(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Russian stuff blowing up: Ukraine looks to encircle Russians in Hlyboke [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2024-07-06 Ukrainian troops have moved to encircle Russian troops in the town of Hlyboke, which is west of Vovchansk and northeast of Kharkiv. x Incoming reports that Ukraine has liberated the northern part of Hlyboke, Kharkiv region. Waiting for confirmation. pic.twitter.com/4f1dNZX06Q — NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (@NOELreports) July 6, 2024 x Advancement of 🇺🇦 UAF in the settlement «Hlyboke», the counterattack took place in the area of the farm, north of the village. (1,22 km) pic.twitter.com/lbLpLKlTgn — Sharky 🇬🇧 🤝 🇺🇦 (@Jamie04381095) July 6, 2024 x precision strikes by Ukrainian military in Hlyboke. russians has been cut of from supplying Hyboke from the north for a long time right, their supply route into the village goes via treelines to the east of the village. our drone operators hunt their logistics day and night. pic.twitter.com/OPwee5BEDN — ✙ Constantine ✙ (@Teoyaomiquu) July 6, 2024 Russian fuel burns brightly. x Another Ukrainian attack drone hit a tank farm in Pavlovskaya. pic.twitter.com/iOKeKVA5Rn — OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) July 6, 2024 A bevy of bavovna. A cornucopia of combustion. x 🔥🔥BOOOM!🔥🔥 A 🇷🇺Russian ammunition storage together with invaders were destroyed by the 🇺🇦Ukrainian 47th Mechanised Brigade in the Avdiivka direction. The crew lived pic.twitter.com/T7reSMX1qF — Cloooud |🇺🇦 (@GloOouD) July 6, 2024 x 🇺🇦 The Stugna-P operator saw a column of 🇷🇺 enemy armor. pic.twitter.com/ACedcIj961 — Slava 🇺🇦 (@Heroiam_Slava) July 6, 2024 x Unlucky Premature explosion of 2S1 munition, inside a 2S1... pic.twitter.com/7D0g4mHutt — Def Mon (@DefMon3) July 6, 2024 x Donetsk Oblast, a Russian mechanized assault force burns after a failed assault on the town of Hlyboke. pic.twitter.com/qjcHyGtqhK — OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) July 4, 2024 That’s been one hell of a storm. x Elektrozavodskaya train station in Moscow today 💨💨💨 pic.twitter.com/eNNv7hxiRk — Volcaholic 🌋 (@volcaholic1) July 5, 2024 That’ll work about as well as a stick. x 😁 Anti drone rituals for Russian mercenaries I am looking forward to the next video pic.twitter.com/cbsn7F5qMP — PS01 (@PStyle0ne1) July 5, 2024 Don’t they have access to muddy puddles? Cholera shouldn’t be a problem because they’ll be dead before they start experiencing symptoms. x Russians complain about the lack of drinking water on the left bank Why does the Russian command does not provide drinkable water? Because life expectancy is only 3-5 days for a Russian soldier pic.twitter.com/JP3NuE5xEd — PS01 (@PStyle0ne1) July 5, 2024 He hit the drone with his helmet but it didn’t matter. And what the hell is he doing in the middle of an open field by himself? x ⚡️🇷🇺Russian invader successfully intercepted 🇺🇦Ukrainian FPV drone with his helmet pic.twitter.com/EeMXB086FS — Cloooud |🇺🇦 (@GloOouD) July 5, 2024 Normally you have to go to a MAGA rally to see stupid shit like this. x Russia has broken a 10-year record for the number of mental disorders among its citizens. It's only begining pic.twitter.com/XoP2MYwuvO — Malinda 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇵🇱🇨🇦🇮🇹🇦🇺🇬🇧🇬🇪🇩🇪🇸🇪 (@TreasChest) July 6, 2024 I’ll bet this made for some awkward family dinners. x Vladimir Mikhailovich Podolyak, retired Russian Colonel and older brother of Mykhailo Podolyak, advisor to the Ukrainian President, died on 19 May 2024 at the age of 59. The circumstances of his death are unknown. The Russians have not publicly reported this. 🧵 pic.twitter.com/o1XQ48GcUk — KIU ✪ Russian Officers killed in Ukraine 🇨🇿🇺🇦 (@KilledInUkraine) July 6, 2024 In this thread, this analyst argues that while Russia has gotten its ass kicked in the Kharkiv offensive, especially at Vovchansk, Ukraine has overcommitted troops to the fight and should have kept more in reserve. I have made the point many times that wars are not just fought strategically and tactically, they are fought politically too. Ukraine cannot continue to allow the drip, drip, drip of incremental Russian advances. Neither can they be seen to be playing for a stalemate while Russia relentlessly shells Kharkiv. Ukraine has to bloody Russia and force a retreat somewhere along the front. x 05JUL24. Nearly two months have passed since Russia began its Kharkiv offensive. In terms of captured land, Russian gains have been limited and bought with very high cost. During the past month or so, most of the heaviest fighting has been in Vovchansk. 1/ pic.twitter.com/yEbJeOOHr4 — Pasi Paroinen (@Inkvisiit) July 5, 2024 The Kharkiv offensive was badly coordinated and ill-timed in relation to other Russian operations, with no clearly definable concentrated offensive efforts following it during June. But just as Russians failed to synchronize their actions, 5/ the Ukrainians in turn overcommitted heavily to the battles of northern Kharkiv oblast. Ukraine has sent (either elements or whole units) somewhere upwards to 14 brigades to first stabilize the situation and then push the Russians back to the border. 6/ The costly and difficult battle of Vochansk in particular has drawn in outsized number of Ukrainian units with elements from up to 8 different brigades taking part in it. I fail to see how attempting to push the Russians back from Vovchansk could be a rational course of action 7/ in this highly critical period where Ukraine should instead carefully husband and preserve its reserves. Vochansk is as much a difficult bottleneck for the counterattacking Ukrainians as it is for the Russians. 