/ world today news/ It is unlikely that Ukraine has determined the direction of the main blow of its counteroffensive, as some Western media began to interpret. The New York Times, citing Pentagon sources, reported that Kiev in the region south of Orekhov in the Zaporozhye region recently deployed significant reserves trained with the participation of NATO, allegedly indicating a new phase of active offensive.
The message is indirectly confirmed by other media, as well as in a sense the data of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation about the fierce fighting in the Orekhovo direction.
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reports that during the offensive of the armed forces of Ukraine near Orekhovo “north of the village of Rabotino, Zaporozhye Region, up to three battalion tactical groups from the brigades of the strategic reserve” participated.
But these attacks in this direction were not successful. On Thursday morning, as a result of fire damage from the aviation and artillery of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the activity of the reserves of the Armed Forces of Ukraine decreased.
Ukraine’s losses per day, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense, amount to more than 280 servicemen (this is almost an entire motorized infantry battalion. – “NG”), 25 tanks (almost a tank battalion. – “NG”) , 10 infantry fighting vehicles (i.e. one mechanized company. – “NG”), as well as “three armored fighting vehicles, two vehicles, a Czech-made RM-70 Vampire multiple rocket launcher system and two FH howitzers -70 made in the United Kingdom.”
In addition, during the night of Wednesday-Thursday, the Russian armed forces carried out a series of missile attacks, during which important strategic targets were hit almost all over Ukraine, as well as in the Black Sea.
According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, “concentrated strikes with high-precision weapons with a long range of air and sea bases were carried out on airports, command posts and deployment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, assembly shops and storage places for unmanned vehicles. boats as well as missiles, weapons and military equipment obtained from Europe and the US. The goal has been achieved.”
The President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, also announced the intensification of hostilities in the Zaporizhia direction and heavy losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
“The main clashes took place in the direction, as they say in the West, of the main, main attack – in the direction of Zaporozhye,” said the head of the Russian Federation.
According to him, during the fighting, Ukraine lost 39 armored vehicles, including 26 tanks, the losses of the armed forces of Ukraine during the past 24 hours amounted to 200 people.
“Unfortunately, we did not go without losses. But the difference is colossal – at times more than 10 times less than our enemy,” Putin said.
According to other sources, the strike zone included three military airfields in Khmelnytskyi, Zhytomyr, and Kirovohrad regions, an underground headquarters in Kyiv region, and a communications and control center in Lviv region.
In particular, Ukrainian military airfields where the long-range Storm Shadow cruise missile carriers, the Su-24 and MiG-29 aircraft, are believed to be based have been attacked.
Besides them, FAB-500 guided bombs hit targets on Snake Island. It is believed that there was a base where the naval drones that attacked the Crimean Bridge could be stored and tested.
Due to military activity in the northwestern part of the Black Sea, according to international monitoring agencies, a major traffic jam has formed at the mouth of the Danube River. After Kiev turned to NATO for help, the press service of the alliance announced on Wednesday evening after a meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Council that “alliance forces will increase monitoring of the Black Sea region in connection with Russia’s withdrawal from the grain deal. “
It cannot be a question of military support for securing grain corridors from the North Atlantic Alliance. And it is unlikely that these corridors will resume their work. According to media reports, in the Black Sea along the coast in the Odesa region, the Navy of Ukraine has concentrated about 30 ships and cutters, as well as reconnaissance drones of the Bayraktar and Tekever AR5 types, capable, according to some reports, of directing unmanned attack boats to targets.
Against this background, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine extended martial law and general mobilization for another three months. Thus, Kiev will not enter into peace talks and cease hostilities, hoping for new aid packages from the US and NATO.
Russia is also strengthening ties with its partners and allies. Many experts believe that the visit of Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu to Pyongyang is not only related to the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the end of the Korean War, but also to the activation of military-technical cooperation between the two countries.
Earlier, media and experts discussed the possibility of sending North Korean volunteers to the zone of special operations in Ukraine and the prospect of supplying ammunition and weapons from the DPRK to the Russian army.
Confirmation of this hypothesis can be considered the visit of the leader of the DPRK Kim Jong Un and Sergei Shoigu to an exhibition of military equipment dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the end of the Korean War, where intercontinental ballistic missiles, armored vehicles were shown, as and North Korean drones resembling the US RQ-4 Global Hawk and MQ-9 Reaper strategic drones.
Translation: SM
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