On April 22, 2024, the Russia-Ukraine war entered its 789th day.
Let's take a look at the situation on the battlefield first.
Novohyriivka, mentioned yesterday, confirmed that Ukrainian troops have not completely withdrawn from the area, and Ukrainian troops are still stationed in residential areas.
The Russians, at the cost of heavy casualties, took control of about 90% of Nova Hyriivka.
In the Avdiivka theater of operations, Russian troops continue to advance on the southern streets of Ocheretyne, trying to reach the railway station.
On the other side, the commandos of the 3rd Separate Brigade yesterday carried out a night raid with the help of M2A2 Bradley IFV and M113 armored personnel carriers, successfully destroying a Russian army's assembly position.
In the Zaporozhye theater of operations, the Hippocampus of the Ukrainian army destroyed the radar station and control center of the latest Russian "invulnerable" anti-aircraft missile system S-400 "Triumph".
The Russia-Ukraine war shattered several myths about Russia, and the S-400 is one of them, making it one of the most expensive weapons systems in the world.
On the Dnieper front, the Ukrainian army yesterday destroyed a drone relay station in the village of the Cossack camp.
In the Crimean direction, the port of the Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol was again subjected to long-range missile strikes by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The targets of the attack were the rescue ship Communa, as well as the amphibious landing ship VDK "Yamal".
"Communa", the oldest ship of the Russian Navy and the oldest in the world still in service and on combat duty, was commissioned in 1915 and is the only deep-sea rescue ship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet.
It is being targeted by Ukraine, probably because of its recent frequent appearances in the wreckage of the sunken flagship Moskva, in an attempt to salvage the P-1000 Vulcan anti-ship missiles carried by the Moskva.
Let's take a look at the other news.
Zelensky visited the Chasov Yar front and wrote on a street sign:
“(...) We must always remember everyone who gave their lives for the survival of Ukraine".
Ukrainians are paying the highest price for their freedom, and the grief of those who have lost loved ones reminds us of this every day.
Pentagon spokesman General Patrick Ryder said the United States is considering sending up to 60 military advisers to Ukraine.
Slovak people raised 2 million euros in 3 days to buy ammunition for Ukraine.
After the Slovak cabinet led by Fezzo refused to join the Czech government's initiative to buy hundreds of thousands of artillery shells for Ukraine, Otto Simko, a 99-year-old veteran of the Holocaust and participant in the 1944 Slovak national uprising against the Nazis, helped launch a crowdfunding campaign for "peace in Ukraine" that challenged government policies.
Since the launch of the crowdfunding campaign on Tuesday (16th) afternoon, as of Friday (19th) afternoon, more than 32,000 people have donated more than 2 million euros.
In an interview with the BBC, Simco said:
"If we can't defeat Putin, he will become a threat. It's not for the two or three years I have left on Earth, but for my grandchildren and great-grandchildren, Slovakia and the whole world. ”
Russia is restoring old antiques - mothballed and even dismantled BMP-1sb3KDZ protection kits and sending them to the front line.
In the last six months, Russia has achieved some tactical victories, but has lost a lot of equipment and personnel, and the impact of the former has been fatal. If such a war is fought for another year, it is likely that Russia will fight mainly on the weapons of the last century. What is even more troublesome is that the military aid of the US imperialists is coming again.
Ben Hodges, the former commander of US forces in Europe, said of the approval of aid to Ukraine:
"It may be a few weeks before we see a significant impact on the battlefield from this decision, but the strategic impact will be immediately apparent...... In the Kremlin, they now realize that the plan that awaits us, the United States, to withdraw from Ukraine, has failed. ”
The Institute for the Study of War believes that Russian forces are likely to use the limited window of time before the arrival of new U.S. aid to increase their attacks in the coming weeks, which shows the strategic impact of the U.S. House of Representatives' passage of the military aid bill.
There are many people on the Jianzhong network who claim that only more than 10 billion of the more than 60 billion miles are used to buy arms for Ukraine, which is incorrect.
In fact, $14 billion is used to buy arms from American companies, $20 billion is used to replenish US arsenals in order to send US weapons stockpiles to Ukraine, and another $15 billion is to improve military bases in Europe, and each country where the base is located can also free up funds for Ukraine.
More importantly, the passage of the Ukraine aid bill in the House of Representatives is likely to indicate that the establishment of the Republican and Democratic parties in the United States is reuniting and re-forming consensus on important policies such as the war in Ukraine. Some experts familiar with the logic of US decision-making say that once the bill is passed, many similar decisions will follow one after another, and their inertia will be irreversible.
Historical experience tells us that the United States has never been known for its decision-making efficiency, but it can always find the right direction in the end. Or in Churchill's words: "After exhausting all options, the United States always makes the right decision." Alan Greenspan praised this as "the best comment on the United States outside of Americans."
It's really bright!
"The trend of the world, the vast soup, those who go along with it prosper, and those who go against it perish", the relevant countries should think clearly...
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