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The military situation around Kiev continues to develop. The parties to the conflict refrain from making loud statements about the occupation of any territories. However, this does not mean that military activities on the front lines were frozen. High-intensity fighting continues in the north-west and east of the Kiev region.
In the North-West, Russian troops attempt to advance to the south of the capital, but they are facing fierce resistance of the AFU units deployed in the region supported by foreign fighters. Taking into account the intensity of military activities the Russian troops are not in a rush to break through the Ukrainian defense
That means, Russian military forces are not rejected, but slowly continue taking the capital in a ring.
The most fierce clashes continue in Irpen, Buchа and Gostomel, Russian troops cut the E-40 highway and bypass Irpen on the western flank. They are likely aimed at reaching the town of Vasilkov located to the southwest of Kiev. The assault of the town is most likely not planned. It is enough to take key transport interchanges in the Vasilkov area. After assaulting Vasilkov, the key task will be to reach the town of Obukhov in order to encircle Kiev. Nevertheless, Russia does not set the task of occupying Kiev and towns around the capital.
Ukrainian BMP-2 destroyed in Borodyanka
Ukrainian BMP-2 destroyed in Borodyanka
The main military developments in the recent days took place in the eastern and south-eastern parts of the Kiev region.
The railway stage on the Kiev- Kharkiv tracks is already out of work.
Some days ago, in the Semipolki area the Su-24 of the armed forces of Ukraine was shot down by the Russian air defense systems. The aircraft was likely shot down by the Russian Buk medium-range surface-to-air missile system. This means that the Russians have deployed a medium-range air defense system in a close vicinity to the Ukrainian capital. The air defenses are already in the tactical depth of the enemy defence. Thus, they can close the sky over Kiev, preventing the use not only of the Ukrainian aviation in the area but also reconnaissance UAVs.
On the night of March 27-28, SU-25 SM of the Russian Aerospace Forces struck several military facilities in Ukraine. The footage shared by locals confirmed that the strikes also hit the AFU in the Kiev region.
At the same time, Russian troops are sending military reinforcement to the front lines to the east of the capital towards Brovary where clashes continue. The main front lines lay near the villages of Kalinovka, Skibin, Velikaya Dimerka. The E-95 highway remains under the Russian control and the reinforcements are sent from the north-eastern direction.
Russian troops are active in the direction of Krasilovka-Trebukhov, attempting to surround the town of Brovary from the south-eastern direction along the E-95 highway. They are aimed at moving further to the south towards Boryspil.
The main task is not to take control over the towns, but to cut the main roads around them and Kiev in general.
At the same time, the overlap of the M-03 (Kiev-Poltava) highway is unnecessary, because it will not affect military supplies to the Eastern regions. For the same reason, the capture of Boryspil in the near future is unlikely.
In their turn, Ukrainian forces supported by foreign mercenaries claim victories to the east of Brovary, threatening the Russian advance to the south.
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After several days of fierce clashes in the village of Lukyanovka, the AFU reportedly managed to take control over the settlement at least partially.
According to the deputy head of the Kirovograd Regional Council, the losses of Russians amounted to about 40 servicemen. Several units of Russian armored vehicles were reportedly destroyed, at least three tanks were captured by Ukrainian and foreign soldiers.
At the same time, the similar claims were made a few days ago, but the control of the AFU over the village was not confirmed. Clashes are likely to continue in the area.
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Despite the absence of any significant advances of the troops from the both sides, the main goals of the Russian Armed Forces in the Kiev region are clear. There is no signals the Ministry of Defense of Russian Federation is planning to storm the Ukrainian capital and nearby towns in near future. The assault of Kiev is likely to be avoided as the price to pay is too high.
At the same time, the main tasks of the Russian military forces in the Kiev region are:
- to shackle military forces of Ukraine
- to complicate or even block logistic supplies throughout the Kiev transport hub
- to cause maximum damage to military infrastructure
- to surround the capital including the city’s outskirts.
However, such goals take time and significant forces.
At the moment Russian troops in the region face significant obstacles which slow down teh implementation of these goals. The main battlefield in Ukraine is not the Kiev region but Donbass, where the joint Russian, DPR and LPR troops are attempting to surround the largest AFU grouping breaking through heavily-equipped Ukrainian defence.
Russian grouping deployed in the Kiev region also faces several logistics problems, that is timely delivery of fuel, lubricants and ammunition to the front lines under the constant enemy fire. The speed of decision-making at the tactical and operational levels also raises questions.
Current goal, don’t get humiliated too much and at least try to stay and not run away like little girls from Wagner Nazi mercs!
