The redeployment of the infantry that held Lysivka will now free up additional forces for operations in Pokrovsk.

However, there are even more Russians. Our forces are weaker than the enemy's by a ratio of 1:6. But there may be more Russians today. Fog."

Regarding Pokrovsk, Yulia also provides interesting information: "Pokrovsk is under 35-40% control of the Defense Forces. This is confirmed by the Defense Forces. Defensive and trying to expand their zone of control.

Are there any regroupings taking place in some quarters?

But our troops are in Myrnohrad. And not just one battalion, not one brigade.

We are still focused on destroying the enemy, who is constantly infiltrating.

The situation is much more complicated than in neighboring Pokrovsk."

Units are forced to clear it each time to continue entering the city. The road to Myrnohrad has been vulnerable to enemy attacks for a month. It's the only route.
Why do I say the entry into the city continues? Because there's still an order to do so. But there's no turning back.

Today, war correspondent Yulia Kyriienko spoke with one of the units defending the city. Here's what they told her: "On the map, the city is surrounded. This is because the only route for our troops is constantly being infiltrated by Russians, who are trying to kill us.

#Pokrovsk yesterday, Deep State updated its map, which shows that Myrnohrad is surrounded by a so-called "gray zone," meaning fighting continues in the area around the cities, but neither side has control over it.

leaving the Ukrainian army at 600,000 soldiers, and allocating its frozen Russian assets to the reconstruction of Ukraine. Am I understanding this correctly????

This means that Russia agrees to: leaving the unoccupied Zaporizhzhia and Kherson oblasts under Ukrainian control; returning to Ukraine the occupied parts of the Sumy, Kharkiv, and Dnipropetrovsk oblasts;

Ukraine prepares new peace plan as Zelensky rules out giving up land Kyiv is seeking to resist a US push for a deal which would see territory handed over to Russia.

If I understand correctly, the only contentious issues in the current peace plan are control of eastern Donbas and the status of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant.
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Please note that the Ukrainians defended these positions for as long as it made sense, then withdrew. Therefore, there's no need to panic when reading that AFU units are cut off in Pokrovsk or Myrnohrad. When the time comes, they will withdraw.

#Pokrovsk Today, the 7th Corps reported that Ukrainian units have withdrawn from Sukhyi Yar and Lysivka, positions located south of Myrnohrad. I'll just point out that the AFU defended these villages since the summer of 2024. The defense seems to have served its purpose.

This further confirms the situation I described a few days ago. Remember how Russian propaganda will once again report the "liberation" of the city.

I wouldn't be surprised if, in the near future, units and formations of the 1st Tank Army and the 6th Russian Army on the adjacent flank, in the Kupyansk area, are forced to go on the defensive."

#Kupyansk Colonel Mashovets wrote a very long post about the situation in the city in Kupyansk. I'll just quote his conclusions: "The situation in Kupyansk for the enemy is radically different from the situation in the Pokrovsk and Myrnohrad areas (mainly due to the positions of the two sides).

Unfortunately, you're right, but I'm afraid they'll have no other choice....

Exactly, that's why I wrote "The European Union in its current form (!!!) no longer has any justification for continuing to function"

Perhaps I expressed myself poorly. We can't count on US help; we must be aware that we are alone. But we must cultivate cooperation with the US, and perhaps the US will decide to help us. We simply cannot sever transatlantic ties.

For centuries, France and Great Britain have prioritized European balance, and from what I've seen, nothing has changed in this regard. Therefore, I believe that their participation in this hypothetical alliance would be entirely appropriate.

we will certainly be able to count on the participation of American troops in any potential conflict, hopefully one that never comes to pass...

after nearly 40 years of inaction, to finally begin to take responsibility for their own defense. I am certain that when President Trump and his successors see the willingness of at least some European countries to assume this responsibility,

can be a sufficiently dangerous conglomerate to act as a deterrent to the threat coming from the East. Of course, cooperation with the US should also be nurtured as much as possible, as they have no intention of severing ties with Europe; they simply want European countries,

Therefore, in my opinion, only a close economic and military alliance of Poland, the Baltic states, the Scandinavian countries, Germany, France, Great Britain, the Netherlands, and, of course, Ukraine (until recently, I would have also included the Czech Republic and Belgium, but now I'm not sure)

only an alliance of countries that want to protect themselves against a possible Russian attack in the future can function. After all, countries like Italy or Spain (with all due respect to these countries) will never feel threatened by Russia.

If one tiny country, with a GDP that's insignificant worldwide, can veto all decisions, then such an alliance simply poses a threat to its members. In my humble opinion, given the current course of American policy and the threat from Russia,

Good Morning Everyone,
Surely everyone has read the latest US global security strategy and interpreted it in their own way. We won't change that, so there's no point in getting upset; we just need to adapt. In my opinion, the EU in its current form has no further justification for functioning.

That's all for now. I apologize, but I don't know when I'll be back, because what's been happening lately surrounding the Russian-Ukrainian war disgusts me. It's not about the US's attitude, but that of European countries, and not just Hungary, but others joining them... 😓

Therefore, the Russians may soon regain the initiative and begin pushing the Ukrainians out of the city. We'll see what the future holds.

For now, these operations have been largely unsuccessful for the RuAF, and the initiative in urban combat has slowly begun to shift to Ukrainian units. However, this is the current situation, and the Zapad Command is well aware that Putin will demand success.

activated its units fighting on the left bank of the Oskil River. Therefore, the 272nd and 347th Mechanized Rifle Regiments launched vigorous attacks on Petropavlivka and Pishkhane to prevent Ukrainian units defending this section of the front from engaging in operations in the city.

Currently, the AFU has intensified its attacks on supply routes leading from the bridgehead to the city and on the bridges over the Oskil River, causing units participating in urban combat to experience serious supply problems. Army Group Zapad Command decided to counter these Ukrainian moves and