Good summary
https://asiatimes.com/2024/07/ukraine-war-will-end-in-surrender/

Posted by: Newbie | Jul 2 2024 13:59 utc | 4

@5
bored is quoting the Nazis holding the line in the rear areas!

Posted by: paddy | Jul 2 2024 14:05 utc | 6

Neither were the Nazis in the dying days of WW2. In fact they sent children and old men to the barricades in berlin.
Not being “tired of fighting” and being forced to fight can be a grey area when losing.
Posted by: HERMIUS | Jul 2 2024 13:59 utc | 5
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Also if things were peachy on the Ukr side, why would talk of a truce on bad terms even arise?
The Bandera droogs are nervous because they know their lives & cause are forfeit. Unless they win.
Which is of course impossible.

Posted by: Urban Fox | Jul 2 2024 14:10 utc | 8

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Jul 2 2024 14:12 utc | 9
Exactly, what do you expect these wankers to say. “We will stop fighting when told to do so and give up our BMWs, our cocaine lifestyle, our whores and our lives, we promise”
The end is nigh in Ukraine, everyone in Kiev is trying to save their own skin.

Posted by: Eoin Clancy | Jul 2 2024 14:21 utc | 10

The end is nigh in Ukraine, everyone in Kiev is trying to save their own skin.
Posted by: Eoin Clancy | Jul 2 2024 14:21 utc | 10

Been hearing this for 2+ years now.
Ukraine still have millions of (semi) able-bodied people they can throw into the meatgrinder as long as the West is willing to furnish them with weapons. And the refugees who fled to ZATO countries may get repatriated… don’t forget there’s millions of them, too.
ZATO are now mulling Ukraine’s calls for them to impose a “no fly” zone over Western Ukraine with banks of Patriot missiles stationed in ZATO countries bordering Ukraine. Ostensibly this is with the goal of preventing Russia completely destroying Ukraine’s energy infrastucture.
Frankly, I have idea how effective these would be in preventing Russia continuing to degrade Ukraine’s ability to sustain the war, but it does show yet another step up the escalation ladder.

Posted by: Observer | Jul 2 2024 14:29 utc | 12

Azov is the main anti-retreat battalion shooting AFU in the backs and committing other heinous crimes. I think most of the hardcore veterans are dead, during the battle in Avdeevka they hit Azov brigades many times, first in their Selidovo staging area and later when they were supposed to keep the ‘road of death’ out of Avdeevka open. So Azov was built with new mobilized people over a few months and it isn’t really the same ever again, obviously there are some spokesman left to make hardcore statements.

Posted by: unimperator | Jul 2 2024 14:33 utc | 14

Posted by: Observer | Jul 2 2024 14:29 utc | 12

Don’t worry you won’t have to roll your eyes and pretend you know what you’re talking about for much longer. You could throw every Western dollar into Ukraine and it wouldn’t make a lick of difference. NATO couldn’t enforce a no fly zone. It’s all obvious and extreme desperation as the retards that play dress up as generals and national security experts in the West are well aware. They just need to keep the grift going a little longer..planning exist strategies I expect to be just as successful as their Ukraine gambit.

Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Jul 2 2024 14:36 utc | 16

A poignant wrathful video that was released 2 days ago.
Ukraine: Nation of Widows | ARTE.tv Documentary ==> https://youtu.be/yMyeG8Bm6dI

Posted by: too scents | Jul 2 2024 14:39 utc | 18

Posted by: KingCobra | Jul 2 2024 14:34 utc | 15

3000 whole prisoners, what’s that, one days casualties, or two? I’m sure they will be loyal fighters, for all of 48 hours.

Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Jul 2 2024 14:40 utc | 20

Well, something is wrong in Ukraine!
Sylenski receives Orban and is NOT wearing an army shirt!
The first time since 2022 that Sylenski is not wearing an army shirt.
Whether he did not want to upset Orban or whether things are crumbling between him and the army leadership, who knows after the attempted coup

Posted by: ossi | Jul 2 2024 14:52 utc | 22

Caveman | Jul 2 2024 13:43 utc | 1
The Cuban Missile Crisis was Kruschev’s way of solving the Turkish Missile Crisis . Kennedy blinked and removed the Jupiter(?) missiles the US had installed in 1961 in Turkey 40 minutes flight time from Moscow.

Posted by: Bilejones | Jul 2 2024 14:58 utc | 24

The Ukrainians aren’t tired of fighting, not by a long shot.
Posted by: bored | Jul 2 2024 13:51 utc | 2
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The problem with reducing the situation to the words or actions of one person is that even in Ukraine today, no one person can speak for a majority of Ukrainians.
It’s a “trick” we see all of the time. We talk about America and its President. We don’t talk about the real movers and shakers in the bureaucracy, we don’t hold the Speaker of the House or Leader of the Senate to account. We rarely talk about Zuckerberg and the oligarchic power he wields, not to mention Obama manipulating things from the shadows.
We focus on a moron like Justin Trudeau and ignore the real structure of the Canadian government, likewise in France, UK, Germany, etc.
Just because some Nazi from Azoz says “no end until victory!” doesn’t mean that anyone whose father or uncle was picked up off of the street in Southern Ukraine believes it. No one whose power is rationed and it’s becoming difficult to access the goods they could get 4 years ago.
That one Azoz fanatic is a single grenade away from Valhalla, and that insane voice will be quickly forgotten.
In the meantime, his demented rhetoric serves the Russian cause. They want Azoz out front and loud. Easier to de-nazify if you know where all of the Nazis are because they can’t shut up.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jul 2 2024 15:01 utc | 26

