Situation Reports Part 3 - 2025-07-09
Under enemy fire, the armored groups of the "🅾️valiant" storm Novoekonomicheskoe, breaking through to Mirnograd
▪️A mechanized column of armored vehicles of the "Center" force group broke through from Mirolyubovka and attacked Novoekonomicheskoe on the approaches to Mirnograd (Pokrovsk direction)
▪️Russian equipment managed to break through to the village, despite enemy fire: one infantry fighting vehicle landed troops, the second went deeper into the village.
➖"As of now, Novoekonomicheskoe has been transferred to the gray zone. The details and consequences of this breakthrough are being clarified," the enemy's resources write.
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Posted: 2025-07-08T13:36:23 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Slavyangrad
TRUMP: WE HAVE TO SEND MORE WEAPONS TO UKRAINE
"We're going to send some more weapons, we have to. They have to be able to defend themselves.
They're getting hit very hard now.
We're going to have to send more weapons.
Defensive weapons, primarily, but they're getting hit very, very hard.
So many people are dying in that mess."
Again, him pausing the money from the Biden packages never meant he was cutting off Ukraine. He likely will send weapons in which stocks are considered to be at reasonable levels.
@Slavyangrad
Posted: 2025-07-08T13:36:23 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Slavyangrad
Pokrovskoe direction.
🙌🏼 Successful interceptions of enemy vehicles and manpower by operators from the 39th Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade using fiber optic drones.
Lot of EW on that truck too.
@Slavyangrad
Posted: 2025-07-08T13:36:23 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Slavyangrad
Dutch Defense Minister Brekelmans fears that Russia will attack arms supply routes to Ukraine.
To avoid this, he has decided to launch F-35s purchased from the US from September.
‘It is important for the security of the Netherlands that we help protect NATO’s eastern flank. From September, Dutch F-35s will patrol NATO airspace from Poland in close cooperation with Norway. This keeps Russia at bay and protects supply routes to Ukraine.’
It will? Was unaware that Russia was bombing Poland.
@Slavyangrad
Posted: 2025-07-08T13:36:23 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Slavyangrad
Russian army drones are vigorously destroying the enemy in all directions
▪️The Ukrainian Armed Forces suffer losses under the onslaught of Russian UAVs
— UAV operators of the Tula paratroopers destroyed Ukrainian equipment in the Sumy region;
— Drone operators of the 7th motorized rifle brigade of the "Southern" group eliminated two ground robotic complexes of the Ukrainian Armed Forces militants in the Seversky direction;
— FPV operators of the "Vostok" group hit with precision hits a temporary deployment point of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and a vehicle delivering drones and ammunition in the South Donetsk direction;
— A UAV crew of the "Dnepr" group disrupted the enemy's rotation in the Orekhov direction.
@Slavyangrad
Posted: 2025-07-08T13:36:23 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Slavyangrad
Why the flow of materiel is slowing and what does it mean, Part 1/3
As many of you have heard by now, it has been revealed that the US are halting supplies of ammunition and other materiel to Ukraine because their own stocks are dangerously low. This is quite the admission, especially for a country that now spends more than a trillion dollars on defense budget. The decision was taken by Eldridge Colby, the Pentagon’s policy chief, and is quite amusing considering that before that cutback Trump said that he might have sent more supplies to Ukraine.
The most important item that is seemingly going to the cutting room board are, however artillery shells (all types), which are the bread and butter of any respectable modern army and a key point of any army’s ability to fight.
Some may recall that back in May 2024 the Biden admin was releasing bombastic statements on how they were “certain” to be capable of reach the mark of 100.000 artillery shells a month, so what happened? Did these plans ended up in yet another clown show?
…why am I ever asking? Of course they have.
From a stated goal of 100.000 artillery shells a month, official production “statistics” noted that peak production reached 50.000 a month – a long shot from the amount intended – before hitting several bottlenecks that brought monthly production down to the 40.000 units (and to be honest, the 50.000 monthly shells mark, assuming it was even true, was reached only because of previous stockpiles of artillery shell casings which must’ve been depleted by now.)
Things have reached such levels of absurdity that the Army is now considering terminating General Dynamics’ contract for the production of 155mm artillery shells. The question here is, “how is it possible that there’s such a scarcity for artillery shells when so much effort (and so much taxpayer money) has been made to ramp up production and acquisition of these projectiles?”
