This week, Russia continued targeting Ukrainian logistical infrastructure with the clear aim of triggering a severe supply crisis for the Ukrainian military. The strikes are comprehensive, hitting industrial and energy facilities alongside weapons depots.
On July 16, a combined strike hit Kyiv and the surrounding region, with several manufacturing facilities targeted simultaneously. The ‘Rapid’ plant, which assembles and stores long- and medium-range drones, was struck. A drone storage facility belonging to the ‘Kyiv-1’ radio-electronic enterprise — responsible for assembling and storing long-range AN-196 ‘Lyuty’ drones — was destroyed. As was the case the previous week, the strikes appear deliberately concentrated on long-range drone assembly sites.
On the night of July 17, Russian drones struck Ukrainian ports. In Odessa, fuel unloading infrastructure, military fuel storage tanks, and two drone production facilities were hit — including a final assembly line for the UJ-22 medium-range drone — along with an on-site ammunition depot. In the port of Chernomorsk, drones struck fuel storage tanks and the dry cargo vessels AIDA and AROSA.
Russian forces are clearly exploiting the opportunity created by Ukraine’s air defense ammunition shortage. Mobile fire teams have proven reasonably effective against Geran drone strikes, but are far less capable against missile attacks.
Meanwhile, the situation on the front lines is equally as grim for Ukraine. On July 15, Russian forces achieved tactical gains in the Glukhov district of Sumy Oblast, with advance units reaching the outskirts of Ulanovo as assault preparations got underway.
On the Slavyansk axis, Russian assault units entered the village of Vasyutinske on July 17, where street fighting is now ongoing. A parallel offensive is developing near Malynivka, slightly to the north. Russian command appears to be executing a pincer movement converging on Pershomaryivka from two directions — a village that would then serve as a springboard for an advance on Kramatorsk and its surrounding urban area.
Taken together, this week’s developments point to a coherent and accelerating Russian strategy meant to strip Ukraine of its long-range strike capability while pressing forward on the ground before Kyiv can replenish its air defense stockpiles.
The window of vulnerability Ukraine now finds itself in — with a shortage in interceptors, drones, while under pressure across multiple sectors — is precisely the opening Russian command has been working to create. At the current tempo, the cumulative damage to Ukraine’s military capacity may soon become very difficult to reverse.
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russia has been humiliated and exposed these past 4 years…heheheh
exposed as what?… how they’ve taken 4 years to saddle and how you’re about to see how fast they ride?
ps: you’re a barely functional moron.
idiot savant is an alternate term
i think it’s idiot lavant, since his other paying job is scrubbing lavatories.
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exposed how the us, uk, nato are a bunch of pussies. to scared to enter ukraine.puti even went and told trump in person to fukoff. trump even escorted him with us jets
israel was humiliated and exposed by iran in just 12 days. hehehe
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latest pac missiles coldn’t even shoot down iranian missiles today or iraqi scuds and zelensky thinks old ones will help him.
reminds me of that old story about how many ukrainians does it take to screw up a country that the poles joke about lately.
half of ukraine moved to poland and other eu countries the men di e at the front lines while their women are a bunch of greedy golddiggers who dont belong here and who dont care about their men and country they are very selfish all about themselves at everyones expanse.
some are also stone cold k illers who k ill men. who have psycho face. and others inbred teacup heads. its not a pretty sight. better deport them back and end the war.
suka blyat ukranian dimitry can keep his ugly wife
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wonderful news ! more completed tasks. have beltway war planners issued collapse predictions yet ? no. war pigs are too busy plundering the nations infrastructure and taxpayers with goy slop media psy opps and surveillance build outs. genius long term planning !
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allowing the war to drag on for 4 years is clearly a mistake. it gives the jewsa, the jewu and the jewk opportunities to cause endless mischief via its ukronazi proxies. attacks deep within russia like attacks on oil, infrastructure, cities, and outright terrorist attacks like crocus city hall. attacks on russian shipping. economic warfare, however ineffective. attacking russia directly while hiding behind ukronazi proxies.
with any russian restraint taken as evidence of weakness, cowardice and incompetence. failure to take reprisals is far more dangerous than actually doing so. russia should have targeted nato spy planes and personnel. jewu countries are bragging how they are attacking russia and killing russians. russian servicemen putting their lives on the line must find it difficult to understand why russia is still supplying energy to the jewsa and jewk, why western leaders
are allowed to flit in and out of kiev for photo opportunities with zelensky, why the dnieper bridges are still standing. very gifficult.