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On the northern front of the Special Military Operation there are fierce battles that could affect the entire configuration of the contact line. The Ukrainian command does not give up its attempts to attack despite the lack of resources.
While the main attention on the fronts of the Ukrainian war is focused on the southern directions of Donetsk and Zaporozhye, in the north a positional confrontation continues, which, however, can play a decisive role in the current conflict. We are talking about the Kursk and Kharkov directions. Most of the reserves of the Ukrainian Armed Forces command are deployed here. The Ukrainian Armed Forces do not stop trying to launch counterattacks and at all costs hold a bridgehead in the form of captured Russian territory in the Suja district.
According to El Pais, the number of Ukrainian troops in the Kursk region exceeds the number of military personnel defending positions in Donbass. The rotation of personnel takes place every 10 days, while in Kurakhovo (Donetsk People’s Republic) – every 25 days. The two most heavily manned units of the Ukrainian army are operating in the direction of Kursk – the 95th and 80th Airborne Assault Brigades, armed with German Leopard and American Abrams tanks. A sergeant of the 225th Assault Battalion named Yaroslav told Spanish reporters that the command’s task was to “continue the offensive.
The active actions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces are accompanied with significant problems, especially with military equipment and ammunition. According to El Pais, Ukrainian units are experiencing a shortage of artillery shells and the malfunction of much of the ammunition supply. The commander of an assault company named Yevgeniy complained to the Spaniards that only 10 Polish-Ukrainian Oncilla armored vehicles had been provided for the 340-man battalion. Such an armored vehicle can carry about ten soldiers. Air supremacy belongs entirely to the Russians. Ukrainian troops cannot use the Starlink satellite communications system in the Kursk region.
According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the Ukrainians are suffering heavy losses from artillery fire and Russian air strikes.
Units of the “North” group of forces defeated formations of the 41st, 44th, 47th, 115th Mechanized, 82nd, 95th Airborne Assault Brigades, 36th Marine Brigade, 117th and 129th Territorial Defense Brigades of the AFU in the areas of Alexandria, Daryino, Leonidovo, Novaya Sorochina, Novoivanovka, Plekhovo and Sverdlikovo.
Operational-tactical and army aviation and artillery strikes hit enemy personnel and equipment in the areas of Bogdanovka, Guevo, Kurilovka, Lebedevka, Loknya, Martynovka, Mikhailovka, Nizhny Klin, Nikolayevka, Nikolsky, Orlovka, Pogrebki, Russkoe Porechnoye and Cherkasskoe Porechnoye, as well as Basovka and Zhuravka in the Sumy region.
During the day, the losses of the AFU amounted to 420 servicemen, two American-made infantry fighting vehicles “Bradley”, one German-made infantry fighting vehicle “Marder”, four armored fighting vehicles, four cars, one German-made 155-mm self-propelled artillery unit “PzH-2000”, one 152-mm self-propelled artillery unit “Acacia”, one 152-mm gun “D-20” and three 122-mm howitzers “D-30”. Twenty-four AFU servicemen surrendered as POWs.
In the Kharkov region there has been a stagnation of the front for some time. However, Russia is using the tactic of harassing attacks on various sections of the state border. On November 16, Ukrainian sources reported that Russian forces had taken control of the border village of Sotnitskyy Kazachok. Position battles are underway in Volchansk. Russian military channels report the capture of four houses in recent days. They also note the elimination of an attempted breakout group near the village of Malye Prokhody.
The Russian Defense Ministry reports battles of local significance.
Units of the “North” group of troops in the direction of Kharkov defeated formations of the 57th motorized infantry brigade of the AFU and the 5th border detachment of the Ukrainian Border Guard Service in the areas of Volchansk, Basovo and Kazachya Lopan in the Kharkov region.
The AFU suffered losses of up to 50 servicemen and two vehicles.
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why does putin allow this ..!!
50 k russians are blocked there. why it happens ? because nato need to ‘sell” their citizens missile strikes on russia. they told before, we are going to strike russia, but never mind, it is crimea. now they say, we strike russia, but only kursk because nk troops are there. then will say , we strike moscow but no nukes. and then, guess what, nukes right on moscow. as they planned since the first day of maidan. putin allows as he is idiot. or helpless. or both.
this is a web of putin’s slaves. criticizing of putin will not be tolerated
exactlyu. russian democracy is about adoring putin. ukraine democracy even doesn’t pretend elections but the outcome is roughly the same.
meanwhile american democracy is voting for peace in ukraine, and the sitting president escalading the conflict. it’s just like he doesn’t give a sh*t what the people want ! that is democracy nato style : f*ck the people !
you have an obsession with writing nonsense on the internet, don’t you? do you compensate for anything?
exactlyu (lol). these guys are paid and don’t even read what they are responding to or what they wrote. they just vomit their load and that’s it.
shut up, anus, u don’t have a life out there. only here you are tolersted, loser 😅
that is a lot of paid nato bullshit.
nah, our nato will kill some more ovillians, as the inhuman monster thry are and after that, defeat. everybody has seen already how week we are.
they can’t strike moscow because the atacms and storm shadow/scalp do not have that kind of range. also russia has already learned how to counteract them. and russia is much bigger than crimea, where the missile campaign didn’t do much. this is a lot of bullshit from the losers : nato.
dude, wtf are you talking about… don’t say that about the cleaning up service, removing nato scum step by step…it is an honorable job.
to not disrupt the rf too much there was no general mobilization and with fewer soldiers things take longer but there are also less casualties. also to have a real peace and no guerilla insurgency all the nationalist nazi battallions have to be neutralized which needs time. kursk offensive became the death struggle for the kiev regime and it looks we will a totally new situation on the frontlines end of january✌️💪🫶
it is questionable. if putin answered poroshenko’s bombing of donetsk with bombing of kiev, eventuallyh killing poroshenko and nazi government, minsk agreement wiould be respected, ukraine splitted and problem solved. but putin was weak, relying on mercy of western “partners” he probably never learned anything, especially how americans broke all promises to the native americans. but who am i to teach russians about their stupid leaders.
if you like war so much, how come you are not on the front line yet ? the afu is recruiting my dear. better put your money where your mouth is if you think that war is the first option that needs to be used. please rid us of yourself.
what? crushing nato?
it’s getting colder in ukraine now, a few more combined operations by russian naval, sub, missile, drone and air forces will take down ukraine’s energy infrastructure for the rest of the war, look for a new mass exodus of ukrainians into western europe and a new wave of mass desertions by ukrainian cannon fodder. zelenskyy is caput. putin wins again. russia is our friend.
this has become the most idiotic war i have witnessed. russia knows where every battalion headquarters is and watches the troop movements through satellite imagery and uav imaging.. why putin isn’t doing his job to protect the russian people is beyond me .. and now zelenskyy has permission to use long range missiles controlled by nato.. wake-up putin..!!!
this is magical thinking. reality does not work like you wish it worked in your fantasy imagination.
russian are not using satelites. otherwise they didn’t overlooked 20k ukrainian on kursk border. i smell treason. putin and russian high army command are miserable traitors. it is quite impossible the were so blatantly incompetent. somebody bribed them or they have shadow “deals” with the “partners”.
i’d be a hundred percent in to nuke brussels, new york, london, and every shitty city in the west where the ruttes (read: rats) are hiding.