post-avdiiv front. after the failure near ocheretiny, the armed forces still cannot stabilize this section of the front. the armed forces of the russian federation continue to advance in the direction of vozdvizhenka, from which it is less than 5 km to the highway connecting pokrovsk and kostiantynivka. this week, the enemies managed to almost completely capture nova oleksandrivka, as well as expand the zone of their control to the north of it. in addition, advancing on novopokrovsky, they threw back the defense forces for 500 m on a section 2.5 km long. however, the armed forces restrained the offensive of the occupiers on the falcon on this front, the russians have considerable room for maneuver in different directions, our defense lines are being prepared based on the operational situation, not in advance. therefore, the scale of the threat of vdrshists in this area is constantly increasing. on the southern flank of the postavdiyiv front , the enemy expanded the zone of control near umanskyi, but could not do anything with our defenders of yasnobrodivka and novoselivka the first. along the entire length of this front, the armed forces destroys a significant amount of equipment, and

it becomes increasingly difficult for the occupiers to suffer. ugledar and southern front. in the ugledar area, the russians continue to gradually implement their plan to capture the city from the north. although all this is happening extremely slowly, and they are losing a lot of equipment and people, the trends are clear. so, in the last two weeks, the rashists managed to push back the front line to the south of the village of pobeda, as well as break through to a few hundred meters near volodymyrivka and solodko. in the berdyan direction, the enemy has practically completed the re-occupation of staromai. it's far away. the russians continue their offensive on the neighboring cropland, but here, the defense forces hold most of the territories and prevent the enemy from advancing into the fields. clearing the sky over crimea: crimean air defense, which was once the most effective and saturated after moscow, has now become leaky, as decided. the armed forces have significantly increased the intensity of strikes and destruction of everything that once defended crimea from our missiles and drones. the other day , an s-400 and s-300 anti-aircraft missile division was hit in jenkoi. before that, within the framework of several. no strikes were directed at

chornomorske, krasnoperekopske, simferopol, pervomayske, yevpatoria, the villages of naumivka and mykhailivyk, saksky district. it is noteworthy that the newest s-400 complexes in crimea are beginning to run out, and we are increasingly destroying outdated s-300s, which are unable to stop a whole range of strike nomenclature. the partisan movement also reported that the russian military is recommended to start evacuating their families with half an army. unique strikes on russia. for the first time, during the war, our... harrows flew to the mozdok airfield, which is 1000 km from ukraine in north ossetia. the planes that launch missile strikes on ukraine, in particular, are based there tut-22m3 long-range bombers, from which x-22 cruise missiles and mig-31 dagger carriers are launched. currently, the results of the strike are unknown, but they have arrived, this is the first stage, more will follow. the impression of the most modern russian sub-57 fighter at the akhtubinsk airfield in the ostrakhan region is an extremely powerful reputational one. a blow to

the russian federation, which demonstrates that racists cannot protect even the most important strategic objects, because akhtyubinets is the airfield where their most modern weapons are tested. nice, what else one modern su-34 decided to end its existence on its own during a flight from the caucasus. we defeat death to our enemies every day. yes, and we are joined by guest oleksandr kovalenko, a military and political commentator of the information resistance group. er, oh, congratulations, alexander. good day. well, you know, let's start with such a general question. well, as if we got, er, the opportunity to strike with western weapons on the territory of russia. already there, a number of politicians have made statements that it is normal for ukraine to destroy, military capabilities on enemy territory. but that's all, here we have a question, and when will we

see it directly en masse, because you know, maybe there is some idea that now a bunch of rockets will fly there or something else, but how will it actually be, you can to describe when and what exactly we will see on the territory of russia, well, the use of this very nuclear, well, i say nuclear, western weapons, well, from time to time we already see it, it all started in the information space itself. one of the divisions of the s-400 s-300 complexes, which were located near belgorod, was then not only the launcher was destroyed, but also the radar stations, and two at the same time, which is very cool, this is a much greater loss than the loss of the launcher, and then we saw the attack on the headquarters in the belgorod region, the headquarters of the army group north. and in the belgorod region

