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Update from Ukraine | Wagners failed their main goal in Bakhmut | I was wrong about the city https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1Is_Fw8NRU
****NEW SUMMARY Military MAPS & COMMENTS here:
Invasion Day 394 – Summary March 25, 2023 Jerome News
The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the last 48 hours, as of 25th March 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time). https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-394-summary/
Update from Ukraine | Wagners failed their main goal in Bakhmut | I was wrong about the city https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1Is_Fw8NRU
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Khartia unit joins Offensive Guard March 23, 2023 Jerome
“Ukrainian National Guard is being expanded by a new military brigade.” https://militaryland.net/news/khartia-unit-joins-offensive-guard/
Update from Ukraine | Wagners failed their main goal in Bakhmut | I was wrong about the city
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1Is_Fw8NRU
****NEW SUMMARY Military MAPS & COMMENTS here:
Invasion Day 394 – Summary March 25, 2023 Jerome News
The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the last 48 hours, as of 25th March 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time).
https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-394-summary/
Update from Ukraine | Wagners failed their main goal in Bakhmut | I was wrong about the city
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1Is_Fw8NRU
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Khartia unit joins Offensive Guard
March 23, 2023 Jerome
“Ukrainian National Guard is being expanded by a new military brigade.”
https://militaryland.net/news/khartia-unit-joins-offensive-guard/
ARTICLE
1. Russia’s Bakhmut Offensive Hit With More Problems: U.K.
Brendan Cole
3/25/23 7:12 AM EDT
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-bakhmut-mod-update-offensive-problems-1790278
Russia’s fight for the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut is said to be hampered by huge losses as well as tensions between Moscow and the mercenary troops fighting Kyiv’s forces.
The U.K. Ministry of Defense (MOD) said that the Russian assault on the Donetsk town “has largely stalled” which was mostly down to the “extreme attrition of the Russian force,” although it also noted that Ukraine has also faced high troop losses.
The update on Saturday said Russia had probably shifted its operational focus towards Avdiivka, located south of Bakhmut, and to the Kreminna-Svatove sector in the north, areas “where Russia likely only aspires to stabilize its front line.”
“This suggests an overall return to a more defensive operational design after inconclusive results from its attempts to conduct a general offensive since January,” said the MOD update on Saturday which in the past has had a tendency to emphasize Ukrainian gains and Russian losses.
Russia has been reeling from huge losses of manpower and equipment in Bakhmut as well as the failed attack on Vuhledar in February. “Tactically, these attacks have been a disaster for Russia,” Paul D’Anieri, political science professor at the University of California, Riverside, recently told Newsweek.
“They are probably a strategic disaster as well, in that they’ve eroded Russia’s ability to attack or defend without any appreciable gain in territory,”
The British officials also said that Russian’s campaign is likely to have got worse because of tensions between the Russian Ministry of Defense, which Newsweek has emailed for comment, and the Wagner Group of mercenaries fighting for Moscow, headed by Yevgeny Prigozhin.
The businessman thought to have close links with Vladimir Putin has repeatedly railed against the Russian defense establishment for not providing his troops with enough ammunition.
The Institute for the Study of War, a U.S.-based think tank, noted on Thursday the Wagner chief’s rejection of the Kremlin’s claims that in Ukraine, Russia is fighting NATO and even questioned the presence of Nazis there, which was one of Putin’s pretexts for war.
Prigozhin also took aim at Russian officials, saying it was “ridiculous” to believe that they had gone ahead with the invasion without taking into account that Ukraine would receive NATO help. He characterized the fight as being “exclusively with Ukrainians” equipped with NATO-provided equipment but not the alliance itself.
However, the Wagner chief has been softening his rhetoric towards the Russian MOD for fear of losing his mercenary forces, the think tank said. Prigozhin’s comments also added weight to reports that Kyiv’s forces were planning a possible counteroffensive in the east of the country towards the Russian region of Belgorod.
VIDEO
1. Russian army is some kind of an organized criminal group - Russian POW
UATV English
384K subscribers
Mar 25, 2023 5:00 p.m. DST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ukun7iRgkuU
Yakiv Miroshnik, Russian prison of war, who had been serving in the Russian army on the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine told about bad treatment with soldiers on the occupied territories. He noted that there were neither food, nor uniform. He named the Russian army - some kind of an organized criminal group. POW urged residents of the temporarily occupied territories to ignore service in the army and to surrender to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. For more details – watch full interview with POW
2. Ukraine War, NATO Pressure Or…? Why Turkey’s Interest In Russian S-400 Systems Seems To Be Waning
CRUX
1.74M subscribers
Mar 25, 2023 12:15 p.m. DST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKcjPH3L_6c
Very interesting. The folks on here who jump to criticize this guy without watching his videos;
Don’t know he was advocating for Ukraine to withdraw from Bachmut for weeks.
If the city does hold it’s against all odds and against the advice given by the United States.
IF they hold, Russia doesn’t get a breakout which they desperately want before Ukraine launches an offensive in the next month.
ARTICLE
1- Russian Charged With ‘Badmouthing’ Military After Private Call Wire-Tapped
By Brendan Cole
3/25/23 12:38 PM EDT
https://www.newsweek.com/russian-wiretapped-military-vedel-1790303
Police Arrest Russians Protesting Putin’s Partial Mobilization: ‘No To War’
A Moscow police officer could face a lengthy prison term after the wiretapping of his phone revealed that he had criticized the Kremlin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Sergei Vedel, who was originally from Bucha, Ukraine, the scene of alleged Russian atrocities last year, had made disparaging comments about the war in conversations with his relatives, according to an indictment that was reported on the Telegram channel of opposition politician Ilya Yashin.