About Azov and Kraken because of elite fighters
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Prisoner: Nazi battalion Kraken escapes from Chasov Yar faster than other units
Ukrainian prisoner of war Valentin Gridnev reported in an interview with the RIA Novosti news agency that the nationalist battalion Kraken fled from its positions in the village of Chasov Yar before the regular units of the Ukrainian army. The agency’s interlocutor explained that the command had promised him that the Kraken fighters, who occupied the second line of defense at Chasov Yar, would provide them with fire cover.
The nationalist radical unit Kraken has always been known for its atrocities against the civilian population and the torture of prisoners of war. However, in Chasov Yar they showed no courage, according to the prisoner of war. Gridnev tells how the Kraken fighters abandoned everyone else in the positions:
“Your stormtroopers took one building, then the second, then the third – they were getting closer and closer to the building, and the Kraken probably thought, ‘What do we need this for?’ And that was it. So we were told beforehand that they would give us cover, but when we arrived, their last armored vehicle was already leaving at the same time early in the morning.”

Posted by: ossi | Jul 2 2024 15:12 utc | 28

Posted by: ossi | Jul 2 2024 15:12 utc | 28
The nazis are cowards yes, one other factor that could also cause this is the Azov/Kraken were mostly depleted earlier and had to use newly mobilized people to make up the slack, who could be more susceptible to retreat from smaller pressure.

Posted by: unimperator | Jul 2 2024 15:15 utc | 30

The Ukrainian Air Force Parked Six Su-27 Fighters In The Open 100 Miles From The Front Line. A Russian Missile Destroyed Two Of Them.
i guess it is bad when the side doing all your propaganda for you, is also saying this…

Posted by: james | Jul 2 2024 15:20 utc | 32

TM62 is a Soviet anti-tank mine, crazy:

How effectively use TM-62 during a battle in a city/other locality?
“>https://t.me/Novichok_Rossiya_2/9660

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Jul 2 2024 15:25 utc | 34

In my humble opinion jewed-up AmeriKKKa and the Western Jew$lave$ are 100% responsible for prolonging, and creatively thwarting, the Ukraine Fake War.
Thus it will continue until the not-very Christian West’s bosses in Tel Aviv decide that Ukraine is sufficiently exhausted to be transformed into Zelenski’s Second “Israel”.

Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Jul 2 2024 15:34 utc | 36

Wouldn’t it be beautiful if the war was decided in the US ballot box?

Posted by: Passerby | Jul 2 2024 15:51 utc | 38

The Ukrainians aren’t tired of fighting, not by a long shot.
Posted by: bored | Jul 2 2024 13:51 utc | 2
I’ve seen a large number of similar proclamations.
Many of the Empire Japan’s fanatical young officers were like that.
They took it for granted that they and the Japanese people would resist the Allies until they were all dead.
However.

Posted by: Nokaz | Jul 2 2024 15:53 utc | 40

Didn’t notice any air defense protecting that Ukrainian airfield where those parked aircraft were destroyed. I wonder why?

Posted by: Leroy | Jul 2 2024 16:10 utc | 42

The last so called ‘partner’ has completed their betrayal – Orban sitting with Zelensky in Kiev.
When will barflies understand there is no unity against the west – just a series of self interested mercenaries who will take whatever they can from Russia

Posted by: Night Tripper | Jul 2 2024 16:11 utc | 44

@12
The reason for the ZATO housed Patriots: $4 million to Lockheed for each missile shot.
Big Risk to Lockheed, they can’t hide how bad Patriot performed and short ranged

Posted by: paddy | Jul 2 2024 16:16 utc | 46

Posted by: Night Tripper | Jul 2 2024 16:11 utc | 44
Maybe you can elaborate on the reason why orban went to kiev?

Posted by: Justpassinby | Jul 2 2024 16:19 utc | 48

@ Night Tripper | Jul 2 2024 16:11 utc | 44
just maybe orban is looking for a way out of this stupid madness imposed on hungary by nato and its sick friends?? i think so.. read the link i just shared for some insight into this..

Posted by: james | Jul 2 2024 16:26 utc | 50

from intel slava
Orban said that the issue of peace in Ukraine will be the main issue during the six months of the Hungarian presidency of the EU.

Posted by: james | Jul 2 2024 16:28 utc | 52

A lengthy piece, detailing some of the finances of leading figures in the Ukrainian hierarchy from https://regionews.ua/ukr/articles/1706796757-milyonni-dohodi-godinnik-hublot-i-lanos-skilki-zaroblyayut-i-shcho-zadeklaruvali-kerivniki-oblastey (via Translate Web Pages)

