In this post, the ex-Ukrainian defector Oleg Tsaryov, now wanted by Ukrainian authorities, shares on his Telegram channel a case where unknown callers attempted to cause panic among residents of a Crimean resort in Saky by asking the director of the resort to move all guests to…
…leave it to then be transferred to a safe place:
As a response, the Pro-Russian Telegram channel MIG picks up on this message and gives advise to residents on how to interact with unknown callers:
Pro-Russian Dimitriyev shares a wanted list of certain individuals that are claimed to be “Ukrainian saboteurs”, meanwhile these people are all former employees of the FSB:
Oleg Tsaryov claims he personally knows all of these people and they are all “decent”:
The temporarily occupied Crimea is becoming inhospitable for guests and residents. We hope this trend continues.
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There has been an increase in Russian attacks all over the front following a "regrouping".
All of these have failed with no exceptions. Feigyn brings up a map showing that there has been no substantial Russian advance over the last month and in some places the Russians have even been forced to retreat.
- Crimea attacks
Russians have claimed that the explosion in Dzhankoi was the result of Crimean partisan activity. Arestovych says that Dzhankoi was shelled and this hit a collection of artillery systems gathered there including Pions and MSTAs and an ammo depot.
No major changes except that Belarusian armed forces are conducting military command drills - not the first time, it’s one of the ways to prepare military command during both peace and wartime. The danger of missile strikes remains.
As of now, air siren continues in all northern regions of Ukraine and it has now spread to parts of Western and Central Ukraine. A few missiles launched to Zhytomyr Oblast - Belarus is continuing threatening Ukraine, yet now threats materialised into real attacks.
August 16th was certainly an eventful day for residents of the temporarily occupied Crimea.
Several explosions rocked the peninsula, including a large blast at the ammunitions stockpile located in the town of Dzhankoy.
While a certain number of Russian commentators made statements about this attack, the majority steered clear from paying too much attention in an attempt to downplay the impact such a strike might have. Nothing new.
- Battlefield update:
- Kharkiv: all the same – bombing city and chaotic movements in surroundings.
- Izium: unsuccessful 🇷🇺 counterattacks after several days of 🇺🇦 advances.
- Siversk: 🇷🇺 reinforcing, reports of forces near Yampil (7-8 BTGs) starting movements, wanting to force river, but they are destined to fail.
- Bakhmut: 🇷🇺 attempts at north and south. At one location 🇷🇺 got kicked hard and ceased their attempts.
Pro-USSR, pro-war Russian nationalist and author Maksim Kalashnikov expresses worry for the current Russian elite - the backbone of the Putin's regime.
1/ While the popular pro-USSR, Russian nationalist and author Maksim Kalashnikov (and also a friend of Igor Girkin) traditionally has never been shy of spelling his criticisms about the current regime in Russia, his recent livestreams and posts certainly emit an aura of looming…
…2/ desperation as the war in Ukraine goes on.
This time however, Kalashnikov suggests that the West declaring the Russian Federation a "sponsor of terrorism" will alienate the remaining loyal elites of Putin who have been so far instrumental in keeping him in power.
Battlefield update for 14 August, Kyiv time - noon.
Russian forces activated offensive operations in a number of directions, including the “sleeping” direction such as Zaporizhye, and aviation reconnaissance in search of weak points in the Ukrainian defence.
Continued strikes at command points, weapon caches, personnel groups of the adversary along the whole depth of the occupied territories.