George Smiley

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[Clément Molin @clement_molin]

The situation of the Novopavlivka-Ivanivka front is currently the most difficult for Russian 🇷🇺 forces

🔹After months of infiltrations, often covered by OPSEC, the Ukrainians 🇺🇦 liberated a bunch of villages and cleared both Ivanivka and Novopavlivka from previous infiltrations. In this area, around 55 km2 of grey zone are most likely under Ukrainian control, as per high FAB strikes number.

🔹The main Russian problem is logistical. All roads leading to the area are exposed and under fire. The only places used for accumulation are Bahatyr (completly destroyed) and Komar (partially destroyed, hit by Ukrainian airstrikes). After these villages, Russian infantry still need to walk on foot, on open roads from 5 to 10 km to reach "frontline" villages and positions before assaults.

🔹Recent videos showed multiple casualties after Russian infantry were sent across the Vovcha (Bahatyr-Ivanivka), Solena (Novopavlivka) and Mokri Yali (Komar) river. Despite these losses, Russian infantry is still tasked to attack the New Donbas Line section between Novopavlivka and Ivanivka (they need to cross 2 rivers and 3 ditches), which is suicidal, knowing they have been attacking here for 10 months !)

🔹Russian "flaggers" continue to be sighted in Iskra, further west, in an attempt from the 90th tank division to show they control the situation to their command. Regularly on Telegram, Russian bloggers complain about the risk of Ukrainian entrance in Komar, since fighting have been happening in Piddubne for weeks. The situation is not very good for the 29th CAA in this sector, but the danger of further explotation is limited due to rivers.

🔹Ukraine deployed 3 air assault brigades (79th, 80th, 95th) in the direction to push back russian forces behind the Mokri Yali river and further reinforce their lines in the sector. This also gives more losses for Russia forces. The main challenge is the large number of airstrikes falling on their positions. If airstrikes decreased in Hulialpole, they slightly increased here recently, including more than 50 in the large yellow perimeter on the map, inside the grey zone between Komar and Ivanivka.

🔹With Novopavlivka under Ukrainian control and Ivanivka secured, the UAF can move south to pressure and trap russians attempting to attack the New Donbas Line fortified section. But it is probably much more interesting to keep the situation as it is currently, since this is an open kill zone for tens or hundreds of Russians every month. For further exploitation, the Komar/Velika Novosilka directions are much more interesting in order to further slow down or postpone Russian offensive momentum in Hulialpole.

For this situation review, I used @AndrewPerpetua base map and @WarUnitObserver observations about unit deployment.

[George Smiley @GeorgeS87453537]

@Glorybelarus1 Two more Lada’s for the widows 👍

[Cris 🇺🇦🇪🇺🚁 @Cris_quella]

@zaiapresidente No Zaia, é inaccettabile che Buttafuoco abbia invitato la Russia a riaprire il padiglione alla @la_Biennale e penso sia inutile spiegarle il perché.
Bene che l’UE abbia bloccato i fondi, la Russia é nostra nemica.

[Alexander Khara 🇺🇦 @alexanderkhara]

“The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.” — George Orwell

What is unacceptable is whitewashing russian genocidal regime, and your corruption.

You know too well that culture was a weapon of Nazis, fascists and commies. It is the weapon of their heirs, like russia. By facilitating russia’s soft offensive in Italy, you support their war crimes, crimes against humanity and acts of genocide in Ukraine.

[Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 @bayraktar_1love]

One of the tankers hit by Ukrainian drones in the Sea of Azov.

[Φώτης Σ. Κοκοτός @FotisKokotos]

Τουλάχιστον 35 και ίσως έως 50 ρωσικά τάνκερ έχουν χτυπηθεί και εξουδετερωθεί από τα Ουκρανικά drones μέσα σε λίγες μέρες γύρω από την Κριμαία! Όλη η ρωσική αεράμυνα είναι συγκεντρωμένη στον Πούτλερ, κι έχει αφήσει την υπόλοιπη χώρα τελείως αφύλακτη.

[theatropoios @theatropoios]

Η ρωσία πρέπει να έχει την τύχη της μεταπολεμικής Γερμανίας. 😡

[D.Radka, #NAFO 🇨🇿🤝🇺🇦 @DakdaR22]

"Russia wants the world to get used to the war. To accept deaths, destroyed cities, deported children as something ordinary...

...We cannot allow that."

-Olena Zelenska
First Lady of Ukraine 🇺🇦
💔

don't stop supporting Ukraine, they need our help, daily 🫂❤️

[Carlo Calenda @CarloCalenda]

Caro propagandista fasciocomunista, sei talmente ignorante da non sapere che gli ucraini non hanno mai chiesto a noi di combattere al posto loro. Solo un miserabile codardo che va a Mosca a baciare i piedi di Putin pagato da Russia Today può scrivere queste idiozie. La vera domanda è: come cavolo sei finito a fare il professore in una democrazia liberale? Vergognati e tieni i miei figli fuori dalla tua miserabile propaganda prorussa.

[George Smiley @GeorgeS87453537]

@AntonMakarovZOV Zzzzzzz..ut up!🤫

[Anders Åslund @anders_aslund]

Russia should be internationally prosecuted for genocide.
Russia should be declared a terrorist state, which should imply that all decent countries would end diplomatic relations with the terrorist state.

[Carlo Calenda @CarloCalenda]

Per Conte e’ Draghi la minaccia bellicista non la Russia. Per me la vera minaccia è il cretinismo filo putiniano al Governo.

[D.Radka, #NAFO 🇨🇿🤝🇺🇦 @DakdaR22]

"Ukraine will not give Donbas to Putin: I fully support Zelensky. This is a land that is watered with the blood of our soldiers and citizens.."

- Oleksandr Syrskyi🇺🇦
Commander-in-Chief of the AFU

Respect to these people day by day🫡

[MAKS 26 🇺🇦👀 @Maks_NAFO_FELLA]

🤬💔 In Kramatorsk, Russians killed two children.

[Tomáš Zdechovský @TomasZdechovsky]

Rusko je teroristický stát a na olympiádu ani na jiné sportovní akce nepatří.

Souhlasíte?

[23Enigma. @Cern_IXXI]

@heraskevych Russia has been murdering Ukrainian athletes for 4 years. #BoycottOlympics

[Vladyslav Heraskevych OLY @heraskevych]

Russian innocent athletes according to the IOC.

[George Smiley @GeorgeS87453537]

@modern_tony @AngelosSyrigos Από το Good Wine από το Κιεβο Boris . Φιλάκια και προσοχή στο καζανάκι . Έχετε κάποια προβλήματα με τα υδραυλικά. 😘

[George Smiley @GeorgeS87453537]

@modern_tony @AngelosSyrigos Και για τις δύσκολες στιγμές , δοκίμασε Nemiroff. Ξέχνα τις Ρωσικές. Καλο βράδυ

[George Smiley @GeorgeS87453537]

@modern_tony @AngelosSyrigos Boris , πιες και κανένα καφέ στη Ν. Λύτρα . Εχεις νυστάζει από τις ρωσοπαπαριες