, there was also an attack on a warehouse with ammunition, high-precision weapons, most likely the attack was made with ammunition. of the m30 type from the m142 hymers, and therefore they occur, in addition to everything else, strikes on the territory of the russian federation are also carried out by artillery, long-range and highly accurate, but this is not reported so often, that is, if every time the report will tell, today we fired a shot there and destroyed a self-propelled artillery installation there, for example, an mstas with a hymars hit or a 155 caliber. the current strike from 2,000 anti-tank guns and so on, no, it is not the future artillery work that attracts attention, but such large-scale strikes on some separately taken locations, headquarters, location, air defense deployment, warehouse, and so on and so on, in principles

these strikes continue daily at a different level of the same barrel artillery there, and when will they fly... hundreds there, for example, thousands, but here is the question, we have just received permission from our international partners, and this indeed, we finally waited, but there is a nuance, and we received the permission, and it is enough to, for example, close the entire line of hostilities, at least only on the border with the belgorod region, with all systems, well, let's call it ... infliction of damage, use of means defeat, we, unfortunately, do not have, we do not have enough artillery, high-precision, long-range, barrel, for example, to cover all the needs along the border with the belgorod region, there are only

some separate locations, mainly those that are directly connected with, for example, zones in the liptsi region. zones in the direction of vovchansk, where offensive actions by the russian occupiers are taking place, so we will mention this wave first of all, only then will we deal with secondary, and even more so tertiary, third-tier zones, well, when i asked, i still did you know, you mean, well , the russian troops attacked ukraine en masse on the night of june 12...again with rockets, rockets, mostly all of it flew to the kyiv-kyiv region, and there were 30 means of air attack in total, there were six rockets, 24 shahgeda seems to have beaten all of them except iskander, and it looks like this, well, after

such a little break and some, well, not enough, let's say such a massive one, well, that is , it was already clear to them that with such small... blows , they will not achieve anything, and this gives the impression that we can probably to expect some repetition of a more massive one, and that it was like a bit of a skirmish, and of course, from this point of view , the question arises, how can we, can we somehow prevent it, maybe by striking the airfield? well, here is the moment when... the russians are striking with hast1555 missiles, they are using strategic aviation, uh, most of these airfields are beyond the reach of western weapons, and on some

airfields conditionally, well, that the same engels as an option, although he is not the main one now strategic aviation base airfield, but we can... go there with drones, that is, if we are talking about retaliatory strikes on the airfields of the russian federation, then even a raid to strike at the raid, where the tu-22m3, which are carriers of the kh22, 32 , or as it was recently with mozdok, the mozdok airfield, where the tu-22m3 is also located, we can only get there by drones. and if we need to cover a large area, then the best option is to strike with an atakams type missile. unfortunately, we have not yet received the use of atakams, er, approval from washington regarding the use of their

functionality to the full depth, which is almost 300 km deep into the territory of the russian federation, although it is within this radius that shaikovka, baltimore and... marozavsk fall. where the su-34 is located, so a fairly wide range of such objects is the favorite target for attack with a cluster-type warhead. therefore, to warn somehow to work, let's say, in advance, and perhaps using only drones, or as an option already our missile weapons, but again, regarding this, some details are relatively absent, ugh, well , let's move on to the line of combat, let's start with the kharkiv region, well, i'm not talking about sumy, because what happened there. near the red-eye, this is more of a pr move

by kadyrivsky, taken separately, and his tiktok troops, so there is nothing to talk about in essence, but what we see as a result now is for the russians an attempt to attack the kharkiv region, which as a result they got well, you know, in the year 2022... there was a comment by one of the combat officers, many of you know him, in response to what happened near kyiv when the russians reached kyiv, and what they got there, that's the same thing they are doing now are also received in the kharkiv region, in the leptsiv region and in the vevchanskyi region, and they and i very often, by the way, in general, i very often compare this very operation of theirs in kharkiv in the 24th year with... with the operation in the 22nd year attack on kyiv, i draw a parallel to understand that,

in fact, what did they get? very similar in terms of number, in terms of numbers of groups of troops, that is , a group of troops, bilhorod, almost 4,000 personnel, and in the 22nd year , a group of troops from the territory of belarus, russian occupation troops, which advanced on kyiv, there were also almost 40 thousand of them, a group of forty. and large-scale artillery support from the territory of the russian federation at the time when we could not work effectively in counter-battery combat, just as there was large-scale artillery and air support from the territory of belarus at that time, well, we know vovchansk, it was almost wiped out the face from the ground corrected aerial bombs and not only his, there was support for that offensive on the same scale, but what was the result? in the 22nd year, a group of 4,000... was able to pass through the chernihiv region, part of the kyiv region and in fact already reached

the outskirts of kyiv and tried to start city battles, a month later they already fled, what is the result for us now? traveled less than 10 km, stopped at two small settlements, in vovchansk they managed to get hold of the northern outskirts and impose urban battles, advance on... by inertia to the very center settlement, and now they are in vevchansk, what is happening, they are losing the positions they captured during that period of inertia, and now the defense forces of ukraine have actually pushed the russians out of the center of vovchansk, from part of the northern outskirts, and they remain to the north, north- mainly in the western part of the city. these are their positions there now, and the lypians, and they did not even reach the lypians, and

