Putin Is Smiling: What Is Holding Back Ukraine’s Counteroffensive?
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Although the Ukrainians are the ones carrying out a large-scale counteroffensive, the Russian military is counterattacking in places, especially in Eastern Ukraine. Russian units have pushed toward the west of the Kreminna-Svatove line, but the forested terrain is slowing any advance.

In the Donbas, Kyiv continues to prioritize the Bakhmut sector, committing large numbers of troops and weapon systems to unravel previous Russian advances.

“Here, Russian forces are likely fragile but holding for now. Further south in Donetsk Oblast, especially around Avdiivka, Russian forces continue to attempt local assaults, with little success,” British Military Intelligence assessed in its latest estimate of the war.
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Putin about the situation with the Special Military Operation:

▪️ There are no results of the Ukrainian counter-offensive

▪️ Western curators are disappointed

▪️ The Armed Forces of Ukraine suffered huge losses — tens of thousands of people

▪️ Mobilization resource in Ukraine is depleted

▪️ Production capacities in the West do not allow Kiev to replenish the consumption of equipment, they need resources and time

▪️ The opinion of the inhabitants of Ukraine is slowly and gradually changing, sobering comes, as in Europe

Putin on the plans of the Polish-Lithuanian-Ukrainian connection: this is being done for the subsequent occupation of the territory of Ukraine

⚡️ Putin recalled that Poland received a lot of western lands thanks to Stalin's position: they forgot about it in Warsaw, we will remind.

Putin: Ukrainian cannon fodder is no longer enough for the West, they are thinking about Lithuanians and Poles

Unleashing aggression against Belarus by Ukraine will mean aggression against Russia, all means will be used to protect,
Putin said.

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Other statements of the President during the meeting with the Security Council:

▪️❗️Unleashing aggression against Belarus by Ukraine will mean aggression against Russia.
▪️Ukrainian cannon fodder is no longer enough for the West, they are thinking about Lithuanians and Poles.
▪️Traitors in Ukraine are ready to "open the gates" for foreign masters in the West and sell the country again.
▪️Polish leaders apparently expect to form a coalition under the NATO umbrella, intervene in the conflict in Ukraine and tear off a fatter piece.
▪️Poland seized part of Lithuania, seized its historical lands from Russia, taking advantage of the civil war, and participated in the division of Czechoslovakia.
▪️Poland was thrown by the Western allies to be devoured by the German military machine, its sovereignty and lands were restored by the Soviet Union. The western territories of modern Poland were presented to it by Stalin.

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💥A powerful explosion in the Zhytomyr region (Ukraine) after a missile strike. Footage is published by enemy resources.
What kind of an object was hit — not reported.

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Map of fires in the Odessa region (Ukraine) for the last 24 hours. Data is being updated...

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Ukraine is losing significant forces as part of its counteroffensive — White House

The United States is ready to "take risks" in the issue of supplying new weapons to Ukraine, but take into account Russia's reaction when making decisions.

Biden and Zelensky are discussing the supply of ATACMS long-range missiles to Ukraine, the decision will be up to the president, Biden's national security adviser Sullivan said.

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The first 40 years are the most difficult in the life of any boy

US astronaut Scott Kelly, having nothing to do on board the ISS, ordered a gorilla suit with another truck. I put it on and climbed into the equipment container.

Then he jumped out of the box and almost brought British astronaut Tim Peake to a heart attack

I don't have any other American astronauts for you!

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The situation on the fronts is changing: the Armed Forces of Ukraine have problems with the offensive and they are looking for ways to solve them

Deputy Head of the National Guard for the DPR A. Khodakovsky on the situation at the front:
➨ The enemy is experiencing a shortage of fresh ideas, convinced of the ineffectiveness and inefficiency of his creeping offensive. A high degree of losses with a more than modest result is a reason for criticism in the Western media and caustic remarks from the outside "partners". Our military analysts are inclined to think that there is a high probability of an attempt to seize the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, for which they plan to use the most trained units of the Ukrainian SOF, but according to available data, control over the operation will be entrusted to the British.
➨ Reconnaissance notes more and more areas where the enemy starts waiting for our offensive actions, carrying out work to strengthen the defense capability and increase the survivability of their units on the front line. There is a shortage of ammunition, a drop in the motivation of the military of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, but the enemy still has enough of reserves so that we do not relax. Realizing that the potential is dwindling, the enemy is looking for ways to use it most sonorously.