“Russian grouping deployed in the Kiev region also faces several logistics problems, that is timely delivery of fuel, lubricants and ammunition to the front lines under the constant enemy fire. The speed of decision-making at the tactical and operational levels also raises questions.”
The journalism in the last paragraph? Ahahaha!
ukro nazis are running scared and have no supplies at the main battlefield, giving up , laying down arms and surrendering
Yes yes, I took Mariupol a week ago!
You look smart enough to join Russian Army, wanna join? We offer pleasant holiday houses trip in Ukraine, including local event management!
Ukrop here. I am located in Irpen. When the fights started, most of us didn’t even want to do, but nazi batallions shot those who tried to lay down their arms. We tried to hold on for some time but all the Russians did is set up a cauldron. In order to summon courage to fight back amidst the artillery and airstrikes, we were getting high on Krokodil. However the last of the krokodil ran out some time ago and now everybody is surrendering en masse. Those who are even still alive, are now all suffering from withdrawal and almost all of the nazi groups dressed up as women and tried to flee. But i hear most got caught anyway. Zelensky, if you are reading this. Send food water and I dont know, maybe make some sort of agreement. My entire company is dead or dying….it’s over…. i yield
failure is painful for hillbillies in oklihoma—your lgbt counselor in Omaha can relieve your trauma with improved sodomy technique
What about Mariupol, oh you mean that drugged ukronazis are hiding between civilians and makes the mission more difficult, yeah i know. There are videos on the net from Donbass region where the main ukkie army is, it’s littered with ukrainian soldiers corpses, it’s better they give up.
That’s the Ukrainian “strategy”? What happend to the “Joint Operation”?
We Russians don’t have joints! We do lose without … errhh, I mean winnying big time!
Five weeks ago the Kiev Klown Kabal was all set to launch the “Joint Operation”, joining NATO was in their constitution, and the entertainment-industry figurehead was talking about acquiring nuclear weapons. What is the status of the “Joint Operation” forces, what is the relationship of the Donbass region to Kiev? What is the Ukrainian outlook for three months from now, or one year, or three years?
Ukraine simply has to survive against my muppets, which are demoralized badly and started with desertions since the beginning, or simply giving up.
So again, what’s the status of the “Joint Operation” forces, and what is the relationship now of the Donbass region to Kiev? Certainly no one was questioning the viability of the Ukrainian state in 2013. How has their position devolved to “survival”? If the regime in Kiev is permitted to remain, what is the socio-economic outlook for the rump Ukrainian state in a year, three years, or five years? Even if Russia leave the territory west of the Dnieper, and Poland and Hungary don’t make the best of the situation, what is the future for the people who remain in such a state?
The ukraine strategy is like the ukraine itself, fake and gay! -D
A Russian cosmonaut returns to Earth after several months in space and the commander informs him of the latest events:
– According to President Putin, we are conducting a special military operation in Ukraine.
In fact, it is a conflict between Russia and NATO to determine who will rule the world for the next hundred years.
– What’s the situation now?
– We lost over 15,000 soldiers, 7 generals, 500 tanks, 3 ships, 100 planes and 1000 armored trucks and transporters.
Shocked cosmonaut asks:
– And NATO?
– NATO has not arrived yet.
When i hear those mercenaries i could threw up and they make my blood boil, they deserve the same destiny as Azov!
Chechens and Speznaz show these blood thirsty war-tourists ur skills make them pay their bills!
But I use Wagner, lost all my specialists at the beginning of the invasion already!
If the Ukrainians defeated the “specialists” a month ago, why is there still a massive Russian salient from the Belarussian border to the outlying regions of Kiev? Surely the Ukrainians could have displaced, enveloped and captured the leaderless recruits who were starving in the snow without gasoline?
So basically those amicunts have a big mouth cause the russians are not storming the place yet
Not yet. Not yet either. No, not yet. Not yet too. Nope. Nah, not really. Now? No! But now it is a definite no!
Once the azov cunts are chased out of south and east and are collected in one spot russians will just launch some rockets on them
Good tha they are showing their faces though :)
Hate all you want at least these fuckers man up and went to fight. Better than the douche bags that post talking shit all day!
They are lurking somewhere in the outskits of kiev, taking pics next to destroyed ukranian tanks and pretend those are russian
I am glad the situation is clear. I found this article interesting although I have not fact-checked it: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/28/the-drone-operators-who-halted-the-russian-armoured-vehicles-heading-for-kyiv. If nothing else it gives an indication of the naivety or else poor leadership which led to the Russians trying to drive all their heavy armour in a convoy towards Kiev. Of course they should have split into groups to advance at multiple points. I studied WWII at school and even I know that. Hopefully there will be less casualties from drone strikes and there can be some negotiation to end the conflict soon.
