The events around Andriivka are even more devastating for the Russian army than anticipated.
According to the Ukrainian 3rd Separate Assault Brigade the village was completely surrounded, killing command staff of Russian 72nd Separate Motor Rifle Brigade and trapping some parts
NATO has been a 75-year success story. There hasn’t been war in the region because of NATO. It is a massive mistake for Donald Trump to side with a thug like Putin over our allies and it will put troops in harm’s way.
U.S. Confirms Hamas Command Center Under Al-Shifa Hospital
A U.S. intelligence official confirmed that Israel's claim about a Hamas command and operations center located under the Al-Shifa Medical Center in Gaza City is accurate.
Additionally, it was noted that Hamas fighters
Macron on French TV this evening :
The war in 🇺🇦 is “existential…”If Russia were to win, life for the French would change. We would no longer have security in Europe. Who can seriously believe that Putin, who has respected no limits, would stop there?”
🇺🇦👀 Zaluzhnyi wrote a new article about war:
▪️Society must agree to temporarily give up a number of "freedoms" in order to survive;
▪️Modern wars, unfortunately, are total. They require efforts not only of the army, but also of society in general.
▪️The enemy considers
⚡️"🇺🇦Ukrainian armored vehicles" increases the supply of 122 mm high-explosive artillery shells - thousands of new shells were delivered today
"Today, a batch of 122 mm high-explosive artillery shells, produced in partnership with one of the ammunition holdings of Eastern
The Kremlin likely knows that the Russian police and internal troops are no match for a large, motivated, and heavily armed Wagner force that has to win or it will die, which may be why there are reports that Putin, Medvedev, and other members of the regime have fled Moscow.
Of course, Russian soldiers are making the right decision to surrender.
But, I am in Kyiv 🇺🇦: No one ever imagined thousands of Russians surrendering without putting up a fight.
👉 Russia’s soldiers will not fight… Truly incredible.
Zaluzhny, from his interview with the Economist:
“It was my mistake. Russia lost at least 150,000 people killed. In any other country, such losses would have stopped the war. But not in Russia, where life is cheap. In this sense, Putin's Russian Federation is truly an absolute
❗️Big News! 🇺🇦 Ukrainian forces captured two villages across the Dnipro River!
🇷🇺Russian source Rybar just reported that two Ukrainian assault units from the 35th and 36th Marine Brigades crossed the
#Dnipro
river and have now captured the village of
#Poima
and likely
Just to put things into perspective:
It took Russians almost a year and between 70,000 and 100,000 WIA / KIA in casualties to take 390 square kilometers (150 square miles) in the Avdiivka sector. They hailed this as a "genius" move.
Ukrainians took in 5 days more than 470
⚡️⚡️⚡️ The Armed Forces of Ukraine 🇺🇦 have invaded Belgorod, Russia.
Poroz, in Belgorod Region, Russia is under control of Ukraine’s 🇺🇦 Batallion 252.
👉 Where are the border guards? Where are Kadyrov’s Tik-Tok soldiers? Where is the Russian Army?
🔥 Soon: Moscow’s liberation
CNN:
Elon Musk secretly shut down Starlink access off the coast of Crimea last year to thwart Ukraine's underwater USV attack on the Russian Navy.
The USVs, filled with explosives, had already approached the Russian fleet, but suddenly "lost contact and harmlessly washed
Pay attention Republicans in the House, this is the regime you, Donald Trump, Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk, et al are trying to protect. You’re doing this regime’s work for it.
Trump admits as President he would not protect our NATO allies if Russia invaded them. In fact, he "would encourage [the Russians] to do whatever the hell they want."
Trump is the greatest threat to democracy around the world as he continues to defend and praise other
According to the head of the Estonian Defence Forces intelligence centre, Colonel Ants Kiviselg, the ammunition, which had not yet been stored indoors, was delivered to the depot by train just before the attack was launched. After it, the ammunition in the yard detonated along
There are mounting calls for mass protests to start in Moscow and St. Petersburg to call for an end to the invasion of Ukraine and for Putin to step down and to establish democracy.
