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While Kiev is diligently distracting Ukrainians and taxpayers in NATO countries with new attack on the Crimean Bridge, the situation is not changing on the southern frontlines in the Zaporozhye region, where the Russian military continues to grind the Ukrainian counter offensive.
The day before, the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) managed to enter the town of Staromayorskoe, located south of Velikaya Novoselka. By the afternoon of July 16, Ukrainians were repelled from the town. LINK
Over the past day, the AFU failed to continue their advance in this direction. However, the situation remains tense. Having gained a foothold on the outskirts, Ukrainian forces continue to attack, but so far without success.
According to reports from the front, the attacks are conducted by units of the Ukrainian 35th Marine Brigade and the 31st Separate Mechanized Brigade with the support of the 1st Separate Tank Brigade, 68th and 72nd Separate Motorized Brigades. If this infantry succeeds and gains a foothold in the town, it is expected that the Ukrainian command will throw into battle the trained tank companies of the 1st Separate Tank Brigade.
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The recent escalation in the area of Staromayorskoe followed unsuccessful attempts by the AFU to advance on the flanks of the Russian grouping. Ukrainian attacks near Novodonetskoe and Priyutnoe were repelled. Moreover, Russian forces reportedly counterattacked near Priyutnoe and took back control of several positions in the area.
Also, the fighting continues near Urozhainoe, where the AFU fails to break through the Russian defense.
Positional battles continue on the southern outskirts of Ugledar, where the Russian military holds full control of Pavlovka and Nikolsky. According to reports from the front, the AFU are avoiding any massive attacks in this direction and are grouping forces before a possible major assault.
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In the Orekhov area, the intensity of hostilities has significantly decreased. Having suffered heavy losses, the Ukrainian command suspended the “meat assaults”, but local attacks near Rabodino and Pyatikhatki continue.
The Ukrainian military is launching offensive operations by small groups, hiding in forest plantations, probing Russian defence. The attacks are carried almost with any heavy military equipment. Russian servicemen track the movement of the enemy and inflict fire damage.
At the same time, the AFU are reportedly strengthening the advanced positions in the region. According to Russian military analysts, reinforcements from the 47th mechanized brigade of the AFU arrived to the strongholds north of Rabotino. Two additional assault groups were transferred to Lobkovoye, and a group of the Ukrainian Special Forces reportedly arrived in Shcherbaki. Assault detachments of the 78th separate assault regiment of the AFU have strengthened the forward positions near Belogorya. This indicates the imminent resumption of Ukrainian massive assaults, which will involve the newly deployed Ukrainian servicemen, in an attempt to break through Russian positions towards the city of Tokmak.
In its turn, the Ministry of Defense in its daily briefing on July 17 announced the following developments over the past day:
In the South Donetsk direction, Russian airstrikes, artillery fire of the Vostok group of troops defeated the manpower and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of Urozhainoe and Levadnoe in the Zaporozhye region.
In the Zaporozhye direction, Russian forces hit the areas of accumulations of enemy manpower and equipment in the areas of Marfopol, Novoselovka, Shcherbaki and Pyatikhatki in the Zaporozhye region. In the area of Charivnoye, Zaporozhye region, the activities of the Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group were suppressed.
The enemy’s losses in these areas amounted to:
- up to 240 Ukrainian servicemen,
- two armored combat vehicles,
- two cars,
- a US-made M109 Paladin self-propelled artillery unit,
- three Msta-B howitzers,
- an Acacia self-propelled artillery unit,
- a D-30 howitzer.
- In addition, an ammunition depot of the 33rd mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed near the settlement of Malaya Tokmachka, Zaporozhye region.
The Ukrainian military is preparing for a new phase of the offensive. In an attempt to cut off the military supplies of the Russian grouping in the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, Kiev attacked the Crimean Bridge. However, the attack did not result in any significant military advantages. Only the highway, which is not used for the transfer of Russian military equipment, was damaged.
it looks like ukie land will cease to exist, lol.
the msm prepare their believers allready for the possible defeat. from the original assurance russia would be anyway defeated , the narrative emerged slowly that nobody can win this conflict. and now come the first voices , it is possible the west can completely lose like in vietnam or afghanistan. on the western tv in the best tv time.
caravan of bradley , no cover , out in the open field , you’d think it would be be a turkey shoot for the russians. is it ineptitude or an inability ? this stuff should not be making it to the front.
