The cold winter has enveloped the Ukrainian army’s eastern defense and is in trouble. The Russian army’s “flesh wave attack” caused heavy casualties. The cumulative number of casualties since the beginning of the war has exceeded 320,000.
Ukrainian authorities reported on November 23 that Russian military attacks targeted eight Ukrainian states in the past day, resulting in three deaths and four injuries.
This autumn, the Russian army launched an offensive in multiple areas on the eastern front of Ukraine, including advancing towards the middle zone of the industrial towns of Avdiivka, Lyman and Kupiansk in the northeast.
With the arrival of severe winter, according to Reuters, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on the 22nd that “due to bad weather, Liman, Avdivka, Bakhmut, Donetsk ) The defense of the frontline is in difficulty. The counterattack in the south continues.”
As the fighting enters an attrition phase, cold weather in Ukraine is likely to complicate the situation, with daytime temperatures expected to drop to minus 5 degrees Celsius. The head of the Tavria military command said on the 22nd that the Russian army has significantly increased the number of offensives and air strikes.
The eastern Ukrainian front is quite critical. Avdivka is surrounded on three sides, with only one road supply line left. However, the morale of the local defenders is still high. It is estimated that at least 8,000 Russian troops were annihilated locally in the past week.
Oleksandr Tarnavskyi, commander of Ukraine’s southern front, said on Telegram: “Our army is firmly resisting Avdivka’s offensive.” He added that the Ukrainian army is continuing its offensive on the Melitopol front line. .
The Ukrainian General Staff Headquarters reported in a report on the evening of the 22nd that Avdiivka and surrounding areas were attacked by Russian troops a total of 22 times, and all of them were repelled.
Since October, the Russian army’s attacks on Avdivka have significantly increased, and there have even been waves of armored assaults. However, Russia and other pro-Russian forces face a problem: to reach the most vulnerable area of Avdiivka From the starting point of the attack on the northern flank, Russian forces must advance several kilometers through the wilderness, passing through drone and artillery kill zones with absolutely no terrain cover.
Social Platform Under such circumstances, they were ordered to launch a charge. These “meat wave attacks” that disregarded lives caused heavy casualties to the Russian army. The front lines of the battlefield were almost full of the remains of the Russian army.
Local residents not only described the fierce fighting as a “meat grinding battlefield”, they even criticized the Russian army for wanting to turn the city into a second Bahmut.
It is worth noting that perhaps the Russian army is concentrating its forces to attack Avdiivka and resist the Ukrainian army’s attack in Bahmut and other places. In addition, it needs to retain some troops as reserves. The Russian army does not seem to be interested in the troops already in the south. The Ukrainian army that established a foothold on the left bank of the Dnieper River launched a large-scale counterattack. Limited artillery shelling and air strikes were met with counterattack by the Ukrainian army.
In addition, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces posted on its official Facebook page that from Russia’s invasion on February 24 last year to 9 a.m. on November 22 this year, the cumulative number of Russian military casualties has exceeded the 320,000 mark, reaching 320,970. .
The cover-up turned the 35th Motorized Rifle Brigade attack into a “suicide squad”. A shocking scandal among the top Russian military officials was revealed
The well-known Russian Telegram channel Cheka-OGPU disclosed a shocking scandal, claiming that on the 10th of this month, the 35th Independent Motorized Rifle Brigade of the Russian 41st Army received an order from the “Dnipro” Army Headquarters to attack Hull. There is a bridgehead of the Ukrainian army in the Khoropstan area of Songzhou. It is the smallest of the many bridgeheads established by the Ukrainian army on the left bank of the Dnieper River.
“According to the orders received, the 35th Motorized Rifle Brigade of the Russian Army, without proper equipment, divided into two columns in motor vehicles and headed for the Klopstan area. During their stay in the village of Gradkivka, the two columns Both were hit by long-range artillery fire from the Ukrainian Armed Forces, resulting in the deaths of 76 Russian servicemen.”
The channel stated that no one in Russia investigated the deaths of the 76 Russian soldiers. Instead, the top Russian military officials in the Kherson region covered up the fact that they had ordered the use of Russian soldiers to contain the Ukrainian army and caused serious losses: The “Dnipro” Army Group ordered the 35th Motorized Rifle Brigade to attack the Klopstan area. This was a diversionary plan in itself. It treated the 35th Motorized Rifle Brigade as a “suicide squad” in an attempt to mislead the Ukrainian army against the Russian army’s actions in the area. True intention.
The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense also reported on this battle, claiming that it defeated the Russian column near the village of Gradkivka in the Khoropstan region. It also stated that at least 6 vehicles were destroyed and at least 25 occupiers were killed. However, According to Cheka-OGPU, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense clearly underestimated its results.
According to the Kyiv Independent, the Kremlin announced on November 23 that Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Belarus to attend the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) summit in Minsk.
