Ukrainas motoffensiv

The Russian Armed Forces launched a strike with powerful high-precision ammunition at the command post of the OTG "Soledar" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, located in the settlement Alexandro-Kalinovo. The opening of this object and confirmation of its successful destruction was carried out using satellite images from space reconnaissance .

🔻As a result of a precise strike, up to 50 militants and senior officers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed. According to available information, the wounded commanders were urgently taken to Rzeszow Airport (Poland) for further evacuation to foreign medical institutions.

🔻At the moment, up to 30 militants continue to be under the rubble. The OTG Soledar control system has been disabled.

One Russia-installed billboard, for example, featured images of children wearing embroidered Ukrainian T-shirts, the traditional Vyshyvanka, with a digitally-added Russian tricolor flag and slogans like “Russia is here forever” or “Kherson is a Russian city.”

Parker writes about panicking Russian soldiers abandoning military equipment and trying to cross the river

In the Zaporozhye direction, the 47th and 82nd brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces have lost their offensive potential.

🔴 Urgent
The enemy confirms our advance in the direction of Svatovo-Kremensky in the direction of Borovaya.

🔴 Advances west of the village of Makeyevka. At these moments, our army continues to develop successes in this sector of the front.

Russian Troops Cede Ground and Strike Back, Frustrating Ukraine’s Counteroffensive

Across desolate fields and shattered villages, Ukraine’s counteroffensive is confronting Russian minefields and Russian soldiers dug into elaborate trench networks.

But one unusually daunting obstacle to Ukrainian troops is a tactic adopted by Russian forces: ceding ground and then striking back.

Rather than holding a line of trenches at all costs in the face of Ukraine’s assault, security experts say, Russian commanders have employed a longstanding military tactic known as “elastic defense.”

To execute the tactic, Russian forces pull back to a second line of positions, encouraging Ukrainian troops to advance, and then strike back when the opposing forces are vulnerable — either while moving across open ground or as they arrive at the recently abandoned Russian positions.

The goal is to prevent Ukrainian troops from actually securing a position and using it as a base for further advances. That is what Ukraine was able to do successfully in the village of Robotyne in the south, its biggest breakthrough in recent weeks.

“The defender gives ground while inflicting as heavy casualties as they can on the attackers with a view to being able to set the attackers up for a decisive counterattack,” said Ben Barry, a senior fellow for land war studies at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, a British research group.