Situation Reports Part 3 - 2025-07-16
Trump may transfer long-range JASSM missiles for F-16 to Ukraine — Military Watch Magazine
▪️US President Donald Trump, according to Military Watch Magazine, is considering the possibility of transferring long-range air-to-ground cruise missiles JASSM to the Kyiv regime, which are capable of striking targets at distances up to 370 km, and in new modifications — up to 1000 km.
▪️ These missiles, previously supplied in limited quantities to Washington's allies, allow strikes on targets deep behind enemy lines. Notably, even the US strategic ally — South Korea — was not granted permission to purchase JASSM at the time.
Don't buy it. Violate the MCTR?
@Slavyangrad
Posted: 2025-07-15T14:28:38 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Slavyangrad
Ukrainian soldiers who openly talk about senseless orders from the command are sent into hopeless assaults where they die - volunteer Chmut.
Brigade commander Shirshin also spoke about idiotic orders from above, and was accused by the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Syrsky of wanting to attract attention to himself.
@ukr_leaks_eng
Posted: 2025-07-15T14:30:20 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: UKR LEAKS_eng
FSB shows footage of the liquidation of a Ukrainian agent who was preparing a terrorist attack in the Tyumen region
▪️Employees of the agency prevented an attempted assassination of a Russian serviceman. The Ukrainian agent was liquidated during his detention after he offered armed resistance and threw a grenade at the operatives.
▪️The attacker monitored the movements of the soldier and chose a place to install an explosive device under his car. The following were seized at the scene:
— a homemade explosive device,
— a traumatic pistol converted to fire live ammunition,
— ammunition.
▪️It also turned out that since the beginning of 2025, on the instructions of a Ukrainian handler, he had been transmitting information to Kiev about strategic facilities in the Urals and the movement of military trains along the Trans-Siberian Railway.
@Slavyangrad
Posted: 2025-07-15T14:30:20 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Slavyangrad
The US is ending its military aid to Ukraine, US Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker - Fox News.
“I think the first thing to understand is that the days of the US sending tax money without restriction to defend Ukraine are over. Trump made a very smart decision and made an agreement with NATO where Europe and Canada will pay for the weapons and the US will build them. Obviously, we build the best weapons systems in the world, and everyone wants them. We will prioritise those weapons to Ukraine. It also sends a very clear message to Putin: We gave you a chance at peace. Trump is a peacemaker. But if you want war, we will arm Ukraine and Europe will pay for it.
@Slavyangrad
Posted: 2025-07-15T14:30:20 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Slavyangrad
Chuguyev in the Kharkov region after strikes by Geran-2
@Slavyangrad
Posted: 2025-07-15T14:30:20 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Slavyangrad
🇺🇸🇷🇺 The advancement of Graham's bill on 500% duties against Russia and its trading partners has been halted in the US Senate, according to Politico.
- Senate Majority Leader John Thune stated that he would refrain from advancing this sanctions package following today's statements by Trump. Thune also suggested that the US President's statements mean that the Senate no longer needs to pass the Graham-Blumenthal bill.
- Trump previously stated that he may impose 100% duties against Russia and its trading partners in 50 days. Whereas Graham's bill refers to tariffs of 500%.
@Slavyangrad
Posted: 2025-07-15T14:30:20 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Slavyangrad
🇺🇦🇷🇺Massive raid on Voronezh and neighboring regions, Russian air defense destroyed 55 drones - details
- Last night, Russian air defense forces repelled a massive attack by Ukrainian drones: a total of 55 drones were destroyed: 32 over the Belgorod region, 12 over the Voronezh region, 6 over the Black Sea, 3 in the Lipetsk region, 1 each in the Rostov and Kursk regions.
- Voronezh region
— As a result of falling debris from downed UAVs, seven people were injured, including three elderly residents. One of them was hospitalized. Apartments in high-rise buildings, private houses, building facades, cars and commercial facilities were damaged. A hit was recorded in the building of a kindergarten and the Gallery Chizhova business center.
- Lipetsk region
— In Yelets, a drone fell in an industrial zone, one person was injured. A arrival was also recorded in the Dobrinsky district.
- Kursk region
— Two people were reported injured as a result of an attack on a car.
- According to governors, all the wounded received the necessary assistance. Utility services are dealing with the consequences. Authorities promise to quickly restore damaged facilities.