A very interesting article I have to say.
Tanks Vlad.
CNN is loudly boasting of the liberation of Irpin. I see that Bovary is also not under Russian control. The situation in Kiev region is not ideal and even the Russians Government said that mistakes were made. The tactics used in Kiev region are primarily what they were refering to I would think.
It’s important to understand that the main goal (thus far) of the Russian forces in the Kiev region is to keep UKR troops tied up there, so that they’re not able to reinforce the main front-lines in and around Donbass. They also have the secondary functions of putting political pressure on the regime there and disrupting logistics.
As far as mistakes go, I’m sure the Russians have made some, but (from what I can tell) only ones that have had an impact at the tactical level, not at the larger strategic level. War is inherently chaotic, and mistakes are bound to happen sometimes.
There’s a longstanding trope though that the Russian military is bumbling, incompetent, and with crappy equipment in poor condition…..During WWII one could read all about that in the German media – right up until those bumbling and incompetent Russians with their crappy weapons took Berlin ;-)
If you read Von Melenthin, the Germans went from offensive to hedgehog defence to offensive, and the war was won by them in 1942. And the next thing you know, the Americans and British are considering taking Tempelhoff with an airborne assault to keep the Russians out of Berlin. Fascist propaganda never changes.
well stated—moron amrikant cannot comprehend reality
i ll tell you a secret, Irpen wasn’t in russian hands the entire conflict so i am not sure how they have retaken it :D
“Fact-checking” is a propaganda technique employed now in lieu of analyzing major and minor viewpoints in Anglsophere media that has replaced journalism. Funny thing that story. If drones “halted” the Russian convoy, I can’t quite see how they were unable to eliminate it. Did you learn about Mutla Ridge in school? Once the convoy halted, the drones must have ripped it apart, disintegating the formations and eliminating the Russian presece north of Kiev. Similar to the Falaise aerial operations against the retreating German forces in northern France. Must be video of hundreds of smouldering Russian vehicles all over the roads, and all over the area ajoining the highway. Fire away with the links to the Russian Mutla Ridge!
Have you actually read the article? They claim destroying armored vehicles and so-on with small bombs, 2.5kg (5 pounds). That is enough to destroy a truck but definitely not tank or armored vehicles… So I call BS.
I havent joined the military but I have seen all the Rambo and Terminator films plus the Dirty Dozen. This gives me sufficient knowledge to say that someone forgot to give this convey air support. Always give air support when you drive in convoy. Then no one can hurt you.
British bs at its best , wonder how they will have to explain it to their public that they have been lying all of this time about ukranian victories lmao
i call bs on this. russia not liberating kiev is like china not liberating taiwan’s taipei, north korea not liberating seoul, and vietnam not liberating saigon. gotta see through the smoke.
obviously you are a moron
SF are good. They even mentioned confirmed win of AFU and mentiot weaknesses of Russian.
I hope those chechen wrap up mariapol soon and start focusing on other front.
While SouthFront and most of their readers (some prolific trolls in the comments notwithstanding) have a pro-Russian perspective, they do report on setbacks by the Russian side, similar to how they did with the Syrian government side in the war there. IMO, this is a good thing, and helps build credibility and trust.
As far as the next front after Mariupol goes, I believe the priority after that will be to complete the encirclement of the main UKR grouping in the Donbass. Right now they’re semi-encircled, in that Russian artillery and airpower makes it difficult to resupply the troops there or for them to retreat with their heavy weapons, but the main grouping isn’t yet physically encircled.
After this is done, and the Donbass fully liberated, I suspect that the next priority will be Odessa. Kiev will be later on – if there’s still not a surrender by Zelensky.
Is it possible that professional mercenaries and even regular NATO troops are being (unofficially) deployed to Ukraine?
They are.
Amerikanci su prevarili Ukrajince kao i Gruziju,to su varalice i hijene,ukrajinci ako imate mozga u glavi ,odbacite te prljave i pokvarene amere.Rusi budite odlučni,gledajte šta rade vašim zarobljenim drugovima,nemojte biti isti kao ti fašisti,ali nazad vam više nema,to su vam Amerikanci zakuvali,Rusija je u pitanju,BORITE SE.
Slušajući Ukrajinsku propagandu čovjek bi pomislio da su pred Vladivostokom ,živjela Rusija
Mi i Ukrajinci slovenska pravoslavna braća. Rusi nas izdali.
Why the f.u.c.k you publish debunked crap? American fags were posing near destroyed Ukrainian tank, not Russian.