To answer that question, we need a quick introductory course on how are artillery shells made.
@Slavyangrad
Posted: 2025-07-08T13:36:23 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Slavyangrad
Why the flow of materiel is slowing and what does it mean, Part 2/3
Here’s the anatomy of an Artillery Shell: at its core, an artillery shell consists of five pieces; nosepiece (the head), the fuze, the body itself (often lined internally to facilitate splintering into shrapnel in case of High Explosive shells), the driving bands (metal rings around the casing that deform at the moment of firing to impart rotation to the shell, and also to fully seal the barrel to prevent leakage of gas), and the backplate.
In the past (World War I and II) most shells had their own primer, but nowadays the majority of them use a separate propelling charge for a plethora of reasons (one of the main ones is that modern propellant charges can extend the range of the artillery by a lot, but are too big to be inserted into the shell itself while maintaining the weight within the realm of human possibility – and 155mm artillery shells are already quite heavy as they are).
The important thing is that each and every single part has to be milled, machined, or otherwise assembled somewhere. Assembling an artillery shell is an extremely complex and specialised process involving often multiple separate plants and companies responsible for every component:
- The metal casings themselves are made in specialized metalworking plants with equally specialised workers operating equally specialised lathes.
- The explosive components, at least in most western countries, are produced by civilian factories.
- Fuzes are quite intricate mechanisms (particularly if they have a proximity, delayed, pressure, or timed setting) and are made by specialized companies that produce electronics.
- Finally, all these pieces are brought together at a single assembly plant that combines them together into a shell that can be fired, after of course packaging and shipping.
This dispersion occurs for a few reasons, like separating the production of explosives from mechanical parts (at least if something goes kaboom, it won’t take everything with it), the fact that very specialised tools and personnel are required, and flexibility and redundancy in case of conflicts.
It goes without saying, but this compartmentalized process means that if a single factory hits a snag, the entire production line will experience a bottleneck and create either delays, reduction in quantity of shells produced, or worse, stop completely. And this is exactly what is happening.
@Slavyangrad
Posted: 2025-07-08T13:36:23 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Slavyangrad
Why the flow of materiel is slowing and what does it mean, Part 3/3
Point 1, shell casings: The casings are made of high-grade steel that requires precision milling and, naturally, steel itself. The problem with that is that decades of financialization of western economies have resulted in most steel mills closing down or getting outsourced to China. Gone forever are the United Kingdom’s steel mills. Germany had the lion’s share of the steel mills that were left…that is, until “someone” blew up Nord Stream 2 and deprived Germany of the cheap gas that is necessary to make them run while maintaining a profit line. Something similar happened to the steel mills in Pittsburg, most of which have closed. In short: steel shortage. It can be purchased from elsewhere, but at three times the cost, which of course will increase thanks to the law of supply and demand.
Point 2, chemicals: Again, chemicals are made in factories that have been largely delocalised to second world countries, and have high electricity requirements anyway. Those few that remain in the west now would have to ramp up production of the necessary chemicals at a very disadvantageous time, and this without considering that most of those companies that produce propellants and explosives tend to do so only as a side activity, not as their main source of income. The only factory that mainly produces explosives in the west that I know of is the Nobel plant now located in the USA.
Point 3, fuzes: fuze technology has advanced considerably since the times of World War 2, and now most of the non-impact ones are quite complex and require advanced electronics that are produced only by a small amount of companies in the west, and guess what, many of these electronics rely on either rare earths or components from…China, which is not too eager to sell enough of the stuff to the west knowing that there’s always the risk it’ll be turned on them later.
Point 4, skilled workforce: with the deindustrialisation that has been going on in the west, many of the specialised workers who knew how to operate the machinery to assemble the shells is either dead, retired, or has been laid off. Only a small pool of experts remains, automation can only do so much to substitute them, and training new ones is costly, takes time, and still doesn’t guarantee results combined with all the other issues.