@Slavyangrad
Posted: 2025-07-15T14:30:20 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Slavyangrad
⚡️Two Majors #Summary for the morning of July 15, 2025
▪️ At night in the Rostov region, UAVs were destroyed in the Verkhnedonsky district. Several drones were destroyed in the suburbs of Voronezh and one of the districts of the region. From the Lipetsk region, reports came in of air defense operations in Yelets; the enemy's likely target was an industrial facility.
▪️ Several dozen "Geraniums" worked overnight on targets in the Dnepropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Zaporozhye, Nikolaev, and Sumy regions. In the evening, footage of fires after arrivals spread from Chuguev in the Kharkov region.
▪️ Reports came from the Bryansk region about an attack by the AFU UAV on the settlement of Suzemka.
▪️ In the Kursk section of the border, our troops repelled an attempt by the enemy to break through from Ryzhevka towards Tetkino, counterattacked, and drove the enemy out of seven households in the Ukrainian border village. The zone of control of the Russian Armed Forces is expanding near Bessalovka, Sumy region. Another attempt to break through from Pavlovka into our border village of Novy Put was repelled.
▪️ In the Sumy direction, the AFU continue counterattacks near Kondratovka and Andreevka, while the number of enemy attacks has decreased. The Russian Armed Forces continue to storm Varachino and Yunakovka.
▪️ In the Kharkov direction, the Russian Armed Forces continue to storm Degtyarny, Volchansky district; fighting is ongoing in the Velikoburluk direction in the area of the recently captured Melovoe.
▪️ In the Belgorod region, in the village of Shchigorevka, a two-year-old boy was wounded as a result of an attack by the AFU UAV. A man who was injured today in a drone attack on a car in Shebekino. Voznesenovka, Ziborovka, Nikolaevka, Baytsury, Chapaevsky, and Semeyny were under attack.
▪️ In the Konstantinovka direction, the Russian Armed Forces demonstrated the flag in the settlement of Petrovka, however, fighting continues. The difficult assault on Yablonovka is nearing completion. The completion of these offensive actions from several sides may soon mean the Russian Armed Forces reaching the Kleban-Byk reservoir, strictly 3 km north of which is Konstantinovka. From the northeast, our forces continue fighting north of the village of Dyleevka and west of the village of the same name, Dyleevka.
▪️ A flank of our advancing group looms ever larger over Pokrovsk (Krasnoarmeysk). The Russian MoD announced the liberation of the settlement of Mayak in the DPR. Data is coming in from the field about the development of our offensive on the nearby Boykovka and Fedorovka. Earlier, to the south, near Mirnograd, the Russian Armed Forces achieved success in Nikolaevka. The enemy is concerned that further advance of the Russian Army in the direction of the town of Rodinskoe poses an even greater threat to the logistics of the AFU in the Pokrovsk–Mirnograd–Rodinskoe area.
▪️ The "Vostok" group in the Gulyaipol direction liberated Malinovka, Zaporozhye region, for which long battles had been fought.
▪️On the Zaporozhye front, the enemy notes that after the capture of Kamensky, the Russian Armed Forces are storming the neighboring Plavni.
▪️ In the Kherson region, it became known about the wounding of three civilians in Aleshki as a result of shelling by the AFU. Fires in the Aleshkinsky, Golopristansky, Gornostaevsky, Novotroitsky, and Chaplinsky districts. The AFU shelled Kakhovka, Novaya Kakhovka, Velikaya Lepetikha, Gornostaevka, Dnepryany, Zavodovka, and Kairy.
▪️ In the DPR, in Gorlovka, two civilians were wounded as a result of the dropping of an explosive device from an AFU UAV.
Summary compiled by: ⚡️Two Majors
Posted: 2025-07-15T14:33:16 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Two Majors - English Channel
Germany and the USA have agreed to transfer two Patriot anti-aircraft missile systems to Ukraine, Bloomberg news agency reports, citing a statement by German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius.
Pistorius said that the delivery process will take a significant amount of time: first, a formal decision must be made, which could take several days or weeks. Only after that will preparations for shipment begin, which will also take months.
Pistorius also announced that Germany will purchase Typhon ground launchers from the United States, which are designed, among other things, for cruise missiles with a range of up to 2,000 km. He says he allegedly wants to use the American Typhon exclusively "to deter a potential enemy". That is, Russia.
