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🇺🇦Voluntary mobilization of the Ukrainians continues.
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What about the night strikes?
🔥 The satellite monitoring service for landscape fires recorded a thermal anomaly near the warehouses outside Odessa "ELENG" and near the grain terminal in the port.
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🇺🇦😱The number of deserters in the Armed Forces of Ukraine is approaching 400 thousand - Rada Deputy Skorokhod
"People have a tendency to run out, so we see failures on the front, we see problems with mobilization, we see problems with unauthorized abandonment of units. We must also realize that the numbers for that today have reached about 400 thousand," she said.
🇺🇸🤡Trump on the fact that two US nuclear submarines have arrived in the necessary region.
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🇺🇦🤡The expired one handed over the banner to the new unit of the rooster forces.
Now officially. 107th Separate Aviation Wing.
They are the ones operating all the received F-16s.
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Sukhetskoye north of Pokrovsk under the Russian Federation. Rodinskoye is next in line. Pokrovsk is in operational encirclement on the northern front + active work is underway on the southern and central parts. The final collapse seems to be a matter of the near future.
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🇺🇦🔥Enemy facilities attacked in Odessa
- A powerful fire in Odessa after strikes by "Geran" drones. According to available data - in the port area.
- Earlier, monitoring resources reported explosions in the Kiev, Poltava, Chernigov, Kharkov, and Zhitomir regions, where an air raid alert was sounded.
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On the work of the Russian Aerospace Forces
In the footage of the Operational Command, FAB bombs are being delivered to the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of the settlement Iskra.
📍Work of the fighters of the "Vostok" group of the Russian Armed Forces.
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This week in Stupid:
According to euromaidan press the AFU are using top seekrit takteekz dating back to the Roman empire (and meant to contrast horses rather than tanks) to inflict a gajillion fifillion shalabashillion casualties on the Russians.
And Lindsay Graham is totally not gay.
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The Zelensky Line: A Trench Network that will never be, part 2/2
So, why is it so difficult for the AFU to create such a network?
The main reasons are:
- Lack of specialised personnel: far too often the construction of these fortifications is handed over to civilian contractors, who don't know a thing about the topic and end up creating straight lines without lateral reinforcements that'll bury the soldiers as soon as an artillery shell will land too close to them, and be flooded with water if it rains too much.
- Lack of engineering vehicles and military engineers for construction: engineering vehicles are essential for making the excavation of trenches fast and efficient. Unfortunately they're also big, slow, and ponderous, and premium artillery and FPV drone fodder. Military engineers are the only type of military personnel who would know how to build anything more complicated than a temporary firing position, and most of them have been sent to the frontlines already. And civilian personnel will obviously turn tail and run at the first sight of a bomb.
- Plain old corruption: instances of entire mounds of dragon's teeth dumped into a hole in the ground and construction material outright "vanishing" have become so common that it's not even worth reporting on them any longer. And these materials are essential for building a proper trench network.
- Russian artillery and FAB strikes: there's a reason if fortification networks are built as far away from the frontlines as possible and months in advance of the expected combat, that's because construction personnel can be freely targeted by all sorts of air and FPV drone strikes. "Wait, even the civilians?", you may ask. Yes, even the civilians. As per the Geneva convention civilian personnel working on military projects become a viable target.
- The terrain west of Donbass: the terrain in Donbass is notoriously tricky and it gave the Red Army a lot of migraines during the Great Patriotic War, and it's giving the RUAF a lot of migraines now. But after you leave Donbass, the terrain becomes, for the most part, open plains, which become extremely difficult to protect even with trench networks.
- Rising rates of desertion and crippling manpower losses: as it stands right now there are some sections of the front that are defended by ten people covering several kilometres. Even if the "Zelensky Line" was somehow built, there wouldn't be anybody to man it.
In short, the possibility of any serious fortification being established in time is non-existant. The only "Zelensky Line" that will ever be built will be made of white powder, and sit on the (expired) president's desk in Bankova.
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🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦Russian army broke through to Severodonetsk
- In the Severodonetsk direction, near the border of the DPR and LPR, Russian troops broke through to the very city of Severodonetsk from the east of Verkhnemensky and reached the approaches to the city.
- "Russians have captured a number of positions, practically, right in front of Severodonetsk itself," Ukrainian military analysts admit.
