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Despite sustaining heavy losses in manpower and equipment, Kiev forces have failed to make any meaningful gains on the ground since launching their so-called spring counteroffensive in the Zaporozhye and south Donetsk directions on June 4.
Videos that surfaced online on June 15 provided more details on the heavy losses Kiev forces sustained during their ill-fated attack on the Zaporozhye on June 8 and 9.
One video shows the destruction of several American-made Bradley infantry fighting vehicles with artillery, while another shows a German-made Leopard 2 main battle tank that was blown off the road with an anti-tank mine.
In the south Donetsk direction, Kiev forces failed to advance beyond the first line of contact. The Russian military maintained the high ground in this direction and stopped the Ukrainian advance at the towns of Velikaya Novoselovka, Vremensky, Makarovkais, Blagodatnoe, Urozhainoe and Storojevoe.
New videos show the destruction of a Ukrainian T-80 with a Lancet loitering munition near Makarovkais as well as several other armored vehicles being hit with artillery fire on another front in the direction.
Meanwhile, videos released by the Russian Ministry of Defense show the work of Russian attack helicopters, artillery and drone operators on both the Zaporozhye and south Donetsk directions.
Faced with failure on the front, Ukraine escalated its attack on Russian areas. Early on June 15, an attack with drones targeted the Crimean Peninsula. The region’s governor Sergey Aksyonov said that a total of nine drones were downed over Crimea.
According to Aksyonov, six drones were shot down while three others were disabled by electronic warfare means. He said that one drone had “exploded” in the village of Dokuchayevo in the central part of the peninsula.
“There are no casualties. Windows were shattered in some houses,” Aksyonov wrote on his Telegram channel, urging residents to stay calm.
Ukraine will likely go on with its counteroffensive, despite the heavy losses and all the setbacks. Larger attacks are to be expected in the upcoming few days and weeks as Kiev appears to be desperate to break through the Russian lines of defense.
The main target for Ukraine appears to be the city of Melitopol, which is located amid the land route linking Crimea with other Russian areas.
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which counteroffensive ? beter call it ‘last walk to the meat grinder’ offensive.
do the imbecile ukrotards like jenny the globohomo canine ass fucker, here ask themselves why russians placed theirs first line of defense 20 km behind the contact lines ?????? to let enough space for the hohol slaves to be wear down and be mass denazificated till they eventually reach the real deal and totally break the neck.
better not use racial slurs.
i’m black thanks for not using the n-word
lol, bullshit u dickhead / russian = neo nazi country
jews are evil niggers.
those stupid ruzzian fuckheads…useless, worthless bastards!!
oof another high quality comment by our resident polish toilet cleaner.
u r saying this for 14 months my pal
for those ruzzian fuckheads…they’re dying in thousands those stupid pathetic losers!!! ahahahahaha
jews are evil niggers!!! ahahahahaha
khazarian dog…down.
that sounds like the name of a movie.
battle of the bulge 2.0. everybody knew the outcome. everyone sane and honest that is.
let’s hope that at one point the sane(r) part of the us military will run a coup against their oligarchs in washington. before the missiles fly and the world ends for all of us.
well no, because in the battle of the bulge the german army performed well and conquered territory quick completely surprising and overwhelming the allied forces initially. it’s much more the battle of kursk 2.0 where the generals told stalin not to attack but to dig in and wait for the germans to attack. stalin for once listened to his generals instead of shooting them and the germans ran into extremely well prepared defences.
you’re right ilme. unfortunately, most western readers know nothing about kursk and everything the battle of the bulge. they still think that the nazis “almost won” kursk and the russians “almost lost”. it’s either not at all in the history books at school – or heavily biased and wrong.
the waffen ss divisions of 2nd ss panzer korps kicked the asses of the russian forces facing them on the south front of kursk. they broke through all the russian defensive lines and were only stopped by a russian counterattack. they inflicted huge losses on the russians at all stages of their assault.
manstein wanted to continue the offensive because of the huge losses the ss had inflicted but hitler called it off because of the allied invasion of sicily/italy and the failure of the northern pincer of the kursk offensive. all current books on kursk agree with this analysis. even books written by russian authors.