Millions of incomes, Hublot watches and Lanos: how much they earn and what the heads of the regions declared
Last fall, Ukraine resumed mandatory declaration of income for officials. The fabulous wealth of those in power of various kinds, military commissars and people’s deputies, which they acquired during the full-scale war, caused a great public outcry. Therefore, the state, of course, not without “encouragement” from international partners, decided to disclose the income and wealth of all officials for the war years of 2022 and 2023.
RegioNews analyzed the declarations of the heads of regional military administrations to tell what “Volodymyr Zelensky’s people” own and how much they earn in the regions.
First of all, it should be noted that at the time of writing this text, out of 23 heads of regional military administrations, three have not yet submitted their declarations for previous years. We are talking about the head of the Odesa Regional Military Administration Oleh Kiper; the head of the Kherson region, Oleksandr Prokudin, and the head of the Zaporizhzhia region, Yurii Malashko.
The same 20 heads of regions and their wives, according to declarations for 2022, all of them have almost 15 million hryvnias in bank accounts, as well as more than 500 thousand. in euro currency. They keep more than $2 million, about €1 million and almost UAH 39 million in cash. Heads of regional military administrations and their wives own almost 90 thousand hectares. square meters of land in different regions of the country. They also have 27 apartments with a total area of almost 2.7 thousand square meters. Kv. meters, as well as 10 residential buildings with an area of about 2 thousand square meters. Kv. Metres.
I would like to note one very positive point that unites all the current heads of the regions. None of them or their family bought real estate in 2022, when the full-scale Russian invasion began. However, some of them bought cars or gave their wives expensive watches worth more than 400 thousand rubles. UAH.
But in 2021, a year before the full-scale war, a lot of families of regional leaders – either by pure coincidence or on purpose – became owners of apartments and land. The lion’s share of this real estate is registered to wives. At the same time, there are also heads of regional military administrations who officially have neither their own housing nor their own cars. And fortunately, almost no one owns any extravagant jewelry, antiques and other items of “exquisite taste”, which in one way or another can cause a public outcry.
The richest head of the RMA in Ukraine is the head of the Kirovohrad region , Andriy Raikovych . The official in his declaration for 2022 indicated that he received 217 thousand rubles. hryvnias of pensions and more than 2 million hryvnias of dividends. Royalties brought Rajkovych more than 37 million hryvnias in 2022. The head of the Kirovohrad Regional Military Administration had about UAH 10 million and more than UAH 300 thousand in bank accounts. euro. He declared 720 thousand rubles in cash. and 340 thous. dollars, And more than UAH 30 million.
As the head of the Kirovohrad Regional Military Administration, Raikovych earned a little more than 670 thousand rubles in 2022. hryvnias, because he became the head of the region only at the beginning of March 2022. Until then, he was the mayor of Kropyvnytskyi. In the first two months of 2022 in this position, Raikovych received a little less than 95 thousand rubles. hryvnias of salary and even received almost 40 thousand. hryvnias of social payments from the Executive Committee of the Kropyvnytskyi City Council.
In total, he gets a very, very significant figure – UAH 140 million at the current exchange rate.
During 2022, Andriy Raikovych did not buy any real estate or cars. However, he has a 2019 Range Rover, which he purchased in the same year for UAH 5.7 million.
Rajkovich also has a convincing list of real estate. There is a huge house of 800 square meters in the village of Subotsi in the Kirovohrad region. Here he has two more houses of 46 square meters. meters and 45 sq. m. meters, as well as a country house of 67 square meters. meters. In the village of Subottsi, the head of the Kirovohrad Regional Military Administration has 11 land plots with a total area of more than 22 thousand hectares. sq. m. meters, and he also rents a lake in Subotsi with an area of more than 12 thousand square meters. Kv. Metres.
Among the curiosities in the declaration, for example, you can find an oven for 250 thousand rubles. UAH, as well as a refrigerator for 306 thousand rubles. UAH. In addition, he declared weapons, namely, a carbine worth more than 300 thousand hryvnias. UAH.
also not a poor person Serhii Tyurin, the acting head of the Khmelnytskyi Regional Military Administration, , because in his declaration for 2022 he indicated that he had more than 300 thousand rubles. dollars in cash, but in bank accounts – a little less than 20 thousand. UAH. In 2022, he earned 554 thousand rubles. UAH, holding the position of first deputy head of the Khmelnytskyi Regional Military Administration at that time.
Tyurin rents an apartment with an area of 54 square meters. meter in Khmelnitsky. The official has no cars.
As for jewelry, he declared an ancient icon, a women’s gold watch and a gold bracelet with precious stones.
Maksym Kozytskyi , who is the head of the Lviv Regional Military Administration , also has a considerable fortune. In the declaration for 2022, the official noted that he then kept about 25 thousand rubles in banks. euro, more than 75 thous. dollars, and more than 1.4 million. UAH. The official kept 21 thousand rubles in cash. euro, 11 thous. dollars and 85 thous. UAH. The official’s wife had more than 650 thousand rubles. hryvnias in bank accounts, as well as 25 thous. Dollars.