8/ While Russia might be preparing a push here -- west of their disastrous drive to take Vuhledar -- their main drive at the moment seems to be north to take Niu York and Toretsk and southwest through Chasiv Yar to Kostiantynivka, forcing a Ukrainian retreat from the Klishchiivka/Andriivka area. x Russian behavior recently points towards a possible activation of a significant offensive near Prechystivka. Their behavior the past few weeks is reminiscent of Russian behavior in August in Novomykhailivka. You may note they launched their offensive on Novomykhailivka on… pic.twitter.com/kViW671d9O — Andrew Perpetua (@AndrewPerpetua) July 6, 2024 A Russian military blogger speaks some truth about how shitty the military treats its wounded soldiers. So I guess she’ll either be arrested or accidentally fall out of a window. x 1/ Russian soldiers are still being sent to fight in Ukraine with broken legs, despite protests from Russian milbloggers. Meanwhile, injured soldiers who recorded a video last week have had their crutches taken away or have been sent to a torture camp. ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/NVgsKSOPw4 — ChrisO_wiki (@ChrisO_wiki) July 6, 2024 2/ The Russian blogger Anatasia Kashevarova reports that after a video was recorded by 50 injured soldiers in Ukraine, "more messages came about sending untreated mobilised/contract soldiers to the front from the Samara region and from other regions." 3/ The picture at the top of this thread shows a man with an external fixator on his leg, who Kashevarova says is waiting in the Samara region settlement of Roshchinsky for a bus to take him to the 'Donetsk People's Republic' in Ukraine. 4/ "This is the attitude towards Russian men," she complains. "You should not only fight others, but also protect your own. They are defending you, and you treat them so shabbily." 5/ "How can all our officials have the conscience to go to events, to make speeches, to speak high-minded words when they cannot solve real problems? When Russian Vanya stands on one leg near the bus, smokes, and goes back [to war]. 6/ "Sleep well, he will defend you today on one leg, while you on two can't get your ass in gear and solve problems in the rear." …. 11/ The man who spoke on the video is reportedly being punished more severely. Kashevarova names him as Artem Sharipov and says that he has been taken "to the military commandant's office in Zaitseve" in the Luhansk region. This has become a notorious place of detention. Meanwhile, there are 36 more openings in Russia’s officer corps. x Russia is consistently losing an average of 5–6 officers a day. At least 4 363 Russian officers have been eliminated in Ukraine since 24 February 2022. Weekly update: +36 newly registered. Each name is confirmed by a Russian source via funeral notices, obituaries, graves etc. pic.twitter.com/xOF3yIcXEN — KIU ✪ Russian Officers killed in Ukraine 🇨🇿🇺🇦 (@KilledInUkraine) July 6, 2024 It needs a banner on the back that says “Wide Load.” x OMG. Russian Desertcross with enormous anti drone cage. How do we call this Russian contraption? pic.twitter.com/eKmJqSOrxc — Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (@bayraktar_1love) July 6, 2024 No, her brother didn’t die in Ukraine so that Russian children could have playgrounds. He died to fulfill Putin’s imperialistic fantasies. x The head of the Russian city of Morshansk in the Tambov Region explains to a crying woman that her brother died in the war not in vain, but to have "children's playgrounds" and so that "the bridge could be finally completed". Why all this could not be done without war remains a… pic.twitter.com/Whg2hseC0m — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated) July 6, 2024 It’d be a shame if he didn’t make it. Yep. A real shame. x Lukashenka became unwell at the SCO summit in Kazakhstan It happened 1.5-2 hours after the dictator arrived in Astana, "TV-Rain" reports citing sources. pic.twitter.com/nSfa82zSbg — NEXTA (@nexta_tv) July 6, 2024 Ukraine can use all the power it can get. x Moldova has expressed its readiness to supply electricity to Ukraine under the gas-for-electricity project by placing generating units on its territory using natural gas supplied by Ukraine for this exchange. Thank you, Mrs President @sandumaiamd and Mr energy minister… pic.twitter.com/kZA1tTaWKD — Iuliia Mendel (@IuliiaMendel) July 5, 2024 x Electricity update: We've had no power for 4 hours in the morning, afternoon, and now again. That's a total of 12 hours daily. Internet is barely working. Everything's disrupted—from defrosted fridges in supermarkets to stalled manufacturing. 1/2 🧵 pic.twitter.com/3JhAryG4X5 — Maria Avdeeva (@maria_avdv) July 5, 2024 Watermelons are to Kherson what peaches are to Georgia and oranges to Florida. x Ukrainians are harvesting juicy watermelons in the free but not yet peaceful Kherson 🇺🇦 Two years ago, this seemed almost impossible, and now for the second year in a row, people have been able to enjoy them. Everything will be Ukraine. All it takes is time, constant support and… pic.twitter.com/pi21quf5yD — Victoria (@victoriaslog) July 6, 2024 They’ll grow up to be Combat Cats. 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