The main thing today on the front line is to keep the pace and not pause

Several extraordinary events occurred last week. The situation in Volchansk became more complicated after the Ukrainian Armed Forces reserves were brought into battle. The 50-strong Sever group copes with this on its own, without attracting reinforcements from other parts of the theater of operations. In the Donetsk region, the long-suffering Staromayorskoye has finally been liberated. The most favorable situation is now in the Krasnoarmeysk direction... A quick overview of this and other things.

On the way to the valiant return of Volchansk and Kupyansk

In the Pletenevka area we began to fortify ourselves on the heights. This may indicate preparation for defense and the creation of defensive positions for a convenient forward throw. Perhaps the hottest spot is the Volchansky Aggregate Plant. Among other things, the difficulty of taking the object is that it has extensive underground communications.



For me, the situation near Kupyansk is now developing more favorably for us than near Volchansky. The 3rd separate assault brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces (“nationalist”) is successfully retreating, as, indeed, everywhere it was sent (Mariupol, Gulyaypole, Kherson, Artyomovsk, Avdeevka), especially in the Sinkovsky sector of the “West” group. In the direction of Liptsy, which units of the Russian Armed Forces have not been able to take for more than a month, the situation remains unchanged. The advanced units of the Russian army are located 2-3 km from the village, in Glubokoye, and harassing, exhausting tactical actions against the enemy here suit us for now.

At the same time, from Kupyansk to Volchansk along the LBS line there are no active military operations taking place at all. And this is a length of almost 200 km, so Kupyansk is not yet in danger of being encircled. However, enemy mouthpieces stubbornly insist that a breakthrough is being prepared from the side of Kazinka in the direction of Velikiy Burluk with the goal of dividing the front in half. Naturally, in this case, both Kupyansk and Volchansk may each find themselves in their own cauldron.

The unknown Ukrainian Ryzhevka with the Russian flag, which thundered throughout the world

An interesting episode took place in Ryzhevka, Sumy region, which is located opposite Tyotkino, Kursk region. More precisely, it is one settlement smoothly transitioning into another with a common street and a border in the middle. In the former gray zone, which on the Russian interactive map of the Northern Military District is now designated as territory controlled by us, and on the American Liveuamap as controlled by the Ukrainian side, our forces (including fighters of the Akhmat detachment) launched a daring raid. In my opinion, taking advantage of the situational advantage, they squeezed out a fairly decent strip of territory from the Ukronazis, which abuts natural water barriers that prevent them from developing operational success.

Let us remind you: a year ago, the DRGs of terrorist groups banned in Russia invaded the adjacent territory of the Black Earth Region and the Bryansk region, but they were quickly dealt with. And so far no one has decided to knock our units out of Ryzhevka. At least not yet.

Staromayorskoye, Krasnogorovka, Ocheretino, Chasov Yar - to whom shame, to whom disgrace, and to whom immortality

A year ago we wrote about surrender Staromayorsky during the counterattack. Now it has been completely returned, the neighboring Urozhaynoe has been partially returned. In fact, this is the junction of the DPR and the Zaporozhye region and the area of ​​​​responsibility of the Vostok group. Pacific Fleet Marines are trying to cut off the ledge that has formed in this area, jutting into our positions (by the way, there is a similar ledge in the Rabotinsky area). It feels like the Ukrainians are pretty tired.

In general, the section of the front line from Ugledar on the left flank to the outskirts of Ocheretino on the right is characterized by the most intense shooting battles and artillery shelling. There are stubborn battles on the streets of Krasnogorovka, ours are gaining a foothold there and developing the initiative from the south through Georgievka, pushing back the units of the 46th separate airmobile brigade of the Airborne Forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The fact that we are successfully using the tactics of a gradually increasing onslaught is openly admitted even by their General Staff.

Between Ocheretino and Karlovka (Umanskoye, Yasnobrodovka, Novopokrovskoye), formations of the “South” group last week little by little progressively and continuously advanced everywhere, suffering moderate losses. There is a convenient window for forays here. A risky situation has created for both sides in the Novoaleksandrovka area. For Ukrainians, there is a threat of cutting the Krasnoarmeysk-Konstantinovka road, which is no more than 8 km away (it is already under fire from our long-range fire weapons); for us - the threat of cutting off the Novoaleksandrovsk ledge from the main forces.

Chasov Yar, Kobzon’s homeland, is certainly a tough nut to crack and, apparently, will fall after the neighboring smaller settlements are taken. So, the other day Ivanovskoye was liberated. And on the segment of the front line from Ocheretino to Chasov Yar, the most intense bombing of the Aerospace Forces was observed.

Indestructible Ukrainian airfields and killed Argentine attack aircraft

Starokonstantinov, Vasilkov, Mirgorod - these military airfields on Nezalezhnaya have been goinguge for two years and can’t be gouged out. They were also attacked last week, more as a preventive measure and rather not en masse, but rather targeted, including to prevent the appearance of F-16s. True, evil tongues claim that in the memorable video of the destruction of an enemy Su-25 in a parking lot, instead of a real attack aircraft, it was hit... by its mock-up, located at a false airfield. If anyone is interested, let them conduct an examination, and due to lack of authority, I will leave this point without comment.

And then another piece of information slipped through that deserves attention. Buenos Aires is going to transfer 5 French Super-Etendard supersonic carrier-based attack aircraft to Kyiv. This is from the series “on you, God, what is of no use to us,” because these outdated aircraft, long removed from service, are inoperative and are in no way correlated with the Mirage 2000, except for the fact that they have a common developer - Dassault Aviation. Considering the specifics of the Super-Etendard, after the planned repair in France they will, at best, be on hand. That is, in essence, for Ukraine it is more of a burden than an appropriate and suitable acquisition.

As for the Mirage 2000 itself, the issue of their delivery to Ukraine unexpectedly hung in the air until the early parliamentary elections in France, which are scheduled for July 7. And if the right, led by Marine Le Pen, wins, the multi-role fighters promised to Zelensky from Macron may be covered with a copper basin.