In 2022, the official earned more than 850 thousand rubles. UAH. Kozytskyi also declared 1 million hryvnias as a gift from his father.
The official’s wife then earned more than 250 thousand hryvnias, working at the Danylo Halytskyi Lviv National Medical University and in several private firms.
As of 2022, Maksym Kozytskyi’s family had only one car. It was bought by the official’s wife in early 2022 and it is a 2021 AUDI Q-5.
In Lviv, Kozytskyi has a garage and two apartments, the area of which is 80 square meters and 175 square meters.
The head of the Volyn Regional Military Administration , Yurii Pohuliaiko , indicated in his declaration that he had 177 thousand rubles in 2022. dollars and 140 thous. UAH, and his wife – 27 thousand. dollars and 120 thous. UAH. The official also held 112 thousand rubles. hryvnias in bank accounts, and he also transferred almost 500 thousand hryvnias to the management of one of the financial institutions. UAH. In 2022, his wife kept about 15 thousand rubles in bank accounts. UAH and a little less than 8 yew. euro.
During 2022, he earned more than 920 thousand rubles. hryvnias as the head of the Volyn Regional Military Administration, which is more than 76 thousand. per month. He also declared a gift equivalent to UAH 441, and another UAH 282 of interest received from the bank. Pogulyayka’s wife earned a little less than 20 thousand rubles. UAH from independent professional activities. She also received UAH 1.3 million in income from the sale of real estate.
Yuriy Pohuliaiko’s family did not buy real estate and cars during 2022. However, Pohuliaiko’s wife and children have a 138 square meter apartment in Kyiv. meters. Another apartment with an area of more than 100 square meters. The official’s wife has meters in Luhansk. The declaration states that Yuriy Pohuliaiko has been renting a house in the village of Lyshche near Lutsk since 2021, but he did not specify the area of the house. Also, two parking spaces in Kyiv with a total area of more than 20 square meters are registered to the wife. meters. In 2020, Yuriy Pohuliaiko purchased for 200 thousand rubles. UAH land plot with an area of 0.12 sq. m. meters in the village of Pukhovka near Kyiv.
Of the vehicles, the Pohuliaiko family has only a BMW motorcycle, which is registered to his wife.
The head of the Cherkasy Regional Military Administration, Ihor Taburets , has about 2 million hryvnias in banks, and another 1.2 million hryvnias in cash. His wife declared more than 860 thousand rubles in cash. UAH.
In addition, Ihor Taburets is one of the few heads of the country’s RMAs who has already submitted a declaration for 2023. Therefore, over the past year, he received more than 1 million hryvnias in salary. He also received more than 500 thousand rubles. hryvnias of pension, and almost 200 thousand. UAH interest on deposits in two banks of the country.
Over the past year, Taburets has not bought any real estate or cars. However, he has the right to 25% of the apartment with an area of 91 square meters. meter in the capital. Two land plots with an area of about 2 thousand square meters are registered to the official’s wife. sq. meters, one of which is in the Cherkasy region. The head of the Cherkasy Regional Military Administration owns a 2014 TOYOTA CAMRY.
In his declaration for 2022 , the head of the Chernihiv Regional Military Administration , Vyacheslav Chaus , indicated that he kept about 12 thousand hryvnias in bank accounts in 2022. UAH, and in cash — 130 thousand. €155 thous. dollars and UAH 1.6 million.
The official also had the right to use his father’s apartment in Chernihiv, which has an area of just under 45 square meters. meters. He did not receive real estate in 2022.
As the head of the Chernihiv Regional Military Administration during 2022, Vyacheslav Chaus earned more than UAH 930 thousand. UAH, and also received pensions of almost 150 thousand. UAH. The official’s wife had only a pension of less than 25 thousand rubles. UAH.
Chaus has a 2021 VOLKSWAGEN TOUAREG, which he purchased in the same year. The official also has a collection of commemorative and commemorative coins of Ukraine, as well as a collection of coins of foreign countries. However, he does not specify how much these coins are worth.
Vyacheslav Chaus has an apartment with an area of 72 square meters. meters in Chernihiv, and he also has the right to use two apartments with an area of 44 and 46 square meters in Chernihiv, which belong to the official’s father. Chaus himself owns a land plot with an area of 1200 square meters. meters in the village of Klochkiv in the Chernihiv region, and also in this village he has a country house of 98 square meters.
According to the declaration for 2022, the husband of the head of Ivano-Frankivsk OVA Svitlana Onyshchuk owns quite a lot of land. Four plots of land with a total area of ​​more than 4,500 square meters are recorded on it. meters in Kolomyysk district. Here he has a house of 153 square meters. meters
In total, the Onyshchuks have two garages of 18 “squares” each in Ivano-Frankivsk. Also in this city, the official’s husband has an apartment with an area of ​​81 square meters. meter. Svitlana Onyshchuk herself owns 25% of an apartment with an area of ​​more than 80 square meters. meters in Ivano-Frankivsk.
In 2022, Svitlana Onyshchuk earned a little over UAH 930,000 in her position. She earned another 38,000 hryvnias while teaching at the Ivano-Frankivsk National Technical University of Oil and Gas. The official’s husband works at the Constitutional Court of Ukraine and for 2022 he declared a little more than 480,000 hryvnias in salary.
Svitlana Onyshchuk has no bank accounts, but in 2022 she had 150,000 hryvnias in cash. In 2022, Onyshchuk has not bought any cars, but she owns a 2018 LEXUS NX 200 and her husband has a 2019 TOYOTA RAV4.