moreover, now the russians have been pushed back to the line in the village of hlyboke, and there we have skirmishes, systematic counterattacks, and the russians are also losing positions, that is, the month of this offensive, the loss of a large amount of resources. and there was nothing, neither tactical, nor even operational-tactical, let alone any strategic significance in these events for the russian command , all that was at the beginning of the first week, even two weeks, a large-scale information campaign, which the russian , the russian side, presenting this performance in the border strip, about which... which many people said in advance more than once, that it would be precisely at the border strip of hostilities, but not more

than that, there was an attack on kharkiv or something else, nevertheless, they managed to win an informational victory, namely an informational one, but not on the battlefield. well, if you're talking about information, you know, i think that in the end they got something that they didn't expect to happen at all, which is the result of them trying to break through. there, well, on the border of the kharkiv region, it caused a change in the mood of our allies, who simply realized that, apparently... it is time to strike at the territory of russia after all, directly, that is, to say that the result of this information operation for them turned out to be, well, a complete failure, because what happened that they feared for a very long time and tried to restrain in various ways, and this

decision was made, yes, but still frankly pay attention to the fact that... it is worth paying attention to the fact that they stopped, in fact, the line of combat did not move in kharkiv oblast in these two directions, even when this decision was just at the stage of adoption, that is, they talked about it, but this final decision was not made, but they were already standing, they did not have enough resources, and what they did, they engaged in dragging them to kharkiv oblast through belgorod oblast. units from the sixth combined arms army and the first combined arms army, the first tank army, this is the kupinsky direction of the troop group west, and from the troop group south they began to pull the landing force, which was located near ivanovsky kleschiivka and andriivka, and also

from the kruhivsky direction, they began to pull 155 a separate brigade of marines, that is they... even then did not have enough resources to somehow continue these offensive actions in the vovchen direction and in the liptsi region with the same intensity, and as we can see, they still haven't decided, or haven't decided, or have already given up on the idea of ​​opening a front in sumy region, although the threat was quite real, for example, to the big beserivka, not to ryzhivka, which is located there between. two rivers, and in fact to continue offensive actions from there, well, there is no sense at all, namely, a large writing room, well, it was a serious problem, what could be there to open another front, not as powerful as in the area of ​​vovchansk or livtsi, but it was quite possible, but it hasn't happened

for a month, that is, they lost time, they lost the initiative, and at that time, it's true, when... constantly stated that their goal was to create a sanitary zone along the border with ukraine, so he did everything so that in the future this sanitary zone would appear precisely on the side of the russian federation. well, but look, on the other hand, we now have a situation where the russian occupation troops have advanced near staromai, well practically after capturing it, yes, they practically captured ivanovsk, well, that’s right... in the area of ​​chasovoy yar and advanced very strongly near novopokrovsky, this is the postavdiyiv front in the area, well in the direction of pokrovsk, that is, in all these areas of the front, we have a russian advance, and here the question arises, is it the result of the fact that certain of our

forces were distracted, which were forced to be diverted to the kharkiv front after all, or the reason is something else, and well... if you say it like that, well , literally, and what are we not, well, why we cannot stop the advance on pokrovsky direction in general, there is a russian advance, it is going, and the defense forces of ukraine are unable to stop it, well, objectively, yes, about these directions, here are two points: firstly, no one mentioned about these directions in general for almost a month, mostly they were forgotten in the informational context, all the attention was paid to kharkiv oblast and another hypothetical front in sumy oblast, although, again, the potential that the russian occupation forces had in belgorod, kursk and bryansk is not enough to create some kind of crisis situation in kharkiv oblast, sumy region or chernihiv region, from the word in general, that is, again, the level of border raids, which will have appropriate

informational support and it will be hypertrophied, this looks like some kind of epic battle, in fact, their main blow was and remains the pokrovsky direction and the kramatorsk direction, for it is the most important thing of the time, for them the main advance on the avdiiv bridgehead or along the route 0511 or through the viaduct exit to 0504, or after the formation in the south of ocheretyn directly... er buffer zone and even not a buffer zone, in general a safe zone along the left bank of the vovcha river and the reservoir e. and thus they will be protected by natural obstacles, and then they will be able to use the resource more freely

for, i think, a more important direction for them by 0.5 -04, i.e. the route that leads from pokrovsk to kostyantynivka, they will try to cut it at this location, because they are the closest to it there, and also in the perspective of opening the turkish direction. that is, it was also constantly talked about and about it a lot well knew, well, if they talked about it at the level of couch experts like me, then the general staff knew all the more about it, but they could not stop it, and there is a nuance here, why it happened, and because it was reeded, well, in fact it was not surrendered, it will be incorrect to the military who held the defense there, but the circumstances turned out like this, and someone must be responsible for that... it was abandoned very quickly, i don’t like these words surrendered, angry and all that kind of thing , but really the reed had to hold the defense for several months,

its capture did not even last a week, a very fast process, a couple of days, and precisely because of the fact that it was lost, the front began to rain again, especially in the south, and it will continue to rain, rain, until the russians... leave, at least to the left bank of the wolf river and to the canal, that is, they will not form such a safety buffer along these natural barriers with a connection to the netaylovo karlivka line, well, oleksandr, let's now, after a pause, in more detail, but after all, we will consider this pokrovsky direction, and if possible, if we make it to chasovoyarskyi, we will be joined by one more guest who operates there in the area, and after a break, we will simply continue the conversation in this very hot direction and to pokrovsk, to toretsk,

