Russian special military operation in Ukraine #44

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Hole wrote:Ukrainian army attack convoy was destroyed by FPV drones. One of the vehicles was a US AN/TWQ-1 Avenger SAM air defense system. You can see one of its Stinger missiles firing off randomly as it burns.]

They forgot to instruct that it should work in the other direction.

Shoigu hinted at the offensive of the Russian Armed Forces, starting in July, by Lyubov Stepushova for Military Pravda. 06.22.2023.

Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu veiledly announced an offensive in the NVO in Ukraine at a meeting of the Russian Security Council on Thursday.

The reserve army and corps are formed and ready to "react"

Opening the meeting, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that since the beginning of the year, 114,000 contract servicemen and 52,000 volunteers have been recruited in the Russian Federation. On average, 1336 people (regiment) and 112 units of various equipment enter the contract per day. According to him, the Ministry of Defense does not see the need for new volunteers for the SVO. Perhaps the minister made a reservation, and we are talking about mobilized, since losses and rotation are closed at the expense of contract volunteers.

The main thing was as follows: this month "the formation of the reserve army of the Russian Federation and a new army corps with weapons of 3,700 units of various equipment is being completed."

"The Russian side is preparing to respond to further offensive actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine," Shoigu added.

These words, taking into account the accumulated potential, may well be interpreted as the announcement of a major Russian offensive.

The RF Armed Forces are grinding the forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Further, Shoigu noted that the data on the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were obtained from radio intercepts. Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev clarified that the Armed Forces of Ukraine have lost more than 13,000 people since June 4 (approximately 17-18 battalions killed and wounded) in the course of offensive attempts. Also, the Russian military destroyed 246 tanks, including 13 Western ones, 595 armored vehicles, 443 armored fighting vehicles, 279 artillery and mortars, 2 air defense systems, 10 tactical fighters, 4 helicopters, 264 UAVs, 424 vehicles.

Voenkor Alexander Sladkov suggests that about 5 brigades out of 9 trained and equipped according to NATO standards have already been involved in the offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. This means that more than half of the reserves prepared for the counterattack have already been destroyed, he writes on Telegram.


The Supreme decided: it is useless to reason further

Supreme Commander Vladimir Putin spoke extremely harshly at the meeting. After listening to the reports, he said that the West decided to fight to the last Ukrainian.

“The equipment, of course, can be supplied to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, but here, the mobilization reserve is impossible, and it seems that Ukraine’s Western allies really decided to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian,” Putin said.

Nevertheless, the President "draws attention" to the fact that the enemy's offensive potential has not been exhausted and asked to take this into account in the construction of combat work.

The German publication Bild notes that the Russian leadership began to comment on the progress of the NWO to the public. According to the publication, this means that Putin "took personal responsibility for its outcome and is confident in a positive result," since otherwise "he would hardly have appeared in front of the cameras."

Analysts at the American Institute for the Study of War also note that the Russian Defense Ministry has learned from past communication mistakes, so Sergei Shoigu began to talk publicly about the course of the counteroffensive.

We add that the leadership of the Russian Federation, obviously, is making the last public attempts to reason with the West that it is necessary to stop helping the Kyiv regime.

The Security Council meeting took place after the attack on the Chongarsky bridge and after warning Shoigu that strikes on Crimea would trigger strikes on decision-making centers. Judging by Putin's tone and gestures (twisting a pencil on the table), the decision to attack has been made.

When will the counterattack of the RF Armed Forces follow?

The offensive will begin when the Armed Forces exhaust their reserve. Already, offensive actions of the RF Armed Forces are underway from near Kremennaya to Liman and from near Svatovo to Kupyansk. The RF Armed Forces are fixed in a forest area west of Sinkovka, 2.5 km northeast of the outskirts of Kupyansk. In the Krasnolimansky direction, Russian fighters took 2 more "oporniks" of the enemy in the fields.

The Russian military thought worked perfectly: having seen two directions of the APU strike in the south and in Bakhmut and having restrained them, the RF Armed Forces struck where they had been in active defense for half a year and from where the APU had removed reserves. Let's see where the direction of the main blow will be. Unlike the enemy, no one in Russia is buzzing about it "on every corner."

https://military.pravda.ru/1849697-shoigu_sovbez/