Battlefield Update - 2023-06-23 (1)
❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Highlights of Russian Military Operation in Ukraine on June 22
▪️The AFU struck the Chongar and Sivash bridges connecting Crimea and the Kherson region with British Storm Shadow missiles.
The roadway was damaged and traffic was temporarily suspended. There were no casualties.
▪️Intense fighting continues near Kreminna, where Russian paratroopers are conducting an offensive in the Serebryansky forestry area.
Ukrainian sources confirm the difficult situation at the site and the loss of a number of positions.
▪️Most likely, the aim of the offensive is to reach the other bank of the Siversky Donets near Hryhorivka.
This will align the front line on the Siversk section and eliminate the Ukrainian grouping in Bilohorivka.
▪️In the South Donetsk direction, the enemy made another attempt to attack Russian positions near Novodonetske.
The advancing enemy groups were dispersed by massive artillery and aviation fire.
▪️West of the Russian forces repulsed another attempted offensive by the AFU in the direction of Makarovka.
Despite significant losses in equipment and personnel, the Ukrainian command is ready to continue sending fighters to certain death.
▪️In the Dnepropetrovsk region, Russian troops struck targets in Kryvyi Rih.
One of the targets hit was an abandoned turbine Constar plant, where there was a warehouse with ammunition.
▪️The situation in the Kherson direction remains tense amid the shoaling of the Kakhovka reservoir.
Russian units regularly monitor the drying up riverbed of the Dnieper, preparing to thwart any attempted offensive.
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The SRG walks in formation but gets hit by a missile from our ATGM.
A satellite image of a pontoon bridge that appeared next to the Chongarsky bridge, which was hit yesterday by a rocket attack from the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Fireworks for the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the Airborne Forces of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation at the front in the Luhansk region.
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Editors Note:
It is so far a slow news day. Given that, Telegram sources have a habit of reposting older stuff. My advice so far today is to go out and get some sunshine!
Lindsey appears to be signing on to the Ukraine plan to sabotage the nuclear power facility.
According to some unofficial reports, a goal has been set for a new wave of mobilization in Ukraine - to recruit 90 thousand. Of these, 22 thousand in Kiev. Some of the would be soldiers aren't keen
Ukrainian soldiers conducted a probing attack, they took casualties and called for evac. A BMP-2 arrived to pick them up and then drove over an anti-tank mine
Victoria's ISW Secret
I’m the sort of person who can’t stand getting ‘expert analysis’ from the same people who lied to me the last time. When I see a war article on the BBC, Fox, CNN, or MSNBC, I know I need to do my own research. When I see that all of the MSM agrees on something, I know it’s either true, or it’s some next level narrative.
“Never pause unless you have a reason for it, but when you pause, pause as long as you can.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Theatre
Regarding PMC Wagner and the Russian Ministry of Defence
PART I | PART II (https://t.me/Slavyangrad/51877)
(GB's personal opinion, not of @Slavyangrad as a whole—others may or may not share it, and I take full responsibility if it is misguided.)
The former is a private military contractor corporation; the latter—an integral part of the massive Russian state. A machine so enormous by comparison that even the ratio of the Titanic to its icy nemesis (1/20 is the rough estimate) is orders of magnitude greater than the ratio of the PMC to the MoD. Perhaps Jonah and the whale(1)(1/1600) is a more apt comparison.
So, what does this all mean? It means that, if Prigozhin’s statements are not a psyop intended to give the Ukrainians hope of an exploitable crisis—which I believe they are—the MoD can afford to and has a reason to pause. It will pause for as long as it takes Prigozhin to surrender his troops to their rightful command. If he does not—they will take them anyways. The order has gone out: Everyone, volunteer or PMC, must sign a contract with the Russian military. Most already have.
Recall, the MoD had already taken the jail recruitment away, and Prigozhin could do nothing. And the MoD-constituted Storm Z assault battalions are performing exceptionally—trained according to new methods and operating under a proper military command structure, they are dispersed throughout the theatre of the conflict, disseminating their new tactics to the rest of the Russian troops. Not segregated from the rest, but incorporated into a joint effort.
When Prigozhin came recently to dictate his will to the MoD, with a contract so insulting(2) (demanding, inter alia, access to everything except the nuclear forces, full financing in exchange for a 6% share of the profit from the PMC, and veto right on any decisions involving Wagner’s deployment, all for a period of 20 years) that it would have required some—any—response, the MoD simply did not let him through the door. They kept the pause going. They appear to be in no rush. PMC Wagner is not at the moment a factor on the battlefield, and nothing that the Russian military is currently doing relies on Prigozhin’s organization—there are other heroes on the frontlines. “The greater the artist, the longer the pause.” (a quotation from the Soviet film adaptation of Somerset Maugham’s novel)
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(1) What did the whale do to Jonah? Right, it was sent to save him.