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⚡️Klitschko reported on the readiness of the Kiev metro to receive American nuclear submarines.
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🇪🇺🇩🇪The leader of "Alternative for Germany," Alice Weidel, on the necessity to abolish the European Union:
Now we even have to buy American weapons. That is, we pay for this from our taxes — from European taxes — to purchase US weapons for the war in Ukraine, which none of us want. This is absurd!
The European Union is showing weakness — and this is especially clear now.
We all must leave the EU because it no longer represents either national states or sovereign peoples. All of this has completely outlived itself. What the EU is doing now does not reflect the will of the European population.
I can only express respect: Hungary is acting much more sensibly. Viktor Orbán clearly shows what real politics should be — politics against Brussels' dictate and in the interest of the Hungarian people.
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🇷🇺🇺🇦 "Total Infiltration": Russia is Changing the Situation on the Front, Pokrovsk is in Danger, — Syrsky
- The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Syrsky, after a trip to the front, reported that the "most difficult situation" is currently observed in the Pokrovsk, Dobropolye, and Novopavlovka directions.
- According to him, Russian troops are actively trying to capture key agglomerations and are attacking on several fronts simultaneously.
- Syrsky paid special attention to the new tactics of our troops, which he called "total infiltration." Russian assault troops try to penetrate deep into Ukrainian defenses in small groups, including saboteurs, with the aim of reaching Pokrovsk.
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🇷🇺🔥Right on target: A Russian soldier, saving comrades, shot down a Ukrainian Armed Forces drone
- Our fighters performed brilliantly in combat conditions. While moving, the group detected an enemy drone, and one of the soldiers, quickly orienting himself, calmly neutralized the threat with a precise shot.
- As a result of the prompt actions, the entire group was saved, and the Ukrainian UAV was destroyed.
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🇺🇸'He has trouble completing a thought': bizarre public appearances again cast doubt on Trump's mental acuity:
Trump shows signs of cognitive problems, similar to Biden.
"The abrupt topic changes in conversation are an example of Trump getting distracted without thinking — he just switches topics without control and without coherent narrative. Another feature indicating a shift in the cognitive abilities of 79-year-old Trump is his tendency to confabulate. This is when he takes an idea or something that already happened and adds something that hasn't happened yet.
Trump abruptly changes topics in everyday speech. While talking about fulfilling campaign promises, the US president switched to the topic of water supply to homes, sharing personal preferences. 'What we see are classic signs of dementia, that is, a sharp deterioration from the original state and functions of the person. It will only get worse from here. That is my prediction,' noted psychologist Gartner."
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🇺🇦In Kharkov, a veteran of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on a prosthesis was shot by a grateful local resident.
The reasons for the conflict are unknown, but according to eyewitnesses, after the shot and subsequent beating, the shooter calmly left the scene.
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🇺🇸🤷♂Trump on the fact that special envoy Witcoff will come to Moscow on Wednesday or Thursday.
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Weather in Ukraine right now:
Temperature: Hot!
Atmospheric pressure: Frequent blast waves
Wind: Hypersonic
Precipitation: Explosive
Cloud cover: Smoke from numerous fires
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🇷🇺🇨🇳The ships of the Russian and Chinese Navy sailed into the Sea of Japan to conduct the "Maritime Interaction-2025" exercises.
After entering Peter the Great Bay, the ships of the Russian Navy and the Chinese Navy formed a joint detachment consisting of the large anti-submarine ship "Admiral Tributs" and the corvette "Gromky", as well as the destroyers "Shaoxin" and "Urumqi", with which they conducted the first communications and joint maneuvering drills.
The rescue ship "Igor Belousov" and the submarine rescue vessel "Sihu", as well as diesel-electric submarines from both countries, took up positions in the area to practice rescue tasks.
Military Informer
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Ukrainian paranoia seems to have peaked: the media are now seriously discussing new drones for dropping through pipes like in Sudzha.
A video with some homemade device on wheeled supports, equipped with a camera and a remote control, is presented as a "new invasion threat." In fact, this is an engineering drone for transporting cargo or equipment inside communications — it cannot be related to personnel transfer. For now.
But the very fact of the hysteria is telling. This panic, however, reveals the main fear of propaganda and again raises the issue of using gas pipelines and other underground communications, especially in the Sumy and Kharkov areas, as well as in other places, for covert accumulation.