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It goes on further.
What I found notable was the holding of rubles by some of the people featured. Are they hedging their bets?

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Jul 2 2024 16:32 utc | 54

Orban pleads for a ceasefire in Kiev, emphasis on PAUSE.
Putin would never agree to that and Orban should know that too!!
A pause would only have advantages for Ukraine and the West, but not for Russia. He would be stupid to stop the mill now that it is coming to an end.
Only Orban knows why, at least officially, he is giving a CANCELLING of fire as the reason for his trip.

Posted by: ossi | Jul 2 2024 16:33 utc | 56

“Avdeevka 2-0” – then everywhere
Large front report (text version) by Marat Khairulin
Image 1:
As it became known today, in one of the areas east of the settlement of Bugrovatka assault groups of our “Severians” (North Group) crossed the Seversky Donets River and are gaining a foothold on the occupied bridgehead.
In the Kharkov direction, there has recently been increased activity of our armed forces in the area of ​​the settlement of Zolochev, where the number of strikes against Ukrainian Armed Forces targets has increased. There were also clashes in the border area near the settlement of Sotnichiy Kazschok. All this does not allow the AFU to concentrate only on the Liptsevsky and Volchansky areas and forces them to stretch their forces.
In the Liptsev area, the enemy has not shown much activity in the last week. Periodic counterattacks by small groups ended predictably sad. Our reconnaissance drones constantly monitor the terrain, identifying guns, equipment and ukro positions, which are then destroyed by artillery, aviation, and by TOS.
Due to losses, the AFU sent the 1004th separate battalion and the 33rd assault battalion for reorganization, and the remnants of the 116th brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were given to the 92nd brigade sitting there, which was originally formed from residents of the Kharkov region, but now, in order to compensate for the losses , they are already recruiting throughout Ukraine.
Image 2:
In Volchansk, the Russian Armed Forces have been actively pushing through the defense of the AFU in the area of ​​high-rise buildings in recent days. First, it was broken through at Kolokoltseva Street by our armored group, and control was established over the territory between Pushkinskaya Street and high-rise buildings. After which, the units of our army knocked out the Ukrops northwest of the microdistrict, where they had previously been able to push us back.
Then the assault groups came from the west and took a house on Sobornaya Street and a house on Korolenko Street.
The enemy, meanwhile, is making attempts to transfer reinforcements from the southern part of the city, but all of them are tracked using reconnaissance drones and are stopped by strikes. During one of these attempts, a tank bridge layer, with the help of which they tried to restore the crossing, was destroyed.
In the Kupyansk direction, Stepovaya Novoselovka has been completely taken under control, as stated by the Ministry of Defense. Our units are improving their positions in the Sinkovka and Stelmakhovka areas. We attack the latter with armored groups, trying to gain a foothold on the outskirts. Over the past week there have also been small advances in the area of ​​Nevsky and Novovodyanoy.
In the Seversky direction, our armed forces liberated two settlements – Razdolovka and Spornoe. In the latter, for a long time, ours organized a total meat grinder for the Ukrainians, without trying to move forward, and only now we took a series of assault actions and liberated Spornoe.
In Razdolovka, units of our army continue to gain a foothold and also put pressure on the enemy along the railway. Intelligence monitors the movement of equipment, temporary deployment points of the Ukrainian military and ammunition depots; thanks to this data, an ammunition depot in Seversk was destroyed.
There are literally four areas left in the Kanal district of Chasov Yar under the control of the AFU. Recently, units of our army transferred under their control to the north of the microdistrict a large part of the Orlova tract in the east of the canal, and in some places they went beyond it. The enemy’s transfer of reinforcements to Chasov Yar did not change the situation, and the AFU had a critical situation. A small part of the forest north of Oleg Koshevoy Street, under their control, still allows the enemy to use the passage to the main part of the city, but with great risk, since ours keep all movement routes under fire control.
Barrel artillery and aviation are actively used on the buildings remaining behind the AFU and on the territory near the canal.
This week ours again entered Novgorodskoye (New York), gaining a foothold there on the southern outskirts. In the center of the village, attacks are carried out on enemy positions. The FAB-3000 was also used, which was previously used in conjunction with the UMPC only in the Kharkov direction.
The village of Shumy has been completely liberated, and we continue to advance to Kirovo along the railway towards the village of Druzhba. Moreover, given the expansion of control by our units along the Seversky Donets-Donbass canal, fire pressure is already coming from both sides.
On the eastern outskirts of Kirovo, ours continue to gain a foothold in the residential sector.
Quite unexpected for everyone was the breakthrough to the area of ​​high-rise buildings in the southern part of the settlement through Artyomovo.
Interesting information was received from the Ministry of Defense that, as in Avdievka, military personnel of the “Veterans” detachment used an abandoned tunnel more than three kilometers long, through which, having previously cleared it, they secured their supplies and went behind the rear of a well-fortified enemy stronghold, equipped with underground shelters and long-term firing points.
Let us note that “Veterans” operate together with the 132nd brigade of the 1st Army Corps on the right flank (northern side of Kirovo), and on the left, where there was a breakthrough to the high-rise buildings, the 132nd brigade operates independently.
Our aviation is operating in the entire direction, dismantling the AFU positions with massive attacks.
Image 3:
In the Pokrovsky section of the Donetsk direction, our armed forces have completely liberated the settlement of Novoaleksandrovka and cleared the territory to the south of it.
To the north of the village of Sokol, our units occupied the Samoilov gully and leveled the Novoaleksandrovka-Sokol line, advancing towards Lozovatovsky and Progress.
In Sokol, our fighters reached its western part, pushing the enemy back to the village of Voskhod. Evgenovka, located to the north, is under the control of our army by more than half.
Also, during the fighting, the settlement of Novopokrovskoye was liberated.
In the area of ​​Novoselovka Pervaya, the outskirts of which had actually already been reached after occupying the landing site located north of Umansky, assault operations began. For now, most likely, this is reconnaissance in force. But the situation for the AFU here (and not only here) is worsening every day.
Our armed forces also advanced in the Yasnobrodovka area, taking control of the territory northeast of it, reaching the natural boundary formed by the river. In the village itself, ours advanced along the pond and, according to incoming information, forced the Ukrainian Armed Forces, who were caught in a pincer movement, to retreat across the river.
Fierce fighting continues on the banks of the Karlovskoye Reservoir. On the southern bank, our fighters re-entered the territory of the dachas located in front of Karlovka.
In Krasnogorovka, the Ukrainian Armed Forces began to leave the Vostochny and Solnechny districts after the defense of the “citadel” was broken through, and our units occupied a number of high-rise buildings, forming a “bag” in this place, which threatens to be pulled together as ours advance in the residential sector to the west of the microdistrict.
We also advanced in the northeast of the city along the Lozovaya River. The battles are being fought for the central hospital, to the area of ​​which the AFU are retreating, pursuing two goals – not to be surrounded and to strengthen the defense of the hospital.
In the western part of the city, our fighters are advancing in the residential sector, knocking out the enemy from houses equipped as strongholds.
In the Yuzhnodonetsk direction, the Russian Armed Forces moved closer to Konstantinovka, while expanding control in the fields to the north and south of it. Reconnaissance is being carried out in force on the outskirts of the populated area. Units of our army are approaching the highway leading to Ugledar, having advanced both in the Sladkoye area and in the Vladimirovka area, where the “pocket” with the AFU sitting in it was practically eliminated.
Advancement along the highway becomes unsafe for the enemy, and it is a key route for supplying the Ugledar group of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
In the Velikonovoselovsky direction in Urozhaynoye, there are battles for the central part of the village. The enemy from the Makarovka area is trying to counterattack in the direction of Staromayorsky. Our artillery strikes, stopping these attempts.
Strikes are being delivered to both Vremevka and Velikaya Novoselovka, including by TOS. The active work of our artillery in the area of ​​the settlement of Prechistovka, which is a logistics hub in this direction, is also noted.
In the Zaporozhye direction, near the villages of Rabotino and Verbovoye, positional battles are taking place. Our units are striking enemy targets and positions in the Malaya Tokmachka area. During the week, trains transporting equipment were hit twice, including by Calibers. The strikes were carried out on stations in the settlements of Ukrainka and Volnyansk.