most of the shell craters are more than 50m from the tree lines. it’s obvious that russian artillery has to shoot 10x as many shells because their artillery is garbage. russian artillery isn’t located accurately, isn’t aimed accurately, has garbage barrels and sighting, and employs garbage shells with inaccurate dimensions, crappy propellant, and flight characteristics.
and so incapable inaccurate and inefficient russians are shooting bradleys and other wunderwaffe like turkeys. and the stupid “mercenaries” and other idiots believe this propaganda and travel to ukraine to fight these inaccurate and inefficient russians (who fight with shovels and have no missiles) and die like flies. what a crazy world.
hmmm… still somehow it is a 10 to one kill ratio.. how is that.. ?
can anyone explain the statistics based on inheritance? ukrainians – 15000 killed soldiers and russia 55000 killed soldiers? those statistics are (were) publicly available. not in russia anymore.
how did the ukrainians, stuck in minefields, without aviation and with very poor artillery, manage to destroy 55,000 russian soldiers in a super-fortified line with absolute superiority in artillery and aviation!? let the ukrainians be happy if they managed to throw only a few thousand russian soldiers out of the fight. obviously, you like the available “data”, but that does not mean that they are correct, and they are certainly the most disgusting lies if they come from kiev…
based on later other vids it can be seen clearly the artillery can strike 100% hits on infantery level. the only thing i can think of is the russian command does not want to destroy all vehicles because this would disrupt the bringing of more soldiers to the front. and a soldier on the front is an enemy less to fight later in the war.
“lets just sit here until they fire at us and then we will sit here until they hit us….” thank fuck americans trained these goofballs or they might have done some damage somewhere…
why waste the shells, the cheap mines are doing the job. firing artillery will give away the guns positions. no need to waste the jet fuel either. the ukrainians lose the western equipment and men all the same. plus if you make it too hard they will give up and atop wasting time, people and resources.
so when is russia going to retaliate by destroying all the bridges across the dnieper ?
they won’t destroy these bridges because it would cost them billions and take years to rebuild. the stupidity and racism of people commenting here is contemptible.
yes yours in the first place. have you heard something about lancets ? anything about ew? why do you think ukrainians attack now without air support? what about loitering munitions m777 and other game changer? and all the pictures of damaged and destroyed leos and other western supplies : kremlin propaganda , right? and about bridges: can you imagine there will be time after the war , when the west withdraws from ukraine and russia and their allies will have to rebuild the country?
but it is unlikely that the russians will ever try to cross the dnieper anyway and it would make it difficult for the ukes to resupply their forces in east ukraine.
never at least not under anyone connected in any way or form to the current administration and the elite backing it.
why, we will need them to govern our new provinces of lvov, odessa etc. better question is why the banderite junta in kiev, lvov, odessa etc. havent blown them to save their own miserable hides from our unstoppable special military operational goals of denazification and demilitarization of ukraine, or its replacement ?
i do not think the russian people or putin believe they will be able to seize all of eastern ukraine and cross the dnieper again. when the russian military abandoned western kherson they told the residents if they wanted to live under russian rule they should leave western kherson with the military or else they would end up under ukrainian rule. at this point i believe putin would be satisfied with all the donbas oblasts and ukraine becoming neutral. most of the ‘nazis’ have died in combat.
russian artillery is so useless they can’t hit target out in the open and stopped. no wonder they can’t win this war.
you would think ukraps would try a different tactic, failing is not working
son estos refuerzos ucranianos recién llegados y concentración de tropas y suministros los que rusia debería atacar con sus propias bombas de racimo y bombas termobaricas ya que causan un daño enorme tanto a nivel físico como psicológico.
thank to southfront for posting these videos the first one gave the best indications of the battlefield conditions as you could clearly see the mrap and bradley vehicles along with the craters made by previous artillery strikes i will assume that this was official russian mod footage
the losses of nato weapons are widely confirmed by western msm. no need by russian mod to fake thus.
the doped up degenerates on pennsylvania ave. would like to thank all the dead ukrainians for their failure to avoid military service in the cause of blackrock.
obviously bugs and insects have better combat awareness than an american trained ukropt. these idiots have zero chance.
lean days ahead for the ukronazi faction. instead of taking territory they should be content with escaping from the country alive. your idiot puppet of a president from kiev agrees…
nato us uk want massive reduction of the population in europe so they have enough space to park at the stores the most like and they can get ai robots to serve them.