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from the major of the armed forces. how to understand disturbing news and distinguish truth from enemy ipso. the real front program with taras berezovets every saturday at 21:30 on espresso. we continue the chronicles of the war. we continue the conversation with oleksandr kovalenko, a military expert of information resistance, and we started talking about what is happening in the pokrov direction, because now it is the most problematic direction, where it is not possible to stop the advance of the enemy, well, actually mr. oleksandr has already started to explain what exactly is happening there, for now , but for today, if you look at the general's report. of the existing headquarters, they indicate four the directions in which battles are taking place, offensive attempts, and indicate that now the number

of enemy attacks has already reached 20 for today, that is, there are quite significant battles with the use of both equipment and aviation, and here you are, alexander, began to speak, what is the purpose of these actions of the enemy, i would ask you... just more, you know, to describe in detail this entire situation in this direction, where the russians are trying to advance, who, what goal they are setting, and actually, well, what is it we are threatened if, for example, they succeed to advance in the directions where they are trying to do it, well yes, in principle along the reeds, of course at first glance it may seem that... the main goal is this and the primary goal is pokrovsk along the route 05:11 in principle this indeed , pokrovsk-kramatorsk exactly... in this

case it is about pokrovsk, but kramatorsk, the kramatorsk direction is still a higher priority, it goes through the yar times, and pokrovsk along the route 05:11, they started this movement, but now for them it is very it is important to create a security buffer zone to the south of in turn, the southern flank is completely closed, their main tasks now are to control the villages of sokil and novopokrovske in the shortest possible time, then it is already about advancing to novoselivka and yevgenivka, and actually closing the entire left bank of the vovchii and karlivskoe rivers reservoirs on the netaylova-karlivka line, this is the general plan, the first priority, and for

this they use it. by the way, the most combat-capable units they have left from the 2023 offensive campaign on avvidka are units from, for example, the second of the combined army, which group of troops is the center, it operated in the direction of the liman in the liman direction, these are brigades 15, 21, 30, that is, they have been since october 23 and after the... were taken away, they left them there, and they are the main shock element in this area, the most combat-ready brigades, despite the fact that they have lost quite a serious potential, and let's imagine that they manage to create this security buffer, until things, a problem for the defense forces of ukraine there due to the fact that they are actually clamped along

the river bank. that the possibility of maneuver decreases, the more the russians capture territories in this area, at this location, the less maneuver we have and the ability to somehow operate more effectively and counter the russians, and let's imagine the most negative scenario, they capture this very location on the left bank of the vovchii and karla '. what's next? again, the first thought arises: they will go to pokrovsk, but no, and the further movement to pokrovsk will take place, but much slower, it will just keep in tune defense forces of ukraine, that is, so that they do not redistribute their resources in other directions. i think that it is becoming more important for the russian occupiers to continue advancing on the uzdvizhanka, especially now on

the uzdvizhanka. and such enormous pressure is being concentrated on the part of the russian air force and through the uzdvyzhanka to cut the 0504 route between pokrovsky and konstantinka, and when this happens, the next phase can begin - the offensive on the turkish turkish direction will begin, and if this is combined with the desire of the russians to capture in time by the end of the summer and faith and that pressure which they are currently carrying out, then we can see their general plan, they will try as soon as possible to completely close the issue with the turkish bridgehead, with chasov yar, and uh , as of 2024, they will be, well , i understand that their main the plan, the main task is to get to the kostyantynivka, druzhkivka line, and in fact with the exit to... well, yes,

such a dangerous situation, let's be honest, another guest joined us, a serviceman of the ukrainian armed forces, yevgeny ievlev, congratulations, yevgeny, i wish health, glory to ukraine, heroes thanks, yevgeny, i understand that you are closer there to the horlivskyi direction, but you also visit pokrovskyi, which we are currently discussing, and chasovayarskyi, can you describe it to us? well, actually, you know, the question is, does it feel that there are some new weapons at the front now, that more ammunition has appeared, because it seems like how was this situation supposed to change when it was like that there is a shortage, a shortage, and it is not good at all, or something is already felt, because, well, we discussed here before that what is heavy enough

the situation on... it is still possible to stop the advance.