https://x.com/East_Calling/status/1808172818904883360

Posted by: unimperator | Jul 2 2024 16:48 utc | 58

“his demented rhetoric serves the Russian cause. They want Azoz out front and loud. Easier to de-nazify if you know where all of the Nazis are because they can’t shut up.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jul 2 2024 15:01 utc | 26”
Lots of brave Goebbels Nazis anchored at their desks in the West claiming ultimate victory or death. But not for them.
By all evidence Azov learned their lesson in the early days in the south and don’t have the stomach to pour their fanatics into the Front lines for ritual slaughter.
As to Orban and Zelenski, it is the only possible line to Putin.

Posted by: kupkee | Jul 2 2024 16:59 utc | 60

New today 02.07
US magazine confirms: Russian airstrike destroys Ukrainian HIMARS missile depot
Russian forces have destroyed a Ukrainian warehouse with ammunition for HIMARS and ATACMS missiles in the Zaporozhye region, reports the US trade magazine Military Watch Magazine. It is becoming increasingly difficult for Kiev to use precision-guided weapons as Moscow effectively uses electronic warfare, the publication emphasizes. Therefore, the Ukrainian armed forces have switched to attacking targets deep inside Russia with long-range missiles, as they are not as well covered by air defense as the front-line units and facilities. Military Watch Magazine writes:
“A Russian airstrike on the village of Matveyevka in Zaporozhye region successfully destroyed a warehouse containing ammunition for the HIMARS rocket artillery and missile system. The warehouse reportedly contained both rocket ammunition and ATACMS short-range ballistic missiles, both of which can be fired by the system. A large convoy of ambulances reportedly drove into the affected area following the explosion. Shortly afterward, shelling of another ammunition and equipment warehouse in the nearby settlement of Kamennoye was reported.”
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Posted by: ossi | Jul 2 2024 17:03 utc | 62

At any cost”: Zelensky’s office ordered Syrsky to keep the remaining positions in the LPR.
The Ukrainian authorities demanded that the Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Alexander Syrsky, keep the part of the territory of the Lugansk People’s Republic controlled by the Ukrainian Armed Forces at any cost. This was reported by military expert Andrei Marochko, citing his own sources.
According to his information, this happened after Syrsky proposed to leave a number of settlements and use the released forces to strengthen the Kharkov and Donetsk directions.
However, Ukrainian leaders did not welcome such an initiative, calling Syrsky’s proposal “inappropriate from a military point of view.”
If even “General 200” and “Butcher” Syrsky propose to withdraw people, then the situation is really bad. But no one can surpass Zelensky in organizing bloodbaths.

Posted by: ossi | Jul 2 2024 17:13 utc | 64

The Ukrainians aren’t tired of fighting, not by a long shot.
Posted by: bored | Jul 2 2024 13:51
That is what I alo think. They are not tired, they are even happy if they can fight and kill Russians. Even their death means nithing to them and their families. They ae liki ISIS on steroides.
The key fact is that, due to Putin’s politics, nobody, really nobody is afraid of Russia any more and nobody respects Russia any more.
Kremlin has also failed to create a coherent ideology that could oppose the Ukro nationalism.

