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[Korrespondent] 22:51 Reznikov admitted that Ukraine could be accepted into NATO at the next NATO summit in Washington in July 2024. Then the war may end, the minister noted.
22:13 Zelensky said in an evening video message that a Russian X-22 anti-ship missile hit the altar of the Holy Transfiguration Cathedral in Odessa during a night attack. The President recalled that this is one of the most valuable cathedrals in Ukraine, which was plundered and destroyed by the Bolsheviks in 1936, and already in independent Ukraine it was restored.
In addition, in Odessa, as a result of Russian missile attacks, the second consular office was damaged - this time the building of the Greek consulate. Three days ago, another such attack damaged the Chinese consulate building.
20:59 UNESCO "strongly condemned" the Russian attack on Odessa and called it "an escalation of violence against the cultural heritage of Ukraine."
19:52 The Wall Street Journal writes, citing sources, that the West knew in advance about the insufficient preparation of Ukraine for the success of the counteroffensive, but counted on the courage and determination of the Ukrainians. According to the publication, Western military leaders knew that Ukrainian troops did not have the required training, nor a sufficient arsenal of weapons - from shells to combat aircraft - necessary to dislodge Russian forces from fortified positions.
The newspaper notes that the lack of air defense and anti-aircraft weapons in Ukraine provided Russia with air superiority on most of the front. In such a situation, complex offensive operations are simply impossible.
19:43 Blinken said that Ukraine has already returned about 50% of the territory that Russia seized during the full-scale war. According to the forecast of the US Secretary of State, Ukraine's counter-offensive will continue for at least several more months.
19:37 Russia is modernizing some types of missiles, Vadim Skibitsky, a spokesman for the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, said: "We clearly know that measures have been taken to modernize some types of missiles. The same Kh-22, in fact, has already become the Kh-32, that is, it has undergone modernization." According to him, Ukrainian intelligence officers also have information about the plans of the Russians to modernize Onyx missiles. Skibitsky added that after the modernization, the Russians resumed the use of Bal and Bastion anti-ship systems used against civilian targets.
18:58 At the next meeting of the UN Security Council, Ukraine will raise the issue of the threat posed by the Russian Federation to Ukrainian Orthodoxy, Kuleba said.
18:29 Ukraine will receive F-16 fighters, but their delivery will take several months, Blinken said in an interview with CNN.
17:40 The Biden administration refuses to transfer long-range ATACMS missiles to Ukraine, despite requests from Kiev and pressure from American lawmakers, writes The Washington Post. Washington believes that Ukraine has more pressing needs. In addition, they fear that sending long-range missiles to Ukraine will seriously undermine the US preparedness for potential conflicts.
17:13 Zelensky said that Ukraine needs a full-fledged air shield: "We have already shown that we can shoot down even those Russian missiles that the terrorists especially boasted about. Thanks to the help of partners and the air defense systems provided to Ukraine, our sky defenders saved thousands of lives. But for our entire territory, for all our cities and communities, more air defense systems are needed."
16:47 Italian Prime Minister George Meloni said that her country is ready to join the restoration of the Transfiguration Cathedral, which suffered as a result of a missile attack on Odessa: "A free people will not allow themselves to be intimidated, barbarism will not win. Italy, with its unique experience in the world in restoration, is ready to join in the restoration of the cathedral and other treasures of the cultural heritage of Ukraine."
16:21 Lukashenko said at a meeting with Putin that the transfer of Ukrainian lands to Poland is unacceptable, "if Western Ukraine asks for help, we will provide it." According to him, now there is supposedly a lot of talk about "Ukraine joining NATO in parts, in order to tear off Western Ukraine in this way." Lukashenka invited Putin to discuss the issue of "possible support for the population of Western Ukraine."
15:33 According to updated information, as a result of a night attack in Odessa, one person died, 21 were injured, four of them were children , Oleg Kiper, head of the OVA, said. At least 44 buildings were damaged, 25 of which are architectural monuments, including buildings from the 19th and 20th centuries. Kiper recalled that the historical center of Odessa, which was hit by a missile attack, is under the protection of UNESCO.
14:17 Russian intelligence is studying the state of Ukraine's energy infrastructure facilities, Vadym Skibitsky, a spokesman for the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, said in an interview with We - Ukraine : "We are monitoring all issues related to the exploration of our energy facilities by the Russian Federation. They have begun such work." According to Skibitsky, the enemy uses various types of intelligence, including space, his goal is to find out the state and identify critical objects that affect the Ukrainian energy system.
13:40 In the morning, the Russians fired cluster munitions at the city of Chasov Yar, Donetsk region - they destroyed the Palace of Culture, which was used as a humanitarian headquarters and a place for providing medical assistance, said the head of the OVA, Pavel Kirilenko. The building of the Palace of Culture burned down, because firefighters could not put out the fire because of the shelling. Insignificant stocks of humanitarian aid and medical equipment were destroyed, people were not injured.
13:19 Lukashenko said at a meeting with Putin that he was concerned about the Wagner PMC mercenaries, who allegedly "want to go to Warsaw": "Perhaps it would not be worth talking about, but I will say. The Wagnerites began to strain us. "I want to go to the West. Let us." I say, why do you need to go to the West? "Well, go on an excursion to Warsaw, to Rzeszow." Lukashenka assured that he keeps mercenaries in the center of the country and does not want to redeploy them to the west of Belarus, because "they have a bad mood." "We will oppose this in every possible way. And I also ask you to consider this issue at home," Lukshenko addressed Putin.
12:38 A meeting of the Ukraine-NATO Council at the request of Kiev will be held on July 26, said Alliance Speaker Oana Lungescu. She specified that the meeting will be held at the level of ambassadors. The parties will hold consultations on recent developments and discuss the transportation of Ukrainian grain through the Black Sea.
12:07 Danilov said that the main goal of Russian rocket attacks on Odessa and the region is an attempt to completely isolate Ukraine's access to the Black Sea, and through an act of intimidation to prevent and neutralize international efforts to resume the functioning of the grain corridor. According to the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, the Kremlin expects that by blackmail it will force the West to negotiate and accept a "grain ultimatum" - the resumption of exports of Russian ammonia, the lifting of some sanctions and other restrictions.
In turn, the destruction of the Ukrainian infrastructure that ensures the functioning of the grain corridor should make the world dependent on Russian grain, Danilov said: “The plan is to bring the world to its knees and make Russia a unique grain supplier. After the failure of the idea of an “energy superpower,” Putin wants to become a “grain super-empire.”
11:34 The Russian Ministry of Defense stated that today's strike on the center of Odessa allegedly destroyed "the facilities where terrorist acts against the Russian Federation were prepared using unmanned boats, as well as the places of their manufacture in the Odessa region." And on the affected objects, according to Moscow, there were "foreign mercenaries".
10:55 Radio Liberty showed a video from inside the Transfiguration Cathedral in Odessa after the missile attack:
09:28 Air defense forces destroyed nine missiles out of 19, with which Russia attacked the Odessa region at night, the command of the Air Force reported. In particular, all four Caliber cruise missiles and five Iskander-K ground-based cruise missiles were shot down. In addition to them, the Russians used five Oniks cruise missiles, three Kh-22 air-launched cruise missiles (launched from Tu-22MZ aircraft from the Black Sea) and two Iskander-M ballistic missiles (also fired from Crimea).
