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New Russian Offensive Begins In Southern Donetsk Direction – Reports

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New Russian Offensive Begins In Southern Donetsk Direction - Reports

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Recent weeks have been marked by Russian offensive operations in several directions on the Ukrainian front. Russian troops seized the military initiative in the area of Avdeevka, where they threaten the Ukrainian grouping with encirclement, as well as in the area of Artemovsk (formerly Bakhmut), where the counterattacks allowed the Russian military to expand the control zones both on the southern and northern outskirts of the city. In recent days, more successful Russian attacks have been reported in the Southern Donetsk direction.

After massive artillery shelling and airstrikes, Russian troops launched attacks east of Ugledar and south of Novomikhailovka. According to reports from the front, they managed to advance several kilometers on the ground and repel Ukrainian troops from several positions. At the same time, no assault operations have been carried out in the city of Ugledar itself. Russian units are holding their positions on the very outskirts, but do not attempt attacks on the streets of the city in order to avoid heavy losses.

After the failure of Kiev’s counteroffensive in the Zaporozhye region, the Ukrainian military command was forced to transfer reserve units from the southern frontlines to strengthen forces in the Kherson region, as well as those defending positions near Avdeevka, Bakhmut, Kupyansk. The balance of power on the frontline has changed. Although any large-scale Russian offensive actions in the southern regions are unlikely in the near future, the Russian military is expected to launch tactical attacks to straighten the front. If Russian forces regain control of the villages they lost south of Velikaya Novoselka, they will probably launch an offensive on Ugledar, which has been turned into another fortified stronghold of the Ukrainian military.

Fire in Urozhainoe:

 

 

Fire in Staromayorskoe in recent days:

 

 

New Russian Offensive Begins In Southern Donetsk Direction - Reports

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Meanwhile, Russian counteroffensive south of Velikaya Novoselka has reportedly begun. This is a region where the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) took control of several small villages during a months-long counteroffensive. The advance of the Ukrainian troops was stopped in Staromayorsky and Urozhodny, since the AFU failed to take control of Priyutnoye and Novodonetsky and secure their western and eastern flanks.

After the Russian military expanded the control zone on the flanks, they launched large counterattack on Staromayorskoye and Urozhodnoye. On the morning of November 12, various military sources from the area reported a large-scale Russian assault. Russian artillery shelled Ukrainian positions with unusually intense fire all night. The firepower was compared to the bombardment of the Ukrainian stronghold in Avdeevka. In the early morning, a ground assault began with the involvement of large troops and numerous heavy equipment.

These are still preliminary reports from, which are yet to be confirmed. The attacks are also yet to bring any results on the ground. However, they put additional pressure on the AFU. If the Ukrainian defense fails to repel Russia’s attacks, the southern Donetsk direction may become another weak point of the Ukrainian military, and the Ukrainian command may face another problem to find more forces to plug the gap.

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ottawa tratz rat

russians advancing all fronts–my taliban therapist give me glue to sniff

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Sunny

ukrainians are truly the ultimate orc. the way they operate speaks volumes.

send in small groups of soldiers into rabotino and kherson. get wiped out. send more. repeat the process until you’re down 500k soldiers. imagine being part of the squad marching into these areas when you know 5 minutes ago the pack of orcs that preceded you have already been wiped out. there’s legit 0 conscious thoughts happening in their atrophied brains.

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Professor Burton

it’s really not incompetence. it’s a depopulation campaign

Anthon

—> “the new jerusalem project”.

Sunny

it’s a depop campaign from the pov of the organizers. but the soldiers themselves are marching into the meatgrinder. that’s the part that amazes me. it’s like sheep who’ve willingly be walking off of a cliff for 2 years. truly mind bending.

just what the hell are their thought processes like?

“ooga booga let’s have a scrap boys.”

*get wiped out*.

*unit behind them watches and laughs*

“now it’s our turn, get ready to scrap”

Last edited 5 months ago by Sunny
Orcraine for da win

its difficult to fathom in 2023 grown men would be dying for the likes of ursula van der lying, blinkenstein and trans flags. but there you go, the evil american-jewish empire of degeneracy can still command scores of braindead men to die for them and waste their lives

St. George The Draco Slayer

a lot of dumb people in the world. and ukrainians were never known for their pragmatism. do you really blame jews for treating non-jews like cattle when they act like cattle?

Mexican Beaner 🇲🇽

confusing grown men for sissy libtards and ugly bitches, much? they are sυckers. and as with all sυckers, if they can get $$$ for selling their family, they will do it with extreme eagerness.

