The Geran drone’s evolution over four years of combat in Ukraine offers one of the clearest views into what modern drone warfare looks like at the production level that the U.S. is not currently structured to match, write @csis_ai experts.
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In the Kharkiv region, Russian 🇷🇺 mappers claim they encircled thousands of Ukrainian 🇺🇦 soldiers north of Veliky Burluk.
This does not correspond to the reality and is pure propaganda. We can depict 4 directions where offensive operations are ongoing in Kharkiv oblast :
🔸The westernmost is a cross border operation in and around Kozacha Lopan, with Russian forces showing their flags all over the town recently. This is part of Russian plan to create a "buffer zone" with bordering regions.
🔸The main offensive action is ongoing near Vovchansk, with long infiltrations that often reach very deep, thanks to the lack of engineering structures (the first real defensive line is much farther south). Some mappers show Bilyi Kolodiaz as contested, which is not the case. In fact, the Ukrainians still have many positions further north, to contain Russian infiltrations. Russian soldiers cross the border, walk in the forest, then try to cross the river and reach as deep as possible behind the lines.
🔸A secondary operation is ongoing further east, with cross-border crossings from small infantry teams, that managed to push 10 to 15km, supported by an intense airstrike campaign. For now, there is no threat of encirclement of Ukrainian forces further north, as long as infiltrations are contained.
🔹Further south, we talked about it already, the Ukrainians are conducting counter-attacks in and around Dvorichna, while Russian forces continue to infiltrate into Kupiansk.
Russian VKS-linked channel Fighterbomber reports that the negotiating team expected to be sent by the U.S. to Moscow has been expanded, and that a significant breakthrough in negotiations is now possible.
U.S. envoy to Putin Steve Witkoff and U.S. Special Envoy for Peace Jared Kushner have both reportedly now arrived in Moscow.