The CSTO is a military alliance established in 2002 by Russia, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Belarus and Tajikistan. The meeting will discuss “further improving the collective security system.”
Putin’s last official visit to Belarus was in December 2022.
Putin has visited Kazakhstan, China and Kyrgyzstan in the past few months. Putin’s trip to Kyrgyzstan in October was his first trip abroad since the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Putin in March 2023 over his mass deportations of Ukrainian children.
The day before, Putin told the leaders of member states at the Group of 20 (G20) video summit on November 22 that it was necessary to think about how to “stop the tragedy of the war” in response to the war in Ukraine. This was his most moderate response to the war so far. The speech was also the first G20 video conference he participated in since the outbreak of the war. His “softened” words attracted the attention of the outside world.
However, despite Putin’s statement to “stop the tragedy of war,” Russia continues to invest new weapons to attack Ukraine. For example, the Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS) used improved “gliding cluster bombs” RBK- in the Unandonetsk area for the first time last week. 500 attacked the Ukrainian army. It is said that this new type of bomb combines the characteristics of a long flight distance of a gliding bomb, the ability to be dropped outside the defense zone, and a wide explosion coverage of cluster bombs. It makes the ammunition and aircraft difficult to intercept, and may change the course of the Russia-Ukraine war.
Not only that, according to a report by the Russian independent media Meduza on the 23rd, quoted by the “Kyiv Independent”, the Russian Congress passed the 2024 budget, increasing military expenditure to more than one-third of the total government expenditure. If funding for domestic law enforcement agencies is included, this figure rises to 40%.
The report stated that Russia’s military spending will exceed social spending for the first time. The budget will take effect after Putin’s signature.
According to reports, the 2024 budget has been revised 900 times since the initial version. In the second version, an additional 725 billion rubles ($8.2 billion) were allocated to the military department, which means that the finally adopted military budget is higher than the initially planned budget.
This highlights that Russia’s Putin still intends to continue fighting in the Russo-Ukrainian war, and Putin’s remarks on “ending the tragedy of the war” the day before were probably just an attempt to shift the responsibility for unwillingness to negotiate to the Kiev authorities.
In addition, Russia has earmarked a large amount of funds (at least $2.6 billion) for the illegal annexation of territory in four Ukrainian states last September.
In response to the increase in military spending, sources told Meduza that the Russian government is considering raising taxes to address it.
Uzbekistan is happy to see the Western air defense alliance of 20 countries. Germany calls on Russia to cease the war and withdraw its troops and increase aid to Uzbekistan by 1.3 billion euros.
According to Reuters, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and the Minister of Defense said on the 22nd that they would like to see Western allies form a 20-nation “alliance” to strengthen Ukraine’s air defense.
Zelensky said that this alliance is one of several organizations formed specifically for Ukraine’s specific defense fields. It is a video of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group (Ukraine Defense Contact Group), which is responsible for coordinating military aid to Kiev among Ukraine’s allies, reviewing Ukraine’s military needs. established at the meeting.
The German Ministry of Defense earlier announced the formation of a 20-defense air alliance on the social platform X, with Germany and France taking the leading roles.
Zelensky said in a regular night video chat: “Because every country has played a role, our cities and villages can be better protected from Russian attacks. We are currently unable to disclose it to the public. All information, but Ukraine’s air shield is getting stronger every month.”
Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov also mentioned other assistance that participants have agreed to provide, including a German air defense package announced by German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius during his visit to Kiev this week, as well as a Dutch package, There are also funds provided by Estonia to assist in the development of information technology.
Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Valery Zaluzhniy posted on the messaging software Telegram that he was participating in the meeting for the first time, calling the situation on the 1,000-kilometer-long frontline “complex but controllable.”
Zelensky has long cited improved air defense as a key element in helping Ukrainian cities withstand Russian air strikes as winter approaches, including protecting energy infrastructure from attacks.
The Russo-Ukrainian war is about to enter its 21st month. Russia has attacked Ukrainian power plants and other infrastructure at different points in the war. Russia has also launched missiles and drones to attack civilian facilities such as apartment buildings, but it has denied targeting civilians.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said at a Group of 20 (G20) video conference on the 22nd that he urged Putin to end the Russia-Ukraine war and withdraw all troops from Ukraine. This is the first G20 video conference that Putin has participated in since the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine war.
In addition, according to the Associated Press, Germany continues to show its determination to assist Ukraine. The Ministry of Defense announced on the 22nd that it will allocate another 1.3 billion euros to assist Ukraine with anti-tank missiles and 20,000 grenades. Although the U.S. Congress has previously refused to allow the U.S. general budget to pass aid funds to Ukraine, Defense Secretary Austin recently stated that he would first provide Ukraine with $100 million in small arms assistance.
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