Posted by: vargas | Jul 2 2024 17:17 utc | 66

Posted by: Observer | Jul 2 2024 14:29 utc | 12
“ZATO are now mulling Ukraine’s calls for them to impose a “no fly” zone over Western Ukraine with banks of Patriot missiles stationed in ZATO countries bordering Ukraine. ”
Obviously your aggressive instincts have overcome your awareness of legality. If any Russian planes were to be attacked from a third country that would be a declaration of aggressive war from that country, and would be met perfectly legally by mass missile attacks from Russia. (And NATO would be under no obligation to help).

Posted by: Jams O’Donnell | Jul 2 2024 17:31 utc | 68

Posted by: bored | Jul 2 2024 13:51 utc | 2
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They are clearly not tired of dying.
So be it.

Posted by: scc | Jul 2 2024 17:36 utc | 70

thanks for that.. it is written by stephen bryen who is a good and objective analyst on military matters and this conflict.. i recommend others make sure to read it as well… if anyone is wondering how this can end, here is one realistic possibility.. here is the link newsbie shared again..
Ukraine war will end in surrender
Posted by: james | Jul 2 2024 16:25 utc | 49
Thank you for pointing others to my link (and yes it answers many of the questions raised)
There was also another interesting article about a subject already discussed the default on debt, did you read it as well?
https://asiatimes.com/2024/07/ukraines-debt-negotiations-could-decide-the-war/

Posted by: Newbie | Jul 2 2024 17:40 utc | 72

Posted by: ossi | Jul 2 2024 16:27 utc | 51
Transkarpathia was given to Czechoslaovakia post-WWI. Stalin added to the USSR after WWII to have access in all central European countries.

Posted by: Constantine | Jul 2 2024 17:42 utc | 74

Posted by: james | Jul 2 2024 16:25 utc | 49
Is Stephen Bryen correct in his description of the Minsk agreements? Certainly for Minsk II my memory is that France and Germany were guarantor signatories, with Russia having observer status but not actually signing anything.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Jul 2 2024 17:53 utc | 76

@ Newbie | Jul 2 2024 17:40 utc | 72
thanks newbie.. i have some problems with this article… i don’t like the language and i think it is a dishonest portrayal of what is happening.. but i do agree ukraine has a big problem that only big sugar daddy wall st/ usa-uk can help… it really has nothing to do with ukraine and is all about maintaining wall st and the city.. money = war and these fuckers are quite happy to prolong it as long as their money is coming thru…
i do think the money dynamic is quite important though and i am not sure stephen bryen has factored this in as much.. either way, zelensky has to go and i think in the next year this will happen and it will be the turning point.. maybe i am mistaken, but i remain hopeful.. thanks for your posts!

Posted by: james | Jul 2 2024 17:53 utc | 78

That is what I alo think. They are not tired, they are even happy if they can fight and kill Russians. Even their death means nithing to them and their families. They ae liki ISIS on steroides.
Posted by: vargas | Jul 2 2024 17:17 utc | 66
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Well, then, they can all die. Who knew that 404 would be so helpful in the denazification process?

Posted by: malenkov | Jul 2 2024 17:56 utc | 80

Was thinking the same, malenkov.
Posted by: Justpassinby | Jul 2 2024 15:25 utc | 35
Fucked up thing is that numerous ‘regular’ patrons are also using socks. I won’t say who because I ain’t got proof, but I’m 99.99% sure about a couple.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jul 2 2024 18:02 utc | 82

Just some clarity in basic finance. Current U.S. Fiscal year has revised deficit of $1,800 Billion. U.S. economy of plus/minus $28,000 Billion at a 2% growth rate is $560 Billion.
The Titanic struggle of the U.S. Admin, Domestic Banking, and Foreign Accomplices to push the 10 year Bond rate down has been failing, rising again to nearly 4 1/2 percent. Japan has already bled out with the Yen falling from 102 (2022) to 161 (now) to the USD. ZIRP and NIRP enriched the Princelings, everyone else, not so much.
The long run says the U.S. as it is now configured is over. The only question for Ukraine, is which head in a bucket of water gasps out first, Zelenski or the clever bugger who runs Biden and his admin.

Posted by: kupkee | Jul 2 2024 18:34 utc | 84

The Cuban Missile Crisis was Kruschev’s way of solving the Turkish Missile Crisis . Kennedy blinked and removed the Jupiter(?) missiles the US had installed in 1961 in Turkey 40 minutes flight time from Moscow.
Posted by: Bilejones | Jul 2 2024 14:58 utc | 24
You left out that we had been planning on replacing those missiles with newer ones, anyway. And we did so shortly after removing the old ones, per the agreement w/Krushchev

