Once, I told a certain man, "if idiots could fly, you will be Boing 747 and your surroundings international airport". Deserved. Now, I will repeat the same to the command of the Balakleya - Kharkov operational zone. Instead of conducting Maskirovka (deception), you allow AFU to do it to you. You had all the time time to prepare, to build fortifications, set up minefields, killing fields, hidden firing positions... You did nothing. You neglected intelligence data, you failed to register the massing of enemy troops, creating of supply depots, jumping points, and breakthrough directions. When the enemy attacked, you were surprised. You endangered the lives of your soldiers, and even worse, almost opened the way to the rear of the entire battle group in the area. Lines didn't fall because of your ingenuity but because of the bravery and sacrifice of the soldiers on the front. Luckily, for us, there are lots of smart people in HQ who are not chasing stars on the uniform but actually doing something. You can be thankful for the airforce and reinforcement that courageously went to battle to help their comrades. " Where are the pigs? you ask now. Well, some are laying dead in the fields and forest, and some are still attacking. And some are sitting in the local HQ of ours, not understanding what is going on. You failed us twice, now, gentlemen, under the Kharkov. There won't be a third time. Instead of stars, you will be discharged and some of you will find yourself in front of Court Martial. We will win. But not thanks to you.

@Slavyangrad
Join SLG 🔺 Intelligence Briefings, Strategy and Analysis, Expert Community

‼️🇷🇺Report from Balakleya surrounded by the enemy

Alexander Paschenko, a volunteer and member of the Battle Brotherhood from Khakassia, is in Balakleya on a humanitarian mission.

"The town is 180 degrees surrounded by the enemy, Russian troops are heroically holding their ground and not surrendering the town, the population is small but holding on. People are hungry and tired of being bombed and shelled round the clock by their own 'compatriots'. Residents of the liberated territories are waiting for Russian citizenship," Alexander said.

t.me/RVvoenkor


@Slavyangrad
Join SLG 🔺 Intelligence Briefings, Strategy and Analysis, Expert Community

#YURI DAILY Yuri suggests Russian command was apparently caught off-guard with Balakleya offensive, possibly expecting it to happen elsewhere. The enemy managed to advance up to Shevchenkovo evading clashes, where its advance have been stopped by the Russian freshly transferred reserves, - the enemy was tasked apparently with taking as much ground as possible. The outcome of the battle will be decided tonight or tomorrow, when the main reserves of both sides will be apparently thrown into battles, and it will depend on the speed of reaction of the Russian command in transferring additional troops there.

Ukrainian planners apparently aim at cutting off the Russian group in Izyum. So far, the enemy was advancing with relatively small forces (around 1500 men), losses of both sides low so far.

Disponible también en Español @rpd_es

⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦⚔️ #Donbass offensive: Situation in Eastern #Ukraine at the end of 7 September 2022⚡️

▪️ Russian artillery has shelled targets in the village of Gay in the #Chernigov Region and in the villages of Volfino, Manukhovka, Stukalovka, Khodino and Volkovka in the #Sumy Region.

▪️ In the direction of #Kharkov, Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups are probing the defences of Russian units in the north of the region:
➖ AFU DRGs have carried out several sabotage attacks near #Volchansk on the border of the Kharkov region with Russia.
➖ Russian forces have carried out several missile attacks against AFU facilities in #Nemyshlyansky district of Kharkov.

▪️ In the direction of #Izyum, Ukrainian formations tried to build on their success at #Balakleya and encircle the city in several directions:
➖ Allied reserves, which had arrived in the meantime, were able to repel enemy attacks at #Shevchenkovo, north of #Balakleya. At the same time, the enemy moved reinforcements into the area in the hope of gaining control of important traffic arteries and forming a bridgehead for a further offensive against #Kupyansk.
➖ South of #Balakleya, the 93rd Brigade and a brigade of AFU Special Forces took control of #Bayrak and Krasnyaya Gusarovka, cutting off the city from the south. The next target of the Ukrainian Forces is likely to be #Zaliman in the east of the city.
➖ The enemy's main goal at the moment is to reach the villages of #Veseloye and #Kunye, which will cut off supplies to the Russian Forces' grouping in #Izyum.
➖ Ukrainian Forces are also concentrating reserves in the #Dolina area to hit the grouping in #Izyum from the south.

▪️ In the direction of #Bakhmut (#Artemovsk), the Allied forces are engaged in positional fighting on the outskirts of #Bakhmut and #Soledar.

