From the V Kontakte page of Igor Strelkov
According to the situation in the Alyoshek area (bridgehead of the Armed Forces of Ukraine opposite Kherson).
When our troops left (according to Surovkin's "simple decision") Kherson and the bridgehead around it, I (and not only) noted that the enemy would certainly try to use the dominant right bank of the Dnieper to try to capture the bridgehead (s) on the left bank. The possibility of observation and shelling in the zone of direct visibility of our communications, as well as the positions themselves, is a guarantee of any successful operations for those units with which the enemy is trying to gain a foothold on the left bank.
The bridgehead near Alyoshki on an island in the floodplain of the Dnieper is tactical. Simply because even having captured this island - the enemy - if he assumes further broader operations - will have to re-form channels and swamps in order to capture a bridgehead already on "solid ground" outside the floodplain.
I believe that the enemy so stubbornly throws his fighters for slaughter (since he cannot change the landed units, he can only take the wounded out of the bridgehead) for reasons:
a) the desire to achieve at least some success that can be "served" to the population as "major victory";
b) as part of the diversion of forces and means of the RF Armed Forces from other areas where strategic strikes are planned and carried out;
c) purely out of the well-known "Khokhlyatsky" stubbornness, forcing them to cling to every piece of land, regardless of losses.
The fact that our command understood the "minority" of the specified area is evidenced by the fact that in the Alyoshek area, "secondary" units equipped with "mobiles" are involved, while the divisions of the personnel of the 7th Airborne Division that previously occupied the site were sent to Zaporozhye, where enemy attacks pose the greatest danger.
What, in this case, caused persistent attempts to throw the enemy into the river? Wouldn't it be better to leave the island gradually, with battles, trying only to inflict the greatest losses on the enemy?
This question is "hanging in the air", but I personally do not have a definite answer to it. Since, having captured the island, the enemy, of course, will not stop there, will establish a pontoon or ferry crossing and impose battles on us directly for Alyoshka - in order to create a foothold already on "solid ground". Which can already carry a strategic threat.
Frankly speaking, such a threat would not frighten me personally (if I were in the place of the Russian command), "from the word in any way."
Just because if I were the commander (may the reader forgive me such liberties, since this opportunity “does not threaten me in any way from the word”), I would find non-linear responses to the actions of the enemy. But in conditions where:
- the defense of the RF Armed Forces everywhere, except for the Donbass, is completely passive and does not provide for the possibility of conducting offensive operations outside the zone of current control;
- it is headed by such "military geniuses" as General Makarevich, who is in charge in the indicated direction (one of the numerous galaxy of "brave, but impenetrable") - everything looks "not so simple."
I really like historical analogies with the Civil War (probably because its battles took place in the same places, and I was once a relative specialist in the history of this particular war).
So - in the summer of 1920, General Ya.A. Slashchev, who commanded the 2nd Corps of the Russian Army (Wrangel), was very frivolous about the possibility of creating bridgeheads on this very section of the Dnieper, which opposed him, the 13th Army of the Red Army.
His concept was not to "substitute" the troops under artillery fire from the high right bank, to allow the "reds" to cross, concentrate and launch an offensive towards the Crimean isthmuses. And then - having defeated them in the depths of the steppe and "cutting" them with cavalry blows from the flanks - drive them to the Dnieper, capturing numerous trophies.
This calculation was based on a significantly higher combat capability of the "whites" and the high professionalism of their command. And it even had its effect, until ... Until the advantage of the "Reds" in numbers became simply overwhelming, and the professionalism of their command did not begin to approach that of the "Whites".
As a result, at one not perfect “for the “whites”) moment, the Kakhovka bridgehead arose, from which (after the failure of its liquidation) “the Reds delivered a devastating blow to the rear of the most powerful formations of the Russian Army connected by a heavy battle (suddenly - near Tokmak and Pologa).
Further - a breakthrough to Perekop, huge losses retreating and almost complete death of them surrounded. Until the advantage of the "Reds" in numbers became simply overwhelming, and the professionalism of their command did not begin to approach that of the "Whites". As a result, at one not perfect “for the “whites”) moment, the Kakhovka bridgehead arose, from which (after the failure of its liquidation) “the Reds delivered a devastating blow to the rear of the most powerful formations of the Russian Army connected by a heavy battle (suddenly - near Tokmak and Pologa).
What do we have now? - And now we have:
- a very serious superiority of the enemy in "manpower". General and specifically on all directions chosen for the offensive;
- the superiority of the enemy command over ours in terms of "ability to organize";
- the saturation of the enemy front with exactly those technical means of warfare that are needed on this front;
- the almost complete absence of such funds at the disposal of our troops.
And this means that even a small but strong foothold of the enemy near Alyoshki will become a serious threat, and if it cannot be eliminated now (at the moment when the enemy is holding a narrow strip of land near the coast), then when it grows seriously, then liquidation will be simple almost impossible and vice versa - the enemy will get the opportunity to expand the bridgehead.
That is why our command is making significant efforts to eliminate the threat now - while it is at the tactical level. But it doesn't work.
But it doesn't work because the concept of "creativity in the art of war" is familiar to very few of our military leaders, and General Makarevich, the commander here, is not familiar in particular. His style is frontal attacks over and over again in the same place, plus sending commandos "for slaughter" on "what they themselves must find."
Here I am not unfounded - I know the facts of how the indicated general in the evening set tasks for the commanders of special forces "to land troops behind enemy lines" early in the morning of the next day, without allocating ANY crossing facilities for this. (And how the crossing attempt ended with the help of independently refined small-sized fishing boats - ukry have already been shown in the corresponding video, which can be viewed on YouTube).
As a result, we have another "battle of attrition", which so far does not pose a serious threat to the stability of the front, but this is only for now. At the same time - such a battle is beneficial for the enemy - his numerical advantage is only growing, and the generals do not give a damn about the big losses of their own troops.
The enemy placed mortars and artillery under the cover of Kherson urban development (surprising, right? But Surovikin received the Order of St. George 3rd degree (on his neck) for "difficult courageous decision"!) its bridgehead (I remind you that there is a swamp on both sides of the road). Plus, it fills up the road and all the surroundings with remotely installed minefields. That is, not only they have a bridgehead on the island, but we also have, in fact, the same, with almost the same difficulties.
If the liquidation of the bridgehead is not now transferred to the category of primary (and not secondary) tasks, it will not be possible to destroy it, despite all the heroic bloody efforts of the "mobile" units, special forces and assault groups "Z". The solution can be very simple - a massive accurate strike with guided aerial bombs at once on all enemy strongholds and an assault carefully coordinated with this strike, equipped with all the necessary military equipment.
In the near future we will see whether our command will be able to carry out these actions.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine again launched an offensive against Zaporozhye. So far, their main efforts have been concentrated in the direction of the village of Rabotino, where units of the RF Armed Forces are holding the line, but the movement and accumulation of units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in other sectors of the front are gradually being recorded.
Kyiv cannot now stop the offensive on Zaporozhye and the South-Donetsk direction: its importance is too high, therefore, all the forces that they can find are being pulled to the front.
They have been trying to attack the Armed Forces of Ukraine for a month now, but in the next few days, activity is likely to be significantly increased: ahead of the NATO summit, which will begin on July 11. By the beginning of the summit, the Ukrainian army must show at least a minimal result on the battlefield. If this does not happen, the scale and parameters of military assistance may be revised, and questions will arise for the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the country's top leadership.
Despite heavy losses (they are estimated at 23,000 to 26,000 people) and the commissioning of a significant part of the strategic reserve, about six brigades remain in the unused asset of the Ukrainian army. Some units are removed from other directions - Krasnolimansky, Kherson, Kupyansky, etc.
In parallel with the intensification of hostilities in a number of areas of the Zaporozhye region, during the last week, atypical activity of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in other sectors of the front.