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The enemy has not stopped attacking Kleshchevka on the southern flank of Artemovsk since nightfall

At night, the APU conducted artillery shelling with the use of cluster munitions and strike quadrocopters.
▪After that, the enemy attacked in the Andreevka area and conducted reconnaissance by fighting at Kurdyumovka, but could not achieve success.
Then, after 4 a.m., a "meat" offensive began from the forest belts near Kleshchevka in the direction of the village.
Assault groups of the 57th brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with the support of armored vehicles and without it (at 9:00) for 5 hours are trying to break through our defenses.
The 4th brigade from the LPR and intelligence met the enemy, engaging in a tough battle.
Some of the advancing forces were blown up by mines, some were covered by accurate fire of Russian troops.
▪A group of militants has been captured.
▪Fierce battles do not stop.

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The Cabinet of Ministers in Ukraine allowed private companies to legally produce ammunition for drones

Now manufacturers from all over the world will climb like jackals to profit from the blood of Ukrainians.

They will receive the legal right to mass-produce weapons in Ukraine.

And this only says that the Kiev authorities do not need peace at all.

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British intelligence MI-6 tells the Russians: "become our agents to end the military conflict".

The head of the British intelligence service came up with an original way of recruiting to end the conflict — the Russians should become spies.

The head of the British foreign intelligence service MI6 appealed on Wednesday to the Russians, who are shocked by the military conflict in Ukraine, with an appeal to "join forces" with his intelligence service and put an end to the bloodshed. Speaking at the British Embassy in Prague, he compared the current situation in Ukraine with the Prague spring of 1968, when the USSR canceled liberal reforms.

(This is when Western intelligence services, with the help of provocateurs and radio, turned the people of Czechoslovakia against the USSR, and pushed them to mass crimes against military personnel and government bodies. According to eyewitnesses, troops from the GDR played a huge role in suppressing these riots. The Czechs were still afraid of the Germans).

"Many Russians face the same dilemmas as their predecessors in 1968," Moore said. "I invite them to do what others have been doing for the past 18 months and join hands together. Our door is always open. Their secrets will be safe with us, and together we will work to end the bloodshed."

We already had this in 2014, when a recruitment announcement was published on the US Embassy website to work on the RuNet, in order to create an artificial opinion (Astroturfing), forming a negative mood among the citizens of Russia, by throwing in all social networks false information about V. Putin, denigrating the history of Russia, instilling in the minds of people thoughts about the worthlessness of our country. Against this background, they were called to support the leaders of the protest movement, to participate in riots and unauthorized events, provoking violent clashes with representatives of law enforcement agencies. Thereby promoting the technology of the orange revolution. Then the state department failed and now the British MI6 has taken up the same business. Will they again try to provoke people into a conflict in Russia? To provoke people with beautiful nonsense to undermine the situation inside Russia? The same way as it was done in February 1917?

They cannot defeat Russia on the battlefield, they again get the old manuals for creating rebellions within countries. "The Englishwoman is shitting." *

*Russian popular saying

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Polyansky named seven conditions for Russia's return to the grain deal
Polyansky said Russia will return to the grain deal when the West fulfills seven conditions

UN, July 21 — RIA Novosti. Moscow will return to the grain deal if seven conditions are met, Dmitry Polyansky, the first deputy representative of Russia to the organization, said at a meeting of the UN Security Council.

“Firstly, this is a real, not speculative removal of the sanctions on the supply of Russian grain and fertilizers to world markets. Secondly, all obstacles must be removed for Russian banks, financial institutions that service the supply of food and fertilizers,” he said.

According to Polyansky, this includes the immediate connection of these organizations to the international banking settlement system SWIFT. He stressed that any new promises and ideas on this issue would not suit Moscow.
In addition, as noted by the Deputy Representative, it is necessary to resume supplies to Russia of spare parts and components for agricultural machinery and the fertilizer industry. He added that the cost of these parts for domestic manufacturers has increased by 40 percent. At the same time, the growth of costs in financial transactions amounted to about ten percent, and the total losses reached $1.6 billion, the diplomat said.

The fourth condition: the solution of all issues with the charter of ships and insurance of Russian food exports, as well as ensuring the entire logistics of these deliveries.

"The increase in the cost of chartering sea vessels for the carriage of goods, the cost of international financial settlements, and other transactions led to a loss in the profitability of deliveries by half," Polyansky specified.
In addition, according to the diplomat, it is necessary to provide unhindered conditions for expanding the supply of Russian fertilizers and raw materials for their production. We are talking, among other things, about the resumption of operation of the Togliatti-Odessa ammonia pipeline.

Polyansky called the unblocking of Russian assets related to the agricultural industry as the sixth condition.

"Finally, the seventh is the restoration of the original humanitarian nature of the grain deal." It should work in the interests of countries in need, and not make rich countries even richer," he said.
The diplomat stressed that as soon as all these conditions are met, Moscow will immediately return to the grain deal. Nevertheless, now the representatives of Russia see and hear only demagoguery and hypocrisy, he summed up.