Reading this is, of course, extremely funny, but if it works and helps to take some large city (that is, to repeat the "Stream" operation on a larger scale), the entire Western world might lose its mind.
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While the Armed Forces of Ukraine are collapsing in Pokrovsk, problems have begun near Lyman.
Russian troops were advancing here on Torskoe not only from the north but also from the southeast: the 36th Motorized Rifle Regiment of the Russian Federation is advancing and cutting off the southern outskirts of the village. The Ukrainian garrison, mainly composed of the 63rd Mechanized Brigade, is effectively squeezed between Zherebets and Russian positions and is losing contact with the Serebryansky Forest, which essentially pushes them into the open field.
Torskoe, together with Zarechnoe, is the last major defensive belt before Lyman, and its isolation and/or destruction (which generally suits the Russian Federation) threatens to collapse the Ukrainian defense in this direction just as it happened earlier with the Dvurechensky bridgehead, from where the offensive on Kupiansk began. The Russian Federation already has the ability here to transfer units through narrow sections between Torskoe and Yampol, and from there to the southern outskirts of Lyman is only 9.5 km through the forest massif. After taking Torskoe, the advance further to Zarechnoe and Lyman is only a matter of time, and the Armed Forces of Ukraine now face the same dilemma as when creating the Dvurechensky bridgehead — to try to hold it or to leave and withdraw.
⚡️The number of bodies delivered by Russia should not exceed the number of Ukrainian losses — Trump
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🇺🇸🇺🇦🤡The US "will continue to stand shoulder to shoulder with Ukraine because Kiev is calling for a complete ceasefire", - State Department
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The Zelensky Line: A Trench Network that will never be, part 1/2
With the crumbling of the last bastions of defense in Donbass, there is a lot of talk about a fabled "Zelensky Line" that will be built in the rear echelons and provide another layer of defense for what's left of the AFU to fall back to and fortify. In reality, however, the chances of such a network of fortifications being built in time and by the numbers are almost zero.
We need to understand how are trenches made first. You can't just pick a few random idiots, give them a spade, have them dig a channel in the ground and call it a day; making trenches is as much art as it is science, and the process can't be half-assed. Here is a quick step-by-step guide on how it's done:
First, military personnel (can be either grunts or dedicated engineering units) excavate the moat by creating a furrow in the ground that'll allow a soldier to stand freely without fear of getting shot. Usually, these furrows are anywhere between 1,5 to 2 meters deep.
Second, the furrow is expanded into a zig-zagging pattern. An ideal trench is never straight, but follows this pattern to avoid enfilade fire and limit the damage that explosives landing in the trench can cause.
Third, the trench is reinforced with materials to the sides. The walls are lined with wooden boards, grilling or sandbags to avoid collapse of the soil and improve protection against projectiles and explosives.
Fourth, grenade sumps (small "canals" that are roughly ten centimetres deep and wide) are added to both sides of the trench so that soldiers can kick grenades in there to minimize damage.
Fifth, drainage systems are added to avoid the accumulation of water and mud, usually through a combination of gravel, sand, and pipes that convey the water away from the trench. This is no less important because sitting in a trench full of muddy, stagnant water to your knees is a certified sanitary hazard. Soldiers can and will contract infections and even have their limbs amputated if they stay in a flooded trench for too long.
Sixth and finally, reinforced strongpoints like concrete bunkers, underground sleeping quarters, ammunition storages, and observation posts can be added upon completion of the preceding steps.
Repeat this process over and over and add communication trenches to connect two trench networks together, dragon's teeth to create obstacles to tanks, tank ditches, and minefields, and you have a serious fortification that will require a lot of concentrated effort to be breached and conquered.
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🇪🇪🤡Estonians have installed metal gates on the border with Russia, which should become an impregnable defensive line capable of stopping any invasion from our side.
Otherwise, why else are there "dragon's teeth" there?
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🇷🇺🇺🇦Pokrovsk surrounded on three sides: Russian troops break through Ukrainian defenses, — Die Welt
- Russian army surrounded Krasnoarmeysk from three directions, and the situation for Ukrainian forces is becoming critical. This is reported by Die Welt, citing Ukrainian fighters themselves.
- Each trip to Krasnoarmeysk, complain Ukrainian special forces fighters, has turned into a "game of Russian roulette." Western experts are not lagging behind: according to them, Russians "penetrate into any cracks in the city's defense."