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Diseased South Peddler

yup, it is never “grown men” fault. it is always jew and american fault. even when they piss on their own fingers 😆😆😆

concerned citizen

i did read a lot of techniques are used to keep them going. from propaganda to identity politics, drugs, keeping the family hostage, mercenaries who shoot the unwilling and of course any lie that gets them going is new to the next batch that dies, because nobody returns to tell about it.

St. George The Draco Slayer

massive misinfo / disinfo pysops campaign since before the maidan coup. as is, ukrainians were never the most pragmatic bunch, and were easily swayed one way or another, especially a people that pride themselves in brawns over brains.

St. George The Draco Slayer

it’s obviously a depopulation campaign as well as the usual war profiteering racket

Mexican Beaner 🇲🇽

no need for that. pigs die and eat each other when no master feeds them.

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there is a half-wit sadist morbidity to the neo-nazi that is not only personified in the ukrainian — but even amplified. this amplification is probably due to a higher prominence of neandtherthal gene pool.

Ian

i would agree. a zelensky depopulation campaign. would it be possible for the russians to surround and , capture these cannon fodder soldiers, take them to safety and re- recrute them into the russian forces like others have done? i do not believe these ukr. soldiers are just willing to go in there and die. they may be deluded, but i doubt suicidal.

Ian

leaflet the sites first (if they can read) call for them to surrender if not then bye bye.

Sunny

there’s already a known radio channel that you can use to contact the russians and receive instructions on how to surrender.

Dstroj

an incredible loss of manpower, equipment and additional resources all for pitiful territorial gains that cannot be held.

nazi kiev should be proud.

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Operation Z is Alive and Well

to me it looks like it all hinges on avdeevka in the donbas. once they clear this fortress from western and ukrainian lice, they can proceed to envelop ugledar, new york and ultimately kramatorsk and sloviansk from flowers of pincers from the rear. nazis have relied too much on fotresses like avdeevka, when they get penetrated from behind and surrounded, it will be glorious

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CentralAsianStudies

apparently assault groups are already operating on the territory of the coke plant. if true the russians appear to be going for the industrial area first knowing the ukrainians like to withdraw there after their perimeter in the residential and comercial areas begin to erode. also the northern and north wester roads are cut or unde russian fire control completely now. all other roads to avdeevka are also under varying degrees of fire control as well.

jens holm

vely depressed must call clinic to double prozac

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Khinzal Destroys Patriots

avdeevka, siversk, bologorovka, and lyman priorities. and all area in lnr east of oskol river. glory to ruaf. slava rossiya.

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Cosmopolitan

aim the crosshair right on target, the shell will hit miles away.

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Ian

it’s interesting to note, that as soon as a poster suggests a possible way to end the conflict without further casualties, there is a flurry of thumbs down against it. is everyone so eager to “watch” people die regardless of the side they are on? if they were your friends or relatives would you be so willing to “watch” them die?

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poko molo aka eric

“amerikans are ignorant and unteachable”. george santayana

M.Paraplu

war is diplomacy by other means. people still can’t agree on the state of the war, both sides claiming their worst case scenario to be a tough win or at most a draw…

Last edited 5 months ago by M.Paraplu
Ian

true enough. it sounds like you, like myself, have been listening to scott ritter recently

M.Paraplu

i’m fairly sure that i got it last year or so from alexander mercouris who was quoting sergei shoigu and he has been repeating that quote many times. often enough for scott ritter to pick it up, since these geo-political vloggers often visit each other’s channels.

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M.Paraplu

…and you can’t get people to negotiate when of the two groups, clearly one of them is being delusional. and it’s becoming more and more clear that that is the side of ukraine/nato. but ukraine/nato is still looking at the situation as a likely own worst case scenario outcome and that’s not what russia has in mind for it’s win-scenario.

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Beťar

takže afu si cca asi tak 5 mesiacov kempovala na časti území, ktoré ruské vojská boli prinútené opustiť. teraz zrejme budú zase jednotky afu prinútené opustiť danú oblasť, lebo inak budú čeliť sebazničeniu. o týždeň uvidíme čo nového na frontovej línii.

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poko molo aka eric

no attention in hillbilly trailer park–i desperate since clinic raise price of prozac

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Jean Paul France

what really distresses you is the high cost of popper, your aging perianal area is too contracted to enjoy mulatto men.

jens holm

i am offensive except to other senile nazi retired bootlickers

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tom hillbilly sawyer

we battle taliban for 20 years and goat herder humiliate me after 3 trillion $ spent …now i cannot afford burger only taco

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