On July 22, the war in Ukraine reached its 880th day.
The 700,000 Russian army continued to carry out a thousand-company large-scale offensive on a front of thousands of kilometers. The focus is primarily on the Kharkiv battlefield in the north and the Toletsk direction in the Central Donbass theater.
In Volchansk, in the northern Kharkiv battlefield, brutal street fighting is still going on. In addition, the offensive launched by the 92nd Brigade of the Ukrainian Army and the 13th Brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine in the Lipzen direction was also basically suppressed by the troops of the northern Russian cluster. The Russian army basically wiped out the Ukrainian army that counterattacked into the village of Grubbagoye, for which the Russian army even used aerial bombs weighing 3 tons again.
In the central Donbas battlefield, when the Russian army besieged the city of Toretsk on three sides and advanced steadily, the multi-pronged offensive on Pokrovsk, an important supply base of the Ukrainian army, also progressed to the point where the attacking forces began to open up the interconnection between their respective positions and consciously flatten the battle line. The Russian army's offensive on Pokrovsk has caused great concern for the Ukrainian army, so much so that the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian army, General Syrsky, publicly admitted on social media that the situation on the "Eastern Front" where Pokrovsk is located is critical.
So when he urgently inspected the area, he not only met with every brigade commander on the front line, but also specially guided the work of the reserve training base, strictly ordering the recruits to master drone tactics. Because in the case of a shortage of short-range missiles, UAVs are already the last trump card of the Ukrainian army against the Russian army.
However, although the Ukrainian army is still trying its best to block the offensive of the Russian army, the steady advance of the Russian army should show from the side that the morale of the current Ukrainian army is very low. In fact, in the past two days, not only the front-line soldiers of the Ukrainian army have been depressed, but even the supreme commander of the Ukrainian army, President Zelensky, should not be in a high mood. Because on July 21, President Biden, who firmly supported Ukraine to fight to the last man, announced that he would withdraw from the re-election race. And because he took the initiative to make a congratulatory phone call to Trump on July 19, United States Secretary of State Blinken actually called directly to the door and contacted President Zelensky's secretary, Yermak, chief of staff of the President of Ukraine. There is no need to guess at all, it must have scolded Zelensky. President Biden is still in office, do you want to tear down the bridge before you cross the river?
However, judging from the fact that Blinken blamed Zelensky for colluding with Trump, it shows that President Zelensky still has some foresight in terms of how long Biden can stay in power. He called Trump, naturally because he was not afraid that the Biden team would be angry because of this, and he was not afraid that they would put on small shoes for him because of this. So knowing that he was going to be scolded, he simply didn't even answer Blinken's phone, so that Blinken wanted to be angry, but he could find his big secretary Yermak.
You must know that when Blinken visited Kyiv in May, Zelensky was respectful throughout the whole process, even at the expense of annoying hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers on the front line, and accompanied Blinken to drink and clubhouse in Kyiv when Kharkiv was tight. Time has passed, and just two months later, Blinken was about to give instructions, but President Zelensky did not answer the phone, and Foreign Minister Kuleba ignored him, busy with an urgent visit to China. So he could only humble himself and call Zelensky's secretary.
This kind of treatment seems to have been encountered by Trump's Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. In November 2020, after Trump's defeat, Pompeo tried to visit Turkey in the remaining garbage time, but Ankara refused. Now there are more than three months before the United States election, and the surface work still needs to be done. So Yermak, chief of staff of the President of Ukraine, can only come forward to fight for Zelensky. After all, for the remaining three months, or even the remaining five months, as long as Trump does not appear in the Oval Office again, Zelensky and his team cannot take anyone in the White House lightly.
For any country in the world, these chaotic months of United States politics can be treated as "garbage time", waiting for the emergence of someone in the White House who is really in charge. But Ukraine can't do that, because they can't afford to drag it out. Don't say that in five months, or even a month, the Ukrainian army may be defeated at any time without the support of United States. If the Ukrainian army collapses, the lives of high-ranking officials in Kyiv will be in danger.