He had worked as a driver for one of the chiefs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. A month before the start of the war, his phone was wiretapped, which Yashin said could have been as part of an investigation into his boss or because of his Ukrainian origins.
Destroyed Russian armored vehicles line the street in the city of Bucha, west of Kyiv, on March 4, 2022. Sergei Vedel, who was originally from the city west of Kyiv, but worked in Moscow as a police officer, was charged with spreading “fakes” about Russia’s military. ARIS MESSINIS/Getty Images
It was discovered that during his phone conversations with friends last March, Vedel denied that Ukraine was run by Nazis, a stance that was one of the Kremlin’s justifications for its war.
He also said that one of the reasons for the war was a bid by Moscow to change power in Kyiv and he outlined the heavy Russian troop losses in the early days of the invasion.
In March 2022, a criminal case was opened against Vedel in connection with the public dissemination of false information about the actions of the Russian army.
Vedel’s lawyer said that a private conversation could not be considered public dissemination of information, according to Yashin and reported by independent Russian language outlets.
However, the indictment said that these views caused “a feeling of anxiety, fear and insecurity on the part of the state” in the employee who had tapped Wedel’s phone.
The prosecutor approved the charges and Vedel will appear in Moscow’s Perovsky Court on Wednesday. Yashin said that Vedel has been in jail for a year and was the first person arrested in Russia under the country’s criminal code article about “military fakes.”
As part of the measures introduced at the start of what Moscow calls the “special military operation” to crack down on dissent, tough laws were introduced.
Spreading “fakes” can result in a prison sentence of up to 15 years, while “discrediting” the army can result in a five-year term.
Yashin himself was sentenced to eight-and-a-half years in prison for opposing the invasion of Ukraine.
Yashin had been tried with spreading false information meant to discredit the Russian army after he wrote a series of posts about the murder and torture of Ukrainian civilians by Russian troops in Bucha, Vedel’s hometown.
The germans in WW1 never captured verdun, but they forced the french to defend it at all costs and bled them white.
But on the other hand capturing Verdun really wouldn’t have given the Germans much, so they wasted a lot of men on it as well.
VIDEOS
1. 30 Russians attacked position of 8 Ukrainians; surrounded Ukrainian fighters refused to surrender
Kanal13
1.5M subscribers
Mar 25, 2023 7 a.m. DST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51dLwIX4vI0
[Video Comment: The real difference between the two sides was that the defenders had heavy fire support and the attackers didn’t.
One of the first artillery/mortar rounds that came in actually almost landed in the defence trench. The fire mission thankfully did clear away the Russian attack force.
The attackers did try to suppress the trench with small arms fire, while another went through the wood. However, I couldn’t see a heavy weapon, belt fed machine gun even, to give enough suppressive fire to really pin down the defenders.
The Ukrainians have the communications and organisation for their fire support. The Russians don’t seem to. However, as a defender I would have wanted another defence trench covering this one. To defend such an isolated position is going to be dangerous, very.
This is brutal. How many have to die for Putin’s folly? The more kit and everything we can give the Ukrainians the faster this war will be over, and the killing can stop.]
2. Almost completely destroyed and mined: liberated village of Maksymivka suffered Russian occupation
UATV English
384K subscribers
Mar 25, 2023 11:00 a.m. DST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGxfvKg2iVA
The village of Maksymivka was captured at the very beginning of a full-scale war against Ukraine. Russian troops set up their advanced positions there, from where they fired on Mykolaiv and other peaceful cities. Now there are traces of invaders everywhere in the village - abandoned positions, burnt equipment and countless ammunition. What residents remember, more in the story.
Meanwhile Mykivka is lost, Bakmut just about fallen, Avidivka same. Avidivka most important, as that is the city that has been shelling Donetsk since 2015. Once Avidivka is eliminated, Vlad accomplishes his first stated objective; liberation of the Donbass.
For a much fairer balance, I suggest the Military Summary Channel. Words are cheap, video and maps are priceless in drawing conclusions. Dima uses both Western and Russian battle maps, both agreeing with each other.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yClwpXggXno
Don’t get sucked in by western MSM, virtually no reporting on the Ukies dire situation. In any case it is becoming more obvious every day:
Ukraine 1991-2023 RIP.
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that all depends on who has the men to spare. Russia must think that criminals are expendable, rather than use enlisted and drafted troops.
Ive watched a dozen of them and he seems more credible than quite a few others on both sides. His maps are a little dated, but eventually come up to speed.
Poor Zeeper only trusts the liberal media and can’t analyze info…
I thought you ghosted me 😂
ARTICLE
Occupiers fired at humanitarian aid delivery point in Kherson: two people were wounded
Censor.NET War
25.03.23 14:48
https://censor.net/en/news/3408073/occupiers_fired_at_humanitarian_aid_delivery_point_in_kherson_two_people_were_wounded
Russian troops shelled Kherson today, March 25. The occupiers hit the point of delivery of humanitarian aid.
As Censor.NET informs, the head of Kherson RMA Oleksandr Prokudin reported this on Telegram.
“Last night, the Russian army attacked the “Point of Invincibility” in Kostyantynivka in the Donetsk region, today’s target of the Russian artillery is the humanitarian aid delivery point in Kherson,” wrote Prokudin.
Read more: Massive missile attacks are becoming thing of past, enemy is looking for tactics that can work - OС “South”
According to him, two people - a 41-year-old woman and a 25-year-old man - were injured as a result of the shelling.
“They were hospitalized with mine-explosive injuries and shrapnel injuries,” the head of the RMA said. Source: https://censor.net/en/n3408073
#4 is right on the nose.
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