09:02 In the Donetsk region over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, four people were killed (in Sofievka, Avdeevka, Toretsky and Fedorovka), 11 more were injured. In the Kharkiv region, one person died as a result of the shelling of Kupyansk, another one - in the village of Dvurechnaya, Kupyansky district, one civilian was wounded. In the Kherson region, one person died, according to the IVA.
08:41 At night, the Russians attacked the outskirts of Zaporozhye and the Zaporozhye region with four missiles, there were no casualties, said the head of the OVA, Yuri Malashko.
08:37 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of July 23:
personnel - about 241,960 (+630) people liquidated,
tanks - 4151 (+11),
armored combat vehicles - 8105 (+9),
artillery systems - 4658 (+29),
MLRS - 697 (+4),
air defense systems - 451 (+3),
aircraft - 315 (+0),
helicopters - 310 (+0),
UAV operational-tactical level - 3958 (+14),
cruise missiles - 1298 (+0),
ships/boats - 18 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 7172 (+13),
special equipment - 696 (+5).
07:45 The Russian army is concentrating its main efforts on the Kupyansky, Limansky, Bakhmutsky, Avdeevsky and Maryinsky directions - over the past day there have been about 40 clashes, the General Staff said in the morning summary . The Defense Forces of Ukraine continue the offensive operation in the Melitopol and Berdyansk directions, and consolidate on the achieved lines.
In Energodar, Zaporozhye region, the occupiers have intensified repressions against ZNPP workers who refuse to cooperate and conclude contracts with the Russian "administration". Ukrainians continue to resist: they do not go to work, they sabotage the implementation of decisions, etc. The occupiers apply measures of psychological and physical influence to such workers. Employees of Rosgravdia and the FSB of the Russian Federation intimidate, threaten, blackmail, beat Ukrainian specialists, take away their cash, funds from bank cards, mobile phones.
06:33 At night, the Russians attacked the Odessa region with at least five types of missiles of all types based: Caliber, Onyx, Kh-22 and Iskander-K, as well as ballistic Iskander-M, OK Pivden reported. The air defense forces destroyed a significant part of the missiles, the rest damaged the port infrastructure, at least six residential buildings, including apartment buildings. On one of the central squares of Odessa, the Cathedral of the UOC-MP , the Spaso-Preobrazhensky Cathedral, the largest Orthodox church in Odessa, suffered from a missile attack. Two architectural monuments were damaged. It is known about one dead, another 19 people were injured, including four children.
Kindly note that several entries in this article may have been removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.
[NewsFrontInfo] 22:56 New drone strikes are reported in Sumy.
According to Ukrainian monitoring channels, Geran-2 is flying in two groups. The first, presumably, goes to the area of the Konotop airfield. There is a complex of buildings and warehouses of the 551st separate radar company of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and other facilities.
The other part, presumably, is sent to Sumy. Several military installations are located within the city, including the base of the 27th Rocket Artillery Brigade. Earlier, the Military Chronicle reported that on July 3, the blow of Geran-2 drones in Sumy struck building of the regional department of the SBU
21:40 Another FPV of Akhmat Bobrov flies into Leopard 2A6 -video.
21:20 I thought there would be nothing better today than an FPV drone strike by the “beavers” on the Bradley BMP, but here it’s a bomb, the Lancet takes out the Polish self-propelled guns “Crab” along with the crew.
This is near Kupyansk, where the affairs of the Ukronazis have been very bad in recent days. The crew, by the way, could well be Polish. Excellent video from @razved_dozor.
20:40 The result of the work of the Ka-52M attack helicopter in the course of repelling the offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Orekhovsky direction -video.
During the sortie, the crew of the upgraded Ka-52 destroyed two foreign-made armored vehicles: a Leopard tank and a Bradley infantry fighting vehicle.
20:20 Destruction of another Ukrainian Leopard 2A6 by Krasnopol -video.
19:50 Aerospace Forces of the Russian Federation covered the place of accumulation of manpower of the Armed Forces of Ukraine before they landed on loki in the Kherson region -video.
19:25 Exact defeat of the Leopard tank by the Lancet kamikaze drone from the "X-breeders" from the Airborne Forces -video
It is worth noting that the weather is far from favorable for the UAV, but the hit definitely falls on the combat stowage in the back of the tower
19:17 Day of the Beaver: FPV drone burned down another American Bradley infantry fighting vehicle advancing near Orekhov -video
This is the 4th piece of NATO equipment hit yesterday. A penny drone destroyed another American heavy infantry fighting vehicle, after being hit by an UAV, it burned down.
The “Beavers” and the drones trained by them from the calculation of AKHMAT-YUG of the 42nd Motorized Rifle Division of the 58th Army had a fruitful day yesterday, in the course of repelling the counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the guys knocked out and destroyed a whole mountain of enemy military equipment.
18:24 Destruction of the observation post of the Armed Forces of Ukraine by our ATGM operators -video
17:29 APU for the first time lost Polish tank PT-91 Twardy, its crew fled in horror from Russian artillery strikes - Forbes Polska
The crew of the tank "retired when the Russian artillery began to fire."
The 22nd Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is the only one in which Polish PT-91 tanks were delivered. Until now, she was in reserve, but in the end she was sent to the front line of the Zaporozhye direction.
After entering the battle, she suffered serious losses in equipment and personnel.
17:25 Destroyed military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at a gas station in Konstantinovka, Donetsk region —video
16:28 "Gods of War" covered a group of retreating enemy with a jewelry volley -video
Artillerymen of the Airborne Forces not only destroy the enemy's fortifications, destroy his equipment and weapons, but also most effectively load the ranks of the Nazi evil spirits.
16:24 Evacuation of the wrecked tank of the Armed Forces of Ukraine by artillerymen of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, or rather its remnants -video
15:27 Attacks were made on the rear base of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Artemovsk - video
The city is filled with militants and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and is used as a base for attacks in the Artyomovsky direction. The enemy is placed in schools, kindergartens, recreation centers (on video) and other social institutions.
14:24 July 20 in the Zaporozhye direction of the RF Armed Forces destroyed Deputy Chief of Intelligence of the 44th Separate Artillery Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Major Dmitry Berezyuk.
14:21 Landing forces destroyed the Spanish air defense systems Skyguard Aspide - video
At 16:50 on July 21, five km northeast of the settlement Muzykovka 2 Lancet kamikaze drones of the 7th Airborne Division of the Dnepr group of troops destroyed the radar and launcher of the Spanish Skyguard Aspide air defense system.
13:24 “Reservoir dogs” of the O group destroyed the enemy’s observation post — video
The soldiers discovered the enemy's position near Kremennaya and destroyed it with an ATGM shot.
13:23 Destroyed Officer Armed Forces of Ukraine, senior lieutenant Konstantin Zavoloka. He was the commander of an artillery battery of the 2nd self-propelled artillery battalion of the 4th Separate Tank Brigade. hetman Ivan Vigovsky.
He graduated from the Kremenskoy Military Lyceum and the National Academy of Land Forces. Sagaidachny. Chose a military career after 2014
Fought against his own. A native of Novovodyanoe in the Luhansk region of the former Ukraine, now the LPR, is controlled by the Russian army. The militant was eliminated in July in an unknown direction.