In particular, attacks by small groups in the area of Soledar and an attempt to land on the left bank of the Dnieper in the area of the Antonovsky bridge.
Several attempts were unsuccessful and did not lead to any major changes at the front, although they attracted attention.
Judging by the fact that no significant troop movements were recorded in either direction, most likely both episodes are distracting or could only develop if they were initially successful.
The main task of the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, for the sake of which diversionary actions are being taken along the entire front line, may lie elsewhere.
There is a possibility that units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will risk organizing a raid in the area of Energodar and the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant.
That is why a significant part of the efforts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine can be thrown into imitation of military operations for the sake of trying to carry out an operation that requires strict secrecy to start.
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[Korrespondent] 21:44 CBS TV channel reported that US Marine Corps veteran Ian Frank Tortorici was killed during dinner at a restaurant in Kramatorsk. According to journalists, he arrived in Ukraine 15 months ago and fought as part of the International Legion.
21:38 Some of the ZNPP collaborators and Rosatom personnel have left Energodar, Mayor Dmitry Orlov said. According to him, another part of the Rosatom personnel, brought in from Russian nuclear power plants in the amount of up to 100 specialists, left the city at the end of the previous week. Now there are about 5-6 thousand ZNPP workers in the city, who are actually hostages of the Russian army, because the occupation authorities do not allow them to leave the city. They are also not allowed to go to work, since everyone who did not conclude a contract with Rosatom had their passes blocked.
21:07 Germany and Poland could not agree on servicing the Leopard tanks transferred to Kiev, writes Der Spiegel. The main reason, according to the publication, is the difference in the assessment of the cost of work. The Polish Defense Enterprise Group (PGZ) is demanding more than 100,000 euros for initial tank diagnostics, while in Germany it costs about 12,000. In addition, PGZ does not want to provide any warranty for repairs. A repair plant in Poland was supposed to open a month ago, but negotiations between the countries are still ongoing.
19:23 Heavy fighting is going on everywhere at the front in Ukraine, Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar said. So, in the East, the enemy is advancing in several directions - Avdeevsky, Maryinsky, Limansky - "it's hot everywhere now." In addition, the enemy moved forward in the Svatovsky direction - he is attacking Belogorovka, Serebryanka, the situation is "rather complicated."
In the Bakhmut direction, Ukrainian troops are moving forward on the southern flank, with partial success. Fighting continues in the north, the enemy has deployed two air assault regiments there. In the South, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are fighting hard, but are gradually advancing in the Berdyansk and Melitopol directions. They face intense enemy resistance, remote mining, redeployment of reserves, but create conditions for the fastest advance.
18:39 The Vatican does not yet have a plan that would help start negotiations on Ukraine, Cardinal Matteo Zuppi said at the end of his trips to Kiev and Moscow.
16:57 Ukraine needs means to combat Russian Lancet kamikaze drones, Yuri Sak, adviser to the head of the Defense Ministry, said in an interview with The Daily Telegraph: "Our intelligence found out that the Russians have begun to invest more money in the production of these drones. Anything that can pose a threat to our troops is of concern to us."
15:13 Zelensky is in the Odessa region on the day of the Ukrainian Navy. The President said that he heard the report of the Commander of the Naval Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Alexei Neizhpapa: "Many important topics. The operational situation in the Black Sea, the defense capabilities of the Navy, the development strategy of the Naval Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during the war and in the post-war period. Interim results and prospects were discussed. development of the naval drone and missile program".
14:55 In Bucha, in front of the entrance to the city park, an installation appeared in memory of the residents of the city who died during the Russian occupation in March 2022, Mayor Anatoly Fedoruk said. He recalled that the death of 501 people was confirmed.
14:43 There are no intense urban battles in Bakhmut now, said Serhiy Cherevaty, spokesman for the Eastern Group of Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to him, there are Ukrainian sniper groups operating there, "some other units that can be discussed over time." Cherevaty added that a massive offensive is under way on the southern and northern flanks around the city, "and in principle, we have advancement there."
12:54 The Russians fired at one of the residential areas of Kherson, hit a high-rise building - at least four people were injured, civilian infrastructure facilities were damaged by debris, the Office of the Prosecutor General said.
10:17 Fierce battles are going on in the Kherson region near the Antonovsky bridge, Natalya Gumenyuk, speaker of the OK Pivden, said: "Now there is a powerful combat work, in particular, an emphasis on counter-battery combat, because the peculiarities of the front line in our area of responsibility is that it lies along the Dnieper River. At the same time, its channel was somewhat deformed as a result of the catastrophe that the Reshisty created by blowing up the Kakhovka dam. And this combat work is very complicated." Gumenyuk added that now the military needs information silence.
09:29 At night, the Russians attacked Ukraine with Iranian Shahed-type attack drones and Kalibr cruise missiles. UAV launches were carried out from the southeast direction, Caliber - from the Black Sea. All air targets - eight Shahed-136/131 strike drones and three Caliber cruise missiles - were destroyed, the Air Force command said.
09:01 In the Kiev region, as a result of falling debris from drones in two districts, three private houses were damaged, one person was injured, the head of the OVA Ruslan Kravchenko said.
08:55 In the Donetsk region over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, one person was killed (in Avdiivka), three more were injured. In the Kherson region, five people were injured, including three children. In the Kharkiv region, two people were wounded as a result of the shelling of the city of Balakley with cluster munitions. In the Zaporozhye region, three were wounded, according to the IVA.
08:34 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of July 2.
personnel - about 229,660 (+790) people liquidated,
tanks - 4052 (+10),
armored combat vehicles - 7888 (+20),
artillery systems - 4188 (+26),
MLRS - 637 (+5),
air defense systems - 390 (+1),
aircraft - 315 (+0),
helicopters - 308 (+0),
UAV operational-tactical level - 3557 (+12),
cruise missiles - 1261 (+0),
ships/boats - 18 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 6816 (+22),
special equipment - 583 (+3).
07:45 The Russian army is concentrating its main efforts on the Limansky, Bakhmutsky and Maryinsky directions, there are heavy battles. During the day, there were 46 combat clashes, the General Staff said in the morning summary .
06:26 Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba, in an interview with Bild, urged German politicians not to impede Ukraine's movement into NATO, as Merkel did: "Do not repeat the mistake that Chancellor Merkel made in Bucharest in 2008, when she fiercely resisted any progress on Ukraine's membership in NATO. According to the minister, it was that decision that "opened the door for Putin's invasion of Georgia and, ultimately, for the illegal annexation of Crimea." If Ukraine had already been a member of NATO in 2014, then the annexation of Crimea, the war in Donbas and the invasion of the entire country would not have happened.
Kuleba reaffirmed that Kyiv does not expect admission to NATO during the war, but after the war "it would be suicidal for Europe not to accept Ukraine into NATO." According to him, this is "the only way to close the door to Russian aggression against Europe and the European-Atlantic space as a whole."
The minister stressed that such a decision is "a path to peace," since Russia will not dare to attack Ukraine again if it becomes a member of NATO. In addition, Ukraine will remove the burden of protecting its eastern flank from Germany and other Western NATO countries, taking "this burden on its own shoulders."
03:37 The Russians attacked Kiev with drones - this is the first UAV attack on the capital since the beginning of the month and in the last 12 days. All enemy targets in the airspace around Kyiv were detected and destroyed by air defense forces, there were no reports of casualties or destruction, said Sergey Popko, head of the KGVA.
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[RIA] Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny gave an interview to The Washington Post. The essence of his statements suggests that in this vein he could only speak in the Western press. The fact is that any Ukrainian journalist, despite the complete control of the media remaining in the country to the presidential office, after such revelations would have questions that the Kiev authorities, including Zaluzhny himself, would hardly have found answers to.
