Russian strike on Zaporizhzhia: at least other thirteen people killed and dozens wounds
The Ukrainian forces introduced a new wonderful offensive in Russia, expanding their prominent in Kursk north and the east, while kyiv’s counterinvasion succeeded in five months this week.
Geotagged showed Ukrainian forces moving from their base in Sudzha to Berdin, capturing fields and entering agreement on Sunday.
The Ukrainian forces captured the Russkoye Porechnoye and Novosotnitsky colonies on Monday. The 3 colonies are on the main road between Sudzha and the regional capital, Kursk.
Russian army bloggers said that Ukrainian forces celebrated the settlements of Martynovka, Cherkasskoye Porechnoye and Mikhaylovka.
Ukrainian forces would have complex in 3 wave attacks the length of a company supported through armored vehicles, Russian bloggers said.
One of the reasons for your good fortune to be the effective use of electronic war.
“Our drones can still do anything about it, because Enny EW (electronic war) has literally based,” wrote a journalist.
Ukrainian forces also appear to have used rocket systems from the Mobility Army (HIMAR) to block Russian reinforcements.
“As in August, the enemy is actively covering up his offensive actions with HIMARS strikes,” wrote a Russian reporter. “He is trying to knock out our suitable reserves, artillery and drone operators.”
Explosions have been informed in a technical aviation base in Kursk himself, about 70 km (40 miles) from the Ukrainian areas. The headquarters of Kursk’s army operations has killed more than one Ukrainian missile, suggesting that others have succeeded.
“Reports that Ukrainian forces are using long-range fires to interdict Russian rear areas and EW to degrade Russian drones in support of Ukrainian mechanised advances indicate that Ukrainian forces operating in Kursk are employing more effective combined arms tactics,” wrote the Institute for the Study of War, a Washington-based think tank.
In addition to missiles, Ukraine has used long-range drones of its own structure to attack Russian energy assets. A Ukrainian drone hit a terminal for the transshipment of condensate for feeding in the port of Ust-Luga, near Leningrad, on Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, causing a large fire.
Ukrainian officials have indexed a series of reasons for counterinasion, adding the profession of tens of thousands of Russian infantry soldiers who would in a different way attack the Ukrainian soil.
“The Russians have deployed their strong sets in the Kursk region. North Korean infantry men are involved. What is that the occupant cannot recently redirect this force in other directions, especially Donetsk, Sumy, Kharkiv Or Zaporizhia, “the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said in a night speech on Monday.
“Since the start of the Kursk operation, the enemy has already lost more than 38,000 infantry soldiers in this area, adding about 15,000 irreparable losses,” he said.
The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces published a list of Russian equipment destroyed in Kursk, including 104 tanks, 575 armoured combat vehicles, more than 1,000 other vehicles and 330 artillery systems.
Ukraine also said it had captured 860 Russians in Koursk, to exchange them for its own prisoners of war.
Russia has updated the soldiers, but its ability to update the device is less safe.
Ukraine’s Defense Ministry estimated that by 2024, its forces had destroyed 3,689 Russian tanks, 8,956 armored fighting cars, and more than 13,000 artillery pieces. The Ukrainian military said it was flowing boats and 458 small handicrafts.
Russia has been pulling Soviet armour out of storage and refurbishing it for combat. How long it can continue to do so is unclear.
One monitor of Russian hardware estimated Russia had about 48 percent of its tanks left, and a similar percentage of its armoured fighting vehicles, but satellite photography suggested a high proportion of them were in such poor condition as to be unusable.
The London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies estimated a year ago that Russia had two to three years worth of armour left.
The continuation of the Russian attacks opposed to Ukrainian positions last week also raised questions about the Russian armor.
The Russian forces have concentrated much of their workforce and firepower in the dual settlements of Pokrovsk and Myrnohrad in Donetsk, and on Friday they attacked 26 times along a 45 -kilometer front (30 miles) from the south.
“Fierce battles continue on the full front line, with the position close to Pokrovsk,” Zelenskyy said in his speech on Saturday night.
On Tuesday, fighting engagements were in this area, out of 176 across the front.
At the closest point, Russian forces held positions just 1.5km (1 mile) from Pokrovsk, where 7,300 civilians were reportedly still living and working.
“The intensity of the fight has changed, it has greater. Now, in front of us, there is a separate motorized rifle brigade and a motorized rifle regiment of the Russian Federation,” Serhiy Okishev, a sergeant in the 25th separate air combat in the Pokrovsk region, he told Serhiy Okishev, a sergeant in the 25th separate air fight in the Pokrovsk region in a Telthon.
However, under the pressure that Russian troops are less armored cars and more cartoons, golf carts and civil cars.
A spokesman for the Ukrainian forces in Kurakhove also said on Friday that “the Russians have gone to attacks exclusively through infantry in recent weeks, and if armored cars are used, then only for the fireplace and in the attacks themselves They do not participate. “
“The Russians keep their own armored cars as much as imaginable because they are very afraid of our anti-tank missile systems,” he said.
Ukraine has invested heavily in its own defense industry for beyond the year, especially in unmanned type systems, where cutting-edge tactics are emerging.
The intelligence of the Ukraine army told a TSN of Ukrainian media in Magura Vth that had killed one, but two Russian my8 helicopters on the black sea on December 31 in Black.
The attack took its position near Cape Tarkhankut, 15 km (10 mi) from Sevastopol.
Military Intelligence Unit 13, which is guilty of operating the Magura surface drone, has set a trap for the Russian Air Force, which is to detect and destroy naval drones once they are sighted. “In this specific operation, we were not tasked with, as usual, hiding from the Air Force. We were specific to look for air targets,” an unnamed source said.
Commander-in-chief Oleksandr Syrskii said the armed forces were “increasing the number of brigades with a reinforced unmanned component” and creating a separate brigade for unmanned systems.
“In general, in December, the operators of the Ukraine Defense Forces reached more than 54,000 enemy objectives. Almost part of this result, 49%, through a suicide bomber, “he wrote on social networks.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyal on Friday announced that Ukraine planned to build about 3,000 cruise missiles and drone missiles this year, and at least 30,000 long-range drones.
“From the” Victory Weapons “project, we will launch long -term contracts with brands for 3 to five years. We will pay icular attention to the long range component and the missile program,” said Shmyal.
The drone and missile systems were components of a plan to build Ukraine’s commercial defense capability to about $30 billion, up from $7 billion in 2024.
United States President-elect Donald Trump has promised to end the war this year, raising the prospect of freezing the conflict along current battle lines.
Asked if he was in a position to welcome a multinational force of European peacekeepers to Ukraine, Zelenskyy praised France for having a greater perspective, but specified that this is a component of an agreement that brings Ukraine into NATO.
“In fact, he is on his way to NATO. This does not mean that the deployment of European forces excludes a long career in NATO,” Zelenskyy said. I saw that Trump is positive about this idea. “