In general, the tactics in the Izyum direction have not changed. Units move from settlement to settlement, leaving units to control key points.
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2/ The First Tank Army continues its steady advance west of Izyum on both sides of the Seversky Donets River. Zavody and Chervony Shakhtyor are taken, with binoculars showing Velyka Kamyshevakha, which is a major defense node of the Kiev regime's forces.
3/ The heroic 20th Army, having taken Sukhaya Kamenka and Suligovka, is attacking the enemy in the direction of Dolgenkoe and Kurulki villages, cutting off supply routes to Kyiv regime forces in the entire Slavyansk-Kramatorsk agglomeration.
4/ Units of the 41st Army reached the Oskol River line.
The slow pace of advance, instead of moving in long columns at the start of the war, made it possible to keep losses in personnel to a minimum while inflicting heavy damage on the enemy.
5/ For example: the 39th brigade, which stormed Suligovka, had a couple dozen killed and several dozen wounded during the whole period of combat operations,
6/ while only the 95th brigade of the Kyiv regime forces alone lost more than 100 men killed in combat with them, while being in well prepared defenses.
7/ And in addition to the 95th Brigade, parts of the 93rd Mechanized and 25th Airborne Assault Brigades of the Kyiv regime forces were also defeated there.
8/ As many have already rightly noted, the Kyiv regime's media have stopped showing Russian prisoners of war and the reason for this is simple, there are none. But fresh batches of captured Kyiev regime fighters are being sent to the Russian Federation every day.
9/ We have problems, the war has made us look and assess many things differently, but what I can say for sure is that we are seeing a very different army now than we saw on February 24, 2022.
10/ And it can best be described in the words of Alexander #Pushkin:
'Но в искушеньях долгой кары,
Перетерпев судеб удары,
Окрепла Русь. Так тяжкий млат, дробя стекло, куёт булат.'
At 1:30 p.m. today, two "Warmate" (Polish-made) kamikaze drones of the Ukrainian forces attacked the city of #Energodar, #Zaporozhye region (the city has been liberated from the #Kyiv regime).
2/ The target of one UAV was the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, while the second UAV was preparing to strike the city administration of Energodar.
3/ Only thanks to the professional actions of Russian servicemen both UAVs were shot down.
▫️ The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue a special military operation in Ukraine.
💥High-precision long-range sea-based Kalibr missile strikes destroyed hangars with a large batch of foreign weapons and ammunition supplied by the United States and European countries for Ukrainian troops on the territory of the Zaporozhye aluminum plant.
✈️💥Operational-tactical and army aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces hit 59 military facilities of Ukraine overnight.
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2/ ◽️ Many items were hastily abandoned by the neo-Nazi units of the Kyiv regime while retreating from the territory of the Luhansk People's Republic.
3/ ◽️ Among the weapons seized are both Soviet models and modern anti-tank guided missiles and portable anti-aircraft missile systems from NATO countries.
The first information about the arrival of 3,000 "gray wolves" on the Ukrainian-Polish border appeared about ten days ago.
They are already in the Kharkov and Odessa-Nikolayev directions (divided into three squads of thousands of fighters each).
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2/ Convoys with Turkish fighters passed through Zhmerinka - together with heavy equipment and artillery.
There is speculation that the Turkish "help" the NATO handlers of the Kyiv regime are planning to use for counterstrikes near Kharkov and Nikolayev.
3/ Considering that it is Turkey that supplies the Kyiv regime with Bayraktars, the appearance of far-right "gray wolves" on the Ukrainian front looks absolutely logical.
When discussing the losses that the forces of the #Kyiv regime are willing to incur without signing a capitulation, it is necessary to take into account the fact that Kyiv is not completely independent in its decision-making.
2/ #Zelensky supplies the meat for the war, no other functions are assigned to him.
Therefore, the forces of the Kyiv regime may well lose between three hundred and five hundred thousand men, subject to total mobilization.
Scary numbers, but this is a fact.
3/ Already now among the dead and prisoners of war the main mass is made up of mobilized middle-aged men.
Scared, dirty, hungry, with a doomed look. And, in fact, those who were taken prisoner drew their lucky ticket.
In #Moscow on April 26, 2022, Vladimir #Putin had a discussion with #UN Secretary General António #Guterres about #Kosovo and the status of the People's Republic of #Lugansk (LPR) and the People's Republic of #Donetsk (DPR). 1/6
2/ In response to Guterres' objection that the UN does not recognize Kosovo, Putin recalled that Kosovo's independence has been recognized by several countries and the International Court of Justice:
3/ "I have personally read the documents of the international court of the UN on Kosovo. I remember perfectly well the decision of the international court, which says that when exercising the right of self-determination,