applepie110101#Ukraine May 23, updates from @escortert.
in two parts
-> PdS1, #Donbass Theater #Russia
-> PdS2, #Zaporizhia #Crimea
Here is the PdS1 for today 👇
(due to the bad connection where I'm, it is possible that I am interrupted during my update)
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#WarInUkraine D+454 (23/05) PdS1 -Theaters of #Donbass #Russia
While the #Donbass front is locked in a war of positions, the 🇺🇦 operation on #Belgorod opens an unexpected front... if it is sustained over time
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Time machine,
If you missed the #WarInUkraine column N°CDLIII, here it is👇
(sorry not translated in english)
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https://twitter.com/escortert/status/1660630465865293826?s=20
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What are the facts?
Yesterday, a detachment of LVI (Legion of International Volunteers) units "Freedom Legion of Russia" and "Russian Volunteer Corps"👇, consisting of at least 2 tanks and 10 armored vehicles,
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Probably supported by air operations (drones, helicopters) penetrated inside #Russia through #Kozinka border crossing, 15-20 km deep, to the outskirts of Russian town of #Gravoyron👇
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There is no doubt that these LVI units belong to the 🇺🇦 army 👇
Besides, the "real war" imposes contortions on the "ideal war" because the Russian Volunteer Corps has a symbolism and ideology far removed from democratic values...
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The timeline of the operation was this:
1-departure from #Ukraine 👇
Oh yes, the LVI units did not arrive in a flying saucer 😎 they left from 🇺🇦
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2- occupation of #Kozinka border post 👇, damaged by the fighting
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3- the depth of the advance is located at the limits of #Grayvoron, so #GoraPodol was reached 👇
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4- the alert triggered in #Belgorod oblast causes panic 👇and the authorities send buses to evacuate residents as traffic jams grow longer
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5- 🇷🇺 react and send troops displaced from #Donbass front, where voids are created👇
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🇷🇺 forced LVI units to retreat, giving up some of the conquered ground👇
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6- Combined military operations continued overnight where the #FSB building in #Belgorod was attacked by drones👇
https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1660752615548788738
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What are the effects of this operation?
-in the military field, if it continues:
- it opens an unexpected front, in #Belgorod oblast
-it has displaced troops from #Donbass where squares have been emptied of their troops
- the Russian defenses was tested👇
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-in the political field:
-it carries the land war into 🇷🇺 which is penetrated for the first time since 1941
-Western equipment has been used (MaxxPro and HMWEE👇) against Russians in #Russia and some abandoned
But 🇺🇸 can't find anything wrong with it 👇
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2/#Donbass, northern segment, #Kupyansk-#Svatove-#Kreminna
In the directions #Kupyansk, #Svatove, N.T.R. (failed assaults of 🇷🇺 near #masyutivka)
Over a week, 🇷🇺 took 20 km2 and 🇺🇦 lost 6 km2👇
Nothing better illustrates the war of positions that freezes the front here
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In the #Kreminna direction, the Russian vice is closing a bit more on #Bilohorivka👇 surrounded on all 3 sides (but the northern side assumes the Russians are crossing the Donetsk, which they don't know how to do...)
The Russians would have reached the filtration plant in the southeast
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Apart from this agitation, the front is also frozen on this segment and the war of positions is definitely installed
Over the course of a week, 🇺🇦 have ceded a few km2 to 🇷🇺👇
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3/#Donbass, central segment, #Kramatorsk-#Sloviansk-#Siversk
#Bakhmut fell on 279th day of siege (#prigozhin speaks of 224 d, the duration of his "meat grinder" operation, launched on 08/10/22 AFTER the siege began)
Rearguard fights👇
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Around the city, the 🇺🇦 counter-attack has fizzled out and, barring further effort, the front should freeze around #Bakhmut
Indeed, 🇺🇦 is blocked between #Berkhivka and Pivnichnyi ponds in the north and on #Klischiivka in the south 👇
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After the terrible battle of #Bakhmut, both sides need rest
@ZelenskyyUa arrived on the #Donbass front to raise the morale of the troops, which must have sagged after the defeat in #Bakhmut (👇 top)
Across the street, Wagner is handing out medals (👇 bottom)
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4/#Donbass southern segment, #Avdiivka-#Vuhledar
In #Avdiivka direction, 🇷🇺 made some marginal territorial gains SW of #Pervomaiske👇
In the direction #Marinka, N.T.R. (to the repeated and failed 🇷🇺 assaults near)
the 🇷🇺 attack is stopped