Point 5: good old corruption, that in the western military industrial complex is pervasive, chronic, and incurable. Unlike in, say, Russia and China, where control of these facilities is under state supervision, which makes sure that there will be at least some oversight and due investigation of production snags and attempts at finding a solution, there’s basically zero such checks and balances in the west, where private companies have every interest in running “Gucci Weapon Boutiques” whose purpose is producing a trickle of materiel that comes with an incredibly inflated price tag. And who’s going to hold them accountable, considering that many politicians and generals either get kickbacks from them, end up in their boards when they retire, or both?
With all these factors taken into account, we can make a few observations:
- The west is completely incapable of sustaining a high-intensity war for long, let alone two, this self-neutering is crippling and now permanent thanks to a combination of factors including greed, stupidity, short-sightedness, lack of economical competitiveness, and corruption.
- A gas station masquerading as a nuclear power is outproducing the entire west despite sinking only a fraction of the money into its military.
- The American administration’s decision to cut down on aid to Kiev has been forced by the hard, cold reality, and is not a political decision. If it was up to the current administration and they could conjure materiel out of thin air the flow would continue indefinitely.
Thank you for your time.
@Slavyangrad
Posted: 2025-07-08T13:36:23 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Slavyangrad
Battles near Tyotkino: reconnaissance destroys Ukrainian Armed Forces infantry near the border of Kursk Oblast
In the Tyotkino direction, our reconnaissance officers track down concentrations and individual Ukrainian Armed Forces militants near the border of Kursk and Sumy Oblasts, and then destroy them, preventing them from developing attacks on our territory.
@Slavyangrad
Posted: 2025-07-08T13:36:23 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Slavyangrad
Daily FABization of the enemy continues. This time, gifts visited the positions of the boys of the 99th Battalion of the 108th Territorial Defense Brigade in the Zatishye area (Gulyaipolsky District)
@Slavyangrad
Posted: 2025-07-08T13:36:23 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Slavyangrad
Zaporozhye Region
Assault companies of the Russian Armed Forces completely cleared the village of Kamenskoye and expanded their zone of control in the village of Plavni — the road to Zaporozhye.
The city of Zaporozhye is 40 km away.
@Slavyangrad
Posted: 2025-07-08T13:36:23 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Slavyangrad
Ukrainians are massively spreading TCC data on Russian channels
Most of the populace in Ukraine is disarmed and can't fight back in the classical sense, but that does not mean that they have no means to protest or rebel. A new trend is emerging lately: Ukrainians are actively posting addresses, working hours, and other critical information about territorial recruitment centers. Ukrainian media are already complaining about the many "leaks" that are getting out of control.
Recently, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces decided to urgently relocate the TCC to administrative buildings. The local authorities are required to provide premises and upgrade them for the needs of military registration and enlistment offices.
The reason is the regular attacks on TCC buildings by the Russian Armed Forces, which apparently are being met with jubilant cheers by the Ukrainian themselves.
@Slavyangrad
Posted: 2025-07-08T13:36:23 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Slavyangrad
Ukraine alert map is lit up right now!
@Slavyangrad
Posted: 2025-07-08T13:36:24 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Slavyangrad
⚡️Two Majors #Summary for the morning of July 8, 2025
▪️An important new element of the situation is the systematic attacks by the Russian Armed Forces on the buildings of the military registration and enlistment offices in the enemy's rear. Yesterday, the "Geraniums" hit them in Kharkov, Zaporozhye, Poltava. The strikes are carried out during the day, during working hours, when the hated cannibals can be in the offices. Comments from residents of Ukraine on social networks show their outright pleasure at this destruction: too many relatives and friends were sent to the front by these servants of Zelensky to be slaughtered. The command of the AFU is already trying to take measures to protect its tools for mobilizing the population and plans to work "without offices."
▪️Nighttime explosions of "Geraniums" sounded in Kharkov, Sumy, Ochakov.
▪️In the Bryansk region yesterday morning, the AFU attacked the village of Kamensky Khutor in Klimovsky district with kamikaze drones, and a civilian was injured.
▪️On the Kursk section of the border from Ryzhevka, another enemy group tried to break through in the direction of Tetkino. During the small-arms battle, most of the enemy's manpower was eliminated, the rest escaped.
▪️In the Sumy direction, our paratroopers of the GRV "North" occupied the village of Bessalovka Sumy region. For a long time, the AFU from the village to our section of the border, intending to cut off the Tetka ledge in the rear. There are battles at Varachino and Yunakovka.