Judge for yourself: the commander-in-chief admits that the tanks received from the West did not play any significant role in the confrontation at the front. A Leopard on the battlefield is not a Leopard, but just a target," he says.
But didn’t the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky say that this technique is capable of ensuring a breakthrough of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to the Crimea? Was it not so much expected from this equipment in the West and in Kiev that the same Zelensky had to reassure sponsors: it would not travel on the internationally recognized territory of Russia ? Weren't Western tanks, as the Ukrainian leader himself said, "an important word for the defense of all of Europe"?
But the discrepancy between expectations and reality is by no means the main point in Zaluzhny's interview. Much more interesting is what he says about other aspects.
In particular, about shell hunger and the arithmetic of war - at least in the view of the Ukrainian commander in chief. "If I don't get a hundred thousand shells a week, a thousand people will die. Take my place!" - this is how he, by his own admission, communicates with the head of the American Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mark Milley . According to Zaluzhny, Russian artillery is ten times more dense than Ukrainian artillery.
The problem for Kiev is that the West does not have a hundred thousand shells for the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and Millie is unlikely to be able to collect the missing number, even if he rivets them in his garage 24 hours a day. As Business Insider reported in January, the United States produced just 14,000 155mm rounds at the time. By spring, it was planned to increase the figure to 20,000, and by 2025 to 90,000. Per month, not per week.
Zaluzhny's next thesis leads to the idea that the promised counteroffensive does not just fail, but that the achievement of the stated goals is impossible in principle.
"The enemy is using the next generation of aircraft. It's the same as if we went on the offensive with bows and arrows," he says. And he complains that Western armies would never go on the offensive in such conditions.
Indeed, as practice shows, the Russian Aerospace Forces control the sky to a sufficient extent to deprive the advancing Ukrainian units of air cover.
But, summing up all the arguments of Zaluzhny, a logical question arises: why then this counteroffensive? To show that aviation is needed? It turns out that Ukrainian soldiers are dying because of Zelensky's lack of persuasiveness, who could not prove that an offensive without aircraft is doomed to failure, and now he will have statistics in his hands that eloquently confirm this?
But this is with Zelensky. And in the hands of relatives and friends of these "statistical data" there will be funerals, which will convince them much more eloquently that the President of Ukraine sent soldiers to be slaughtered.
Zaluchny also could not help but understand this. It is all the more surprising that after months of training Ukrainian soldiers in NATO tactics, everything came down to banal "meat" assaults, for which it is customary to blame Russia.
But the fact that he appears with such theses in the leading Western publication explains a lot. This interview is not addressed to Ukrainians, but to American and European politicians. First, of course, this is an attempt to expedite the delivery of F-16s . True, it is not completely clear how many more of his soldiers must die for this transfer to take place.
Secondly, it is an attempt to relieve oneself of responsibility. Say, "I am a military man, and I understood that we were doomed, but I was forced to send troops on the offensive." Who forced? The West will not take this blame on itself, and the Ukrainian political leadership will be the last one.
But this does not negate the fact that Kiev could have avoided all the victims on both sides back in March last year if the negotiations in Istanbul had ended in success. But then it was the Ukrainian side that tore them off. By whose instigation, we have yet to find out.
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[REGNUM] The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is recruiting Syrian Kurds for the Ukrainian army. It is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to sources. It became known that the American intelligence service is already negotiating with representatives of the Kurdish detachments in order to send those who want to fight in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. It is noted that the monthly salary offered to the militants is $2,000.
The Kurdish left-wing groups, patronized by the United States, are an excellent recruiting contingent for the Pentagon and the CIA to redirect individual detachments of these militants to Ukraine. Now they control the regions of the north-east of Syria and have a network of their military bases there. Groupings also operate in Iraq, Turkey and Iran, where they are waging an armed struggle against local governments.
OLD FRIENDS
In Ukraine, citizens of various states who were previously members of Kurdish left-wing radical formations in Iraq and Syria have already been noted for their participation in hostilities. Therefore, the appearance of the Kurdish militants themselves in the NVO zone would not come as a big surprise.
There are among them, for example, a certain Maser Gifford , a Briton who at one time joined the Kurdish YPG formations in Syria, and then, after the start of the NWO, arrived as a "volunteer" in Ukraine. Then he noted: “They [Ukrainians] very much remind me of the spirit of thousands of young men and women who joined the Kurdish forces.”
Also on the list is Ryan O'Leary, an Iowa National Guard veteran who spent four years with Kurdish forces in Iraq. He also noted the similarity of the mentality of the Kurds and Ukrainians. This could contribute to greater involvement of Kurdish formations in support of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. “They are really similar. Both the Ukrainian armed forces and the Kurds have the same mentality,” he said in an interview with Middle East Eye.
The feminist views of the Kurdish left-wing groups attracted at one time the Brazilian model, and part-time sniper Talita do Valle. She joined them, participating in battles with ISIS in Iraq, and after the start of the SVO, she also hurried to defend “left-liberal values” in Ukraine, where she was killed a year ago.
Finally, the British citizen known to us Aiden Eslin , who was also a member of the Kurdish formations in Syria, also ended up in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, was taken prisoner by Russian troops in Mariupol, and then was exchanged for Russian military personnel.
The American edition of The Washington Post, with links to leaked secret documents, reported on direct links between the Ukrainian military leadership and Kurdish left-wing radical formations in Syria. In particular, it was about the fact that the military intelligence service of Ukraine has developed plans for conducting covert attacks on Russian forces in Syria, using Kurdish forces that support the United States.
The article also mentions that Ukrainian officers considered the possibility of training militants in the so-called. Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) (the armed forces of the "autonomous government" of northeastern Syria, controlled by Kurdish left-wing radicals from the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)) attacking Russian targets.
Mikhail Podolyak, an adviser to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine, then actually admitted that such an operation was indeed planned. According to him, "war involves many different measures." He stated that since Russia is the main enemy, Ukraine has to fight on different fronts.
“It was very important to divert their (RF - ed.) attention. Various operations are being developed at different levels, because this is a specific, major adversary - the Russian Federation. We need to reduce their resource capabilities,” Podolyak said then. He added that dozens of such operations can be developed, but only priority ones will be implemented.
"RADICAL INTERNATIONAL" IN THE SERVICE OF THE WEST
It is significant that Kyiv planned to use radical jihadist groups from Syrian Idlib for these purposes, with which Ukraine also began to establish cooperation against the backdrop of confrontation with Russia. But this became known to Turkey, which acts as the guarantor of the Idlib de-escalation zone. Ankara then demanded that Kyiv stop such contacts with local groups, including the terrorist alliance Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) (an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation).
Nevertheless, separate groups of Chechen and Albanian jihadists from Idlib were able to reach Ukraine and join the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
By the way, there is nothing surprising in the fact that yesterday's irreconcilable enemies - jihadist radicals from Idlib and Kurdish leftist radicals from the Syrian northeast - are turning into "partners", becoming part of a global anti-Russian network led by the West. It was possible for the United States to begin reconciling these irreconcilable branches of radicalism against their common enemies, Russia and Turkey.
In particular, in Idlib, there has been an increase in tension between the HTS terrorist alliance and Turkey. The latter did not react to the recent activity of the Russian Aerospace Forces in Idlib, when strikes were carried out on HTS bases in this Syrian region, which can be considered as recognition of these actions as justified.
The reason for this position could also be the intensification of contacts between the HTS and the SDF coalition, which is supported by the United States. In turn, through these contacts, communication is also being established between the HTS terrorists and the US military.
In recent months, HTS leaders have visited the SDF headquarters in Hasek, where they also apparently met with the Americans, and SDF representatives have visited the HTS headquarters in Idlib. In this regard, arrests of persons associated with the HTS took place in Turkey itself.
