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LYMAN FRONT: NEW REALITIES FOR RUSSIA

The Russians constantly try to push their salient towards the Sherbets River, desperate to take the three villages centred on Torske.
Even though they have had to spend most of the past fortnight recovering, they have never entirely stopped.
You will recall from last week that the Ukrainians managed a rather successful counter attack and took back key positions in the centre of the salient, mostly in fortified tree lines. Without any resources to push back the Russians simply accepted the situation.
It does seem that during the process of reorganising and refit, the Russian command came up with a new strategy having finally learned that endless meat wave assaults weren’t cutting it and loses were simply unsustainable. Ukraine beat them off every time.
The first attacks would face Yampolivka and Terny in the north-centre of the salient and be entirely infantry based, while a second attack of armour would start a couple of days later towards Torske in the southern half of the salient, after the Ukrainian forces had moved away to fight off the northern infantry assault.
The Russians used armoured assault groups to deliver troops into the forested areas and then began their infantry attack in the northern section. These deliveries were done at very high speed so that the vehicles barely stopped and retreated once their troops were disembarked - they didn’t hang around for Ukrainian drones to find them.
Ukraine confirmed it lost a couple of small positions but that the Russian casualties had been extremely high and the defences were well prepared for them.
Then came the mechanised attacks in the south towards Torske. The first wave was three APC’s and a pair of tanks travelling in a column, it did not go well. The Ukrainians with fresh artillery started to make things difficult and the Russians then ran into a tree line choke point the Ukrainian forces had mined very heavily. The Russian tanks had to move slowly to ensure their mine rollers worked, but in doing so became sitting ducks to artillery. The entire operation became mired in the mines and soldiers disembarking the disabled carriers fled, having failed to reach anywhere defensible or engage the Ukrainians. Cluster munitions ended their careers in the military.
It was noted that all of the Russian vehicles were equipped with EW equipment designed to counter drone strikes- but that didn’t stop the artillery.
The Russian attack failed, largely due to artillery.
This is an important turning point as the Ukrainian forces had become super-reliant on drones as a substitute and the Russians have been developing EW and systems like the ludicrous looking, but oddly effective, turtle tank to overcome them. Artillery cares about neither.
Yet again Ukrainian drones can return to their primary role of artillery hunting and killing - because when it comes down to it, as a long term strategic goal, the devastating losses of Russian artillery in the last year have made significant inroads into their offensive capabilities. There are no stocks left in strategic stores, nothing to refurbish, little being made , and what they have is in the field. This is why they have become so dependent on the Grad MLRS - cheap and easy to make as a vehicle and the rockets are simple if inaccurate, they work on volume not precision.
Ukraine’s war against Russian artillery has been vital to holding the line in the past year. Russia is in the odd position of having more shells than it knows what to do with and insufficient artillery to fire it with. Long gone are the days of 60,000 rounds hitting Ukrainian forces every day. Russia’s whole armed strategy has always been masses of infantry backed by masses of artillery, and one part of that previously successful duo has been substantially reduced with the advent of drones.

Slava Ukraine

Today's storm is just arriving

Now it's official. On the night of May 19, the Russian missile ship "Cyclone" of project 22800 was hit in occupied Sevastopol, as confirmed by the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Initially, the Armed Forces announced that the minesweeper "Kovrovets" had been damaged. However, OSINT analysts discovered and satellite imagery confirmed that a longer ship was near the Chicken Pier on the night of the attack.

OSINT analysts were the first to report damage to the “Cyclone.” As the aftermath of the attack was being verified, Dmytro Pletenchuk, the spokesman for the Ukrainian Navy, issued a statement about the possible damage to the ship.

The destruction of the "Cyclone" means that there is not a single cruise missile carrier left in Russian-occupied Crimea.

Jeff Tiedrich
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Around 100 tanks going to Ukraine from the Czech Republic! 🤗 What a beautiful sight!
@ukrainejournal

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Tim Snyder if I can upload it. Historian

On the day she was appointed to the Federal bench she was over her head

https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/judge-aileen-cannon-is-in-over-her-head/56206/

Trump is too simple-minded to understand.

https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/donald-trumps-paranoid-delusional-lethal-force-meltdown-reveals-just-how-bad-his-dementia-symptoms-have-become/56198/

With Temps as high as 79⁰ he is cold.

https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/donald-trumps-complaint-about-the-freezing-courtroom-just-took-a-surreal-turn/56200/

How to deal with Banana Republicans

https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/a-taste-of-their-own-linguistic-medicine/56195/

Good morning Resisters. The storms are not over. But the worst ones are. There was at least one tornado up in Barton County. Sure glad I don't like flat land. There was snow in a couple of states.

⚡️President Volodymyr Zelensky, in a new interview with The New York Times, urged the U.S. and Europe to do more to defend Ukraine.

He dismissed fears of nuclear escalation and proposed that NATO planes shoot down Russian missiles in Ukrainian airspace.

“So my question is, what’s the problem? Why can’t we shoot them down? Is it defense? Yes. Is it an attack on Russia? No. Are you shooting down Russian planes and killing Russian pilots? No. So what’s the issue with involving NATO countries in the war? There is no such issue,”
he said.

📷: President’s Office

A group of congressmen called on the Pentagon to allow Ukraine to attack targets in Russia

A bipartisan group of congressmen, members of the US House of Representatives' Standing Committee on Intelligence, called on Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to allow Ukraine to use American weapons to strike targets on the territory of the Russian Federation, as well as to strengthen the Ukrainian Air Force and Air Defense Forces. "It is very important that the Biden administration allows the military leadership of Ukraine to conduct the full range of operations necessary to respond to Russia's unprovoked attack on their sovereign territory," the letter

Belgium has confirmed its intention to start negotiations on Ukraine's accession to the EU in June

This was stated by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belgium, Aja Lyabib, before the beginning of the meeting of the Council of Europe in Brussels. Lyabib said that Belgium wants to hold an intergovernmental conference with Ukraine and Moldova regarding the start of negotiations on EU membership by the end of June. "We have just discussed this with Moldova. We are still committed to organizing this intergovernmental conference during our presidency until the end of June. For Moldova, and for Ukraine as well," the official said.

Tucker Carlson - Russian Propagandist

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