War Reports - 2025-01-07 - Main Report

New Ukrainian offensive in Kursk region (https://t.me/zimovskyAL/34910): first assessments of Western military experts and analysts.

Victor Vicktop55

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The main event of yesterday was the enemy's counteroffensive in the Kursk region (https://t.me/dva_majors/61919).

The Ukrainian Armed Forces sent several armored columns from Sudzha in the direction of the village of Berdin. The enemy was stopped in intense fighting, losing up to 200 personnel and dozens of pieces of equipment, and reports from the field indicate that the Ukrainian command is continuing its plans to continue attempts to break through our defenses today.

Yesterday, there were reports of Ukrainian missiles shot down in the sky over the region. At the same time, the Russian Armed Forces, taking advantage of the enemy's concentration of efforts near the village of Berdin, launched flank attacks.

The "North" group of forces reported the liberation of the village of Leonidove (enemy resources have not yet acknowledged this). In addition, our troops began active offensive operations in the area of ​​the villages of Makhnovka and Dmitryukov.

Military aircraft and forward air controllers also played a significant role in the destruction of the Nazis: having waited for frost and hardening of the soil, the enemy also waited for excellent weather over the region, which contributed to the work of our aviation, including in the rear of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

In the near future, the Ukrainian Armed Forces will continue their attempts at a counteroffensive, they write from the ground. The enemy's latest adventure is explained by the fact that Zelensky needs to report at the Ramstein format meeting (to be held on January 9, 2025) to dozens of foreign defense ministers.

Victor Vicktop55

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❗️Zelensky doesn't care to negotiate Russia's security guarantees, even though that's how the war started in the first place!

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Kursk region (https://t.me/dva_majors/61924?single)

Alaudinov talked to the enemy soldiers captured yesterday. All reports mention four Ukrainian soldiers who surrendered (in the video - three)

The rest of the Ukrainian soldiers who went on the offensive yesterday are dead. Alaudinov says that it is impossible to stand next to these three prisoners, such a stench comes from them. When was the last time you washed yourself? - the answer, a month ago.

✨This morning, the scene reports the movement of enemy equipment in the frontline zone, new attempts by the Ukrainian Armed Forces to break through are likely.

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In the Kursk direction, the Ukrainian offensive did not become a breakthrough (https://t.me/the_military_analytics/22109)

The main clashes were on the border between the Sudzha and Bolshoy Soldatskoye districts along the main route to Kursk. The key point of the Ukrainian Armed Forces breakthrough in this direction remains the Berdin farm, which the Ukrainian troops failed to take.

A decrease in intensity is currently observed, but Ukrainian forces will likely continue their attacks.

The video shows the defeat of a Ukrainian tank attacking Russian positions in the Malaya Loknya area.

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❗️The US effectively colonized Ukraine – American writer. (https://t.me/Politnavigator/154936)

The US “took Ukraine away from Russia” so that it could not maintain neutrality.

🔴American writer Scott Horton said this in an interview with the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.

🗣“The reality is that the Americans have given the Russians a choice: to allow Ukraine to become a full-fledged NATO country or a country armed by the US and under their control. As Putin said in his declaration of war: if we allow Ukraine to be independent, America will dominate it and turn it into a colony. And this is actually partly true,” Horton said.

🔴He recalled that former US Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, speaking in Congress, admitted that American officials are present in all Ukrainian departments and appoint officials there.

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Poles have calculated - 25 million Ukrainians have left the country (https://t.me/breege_time_20zz/42610)

⚡️About 6.5 million fled to the EU

⚡️About 9.5 million fled to Russia

8 million people live in the DPR, LPR, Kherson, Zaporizhia regions, which are under Russian control.

A million killed. Less than 15 million people remain in Ukraine.

Failed state.

Victor vicktop55

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🗓 Top News Today

▫️ The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue to defeat (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/18727) AFU formations on the territory of Kursk region. Over the course of day, the AFU losses were up to 340 servicemen, four tanks, three infantry fighting vehicles, four armoured personnel carriers, 12 armoured fighting vehicles, one counterobstacle vehicle, 20 motor vehicles, five mortars.

▫️ Fighter aviation of Russian Aerospace Forces shot down (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/18726) one MiG-29 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force.

▫️ The Russian Defence Ministry shows footage of an FPV drone team, (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/18731) a Lancet loitering munition, (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/18728) a Grad MLRS, (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/18735) and a ZU-23-2 anti-aircraft system crew (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/18732) in action.

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🔹 Russian Defence Ministry (https://t.me/mod_russia_en)

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