At the same time, Ukraine’s ties with the Kurdish left-wing radicals were being built even before the start of the NVO, and Kyiv was a longtime supplier of weapons for these formations.
So, back in May 2017, a meeting was held between PKK field commanders in Kyiv and an agreement was reached on the purchase and transfer of weapons and ammunition to this Kurdish group. The range of weapons included Igla MANPADS, sniper rifles, night vision goggles, thermal imagers and frequency suppressors.
FROM TERRORISTS TO ALLIES OF WASHINGTON
Initially, the activities of Kurdish parties and groups affiliated with the PKK, including its Syrian affiliates such as the SDF/YPG, were considered terrorist activities. However, in many countries of the European Union and the United States, PKK leaders have found a way to turn from a criminal into a victim in the eyes of the West. To do this, they had to transform their own ideology, somewhat moving away from the original Marxist principles.
The new ideology of the PKK was formulated after the arrest of its leader Abdullah Ocalan in 1999 under the influence of the work of the American social philosopher Murray Bookchin, whose works Ocalan got acquainted with while in prison. The basis of the new ideology of the PKK, formulated by Öcalan on the platform of Bookchin's ideas, was "democratic confederalism."
At the center of the provisions of this doctrine was a "civil society" very close to the representatives of the Western world, which was supposed to replace the state. Ocalan abandoned the idea of creating an isolated Kurdish state, which was supposed to contribute to a radical revision of the relationship of the Kurds with other Middle Eastern peoples. Instead, they were supposed to create, together with the Kurds, a single "civil society", supposedly not burdened by state institutions.
The second pillar of the doctrine was absolute gender equality and outright feminism, which was also met with applause in the West. In particular, the "Kurds" created separate women's military units that have their own hierarchy and are a separate "women's army". And any leadership position should be occupied by co-chairs - a man and a woman.
Thus, Jamil Bayek, who is a member of the PKK Politburo and head of the "Confederation of Kurdish Communities" (Koma Civaken Kurdistan - KCD), shares his powers with Hyulya Oran (also known as Bese Hozat ), who represents the "female half" of the organization.
It is significant that the first attempt to put this concept into practice was carried out in Syria as part of the creation of the Kurdish “Democratic Federation of Rojava - Northern Syria” and its military wing SDF during the Syrian conflict.
However, many Arab tribes, as well as conservative representatives of the Kurds and Syrian Turkomans, opposed this project and the radical secularist and feminist ideas spread within its framework.
The Syrian affiliates of the PKK, represented by the SDF, are trying to draw as many local residents as possible into their radical leftist project. To do this, they take control of youth and children from conservative Muslim families, introducing programs alien to Muslim Syrians in schools with frank calls for atheism. It even comes to the kidnapping of children in order for them to be trained and appropriately ideologically pumped in closed military camps.
A new UN report on children in armed conflict, released Tuesday, says the use of child soldiers in Syria is on the rise, even as fighting dies down in most parts of the country. This growth is primarily due to the efforts of American allies from the SDF, which account for the largest number of cases of recruiting Syrian children into their ranks.
The Americans do not in any way prevent the recruitment, including girls, into the ranks of these militants. As noted above, there are special women's groups in the SDF, which represent a separate armed structure, known by the abbreviation YPJ, for service in which, among other things, girls from conservative families are kidnapped. Thus, the fact of abductions of 13-year-old Syrian woman Peyal Akil, who was abducted by recruiters from the SDF on her way home from school, was recently made public and ended up in a military camp for children.
In the West, they turn a blind eye to such violence, considering the presence of women's formations in the ranks of the SDF as a manifestation of the "highest forms" of gender equality and feminism. On the contrary, thanks to the support of the United States and France, the quasi-state formation led by the SDF not only managed to survive, but also took control of significant territories, which became the center of attraction for left-wing radical militants from all over the world.
It is noteworthy that among these formations, united under the auspices of the International Revolutionary People's Guerrilla Forces (IRPGF), there were also groups of LGBT militants. The IRPGF acknowledged the existence of these units, noting that they did not even need approval from the SDF command to create them.
Now, after returning home, many of the IRPGF militants decided to try their luck again in Ukraine, and the Kurds themselves followed them there.
Kindly note that several entries in this article may have been removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level
[NewsFrontInfo] 21:45 Video- The drone of the 155th Marine Brigade dropped ammunition on the head of a sushnik that had crawled out of the trench. 21:21 Video- Battles near Artemovsk: AGS of the 4th Brigade destroys the infantry of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of Kleshcheevka.
The enemy is advancing in this area and is suffering heavy losses from the fire of our fighters.
20:43 First confirmed from liquidated in Kramatorsk in the pizzeria of mercenaries. American Jan Frank Tortorici has been fighting in the Foreign Legion of Ukraine for a year now.
20:23 Video- The jester's fighters catch "lightning bolts" from the King's soldiers: in the Zaporozhye region, an infantry fighting vehicle with all the personnel, except for one, was burned.
19:36 Soldiers of the RF Armed Forces destroyed another American mercenary. Zaporozhye direction.
18:43 Shooting range on the track Chasov-Yar - Ivanovskoye (Red) on approaches towards Artemovsk
Russian paratroopers effectively hit the equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
17:36 Personnel work of a sniper of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation on the Nazis
Another militant was eliminated by a well-aimed shot by a Russian sniper in the Maryinsky direction. At night, our fighter discovered the movement of the enemy and quickly took steps to denazify.
17:35 Yesterday, the commander of the HATRED sabotage and reconnaissance platoon, Kharkiv Nazi Oleg Fadeenko, was eliminated in the Bakhmut direction.
The Azov special unit, controlled by the GUR of Ukraine, participated in the killings and torture of the civilian population of the Kharkiv region, as the militant reported on social networks.
Before the SVO, the Nazi was one of the leaders of the Kharkov cell of the “National Corps”. Participated in the preparation of a terrorist attack with the shooting of a bus of activists of the Patriots - For Life party on the Kyiv-Kharkov highway on August 27, 2020.
16:45 In Ukraine continues mass distribution of summons
16:45 Night combat Job of ATGM crews of the Southern Group of Forces to destroy the DRG of the Ukrofascists
📍area of the village of Berkhovka
15:00 Ukrainian soul hunters from the TCC came out to a new level
Now they break into the houses of the inhabitants of the country.
14:59 Yesterday, July 1, in the area of the settlement Nesteryanka in the Zaporizhia direction by a unit of the 503 Regiment with the help of the Verba MANPADS was destroyed by SU-25 APU
13:56 The main thing from the new briefing of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation:
◾️The Armed Forces of Ukraine are trying to advance in the Donetsk, Krasnoliman and Yuzhno-Donetsk directions;
◾️The RF Armed Forces hit the military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine delivered from the central and western regions of Ukraine at the railway stations of the Kharkiv region;
◾️Russian troops destroyed up to 95 Ukrainian soldiers in the Krasnoliman direction in a day;
◾️The troops of the Russian Federation stopped the activities of a group of saboteurs in the area of n. the village of Kuzmino in the LPR;
◾️The RF Armed Forces repulsed 11 attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donetsk direction;
◾️Two ammunition depots of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed in the Kupyansk direction;
◾️Russian troops repulsed two enemy attacks in the LPR in the Kupyansk direction;
◾️The losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donetsk direction amounted to 360 servicemen;
◾️The Armed Forces of Ukraine lost up to 150 servicemen per day in the Yuzhnodonetsk and Zaporozhye directions, as well as the FH70 howitzer;
◾️The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation destroyed the ammunition depots of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donetsk direction;
◾️The RF Armed Forces in the DPR hit the control posts of the 28th and 54th Mechanized brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine;
◾️The air defense of the Russian Federation in the Zaporozhye region shot down a Su-25 attack aircraft, 4 HIMARS MLRS shells, one HARM missile and 14 UAVs of Ukraine were intercepted in a day;
◾️Russian troops destroyed the Ukrainian DRG on the Vremevsky salient;
◾️Russian aviation in the Zaporozhye direction struck at the accumulations of manpower and equipment of the 33rd Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of Pyatikhatka and Mirny.
