IN western Ukraine a Russian Forces Kinzhal struck a bunker extending to 80 metres deep. The RF believes this bunker near Lvov was a NATO strategic command point used to control anti-aircraft systems. It’s still early days but the RF assumes there were up to 300 personnel in the bunker, 40 of which were high ranking foreign specialists, hence we can expect 40 body bags heading west in due course. Unconfirmed in the Nikolaevsk region the RF destroyed four senior militants, and a number of officers and planners.
As NATO fly’s its spy planes along the Moldavian/Transnistrian (Priednestrovie) border collecting data for the Ukrainians, their troops are positioning themselves to invade Transnistria in Moldova’s breakaway region. A significant build-up of Ukrainian personnel and equipment including setting up of artillery positions and an “unprecedented” increase of drone flights over the region indicate the preparation for an invasion of the sovereign territory that was declared independent in the early 1990s. Half of Transnistria’s 500,000 residents have Russian citizenship.
The Ukrainian militants are actively fortifying Chasov Yar, west of Artemovsk, Bakhmut, using banned “Petal” mines, understanding that the Ukrainians may be completely surrounded and left without supply lines. Western analysts admit Kiev must withdraw their militants from Bakhmut, thus they downplay the strategic value of the city. A Ukrainian military retreat may result in heavy losses.
About 90% of Ukraine is sitting in the dark. Various cities receive varied amounts of power – Odessa 2 hours, Nikolaevsk 1 hr, Kiev 1-3 hrs, Kharkov 0, Ivano-Frankov 4-6hrs. Poland is feeding some power back into Ukraine. The RF has destroyed much of the Ukrainian infrastructure communications, power lines/supply, rail, bridges etc and the Ukros cannot repair the transformers using western stabilisers as they are incompatible. The Ukrainians are conserving their UAV fire power. Previously they’d use the quads to drop bombs on every RF target now they wait for the RF to gather before engaging.
Lloyd Austin indicated the US has deployed more than 20,000 additional troops to Europe and deployed the first permanent US forces to NATO’s eastern flank. Boris Johnson announced he is applying for the post of NATO Secretary General.
Russias MoD update: In total, 387 airplanes, 210 helicopters, 3228 unmanned aerial vehicles, 405 air defence missile systems, 8011 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1044 fighting vehicles equipped with MLRS, 4205 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 8494 units of special military vehicles have been destroyed since the beginning of the special military operation.
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