🇷🇺🇺🇦 Destruction of the Ukrainian ammunition depot in the Kupyansk direction.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The FSB announced the suppression of an assassination attempt on the head of the Crimea.

“An assassination attempt on the head of the Republic of Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov, organized by the special services of Ukraine, has been suppressed. In the course of the operational-search activities, a Russian citizen born in 1988 was identified and detained, who was recruited by the SBU and took a course in reconnaissance and subversive activities on the territory of Ukraine, including mine-explosive training,” the Center for Public Relations reported on Monday. communications (DSP) of the FSB of Russia.

The man allegedly planned to blow up Aksyonov's car, but was caught retrieving the bomb from a hiding place.

🇷🇺🇺🇦🇺🇲 The American television channel CBS reports that as a result of a missile attack on a pizzeria in Kramatorsk on June 27, a veteran of the US Marine Corps was killed.

The TV channel clarifies that the deceased is Jan Frank Tortorici, who arrived in Ukraine in the spring of 2022. He took part in many operations of the so-called "Foreign Legion".

Jan's death was confirmed by his relatives.

🇷🇺🇺🇦🇫🇷 Reportedly, the French AMX-10RC wheeled tanks performed poorly at the front. Of the 30 delivered machines, 9 have already been lost irretrievably, without bringing significant benefits. Critical articles about these wheeled tanks in the Western press complete the picture.

🏳️‍🌈 About 50 thousand LGBT soldiers are fighting for Ukraine - The Telegraph

Ukraine's first openly gay soldiers hope that Ukraine will be next and recognize the military contribution of its LGBT soldiers.

There is no exact figure on how many LGBT soldiers serve in the Ukrainian armed forces, but LGBT Military, an Instagram account that posts photos of gays and lesbians, puts the figure at around 50,000.

🇷🇺🇺🇦🇩🇪 Destroyed Ukrainian Leopard 2A4 tank near Novodanilovka, Zaporozhye region.

🇷🇺🇺🇦🇺🇲 Ukrainian BMP M2 Bradley ODS-SA destroyed in the area of Malaya Tokmachka.

🇷🇺🇧🇾 According to a source of the Cheka-OGPU, Yevgeny Prigozhin is trying to resolve the issue of recruitment in Belarusian prisons and colonies. And it seems to have already received Alexander Lukashenko's approval in principle. It remains only to find a reason.

The source of the Cheka-OGPU spoke about the prospects for PMC Wagner. The fighters were told that approximately 4/5 of the team was going to Belarus. Those who remain in the Russian Federation will mostly remain near Lugansk. According to the interlocutor, all the main figures are now in Belarus, including the head of the PMC Evgeny Prigozhin.

🇷🇺 🇺🇦 It appears that The time windows for an attrition war against Russia was missed. - Patricia Marins

"Months ago, I wrote about the three biggest Russian factories idling their production due to a shortage of electronics.

(https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1638913309217898500.html)

Now, the situation is just the opposite. The three biggest Russian factories, Uralvagonzavod, Omsktransmash and Kurganmashzavod, are producing intensely, and that's not all. Uraltransmash and the Armored Repair Plants, consisting of eight units, are working at least 12 hours a day, but not yet in "war mode."
For example, Kurganmashzavod had around 1,700 workers but hired another 1,000 last year and another 1,200 recently.

During the last few months, the Russian industry has delivered dozens of helicopters and jets to African countries like Mali, Uganda, Togo, and Zimbabwe. This suggests that any shortage of electronics is in the past.

Recently, Uralvagonzavod set 100% of its production exclusively for tanks, while Omsktransmash isn't producing tanks anymore and has instead shifted its focus to the Tos-1 and the modernization of T80s and T62Ms, as well as some artillery, including the D30, 2s4, and 2s5.

Kurganmashzavod is working intensely on IFVs like the BMP3M, and at least five repair armored plants are refurbishing other IFVs and APCs. Uraltransmash is producing Akatsiya, Malka, and Msta S artillery and has already delivered two batches of Msta S this year.

The number of missiles launched against Kiev is another example of the kick in production for the Russian aerospace industry.

All evidence suggests that the Russian military complex can produce/refurbish many hundreds of tanks and probably thousands of IFVs, APCs, and artilleries annually.

We must consider 14 units producing (not including the units working in indirect production like the "techzavods").

The war is on the way where the US will hold the front, or the allies have to start negotiating with Russia. If Russia keeps up this rate, it will easily overcome the EU donations for Ukraine and seriously threaten the EU's capacity to keep supplying Ukraine. This situation just exposes an old criticism, where the allies didn't invest in facilities for Ukrainian companies to keep producing, refurbishing and repairing outside the country. Ukraine had an excellent military complex that suffered the war's consequences and didn't receive any restructuring program funds from the allies. From other hands, the Ukr decided to buy $800 millions in weapons never delivered. Another mistake.

*Adding as note, Ukraine just got something like 60% of what was announced for the offensive.

The Ukrainian army improved considerably since the begin of the offensive, but the scarcity of SHORADS and heavy armored vehicles are a serious issue for this kind of offensive, nor mentioning the lack of Air support.

I'd like to hear where are the perspectives for the Ukrainian offensive. With the current equipment I don't see any perspectives, except if US take a step forward and send many hundreds of Bradleys and Abrams. It would be able to balance the war again. The number of Storm shadows is insufficient to cause worries for RuAF.

🔽 Below are recent pictures and videos of the mentioned factories, while the deliveries you can search on Google."

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