12:43 So the enemy, showing the destroyed "Kozak", talks about the "Lancets", which get the militants and their equipment wherever they are - video
12:41 Lancet strikes a Ukrainian piece of equipment in the Kherson region - video
11:26 Highlights of the briefing of Ministry of Defense of Russia:
- The "South" grouping repulsed two enemy attacks in the Zaporozhye direction in the area of the settlement of Rabotino;
— Grouping “South” repelled the attack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Novomikhailovka area in the DPR;
- The RF Armed Forces destroyed objects in the Odessa region, where terrorist acts against the Russian Federation were being prepared using unmanned boats;
- Foreign mercenaries were located at the affected facilities in the Odessa region, where terrorist attacks against the Russian Federation were being prepared;
- Russian troops destroyed more than 160 Ukrainian soldiers, seven Leopard tanks in the Yuzhno-Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions;
- Russian troops hit three command posts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zaporozhye region, the LPR and the DPR, as well as a fuel depot in the Zaporozhye region;
- The Russian Aerospace Forces shot down a Ukrainian Su-25 near Verolyubovka in the DPR, air defense intercepted a HIMARS MLRS projectile and a Storm Shadow cruise missile;
- Russian troops repelled six attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Krasnolymansk direction;
- Russian troops stopped the activities of a group of Ukrainian saboteurs in the area of the settlement of Nevskoye in the LPR;
- Losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Krasnolimansky direction exceeded 130 people per day;
- Russian troops repulsed 14 attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donetsk direction in a day, the enemy's losses amounted to 370 military personnel;
- Russian troops destroyed up to 60 Ukrainian soldiers in the Kherson direction in a day.
11:25 Ukrainians continue to suffer large irretrievable losses along the entire front line - video
10:11 The Armed Forces of Ukraine stepped up the onslaught, but the "Brave" counterattacked and crushed advancing enemy
In the area of Serebryansky forest, four attacks of assault groups were repelled with the support of infantry fighting vehicles of tanks 42 and 67 Mechanized Brigades of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. With the competent actions of our infantry and the effective work of artillery and aviation, the enemy was defeated.
After the attack was repelled, our fighters launched a counteroffensive and, hitting the retreating enemy, drove the enemy out of several fortified areas.
As a result of the counterattack, a large number of APU militants were captured.
Aerial reconnaissance opened an artillery battery of the 67th Ombr. The targets were hit by our artillery.
In the area of N. p. Karmazinovka repulsed 3 attacks of armored groups of the 25th Airborne Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. As a result of small arms battles and the active support of our rocket artillery, the enemy was defeated.
In the area of N. p. Nevsky assault group 21 Separate Mechanized Brigade attacked our strong point. The enemy was stopped by artillery fire.
In the area of N. p. Torskoye repelled an attack by an armored group of 63 Separate Mechanized Brigade. The enemy was destroyed by artillery fire.
The special forces discovered and destroyed the reconnaissance group of the 63rd Separate Mechanized Brigade.
In the area of N. p. Chervonaya Dibrova repelled the attack of the 21st Separate Mechanized Brigade. Artillery fired at the enemy.
The ATGM crew thwarted an attempt to transfer reinforcements to the forward positions of the 21st Separate Mechanized Brigade.
10:09 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:
- in the area of Shirokaya Balka, the temporary deployment point of one of the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed, seven Ukronazis were killed, 11 were injured of varying severity, and eight vehicles for various purposes were also liquidated.
As a result of fire damage by formations of the Dnepr grouping of troops in the Kherson direction:
- in the areas of the settlements of Dacha, Sadovoye and Molodyozhnoe, the positions of the armed formations of Ukraine were destroyed, 30 Ukrainians were liquidated, another 17 were injured of varying severity;
- in the area of Antonovka, two 120mm mortars, crews and ammunition for them were destroyed, 13 Ukrainians were killed, two were injured of varying severity;
- in the Pridnestrovian region, a temporary deployment point of one of the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed, three Ukrainians were liquidated, five were injured of varying severity, and two vehicles for various purposes were also destroyed.
As a result of fire damage by formations of the Dnepr grouping of troops in the Kakhovka direction, the following were destroyed:
- in the area of Mikhailovka, a 120mm mortar crew and ammunition for it were destroyed, four fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were killed, two were injured of varying severity.
09:40 Announced the series blows on the positions of the Ukrainians in Kherson
Apparently, corrected aerial bombs KAB-500 and FAB-500M62 with planning and correction modules are actively used along the right bank of the Dnieper. It thunders loudly on the northern outskirts of the city, where for a long time there were hangars for storing equipment near the fascia.
09:37 Russian fighters denazified Vladimir Dityuk - a native of the village of Krekhov, Lviv region.
During 2014-2015, he fought in the ranks of the 128th Separate Mountain Assault Transcarpathian Brigade of the Operational Command "West" of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. With the beginning of the SVO, he joined the 125th Separate Brigade of the TPO of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Fulfilled assignments in the eastern direction.
08:10 Very loud in Odessa
In Odessa temporarily occupied by the Nazissoundedat least seven explosions - some of them in the center, as well as on Poskot and Cheryomushki.
Shortly before that, at least four Tu-22M3 missile carriers of the Russian Aerospace Forces approached the launch zone, and then launches of Caliber cruise missiles and Onyx supersonic anti-ship missiles were recorded.
The RF Armed Forces launch a missile attack on military facilities of the AFU militants.
Odessa was and will be free!
08:07 About the night strike on the Nazis in Zaporozhye - video
Tonight, our Army struck at the facilities used by the Zelensky regime for waging war, the locations of the UAF militants, as well as the Nazi equipment and ammunition depots.
There were at least four explosions in total. Although in some areas of Zaporozhye, up to seven explosions were heard.
The air raid alarm went off only after the third explosion.
Hours after the strike, the occupying authorities of the Zelenskiy regime continue to remain silent.
And in the morning they will tell traditional stories about “arrivals in the field” and that “people were not hurt.”
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:51 The defense line of the Armed Forces of Ukraine along the Zherebets River (Svatov direction) has been completely broken through
The Russian army is moving towards the Oskol River.
Reports Telegram-channel “Ukraine.ru”
21:40 Ukrainian formations fired upon border Suzemsky district of the Bryansk region.
In the village of Polevye Novoselki, one residential building and a power line were damaged. Local residents were not hurt.
The village of Pavlovichi also remained without electricity. Operational and emergency services are already eliminating the consequences of the Ukrainian attack.
21:20 Zaporozhye direction at 21:00:
n.p. Rabotino - Enemy pickups and M113s drive with personnel, they try to rotate, they do everything at a run, our FPV operators catch up and stop the equipment.
They also took off their shoes and destroyed Bradley with the personnel (video later).
To the north of the settlement Rabotino "Lancet of the Airborne Forces" destroyed the Leopard tank.
n.p. Pyatikhatki - Everything is calm.
The enemy runs from point to point, trying to hide from the tank and artillery. Attempts to hide are unsuccessful.
20:20 Destroying enemy armored vehicles:
Army aviation pilots, performing the tasks of a special military operation, are on duty around the clock in the sky. If a target is detected, they inflict a crushing air strike on the enemy, dissect and destroy his armored columns.
“I set fire to the front car. The follower set fire to the last car in the convoy. They retreated, approached from a more convenient angle - at an angle so that the column could be seen - and began to click them out one by one, ”says the commander of the Ka-52 helicopter with the call sign“ Tramp ”.
During that night air raid, the Tramp, along with the slave Master, destroyed two Leopard tanks and three Bradley infantry fighting vehicles. “Further on, the column was finished off by the next group, which came up to change us,” says Tramp.
19:40 In the Svatovsky direction, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are completely sick - even Ukrainian resources already report that the Russian Army has broken through the defenses and marched five kilometers forward, creating a foothold for further offensive.