▪️ In the direction of #Donetsk, the sides are fighting positional battles in the suburbs of Donetsk near #Pervomayskoye and in the outskirts of #Ugledar. Ukrainian militants, in turn, continued shelling the DPR capital and surrounding settlements, with civilian casualties.

▪️ In the #Zaporozhye region, the sides continue artillery duels across the Dnipro River. Russian Forces retaliate against enemy positions in #Nikopol and #Marganets, from where #Energodar and the #Zaporozhye NPP are shelled.

▪️ On the direction of #KrivoyRog, the situation remains unchanged. Russian units hold defensive positions on the southern outskirts of #Arkhangelskoye and #Olgino and south of #Vysokopolye. #Novovoznesenskoye remains under the control of the Ukrainian Forces.

@Slavyangrad /@rybar/#SMO/ t.me/SLG_MAPS/6
Join SLG 🔺 Intelligence Briefings, Strategy and Analysis, Expert Community

⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦⚔️ Situation in the #Nikolaev-#KrivoyRog direction at the end of 7 September 2022⚡️

On the ninth day since the Ukrainian offensive on Kherson began, the frontline has stabilised. The AFU are still trying to expand their bridgehead to advance further towards Novaya Kakhovka and #Kherson, but are unable to build on their earlier success.

▪️ In the #Andreevka sector, the Ukrainian command continues to cling to Sukhoy Stavok and the surrounding settlements, trying to rotate the units there.
➖ Russian Ground and Airborne Forces artillery is pounding enemy positions in the narrow "intestine" near #Andreevka. Tornado-S MLRSs struck precisely at the AFU position near #Bereznegovatoye, and aerial bombs hit the bridgehead near Sukhoy Stavok. Russian units also approached the eastern outskirts of #Belogorka, which had been attacked by Su-34 bombers in recent days.
➖ Ukrainian militants are suffering losses of personnel and equipment. Vehicles with wounded and killed fighters drive almost continuously through #Bereznegovatoye towards the north. Equipment damaged by the attacks is also being transported through the village.

▪️ In the #PosadPokrovskoye sector, Ukrainian militants continue their attempts to entrench themselves west of the village of Ternovye Pody. Meanwhile, TRO brigade units are in no hurry to take new positions, having suffered heavy losses in suicide attacks in recent days.

▪️ In the #Snigirovka sector, it is relatively quiet. The AFU are not actively going on the offensive and are trying to drop shells from helicopters on the positions of the Russian paratroopers in the previously captured #Blagodatnoye.

▪️ In the #Olgino and #Vysokopolye areas there are no changes on the front line.

@Slavyangrad /@rybar/#SMO/ t.me/SLG_MAPS/7
Join SLG 🔺 Intelligence Briefings, Strategy and Analysis, Expert Community

⚔️🇺🇸🐮💩 Fiend Analysis of the situation in Ukraine from American Troll and Muzzlewhores Institute for the Study of War (ISW):

⚠️ The ISW Trolls must have quite an inferiority complex when they invent demoralised reactions from Russian milbloggers intellectually and professionally superior to them and sell it their dumbed-down readership.

September 7; Key Takeaways🔻

▪️ Ukrainian forces are skillfully exploiting Russia’s deployment of forces away from the Izyum-Kharkiv area to retake territory and threaten Russian GLOCs in the area, prompting demoralized responses from Russian milbloggers.

▪️ Russian President Vladimir Putin attempted to deny the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) September 6 report on the situation at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP).

▪️ Ukrainian forces continued strikes on Russian logistics nodes, manpower and equipment concentrations, transportation networks, and command and control points in Kherson Oblast.

▪️ Russian and Ukrainian sources reported kinetic activity in northern Kherson Oblast and in western Kherson Oblast along the Kherson-Mykolaiv border.

▪️ Russian forces conducted ground attacks north of Kharkiv City, northwest of Slovyansk, northeast of Siversk, south and northeast of Bakhmut, and northwest of Donetsk City.

▪️ Ukrainian forces gained 400 square kilometers of territory northwest of Izyum on September 6-7 as part of an opportunistic and highly effective counteroffensive in southeastern Kharkiv Oblast.

▪️ Russian occupation authorities announced November 4 as the potential date for annexation referenda in occupied areas of Ukraine.

