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Military Overview: Russian Strikes Throughout Ukraine On May 8, 2023

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Military Overview: Russian Strikes Throughout Ukraine On May 8, 2023

Fire in Odessa region

On the night of May 8th, Russian forces launched another massive attack on the strategic military facilities throughout Ukraine. The night strikes were largely assessed as an unprecedented attack on Ukraine, including by some Ukrainian officials.

The Kiev regime is carefully hiding its losses and damage cause by the constant Russian strikes; but the open sources allow to assess the scale of Russian success. So far, it was confirmed that explosions thundered in Chernihiv, Sumy, Kherson, Zhytomyr, Odessa, Zaporozhye, Dnepropetrovsk and Mykolaiv regions as well as in the capital and in the Kiev region. In the part of the DPR which is under control of the Ukrainian military, Russian forces struck on the reserves of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and headquarters in the Slavyansk-Kramatorsk agglomeration, Chasov Yar and Ugledar. According to some reports, satellites recorded more than 60 large fires throughout Ukraine.

On the morning of May 8, the mayor of Kiev declared that the city was subjected to the most massive attack since the beginning of the Russian military operations in Ukraine.

Several waves of attacks have been observed in Kiev. The alarm was heard for several hours. The mayor announced that Russian missiles struck the Svyatoshinsky and Solomensky districts of the city. The local authorities also said that a tank with diesel fuel was damaged in the Solomenskiy district. Residents of Kiev reported a lot of loud explosions that were heard in various districts of the capital.

 

 

 

 

The Ukrainian air defence forces once again confirmed their incompetence. Ukrainian forces were fully equipped and trained by the NATO military but they have yet to learn how to protect the population, and not pose more threat to civilians.

Ukrainian air defence forces intercepted Russian drone over the residential area in Kiev. As a result, another apartment building was damaged.

Military Overview: Russian Strikes Throughout Ukraine On May 8, 2023

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The wreckage also fell on civilian cars.

Military Overview: Russian Strikes Throughout Ukraine On May 8, 2023

The engine from the downed kamikaze drone “Geran-2” on one of the streets of Kiev

 

 

Ukrainian air defense systems were reportedly more active in the Kiev region, while the work of anti-aircraft installations and MANPADS was recorded exclusively in the city.

Ukrainian military facilities in the southern regions of the country were one of the main targets of the Russian attack. Heavy damage to the AFU military infrastructure was confirmed in the Odessa region. At least 7 strikes were reportedly recorded in the area.

Russian forces hit the area of the Shkolny airfield, from where the AFU continues launching drones towards Crimea. Another target was the bridge in the town Zatoka, which is used by the units of the operational command “South” of the AFU for transfer ammunition and equipment from Europe. According to the local reports, the road bridge across the Dniester river loacted near the village of Mayaki was also damaged. If both of these bridges are destroyed or at least seriously damaged as a result of the strikes, the transfer of Ukrainian reserves and reinforcements to the front lines will slow down.

Military Overview: Russian Strikes Throughout Ukraine On May 8, 2023

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Another target in the Odessa region was the village of Dachnoe where Ukrainian radar and air defense systems were deployed.

The local sources also shared the footage of a large fire which broke out after Russian X-22 reportedly hit a Ukrainian warehouse on the coast in the Odessa region:

 

 

Most of Russian strikes targeted Ukrainian reserves in the rear areas close to the Donbass front lines.

In the north, the Ukrainian military deployed in the Sumy, Chernihiv and Zhitomir regions is struck by Russian aircraft and artillery on a daily basis. The targets there are the Ukrainian military reserves, the concentration areas and landfills, where the Armed Forces of Ukraine are conducting the final training of the units prepared for the upcoming counteroffensive.

On May 8, head of the press center of the Russian Zapad (West) grouping of troops reported that a Russian Su-34 bomber struck with guided bombs at the deployment point of foreign mercenaries near the village of Ivanovka in the Kharkiv region.