As Russia’s war with Ukraine continues, the question now is less whether Ukraine can stay in the fight and more how long can Russia maintain its current tempo of operations 👇
Tonight drones attacked Moscow, Tula, Nizhny Novgorod, Belgorod, Kursk, Orel, and Voronezh, targeting infrastructure like Lukoil Oil refinery in Novgorod and oil storage facility in Orel. Will Iran and North Korea now supply air defenses to Russia as well?
“Russia transfers the operational reserve from Ukraine’s Kherson, Zaporizhzhya, Kupyan, Kharkiv, Belgorod, Pokrovsky & Luhansk directions to the Kursk region.”
👉 I bet this is about to work out very badly for Russia.
Update map from this morning showing Russian gains along the Pokrovsk front.
@Deepstate_UA
says the 1st and 3rd battalions from the 31st Mechanized Brigade were able to break out of the encirclement last night. They say that a delay of even a couple more hours could have led to a
Avdiivka city park now under Russian control. Given the territory inside the city that has been captured within 24 hours, it is high likely that Ukraine has completely left the center and east of Avdiivka.
A majority of EU members agreed on a draft resolution text, which contains a call to strip Hungary's right to vote in the Council of the EU. And to conduct an investigation into the legality of the decision to unfreeze €10 billion for Hungary in 2023.
Japan provided a batch of 101 vehicles for Ukraine.
The package includes Toyota HMV and Mitsubishi Type 73 Kogata off-road vehicles, as well as PC-065B tracked engineering vehicles.
We are grateful to our Japanese partners for their important contribution to Ukraine's victory
The destruction of the three Russian Su-34 yesterday brought the Russian air campaign in Kherson to a complete halt. Usually, the Russian air forces deploys an average of 80 missiles against Ukrainian positions in Kherson alone. Today, it fell to exactly zero!
It cannot be more
Putin is a war criminal and only understands strength. Russia’s unprovoked and brutal invasion of Ukraine has killed or wounded hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian men, women and children. Russia’s brutality must be met with American strength🇺🇸🇺🇦…
Elon Musk was deceived by Russian Ambassador Antonov, convincing him that Russia would launch a nuclear strike on Ukraine in case of an attack on Crimea.
This was reported by Business Insider with reference to Musk's biographer Walter Isaacson.
On the night of September 13,
Without exaggeration, this is a very significant achievement. We’re likely looking at the loss of thousands of tons of explosive materials, shells, and rockets. In events of this magnitude, replacement can't be quick. I rarely comment on similar events, but definitely not today
Russian pilot ratted out his fellow pilots to The Main Directorate of Intelligence of Ukraine after the attack on Ohmadyt
A Russian military officer from the 22nd heavy bomber aviation division contacted Ukrainian intelligence. He gave The Main Directorate of Intelligence of
Nikki Haley rips Donald Trump:
“He said that he’d actually encourage Putin to invade our allies. Think about it. That means he’s siding with a dictator who kills his political opponents…That immediately made our allies vulnerable. It emboldened Putin…And it put all of our
Wagner seems hell-bent on transporting as much heavy equipment to Moscow as possible, including modern MBTs.
At this point, I have only seen Russian forces in Moscow utilizing lighter MRAPs and BTRs.
NEW: The Russian military recently transferred several Black Sea Fleet (BSF) vessels from the port in occupied
#Sevastopol
, Crimea to the port in Novorossiysk, Krasnodar Krai, likely to protect them from cont'd UKR strikes on RU assets in occupied
#Crimea
.
🇷🇺 Milblogger bestätigen, daß die AFU 🇺🇦 2. Verteidigungslinien (Surovikin Linie) durchbrochen hat, & sagen, daß der Weg in Richtung
#Tokmak
offen steht. Der Ärger auf 🇷🇺 Politik & 🇷🇺 Propaganda ist deutlich heraus zu lesen. Wie von mir voraus gesagt, Momentum entwickelt sich.🫡
"Boris Johnson released Trump's peace plan for Ukraine — Daily Mail
Offered:
— Return of Ukraine to its borders by February 24, 2022, leaving Crimea under the control of the Russian Federation.