✨In general, against the backdrop of the still shortage of SAMs for the Patriot air defense system, money is being sawn under the pretext of helping the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Trump is "degreasing" Europe, whose leaders are personally interested in the arms lobby in spending hundreds of millions of dollars on ineffective air defense systems against hundreds of Geraniums and dozens of Russians at a time. Also, with the help of European national traitors from among the top, Trump distances Europe from Russia, although quite recently cheap Russian gas and economic ties with our country brought profit to the same Germany.
⚡️Two Majors
Posted: 2025-07-15T14:33:16 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Two Majors - English Channel
Bryansk region. Governor:
The Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked the village of Sluchevsk in the Pogarsky district with kamikaze drones. As a result of the terrorist actions of the Kiev regime, unfortunately, a civilian woman was injured.
The woman was taken to the hospital where she received all the necessary medical care.
⚡️Two Majors
Posted: 2025-07-15T14:33:16 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Two Majors - English Channel
South-Donetsk direction, @voin_dv: the settlement of Voskresenka of the DPR has been liberated
Units of the 37th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade of the 36th Army broke through the enemy's defense and, having defeated the second defensive node of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in this area (on the western bank of the Mokrye Yaly River), following the settlement of Karl Marx, continued the offensive westward, as a result of which Voskresenka completely came under the control of the units of the 36th Army.
Voskresenka is already the sixth settlement liberated by the Far Easterners in July.
They took control of a border section with the Dnipropetrovsk region over 4 km of the front.
As a result of fierce battles, more than 430 buildings were cleared, and up to a company of the enemy from the 31st Motorized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed.
Russian flags were installed in various parts of the settlement.
⚡️ Two Majors
Posted: 2025-07-15T14:33:16 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Two Majors - English Channel
On July 14th, the North troop group continued establishing a Sanitary Zone in Kharkiv and Sumy regions
The invaders keep on trying to break through into our territory in Tyotkino and Glushkovo directions. The Northmen eliminate enemy assault groups and advance in Sumy region.
▪️Our Motor Rifle units held off against an enemy attack in the direction of Tyotkino, before counterattacking and capturing seven buildings in Ryzhivka.
▪️Our Air Assault units cleared several forest belts around Bezsalivka.
▪️The enemy once again attempted to break through from Pavlivka to Novy Put. Most of the invaders were eliminated with a comprehensive fire attack, the rest ran back.
Sumy direction
The AFU command keeps on sending group after groups in hopes of recapturing lost positions with no regard to losses. The Northmen hold off against enemy attacks and advance deeper into Sumy region.
▪️Our Motor Rifle units broke stiff enemy resistance and captured several buildings in Varachino.
▪️Our Air Assault units advanced on the western outskirts of Yunakivka and eliminated several AFU assault groups in the forest belts around the settlement.
▪️The enemy made 3 unsuccessful attempts to counterattack over the last 24 hours in Andriyivka and Kindrativka.
Over 20 people took part in the counterattacks. Over half of them were eliminated, 5 were wounded and abandoned on the frontline, the rest ran back.
▪️Ukrainian nationalists, outraged by colossal losses and low morale in 150th AFU Brigade in Sumy region, are now demanding that the AFU command disbanded the new detachment and transferred it’s soldiers to nationalist battalions and brigades, such as Azov and Aidar.
Kharkiv direction
The Fearless continue with their attack in Dihtyarne and advance in forest belts around the settlement.
In Velykyy Burluk direction, the enemy started utilizing barrier squads to keep soldiers of 143rd Mechanized Brigade and Territorial Defense brigades from retreating from their positions south of Milove. The Northmen keep advancing deeper into Kharkiv region.
The Fearless have advanced over 600 meters over the past 24 hours.
In Volchansk and Liptsy directions eleven AFU assault groups, along with their vehicles, were eliminated with comprehensive fire attacks.
▪️Despite the heightened enemy resistance, the Northmen continue successfully advancing in Volchansk and surrounding wooded areas. 14 buildings in the city and four bunkers around Volchansk have been cleared of enemy soldiers over the past 24 hours.
Assault groups of 57th Mechanized Brigade once again attempted to counterattack in the wooded areas west of Volchansk. The group was eliminated with a comprehensive fire attack.
