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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.
and we frenchs, said no to ue in 2005 referendum.
shut up, anus, u don’t have a life out there. only here you are tolersted, loser 😅
nonsense. putin’s criticism is pointless and shows that the critic knows nothing about the background to the conflict.
the reason behind the russian sanctions and to the ukrainian conflict is the same as in the destruction of libya. for destroying currencies that threaten the dollar. libya was overthrown because the countries of the middle east planned a gold-linked currency that would have weakened the dollar. the purpose of the sanctions was to topple the brics; russia and china. the fear of brics overrunning the dollar and the dollar’s ability to blackmail developing countries with economic sanctions
also the eu’s ideological disengagement from arab oil and the three seas initiative. in the eastern ukraine has europe’s largest deposit of earth metal, needed for batteries. because ethnic russians voted “wrong”, the us and ger organized a coup in ukraine in 2014 that used fascist militias to help a pro-nato regime come to power. angela merkel confirms 2022 that nato wanted war from the start but needed time to prepare militarily and lead the situation to a large-scale conflict
hungarian prime minister orban confirmed in an interview with carlson in 2023 that the decision on ukraine joining nato was already made at the 2008 summit. ukrainian president poroshenko admitted in 2015 that he got power from a conspiracy and that his presidency was not legitimate. the finnish former defense minister revealed that the nato decision was made behind closed doors in 2014. that is, when the eu made a three seas initiative.
when you have several passports, it’s hard to think about things on a national level through one country. when you are a “global citizen”, national identities, ethnic persecutions and border wars start to seem ridiculous and childish. the actions of the eu leaders look completely like the chubbiness of immature teenagers. i still see no reason to criticize putin for going to help the suffering ukrainian russians, who had been bombed by ukraine since 2014.
the west went to war like in afghanistan. russia responded with molten copper, thermobaric bombs and hypersonic missiles. the individual soldier and the tanks are irrelevant. the abrams explode and the air defense is destroyed by the missiles they are supposed to repel. the support of the west is irrelevant, it made only more ukraininas die in vain. the west cannot win; you can win the fight, but not the people. that’s why the usa lost in vietnam, somalia, afghanistan, etc.
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.
how are russians bloked
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.
hey broda, you must be my missing twin. parents told me they gave away the weak stupid one to focus on me.
was putin weak? russia pretty well coped with the expected sanctions. nato piss countries are sinking with the mother ship the us. maybe you just don’t know what the game is.
brics is more powerful in terms of gdp, economy, natural resources, military, and really by any measure than the g20. has been for several years. this is what nato fears and that is why the propaganda is so powerful.
what? crushing nato?
putin is the only reason we get to wake up and eat a bowl of cereal instead of being dead
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”.
the ukrainian army overextend then destroyed itself in kursk, allowing the russians to advance much quicker everywhere else. i think that is zelensky that should be questioned for imbecility.
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.
since 4 months now 14 ukro brigades on only some 600 square miles in kursk. where are the russian attack choppers , where the air force, where carpet bombings, where the rocket artillery…? what are they still waiting for? so many ukro units on such a small area should be a easy turkey shooting.
it has been and still is a turkey shooting. 30,000 casualties. more than during the 2023 ‘counterattack’. now the afu uses being sent to kursk as a punishment. failing any objective, it has now become a pr operation and the afu cannot retreat without looking like fools. so they cannot retreat. so they have to send all their reserves here. and that’s why they are retreating everywhere else.
more useless words. ukr keep coming and in 2 years will still be defending the ukr homeland, manpower no problem. face it russ are too weak to remove ukr from kursk and in ukr the advance is at a standstill. now long range strike on russ land, soon russ give up.
a lot of khokhly seem to bite the dust there. 400+ per day. how many days has this been going on? perhaps almost 100 days?
well, this is quite good for almost everyone except the ukainians sent to slaughter in such horrific way and their families — and all this just so that the puppet junta collapse is postponed beyond january 2025.
those ukrainian widows, mothers, brothers, sisters can be thankful this thanksgiving to blinken, biden, and company.
where have all the sane, informed and reasonably intelligent posters on this site gone? recent content and responses have become lame and juvenile. is it because there’s a lot more lunatic lefties with nothing else to do online, since trump reality hit them?
truly many morons at sf—desperate to relieve their anxieties now that russian superiority demonstrated
atacms long range usa missiles will bomb red street in moscow soon, suprize attact zelensky planning, putin (no stay more) in kremlin why? because putin must hide from atacms long range usa missiles, 300 mile distance range atacs can bomb from kursk to moscow 300 mile distance. decision joe biden wrong decision whybecause zelensky will bomb kursk (russian,korean troops with atacms missiles) and what happen next ? russian answer will be same , missiles russian will bomb usa in syria
if ukraina loose odessa it will be permanent thats why biden let use atacm long range missikes to bomb on moscow, and after 3 month biden is normal person with no responsibility.