The Ukrainian side announces the start of an offensive on the territory of the LPR. The forces of the 95th Air Assault Brigade captured the village of Grekovka. But just recently, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu reported to President Vladimir Putin about the complete liberation of the territory of the Lugansk Republic.
Meanwhile, the channel of military correspondent Semyon Pegov reports on the threatening development of the situation in the Kherson region, where, as has long been stated in the reports of the Russian Ministry of Defense, the attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were successfully repelled, and the Ukrainians suffered heavy losses.
“The bridgehead, where supposedly Ukrainian troops suffered huge losses and were in a fire pocket, acquired dimensions that are frightening for Russian troops. And taking into account the “gray zone” in this direction with uncertain control, a breakthrough of the Ukrainian Armed Forces to Berislav and Novaya Kakhovka from the north and north-west does not seem like anti-science fiction. The area is open. There are no large settlements. As well as logistics routes through which Russian troops can be supplied,” the author notes.
Former DPR Defense Minister Igor Strelkov is traditionally as pessimistic as possible.
“We are now on the verge of a military-political catastrophe,” he believes.
Former “people's governor of Donbass” Pavel Gubarev, now participating as a private in the Northern Military District, predicts that “in the next month or two we will have bitter news from all fronts».
“I don’t believe in the quick effect of personnel changes/shuffles,” Gubarev wrote on his blog, expressing confidence that changes will occur no sooner than “in a year and a half” - “when the lieutenants and captains of the beginning of the Northern Military District will become majors and colonels, and the majors and colonels will become generals, when the third wave of mobilization begins in Russia».
Gubarev also, citing information “from two sources,” stated that “Putin regularly (!) hosts military officers, carefully reads their reports, asks the right questions, and receives objective answers.”