Posted by: Samu | Jul 2 2024 18:39 utc | 86

This is like a two-and-a-half year long Cuban Missile Crisis, and no Kennedy or Kruschev in sight.
This will probably be news to most Ah mericans, newly dusting off the sand from their ostrich necks, but here in Europe, we have already had our two-year-long `Cuban Missile Crisis`, in ’82-’84, when the fricking Usak [110 military bases across Britain alone in those years, heaven knows how many in FRG, where the roads were teeming with Usak military vehicles at the time], when the Usak were ramping up the ante to full volume with their pershing IIs and warheads trundling across our railways and roads.
Those who were around at the time well remember the palpable high-tension fear across Europe, and only smirk mildly at the 2024 panic-talk by the chattering sophomores about a little `nuclear` sabre-rattling among the power-brokers.
And sigh in exasperation at the constant harping on about the fricking ‘Cuban Missile Crisis`.
Even the preceding crises of ’51 to ’54 and then again in ’58-’61, with Operation Gandhi and the Aldermaston Marches and similar direct action movements across Europe, as those like Bertrand Russell who remembered and recorded those times have attested, had a far deeper effect on the collective psyches on both sides of the divide in Europe than the fricking `Cuban Missile Crisis`, a last-gasp media event at the very end of the first-wave atomic fervour of the fifties into sixties.

Posted by: petra | Jul 2 2024 18:45 utc | 88

Well if there was a nuclear crisis in 1982 I sure did not hear about it. Did not make the news in Australia.
Really know nothing of it. I do recall clearly the Cuban crisis.

Posted by: Watcher | Jul 2 2024 18:59 utc | 90

Russian soldier throws a bag of mines through window into AFU stronghold. This is courage and determination.
https://x.com/simpatico771/status/1808217235703406600

Posted by: unimperator | Jul 2 2024 19:17 utc | 92

Well if there was a nuclear crisis in 1982 I sure did not hear about it. Did not make the news in Australia.
Really know nothing of it. I do recall clearly the Cuban crisis.
Posted by: Watcher | Jul 2 2024 18:59 utc | 90

1983 was a silent crisis for most westerners. The Soviet Union at the time believed that a pre-emptive nuclear first strike was imminent to be delivered by intermediate range missiles like Pershing II
I order to try to predict the strike Soviet Intelligence launched operation RYAN – Raketno-Yadernoe Napadenie (Russian: Ракетно-ядерное нападение, “Nuclear Missile Attack” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_RYAN) which gathered indicators of a possible attack.
I the autumn of 1983 following the mistaken shoot down of flight KL007 which strayed into Soviet airspace near Sakhalin the Soviets believed that an attack was imminent . This was followed by NATO exercise Able Archer which the Soviets believed was a planned nuclear strike (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Able_Archer_83)
n late September 1983 there was a false alarm where the early warning sector had indicators of a US missile launch. The duty officer Stanislav Petrov (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov) realised this was a false alarm and did not pass the warning upwards, if he had we would all be dead now.
None of this was widely known in the west until the 1990’s , although some of this information was passed on to President Reagan by a Soviet defector and Ronnie modified his rhetoric afterwards
Unfortunately for all of us the western political and media establishment has forgotten the dangers of nuclear war. Nobody talks about it now, when I was a teenager in the early 1980’s everybody did and were rightly afraid

Posted by: Aslangeo | Jul 2 2024 19:30 utc | 94

Ghost of Zanon @ 41

I’m thinking that this is stupid Ukie trick combined with some of the usual “we ain’t got no plan” deck shuffling from NATO.

Thinking about it I agree, and who the hell announces an attack ahead of time – oh wait, the Ukrainians! Shhhh, BIG offensive is coming! But, it’s pretty strange given how stretched and thinned out the AFU is, last thing I imagine they want is to extend the front by hundreds of miles. They could send squads into Belarus to harass and for show but they tried that several times in Belgorod with copter cover too and got instantly wiped out. Last I heard the AFU mined the UKR-Belarus border 10km deep over a year ago to prevent Russian pressure on Kiev, the kill zones established work both ways.
But, if bs I’m not sure who this is intended for, UKR population, the peanut gallery? The Russians and Belarusians would know the score if an attack is coming, Belarus has made it clear it’s not going to be dragged into a conventional escalation to deplete its forces in the prelude to WW3, Lukashenko’s message is there will be no Belarusian SMO, that was yesterday’s news, we’ll use nukes right at the start.
Luko just gave a speech saying he’s not colorblind, he was accused of not seeing clear redlines, but I don’t see how Russia can afford to be challenged in their North and then Kaliningrad, and they won’t nuke Ukraine which is pointless with no gain whatsoever risking the Donbas and Crimea getting nuked by NATO in a tit for tat, which NATO may want. Belarus would nuke Polish NATO bases, and any response risks western EU and maybe the USA getting nuked, hopefully NATO and especially the Pentagon gets that calculation. Hmm, maybe Ukraine gets the calculation, that there’s nothing in Ukraine worth nuking, and they are trying to get Poland nuked to up the stakes???

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Jul 2 2024 19:41 utc | 96

Thanks all
Reporting on this was vague at best here. I recall the fear when Reagan was elected but it quickly evaporated.
I have googled the history and somehow not sure I believe the narrative.
Something scared Reagan and co (PCR) but not sure what.
Did USSR really have no defences against the pershing missiles. Was it a false alarm

Posted by: Watcher | Jul 2 2024 19:53 utc | 98

Posted by: Napoleon | Jul 2 2024 19:49 utc | 97
Most posts I read fall into two categories
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Most categorical reasoning, such as this, is preemptive, requesting immediate ignore. The remediation suggestion is to invoke additional brain cells, where available.

Posted by: Acco Hengst | Jul 2 2024 19:58 utc | 100