1/ update of the current situation near #Popasna
quite hard to assess the real situation overthere. Strong points & Gen staff reports.. :
"In the #Bakhmut#Бахмут direction, with the support of artillery and mortars, russian occupiers carried out offensive operations in the area
3/ Russians seems to "push" in every direction but are clearly not having any real success right now. don't panick. all small villages conquered were not stronholds. Ru still try to gain full control on the high grounds & fails.
They r also stretching their forces now. but weak.
4/ Also be careful w/ some accounts claims! Ru sources r terrible!
poke Lucio @comcen76 for the direct translation of the cities in the gen map. (I just had to add Olexsandropillia) but frankly who coud have guessed this small villages would still show some "hard resistance" !-)
1/ Map Update #UkraineMap#Russian, launched an offensive to storm different small cities in the " #Severodonetsk direction, russian enemy fired on the positions of the Defense Forces along the entire line of contact with mortars and artillery, concentrating efforts in the... /
2/ direction of the settlements of Severodonetsk and Lysychansk. #Russian enemy conducted offensive and assault operations in the areas of Oskolonivka, Purdivka, Shchedryshcheve and Smolyaninove. The offensive was repulsed, russian enemy suffered losses and was forced to .../
3/ retreat to the old positions." Gen Staff Morning report 22 Mai 2022
Note. #Russians seems to have focused their main battle as for now on the #Popasna area but r "stuck" here simply because of the #Borova small river on one side and the #Yerik river and swamps/forest .../
1/ Update News from Gen Staff - end of the day
"The Russians planned to overthrow the personnel warehouse and heavy armored equipment with a pontoon ferry across the river Siversky Donets near #Serebryanka. But forcing the Russians of the river..." #UkraineMap so clear Ru plan..
2/ has emmerged from the last 48 hours. They will push hard to succeed.
2nd part : Today the Russian fascist invaders conducted offensive operations against #Lypove & #Vasylivka in Luhansk region but were unsuccessful.
distances are short but many cities to conquer #UkraineMap
3/ Russians are "forced" by their gvt to take that axis (well not ready to have any success over the Siversky Donets) to at least claim a victory (you can see the limit of the Oblast.
also they would then put in a "chaudron" the remaining UA forces.
but the more they push on this
2/ Nobody can really tell the exact limit of RU or UA army, but we do know where Ru tried and failed and where UA are still fighting.. so.. I produced the map above with all the "limits" of my knowledge but without crazy claims!
also here a specific hig res topo of #Studenok iw
3/ by now..now the very famous and "infamous" use of the FIRMS imagery (I lol almost evry time i see phony armchair basement twitos using it)... and I let you think it through... ;-)
(couple of day grouping infos ... quite easy to get that one)
1/ Some mortar shell close enough to scare the hell of the crew of some BTRs
They run to hide and abandon their vehicules there.
You are not suppose to do that.
This war really shows few "interesting" things to think about for the coming months & years...
2/ because of more precise artillery systems and laser guided amo or ATGMs -like against IFVs or APCs some countries are already thinking about redesigning this particular "branch" of armored vehicules. maybe more and much more agile (hybrid systems)
Also more equiped with
3/ Short-Range Air Defense (SHORAD) and better integrated reactive armored systems.
excited tacticians are already talking about a “forward line of robots” preceding human troops into danger zones. And while the current generation of remote-controlled RCVs isn’t ready to replace
1 /so....
"In the Severodonetsk direction, russian enemy carried out assault operations in the area of the settlement of #Nizhne, without success." Gen Staff 18 Mai 2022
Seems that few things are not going the right way for #Russians in this area of #Nizhnie#Ukraine
2/ Well I guess when you see some topo maps it's self explanatory :
2/ here too we can understand with the topo map i show on the previous tweet how #Russians are "blocked" par this ridiculosly small city... and by geographical natural barriers as small rivers or valleys under hills controlled by ukrainians.
reminder : this is the village :
3/ Also you have to rember that when they entered the area almost a month ago with a staggering 22 BTGs this was how it looks.
(22 avril 2022 after 2 weeks of major offensive)
so.. eventually of course #Dovhenke#Довгеньке will "fall" but no major "blow".
& Russ have major losts