(2) Some excerpts from the contract:
- Employees of PMC Wagner do not enter into a contract with the MoD, are not military personnel, and act in accordance with the regulations and standards established by PMC Wagner. At the same time, the employees of PMC Wagner are entitled to all the benefits provided for the military personnel of the Russian Federation.
- PMC Wagner in the execution of their assigned tasks shall have the right to use all the infrastructure of the Defense Ministry, including civilian facilities transferred [to the Defence Ministry], with the exception of the infrastructure of the Strategic Missile Forces.
- When conducting joint operations with the MoD, PMC Wagner commanders will participate in the formulation and discussion of the operation plan, including the right to veto (block decision) and the decisive vote in resolving the combat tasks involving the participation of the Wagner PMC.
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Regarding PMC Wagner and the Russian Ministry of Defence
PART I (https://t.me/Slavyangrad/51876) | PART II
(GB's personal opinion, not of @Slavyangrad as a whole—others may or may not share it, and I take full responsibility if it is misguided.)
It is difficult to imagine the MoD’s refusal to entertain Prigozhin’s antics in the absence of authorization from the very top. The order for all the volunteers and PMC fighters to sign contracts with the MoD is evidence of this directive. Prigozhin will submit because, ultimately, his men fight for Russia, not for him. He will submit because otherwise he will be eaten whole regardless. A hostile takeover that he, as a businessman, knows he has no poison pill to thwart. He will make noise, though, to carve out as many preferences and concessions in retirement as possible, but Prigozhin’s is increasingly the “voice of one calling in the wilderness,” not because he “prepares the way,” but rather because no one listens.
All that said, this is the least likely version of what is happening. Just as with the myth of the “artificial shell shortage” (if anything, the Russian Army was saving up the ammo to crush the inevitable Ukrainian offensive), which paved the way for the “Fortress Bakhmut” massacre and the Ukrainian counteroink that began sooner than it should have, it is a lot more likely that we have front-row seats to a masterful piece of theatre. They have everyone, from Strelkov to the Ukrainians and the NATO command watching with bated breath.
If so, using this public spectacle bordering on mutiny as a means of psychological warfare and deception speaks directly to the strength of the Russian state—Russia can afford this performance without worrying about internal discord. She can afford to keep the illusion going until PMC Wagner, refreshed and renewed, strikes at the chosen target, with full support and as part of the MoD machine.
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Road to Artyomovsk from Clock Yar
❗️ 🇷🇺 (https://rybar.ru/piwigo/upload/2023/06/23/20230623165704-7955fff9.jpg) 🇺🇦 Seversk direction
situation as of 17.00 June 23, 2023
Russian airborne units continue to clear Ukrainian positions in Serebryansky Lesnichestvo. Fights are going on for every meter, as Ukrainian artillerymen and mortarmen are conducting mass fire on the fighters of the Russian Armed Forces.
▪️ To the south, the assault on the Belogorovsky fortified area continues. Today, Russian military personnel have completely cleared the territory of the Popasnyansky district water utility, improving the tactical situation.
However, the paratroopers of the 81st airmobile brigade of the Ukrainian Air Assault Forces, with the support of detachments of mercenaries, are digging in near the Cretaceous Quarry. Opposite the industrial zone, where the Russian Armed Forces have entrenched themselves, Ukrainian formations are preparing firing positions on a hill.
The assault on this strong point is complicated by its location at a height, and without control over it, advancement in Belogorovka is impractical due to possible unjustified losses.
❗️Theoretically, with success in forest plantations to the north and the advance of Russian troops to the Seversky Donets River, the Russian Armed Forces will be able to cut off the supply of the Ukrainian group in Belogorovka through Grigorovka, which will complicate the defense of the settlement for the AFU.
▪️ In the area of the Torsky ledge, during the positional offensive, the formations of the AFU suffered heavy losses over the past few days. According to the interception of negotiations between members of the AFU, the number of those killed exceeded 200 people and 15 strongholds came under the control of the Russian Armed Forces.
▪️ At the same time, forces of the 1st battalion of the 42nd mechanized brigade were deployed to the south in the area of Raygorodok and Yampol to reinforce forward positions, which may be due to the success of the Russian Armed Forces in the area.
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Footage from the position where the well-known Leopard 2A4 of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is located or was located, evidently it got stuck, and the crew abandoned it.
No more Hunter pics please...lol.
Here's a nice funny break: https://twitter.com/MyLordBebo/status/1672208106997047296