🇷🇺🇺🇦 Shoigu at the arsenals and storage bases of the Western Military District checked the preparation of equipment for shipment to the special operation zone.

The minister demanded to reduce the time for receiving equipment from enterprises and its delivery to the troops, drew attention to the installation of additional protection for armored vehicles, taking into account the special operation.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Report from the positions of the Kaskad OBTF in the Novodonetsk area in the South-Donetsk direction, where fighting has been going on for the fourth day. The video also shows a British Mastiff armored car knocked out by an ATGM hit.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 More Ukrainian equipment getting destroyed in Zaporozhye direction

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Also today, near Bakhmut, the Armed Forces of Ukraine tried to roll over again, lost three tanks burned down with their crews, the rest fled in a panic.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Uman, Cherkasy region, Ukraine.

A clear blow of the Russian Aerospace Forces on the warehouse of the ammunition of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The footage shows secondary detonations.

🇦🇹 🇭🇺 🇷🇺 "Watch out Ukraine, here comes the Hungaro-Austrian Empire
Pro-Russian politicians in the vein of Hungary’s Viktor Orbán are on the rise in Austria and Slovakia.

Kickl’s far-right Freedom Party has been leading the country’s national polls by several points since November as soaring inflation and a sharp increase in asylum applications fuel discontent with the current government, a coalition between the center-right Austrian People’s Party and the Greens. With the other main opposition party, the Social Democrats, plagued by infighting, Kickl’s party has the best chance in years to seize power.

That would spell major trouble for the European Union, which is already struggling to cope with Hungary, where nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has systematically taken control of all major levers of power and undermined independent media, transforming the country into what critics see as a semi-authoritarian state in the middle of the EU.

Austria isn’t the only country in the region susceptible to Orbánism. Neighboring Slovakia is also teetering on the brink of a populist revival. The pro-Russian Smer-SD — whose leader, former Prime Minister Robert Fico, was forced out of office in 2018 amid a wave of popular protests triggered by the brutal murder of an investigative reporter and his fiancée — is leading the polls ahead of a snap election set for September. Fico has vowed to end Slovakia’s military support for neighboring Ukraine, if elected.

European officials warn that wins by pro-Russian forces in Slovakia and Austria would hand Russian President Vladimir Putin a powerful tool against Ukraine, making it easier for him to undermine sanctions and EU efforts to assist Ukraine.

“It would be a disaster,” a senior Commission official from the region said bluntly."

https://www.politico.eu/article/hungaria-austria-herbert-kickl-watch-out-ukraine-here-comes-the-hungaro-austrian-empire/

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The enemy has not yet thrown tank wedges into battle: a serious threat of a powerful offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine remains

This was stated by Dmitry Rogozin, who is at the front with a group of military advisers.

“I do not share the joyful reports about the “defeat of the enemy”.
Yes, we repulsed the first attack. Yes, well done. But the enemy has not yet introduced the main forces of the breakthrough, primarily large tank wedges, has not driven them into our forward positions. And they are only in the vicinity of Orekhov in the most tank-dangerous direction - about 600 tanks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, not counting the infantry fighting vehicles.

Therefore, it is too early to rejoice, gentlemen. First, let's win, and only then we will "throw caps into the air."

🇺🇦 Meanwhile, from Kharkov, Zaporozhye, Dnepropetrovsk, information is coming in about the rapid overflow of hospitals with the wounded. Volunteer groups are begging people to come donate blood, because the flow of these very wounded is only increasing so far (this is from all directions at once).

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Sladkov about the Zaporozhye Front at 05:00 Moscow time:

The situation is unchanged. The front line is behind us. The enemy is unable to break through. There are fights.

🇺🇲🇺🇦 The White House is watching the Ukrainian counteroffensive with dismay, seeing that the outcome of the war and Biden's reputation are at stake.

🇷🇺🇺🇦❗Fierce battles continued all night on the Zaporozhye front. They don't stop now.

The enemy is still making attempts to push through the front line in the area of the settlement. Kamenskoye and near Orekhovo. Enemy artillery works practically non-stop.

Our artillery and aviation do not remain in debt, destroying manpower and armored vehicles of the Ukrainian army, as well as conducting counter-battery combat. So, to the north of Kamenskoye, the positions of the MLRS of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were found and suppressed.

Over the past day, the enemy has suffered significant losses in armored vehicles and personnel, but continues to bring new forces into battle. Despite everything, the front line is still stable and remains with us. The Russian army does not retreat anywhere, but continues the systematic destruction of the enemy.

🇩🇪🇺🇦 Apparently, the Bild was completely disappointed in Ukraine, now their headline sounds like this - "The Russians destroyed the first Leopard tank".

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Based on multiple videos from the network on which there are already hundreds of destroyed enemy equipment, I conclude that the main emphasis of the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was on the fact that the Russians would run again, as if from the Kharkov region.
Only this can justify the stubbornness with which they drive hundreds of people and precious European equipment to the slaughter, advancing at full height across the endless Russian fields of Zaporozhye.
And this is good.
And the Russians are standing. The pressure was strong. But not one step back!

🔗 Veteran notes

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Covering a group of soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with fire from the AGS in the area of Belogorovka in the Seversk direction.

🏳️‍🌈 San Francisco sheriff, police and fire departments give military salute to LGBT flag

🇷🇺🇺🇦 “Here's a map showing where the current combat is taking place in relation to the Russian defensive belts. You can see that we're still on the outskirts of this system.”

- Big Serge

“The next week also has rains .... have to wonder if this was an offensive launched to make military gains or have a political effect ....”

- Gray Connolly

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The thing to remember about the ongoing assaults is that Ukraine is currently fighting to *reach* the Russian fortified belts. All the current combat is taking place several kilometers north of the mapped out echeloned defense. They're currently stuck on the screening line.

They have so far only committed a small portion of their total mech package, and I do expect them to make progress into the Russian defense, but it is an inauspicious start and it's not clear how they can sustain the combat power needed to reach operational depth objectives.

- Big Serge

🇷🇺🇺🇦🇺🇲 Channel One report yesterday showed the defeat of another American M777 howitzer with the help of the Lancet