On May 14, 2024, the Russia-Ukraine war entered its 811th day.
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The cotton season is in full swing at Russian oil refineries and oil depots, burning its economic and logistical potential to wage war.
On the other side, Storm Shadow revisited the south of Crimea, and the commander of Unit 85683 was eliminated.
In the early hours of May 13, an explosion occurred on Mount Apeitri in southern Crimea, killing the commander of military unit No. 85683, Alexander Kulakov, and another officer, while other casualties are not yet known.
Mount Apetri has been one of the most prominent military targets in Crimea, and after Russia occupied the peninsula, it stationed radio frequency battalions that control Ukraine and the Black Sea, and deployed Soviet-made Oborona, Altai and Granicsa-M radar complexes, as well as Ukrainian 36DS-6, and also formed an 85683 unit of the 3rd Radio Frequency Regiment of the Russian Air Force there.
Russian sources also confirmed the fact of the attack, but did not mention the location of the target and the circumstances of the destruction.
On the Kharkiv front, Russian soldiers take photographs confirming its presence in the border village of Hatyshche, a kilometer away on the outskirts of Vovchansk.
This is the 2nd small village occupied by the Russian army in this direction,
Vovchansk, located 6 kilometers northwest of the Russian border, is one of the two main directions of attack of the Russians (the other is the town of Liptsy, 38 kilometers northeast of central Kharkiv), and the Russian army has dispatched a total of five battalions to try to surround the town.
Officials say that the battle for Vovchansk in Kharkov-Obrast continues, but the line of defense is retreating from the border and the line is being built far from the border due to the impossibility of building security directly on it.
And the Ukrainian army began to detour back to the rear of the Russian army to attack.
Al Jazeera and The Guardian and other foreign media reported that Admiral Syrsky admitted on May 12 that the situation of the Ukrainian army in northeast Kharkiv was difficult and unfavorable, but denied that the Russian army had made a huge breakthrough. Yaroslavsky, commander of the special reconnaissance unit of the Ukrainian army, said in an interview that there is no first line of defense on the Kharkiv front, because it is within the range of the shelling of the Russian army on the Russian mainland, and it is difficult to build a complete fortification.
In other words, the settlements currently occupied by the Russian army are gray areas with weak defenses, but even so, the Russian army has paid a huge price in personnel and equipment for controlling these settlements.
Among them, in Vovchansk alone, the casualties of the Russian army yesterday exceeded 100 people.
Mick Ryan, a retired Australian general and researcher at the Lowy Institute, told the New York Times that the attack on Kharkiv is part of the Russian army's cunning strategy to divert the Ukrainian army from other fronts, especially the eastern front, because with the current strength of the Russian army, it is simply impossible to advance to the Kharkiv city.
This is consistent with my previous judgment.
Ukraine has apparently seen this, and according to public reports, at the moment, in addition to the reserve forces, the Ukrainian army has not yet seen the transfer of troops to Kharkiv from other fronts.
On the Kremina front, units of the 63rd Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Army, assisted by the 60th Brigade, repelled a fairly large-scale mechanized attack of Russian troops near Tork. About 10 pieces of Russian equipment (5 tanks, 5 BMPs) were destroyed.
Yesterday morning, the 63 Brigade released a video of their classic battle: The Ukrainian army first destroyed 5 tanks and 5 infantry fighting vehicles that tried to attack Ukrainian positions with precise shelling, and then dispatched drones to clean up the remaining equipment and cannon fodder, instead of infantry rushing up, This is the new form of modern warfare.
On the Avdiivka front, yesterday the 47th Brigade of the Ukrainian Army destroyed a Ka-52 helicopter gunship of the Russian invading army.
Russian propagandists call the Ka-52 "the best attack helicopter in the world" capable of striking armored vehicles, manpower and air targets on the battlefield. It is a continuation of the Ka-50 "Black Shark" model, equipped with laser guidance systems, anti-tank missiles, aerial bombs and other weapons. According to public data, as of now, Russia has produced a total of about 170 Ka-52s, and dozens have been destroyed since the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian war.
Yesterday's results announced by the General Staff of Ukraine.
Over the past day, the Ukrainian army eliminated 1,740 Russian invaders, bringing the total number of enemy casualties since the beginning of the full-scale invasion to about 484,030.
Previously, the Russian army had never lost more than 1,400 people in a single day, but yesterday it was as high as more than 1,700 people, which shows the fierce fighting on the front line.
In addition, the single-day losses of Russian equipment are also close to the highest record since the start of the war, with a total of 31 Russian tanks, 42 armored vehicles, 15 artillery systems, 4 multiple launch rocket systems, 26 unmanned aerial vehicles, three cruise missiles, 59 tanker trucks and other vehicles, and six sets of special equipment destroyed.
Let's take a look at the other news.
The commander of the Kharkiv operational grouping of the Ukrainian army was replaced, Brigadier General Mikhailo Drapati replaced Yuri Garushkin.
Delapati is the Deputy Chief of the General Staff and the former commander of the Kherson operational grouping.
People are being evacuated from Vovchansk.
The Ukrainian army destroyed an ammunition depot of the Russian army in Sorokiny, Luhansk.
In the direction of Kherson, some Russian soldiers showed the surrender cardboard to the drone, hoping to be a prisoner of the Ukrainian army.
After Shoigu was removed from the post of Minister of Defense, he was transferred to the post of secretary of the Russian Security Council, which also means that he has changed from the boss of the Ministry of Defense to the third of the Security Council.
There are more than a dozen members of Russia's Security Council, including Putin, the prime minister, the minister of defense, the minister of foreign affairs, the minister of internal affairs, the chairman of the Duma, the chairman of the Federation Council, and others. The Council is not an executive body with real powers, but only a body that meets and the actual powers of its secretary depend on the trust and authority of the President. Shoigu was transferred from the post of defense minister to the secretary of the Security Council, and it is precisely because he has lost Putin's trust that he will most likely not have any real power in the post of secretary of the Security Council.
It is worth mentioning that a video of a suspected Prigozhin appeared on the periphery, and if it is really his resurrection (in Russia, this is not an unimaginable thing), it shows that everything is under someone's control.
As Prigozhin's other "Qingjun side" object in addition to Shoigu, there are currently many rumors about General Gerasimov's departure, and Kremlin spokesman Peskov hurriedly said that Belousov's appointment will not affect the work of Gerasimov, the supreme commander of the Russian army. However, it is widely believed that there will be a purge at the top of the Russian army in the future, and the Russian generals who originally supported Prigozhin, such as Diyumin, Surovikin and Teplinsky, may be promoted or reused.
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Yesterday's battle report was inexplicably lost.,The mood is very affected.,Don't say much today.,That's it.。。。
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