19:20 Video- statement by the head of the press center of the Vostok group:
In the South-Donetsk direction, the advanced units of the Vostok group of troops, supported by artillery, thwarted an enemy attack in the area northeast of Urozhaynoye. Having suffered losses, the enemy retreated.
During the counterbattery fight, a mortar crew was destroyed in the Prechistovka area. The forces of the army aviation inflicted fire damage on the manpower of the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Staromaiyorsky and Urozhayny.
In the Zaporizhzhia direction, aerial reconnaissance was opened and artillery fire destroyed an enemy reconnaissance group in the Lugovskoye area. as well as the 152mm Msta-B towed howitzer in the Temirovka area.
Three enemy attacks were repelled in the direction of Rabotino. Tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and manpower of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed, including with the use of heavy flamethrower systems "Solntsepek".
Crews of anti-tank missile systems destroyed a tank, several Bradley infantry fighting vehicles and a pickup truck with nationalists in the area of Malaya Tokmachka.
In the area of Novodanilovka, army air strikes destroyed a tank and armored combat vehicles, and also hit places where militants gathered in areas north of Priyutnoye. The crew of the Osa anti-aircraft missile system shot down the Furiya unmanned aerial vehicle.
18:40 In the Kupyansky direction next week, the rotation of the 87th Troop Battalion is being prepared, which will be replaced by another battalion of the 106th Brigade of the territorial defense (Khmelnytsky region).
There is information that the Khmelnytsky Teroboronovites sent for rotation were planned to be transferred to Kherson at the beginning of the month. The trip to Kupyansk turned out to be forced, because the 87th battalion suffered heavy losses and was unscheduled being withdrawn for recovery.
In order not to demoralize the personnel ahead of time, the Teroboronists arriving the other day were initially promised to be placed on the second line. And then, how will it go.
18:20 The offensive of the Russian Armed Forces continues on the bridgehead behind the Stallion:
After lunch, they report about the occupation of two heights with a view of the western part of Novoegorovka (the old name is Sverdlovo, on Google Tverdokhlebovo). Svatovskoe direction, LPR, border with Kharkiv region.
17:40 Courageous advancing at Svatovo-Kremennaya, breaking through the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine for several kilometers:
Assault detachments of the 21st Brigade and other units of the "Center" grouping of troops are conducting a successful offensive in the Karmazinovka area, inflicting defeat on the enemy and taking by storm the heights and strongholds of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the forest belts.
“Over the past two days, Russian troops have carried out a series of successful attacks in the area with. Karmazinovka, as a result of which they managed to significantly (almost four sq. km) advance towards the boundary of the village of Novoegorovka - the village of. Ostrovskoye,” enemy military analysts report.
“Southwest of the village of Karmazinovka, the Russians are successful in advancing along the forest belts and planting forests,” another report says.
Yesterday in the reports of the enemy it was reported that “in the Kremenskoye forestry, the RF Armed Forces captured a number of forest plantations to the west near the settlement. Kovalevka and Karmazinovka. Their goal is to move to key heights and capture them.”
As a result, ours continue the offensive, capturing new strongholds of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a considerable number of militants surrendered these days. As a result of the advance, the fighters of the “Center” group managed to occupy the heights and take control of the village of Novoegorovka, which in the near future may also come under our control.
According to the Ministry of Defense, over the past day, the enemy tried six times to counterattack our troops in the areas of the settlement. Novovodyanoe and Karmazinovka LPR. All attacks were repulsed by the active actions of units, air strikes, artillery fire and heavy flamethrower systems of the Central Military District.
17:20 Video- statement by the head of the press center of the group "South":
The units of the Southern Group of Forces successfully repulsed the attacks of the assault groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Lisichansk, Soledaro-Artemovsk, Aleksandro-Kalinovsk and Maryinsk directions. Fire support for the Ukrainian attack aircraft was provided by artillery and tanks in closed firing positions.
The advance of the attackers was detected in a timely manner by the reconnaissance of Russian units, thanks to which the enemy's armored vehicles were destroyed before they reached the line of transition to the attack. Thus, the army aviation of the group and the calculation of the anti-tank missile system of motorized riflemen of the 3rd Army Corps hit three enemy tanks in the areas of the settlements of Bogdanovka and Kleshcheevka.
Also, the artillery of the group during the counter-battery fight destroyed a 122mm D-30 howitzer and a 120mm mortar in the Verkhnekamensky area, and in the Izmailovka area, a 152mm 2A65 Msta-B gun.
Accumulations of enemy manpower were destroyed by fire weapons from army aviation helicopters in the Mayorsk area, and rockets from the Solntsepek heavy flamethrower system in Malolilinovka.
Over the past day, the enemy, in several small waves, tried to break through our defenses using up to 10 pieces of equipment and up to 150-200 personnel.
The attacks were successfully repulsed thanks to the well-coordinated actions of our aerial reconnaissance, artillery and mortars.
Minus eight enemy armored vehicles and up to a company of destroyed personnel.
16:20 Orekhovsky area settingas of 16.00 July 23, 2023:
In the Orekhovsky sector, enemy assault detachments continue to attack Rabotino.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation managed to timely reveal the movement of a column of armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the direction of the village, as a result of which a fire defeat was inflicted on the enemy.
According to Voin DV @voin_dv, Ukrainian formations also used remote mining in the Rabotino area.
In addition, a small detachment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine attempted an offensive from Pyatikhatki, but was destroyed by ATGM crews of the RF Armed Forces.
15:40 Vremyevsky section settingas of 15.00 July 23, 2023:
The enemy continues to try to wear down the Russian defenses in the Vremievsky sector, regardless of the losses.
The assault group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, numbering about 10 people, attacked Urozhayne, however, having suffered losses, was forced to retreat. Ukrainian formations lost two armored vehicles.
In the direction of Staromayorskoye, the enemy brought out another small maneuver group, which was met and dispersed by artillery fire.
Another offensive attempt was thwarted in the Priyutnoye area - a detachment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine tried to attack from the direction of Levadny. As a result, Ukrainian formations lost one armored vehicle.
15:20 Video- statement by the head of the press center of the "Center" group:
In the Svatovsky direction, using the Ironia reconnaissance complex, the movement of an assault group on armored combat vehicles of the 25th Airborne Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was discovered. As a result of a missile attack, the crews of the army aviation of the Russian troops destroyed an armored combat vehicle and up to 10 personnel.
In the Krasnolimansky direction, units of the 63rd and 67th Mechanized Brigades of the Ukrainian troops, with the support of equipment, made four attempts to attack the positions of the Russian troops. The artillery fire of the "Center" grouping stopped the enemy and suffered significant losses in personnel and equipment.
The group's aviation carried out 13 missile and bomb strikes on areas of accumulation of equipment and manpower, an enemy stronghold.
During the day, an infantry fighting vehicle, an armored fighting vehicle, two pickup vehicles, a 152mm Msta-B howitzer, a 122mm Gvozdika self-propelled artillery mount, and a 120mm mortar of Ukrainian troops were destroyed.
14:40 A detachment of Russian naval infantry attacked the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the direction of Rabotino.
Yesterday Ukrainians came close to the village.
14:20 Commander of the OBTF “CASCADE”, Minister of the Interior of the DPR Alexey Dikiy aboutcombat situationin the South-Donetsk direction.
13:40 Yesterday, the Armed Forces of Ukraine attempted another run-up in the Zaporozhye region using Western equipment.
As before, they were met from all that is. On datacadresFPV Bobrov flying towards the Bradley BMP. @BOBRMORF
It is noteworthy that it has dynamic protection BRAT.
