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« Reply #25 on: April 18, 2022, 08:32:01 AM »
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« Reply #26 on: April 19, 2022, 04:01:51 AM »
Russians closing in on Zarichne and Tors'ke means that the Ukrainian pocket near the Borova area is getting thinner

Source: https://liveuamap.com/en/2022/18-april-russian-troops-already-in-zarichne
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« Reply #27 on: April 19, 2022, 12:12:38 PM »

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« Reply #28 on: April 20, 2022, 04:18:20 AM »


The Soviet victory flag still standing in Kherson.
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« Reply #29 on: April 20, 2022, 04:36:55 AM »
Kadyrov claimed that either in Tuesday or Wednesday Azovstal will fall. Today is the deadline.
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« Reply #30 on: April 20, 2022, 09:33:15 AM »
Quote from: Storr on April 20, 2022, 08:59:37 AM

But also have Ukraine join NATO.
Here we go again. Fighting to the last Ukrainian.. if these politicians actually cared about Ukraine they should have gone 100% full in when they had a chance, not pussyfooting for decades, not dangling NATO membership, made security guarantees, etc. This would have never have happened if Trump was president.
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« Reply #31 on: April 20, 2022, 11:07:59 AM »
Russian troops have advanced at Dibrovne village near Izyum, attempted to advance at Stara Hnylytsia village near Chuhuiv:

https://t.me/hueviykharkov/55964

In Popasna the Russians are making slow gains:

https://t.me/operativnoZSU/20168

To the east of Dibrovne near the push for Sloviansk the Ukranians still control Dovhenke:

https://t.me/babel/15833
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« Reply #32 on: April 21, 2022, 02:49:12 AM »
« Edited: April 21, 2022, 02:54:37 AM by SirWoodbury »
https://edition.cnn.com/europe/live-news/ukraine-russia-putin-news-04-20-22/h_c8b98e7230727754d2d5ebfee9dfc76b

CNN is reporting that central Rubizhne has fallen, other sources are claiming that the city has been completely taken over.

In other news, Putin has ordered his forces to not storm Azovstal, but impose a siege on it.
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« Reply #33 on: April 22, 2022, 04:06:59 AM »
« Edited: April 22, 2022, 04:12:25 AM by SirWoodbury »
Borova pocket gone. Russians are now shelling Lyman heavily, likely attacking it soon. It's an important transportation hub towards Slovyansk and the headquarters of the Donetsk Railway.

In Southern Donetsk they're making a push now that Mariupol is gone:
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« Reply #34 on: April 22, 2022, 04:15:33 AM »
Lyman:
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« Reply #35 on: April 23, 2022, 01:25:04 PM »


Moscow has deported 500,000 people to Russia, Ukraine lawmaker says

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/moscow-has-deported-500000-people-russia-ukraine-lawmaker-says-2022-04-20/
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« Reply #36 on: April 23, 2022, 01:34:23 PM »
Back in the USSR: Lenin statues and Soviet flags reappear in Russian-controlled cities


Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/23/back-in-the-ussr-lenin-statues-and-soviet-flags-reappear-in-russian-controlled-cities?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

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In the meantime, the Kremlin is consolidating control in Henichesk and other southern areas. Its tactics are intimidation, and co-option for those willing to serve Russian interests. Ukrainian officials, activists and journalists are being arrested. Some disappear.
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The new authorities have shut down independent media outlets and turned off Ukrainian TV. They have switched on Russian propaganda channels broadcasting from Crimea.
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Meanwhile, a purge of Ukrainian politicians is under way. The mayor of Henichesk, Oleksandr Tulupov, was last seen on 9 March. He and his colleagues posed for a photo in the town park next to a statue of Taras Shevchenko, Ukraine’s national poet. It was Shevchenko’s birthday. It is unclear if the mayor has shared the fate of other elected officials who have been abducted.
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Residents told the Observer there had been a full-blown campaign to erase Ukraine’s national identity. Ukrainian flags have been ripped from civic buildings. In Melitopol teachers are being forced to use Russian and to teach the Kremlin’s school curriculum. The authorities have said some may need to be “retrained” in Crimea. Russian “military police” units have destroyed Ukrainian literature and textbooks.
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« Reply #37 on: April 24, 2022, 07:50:05 AM »

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« Reply #38 on: April 24, 2022, 12:40:48 PM »
South of Lysychansk, Russian and so called "LPR" forces have entered Novotoshkivske



Russians are now finally assaulting Lyman, but so far Ukrainians are holding their ground.

