Despite the intense fighting, Russia and Ukraine are maintaining contact through humanitarian channels. For example, on June 5, the two sides carried out a prisoner exchange of 185 for 185. The United Arab Emirates reportedly played a significant mediating role in this process. However, despite progress on humanitarian issues, the intensity of mutual attacks continues to rise.
On the night of June 8, Ukraine launched a massive airstrike on Crimea and Sevastopol. A drone strike on a Moscow–Simferopol passenger train’s diesel locomotive wounded the engineer and killed the assistant engineer; the passengers were unharmed. Earlier, Ukrainian forces attacked the Chongar Bridge in northern Crimea. The next targets could be the bridges in Perekop and Armyansk. Logistics will be even more hampered for an indefinite period. Retail chains in Sevastopol are already imposing restrictions on the sale of critical products to prevent shortages.
In turn, Russia has begun actively attacking logistics routes between Sumy and Kharkiv with drones along sections of the H-12 and P-46 highways. This is primarily intended to affect the logistical support of Ukrainian troops and reduce their long-term combat effectiveness.
Russian combat aviation has also been operating actively in the Sumy region. On June 7, strikes were reported against drone control centers belonging to the 105th Territorial Defense Brigade in Velyka Pisarevka and the 119th Territorial Defense Brigade in Krasnopole. Destroying drone control centers is one of combat aviation’s top priorities in the current conflict.
In the Slavyansk sector, the city of Konstantinovka remains the main flashpoint. Over the past few days, the Russian army has made significant gains in the urban area. Advanced assault units have linked up near the Dmitrievka railway station in the city center. Consequently, all Ukrainian units remaining to the south have been surrounded. The Ukrainian command is beginning to see the developing operational situation as increasingly similar to the situation in Pokrovsk. Once again, a significant portion of Ukrainian forces has been encircled, prompting attempts to break the garrison’s siege. However, as with Pokrovsk, these attempts are unlikely to succeed. The encircled troops will likely resort to small-group tactics and attempt to infiltrate Russian positions under the cover of darkness. In effect, the city’s fate is already sealed.
The main question now is whether the Russian army can maintain its offensive at an increased pace for a long period of time. If not, Ukrainian units will retreat to pre-established positions near Druzhkivka. Druzhkivka is a town roughly the same size as Konstantinovka, so capturing it may also require considerable time and effort.
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my americunt prolapse collapse numerous times when hebrews pump jizz in my anuz derp derp incel
another day, another clyde filth comment. groundhog day again.
derpy derp incel americunts are species inferior to groundhog
fascist incel still fixated on ol’ clyde.
inferior species americunt clyde derp derp incel scrub jew toilet lick mulatto peniz
if you want to change lightbulbs start by making jewish lampshades. these jews are the real scumbags who created this war between us and its time we erase them. and end the war in ukraine which is only murdering whites by the thousands both sides. its time we eliminate the jews who did this to all of us.
you americunts require superior jews to govern you
we require zionist jews to self immolate, or hang from the neck from a rope. you choose…
at this pace in about 60 years they will likely made to kyev
“pattern” reflects terrain logistics ukie drones mines ieds. usa constructed underground “fortresses” in western donbass favor an encirclement approach severing supplies isolating underground bunker barracks
the stupid british newspaper the independent say the uaf re-captured an area of 600 square kilometres.
‘stupid british newspaper’. a bit too redundant for my taste.
by my reckoning, there’s no brit outlet that doesn’t fall into that category.
hard work to remove the nazi puppets from the donbass is paid in russian blood. can anyone guess what year ukraine will hold the next election ?
their banderite god says that only a ‘one party fascist dictatorship devoid of ethnic minorities’ will do, so
ps: that’s noit me but what timorthy snyder, yale’s hysterically russophobic historian said in 2010 in his article “a fascist hero in democratic kiev”.
so, what’s changed? in ukraine, even more fascism, while snyder now says.. no, no, i meant russia is fascist and ukraine wasn’t a peace-loving democracy when yanukovych was elected but is now. (just don’t look too hard into its inner workings.)
i love (or is it abhor) these so-called ‘historians’ that change history on the fly to suit their agendas.