history books at school are for brain washing. no open media just govt line, whatever happened they could report anything. today not much different except for technology.
yes, ruzzia will be beaten and they running home linke rabbits those stupid fuckhead scum!!
ruzzia bone like rabbits ukro and polish widows to repopulate those countries with better stock.
my fisrt daughter i gave the name javelina. well after that she was bullied in the school, ran away from home and became narcoadict, then i called my other daughter himara, she also emigrated to amsterdam, now she works for a nigerian pimp. now my newly born is called leopardina, let’s see what a bright future she will have.
apparently she’ll fight on russian side
better take good care of your oldest daughter nukelina! once she flies all bets are off!
finally russians learned how to properly use the super-excellent attack heli ka 52 alligator ! not suicidal frontal attacks as they used in the first phase of that war but as in the wild: alligator wait under the water until some leopards will come to drink, then a lightning fast attack with the most powerful byte in the world aka whirlwind denazificator and ……kaboom, kaboom, kaboom ! bye bye fucking nazi shithole !
ahahahaha…these pieces of crap get shot sown faster than a blink of an eye…
dumb polack…
crazy khazarian dog bark… ahahah
can someone explain why russian soldiers would commit suicide rather than be captured? pow’s are protected under the geneva convention and you get food, a place to sleep and get to chill out.
ask this to your masters, ukrotroll. how many times umroshits did respect pow rights?
shut up ruzzian scum…you fuckheads do not respect anything…that’s why all of you must be killed instantly!!!
russia will nuke all dumb polaks. you first!!!
polaks provoke the bear and the rest of nato will have selective deafness to the pollack screams of “article 5, article 5!” remember, zelensky’s crew had a deal with usa & uk that if the ukros provoke russia to invade then nato will put boots on the ground guns a’blazing. all they got was antique nato relics.
because russian pows, are castrated, tortured, or murdered in by uaf in violation of the geneva convention. afterwards their bodies are desecrated. given current uaf disrespect for life and law, russian soldiers fight to the death in lieu of surrendering.
having laws, treaties, conventions, agreements on paper is not the same as following them.
there were allready selfies of ukronazis with pictures and videos how they tortured the russian pows. some of them are identified and they will be prosecuted after the war. don’t play a fool you wouldn’t know.
soon when demons colonize aleppo and obliterate man-made scriptures, humans will understand there is no more point in worshipping religions.
when baal hadad destroys mot in aleppo then it is game over for you.
ahahahaha…bullshit
muslims: our enemies are christians, hindus, bhuddist, pagans, lgbt. christians: our enemies are those who do not worship our god, they shall be punished for eternity, our “loving” god will take care of them by using vengeance on them like a pissed human being.
most of them don’t say this thing.
you really are a moron.
the muslim faith is an abrahamic religion as are all the various christian faiths, including jewdaism. the muslim faiths are the youngest abrahamic faith.
all the abrahamic faiths venerate the same prophets.
they all worship the ——–same god———–.
religion is bullshit, fuckhead, especially muslim one
in russia forum 130 nations–in denmark isolated w 2 mulatto pimps and lgbt sawyer
note that t80 was not actually destroyed, unless lately it caugh fire. while a leopard was actually burned ny a lance6, probably because hit in the turret ammo depot.
ahahahaha…this ruzzian piece of garbage…
pekne ich odchytávajú a ničia, len čo je pravda. preto sa rf nemá kam ponáhľať.
this counteroffensive will fail and they will say that there was never no counteroffensive…
come sempre migliaia di ucraini scemi ci restano secchi ! come sempre gli armamenti usa-nato fanno cilecca contro la russia ! gli ucraini nazisti dopo 15 mesi di sconfitte militari non si sono ancora stancati di morire inutilmente ?
scott ritter called out the u.s. chairman of the joint chiefs for basically mass murder. it is absolutely criminal that all of these ukraine men are being thrown to their deaths, with little training. they have no ability to use any of the supplied weapons from the west. scott said here in the u.s. general mark milley would face court martial for such gross malfeasance.