Source: https://t.me/hromadske_ua/20715
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« Reply #39 on: April 24, 2022, 12:52:26 PM »


Lyman is the priority right now for both sides.
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« Reply #40 on: April 24, 2022, 01:42:31 PM »
« Edited: April 24, 2022, 01:47:27 PM by SirWoodbury »
Quote from: Forumlurker on April 24, 2022, 01:30:36 PM
Quote from: SirWoodbury on April 24, 2022, 12:52:26 PM


Lyman is the priority right now for both sides.
The capture of Sloviansk may not be so easy yknow. It’s a sizeable city unlike most of Russia’s gains. And are there even that many Ukrainian troops north of Lyman to the point they couldn’t fall back quickly, genuine question?
Not expecting them to take it until summer if this continues, May 9th ain't happening. The northern pocket I believe doesn't have that many troops and most of the sources I have read say that the most likely scenario is that they will retreat behind the Severy Donets river behind Lyman.

But this is now bordering just pure speculation, at the same time Russians are going crazy with shelling there so it might be a hard time. No sources nor estimates into how many troops are up there.
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« Reply #41 on: April 24, 2022, 02:19:30 PM »
The Zarichne in Donetsk was as of 2017 around 2500 people according to the UA wiki.

Slovyansk is double the population of Rubizhne which Russia occupies now, and it has the larger Kramatorsk to it's south. It's doable like the rest of it's targets. But it's not going to be a cake walk like it was in Melitopol, Berdyansk, Kherson, etc.

And the Donbass offensive unlike other times has been more relying on massive shelling, so when the Russians are near expect even more mass destruction then we have seen so far. They will also be more hesitant to assault the city/urban fighting.
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« Reply #42 on: April 24, 2022, 04:19:43 PM »
« Edited: April 24, 2022, 04:27:09 PM by SirWoodbury »
Take this with a grain of salt. Ukrainian intelligence is reporting of a offensive build-up of Russian troops in Northern Kherson Oblast on the direction of Kryvyi Rih.

I find that highly unlikely the Russians are going on the offensive there, but I can get the build-up, with the minor clashes going on there.

Source: https://t.me/hromadske_ua/20724
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« Reply #43 on: April 25, 2022, 05:13:43 AM »
« Edited: April 25, 2022, 05:19:50 AM by SirWoodbury »
Russians trying to cut rail lines & supply lines from the west to Slovyansk.
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« Reply #44 on: April 26, 2022, 05:10:23 AM »
« Edited: April 26, 2022, 05:37:01 AM by SirWoodbury »
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« Reply #45 on: April 26, 2022, 05:30:42 AM »
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« Reply #46 on: April 26, 2022, 05:32:40 AM »
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« Reply #47 on: April 26, 2022, 05:35:18 AM »
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« Reply #48 on: April 26, 2022, 08:35:19 AM »
« Edited: April 26, 2022, 08:38:31 AM by SirWoodbury »
Croatia: No NATO membership for Finland & Sweden until election law problems resolved in Bosnia

Source: https://ba.n1info.com/english/news/croatian-president-no-finland-sweden-nato-membership-until-bih-election-law/

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Croatian President Zoran Milanovic on Tuesday called Finland and Sweden's bid to join NATO "a dangerous adventure," adding that the two countries could not join NATO before the election law in Bosnia and Herzegovina was changed.
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“As far as I’m concerned, let them join NATO… but until the issue of the election law in Bosnia is solved, until the Americans, the English, the Germans, if they can and want to, force (Bosniak officials) to change the election law in the next six months and give Croats their fundamental rights, the (Croatian) parliament must not ratify anyone’s accession to NATO,” he said.
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Milanovic said “we are in a terrible situation” because Bulgaria and Romania cannot join Schengen, North Macedonia and Albania cannot begin EU accession negotiations and Kosovo has not been recognised, while Finland “can join NATO overnight.”

We are only asking that Finland and Sweden “tell the Americans to solve this,” he said. “For me, that’s a vital national interest of the Croatian state, nation and people, that Bosnia be a functioning state.”
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« Reply #49 on: April 26, 2022, 12:11:05 PM »
This is just a further excuse for them for their planned "land corridors" from Kherson to Odessa Oblast which coincidentally they announced as their goals a few days ago. They are not actually starting a new front against Moldova itself right now lol.

https://www.efe.com/efe/english/portada/russia-seeks-land-corridor-from-donbas-to-transnistria-official-says/50000260-4789536
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