🇺🇦 150 days since the war started. Exactly 5 months
🇺🇦 Pictured: Kherson offensive is certainly underway, with a goal of liberating Kherson.
🇺🇦 “As the Forward Edge of the Battle Area (FEBA) advances, UKR artillery will target RU defensive concentrations as well as RU nodes of logistics and Command, Control & Communications (C3).”
🇺🇦 I’ve read more reports that Russian troops are trapped and/or encircled in parts of Kherson; specifically northern Kherson
🇺🇦 UA General Staff reports that Russia is retreating “chaotically” from several villages near Kherson after UA troops repelled attacks.
🇺🇦 Ukraine’s military destroyed a Russian command post, and ammunition depots in southern Ukraine.
🇺🇦 The above was done with the aid of a HIMARS system. Russian forces had occupied a hotel building.
🇺🇦 In the above attack, 66 Russian troops and destroyed five tanks, two howitzers, an anti-tank missile system, and 12 armored and military vehicles.
🇺🇦 Ukraine’s Air Force destroyed 3 Russian strongholds.
🇺🇦 On the topic of UA’s Air Force, UA AF shot down four Russian Kalibr cruise missiles targeting Khmelnytskyi Oblast.
🇺🇦 A Ukrainian brigade commander was killed on southern front. Vitaliy Guliayev, the commander of the 28th mechanized brigade, has died defending Ukraine. Under his leadership, Gulyaev's brigade liberated several settlements in Kherson Oblast and repelled attempts by Russia to advance towards Mykolaiv. Under his leadership, his brigade prevented Russian landings in Odesa.
🇺🇦 Pictured: A Russian 2S7(M) Pion/Malka 203mm self-propelled howitzer suffered a catastrophic barrel failure due to serious wear. This exemplifies Russia’s latest problem: equipment that is failing that can’t be replaced or repaired
🇺🇦 The United States wants to transfer at least 25-30 HIMARS and MLRS systems to Ukraine – the chairman of the US Armed Forces Committee
🇺🇦 According to the EU Migration and Home Affairs, nearly 500,000 UA children (492,647) have been integrated into the national school systems of EU countries.
🇺🇦 Russia claims 2.8 million Ukrainians have entered Russia since the war started, which includes 500,000 children. The number may be propaganda. Either way, it is almost entirely forced deportations, kidnapping, abduction, and most importantly, the definition of genocide.
🇺🇦 UA wants more HIMARS but the US says it’s complicated. Yes, it is very complicated. It’s not a simple donation, even if we have one to give. The US is working on it.
🇺🇦 Russia has been shelling farmers in northern Sumy Oblast.
🇺🇦 Russia has destroyed 183 religious sites in Ukraine since Feb 24.
🇺🇦 The US is seriously considering declaring Russia a state sponsor of terrorism.
🇺🇦 Russia is forcing UA businesses in occupied areas to pay taxes to Russia. It’s like mafia protection schemes. Russia is a criminal enterprise
🇺🇦 4 foreign fighters, including 2 Americans, a Canadian and Swede killed in eastern Ukraine.
🦆A Polish journalist has raised $5 million to buy a Bayraktar drone for Ukraine. Mighty Ducks 5.
📢 Countries apply to be in NATO. NATO is a defense alliance that has never, and does not, consider offensive operations. Saying NATO is encroaching on Russia is Kremlin messaging. Russia has three primary propaganda efforts directed at the West, and that’s the first.
📢 Yes, Ukraine has a nazi problem, but it’s a very small percentage of the country, and not representative of the whole. Using a small group to smear the entire group is called “guilt by association.” Russia has three primary propaganda efforts directed at the West, and that’s the second.
📢 If you ever hear anyone say “What about this thing America did…” in an effort to redirect attention away from Ukraine and onto the west, that is called “Competitive victimhood” and the associated meme is *always* created by Russian-backed media. Russia has three primary propaganda efforts directed at the West, and that’s the third.
⚠️ Sorry about the typos or awkward sentences!!!! This is the inevitable result of putting out a finalized research product once every 24 hours, with no staff. If anyone feels like giving me staff, we can polish this b right up!
⚠️ I got lazy with my citations and I apologize. My top sources are: Current and former military planners, singularly-focused pundits, and all manner of vetted open-source intelligence. Top cited open source pundits and sources include: CP Scott, Institute for the Study of War, Kyiv Independent, and mainstream news with high levels of journalistic integrity and track records. Sadly I can’t source private individuals, of course.
⚠️ Speaking of sources, thanks to all of you who have forwarded me tips or given me data from the front line. You’re the private individuals I wish I could source publicly
⚠️ Though my awesome employer taught me everything I know about OSINT, these posts are not affiliated with my employer, nor done during my employer’s time. Every item I report is from my own research, my own opinion, and written during my own time.
⚠️ Note: War happens fast and even high fidelity news needs a ton of corrections after the dust settles.
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