It is said that the prophet of Chunjiang plumbing duck, as an insider, the reason why President Zelensky called "worship" Trump, and the reason why Foreign Minister Kuleba made a surprise visit to China, which advocates a peaceful settlement of the Ukrainian war issue, should be because they perceived the danger in advance after the White House entered a chaotic time.
Zelensky can sense the danger, and businessmen must sense the opportunity. On the evening of July 19, the famous historical building "Zelensky Manor" in Kyiv was demolished by unknown people with an excavator. It is a small two-storey building built in 1890, wooden but with a brick protective outer layer. From 1911 to 1915, the wealthy businessman Zelensky's family was the owner of this small building, so it has been called "Zelensky Manor" ever since.
Because the small building is located in a prime location in the center of the city, even after the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, there have been real estate developers who want to tear it down and make it into a residential area. A few days ago, the Kyiv cultural protection unit proposed to upgrade the protection level of this small building, which obviously touched the nerves of some people. So the routine of cutting first and then playing, and the routine of cooking raw rice and ripening rice came.
But although there is no information to show that President Zelensky has a dime to do with this small building, the name of this small building is too much for others to imagine. So when the people of Kyiv were surprised, the police soon arrived at the scene and seized the excavator that committed the crime. But the small building has been demolished, and it is too late to say anything or do anything. The international repercussions are already out. Zelensky is still in power, and someone dares to demolish the "Zelensky" manor, which can only make the international melon-eating masses begin to suspect that the chaotic time for Kiev has come.
The demolition of Zelensky's estate, whether it has anything to do with it or not, President Zelensky must be unhappy in his heart. On the same day, in Lviv, the anti-Russian stronghold of Uzsi, Irina · Farion, Ukraine's most famous radical populist, was shot in the head in the street and died after being taken to the hospital.
Mr. Farian, 60, was a former philosophy teacher at the University of Ukraine and a former member of parliament when Mr. Yanukovych was in power. For many years, it was known for hating Russian-speaking Ukraine. She once mocked Ukraine children in kindergarten who took Russian names and blamed the Ukraine prime minister for not speaking Ukraine.
After the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian war, he scolded the troops of the radical organization "Azov Battalion" just because some of its officers and soldiers spoke Russian. Farion is so Russophobic that even the people of the "Azov Battalion" cannot tolerate Russian. You must know that the basic composition of the "Azov Battalion" is all Russophobic people in the Russian-speaking region of eastern Ukraine, who are not only anti-Russian vanguards, but also an important part of the front-line supervision team of the Ukrainian army. The Russian army hates it to the core.
When the Ukrainian army was hired, Farion scolded the "Azov Battalion", which was too unbearable for the senior officials in Kiev. So in November 2023, she not only lost her teaching position at the university, but was also sued by the National Security Service of Ukraine. However, although she did things excessively, she was a banner of anti-Russophobia after all, so the punishment for her could be said to be thunderous and rainy. Not only has she not been arrested, but even her teaching position has recently been restored.
As a result, just when it seemed that Farion was about to come back out of the mountain, he was directly physically destroyed by a young man in a bright costume who had been swaggering and squatting at his door for more than two weeks. Because the young man acted really ostentatious, and there was no KGB elusive style at all, the incident had been happening for several days, and basically no one in the Ukraine media accused Russia agents of doing it.
On the face of it, this should be a classic example of how one paranoia can fall prey to another. She was killed by an atmosphere of hatred, and the phrase has ceased to be a metaphor and has become a documentary account of the crime. Perhaps because of this, even the Ukraine police did not insist that they saw "traces of Russians" in the case of Farion.
Falion created an atmosphere of hatred around her, gradually increasing the level of hatred and expanding the scope of the hate, and eventually she herself became a victim of hatred. It can only be said that hatred is making this world chaotic and crazy. Biden took Trump's presidency, and Trump hated. Trump advocates ending the war in Ukraine within 24 hours, and Zelensky has hatred. The fierce fighting on the battlefield in Ukraine is always pulling hatred between millions of people.