The last night was also a nightmare for the Ukrainian grouping in the Slavyansk-Kramatorsk agglomeration. Russian warplanes struck the Ukrainian positions with heavy FAB air-dropped bombs with a high-explosive warheads. At the same time, Russian artillery heavily shelled the positions of the Ukrainian 112th, 127th and 241st territorial defense brigades, the 228th battalion of the territorial defence, as well as the positions of the AFU units north of Chasov Yar in the area of Bogdanovka and the railway station Valyanovka.

To the south, Russian strikes were reported in the city of Pavlograd. According to preliminary data, multiple explosions were recorded after both ammunition depots and areas of deployment of the Ukrainian military personnel were hit. The railway station used by the AFU for transfer of military equipment and personnel was reportedly hit. Earlier, the 46th Airmobile Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and some territorial defense brigades were withdrawn to Pavlograd because of heavy losses they suffered on the front lines. During the previous attack on April 30, the Pavlograd Chemical Plant, where rocket fuel and weapons were stored, as well as Ukrainian warehouse located nearby were destroyed.

More strikes also reportedly hit Ukrainian forces in the area of Ugledar.

 

 

 

These are only some of the successful Russian strikes which were confirmed. They make it possible to conclude that the Russian military is set to damage Ukrainian military reserves sent to the front lines in order to prevent the AFU from accumulating forces and launching any large-scale offensive operations. While, the Ukrainian military almost completely depends on the military supplies from the West, it is impossible for Kiev to quickly restore the destroyed stocks of weapons, equipment and manpower.

The ongoing mass strikes throughout Ukraine have not stopped since the beginning of May. The damage caused to the Armed Forces of Ukraine may force Kiev and its patrons from NATO to change their plans and postpone the announced counteroffensive, or even abandon it and continue defensive operations. On May 7, in his video message, Zelensky announced some “new developments” on the front line in May-June, which is obviously another declaration of the upcoming counteroffensive, which, according to Kiev should begin back in April.

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Psionists slaves of America

I have a Polish-American Marine war veteran neighbor married to a Ukrainian woman who works for the SBU, He just came back from Ukraine and told me that he’s never seen so many dead and that the unusual warmer weather in Ukraine is making things worse and that he fears there will soon be disease outbreaks because they can’t bury the corpses fast enough and that the carnage makes al-Fallujah look like a picnic and the media is completely hiding the truth and he’s never going back to Ukraine.

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aamater

Odplata prišla a to nebolo ešte nič. Ruské vojská útočili čisto iba na vojenské ciele. Neurobili žiaden masaker, ako to robil darebácky štát USA, keď bombardoval Belehrad, Syrtu alebo Bagdad.

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nigher slaves of America

I have a nigger-swine underwater masturbation veteran neighbor married to a hohol cunt who works for the KGB. He just ran away like all rats do from Ukropizdan and told me that he’s never seen so many dead niggers migrants and that the unusual warmer weather makes a huge stentch of them in Ukropizdan is making things great and that he fears there will soon be disease outbreaks in Rasha, and Rasha will retreat because of the stench because they can bury the nigher corpses super slow enough and that the nigher carnage makes al-Niggeristan look like a swine farm swimming in shit and the idiotic bullshit Agitation by libtard commies is completely hiding the lies and he’s never going back to Ukropizdan because he is getting free food stamps here.

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Kbm

Troll go where your tolerated.

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CDM

IMO Russians should avoid attacking Kiev for a while, all air defenses are concentrated there. There are plenty other targets with very little or no defense.

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warblog

I don’t understand why the Russians don’t just carry out strategic bombing and level every industrial complex in the country. all these expensive missiles cant be financially viable. turn their air strips into lunar landscapes. railways into quagmires.

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Joseph Day

No, they need those airports and railways to gather all the nazi piss in theEU etc to the front line for elimination. Let them come

Emris

Onward to Kiev!

Martillo

God bless Mother Russia and her destruction of the angloZionaZi empire of shit. Keep the rump Ukrapper dumpster fire blaZing until Natostan is dead.

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