12:02 Another destroyed armored car International MaxxPro APU
12:00 Battle departure crews of attack aircraft of a pair of Su-25SM3 VVO Russian Aerospace Forces
📍South-Donetsk direction
10:47 For the past day:
As a result of fire damage by formations of the Dnepr group of troops in the island zone, the following were destroyed:
- 152mm MSTA-B howitzer with ammunition, losses: three servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were killed, four were injured of varying severity.
As a result of fire damage by the formations of the Dnepr grouping of troops in the Kherson direction, the following were destroyed:
- two M 777 howitzers with ammunition, losses: four servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were killed, three were injured of varying severity;
- three 120mm mortar crews and ammunition for them, losses: 12 servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed, five were injured of varying severity;
As a result of fire damage by formations of the Dnepr group of troops in the Kakhovka direction, the following were destroyed:
- the place of temporary deployment of one of the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, losses: seven servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed; eight - received injuries of varying severity, two units. automotive equipment - disabled;
- the position of one of the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, losses: six servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed; four - received injuries of varying severity.
10:46 Ukrainians shelled the village of Zabuzhevka, Belovsky district, Kursk region
More than 10 shells were fired at him. Luckily, no damage or casualties were reported.
09:30 RF Armed Forces repelling an attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Ugledar area in the DPRdestroyeda significant number of militants and enemy equipment
09:29 RF Armed Forces continue continuously cover fire positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
08:18 At the forefront of the Russian military demonstrated its latest development - an installation called "Gradomet"
08:18 Personnel fighting from the front line near Chervona Dibrova
The militants tried to go on the offensive with the support of the tank. Our fighters not only repulsed the attack of the enemy, having issued a pack of KIAs and wounded, but also destroyed the Nazi tank.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. 23:58 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 07/02/2023 to 00:00 07/03/2023
Over the past day, the Representation reported 56 facts of firing by the AFU.
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy made 23 artillery attacks from 155mm and 152mm artillery.
On Gorlovsky 31 artillery attacks from MLRS, artillery 152mm and 122mm.
Having fired 328 units of various ammunition.
Under enemy fire were areas of five settlements of the Republic: Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district), Ozeryanovka, the capital city of Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky, Kievsky, Kirovsky, Petrovsky districts), Makeevka (Chervonogvardeysky district), Yelenovka.
Over the past day, information was received about the wounding of two civilians in the Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka.
Four residential buildings in the Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka were damaged, as well as one civil infrastructure facility.
In the previous day, 36 artillery attacks were recorded from the side of the VFU.
23:47 Russian troops are increasing the use of the Lancet kamikaze drone to slow down the offensive of Ukraine.
23:05 Orekhovskoe direction
The enemy forces began to retreat, but the Armed Forces of Ukraine are pulling up new forces, preparing for a new battle.
22:51 During the artillery attack of Gorlovka by the armed forces of Ukraine, two people were injured.
The representative office of the DPR in the JCCC states that in the total score, the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired 19 rockets at the settlement.
22:09 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced the repulsion of the attack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Krasnolimansk direction.
Oleksandr Savchuk, head of the press center of the “Center” grouping of troops: Ukrainian troops attempted an attack in the Krasnolymansk direction with the support of combat armored vehicles and pickup trucks of the 21st and 63rd Mechanized brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Artillery units and army aviation crews of the "Center" grouping of forces dealt a blow to manpower and military equipment. The enemy retreated.
22:00 According to the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for July 2, as of 22:00, information was received about victims among civilians in the cities of the Republic:
n.p. Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district):
- on st. Shashurina, 7 wounded man born in 1962;
- on st. Shashurina, 27, a woman born in 1961 was wounded.
Information was received about damage as a result of artillery attack of the VFU cities of the Republic:
n.p. Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district):
- boiler room No. 121 on the street. Shashurina;
- st. Shashurina, 7 - a direct hit in an apartment building;
- st. Vlasenko, 38, 57 - private residential buildings;
- st. Komarova, 70 - an apartment building, a car was also damaged.
Information about the consequences of artillery attack continues to arrive.
21:50 Video- The Russian military showed their way of life in the NVO zone.
Our fighters shared footage of their lives in the war zone. The military organized a makeshift kitchen and dining room on their own. From the amenities there is everything you need - a set of dishes, a gas cylinder, a home-made kitchen table made from pallets and even two gas stoves. As the fighters themselves admit, they try to create conditions “like at home” despite the fact that they are far from their native lands.
Good Russian fighters also showed their sleeping quarters, which they arranged for comfortable living and recreation as far as possible in the conditions of NWO. There are wardrobes for uniforms and equipment, beds, chairs.
“Now it may seem to you that we live very well. But there were times when we lived on the street, on the ground. We had nothing - from the word "absolutely". We lived without sleeping bags and gradually created favorable conditions for ourselves so that we can rest, live, sleep here, ”shared one of the fighters.
21:42 Meat grinder on Krasno-Limansok direction: "Courageous" reflect enemy attacks
- In the area of the village of Torskoye, the Armed Forces of Ukraine launched two infantry attacks with the support of infantry fighting vehicles from the composition of 95 Separate Airmobile Brigade and 125 combat units. The enemy was driven back by artillery fire.
The Ukrainian DRG was discovered and eliminated.
- From the side of the village of Yampolovka, armored groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the 21st and 63rd Motorized Rifle brigades made an attempt to break through our defensive lines. The enemy was destroyed by artillery and army aviation fire.
- In the area of Serebryansky forest, special forces detachments stopped the activities of two enemy DRGs.
– In the area of N. p. Chervonaya Dibrova, the enemy, with the support of a tank and an infantry fighting vehicle from the 100th Detachment, attacked our positions.
The enemy was driven back by ATGM crews and artillery fire. Intelligence discovered and destroyed the DRG of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
- From the Nevskoye settlement, the infantry of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, with the support of a tank and three infantry fighting vehicles from the 66th Motorized Brigade and one detachment of Special Forces, launched two attacks on our strongholds. Having suffered heavy losses, the enemy retreated. Positions held.
In the area of N. p. Golikov, the Buk-M3 air defense system was shot down by a Himers MLRS rocket and an aircraft-type UAV of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
21:24 Video- Statement by the head of the press center of the "Center" grouping.
In the Krasnolimansky direction, in the areas of the settlements of Yampolovka and Torskoye, the enemy units, with the support of armored combat vehicles and pickup trucks of 21 and 63 Mechanized brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, attempted to attack the positions of Russian troops.
As a result of well-coordinated combat work of artillery units and army aviation crews of the "Center" grouping of troops, the enemy withdrew, having suffered significant losses in equipment and manpower. In addition, a 152mm Msta-B howitzer and three mortar positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed during the counterbattery fight.
Aviation of the "Center" group carried out rocket and bomb strikes on ten areas of concentration of manpower and firepower of the enemy, and also destroyed two strongholds of the nationalists.
The crew of the Strela-10 anti-aircraft missile system shot down an unmanned aerial vehicle of Ukrainian troops near the village of Golikovo.
21:00 Orehovskoe direction
All day long, the battle has been going on at the positions of 1430 SMEs, the enemy has occupied half of the forest belt, attacks with forces of up to two assault platoons.
At 20:00, the 22nd Brigade bypassed the enemy and took prisoners, at the moment the enemy is blocked in the forest belt from two sides.
