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The situation on the Kupyansk axis in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region remains extremely tense but is gradually stabilizing. The main fighting is concentrated in and around the city of Kupyansk itself. Russian forces are holding positions in the industrial zone on the left bank of the Oskol River, while on the right bank, Ukrainian units continue attempts to expand their zone of control. Reports indicate that their assault groups reached the city center, including the district court building, but active work by Russian drone crews prevented them from holding these positions for long.
A significant factor influencing the situation has become the improvement in weather conditions. This has allowed Russian unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operators to operate at full capacity, which, according to available information, has partially compensated for the numerical superiority of Ukrainian units. As a result, the Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF) are forced to operate mainly in small groups, relying on resupply via heavy drones. The crisis for Russian troops is not yet over, but their chances of holding the bridgehead beyond the Oskol and their positions in Kupyansk are assessed as having increased.
An important tactical success for Russian forces was gaining control of the village of Podoly. This settlement, southeast of Kupyansk and located on the left bank of the Oskol with a population of about 2,300, is near Kupyansk-Uzlovoy. This allows Russian units to continue methodically clearing the eastern bank of the river and apply pressure on the supply routes of the Ukrainian grouping.
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According to reports from the Russian Defense Ministry, UAF losses on this axis during the specified period amounted to up to 210 personnel, as well as various pieces of equipment and ammunition depots. It is claimed that the UAF’s New Year’s offensive on Kupyansk was organized with the extensive involvement of mercenaries and conducted on the principle of a “meat assault”—without complex maneuvers or long-term support, aiming primarily for a media effect. These attacks resulted only in localized penetrations. In one reported episode, Ukrainian aviation mistakenly struck its own infantry sheltering in the central hospital of Kupyansk, leading to numerous casualties, including among foreign mercenaries.
Amidst the heavy fighting at the front, significant personnel changes have taken place in Kyiv, causing mixed reactions. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced rotations in the government and security agencies. Notably, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Oleksandr Syrskyi, retained his post.
Oleksandr Syrskyi
The dismissal of the head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), Vasyl Maliuk, was announced. This decision has caused public discontent among a number of high-ranking UAF commanders, including those involved in the critically important Kupyansk axis. The commanders stated that removing an effective intelligence service head in the midst of hostilities poses a direct threat to the country’s defense capability. According to some reports, his successor may be SBU First Deputy Head Oleksandr Poklad, whom Ukrainian MP Maryana Bezuhla has characterized as a “full-time organizer of political assassinations.”
Kyrylo Budanov, Vasyl Maliuk
This personnel decision is widely seen as part of a broader realignment following President Zelenskyy’s appointment of the head of military intelligence (HUR), Kyrylo Budanov, as the head of his Presidential Office. Many analysts and sources within Ukrainian security agencies see Maliuk’s dismissal as a consequence of the long-standing and acute rivalry between the two special services—HUR and SBU—which has now escalated into an open conflict with Budanov’s move to a key administrative position.
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everyone’s bored of the ukraine incident now. it’s just gone on for too long with no outcome.
recent months saw a large u.s. military build up in the caribbean, with socom deploying assists in puerto rico and near trinidad and tobago…………………………… https://psee.io/8jqu9r
apart from a full scale attack by the us and its nato poodles, nothing is going to help stop the kiev junta from losing nato’s war with russia in ukraine. the russian forces have far more equipment, mainly because they don’t keep losing it in suicide charges. the russian forces have so many drones they they can waste them by blowing up ukrainian flags previously left there by ukrainian drones.
don’t count the chickens before they are hatched
dump could just give the ukrop a couple nukes
it might seem reckless, but it really isn’t, the moscow government would just retreat
the (((americans))) would fain denial and the ukrop would say they made it themselves.
the scum is at the same point for 4 years, 1,3m dead russian soldiers , you are really great , go eat your ice cream with the forehead idiot
1.3m dead russian soldiers? maths isn’t your strong point, i can tell. don’t you mean 1.3m dead cocaine cowboys? the last exchange i read was recently, 1000 ukrainian soldiers for 30 russian soldiers.
it’s business that’s all they don’t care about us. we’re all disposable to them. they want to reduce population of whites now. already a minority but they want less because they’re traditionally genetically christians.. “christians are now the most persecuted people on earth ” pope benedict.
they’re afraid of masculine and feminine they aren’t those. they’re actually, look to be honest, unattractive people really not strong or nurturing by nature. aka male or female. they felt that
they had to enslave the african as a form of prison because they felt threatened by them physically. its not rocket science its common sense.. look at the top nazis. for example. they want trans ed people they can programme them.
instead of worrying about hosting the olympics and making sure all the dual citizens had yachts and london addresses the russians could have been investing in an operational military that could meet objectives in a swift and decisive manner.
could. but… putins not impulsive and us an international lawyer by trade so knows not to get entrapped into being convicted as a war criminal. if there were such things after wars as fair trials.
of course he’s not totally idiotic and simple minded.
that’s true too. the education systems the biggest culprit in deceiving the world, programming the kids, enslaving their minds bodies and souls with invisible chains. you see the outcomes everywhere every day. the flawed thinking resulting from the generations that have never even allowed to be taught the basics, such as, when i was in primary school we were still taught that every question needed to approached by discovering who why what where and when, and then, how.
usa took down venezuela in less than one day…meanwhile 3rd rate russia still hasn’t fully ‘liberated’ donbas…heheheh
difference is, nato didn’t support madura like they do with their little scruffy dictator in ukraine!
the pope didn’t support maduro and nor did the king. that’s the difference when maduro was elected presudent he wasn’t celebrated by the west as a conquering hero like zelensky, as if they like israel. never before in australian history has canberra parliament live streamed some foreign head of state direct into their hollow chambers. allegedly.
correct.. no one political person has ever in my life been so favoured by the system as zelensky. so obviously too……
the fighting is going to slow. why?
can’t afford the overtime on publc holidays
zelensky trying to bury the corruptions, the 100 million in golden toilets ( swiss chalets more likely) and present some ateempt at saving his image.
more like hundreds of billions but because the msm are all aboard the good ship lollipop too, they’re all in it together to deceive the world. as usual over centuries of the same old…. deceit by omissions and approval.
they want an elite master race as hitler said. blonde haired blue eyed aryan master race the other white people can go. ruling over a majority of coffee coloured people as the original albino described pharoah over the afro egyptians and semitic races did. bottom line.. imo. allegedly. observation..