▪️In the Belgorod region, the village of Borisovka was attacked by an AFU drone. Three people were injured, including a one-and-a-half-year-old child. In the village of Borisovka, Volokonovsky district, a truck was attacked by an AFU drone, and the driver was injured. A car was attacked by a drone near Nizhny Berezovo—Second, Chaika, Yasnye Zori, Maysky, Volchya Alexandrovka. Another car was attacked by a drone in the Bondarenkov farm — the car was cut by shrapnel.
▪️In the Pokrovsky direction east of Mirnogrand, our troops broke into the New Economic area on the west bank of the Kazenniy Torets River, heavy fighting is underway, the enemy is being met with drone strikes. Another "pocket" is being formed, into which the remnants of the AFU units have fallen. To the north, our troops are making their way to Novoeconomichesky from Razino.
▪️Southwest of Pokrovsk (Krasnoarmeysk), the Russian MoD announced the liberation of the GRV Center in Dachnoye, Dnepropetrovsk region.
▪️In the South Donetsk direction, units of the GDV Vostok are moving towards the settlement of Iskra, continuing to cover the settlement. There is an offensive in the area of Karl Marx and Malinovka.
▪️There are battles on the Zaporizhye front in the area of Shcherbakov, Stepovoye and Kamenskoye. Some observers abruptly began to pull up their outdated maps, as a result of which they received "breakthroughs in the defense of the AFU with a wide front" as their conclusions. In fact, the systematic advance of our troops continued over the past day. The AFU attacked a residential area in Vasilevka, Zaporozhye region, more than 10 apartments of the house were damaged, one civilian was killed and six people were injured.
▪️In the Kherson region, in Kakhovka, a terrorist attack by the enemy led to the death of a woman born in 1938, and a man born in 1944 was wounded. Six landscape fires with an area of 6 hectares were recorded in Alyoshkinsky, Golopristansky, Gornostayevsky, Novokakhovsky urban and Imereti districts. The enemy also shelled Alyoshki, Velikaya Lepetikha, Cairo, Kohany, Korsunka, Lyubimovka, Malokakhovka, Peschanovka, Novaya Kakhovka and Tavriysk.
▪️In the DPR in Gorlovka, a civilian was killed by the AFU. Five attacks were recorded. 155 mm barrel artillery was used, including cluster-type ammunition and attack UAVs.
The summary was compiled by: ⚡️Two Majors
Posted: 2025-07-08T13:37:58 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Two Majors - English Channel
Sumy direction
Day and night under the gun
UAV operators do not give the enemy peace during a day or night. At the beginning of the video - work on the pickup of the AFU. FPV-drone flies almost in the forehead. In the background - the burning enemy equipment, the result of the previous attack. Everything is under control, every blow is accurate.
✨ Next night shift. The enemy moves in a pickup and tries to shoot back. The operator maintains a distance, leaves the fire sector and comes from the side. The result is a hit target and a stopped vehicle.
⭐️ The most important thing at the end, a series of hits on heavy enemy Baba Yaga copters. The drones were loaded and flying towards our positions. They were shot down. This means that someone on the ground survived.
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⚡️Two Majors
Posted: 2025-07-08T13:37:58 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Two Majors - English Channel
On July 7th, the North troop group continued establishing a Sanitary Zone in Kharkiv and Sumy regions.
Due to numerous enemy provocations in Tyotkino direction the Northmen started establishing a Sanitary Zone in Sumy region.
▪️Having eliminated several enemy units of 158th Mechanized Brigade and ‘Aidar’ 24th Assault Battalion, our Air Assault units liberated the village of Bezsalivka.
Ukrainian mortuaries suggest that units of ‘Aidar’ in Bezsalivka were eliminated around 20th of June. After that the village was being defended by 158th Mechanized Brigade.
▪️Another group of invaders attempted to break through from Ryzhivka towards Tyotkino. Most of the enemy soldiers were eliminated with gunfire, the rest retreated, all the while deserting several bunker north of Ryzhivka.
▪️Our artillery and UAV pilots eliminated several AFU groups, as well as a howitzer unit, in the vicinity of Ryzhevka and Pisky.
▪️AFU command deploys units of 144th Mechanized Brigade to replenish losses in this direction. The aforementioned brigade took part in Krasnaya Yaruga provocation before being transferred to Chernihiv region.