20:42 Orekhovsky plot situation as of July 2, 2023
Since early morning, assault groups of the 65th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been attacking the positions of the Russian army north of Rabotino. As a result of the ensuing battle in the forest plantation, the fighters of the 1430 Regiment of the RF Armed Forces retreated to reserve positions on the left flank.
The enemy was able to penetrate approximately 300 meters into the defense of the RF Armed Forces. A little to the east, servicemen of the 71st Motorized Rifle Regiment were able to hold back the onslaught of the Ukrainian formations.
A little later, after regrouping, the Russian assault detachments launched a counterattack and recaptured about 150 meters from the forest plantation. At the moment, the fighting continues.
The purpose of the enemy units is obvious: due to the deployment of Russian troops at important heights, one of the few ways to effectively break through the defense is to use natural shelters, such as forest plantations.
Attempts to penetrate the defensive lines and gain a foothold there will continue. The Ukrainian command intends to provide a springboard for the continuation of the attack on Rabotino and its environs.
20:25 Video- Everyone knows their job
One of the characteristic features of the battles in the Donetsk direction is active counterbattery combat. Russian gunners disable enemy batteries and suppress enemy fire. Often they disperse the forces of advancing militants.
“We are suppressing their attempts to break through and attack our position,” says the gunner of the 152mm Hyacinth-B gun with the call sign Khan.
According to the artilleryman, the performance of combat missions in the Donetsk direction has become the most common thing for both himself and his comrades-in-arms. “Everyone is already used to it, there is no panic – everyone knows their job,” the soldier says.
The forces of the 35th Infantry Fegiment and the 128th Infantry Regiment completed the regrouping and began reconnaissance in force in the area of the settlement. Staromayorskoe.
At the same time, assault groups from the 31st Brigade, 36th Brigade, with the support of mixed artillery groups, attempted to break through in the direction of the settlement of Priyutnoye, from the line of the settlement of Levadnoe - Rivnopol.
Fearing strikes by the Aerospace Forces and artillery of the RF Armed Forces, the enemy command avoids the use of large forces, preferring to use the tactics of waves of small assault groups, which, due to their small numbers, can use the forest belt in the area of Staromayorskoye - Priyutnoye as a shelter.
19:38 Video– Statement by the head of the press center of the Vostok group
- In the South-Donetsk direction, the advanced units of the group of forces "Vostok", with the support of artillery, inflicted fire damage on the advancing enemy forces in the area between Ravnopolye and Makarovka. The manpower of the militants was destroyed.
During the counterbattery fire, artillery fire destroyed a mortar crew in the Zolotoy Niva area, a 152mm Msta-B howitzer in the Novy Komap area, and a pickup truck with nationalists in the Prechistovka area.
Forces of army aviation hit concentrations of militants and destroyed three armored combat vehicles in the area of Urozhaynoye, concentrations of militants in the areas of Makarovka, Urozhaynoye and Novodonetsk.
- In the Zaporozhye direction, air reconnaissance forces opened and destroyed an enemy reconnaissance group in the Novodanilovka area with artillery fire. Howitzer artillery fire destroyed mortar crews in the areas of Gulyai Polya and Malaya Tokmachka, two towed howitzers in Stepnogorsk and vehicles with militants in the areas of Stepovoe, Verkhnyaya Tersa and Lugovskoye.
The calculations of the anti-aircraft missile systems "Tor" and "Osa" shot down two UAVs "Leleka" and one "Fury".
The military personnel of the Vostok group of troops show courage and heroism in the performance of combat missions.
The commander of the RKhBZ regiment, Colonel Yevgeny Smirnov, during the counteroffensive of superior forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in one of the sectors of the Yuzhno-Donetsk direction, carried out the combat mission of managing the crews of the Solntsepek TOS.
When repulsing the attack of Ukrainian troops in the area of Vuhledar, the competent and operational command and control of the troops carried out by Colonel Yevgeny Smirnov made it possible to destroy a significant number of militants and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Also, when repelling a night attack on the Urozhaynoye settlement, timely fire damage on the positions of the nationalists prevented the advancement of additional enemy reserves. At the same time, favorable conditions were created for the advancement of the units of the Vostok group to new positions previously occupied by Ukrainian troops and their consolidation.
18:50 Krasnolimanskoye direction.
The enemy is taking active steps, bringing groups to the forefront, rotating them, at least two assault groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been established.
Airborne units are actively using kamikaze drones against enemy equipment. Our artillery is working hard.
The increased grouping allows the enemy to carry out offensive operations in the area of the Tomsk salient.
18:36 Video– Consequences of the artillery attack of Tokmak in the Zaporozhye region, as a result of which two people were killed.
18:00 Powerful explosion and big funnel: enemytriedattack the air base of the Russian Aerospace Forces in the Krasnodar Territory
The footage shows presumably the consequences of an attempt to strike a fuel depot on the territory of a military airfield in Primorsko-Akhtarsk.
A funnel 10 meters in diameter and about four meters deep, 200 meters from the military airfield in Taman, 250 km from the front.
According to preliminary data, the missile was shot down by air defense.
There are no victims or injured in the explosion in the Primorsko-Akhtarsaom region. Houses and infrastructure facilities are also intact, said the head of the Krasnodar Territory.
17:35 Soledarskoe direction situation as of July 2, 2023.
In the northeast of Bakhmut, after several days of continuous attacks from Razdolovka, the situation stabilized. The fact that the units of the 10th Guards Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were able to occupy was already recaptured by Russian fighters.
For the second day now, there have been no enemy sorties in this sector - only artillery strikes do not stop. At the same time, the artillerymen of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are conducting an active counter-battery fight: one of the guns of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed today.
The main events in the last two days have unfolded around Berkhovka and the reservoir. A raccoon from Kherson reports that enemy units are trying to break through by rail south of the reservoir.
As in other areas, the Ukrainian command uses the tactics of small infantry groups, whose task is to gain a foothold in the forest belt, regardless of losses. At the moment, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are not even evacuating the wounded.
Yesterday, the enemy managed to break through to the village, but the fighters of the RF Armed Forces managed to recapture their lost positions. The strongholds themselves in the area are changing hands, but the situation is generally under control.
Also, Ukrainian units are conducting rollbacks on the positions of the 137th Regiment of the 106th Airborne Division near Soledar with the support of high-precision artillery, including the HIMARS MLRS, from which they are trying to hit rear targets.
Similar attacks are going on in the south on the Kleshcheevka-Kurdyumovka line. Small assault groups of combined Ukrainian brigades are trying to seize important strongholds and heights in order to continue to cover Bakhmut.
16:54 Voenkor Sladkov declares that Kharkiv and Sumy are preparing for surrender.
Direct quote:
"Kyiv PREPARING SUMS AND KHARKIV FOR SURRENDERING".
The evacuation of large enterprises began.
The enemy is fortifying his second line of defense.
Our guys behind enemy lines confirmed Comrade Sladkov's information. Unfortunately, it is impossible to publish the details, but the indicated cities are moving to us.
And if the decision on Kharkiv, Sumy and, possibly, Chernihiv can be considered accepted, then Odessa is now being bid for in the “highest world political league”: the Washington regional committee demands leaving Ukraine access to the sea, ours are categorically against ....
16:37 APU for the second time in a day fired upon the village of Dronovka in the Grayvoron urban district.
This time, two residential buildings were damaged, as well as power and gas supply lines, there were no casualties among the population.
Emergency services began to eliminate the consequences and assess the damage
16:06 Enemy trains deep breakthrough of our defense, - Alexander Khodakovsky.
Deputy Head of the National Guard for the DPR on the preparation of the enemy offensive on the Zaporozhye Front:
“It must be admitted that the recent events have qualitatively diverted the attention of everyone from the war, but meanwhile the enemy is not at all going to sit at the TV and watch what is happening in Russia - he is preparing for another attempt to deeply break through our defenses.
