Attention. Translated from an Ukrainian channel (why not Russian MOD???)
Putin will hold an emergency meeting with members of the Russian Security Council.

According to preliminary data, the reason for such promptness was the threat of encirclement of Russian Army in the Kharkiv region.

OK, back to manual control and handling of the situation... Can they do something on their own?
#TransFormator

Eventually Russian MOD started doing something...

Ukrainian guard is filming his own death.
"Who are you? Where are your yellow bands? Who are you coming to replace?" Shots fired. End.

Footage of the flight of the assault group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine after an unsuccessful attempt to attack the positions of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

In the Izyum direction, a detachment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, with the support of foreign mercenaries, tried to attack the positions of Russian troops. The enemy was met with dense fire and fled to their original positions.

The Russian military is deploying air defence to the Kharkiv region.

ZRPK complexes "Pantsir-S1" and S-300 were filmed at Izyum.
Translated from @RVvoenkor and @anna_news

Another one from Rybar:
A special post for those who do not understand what is happening in the Nikolaev-Krivoy Rog direction.

Since the beginning of the offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Kherson, irretrievable losses have amounted to over four thousand people.

Again.

At Sukhoi Stavka, on the outskirts of Vysokopole, near Posad-Pokrovsky, there are the bodies of at least four thousand Ukrainian citizens.

Especially for the citizens of Ukraine: you can not believe us and listen to official information from the military registration and enlistment offices and the command of the brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Maybe they will make an exception for you and tell the truth. Although hardly.

Location unknown, but posted by Ukrainian channels that say this is a Russian attack on their positions.

TG channels repost this video from Kyiv. Column of ambulances.

"Now we got a call from fellow fighters located in Kupyansk and reported the good news that Ukrainian military are suffering absolute losses (according to them, more than a thousand two hundredths). Our aviation, artillery are working, the enemy cannot do anything and he is losing his previously acquired advantage everywhere."
@mediasalt

Translated from https://t.me/pridnestrovec/26353

Balakleya - Kupyansk: the advance of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is stopped

After the retaliatory actions of the RF Armed Forces, the settlements of Sinikha, Senkovo, Vorontsovka, Fedorovka, Lesnaya Stenka were cleared of Ukrainian forces and are moving further to the western outskirts.

Russian aviation and artillery are actively working in the areas of concentration of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, even late at night. The enemy suffers heavy losses. Particularly large damage - in the area between Shevchenkov and Pervomaisky, where the Armed Forces of Ukraine are squeezed by dense fire. Over 60% of the personnel lost the 22nd battalion of the territorial defence of the Kharkov region and its "mother" unit - the 92nd separate mechanized brigade.

Ukrainian soldiers write that the aircraft of the Armed Forces of Ukraine did not appear, and the offensive now looks like a trap planned by the RF Armed Forces.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine did not completely take control of Balakleya either. We managed to occupy only the centre of the city, where the footage with Ukrainian flags was filmed. There are conflicting reports that, after the transfer of reserves from the outskirts, the Ukrainian army is being actively squeezed out by PMCs.

The 56th brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine bears serious losses. Ukrainian sources write that the artillery and aviation of the RF Armed Forces are “burning out” the offensive formations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and near Kupyansk, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are attacking a full-fledged army corps.

An attempt by the Armed Forces of Ukraine to exit from the south side near Izyum through Dolgenkoe also failed, the 127th separate brigade of the Kharkov Territorial Defence Forces, which was thrown into battle without cover, suffers heavy losses.

Six months into the conflict, what exactly does Russia hope to achieve in Ukraine?
Putin’s latest comments reveal that Moscow’s thinking has shifted and compromise is no longer on the agenda
Dmitry Trenin is a Research Professor at the Higher School of Economics and a Lead Research Fellow at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations. He is also a member of the Russian International Affairs Council.

Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin referred to Ukraine as an “anti-Russian enclave” which has to be removed. He also said that the Russian soldiers taking part in the military operation there were fighting for their “own country.” These statements carry important implications.

Over the last six-plus months, the mantra of the Russian officialdom has been that all aims of the offensive will be reached. On purpose, however, the specific objectives, such as how far Moscow’s forces plan move into Ukraine, have never been spelled out. This cannot but raise speculation about what the Kremlin is actually hoping to achieve.

The only person who can authoritatively answer that question, however, is the president, and second-guessing him makes no sense. Yet, two things cannot escape close attention. One is the radicalization of Moscow’s position on Ukraine as a result of both Western policies and Kiev’s actions; two is the widening gap between the minimum result of the military campaign that Russia can be satisfied with, and the maximum amount of what the US and its allies can accept.

For about six years after the second Minsk Agreement was signed in 2015, the Kremlin tried hard to get that accord implemented. It would have ensured the autonomous status of Donbass within Ukraine and given the region influence on national politics and policies, including in the issue of the country’s geopolitical and geo-economic orientation. From the very start, however, Kiev was unwilling to cooperate on the deal’s implementation, seeing it as a win for Moscow. Washington, in pursuit of a policy to contain Russia, encouraged such an obstructionist stance, while Berlin and Paris, formally the guarantors of the agreement (alongside Russia), had no leverage in Kiev and ended up embracing the Ukrainian position.

Vladimir Zelensky’s election to Ukraine’s presidency in 2019 initially appeared to be an opening for peace, and President Putin made a serious effort to get the Minsk agreement off the ground. Kiev, however, soon backtracked and took an even more hardline position than before. Nevertheless, until mid-2021 the Kremlin continued to see as its goals in Ukraine a resolution of the Donbass issue essentially on the basis of Minsk, and the eventual de facto recognition of Crimea’s Russian status. In June of last year, Vladimir Putin, however, published a long article on Russian-Ukrainian relations which made it clear that he viewed the current situation as a major security, political, and identity issue for his country; recognized his personal responsibility; and was resolved to do something to strategically correct it. The article did not give away Putin’s game plan, but it laid out his basic thinking on Ukraine.

Last December, Moscow passed on to Washington a package of proposals, which amounted to a list of security guarantees for Russia. These included Ukraine’s formal neutrality between Russia and NATO (“no Ukraine in NATO”); and no deployment of US and other NATO weapons and military bases in Ukraine, as well as a ban on military exercises on Ukrainian territory (“no NATO in Ukraine”). While the US agreed to discuss some military technical issues dealt with in the Russian paper it rejected Moscow’s key demands related to Ukraine and NATO. Putin had to take no for an answer.