
Companies based in Kyrgyzstan, the United Arab Emirates and Serbia are all facing penalties for helping aid Russia’s war.
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Stanislav Stremidlovsky
[REGNUM] The Polish question suddenly sounded loudly today during a meeting of the Russian Security Council chaired by Vladimir Putin . Opening it, the Russian president gave the floor to the director of the Foreign Intelligence Service, Sergei Naryshkin. As Naryshkin stated, referring to the incoming information, “ official Warsaw is gradually coming to the realization that no Western assistance to Kiev is able to support Ukraine,” and “the issue of Ukraine’s defeat is only a matter of time.”
In this regard, the Polish leadership is becoming more determined to maintain control in the western territories of Ukraine by deploying its troops there. In particular, it is planned to significantly increase the strength of the combined-arms Lithuanian-Polish-Ukrainian brigade, which operates under the auspices of the so-called Lublin Triangle.
In turn, the President of Russia stated that "the Western curators of the Kiev regime are clearly disappointed with the results of the so-called counter-offensive."
According to Putin, neither the supply of Western weapons nor the dispatch of thousands of foreign mercenaries and advisers, who " were actively used in attempts to break through the front of our army, " help the Kiev regime.
The latter directly concerns Poland, which has become the main logistics center for the supply of Western weapons to Ukraine, as well as secretly sending Polish mercenaries to the trenches and, probably, also regular military and intelligence officers. And although the Polish press is trying to saturate the information field with the "opinions" of various "experts" promoting the "successes" of the Kyiv regime, sometimes alternative judgments break through.
The other day, in an interview with the Wirtualna Polska portal, the former commander of the Ground Forces, General Waldemar Skrzypczak, commented on the situation at the front in the following way. He called it “difficult,”
"he progress of the Ukrainian offensive is limited," according to Skshipchak, "The Russians are recovering"{, and “in a month or two they will be able to stop the counteroffensive of the Ukrainian army.”
But what's next? The matter is unlikely to be limited to simply stopping the “counteroffensive”, options are possible further.
And in this situation, it was not by chance that Putin, in his speech at the Security Council, turned to “ some lessons of the history of the 20th century ”, namely, to the tragedy of the Civil War, which Poland took advantage of by annexing some historical Russian provinces and imposing on Moscow the conclusion of the Riga Treaty in 1921 with the actual recognition of the rejection of the territories.
But the Peace of Riga did not become a salvation for the leaders of the Ukrainian People's Republic and the West Ukrainian People's Republic. The chairman of the Directorate of the UNR, Symon Petliura, paid off Western Ukrainian lands to Marshal Jozef Pilsudski in exchange for a promise to provide military assistance. Warsaw took the territories, but the UNR did not save them. Petlyura went into exile and ended his life in Paris under the bullets of the Odessa anarchist Samuil Schwartzburd.
Warsaw may try to repeat the feint with the “appropriation” of Western Ukraine a hundred years ago today.
As the President of Russia emphasized, the Kiev regime is ready to go to any lengths and is ready to trade everything - both people and land. Such " traitors are even today ready to open the gates for foreign masters and once again sell Ukraine ."
This suggests the option that either the current Ukrainian central administration or some Western Ukrainian regional leaders will turn to Warsaw with a request to send troops in order to create a buffer state at least in the western part of Ukraine and solve the important - in the case of Poland - problem of keeping millions of potential refugees in place, preventing them from breaking through to the West.
Formally, the Polish authorities will declare their adherence to the principle of the territorial integrity of Ukraine to the last.
The question is whether they will dare to probe the Belarusian direction. As Putin stressed, “unleashing aggression against Belarus will mean aggression against Russia,” to which “ we will respond with all the means at our disposal.”
But as for the Kiev regime, if they “take it away, as traitors usually do, hand over something, sell something, pay off the owners with something - this, I repeat, in the end, is their business, we will not interfere in this,” said the Russian president . As well as the business of the Poles themselves, whether they want to become the new "cannon fodder" of the West to replace the Ukrainian one, which has now become scarce.
In any case, Moscow is tightening control: Putin has instructed Naryshkin to closely monitor developments.
This implies increased attention to the movements of Polish, Ukrainian and Lithuanian military units and the activity of intelligence services in the eastern direction in general and especially on the borders with Belarus in particular, when the activities of Warsaw, Kiev and Vilnius will be assessed in terms of preparing a possible invasion of the Lublin Triangle alliance into Western Ukraine.
In the near future, Russian troops will destroy the last manpower of the Ukrainian military near Kharkov, ex-adviser to the head of the Pentagon, Colonel Douglas McGregor, said on his YouTube blog.
“I won’t be surprised if the Russians surround Kharkiv in August. As soon as this happens, they will fortify under the city and wait for the attack of the last reserves of the Ukrainian army. They will be crushed by the Russians in the same way as in the southern direction of the front,” the American officer is sure.
McGregor believes that as soon as NATO leaves the republic and stops destabilizing the situation near the borders of Russia, the Ukrainian conflict will end. In this case, Ukraine should become a neutral state and abandon plans to join military blocs, he concluded.
As IA Regnum reported , a retired NATO officer, Stavros Atlamazoglou, said that a counterattack by the Russian Armed Forces in eastern Ukraine would strike at the Armed Forces of Ukraine and stop their offensive. Russian troops organized a powerful and large-scale defense, which slowed down the advance of Ukrainian brigades equipped with Western weapons, the military stated.
According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, on July 21 alone, Ukrainian troops lost up to 190 people in two directions - Yuzhno-Donetsk and Zaporozhye. Two tanks, six armored fighting vehicles and two vehicles were destroyed. In addition, the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost the 152mm Msta-B howitzer, the American M777 artillery system and the British FH-70 howitzer.
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