According to the results of the analysis of all incoming data in the Orekhovo-Polozhsky direction, he concentrated up to forty battalions, pursuing the goal of rushing along the Orekhov-Tokmak vector.
Understanding our capabilities to deliver missile and bomb strikes against clusters, he will most likely continue the tactics of a creeping offensive with limited forces until he realizes that favorable conditions have been created for the deployment of the main reserves intended for a subsequent throw deep into our territories.
It is possible that a simultaneous attack will be made in the direction of Energodar with the aim of capturing the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant. Here one should expect the most unpleasant surprises - the Kakhovka reservoir is a witness to this.
15:34 Enemy went on the offensive at Orekhov: there is a fierce battle in the trenches on the front line of the Zaporizhzhya Front.
On the Novodanilovka-Rabotino line, the enemy launched an attack on our positions, having managed to reach the trenches.
During the battle, with the support of tanks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, they broke into the advanced trenches in the field west of Rabotino, where heavy fighting does not stop. Details will be announced later.
The enemy continues to use the tactics of attack in a separate area with limited forces.
In recent days, active movement of armored vehicles and personnel of the 65th and 47th brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was recorded on the Novodanilovka-Rabotino line, and there was a concentration of assault groups before offensive operations.
15:09 Video- Statement by the head of the press center of the "South" grouping.
The units of the Southern Group of Forces repulsed the attack of the enemy assault group in the area of the settlement of Berkhovka. About thirty military personnel from the seventy-seventh airmobile brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, operating with the support of four tanks and those infantry fighting vehicles, were involved in an attempt to break through.
In the first minutes of the battle, two tanks and the same number of infantry fighting vehicles of attack aircraft of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed. Further advance of the enemy was thwarted.
- Also, in the Soledaro-Artemovsky direction, the grouping artillery destroyed: the Starlink enemy communications station, the control center for unmanned aerial vehicles together with the Leleka-100 drone, a communications center and a pickup truck with an infantry group.
14:30 Video- Consequences of the artillery attack of Kamyshevakhi in the Donetsk People's Republic.
13:50 Video– The calculation of the 152mm howitzer “Hyacinth-B” smashes the Nazis in the Zaporozhye direction
Artillerymen, supporting the actions of the infantry, inflict massive strikes on Ukrainian militants trying to attack. In the course of combat work, artillery destroys enemy fortifications, accumulations of manpower and columns of military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
13:30 Report of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation (as of July 2, 2023)
During the day, the armed forces of Ukraine continued to attempt offensive operations in the Donetsk, Krasno-Limansky and South-Donetsk directions.
- In the Donetsk direction, during the course of active defense, units of the "Southern" group of forces successfully repelled 11 enemy attacks in the areas of the settlements of Artemovsk, Vodiane, Novobakhmutovka, Severnoye, Pervomayskoye and Maryinka of the Donetsk People's Republic.
Operational-tactical and army aviation strikes, artillery fire and heavy flamethrower systems destroyed up to 360 Ukrainian servicemen, six tanks, eight infantry fighting vehicles, five vehicles, a US-made M119 towed gun, a Polish-made Krab self-propelled artillery mount, as well as 122mm self-propelled howitzer "Gvozdika".
In addition, in the areas of the settlements of Seversk and Grigorovka of the Donetsk People's Republic, ammunition depots of the 92nd Mechanized and 95th Air Assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed.
- In the Krasnolimansky direction, the active actions of the units of the group of troops "Center", air strikes, artillery fire and heavy flamethrower systems repelled three attacks by units of the 95th Air Assault and 66th Mechanized brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Torskoye of the Donetsk People's Republic, Chervonaya Dibrova and Nevsky Lugansk People's Republic.
In addition, accumulations of enemy manpower and equipment were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Terny, Grigorovka of the Donetsk People's Republic and Chervonaya Dibrova of the Luhansk People's Republic. In the area of the settlement of Kuzmino, Lugansk People's Republic, the activities of the sabotage and reconnaissance group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were stopped.
During the day, up to 95 Ukrainian servicemen, one tank, two infantry fighting vehicles, an armored fighting vehicle, a pickup truck, and two 122mm D-30 howitzers were destroyed.
- In the South-Donetsk direction, the courageous and well-coordinated actions of the units of the Vostok group of troops, air strikes and artillery fire repelled an enemy attack in the area of the settlement of Nikolskoye of the Donetsk People's Republic.
- A Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group was destroyed on the Vremevsky ledge near the settlement of Rovnopol of the Donetsk People's Republic.
In addition, fire damage was inflicted on the accumulation of manpower and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of the settlement of Makarovka in the Donetsk People's Republic.
- In the Zaporizhia direction, the operational-tactical aviation of the Vostok group of forces delivered a blow to the accumulations of manpower and equipment of the units of the 33rd Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Pyatikhatki and Mirne of the Zaporozhye region.
Enemy losses in these areas per day amounted to 150 Ukrainian servicemen killed and wounded, one tank, two infantry fighting vehicles, two armored fighting vehicles, three vehicles, and an FH70 howitzer.
- In the Kupyansk direction, active actions of units of the "Western" group of forces, strikes by operational-tactical and army aviation, and artillery fire repelled two enemy attacks in the area of the settlement of Novoselovskoye of the Luhansk People's Republic.
Also, in the areas of the settlements of Novomlynsk, Dvurechnaya, Sinkovka, Berestovoye of the Kharkiv region and Novoselovskoye of the Luhansk People's Republic, accumulations of manpower and equipment of the 14th and 37th Mechanized brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were hit by fire.
In the area of the settlement of Stelmakhovka of the Luhansk People's Republic, the activities of the Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group were stopped.
Enemy losses per day amounted to 40 Ukrainian servicemen, an armored combat vehicle, two pickup trucks, and a 152mm D-20 howitzer.
- Two ammunition depots of units of the 103rd Territorial Defense Brigade were destroyed in the area of the settlement of Kislovka.
- In the Kherson direction, the destruction of the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine that landed on Antonovsky Island near the Antonovsky Bridge was completed.
In addition, as a result of fire damage, up to 20 Ukrainian servicemen, two cars and two M777 howitzers made in the United States were destroyed during the day.
Operational-tactical and army aviation, missile forces and artillery of groups of troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation during the day defeated 79 artillery units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at firing positions, manpower and military equipment in 108 districts.
- In the Kharkiv region, in the places of unloading at railway stations in the areas of the settlements of Balakliya and Chuguev, the military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine delivered from the central and western regions of Ukraine was hit. In the areas of the settlements of Aleksandro-Shultino, Razdolovka and Veseleye of the Donetsk People's Republic, the control posts of the 28th and 54th Mechanized brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were hit.
- A Su-25 attack aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force was shot down by means of air defense in the area of the settlement of Novoandreevka, Zaporozhye region. During the day, four HIMARS multiple rocket launchers and one HARM anti-radar missile were intercepted.
In addition, 14 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed in the areas of the settlements of Soledar, Krasnaya Gora, Yakovlevka, Volodino, Yegorovka, Orlinskoe of the Donetsk People's Republic, Kuibyshevo of the Zaporozhye region, Belogorovka and Novokrasnyanka of the Luhansk People's Republic.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 445 aircraft, 240 helicopters, 4,859 unmanned aerial vehicles, 426 anti-aircraft missile systems, 10,472 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,134 combat vehicles of multiple launch rocket systems, 5,300 field artillery pieces and mortars, as well as 11,365 units of special military vehicles.
13:02 In the Kursk region, Ukrainian formations inflicted strike on the Glushkovsky district: local residents reported at least seven arrivals in the area of the village of Elizavetovka.
There were no casualties or damage, but power lines were damaged. There were temporary problems with the electricity supply in the village.