Over the past 24 hours, the enemy's losses amounted to over 180 people (including over 100 in Sumy region and over 80 in Kharkiv region). Also uncovered and destroyed:
In Tyotkino and Glushkovo directions:
▪️One Kozak IMV;
▪️Two D-30 howitzers;
▪️One mortar;
▪️One AN/TPQ-48 EW station (USA);
▪️Three pickup trucks, one ATV;
▪️Two UAV crews;
In Sumy direction:
▪️One M577 command post carrier (USA);
▪️Two Bradley IFVs;
▪️Two IMVs;
▪️One Akatsyia SPA, one D-20 howitzer;
▪️One EW station;
▪️Four pickup trucks, one truck;
▪️Three UAV crews;
▪️Fourteen airplane-type UAVs, four heavy copters, one unmanned ground vehicle.
In Velykyy Burluk direction:
▪️One Bradley IFV (USA);
▪️One mortar;
▪️Three pickup trucks;
▪️One satellite communication terminal;
In Volchansk and Liptsy directions:
▪️Four pickup trucks;
▪️One mortar;
▪️Two logistics depots;
▪️Four satellite system terminals;
▪️Five UAV crews;
▪️Eighteen heavy copters.
Victory will be ours!
Posted: 2025-07-15T14:33:16 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: North Wind
📝Offensive near Konstantinovka📝
Situation as of 10:00 on July 15, 2025
Russian assault troops are successfully advancing within Yablonovka towards Aleksandro-Kalinovo, where heavy fighting is taking place. Ukrainian formations have lost several positions on the flanks of Dzerzhynsk.
🔻More details on the situation in the sector
▪️Assault groups of the 33rd Motor Rifle Regiment on motorcycles and supported by armored vehicles have advanced over one and a half kilometers in Yablonovka: apparently, the liberation of the settlement will be announced in the relatively near future.
The status of strongholds to the north is unclear, and along the N-32 highway, there have also been at least attempts at advancement, during which some AFU trenches were dislodged.
▪️The situation is more difficult in Aleksandro-Kalinovo, where Russian troops are engaged in meeting engagements throughout the settlement. Armored groups with airborne assault troops are entering, but cannot hold their ground because the dominant heights to the northeast are under enemy control.
If successes develop west of the reservoir, the situation for the AFU will become significantly more complicated. Moreover, in other sections of the direction, Russian troops are also managing to advance relatively successfully, albeit not without nuances.
▪️In addition, Russian troops were finally able to clear the Zabalka microdistrict some time ago, but the stronghold to the west, at the southern foot of spoil tip No. 7, has not yet been occupied: it was precisely through it that the AFU used armored personnel carriers from Shcherbinovka to enter Zabalka.
▪️In Dzerzhynsk itself, the situation remains the same due to the abundance of drones from both sides. However, to the north, Russian troops managed to advance between Dyleevka and the railway to Konstantinovka: a stronghold in the forest belt came under control there.
📌Events in the sector are developing dynamically, while the AFU are experiencing a crisis on two adjacent directions at once.
Russian troops are breaking through enemy defenses south of Konstantinovka and simultaneously approaching the encirclement of Mirnohrad. If the RF Armed Forces are successful, the position of Ukrainian formations in Donbass will significantly worsen.
@rybar
⚡️ Two Majors
Posted: 2025-07-15T14:33:16 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Two Majors - English Channel
Trump wants to give missiles to Zelensky so that he can strike Moscow and St. Petersburg, - Washington Post 🤬
▪️During a conversation with Zelensky, Trump asked why he hadn't struck Moscow.
➖"We can, if you give us the weapons," Zelensky said.
▪️Trump stated that Ukraine needs to increase pressure on Putin, not only on Moscow but also on St. Petersburg.
▪️Trump also considered supplying Ukraine with long-range Tomahawk missiles - reports WP citing sources.
▪️They are currently removed from the supply list, but they may be returned later if Trump wants even more leverage.
▪️The overall military aid package to Ukraine worth 10 billion dollars will also include permission to use 18 ATACMS missiles with a range of 300 km and possible supplies of additional such missiles.
Not too worried about Tomahawks, be one of the easier missiles to intercept in my opinion. What would the delivery method even be?
@Slavyangrad
Posted: 2025-07-15T14:35:08 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Slavyangrad
The Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) were surrounded in Shcherbinovka near Toretsk.
