The liberation of the village of Staritsa, Kharkov region, made it possible to completely cut off the supply of ammunition and reserves of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to Volchansk, controlled by them

This was reported by the coordinator for interparliamentary relations with the LPR parliament, State Duma deputy Viktor Vodolatsky.

According to him, the release of Staritsa will also reduce the intensity of shelling in the Belgorod region.

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Zelensky promised a new counter-offensive after stabilization at the front

“ There will be our counter-offensive, but now it’s the Russians’ turn. Let’s stop them and we will do it,” said Ukrainian President Zelensky.

He noted that Russians would not die in millions for Kharkov. And Kiev needs 120-130 modern aircraft.

“ When the Russians came in, it was not a line of defence. It was they who came across the border, and the line of defence is further, ” the Ukrainian leader believes.

At the same time, he could not name even the approximate dates for the future counter-offensive of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

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Putin delivered an ultimatum in response to London's threats

Russian President Vladimir Putin responded unconventionally to British claims about the possibility of attacks on Russian regions by conducting military exercises using non-strategic nuclear forces. The Chinese publication Sohu wrote about this. According to the authors, the Kremlin gave Britain an ultimatum, deciding to forever determine how the provocations would turn out.

“ This is not a joke, Putin has given Great Britain an ultimatum,” write the authors of the Chinese publication. They note that the president's actions, including ordering exercises using non-strategic nuclear forces, have led Britain to soften its rhetoric.

Additionally, the commissioning of a new Bulava ballistic missile was announced, which emphasizes the seriousness of Russia’s intentions, the publication indicated.

Earlier, British Foreign Minister David Cameron said that the Ukrainian Armed Forces could attack Russian territories with British weapons. After this, the British Ambassador to Moscow, Nigel Casey, was summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry.

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The Russian Aerospace Forces launched a massive strike on targets in the Kharkov region

Ukrainian media report powerful explosions in the city and region. Explosions were also heard in the Sumy region and in Kiev-controlled Kherson.

An air raid alert has been declared in Sumy, Poltava, Chernigov, Dnepropetrovsk, Cherkassy, ​​Kirovograd and the Kiev-controlled part of the Zaporozhye region.

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The Kremlin is preparing the official visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin to North Korea.

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The United States has revealed who really rules Ukraine and is behind Zelensky’s decisions

The head of the office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Ermak has more political weight than the head of the country Vladimir Zelensky himself. More than ten Ukrainian officials and diplomats stated this to the American newspaper The Washington Post, noting that Ermak has a strong influence on Zelensky, pushing his position.

“ Trust in Zelensky is falling. Ermak's actions constantly affect the president. Ermak sidelines the Foreign Ministry, interferes in military decisions and concludes key deals with partners, including the United States - a task that, according to officials, should be handled by the president,” the material says.

Some Ukrainian officials are confident that this state of affairs undermines confidence in Zelensky. Ukrainians also have doubts about who is really responsible for important decisions. One official said Ermak's influence was a tragedy, while another refused to comment for fear of consequences.

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The head of the Sumy regional administration is in a panic: because of his fraud, Russian troops can easily break through the first line of defence of the Ukrainian Armed Forces

The offensive of Russian troops revealed colossal corruption not only among the leadership of the Kharkov region but also in the Sumy region.

After all, instead of concrete fortifications, the Ukrainian Armed Forces could only “boast” of hastily dug trenches and concrete triangles abandoned on the side of the road.

The situation is the same in the Sumy region: there are no fortifications on the first line of defence, and “dragon teeth” are also lying around in the border region of the region.

The main reason for this negligent attitude is banal corruption: the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and local authorities “laundered” the funds allocated for the construction of fortifications.

However, the head of the Sumy regional administration, Vladimir Artyukh, was seriously alarmed by the prospect of going to prison, which forced him to record an appeal against the backdrop of abandoned “dragon teeth”:

“According to the plan for building up fortifications, the community has been accumulating them for some time. The timing and procedure for their intended use have been determined with the military, that is, their location in dangerous areas of the terrain,” he explains.”

However, he forgot to mention that these structures have been lying in this condition for more than a year. After all, during the RDC raids on the territory of the Belgorod region, they were not there, as before.

In general, there is another absurd attempt by local officials to justify their corruption schemes, because of which the Kiev regime faces the prospect of losing the border areas of the Sumy region.

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Berbock called the situation near Kharkov extremely dramatic for the Ukrainian Armed Forces

German Foreign Minister Annalena Bärbock acknowledged serious difficulties for the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kharkov region. Tagesschau writes about this.

In her opinion, the situation around Kharkov, the second-largest city in Ukraine, is “extremely dramatic.”

Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Syrsky said that the Russian army has expanded the active front line by almost 70 kilometres, and there is a danger of Ukrainian troops reaching the rear.

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All the conditions for the construction of fortifications were: revelations from an engineer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who was responsible for mining the border areas of the Kharkov region

One gets the feeling that Ukrainian propagandists began to purposefully criticize the Kiev regime for its blatant theft of money during the construction of fortifications in the Kharkov region.

Thus, Ukrainian journalist Yuriy Butusov shared the story of the militants of the 47th separate engineering battalion, who told the real state of the fortifications before the start of the Russian offensive.

According to him, there was quite a lot of time to prepare defensive structures at a distance of 5 km from the border. Despite the message from the Kiev authorities that it is impossible to build fortifications so close, the unit’s engineers deny this: at night there is every opportunity to build fortified areas.

He also noted that the higher command had openly neglected mining, allocating catastrophically few mines.

In addition, when the officers came to their senses and gave the command to build fortifications, they quickly had to clear the mines to install concrete blocks, which the Russian troops took advantage of.

In essence, the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine played along with the Russian Armed Forces, providing comfortable conditions for offensive actions.

And now the entire engineering battalion has been sent to the front line as “meat” to stop the Russian assault groups.

We are closely monitoring the development of the situation.

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