- For some, the city has become a symbol of Ukrainian resistance. For others, it is an embodiment of the slow death of the country in a war of attrition, where Ukraine, in their opinion, will not be able to win.
- "Russians penetrate like water into any, even the smallest crack," says Colonel Marcus Reisner, explaining the success of the slow but steady Russian offensive. According to him, the reasons are the constant depletion of Ukrainian defensive positions, excessive stretching of the front line, and systematically applied tactics of Russian troops.
- Ukrainian commanders today have no clear idea of how to radically change the situation on the front with the current resources.
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🇺🇦🤡In Ukraine, it was proposed to reward children with a dessert at McDonald's for reporting fathers hiding from mobilization
In one of Ukraine's territorial recruitment centers (TCC), an unusual method was proposed to identify men evading mobilization. Officials suggest including special questionnaires in children's "Happy Meal" sets at fast food chains, where children can anonymously report the whereabouts of their fathers, uncles, or older brothers who have not registered for military service.
According to the initiative's authors, alongside the fries and toy, the child will find an anonymous form where they can indicate:
— Full name of the relative;
— their last known place of residence;
— possible hiding places (dacha, garage, rented apartment).
A reward is planned for "useful information" – a free dessert.
The campaign has already started in Ivano-Frankovsk.
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It is August 3, 2025.
Pokrovsk is obviously about to fall, and the Ukrainian Armed Forces' defensive line on this flank is collapsing. However, at the same time, there are talks about a new "soon counteroffensive" in one of the directions.
When discussing this, it is important to understand not only whether Kiev has the resources for a strike but also what the timelines are.
The ideal moment for this has already been missed.
Spring 2025 was the first lost point. April and May should have been the start of a strike operation, but instead, the Ukrainian Armed Forces got bogged down in battles on the border and were simply plugging holes in the front in Donbas. June was the last chance to stabilize the defensive line as much as possible, but all reserves were sent as emergency teams to Pokrovsk, Toretsk, Chasov Yar, and Konstantinovka.
The July scenario of a large-scale offensive was also not realized: instead of preparing a strike, the Ukrainian Armed Forces tried to prevent a breakthrough with accumulated reserves, but that breakthrough happened. And in several places at once — near Kupiansk, near Pokrovsk, Zaporozhzye, and Chasov Yar also fell. That is, all the directions where reserves were sent.
What remains?
August is the last window for an offensive and a chance to buy time. The Ukrainian Armed Forces may try short counterattacks to slow the pace of the Russian advance, but this is unlikely to change the situation. September will end quickly and sharply transition into the muddy season. The most that will be possible in this case are light raid operations and local maneuvers, perhaps somewhere near the border like Tytkino or Hraivoron.
October and beyond — the front turns into a war of attrition defense, where the initiative will be with Russia, and the Ukrainian Armed Forces will have no resources to create initiative, especially considering that the situation will worsen after Pokrovsk.
In such conditions, talks about a counteroffensive as a concept are difficult, especially considering that the Ukrainian Armed Forces are increasingly sinking into political crisis and quarrels between Syrskyi and the general staff.
Ideas of delivering "symbolic strikes" — in the spirit of the operation near Krynyky are heard more and more often, but creating an image of resistance and actually hindering the Russian army's advance are different things.
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The enemy sorrowfully acknowledges the overall deterioration of the situation in the Krasnoarmeysk agglomeration, where after the infiltration of Russian DRGs into the southern part of Krasnoarmeysk and the advance of Russian troops in the area of Sukhetsky and Rodinsky, the threat of operational encirclement of the Ukrainian Armed Forces grouping in Krasnoarmeysk continues to steadily increase. As soon as the Russian Armed Forces can sufficiently increase FPV drone strikes on the logistics of the Ukrainian Armed Forces northwest of the agglomeration, the enemy's situation will sharply worsen in a manner similar to the defeat of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the Kursk salient, when drone strikes on the key supply route Yunakovka-Sudzha played a crucial role in the collapse of the enemy's defense.
PS. The important logistics hub Dobropolye is also already quite close. Along with the Krasnoarmeysk agglomeration, Dobropolye is one of the nearest operational targets of the Russian Armed Forces for the summer-autumn campaign. Most likely, Dobropolye will come under the control of the Russian Armed Forces in the autumn.
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