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Hellraiser wrote: ↑Sun Jul 10, 2022 7:45 pm

TheFrog wrote: ↑Tue Jul 12, 2022 12:29 am I am reading a worrying report that Erdogan could be preparing military action against Armenia or the Rojava state in Syria. There are rumors that Sweden and Finland 's inclusion into NATO may have been exchanged for Rojava...

Nothing new at the frontline. The operational pause continues. Which does not exclude the artillery and missile strike exchanges. Our aviation and missile forces are trying to “take revenge” for recent high-profile strikes of our rear facilities. Today Ukrainians were hit a lot, and in many places. Sadly I do not have data on the effectiveness of these strikes but they likely inflict serious losses on the enemy.

In return, UAF dealt another blow with HIMARS, this time at the ammunition cache at the DZTO plant in the Petrovskyi district of Donetsk.

Once again they hit.

At Sloviansk, Seversk and Soledar directions our forces (according to numerous reports from open sources – the “title violin”* is played by “Wagner” at Soledar and Artyomovsk**) continue pressing the UAF. The enemy, in turn, is covering themselves with formations of own “mobiks”***, while professional and the most combat-ready forces are placed in the areas of the most dense residential build-up, where the main defence line is being prepared.

In the nearest future I’m still not expecting any significant successes in the Donbas. If it is exactly here where the main offensive actions of RF AF will be continued, they will once again come down to slow and bloody (for both sides) “gnawing” through the positions prepared in advance. Which in my view is beneficial for the enemy too (since at the moment they have a much larger human resource, and soon the weapons will come in abundance).

I currently have no information on any changes in the front line outside the Donbas.

*Wagner PMC is sometimes referred to as “musicians”

**Bahkmut

***mobilised forces

Hellraiser wrote: ↑Tue Jul 12, 2022 10:17 pm

Hellraiser wrote: ↑Wed Jul 13, 2022 10:58 am Seeing reports that some Belarusian border guards have defected to Ukraine and joined Belarusian units.

Hellraiser wrote: ↑Wed Jul 13, 2022 6:55 pm I see Merry's hard on for Putin has re-emerged. I'm honestly surprised it took this long.

Wilson's Toffee wrote: ↑Thu Jul 14, 2022 7:45 am Is Merry a Joyce ?

Poor Irish are always targeted.

According to the Institute for the Study of War, #Putin has ordered all 85 administrative regions, including those in occupied #Ukraine, to each supply at least one "volunteer battalion" for the war in Ukraine. That is at least 85 additional battalions.

tabascoboy wrote: ↑Thu Jul 14, 2022 8:14 am Russian Parliament holding an Extraordinary session tomorrow (15th), plenty of speculation about what this means - anything from a False Flag op today in Kherson to declaration of war and mobilization, but we've been through these a few times before with it all being just rumours. Also that Russia is still striving to get Belarus Forces actively involved knowing they are likely to be defeated in order to turn Belarus population opinion against Ukraine and more pro Russia.

After the "operational pause" the offensive could well be intensified again, at least as far the depletion of munition from UA operations allows. A few SU-25s arrived at an airbase in Crimea.

And as I type this, an update

According to the Institute for the Study of War, #Putin has ordered all 85 administrative regions, including those in occupied #Ukraine, to each supply at least one "volunteer battalion" for the war in Ukraine. That is at least 85 additional battalions.