Repair crews went to the incident zone to eliminate the consequences of the shelling.
12:33 Russian air defense crew intercepted Ukrainian aircraft-type drone near the village of Nizhny Olshanets in the Belgorod region.
At the moment, operational services are clarifying the consequences on the ground. According to preliminary data, no victims.
In addition, local residents report artillery artillery attack of the village of Dronovki in the Graivoron urban district, but there is no information yet on the presence of damage and wounded.
12:06 According to Mash, Ukrainian formations fired upon Zabuzhevka village in the Belovsky district of the Kursk region.
The enemy fired at least ten rounds at the village, but fortunately, casualties and destruction were avoided.
11:45 The criminal Kiev regime continues to shell the civilian infrastructure of the settlements on the left bank of the Kherson region, yesterday during the day the Armed Forces of Ukraine were fired from barrel artillery:
-- n.p. Aleshki fired 19 rounds;
-- n.p. Kazachi Lagery fired nine rounds;
-- n.p. Podstepnoye fired six rounds;
-- Nine rounds were fired at the settlement of Staraya Zburyevka;
-- Sagi fired eight rounds along the settlement.
Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure are being
specified Kakhovka, Krynki settlement, Vasilievka settlement, firing a total of 26 rounds from cannon artillery
Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure are being specified.
11:20 Video- Statement by the head of the press center of the West group.
In the course of hostilities in the Kupyansk direction, the assault and army aviation of the Zapad group of forces delivered nine missile and bomb strikes on the concentration of manpower, weapons, military and special equipment from the 14 Separate Brigade and territorial defense units.
The artillery of the group thwarted two attempts to rotate the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at the forefront from the 14th Brigade and 103rd Brigade of the TerO districts of the settlement. Sinkovka and Kamenka.
In addition, in the defense zone of the 1st Tank Army, the enemy made two attempts to attack the positions of our troops in the area of the settlement. Novoselovskoe. Artillery fire of the towed guns 152mm "Gyatsint-B" and 122mm howitzers D-30 inflicted a fire defeat on the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as a result of which the militants were forced to retreat to their previously occupied positions.
Enemy losses amounted to more than a platoon of manpower, an American-made M113 armored personnel carrier, six servicemen were taken prisoner.
10:32 Special group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at night tried to break through to our positions on the Zaporozhye front.
Fighting continues in the area of Pyatikhatok and Zherebyanok in the Vasilyevsky district. In the defense zone of the 19th Motorized Rifle Division, the enemy continues to operate in small groups.
At night, in the Pyatikhatki area, our intelligence discovered the movement of a special group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine - about 20 militants, it was hit by fire, eight were liquidated, five were injured.
The enemy does not stop regrouping and conducts reconnaissance in force, preparing for the resumption of large-scale offensive operations in the direction of Pyatikhatka-Zherebyanka.
10:00 Video- Footage of the combat work of Russian artillerymen on the Zaporozhye Front
Combat work of the calculation of the 152mm howitzer "Hyacinth-B" of the Southern Military District in the course of carrying out fire missions on the Zaporozhye Front.
Our gunners, supporting the actions of motorized rifle units of the Russian Armed Forces grouping on the Zaporizhia Front, inflict massive strikes on enemy fortifications, accumulations of manpower, columns of military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, including those delivering reinforcements to the line of contact.
09:45 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 07/01/2023 to 00:00 07/02/2023
Over the past day, the Representation reported 36 facts of firing by the AFU.
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy made 24 attacks from AGM-88 HARM, MLRS, and 155mm artillery.
On Gorlovsky 10 artillery attacks from 122mm artillery.
On Yasinovatsky one artillery attack from 155mm artillery.
On Volnovakhsky one artillery attack from 155mm artillery.
Having fired 215 units of various ammunition.
Under enemy fire were areas of five settlements of the Republic: Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district), Yasinovataya, the capital city of Donetsk (Leninsky, Kuibyshevsky, Kievsky, Kirovsky, Petrovsky districts), Makeevka (Chervonogvardeysky district), Vladimirovka.
Over the past day, information was received about the wounding of two civilians in the Kievsky district of Donetsk.
A total of 19 residential buildings in the Leninsky and Kievsky districts of Donetsk were damaged, as well as three civilian infrastructure facilities.
In the previous day, 28 artillery attacks were recorded from the side of the VFU.
08:40 The situation on the fronts over the past day:
-- Svatovo-Kremennaya direction
On the Kupyansky sector, positional battles are going on in the area of Sinkovka and Dvurechnaya.
To the west of Kreminnaya, the fighters of the Russian army successfully attacked and occupied several enemy oporniks.
-- Donetsk direction
On the Avdeevsky site without major changes during the day.
In Marinka, fighting continues on the western outskirts.
We also attacked the positions of militants in the areas of Novomikhailovka and Pobeda.
-- Zaporozhye direction
Positional battles continue near Orekhovo.
Also, the Armed Forces of Ukraine managed to advance in the direction of Priyutnoye, and also gain a foothold in the vicinity of Novodonetsk.
Commentary by Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets
1) They trumpeted around the world through Zelebobik that Russia is preparing something bad at nuclear power plants.
Although Russia has NO grounds for this - this brings a dozen very negative moments for Russia and not a single positive one.
2) The United States sent its own special aircraft for "vigorous" monitoring on the territory of the former Ukraine.
The WC-135R Constant Phoenix radiological monitoring aircraft, designed for nuclear monitoring and sampling of atmospheric air to control radioactive emissions, arrived on June 30 arrived at the Chania airbase in Crete, from where heavy American reconnaissance drones take off for Ukraine and Russia.
3) Everyone hid in anticipation of a provocation by the Armed Forces of Ukraine-k at nuclear facilities, first at the Zaporizhzhya NPP, which is under the control of Russia. Estimated dates July 7-10. Most likely on the night of the 8th or 9th.
Americans already "without pale" want to reboot the world through the apocalypse. They do not live in peace.
We still have a week to live in the old world. Seize the moment.
Not because we will be covered with radiation. The release, even if it occurs, will be small.
ZNPP and Chernobyl have fundamentally different reactors. In Energodar VVER-1000 they have a small amount of highly enriched nuclear fuel. In Chernobyl, a reactor of the RBMK-1000 type, which uses a huge amount of cheap, under-enriched uranium.
Most likely, they will either hit the ZNPP spent fuel storage facilities, or a "dirty bomb" will be used. And the third option, a provocation at the Rovno nuclear power plant - to bang something in it, passing it off as a Russian missile strike. Somehow, it was not by chance that Zelensky showed up in Rivne today, filming videos against the backdrop of the station.
Coincidence?
Kiev and Washington will use the provocation to take the escalation to a completely different level, using it as an excuse to bring NATO troops into the territory of Saloreich and as an attempt to quarrel Russia with its main economic partners - China, India, Brazil and others.
P.S
I will add that one more scenario is probably possible, in addition to the three listed above - this is an APU strike on a cooling reservoir with the aim of destroying it. The absence of a cooler will cause a non-instant but inevitable accident.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
PMC Wagner will continue to maintain recruitment in Russia.
[ColonelCassad] PMC "Wagner" temporarily suspends the recruitment of new fighters. After the reorganization is completed, the recruitment will be resumed.
Due to the temporary non-participation of PMC Wagner in a special military operation and moving to the Republic of Belarus, we are temporarily suspending the work of regional recruitment centers for PMC Wagner for a period of one month.
For all questions, including employment, please contact the call center by phone or via telegram:
https://t.me/razgruzka_vagnera/187 - zinc
It must be understood that part of the recruitment will go to Belarus, and also habitually to Africa.
In this regard, those who want to go to war can apply for a contract with the RF Ministry of Defense https://contractmo.rf/, the National Guard, BARS, other PMCs and volunteer formations, where the recruitment of people continues.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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