Ukrainian troops have moved to encircle Russian troops in the town of Hlyboke, which is west of Vovchansk and northeast of Kharkiv.
Russian fuel burns brightly.
A bevy of bavovna. A cornucopia of combustion.
That’s been one hell of a storm.
That’ll work about as well as a stick.
Don’t they have access to muddy puddles?
Cholera shouldn’t be a problem because they’ll be dead before they start experiencing symptoms.
He hit the drone with his helmet but it didn’t matter. And what the hell is he doing in the middle of an open field by himself?
Normally you have to go to a MAGA rally to see stupid shit like this.
I’ll bet this made for some awkward family dinners.
In this thread, this analyst argues that while Russia has gotten its ass kicked in the Kharkiv offensive, especially at Vovchansk, Ukraine has overcommitted troops to the fight and should have kept more in reserve.
I have made the point many times that wars are not just fought strategically and tactically, they are fought politically too. Ukraine cannot continue to allow the drip, drip, drip of incremental Russian advances. Neither can they be seen to be playing for a stalemate while Russia relentlessly shells Kharkiv.
Ukraine has to bloody Russia and force a retreat somewhere along the front.
The Kharkiv offensive was badly coordinated and ill-timed in relation to other Russian operations, with no clearly definable concentrated offensive efforts following it during June. But just as Russians failed to synchronize their actions, 5/
the Ukrainians in turn overcommitted heavily to the battles of northern Kharkiv oblast. Ukraine has sent (either elements or whole units) somewhere upwards to 14 brigades to first stabilize the situation and then push the Russians back to the border. 6/
The costly and difficult battle of Vochansk in particular has drawn in outsized number of Ukrainian units with elements from up to 8 different brigades taking part in it. I fail to see how attempting to push the Russians back from Vovchansk could be a rational course of action 7/
in this highly critical period where Ukraine should instead carefully husband and preserve its reserves. Vochansk is as much a difficult bottleneck for the counterattacking Ukrainians as it is for the Russians. 8/
While Russia might be preparing a push here -- west of their disastrous drive to take Vuhledar -- their main drive at the moment seems to be north to take Niu York and Toretsk and southwest through Chasiv Yar to Kostiantynivka, forcing a Ukrainian retreat from the Klishchiivka/Andriivka area.
A Russian military blogger speaks some truth about how shitty the military treats its wounded soldiers.
So I guess she’ll either be arrested or accidentally fall out of a window.
2/ The Russian blogger Anatasia Kashevarova reports that after a video was recorded by 50 injured soldiers in Ukraine, "more messages came about sending untreated mobilised/contract soldiers to the front from the Samara region and from other regions."
3/ The picture at the top of this thread shows a man with an external fixator on his leg, who Kashevarova says is waiting in the Samara region settlement of Roshchinsky for a bus to take him to the 'Donetsk People's Republic' in Ukraine.
4/ "This is the attitude towards Russian men," she complains. "You should not only fight others, but also protect your own. They are defending you, and you treat them so shabbily."
5/ "How can all our officials have the conscience to go to events, to make speeches, to speak high-minded words when they cannot solve real problems? When Russian Vanya stands on one leg near the bus, smokes, and goes back [to war].
6/ "Sleep well, he will defend you today on one leg, while you on two can't get your ass in gear and solve problems in the rear."
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11/ The man who spoke on the video is reportedly being punished more severely. Kashevarova names him as Artem Sharipov and says that he has been taken "to the military commandant's office in Zaitseve" in the Luhansk region. This has become a notorious place of detention.
Meanwhile, there are 36 more openings in Russia’s officer corps.
It needs a banner on the back that says “Wide Load.”
No, her brother didn’t die in Ukraine so that Russian children could have playgrounds. He died to fulfill Putin’s imperialistic fantasies.
It’d be a shame if he didn’t make it. Yep. A real shame.
Ukraine can use all the power it can get.
Watermelons are to Kherson what peaches are to Georgia and oranges to Florida.
They’ll grow up to be Combat Cats.