🇺🇦 advanced in #Vovchansk in #Kharkiv oblast'

Repeated 🇺🇦 hit on the 112th 🇷🇺 Rocket Brigade responsible for #Sumy attack

🇷🇺 advanced in #Kotlyarovka and #Valentinovka

🇷🇺 drone strike on 🇺🇦 #Dnipro multiple civilians killed

🇷🇺 🇮🇷 #Shaheed drones with neurotoxins and CS tear gas were found

Massive fires in 🇷🇺 #Kursk and #Samara

🇺🇦 continues to control small parts of 🇷🇺 #Kursk and #Belgorod oblast' in spite of fierce counterattacks

+1230 🇷🇺 KIA, total ~937k irreversible 🇷🇺 losses since 2022

Tuesday, April 15, 2025

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/04/tuesday-april-15-2025/

#Russia narratives on #Ukraine territories is quite consistent as it comes to #Donbas, #Zaporizhzhia and #Kherson regions - even if they are nonsense, they are kind of consistent. But they don’t even make any pretenses of consistency as it comes to #Kharkiv region.

Russia captured 1/3 of Kharkiv oblast in 2022 but then was kicked out by successful ZSU counteroffensive by end of 2022. Then, in 2024, Russia once again attacked on the #Vovchansk direction (north of Kharkiv) and continued pushing from the east #Kupyansk.

As a reminder, Putin and Zakharova clearly stated in 2022 that the objective of “special military operation is not occupation of territories”. In case of all occupied regions they claim it’s not occupation but “referendums” (even though it was never conducted in Zaporizhzhia for example).

But no such narrative was even built for Kharkiv oblast’ - they just describe it as “liberation” without any pretext or legal basis. Since 2022 there’s a Russian “Kharkov military administration on exile” which periodically announces “Kharkov oblast’ will be liberated”… but once again, they don’t even pretend.

It’s not like Russia needs any pretext to invade, but it does usually maintain an alternative pseud-legal narrative for the Western audience. In case of Kharkiv oblast it’s simply absent, which is one reason they don’t talk much about this region too often. Of course, for the internal military audience they speak about it openly in a mix of likely valid goals (military factories) and propaganda (“biolabs”):

Russia is pursuing strategic goals and objectives of the “SMO”, which include elimination of direct military threat from Kharkiv and Sumy located 40 km from the ‘Belovezhskaya’ border (the range of Hymars and MLRS minimum missiles), as well as elimination of bacteriological threat from Kharkiv, removal from the enemy’s control and return to Russia of the famous Kharkiv tank and machine-building factories or the only Izium factory of optical devices in the former Ukraine.

This is taken from a Russian-only article extensively discussing the perspectives for “liberation” (capture) of Kharkiv oblast published in 2023. This is the narrative for “educated” audience, which is likely as close to the true intentions of Kremlin as you can get. But the less they talk about it in public, the more we should be challenging them and Trump administration about it.

#Ukrainian Defender #Oleksandr spent 36 days with a tourniquet on his leg after being hit by a mine near #Vovchansk, #Kharkiv region.

Due to constant #Russian attacks, he had to wait more than a month to be evacuated from the front line. #Oleksandr was hospitalized in serious condition: anaemic, dehydrated, and suffered from heavy blood loss.

Doctors had to amputate the part of the limb with the tourniquet but saved #Oleksandr's life.

The #SBU detained an enemy agent who, under the guise of trips to the dacha, spied on the locations of the Defence Forces fighting for #Vovchansk.

21-year-old resident of #Kharkiv #Leonid_Chertenko was recruited by the #FSB through Telegram channels, where he actively supported the anti-#Ukrainian position and expressed a desire to go to his relatives in the #Eref

The enemy intelligence service promised the agent evacuation after completing the tasks.

#Russia 🇷🇺 hit #Alexandrovka village in 🇷🇺 own #Voronezh oblast with Kh-69 missile

🇷🇺 activated in village #Tikhoe on the right flank of #Vovchansk

🇷🇺 advanced in #Peschanoe on #Pokrovsk direction and #Vremeevka on #VelykaNovoselka direction

#Ukraine 🇺🇦 destroyed 🇷🇺 S-400 air-defense system in #Belgorod oblast'

🇬🇧 will provide $6.6b military support to 🇺🇦

Russia loses a column of equipment trying to breakthrough in Kharkiv region

https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/russia-loses-a-column-of-equipment-trying-1736606577.html

#newsukraine.rbc.ua
#Angriffskrieg #Kharkiv #Vovchansk #Starytsia #Ukraine #Armee #drones
#Krieg #Frontline #war
#Russia #Ukraine
#WarCriminal
#occupiers #defenders
#перемогаYкраїни

During the occupation of #Kharkiv Oblast in 2022, Russian forces established nearly 30 torture chambers in various parts of the region. This story focuses on just one of them — the torture chamber at the #Vovchansk Aggregate Plant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmBpKKUBCk0

#Ukraine #Russia