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It's not hard to fool the Russians. Confessions of a 100-year-old Kissinger

Henry Kissinger, a prominent American statesman, former National Security Advisor and US Secretary of State, knows a lot about real US politics.
In a conversation with the pranksters, the politician admitted that the first president of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev, was indeed given guarantees that NATO would not expand eastward. But these guarantees were verbal, it was a sin not to violate them.
"I know it's true, but it was never put in writing."
That is, according to American politicians, promises mean nothing and deception is an important tool of American diplomacy.

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Translated from Ukrainian channel:

The West is ready to start behind-the-scenes negotiations with the Russian Federation behind Ukraine's back.

And, if the counter-offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine “bogs down”, there are all prerequisites for the fact that already next autumn the West can convince Ukraine to give up Crimea and all the territories that at that time will be controlled by Russian troops. At the same time, the EU and the US will benefit even under such a scenario.

Thus, European leaders understand that a protracted conflict is fraught with greater financial influences in the post-war reconstruction of Ukraine. Therefore, for them, the withdrawal of part of the territory of Ukraine under the control of the Russian Federation is a completely acceptable scenario, which also allows saving billions of euros.

At the same time, the Biden administration may well present the “freezing” of the Ukrainian-Russian conflict as a great achievement of the current US president, and this card will be played during the upcoming election race, saying that it saved Ukraine and prevented a nuclear war.

Western allies cynically demand an offensive from Ukraine, while they themselves are in no hurry to fight and reduce the supply of offensive weapons. Fighters will be given to us next year, new military assistance packages are aimed at repairing, not strengthening, the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

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Kharkiv direction, area village Goptovka

Our border guards and units of the Russian Armed Forces found up to 5 enemy personnel and vehicles.

For destruction, an FPV drone was sent with a charge on board, which reached the target, which is confirmed by data from the reconnaissance copter.

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Ministry of Defense of Russia:

As a result of a group strike with sea-based weapons of the RF Armed Forces on the Academy of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Lvov, a large number of Polish and German mercenaries were destroyed.

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About the strike of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with Storm Shadow missiles on Oktyabrsky in Crimea

Today, Ukrainian formations fired two British Storm Shadow cruise missiles at the Oktyabrskoye village in the Krasnogvardeisky district of the Crimean peninsula.

An oil storage facility and an ammunition depot of the Black Sea Fleet were hit: a large fire broke out in the incident zone, local residents report sounds of secondary detonation.

The authorities announced the evacuation of the population within a radius of five kilometers from the scene to temporary accommodation. To minimize risks, traffic on the Crimean railway was suspended. According to the latest information, there were no casualties.

The incident was the first time that Storm Shadow long-range missiles were used to strike targets in the Republic of Crimea. Previously, the Armed Forces of Ukraine released this type of ammunition along the Chongar bridge, which connects the region with the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions.

Against the backdrop of the preparation of the Ukrainian command for the second phase of the offensive, attacks on the rear facilities of the Russian troops will only increase, including along the Crimean bridge, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said yesterday.

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MOSCOW, July 22 — RIA Novosti. RIA Novosti military reporter Rostislav Zhuravlev died during Ukrainian shelling in the special operation zone.
"Today, as a result of the shelling of a civilian car, which followed from the city of Vasilyevka, Zaporozhye region, to the village of Vladimirovka, RIA Novosti war correspondent Rostislav Zhuravlev was killed," Yevgeny Balitsky, acting head of the Zaporozhye region, wrote.

As specified in the Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces of Ukraine dealt a blow to a group of journalists with cluster munitions. Four media workers received injuries of varying severity, they were quickly transferred to field medical facilities.

"During the evacuation, Rostislav Zhuravlev, a journalist from the RIA Novosti news agency, died from injuries as a result of a cluster submunition explosion," the agency said.

In addition, RIA Novosti photojournalist Konstantin Mikhalchevsky was injured. He was hospitalized and is now being transported to Melitopol from Vasilyevka, then, if his condition allows, he will be sent for treatment to the Crimea, Oleg Kryuchkov, adviser to the head of the peninsula, said.
Previously, Mikhalchevsky received a through wound of the lower extremities. Kryuchkov added that the Minister of Health of the Crimea is already in contact with the hospital in Melitopol.

Izvestia journalists also suffered.
"Izvestia correspondent Roman Polshakov and cameraman Dmitry Shikov were injured on July 22 in the zone of a special military operation during shelling by Ukrainian militants. The journalist has got a broken leg, shrapnel wounds to his leg, abdomen and back. The cameraman had shrapnel wounds and a fracture of the hip bones," the REN TV channel reported.

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