— Ukraine's accession to the EU and NATO is guaranteed.
— The Ukrainian army will
The russian Federation can break through the front if the DPRK starts sending its troops to the battlefield en masse, - Chmut.
North Korea has 1.3 million active soldiers and already supplies russia with 3 million shells a year. Various sources have already reported that
Again? Again!
The Ukrainian Air Force destroyed another enemy A-50 long-range radar detection and control aircraft, worth $330 million.
Great job by Ukrainian warriors!
Ukrainian strikes on Russian rear areas are demonstrably degrading the morale of Russian forces in
#Ukraine
, which could threaten the stability of Russian defenses on multiple critical areas of the front. 🧵(1/7)
💥 At least one span of the Crimean (Kerch) bridge collapsed, another one fell off the support, z-channels report
The police blocked traffic on the bridge. According to preliminary data, there are dead and injured. Emergency services are on site.
“A coordination headquarters is
The West should not fear Ukraine defeating Russia. This is an historic opportunity to improve security for the entire Eurasian land mass, if we can think/act decisively.
There are several interesting facts regarding the Russian ammunition site in Tikhoretsk, which exploded this morning.
According to intelligence reports it contained North Korean missiles, just like the primary ammunition site in Toropets, which got destroyed three days ago.
The
Brace yourselves, because russians have once again showcased unparalleled innovation. What you are looking at is a satellite image featuring a TU-95 strategic bomber covered with car tires. According to them, this should protect strategic bombers from drones
Crimea - Russia's Black Sea Fleet continues to vanish.
In a massive explosion, the Russian landing ship, Novocherkask heads to the bottom. It was transporting a shipment of Iranian Shahed drones.
Ukrainian Forces 🇺🇦 are near Russia’s 1st Line of Major Trench Fortifications in Zaporizhzhia Oblast
If Ukraine breaks through it then they would be less than 9km away from Russia’s 2nd and final line of major trench fortifications until the Sea of Azov and the City of Melitopol
🇩🇰🇺🇦 "It is necessary to provide Ukraine with all air defence systems that are currently at Denmark's disposal", - Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen
❗️Denmark had previously decided to hand over all its artillery to Ukraine. "Now we have to do the same with air defence."
❗️"I do what I think is right here. I think providing lethal aid to Ukraine right now is critically important... We can't play politics with this. We have to do the right thing." — Speaker Johnson.
No matter whether you find logistics in war interesting or boring, it is one of the decisive - if not the decisive - element in war, next to dedication, morale and political wit. Russia severely lacks in all of those components and tries to balance this out with pure Russian
Russia's claim a US AIM-120A missile hit Kyiv's Okhmatdyt hospital is demonstrably false.
The missile's shape, size, engine, and resulting explosion (too powerful for a 20kg warhead) all point to a Russian Kh-101/555 attack.
AVDIIVKA AXIS /2020 UTC 14 OCT/ During heavy fighting in the vicinity of Avdiivka, UKR forces are assessed to have broken up more than a dozen RU attacks. During the last 24 hours RU losses exceeded 1,000 KIA, 26 Main Battle Tanks (MBT), 49 Infantry fighting vehicles and 44
What happened in Moscow yesterday is obvious, and Putin and other scums are trying to shift the blame to someone else. Their methods are always the same. We have seen it all before. There were blown-up houses, mass shootings, and explosions. And they always blame others.
They
❗️🇺🇦Ukraine has moved to a new stage of the war: a defensive operation instead of an offensive, - Syrskyi gave his first interview as Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
More statements:
▪️In 2014, I understood that the war between Ukraine and the Russian
Yesterday there was a big Russian attack attempt on the Ukrainian positions near Torske, Kreminna front. Deepstate regarding the Russian attack:
“Fighters of the 63rd Brigade shared footage of repelling the Russian assault east of Torske
After a certain pause, Russians once