Heard this too. Not only is that American a retarded cunt but he’s also a larper. Pretty much what you’d expect. 2 excellent reasons why that dumb fuck deserves to be “rekalibrated”.
Sometimes i think that they don’t even know what they write tbh.
If hezbullah or iraq pmu went to ukrain putin will sure find his success in timely
El asalto a Kiev no debe ser lo prioritario con solo rodearla y destruir los suministros y sus accesos por carretera es suficiente, así como destruir las principales unidades del ejército Ucraniano y sus armamentos . En esta segunda fase Rusia y la fuerzas separatistas de la RPD y LRP debe reforzar su presencia en el Donbass y en la zonas de Kersson, Karkiv y Mariupol esto lo puede realizar con tropas de refuerzo, la idea es dividir a Ucrania dejando estos territorios en control total de las Repúblicas separatistas Rusas, para ello puede intentar trasladar a los rusoparlantes a estás zonas y crear nuevas administraciones locales, así también expulsar a los residentes ultranacionalistas que sigan apoyando al gobierno ucraniano siguiendo el mismo guión que utilizan las fuerzas turcas que controlan varias regiones en Siria e Irak. Para esto Rusia puede instalar algunas bases y puestos de control en estos territorios bajo su dominio alejando la amenaza de levantamientos populares o grupos de resistencia. Con esto Rusia cumpliría con varios de sus objetivos propuestos, destruir la infraestructura militar Ucraniana y sus tropas ultranacionalistas, desmantelar y mantener el pleno dominio de las centrales nucleares Ucranianas para evitar que Kiev se haga de armas nucleares, destruir todas las instalaciones de laboratorios biológicos extranjeros evitando que Kiev adquiera armas biológicas y lo más importante alejando la posibilidad de que la OTAN se instale con su infraestructura militar cerca de las fronteras de Rusia para ello Moscú puede instalar en esas bases en territorio ucraniano sistemas de misiles Iskander con cabeza nuclear y misiles hipersonicos también con cabeza nuclear y de este modo disuadir de manera certera al masivo acumulamiento de tropas y armas de la OTAN en los países fronterizos con Ucrania: Polonia, República Checa, los países bálticos: Lituania, Estonia, Letonia etc
Destruir los laboratorios biológicos extranjeros evitando que Kiev adquiera armas biológicas, y lo más importante alejar la infraestructura de la OTAN de las fronteras Rusas, para esto Moscú puede instalar en estás bases y territorios bajo su control en territorio ucraniano los sistemas de misiles Iskander con cabeza nuclear, así también misiles hipersonicos con cabeza nuclear de esta manera lograría disuadir de manera efectiva a la constante acumulación de tropas e infraestructura de la OTAN en los países fronterizos con Ucrania como Polonia, República Checa, Rumania, Georgia, los países bálticos: Lituania, Letonia, Estonia.
A minor set back in the east offset by gains in south west of Kiev. There were gains in other parts of the field especially towards Slavayansk. I hope SF is going to give a complete report.
Regarding Russian Aviation, people tell me they are not doing combined arms at all, meaning no close combat support. Is this true? It must be, because if they were, these type of advances around Kiev should not be possible.
Anyways, the gas to much of Europe looks to be shutting off on April 1st unless they pay in Rubles. When that happens, no one is going to give a shit about what is happening in Ukraine. Russia will be relieved of constraints.
I can’t comment with certainty on the situation, but it does seem to be the case that to this day the Russians are using their airforce very lightly..
Isn’t because the ukros are using civilian infrastructure to blend in and they want avoid civilian casualties?
If Russia carpet bombed Kiev like Americans did it to Baghdad it would have been over quicker. Thank God Russia are not filthy animals like US army.
That’s true, but the mood in Russia has changed noticeably since the videos of the Russian POW’s being tortured were published. Very little sympathy remaining for Ukrainians I fear. Most are saying do was it necessary to force a surrender and are not to particular how that is done.
Way to go Russia. Slowly, slowly, catchy Ukraine Monkees !
First two videos above: good work. Fire works have started at UAF and azov positions in Kiev.
It’s more interesting yhink if Russia just surrounding Kiev and leaves Ukraine and NATO to feed 2million unworkable peoples in Kiev.If Tussia get Kiev they’re the one who feed that 2 million peoples.