13:20 Russian kamikaze drones Lancet beat for the Skyguard-Sparrow air defense system in the Kherson region.
The complex's radar was disabled, and the launcher was also hit.
12:40 This night Ukrainian formations continued artillery attack of the civilian infrastructure of the Kherson region.
At least 27 cannon artillery rounds were fired at several settlements. As a result of the artillery attack suffered: New Kakhovka, Kakhovka, Peschanovka and Proletarka.
12:20 Video- statement by the head of the press center of the group "West":
During the fighting in the Kupyansk direction, the crews of Ka-52 and Mi-28 attack helicopters and Su-25 attack aircraft of the Zapad group of forces delivered ten air strikes against accumulations of manpower and firepower of 14 Separate Mechanized Brigade and territorial defense units.
During the counter-battery fight, the artillery of the group destroyed three enemy guns, including the Msta-B towed howitzer in the area of the Zapadnoye settlement, two D-30 howitzers in the area of the Revuchee tract and the Tishchenkovka settlement, as well as a mortar crew in the Sinkovka area.
By means of air defense, the crew of the Tor-M2U air defense system in the area of the settlement of Raygorodok destroyed the reconnaissance UAV of the Ukrainian production Columba, and in the area of the settlement of Svatovo, the crew of the S-300 launcher destroyed two HIMARS MLRS rockets.
11:40 Summary Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation (as of July 23, 2023)
Tonight, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation launched a group strike with sea and air-based long-range high-precision weapons at facilities where terrorist acts were being prepared against the Russian Federation using unmanned boats, as well as at places where they were manufactured near the city of Odessa. Foreign mercenaries were on the affected sites. All targets planned to strike were destroyed.
During the day, the armed forces of Ukraine made unsuccessful attempts at offensive operations in the Donetsk, Krasnolimansk, South-Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions.
- In the Donetsk direction, as a result of the coordinated actions of the units of the "Southern" group of troops, air strikes and artillery fire, 14 enemy attacks were successfully repelled in the areas of the settlements of Belogorovka, Mayorsk, Veseloye, Vodyanoye, Severnoye and Kleshcheevka of the Donetsk People's Republic. In addition, enemy units were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Veseleye and Belogorovka of the Donetsk People's Republic.
Enemy losses per day amounted to 370 Ukrainian servicemen, six armored combat vehicles, twenty-four vehicles, two US-made M777 artillery systems, and the 122mm Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer. Also, three ammunition depots of the 22nd, 24th and 54th Mechanized Brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed in the areas of the settlements of Spornoye, Dzerzhinsk and Stupochki of the Donetsk People's Republic.
- In the Krasnolimansky direction, active actions of units, air strikes, artillery fire and heavy flamethrower systems of the group of forces "Center" during the day repelled six enemy attacks in the areas of the settlements of Novovodyanoye and Karmazinovka of the Luhansk People's Republic.
In addition, the manpower and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Yampolovka of the Donetsk People's Republic, Ploshchanka, Chervonaya Dibrova and Nevskoye of the Luhansk People's Republic.
Also, in the area of the settlement of Nevskoye of the Lugansk People's Republic, the activities of the Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group were stopped.
An ammunition depot of the 95th Airborne Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed near the village of Serebryanka in the Donetsk People's Republic.
Enemy losses in this direction amounted to more than 130 Ukrainian servicemen, ten armored combat vehicles, four pickup trucks, a 152mm Akatsiya self-propelled artillery mount, as well as two 122mm D-30 and one 152mm D-20 howitzers.
- In the South-Donetsk direction, air strikes, artillery fire of the Vostok group of troops repelled an enemy attack in the area of the settlement of Novomikhailovka of the Donetsk People's Republic. In addition, the manpower and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were hit in the areas of the settlements of Staromayorskoye of the Donetsk People's Republic and Priyutnoye of the Zaporozhye region.
- In the Zaporozhye direction, the actions of the grouping units and artillery fire successfully repelled two enemy attacks in the area of the settlement of Rabotino, Zaporozhye region.
Fire damage was inflicted on units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Novodanilovka, Malaya Tokmachka and Charivnoe of the Zaporozhye region.
An ammunition depot of the 105th Territorial Defense Brigade was destroyed near the settlement of Novoivanovka, Zaporozhye region.
The total losses of the enemy per day in these areas amounted to over 160 Ukrainian servicemen, seven Leopard tanks, 15 armored combat vehicles, of which ten Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, five vehicles, the M777 artillery system, as well as 152mm Msta-B and 152mm D-20 howitzers.
- In the Kupyansky direction, air strikes and artillery fire from the "Western" group of troops defeated the manpower and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Molchanovo, Figolevka, Popovka, Ivanovka, Pershotravneve, Kislovka, Orlyanka of the Kharkov region and Stelmahovka of the Luhansk People's Republic.
Enemy losses amounted to 30 Ukrainian servicemen, three armored combat vehicles, three vehicles, and a 122mm Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer.
In the Kherson direction, up to 60 Ukrainian servicemen, two armored combat vehicles, and nine vehicles were destroyed in a day as a result of fire damage. An ammunition depot of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed near the village of Zmievka, Kherson region.
Operational-tactical and army aviation, missile forces and artillery of groups of troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation during the day defeated the 104th Artillery of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at firing positions, manpower and military equipment in 132 districts.
Also, three command posts of the 47th, 66th Mechanized and 95th Airborne Assault Brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were hit in the areas of the settlements of Malaya Tokmachka of the Zaporozhye region, Novovodyanoye of the Luhansk People's Republic and Serebryanka of the Donetsk People's Republic. In addition, a fuel depot of the 33rd mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed near the settlement of Malaya Tokmachka, Zaporozhye region.
Fighter aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down a Su-25 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force near the village of Verolyubovka in the Donetsk People's Republic.
Air defense systems intercepted a HIMARS multiple rocket launcher, as well as a Storm Shadow cruise missile. In addition, twenty-eight enemy unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed in the areas of the settlements of Olshana, Tavolzhanka, Kharkiv region, Verkhnekamenka, Oborotnovka, Privolye, Nikolaevka, Topolevka of the Luhansk People's Republic, Experimental, Novopetrikovka, Lipovoe, Trudovoe, Soledar, Yelenovka of the Donetsk People's Republic, Novoye, Zelenopol, Peremozhnoye, Kuibyshevo, Pology of the Zaporozhye region.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 457 aircraft, 243 helicopters, 5,197 unmanned aerial vehicles, 426 anti-aircraft missile systems, 10,854 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,139 combat vehicles of multiple launch rocket systems, 5,573 field artillery pieces and mortars, as well as 11,848 units of special military vehicles.
11:20 for today's night offensive the enemy in the Zaporozhye direction was destroyed:
Three Bradleys burned.
Bradley lost one harp and then finished off with FPV.
One Bradley FPV worked out - put out of action (standing in the field, approaching it is impossible)
One Leopard tank was disabled.
+ -70 infantry was destroyed.
The enemy unsuccessfully once again goes on the offensive losing foreign equipment. Also noticed the active work of the "Lancets"
10:40 Soldiers of the 423rd SME for the past two days advanced on the Svatovsky site for four kilometers.
As a result of a series of attacks in the Karmazanovka area, we managed to significantly advance towards the Novoegorovka-Ostrovskoye line. Novogorovka has been taken under our control.