But they try to keep quiet about it, because no one likes bad reports to be sent to the top. However, the main paradox of the Ukrainian information machine is that it can simultaneously publish two mutually exclusive narratives. Some Ukrainian (and pro-Ukrainian) analysts write that everything is collapsing for Russia near Toretsk. That everything is lost, the cast is being removed, the client is leaving. And then Jihadi Julian Röpke appears and starts to throw a tantrum that Russia has advanced and captured Petrovka and Leonidovka, and that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are surrounded. Moreover, Röpke is hard to suspect of sympathizing with the Russian Federation. The German correspondent for BILD has lived in this world for a long time with a stable anti-Russian position, but sometimes, nevertheless, he gives the base. When even he writes that the Russian Armed Forces have entered new settlements in the Toretsk direction and have taken the Armed Forces of Ukraine in pincers, it becomes obvious: there is no "rollback" there is a steady advance.
Military Chronicle
@Slavyangrad
Posted: 2025-07-15T14:35:08 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Slavyangrad
Lavrov on the world abandoning the dollar due to US policy:
Since there were specific threats from Washington towards BRICS, that BRICS must be fought against, that BRICS undermines the interests of the United States, I will say, in fairness, that previously President Trump expressed a somewhat different point of view.
He directly stated that the actions taken by the Biden administration, using the dollar as a weapon, caused irreparable damage to the authority of this global reserve currency. And I am sure he understands the fairness of that assessment and that in response to the lawlessness of the previous administration - both BRICS, the community of Latin American and Caribbean countries, and many others are seeking alternative payment methods that would not be tied to the dollar.
This is not because we wanted to run away from the dollar. President Putin has emphasized this more than once. This dollar was decided to be used to punish those whose behavior Americans consider inconsistent with those very infamous rules on which they want to hold the entire world order.
@Slavyangrad
Posted: 2025-07-15T14:35:08 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Slavyangrad
Meanwhile, while the war in Ukraine goes on and European leaders cheer each other for having dragged the USA back into the war (even if Trump for once is just playing them like a fiddle), Russian Ilyushin military cargo planes keep flying to Iran.
@Slavyangrad
Posted: 2025-07-15T14:35:08 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Slavyangrad
Why is the US resuming arms supplies to Ukraine right now?
🔺The six-month pause, during which arms supplies, if not completely dried up, then significantly decreased, was needed solely as a tool for controlling the war. The US deliberately kept Ukraine in a state of limited resources in order to find out several things at once.
▪️To see what Russia would do without pressure from the West
▪️To restrain Kiev from taking irreversible steps (strikes deep into Russia, escalations in Belarus or Transnistria), from disobedience, etc., that is, to tighten the leash.
▪️To push Congress, extract money, change the rules of the game, and redistribute resources.
▪️To assess losses, conduct an audit — not on the front lines, but in terms of political dividends and the scale of theft — and suppress opponents within the US and Europe.
That is why the New York Times writes: "the weapons are ready for shipment" — that is, they have not gone anywhere. They just weren't being given out. Not because they weren't there, but because they didn't want to give them out right now. Now the situation is changing.
The US is returning to the game at this moment — not out of enthusiasm, but out of ordinary pragmatism. For them, the fall of Ukraine is now strategically more dangerous than the cost of maintaining it.
Military Chronicle
@Slavyangrad
Posted: 2025-07-15T14:35:08 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Slavyangrad
Germany plans to purchase American MRC Typhon missile systems by 2026 to deter Russia - German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius.
The Typhon missile system is designed to launch Tomahawk Block V cruise missiles with a proven range of about 1,800 km, which theoretically allows the missile to fly from Berlin to Moscow.
- Military Informant
The minute one of those are fired at Russia, we will talk about Germany in the past tense.
@Slavyangrad
Posted: 2025-07-15T14:35:15 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Slavyangrad
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author and journalist Kit Klarenberg explaining that the big investors like Blackrock et.al. who are no longer interested in investing (read: looting and pillaging) in Ukr: "... On July 5th, Bloomberg reported that a BlackRock-administered multibillion-dollar fund for Kiev’s reconstruction, due to be unveiled at a dedicated Ukraine Recovery Conference in Rome July 10th/11th, had been placed on hold at the start of 2025 “due to a lack of interest” among institutional, private, and state financiers..." - https://substack.com/@kitklarenberg/p-168279179