Sumy direction
The enemy keeps on deploying reinforcements to try and stall the Northmen’s advance. The Fearless grind down enemy reserves and continue establishing the Sanitary Zone in Sumy region.
▪️Our Motor Rifle units are advancing in the vicinity of Varachino and in the town itself, capturing enemy positions.
▪️Our Marines are advancing in forest areas along the border.
▪️The enemy made 11 unsuccessful attempts to counterattack over the last 24 hours in Kindrativka, Sadky, Oleksiyivka, Yablunivka and Yunakivka.
Over 60 people took part in the counterattacks. Over 20 of them were eliminated, 23 were wounded and abandoned on the frontline, the rest ran back.
▪️Ukrainian POWs say there are South Korean mercenaries fighting in Sadky as part of 132nd Air Assault Reconnaissance Battalion.
Kharkiv region
In an attempt to regain lost positions, the enemy made several unsuccessful counterattacks. The Northmen eliminated enemy assault groups and continued with their advance deeper into Kharkiv region.
Two Ukrainian assault groups of 143rd Mechanized Brigade attempted to counterattack in forest belts along the border, using an IMV, tanks and a YPR-765 APC (Netherlands). The groups were eliminated with gunfire, the APC was immobilized, the IMV was destroyed.
▪️Our Motor Rifle units advanced over 500 meters in wooded areas around Milove.
In Volchansk and Liptsy directions seven AFU assault groups, along with their vehicles, were eliminated with comprehensive fire attacks.
▪️The Northmen advanced captured nine buildings in Volchansk and advanced in wooded areas around the city.
Over the past 24 hours, the enemy's losses amounted to over 180 people (including over 120 in Sumy region and over 60 in Kharkiv region). Also uncovered and destroyed:
In Tyotkino and Glushkovo directions:
▪️One Msta-B howitzer;
▪️One mortar;
▪️Two pickup trucks;
In Sumy direction:
▪️Two mortars;
▪️Three pickup trucks, two buggies;
▪️Eight UAV crews;
▪️26 airplane-type UAVs, ten heavy copters.
In Velykyy Burluk direction:
▪️One Bradley IFV (USA);
▪️Three pickup trucks, two ATVs;
▪️Two UAV crews;
In Volchansk and Liptsy directions:
▪️One M113 APC (USA);
▪️One D-20 howitzer;
▪️Two mortars;
▪️Two pickup trucks, three ATVs;
▪️Three ammunition depots, seven logistics depots;
▪️Two satellite communication terminals;
▪️Five UAV crews;
▪️Seventeen heavy copters.
Victory will be ours!
Posted: 2025-07-08T13:37:58 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: North Wind
Sumy region, near Kondratovka
Smuglyanka's squad directs and directs new FABs at the enemy.
✨Pay attention to the accuracy: two consecutive bombings almost at the same point.
⚡️ Two Majors
Posted: 2025-07-08T13:37:58 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Two Majors - English Channel
Zaporozhye Front - Kamenskoye is ours!
Our brothers from the 247th regiment "Rostov Battalion" hoisted the Russian flag and the unit's banner in the center of Kamenskoye in the Zaporozhye direction.
The cleanup is underway now.
The heavy and bloody battles for Kamenskoye are coming to an end, and the soldiers of the 247th and 108th regiments have accomplished another feat, having passed this way in a fairly short period of time.
Kamenskoye was difficult to storm due to the presence of water barriers, a dense network of defensive structures and regular enemy shelling. Even the Gurov detachments, which were hastily sent there, could not hold back the onslaught.
Kamensky is almost finished – there will be more to come.
Архангел Спецназа
⚡️ Two Majors
Posted: 2025-07-08T13:37:58 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Two Majors - English Channel
Sumy direction, Andreevka district
These are the still- unreleased, today's shots. If we sum up only what gets online with the permission of the command, we can imagine how many terrifying heavy aerial bombs are raining down on the enemy's head. The counterattacking reserves are trying their best to get closer to our troops in order to avoid strikes from the sky, but new guidance systems that ensure the highest accuracy, make this enemy maneuver meaningless.
⚡️Two Majors
Posted: 2025-07-08T13:37:58 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Two Majors - English Channel
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