Ukraine, sad news:
1. In Kyiv alone, on the basis of denunciations and guided by pre-compiled lists, more than 600 people were kidnapped. These are mostly people disloyal to the authorities, far from all were public people. The fate of the restoring majority is unknown. Part of the objectionable sang to hide in advance;
2. There are armed gangs operating in the country that are formally part of the power structures, but the country’s leadership has lost control over them (and has it ever had?). Some of them have Nazi ideology, most of them are TrO (Volkssturm) units;
3. Due to the heavy losses in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, some units of the Volkssturm are recruited to serve in the army on the front line, members of the Troop are shocked and unpleasantly surprised by being sent to the front
@OpenUkraine
The US and western must be so proud of themselves promoting their fake democracy to Ukraine. Ukraine pawns who thought NATO would start WW3 for the Nazis. Have they not learned anything from US wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya etc. The US only used ukros as pawns in this proxy war.
Russia needs to officially name fahcist amerika a ‘state sponsor of terror’..
It has never looked like the Russians wanted to take Kiev literally – just to blockade it (other than a Western evacuation route). People seem to forget, the Russians have had less boots on the ground than the Ukranian Army does from the start. A ratio of 3-1 in the Ukranian Army’s favour as far as I am aware. Yet the Russians are ones that are continually on the offensive so their tactics can’t be that bad. The Russians are not engaging in ‘total war’ otherwise lots of places would have been flattened by now after being carpet-bombed by their heavy bombers – hence the slower progress.
On another point, Ukraine is a fucking massive country. This aint like one of the video games we all like to play where a ‘big campaign’ is a story that lasts 20 hours.. Just because the Russians haven’t taken every blade of grass within the Ukraine within a month does not mean they are suddenly losing.
As for the video game effect, I think that some of the foreign fighters fighting for the Ukranian army are finding that a real war is no fun. They probably think they are playing on ‘isane difficulty mode’ as they can’t find any instant 100% healing medkits.
I’m not a professional soldier of any kind but even I know that it would be a utterly fucking stupid idea to advertise what I do on places like Instagram and the like – with loads of fucking photos no less. Professional ‘Soilders of Fortune’ will unlikely do no such thing. They stay in business by keeping under the radar.
In a land war a professional American can take out 1000 Chinese, and probably 10 Russians per one American Special Force. Which means we could have done Ukraine in 4 weeks and Russia probably will use 40 weeks to do it, all included. In some of the videos you will see our boys are in Kiev, and thats probably why the Russians hesitate to go anywhere near Kiev, which means that this City is still safe, because we are there guarding the city.
Military Academy here, nazi worms pay attention, you fucking cocaine (well I know you’re more on cheap methadone but anyway…)terrorists:
Russia strategy is very clear: pin down into a giant ‘anvil and hammer’ situation the ukrop army as a whole. With at least other 2 mini ‘matroska anvil and hammer’ inside. It’s clear they don’t want to press for Kiev, only to grind them down there as much as possible. Also, that means russian staff have considerable surplus of ready manpower waiting for the sledgehammer, otherwise it doesn’t make any sense. Meanwhile the destruction of the logistic infrastructure continues on a steady pace. That’s even more important because will slowly degrade the entire ukrop army situation. It’s an ‘hammer and anvil’ on the vertical axis, literally and figurative. But also can be a more political approach than military. Letting Kiev and the lands eastward on any agreement with the ukrop faggot puppet president will be an utter error.
ha ha ha ha ha…..u-crappy forces starving cut off—weapons degraded, desperate—we enjoy the show…more popcorn….in 2 weeks they will sneak away wearing dresses like the Azov cowards do in mariupol….the americannot nazi CIA hillbillies express more impotence and desperation…where is the popcorn Natasha? 5 more minutes solnushko!
It may not be wise to stray too far form Kiev….. Just saying…. You don’t suppose it might be a strategy to draw forces out….. We will see in 10 days times what is left of the big counter attack. Remember Debaltsve? Oh that’s right, you are slow leaners.
The encirclement of Kyiv will take place after the destruction of the AFU grouping between the Dnieper and Donbass, in this regard, the capture of the main road junction in Izyum and the consolidation of Russian forces there is the most important event of the last weeks of the special operation. From the direction of Izyum, Russian troops continue to advance south to the Slavyansk region, and yesterday the whole day there were battles in the area of the village of Dolina. In the morning, the RF Armed Forces were already shelling the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the village of Krestishche, which is even closer to Slavyansk.
This is what is important, not Kiev at this point.
Chernihiv is also surrounded by the RF Armed Forces and it is no coincidence that as many as 4 Ukrainian aircraft were shot down there yesterday. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is trying with all its might to help the garrison. Cheerful governor of the Nikolaev region Kim continues the attack on the Russian Kherson, in the area of Stanislav (to the south) the Armed Forces of Ukraine suffered losses yesterday.