@Slavyangrad/@TheStudyofWar/ t.me/SLG_MAPS/8
Join SLG 🔺 Intelligence Briefings, Strategy and Analysis, Expert Community

I do not know whether the AFU outplayed someone or not. All I know is that the AFU did not accumulate its reserves in a vacuum, and everyone knew it. Now the AFU is not attacking our positions from a vacuum either. They are concentrating before going on the offensive. Yes, you can blame it on the nasty HIMARS hitting our rear, but it seems to me, in my naivety, that is not the reason why our artillery fire and the work of the Air Force are not giving proper results. It seems to me that the main reason why the AFU is pushing through our defenses at Balakleya is weak operational and tactical reconnaissance and targeting. Area-by-area fire does not bring proper results. What to do now, well I do not have a recipe. I do not know the situation well enough to give recipes. But as I see it, in such situations it would be wise not to save the Eagles and other UAVs, which should be expendable. Let them be shot down, but if they allow at least some time to provide accurate fire to inflict a decisive defeat on attacking AFU groups, it is much better and more effective than holding frontal attacks by more serves and various SOBR forces...
https://t.me/NeoficialniyBeZsonoV/17402

@Slavyangrad
Join SLG 🔺 Intelligence Briefings, Strategy and Analysis, Expert Community

Today there is a difficult situation in one part of the front. Yes, the Ukrainians have concentrated on a strike force and have moved forward. They are now fighting them with confidence, hitting them with aviation, artillery, and rocket forces, and the reserves have been brought up. One should understand that although the battle is short-lived, the events do not develop instantaneously. Artillery has to be brought up somewhere, the position has to be changed, ammunition has to be delivered somewhere, and reconnaissance has to be conducted first so as not to jump in at a breakneck speed. We are looking very decent in all the directions, we did a good job in Kherson and Nikolaev-Kryvyi Rih directions. I do not understand how the enemy suffered such losses, purely from the military point of view I did not understand the idea.

Somebody says that there was some diversionary maneuver at Kherson, but they lost not less than 5 thousand people there, it was a full-fledged offensive, but it was extremely ineptly planned. Yes, there have been no active combat operations in the Balakleya direction there for a long time, the enemy grouping is being localized. Yes, the situation is not easy, there were mistakes, but, unfortunately, nothing is without mistakes. But I believe that the measures taken will make it possible not just to rectify the situation, but to respond with extreme dignity, and I think this development is not far off.

In war, it is particularly important never to wish things were true. The truth is no more than the raw data for decision-making so that all the objectives can be properly defined and the tasks can be carried out.

https://t.me/agurulev/1938

@Slavyangrad
Join SLG 🔺 Intelligence Briefings, Strategy and Analysis, Expert Community

A substation exploded at night in Belgorod - part of the city is without light, and traffic lights do not work on the streets

A substation in Belgorod blew up overnight - the exact cause is still unknown, but residents have lost water and light. "Belgorodenergo reports that the light will finally come back on only by 8:30 when many will already be on their way to work. At the moment, traffic lights in some streets in the city are also out of order.

Eyewitnesses note that firefighters almost immediately drove up to the station and socially important facilities have already switched to backup power supply schemes and sources. Mayor Anton Ivanov specified that the water supply has also started to be activated.

https://t.me/c/1465202821/20626

@Slavyangrad
Join SLG 🔺 Intelligence Briefings, Strategy and Analysis, Expert Community

European steel mills shut down as of 6 September.

Also, 40 CEOs of European steel holdings warn of an "existential threat" to the industry in an open letter.

https://t.me/ssigny/41397?single

@Slavyangrad
Join SLG 🔺 Intelligence Briefings, Strategy and Analysis, Expert Community

People write in the comments about how we're supposedly stirring up trouble here...

Guys, we try to look at the world through the prism of sanity, not through black or rose-colored glasses. So if there are problems, you have to have the courage to accept them and talk about them directly. And if you want to engage in self-hypnosis, you can go and watch Arestovich or TV experts, which is the same thing.

We need to clearly understand and accept the fact that we have missed out on many important things, it's not a tragedy, we just need to learn from mistakes and not pretend that it was meant to be.

Peter the Great raised his glass after the victory at Poltava for the teachers of the Swedes who beat him at Narva. And from our point of view, this is the right approach.

THE UNTHINKABLE HAPPENS!

https://t.me/OpenUkraine/25751

@Slavyangrad
Join SLG 🔺 Intelligence Briefings, Strategy and Analysis, Expert Community

❗️ A live-fire exercise to liberate territory temporarily overrun by the enemy began in Belarus

Belarus Ministry of Defence

https://t.me/SolovievLive/125779

@Slavyangrad
Join SLG 🔺 Intelligence Briefings, Strategy and Analysis, Expert Community