10:20 Chronicle of special military operation for July 22, 2023:
Ukrainian formations dealt another blow to the Crimean peninsula. For the first time, British Storm Shadow cruise missiles were used for the attack - they hit the ammunition depot and the storage of petroleum products.
A tense situation remains on the line of contact. The enemy continues to put pressure on the flanks of Bakhmut, units of the RF Armed Forces hold defensive lines. On the Orekhovsky sector in the Rabotino area, the Armed Forces of Ukraine carried out another attack on our positions, but with losses they were forced to retreat.
Attacks on the civilian infrastructure of the Kursk, Belgorod, Kherson regions and the DPR continue: unfortunately, there were victims and injured. At the same time, Russian military commander Rostislav Zhuravlev was killed near Pyatikhatki in the Zaporozhye region as a result of the artillery attack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with cluster munitions, and three more journalists were injured.
10:10 Front-line summary for the morning of 07/23/2023
- In the Ugledar sector, after artillery strikes, Ukrainian troops managed to expand the zone of control along the northern outskirts of Priyutnoye and reach the rear of Russian positions located even further north on the line to Staromayorsky. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, with the support of artillery, tried to counterattack from the side of Urozhaynoye in the direction of Blagodatny. Failed to advance. Russian troops fired on the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Novodarovka, Neskuchny, Prechistovka and Vugledar. Themselves were under attack in Staromayorsky, Harvest and Novodonetsk.
- On the Donetsk front, the RF Armed Forces attacked north of Novomikhailovka after shelling. There is a promotion. Similar actions in Maryinka, near the city of Krasnogorovka and Pervomaisky were unsuccessful. Russian troops hit the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Konstantinovka (not to be confused with the settlement of the same name southwest of Bakhmut), Pobeda, Georgievka, Maksimilyanovka, Ostrom, Nevelsky, Avdeevka, Novokalinovo, New York and Druzhba.
- In the Bakhmut direction, fierce oncoming battles near Kleshcheevka. After artillery strikes, the Armed Forces of Ukraine temporarily pushed the Russian troops back to the city limits in the Khromovoe area. The counterattack of the RF Armed Forces in the direction of Grigorovka was repulsed by Ukrainian troops. Under artillery attack positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Aleksandro-Shultin, Stupochki, Rozdolovka, Controversial and Verkhnekamensky. Russian - in Kurdyumovka, Kleshcheevka, Yagodny and Berkhovka.
- In the Lugansk direction, the RF Armed Forces, with the support of aviation, attacked in the Serebryansky forest from the side of Dibrova and near Nevsky. No success. The same result of assault operations in the Makeevka area. But from the side of Karmazinovka, there was a significant breakthrough of the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine already on the right bank of the Zherebets River near Novoegorovka. A little north of the RF Armed Forces, they tried to force this water barrier in the Nadia area. Russian artillery worked on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Belogorovka, Torskoy, Novoosinovo, Kupyansk, Sinkovka, Novomlynsk and Krasny Pervy.
09:58 Kyiv regime continues terror of the civilian infrastructure of the left bank of the Kherson region - emergency services
Yesterday, the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired 49 rounds from cannon artillery at the settlements: Kardashinka, Alyoshki, Novaya Zburyevka, Naked Pristan, Cossack Camps.
The artillery attack did not stop at night - the Ukronazis fired 27 rounds from cannon artillery at Novaya Kakhovka, Kakhovka, Peschanovka and Proletarka.
09:56 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. Kardashinka fired seven rounds;
-- n.p. Aleshki fired 12 rounds;
-- Novaya Zburyevka fired nine rounds;
-- Nine rounds were fired at the settlement of Golaya Pristan;
-- Kazachi Lagery fired 12 rounds along the settlement.
Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure are being
specified Kakhovka, Peschanovka, Proletarka, firing a total of 27 cannon artillery rounds.
Civilian casualties and infrastructure destruction to be confirmed
08:24 Artillerymen continue to smash the enemy - video
Kupyanskoe direction
Artillery units of the Western Military District continue to destroy nationalist sabotage groups, mobile enemy formations equipped with mortars and cannon artillery.
“The enemy has nothing stationary here. Our artillery crushes them, they run away from it. As soon as they drive, we are already pointed. We are just waiting for them to stop,” said the battery commander with the call sign “Volkhov”.
Accurate aiming plays an important role in striking. In this, the calculations of unmanned aerial vehicles help the gunners. The collected data is promptly transmitted to field headquarters and battery commanders.
08:11 "Our tanks have no equal": the commander of a tank company told why the vaunted Western equipment did not bring success to the nationalists during the counteroffensive - video
Most recently, Maxim's unit participated in repelling another enemy attack in the Kupyansk direction. Tankers worked from closed firing positions, cut off the approaches of enemy reserves and destroyed armored vehicles.
“Our tanks have no equal,” Maxim is sure. – All our tanks are made and improved based on the results of participating in hostilities, and those [NATO] vehicles, except for dispersing crowds of people in cities at rallies or burning in Iraq, can do nothing more. Our tanks are the best!
Commentary by Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets
Svidomo ukry write in their Bandera chats:
"The Russians bombed the church in Odessa and the warehouse with grain"
But there is a nuance.
The fact that the church was bombed by Ukrainian air defense is already a recorded fact. Thank God the 21st century is in the yard, everyone has a video camera in their hand.
The video captured that the missile that hit the Cathedral was flying from the north, northwest, where a priori there could be no Russian missiles.
Yes, and the degree of destruction is not like from one ton of TNT, but a multiple, orders of magnitude lower than if it was from a Russian rocket.
And think about it, was there no operator who filmed the flight of the rocket? There would be no confirmation of the actions of the Ukrainian air defense. And Goebels' propaganda of the media workers of Kvartal 95 would go like a wave of slag on a blue eye. She goes like that. But she has something to beat.
Yes, and more.
Warehouse complexes with weapons and ammunition - grain, do not detonate as it was in the video.
More from Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin: Description of photos which are at the link Ukrainian crossbows in Odessa
[ColonelCassad] At night, during the Russian strike with cruise missiles on military targets in Odessa, the air defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has traditionally worked out in the city. 2 or 3 S-300 missiles fell on the territory of Odessa. One of them flew into the local cathedral, which was partially burned.
Characteristic traces of striking elements of an anti-aircraft missile.
And here is a hole in the roof through which an anti-aircraft missile entered.
There was also an arrival in one of the residential areas in the yard. Hits on the military and port infrastructure, of course, tend not to show. Those who filmed the last arrivals were already sent to the front in the form of cannon fodder.
Axis bachite, naskilki Muscovites curse: to their Moscow "Onyx" with blue tape they tied an anti-aircraft missile from the Ukrainians with a salty part !!!
Meanwhile, the Ukrainians have already managed to edit the Russian-language wiki, bombarding it with false "facts".
Where Roskomnadzor is looking is absolutely incomprehensible. It's time to block this Wiki, creating in parallel to create a normal Russian-language product.
Otherwise, in 10 years, someone will open the article and believe. It is you and I, in hot pursuit, who still remember the truth. And in 10 years, no one will bother and will not look for the truth, but simply slips into Wiki.
Cocaine clown in his repertoire. For textbooks of cynicism.
Ukrainian TG channel ZeRada writes:
A textbook example of cynicism.
When it is necessary to seize the Temples, the Ze team talks about the Moscow priests, from whom the Ukrainian land must be cleared.
At the same time, in each message they mention 5 times that the temples and churches of the Moscow Patriarchate, and when the Cathedral was damaged as a result of the attack of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, it is an Orthodox shrine, and belonging to the Moscow Patriarchate is politely silent.
