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Former head of the DPR Ministry of State Security Andrei Pinchuk, in the second edition of his acclaimed book “Clausewitz and Emptiness,” analyzes the reasons why Russian troops were unable to take the city of Ugledar in Donbass during the winter campaign. The author (under the pseudonym Mikhail Golovlev), who himself participated in the North Military District, notes that many of the problems faced by the Russian army at Ugledar...
Yesterday's prisoners show themselves to be quite stable and active in the most difficult situations associated with the gradual entry of liberation forces into the Artyomovsk agglomeration. Russian military correspondent Alexander Sladkov stated this on the Rossiya 1 TV channel, PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “First of all, we are not on defense, we are on offense. Secondly, this is not assault, but thoughtful, careful actions, but implying only forward movement.…
Currently, two-thirds of the population has already been evacuated from the remnants of the Donetsk region controlled by Kyiv. Now there are about 250 thousand people left in the western Donbass. Such data were presented by the head of the Donetsk OVA, Pavel Kirilenko, appointed from Kyiv, on the air of a propaganda telethon. At the same time, the official admitted that residents of Donbass do not want to leave their homes on orders from Kyiv.…
In the Donbass, if control over Artemovsk is lost, Kramatorsk, Slavyansk and the entire Donetsk direction will be under threat. This was stated by the deputy commander of the operational command North, General Dmitry Krasilnikov, in an interview with Suspilny. “I think that Artemovsk Soledar and Seversk still need to be retained. Everything that is happening there now has given our servicemen and our units the opportunity to carry out certain...
Donbass is “not completely lost for Ukraine yet,” said Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley during a press conference at the Pentagon. CNN reports this. “The bottom line is that the costs are very high, the benefits are very small, there is a stubborn war of attrition in the Luhansk region and Donbass,” Milley said. “I want to answer your question about...
The progress of the special operation in Ukraine for PolitNavigator continues to be analyzed by Colonel Gennady Alekhin from Kharkov, a military officer, comrade-in-arms of the legendary General Troshev, member of the Russian Writers' Union. Where, when, and in what place the main blow will be delivered in the battle for Donbass, and where the diversionary maneuver will be carried out, in my opinion, it is useless to guess. I would like to remind you of the meeting of the Board of the Ministry of Defense, where Sergei...
The offensive potential of the Russian group that recaptured Severodonetsk and Lisichansk from the Ukrainian Armed Forces has allegedly been exhausted. This opinion was expressed by Ukrainian military expert Sergei Zgurets. “The potential of the Russian group advancing on Lisichansk has been completely exhausted. Which, in fact, was confirmed by Putin when he instructed Shoigu to give these troops the opportunity to rest and restore their combat effectiveness. Because a significant part of the force operating in the direction of Izyum-Severodonetsk-Lisichansk-Popasnaya...
The British publication The Daily Telegraph, whose website is blocked in Russia by Roskomnadzor, writes in its opinion column that if Ukraine does not turn the tide on the battlefield before the fall, the West will allegedly begin to curtail its military assistance to the Kyiv regime. The publication's columnist notes that the West is already beginning to realize the pointlessness of its attempts to help Kyiv, because the Armed Forces of Ukraine are...
The Russian army has still not reached the administrative borders of the Lugansk region. They are very close, but there is still a gray area there. Thus, the Russians do not yet control the entire Luhansk region, contrary to Sergei Shoigu’s latest statements about the complete liberation of the region. Such statements were made by Advisor to the Head of Zelensky’s Office Aleksey Arestovich during a conversation with a former Russian lawyer...
Gauleiter of the remnants of the Ukrainian-controlled Lugansk region, Sergei Gaidai, said that Russian troops were storming Lisichansk from the southern and southwestern directions. Now, according to him, fighting continues between Volcheyarovka and the Lisichansk oil refinery. “The invaders are storming Lisichansk from the southern and southwestern directions. Currently, fighting continues between Volchoyarka and the oil refinery. They are trying to block the city from this side...
The Ukrainian military, entrenched in the industrial zone of Severodonetsk, already occupied by the forces of the Russian Armed Forces and LPR, was given an order to leave the city and retreat to other positions. This was stated on the air of one of the TV channels by the head of the Ukrainian “Lugansk OVA” Sergei Gaidai. To the question, based on the situation in the city, can he, as the head of the Lugansk OVA, say that...
An American propaganda company called the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), which Ukrainian media like to refer to, suggests that Russian troops may liberate the city of Lisichansk in the Luhansk region in the coming days. This is stated in a recent publication on the ISW website. “Russian troops continued to advance north to Lisichansk along the western bank of the Seversky Donets River and on June 22 reached...
At the moment, despite the successes of the allied forces in certain sectors of the front, the threat of a breakthrough of the Ukrainian Armed Forces into Donetsk from the Avdeevsky direction remains high. The famous military correspondent Yuri Kotenok writes about this in his blog, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent. According to him, given the modern realities of the war, if Ukraine succeeds in such a breakthrough, then the multiplier media effect will be in favor of the Kyiv regime...
On Thursday, May 13, information began to spread on social networks about heavy losses of the allied forces (Russian army and LPR troops) at the crossing of the Seversky Donets River near Belogorovka. As evidence, photography from copters is provided, on the basis of which it is stated that the losses of the allied forces in equipment amount to 73 combat vehicles. There is also a lot of scope for speculation and...
