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⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russian Military Operation in Ukraine.
#WeeklyHighlights, August 8-14 2022

Our team continues to report on the progress of the Russian military operation in Ukraine in a single bulletin with the most significant events of the week.

So, what has happened in the military operation zone over the past seven days?

▪️ The DPR People’s Militia units has established almost full control over the locality of Pisky. It was one of the strongest Ukrainian strongpoints on the outskirts of Donetsk since 2014.

▪️ On the approaches to Siversk, the Russian Armed Forces are advancing towards Verkhn'okam'yans'ke and have reached the eastern outskirts of the locality. A powerful AFU strongpoint is on their way and its capture will open the way to an advance on the village.

▪️ In Soledar, the LPR People’s Militia 6th Cossack Regiment soldiers have taken control of the KNAUF-Gips factory territory and gained a foothold in the eastern part of the city. Allied Forces are attempting to advance deep into the town.

▪️ Wagner’s PMC units have dislodged Ukrainian units from the village of Vershyny south of Bakhmut (Artemivsk) and reached Zaitseve, where a major AFU strongpoint is located.

▪️ For several days, Ukrainian artillery has been shelling Europe's largest Zaporizhzhia NPP, including a spent nuclear fuel storage facility.

"Signal" reports on the repeated shelling of the Zaporizhzhya NPP with 155-mm howitzers from the settlement Marhanets, Dnepropetrovsk region

More great reporting from @novaya_gazeta, this time on the major strategic challenges facing Russia in Ukraine.
According to the paper, 60% of Russia's entire force in Ukraine is now located in the Kherson area in fear of a Ukrainian assault:
https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2022/08/11/referendum-pod-pritselom-himarsov

Russia asks for 'green corridor' to evacuate encircled troops north of Kherson

Notwithstanding with its warlike image, boosted by massive PR campaign, Russian military have nearly zero experience of fighting conventional wars against other regular armies. They were quite successful in suppressing civilian riots ofc, in Hungary 1956, Czechoslovakia 1968, etc.

Russians were less successful in suppressing guerrilla movements in Afghanistan and Chechnya. Guerillas didn't much heavy weaponry, didn't have proper air defence. And yet, Russians suffered high casualties and lost the First Chechen War, despite overwhelming material superiority.

Russian Armed Forces' 3rd Motorized Rifle Division units liberated Bohorodychne.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine occupied an abandoned house in one of the villages of the Kharkiv region and equipped their headquarters there. But the corrected Krasnopol projectile does not care about this, the headquarters was destroyed with an accurate hit.

Scott Ritter is among the foreign experts the Kremlin’s propaganda has been actively relying on since the beginning of Russia’s intervention in Ukraine. Ritter often appears on Russian government channels (Channel 1) and various Facebook pages, his comments being shared by Russian embassies in multiple countries.

https://mythdetector.ge/en/profiles/scott-ritter/

Scott Ritter writes various NATO-critical articles for the Russian channel RT (formerly Russia Today).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Ritter

Under the guise of a former UN instructor, Russian agent Scott Ritter, likely recruited in Iraq in the 1990s, is spreading strategic Russian propaganda narratives about "Nazism" in Ukraine, "the defeat of the Ukrainian army" and "NATO’s inability to resist the Russian Federation."

https://ukranews.com/en/news/838481-russian-agent-ritter-misinforms-us-audience-about-war-in-ukraine-head-of-the-center-for-defen se