And yet, the X-22 anti-ship missile has 960 kg of charge mass. If she, like the breshet Ze, hit the altar, then there would be no entire Cathedral, and if she didn’t burst, then where are the remnants on the video?
Even about the sacred, he is not afraid to lie ... ugh ...
P.S.
The fact that the Ukrainian side hit an Orthodox church with its air defense is an indisputable and already confirmed fact.
- and the power of the explosion, insufficient for the Russian Caliber and Onyx,
- confirmed and the video, where you can see how the Ukrainian air defense missile flies and hits the cathedral,
- is also confirmed by fragments that have crossed the walls of the temple, fragments uncharacteristic of Caliber and Onyx, but characteristic of an air defense missile.
The missile is not a "Caliber" or other attack missile. In this case, the Temple would not have remained. Judging by the damage and damaging elements in the walls, this is an air defense missile.
Khokhols will no longer wake up, they will continue to absorb the slag and nonsense that the Svidomo Bendera propaganda pours into them in the place that they still call "the head"
Transfiguration Cathedral was significantly damaged during the explosions that occurred on the night of July 23. The message about this was published by the city authorities in the official Telegram channel.
The building was said to have sustained "significant damage". The Kasperovskaya icon of the Mother of God, the patroness of the city, was pulled out from under the rubble.
At night, the air defense system worked in the city, the authorities indicated.
Spaso-Preobrazhensky Cathedral of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate is the largest of the Orthodox churches in Odessa. It was built in the late XVIII - early XIX centuries, but in 1936 it was destroyed. The cathedral was recreated in the early 2000s, and in 2010 it was consecrated by Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia.
Earlier, IA Regnum reported a series of explosions in Odessa on the night of July 23. According to local media, a huge fire broke out in the city.
Ukrainian air defense forces strike at their own facilities, anti-missile defense systems are deployed within the city, civilian facilities and residential buildings become human shields. This was acknowledged, in particular, by the press secretary of the Ukrainian Air Force, Yuriy Ignat. According to him, Kiev does not have enough systems to be located in positional areas, therefore "there is no other way but to protect the city with air defense systems closer to the settlement itself."
The representative of the defense forces of the South of Ukraine, Natalia Gumenyuk, also admitted that the consequences of the work of the Ukrainian air defense are quite destructive and lead to damage. The Minister of Defense of Ukraine Oleksiy Reznikov stated that the Armed Forces of Ukraine had practically used up their stocks of missiles for air defense, while the country does not produce such ammunition on its own.
The Russian Armed Forces do not strike at civilian targets, Moscow has stressed more than once. President Vladimir Putin has said the military is well positioned to "determine and see what's where" and hit targets with modern, long-range precision weapons.
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Thanks for that, Matt. Was taking a test at the time. Startled the heck out of us. Nervous laughter, cussing all around. Teacher, who must've done the math and realized people were probably dying, just told us half-angrily to shut up and carry on.
Text taken from a Wall Street Journal article which was reprinted in RT.com
American media explain the collapse of the summer offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with the "lack of resourcefulness" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
A little earlier in Kyiv, they whined that the reason for the failure of the offensive was that Western equipment was delivered late.
There is a search for those responsible for the failure of the strategic plan for the summer campaign.
RESOURCEFULNESS WAS NOT ENOUGH
When Kiev launched a massive counter-offensive, Western officials knew that the Armed Forces of Ukraine did not have enough training or firepower to “push out” Russian troops. Nevertheless, they hoped that the Ukrainians would prevail thanks to their "courage and resourcefulness." But these hopes did not come true , writes The Wall Street Journal.
According to the publication, "deep and deadly" minefields, an extensive system of fortifications and Russian aircraft largely blocked the advance of Ukrainian troops. Therefore, the current campaign of the Armed Forces of Ukraine runs the risk of reaching a dead end, leading to losses in manpower and equipment without a significant change in pace.
As the likelihood of any significant Ukrainian success declines this year, Washington and its allies"an alarming prospect of a protracted conflict" looms. It will require a huge amount of modern weapons and training "to give Kyiv a chance to win."
Many in Washington believe that the Biden administration fears the negative impact of the Ukrainian conflict on the re-election of the American president, and therefore is cautious about the amount of support for Kyiv. At the same time, among European leaders, on the contrary, there is a growing number of those who believe that in order to ensure security on the continent, Russia “must lose,” the publication claims.
But the regional military lacks the resources to meet Ukraine's growing needs. Moreover, according to Western diplomats, the EU and Britain are unlikely to significantly increase support for Kyiv if they feel resistance from the United States, The Wall Street Journal draws attention.
Tensions between Volodymyr Zelensky and US officials at the recent NATO summit in Lithuania also testify to the shift in sentiment among Western allies. The failure to counter Russian defenses has convinced many experts that Ukrainian forces need more training for complex military maneuvers, stronger air defense systems and much more armored vehicles.
Western military doctrine states that an attacking group must outnumber the defending enemy by at least three times, and also skillfully use a combination of air and ground forces. Kiev troops lack the size, skills and resources to follow these instructions , according to The Wall Street Journal.
According to the publication, the Armed Forces of Ukraine hoped to find weaknesses in Russian fortifications. Instead, they unexpectedly stumbled upon "impassable minefields", becoming targets for Russian aircraft and missiles.
The Ukrainian army does not have enough Western air defense systems to deploy them near the front line. In addition, American Patriots and other large, less mobile systems are vulnerable to Russian drone attacks.
Kyiv hopes that the F-16 will help the Armed Forces of Ukraine seize the initiative in the air dominated by Russian aviation. But Biden has not yet given the necessary approval for the supply of American fighter jets, and it will take months to establish a logistical chain to support and repair aircraft.
Analysts say the first F-16s could hit the battlefield early next year. But their impact on the situation will depend on many factors, including the number of aircraft delivered, the complexity of their on-board equipment and weapons systems. Incorporating modern fighter jets into combat plans is also a huge challenge and requires a different level of synchronization in Ukrainian operations, warns The Wall Street Journal.
Today, the Armed Forces of Ukraine again severely raked at Pyatikhatki and Rabotino, losing several Leopards and Bradleys. Again resourcefulness is lacking.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Gevorg Mirzayan
[REGNUM] On July 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin held a meeting via videoconference with the permanent members of the Security Council. It touched upon the plans of the Polish authorities to use the results of a special military operation for their own purposes.
“According to the information coming to the service from several sources, official Warsaw is gradually coming to the realization that no Western assistance to Kyiv is capable of supporting Ukraine for the purposes that were laid down in this assistance. Moreover, the realization is coming that the issue of the defeat of Ukraine is only a matter of time. In this regard, the Polish leadership is intensifying its mood to maintain control in the western territories of Ukraine, the western regions, by deploying its troops there.
Such a step, as one of the options, is planned to be formalized as the fulfillment of allied obligations within the framework of the Polish-Lithuanian-Ukrainian security initiative - this is the so-called Lublin Triangle, ”one of the participants in the meeting, head of the Foreign Intelligence Service Sergei Naryshkin , reported to Vladimir Putin .
President Putin confirmed these plans. Moreover, he made it clear that Warsaw was already carrying out technical preparations for the occupation - in particular, it was preparing a separate army for this.
“That is, we are not talking about some kind of gathering of mercenaries - there are enough of them there, and they are being destroyed, but about a regular, well-knit, equipped military unit, which is planned to be used for operations on the territory of Ukraine. Including for allegedly ensuring the security of modern Western Ukraine, but in fact, if you call a spade a spade, for the subsequent occupation of these territories.
After all, the prospect is obvious: if the Polish units enter, for example, Lviv or other territories of Ukraine, then they will remain there. And they will remain forever , ”said the Russian leader. He added that for the Poles, such tactics, which provide for the opportunity to cash in on the war from their neighbors, are not something new.
During the civil war in Russia, they occupied a number of Russian territories, as well as part of Lithuania. In 1938, after the Munich agreement, part of Czechoslovakia was occupied (polite Vladimir Putin did not add that the occupation was the result of a direct agreement between the Poles and Hitler and that Warsaw got the Czechoslovak territories for its help in putting pressure on Prague).
The Poles really, as Winston Churchill once said , behave like the hyena of Europe. And they, as usual, were terribly offended by this truth. Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said that because of Putin's words about Stalin's gift (as the Russian leader called the East German territories that Poland received after World War II), the Russian ambassador will be summoned to the Polish Foreign Ministry.
“Stalin was a war criminal responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Poles. The historical truth is undeniable ,” said Pan Morawiecki.
However, in their reaction, the Poles tried to bypass the main aspect of Vladimir Putin's speech - the accents put forward by the Russian president regarding the Russian reaction to the Polish occupation plans. Vladimir Putin made it clear that in the event of any encroachments on the issue of the annexation of Belarus, Poland will run into a harsh response from Moscow.
“This is part of the Union State, unleashing aggression against Belarus will mean aggression against the Russian Federation. We will respond to this with all the means at our disposal , ”the Russian leader explained.
However, in the event of the occupation of Western Ukraine, Moscow will behave differently. “As for the policy of the Ukrainian regime, that is his business. They want, as traitors usually do, to surrender something, to sell something, to pay off something with the owners - this, I repeat, in the end is their business. We will not interfere in this , ”Putin said.
Yes, of course, the Polish authorities reacted, but very generally. According to Stanisław Zharyn , spokesman for the minister coordinating the work of the Polish intelligence services, Putin is "again repeating lies about Poland and trying to falsify the truth about the war against Ukraine" and "again using historical revisionism to spread false accusations against Poland" .
However, in the journalistic and expert community of Poland, which can analyze and reflect, there is no reaction yet, with the exception of general phrases from the series “Russian authorities have long been hinting that Poland wants to occupy Western Ukraine and thereby drive a wedge into the Polish-Ukrainian partnership.”
OFFERING OR LURING?
In fact, Putin's words can be interpreted in two ways.
The first option is as an offer to the Polish hyenas to again cut off a piece of the warring state, but on Moscow's terms. “Today, for the first time, Putin directly hinted to Poland that the Poles have the opportunity to take Western Ukraine. But this must be done in agreement with Moscow and as soon as possible , ”says Russian political scientist Pavel Danilin.
And this topic is not really new. In the second half of 2022, there were rumors in political science circles that a number of Eastern European leaders had held technical talks with Moscow on the post-war division of Ukraine.
As a result, positive answers were given to the Hungarians and Romanians (after which Budapest began to block a number of openly anti-Russian steps, and Bucharest refused to further shake Transnistria), and the Poles were turned away with their requests. For bad behavior. Now it may seem to someone that Moscow has changed its mind.
Theoretically, this proposal is beneficial for the Poles. Yes, of course, Warsaw is not going to grow in the eastern territories in the full sense.
“Poland does not want to annex Western Ukraine and Western Belarus. Maybe, with the exception of Lviv and its environs. She is interested in involving the rest of Ukraine and all of Belarus in the Polish orbit of influence. And the appearance on their territory of Polish military bases under the flag of NATO, writes Vadim Trukhachev . - Poland has tasted all the delights of a mono-ethnic state. She does not need millions of foreigners not subject to Polishing. Especially to feed them."
But it needs these lands, this “orbit of influence” in the format of a mandated territory in order to raise its status in the Western world in general and in the EU in particular. Due to the increase in power, become one of the countries governing the European Union.
The only question is whether it is profitable for Warsaw to negotiate with Moscow here and now on Russian terms? And the point here is not only that the Law and Justice party, which is now ruling in Poland, does not want to be limited to Western Ukraine.
“The greed that the PiS party is so overwhelmed with, God forgive me, will not bring the country to good. But the Polish leadership has its own holiday, apparently, “from May to May” (from the Baltic to the Black Sea. - Approx. ed.) . How not to be in trouble? - writes the head of the Center for Political Information Alexei Mukhin .
The fact is that the speedy occupation - and this is the second version of the interpretation of Putin's speech - will become a huge problem for Warsaw. After all, Moscow is actually turning the Poles into an instrument of Russian politics.
Yes, Vladimir Putin made it clear that no one would bomb the Polish columns on the march, that they would be allowed to take up some positions in Western Ukraine. However, even without Russian strikes (which, by the way, will be inevitable if the Polish positions are near large Ukrainian warehouses), this invasion will create a colossal crisis of Ukrainian statehood. After all, a significant part of the Ukrainian population will not understand such an invasion, no matter what the Kyiv authorities tell them.
Western Ukrainians, who hate the Poles no less strongly than the "Muscovites", will especially not understand. In addition, the Polish invasion will cause the most severe rebuff from the European Union. And not only because Warsaw will stab in the back the country that the EU and the US allocate so much money to save, the occupation of Western Ukraine (which the Poles consider their historical territory) could become the most dangerous precedent of territorial revisionism.
Other EU countries will again recall their territorial claims to their neighbors, including their EU colleagues. And it will be very difficult to extinguish these memories against the backdrop of the current crisis and the growth of local nationalism. Accordingly, the Poles will get fired for this, and Moscow will remain the main beneficiary.
That is why the Poles can take advantage of Putin's proposal, but only after minimizing their own risks.
“The gradual withering of Ukrainian statehood began a long time ago, so the neighboring countries could not ignore the question of the future of these territories. But what is obvious to economists and politicians should also be obvious to the general public.
Therefore, it makes sense to talk about new borders now only after the catastrophic defeat of the Kyiv authorities. This defeat is inevitable if you think in terms of resources. In fact, it is somewhat postponed, because Dnepropetrovsk and Odessa are still controlled by the Kiev authorities,” Dmitry Ofitserov-Belsky, senior researcher at IMEMO RAS , explains to IA Regnum.
That is, to put it simply, the Poles can take Lviv only after the Russian troops liberate Odessa or at least Kharkov.
Of course, in this situation, one could say: “Why then give something to the Poles at all?” Then, that the crisis will only be the beginning of the end of the NWO, and allowing the Poles to occupy the western part of Ukraine (which Moscow does not particularly need due to the specifics of the local population) will significantly bring the end of hostilities closer, and may also become a kind of platform for the legal consolidation of Russia's new western borders.
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The NATO white papers I read always ended with a partition of UKR post war, resulting in a West Germany vs East Germany geopolitical standoff.
West UKR (neo-nazis and pro-EU) will be a NATO client state / protectorate.
Former territory of Poland, areas that banderites and nazi collaborators ethnically cleansed, Volhynia Massacre area, that area will be demarcated as Poland. Poland moves in under the auspices of humanitarian aid.
Territory East of the Dnipro that ukraine was unable to control will be ceded to Russia.
I dont think the West wants a peace agreement. I dont get that from my readings. I infer they want something similar to N.Korea or a divided Germany Perpetual hostility, not necessarily perpetual conflict, but open perpetual hostility with russia.
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