re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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Here’s a message from the 107th Infantry Regiment of the DPR basically telling the Russians they don’t want to go fight for the LPR

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Here’s the 3rd Infantry Battalion of the 105th saying something pretty similar

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Is this real? We shot down an ICBM? No fricking way.

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(Seoul=Yonhap News) Reporter Jung Bit-na and Kim Ji-heon = North Korea launched an armed demonstration of three ballistic missiles, including intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) shortly after U.S. President Joe Biden's trip to South Korea and Japan on the 25th.

In particular, it is also analyzed that it was aimed at neutralize the Korea-U.S. missile defense network by mixing a mixture of missiles believed to be ICBM 'Mars-17' and short-range ballistic missiles called the North Korean version of Iskander (KN-23). All of these missiles are capable of carrying nuclear warheads.

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The military also took a strong response. "In response to ballistic missile provocations, Elephant Walk and the Rik-U.S. coalition ground missile fire was fired," the Joint Chiefs said.

South Korean and U.S. missile units have demonstrated the ability of rapid blow by the coalition to curb further provocations of North Korea by launching the South Korean-II and U.S. military ATACMS atACMS at sea, one time each.

The joint response from the Korea-U.S. military authorities to North Korea’s strategic provocation is the first time in four years and ten months since July 2017. Apart from that, the Air Force said it had pre-detracted and continuously tracked signs of North Korea's ballistic missile provocations the day before, and carried out more than 30 F-15K fighter jets carrying out on the runway with armament for the actual launch.

Elephant Walk Training is a training in which a number of fighters are equipped with the maximum armaments and run on the ground just before takeoff. "This armed protests in our military have demonstrated the ability and attitude to precisely strike the origin of the provocation with overwhelming power and the willingness to respond decisively to any provocation, such as the launch of the ICBM in North Korea," he said.

Lee Yoo-cheol, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said he reaffirmed that he would share the situation closely and strengthen the situation through a video meeting shortly after the launch of North Korea's ballistic missile.

"North Korea's ICBM launch is a violation and a serious provocation act of 'U.N. Security Council resolution' by another destruction of the ICBM launch that North Korea has promised itself to the international community.

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ISW @TheStudyofWar #Russian forces have likely abandoned efforts to complete a single large encirclement of #Ukrainian forces in eastern Ukraine and are instead attempting to secure smaller encirclements—enabling them to make incremental gains.

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ISW @TheStudyofWar Russian forces have begun steadily advancing efforts in these different encirclements daily but have not achieved any major “breakthroughs” or made major progress towards their stated objectives of securing the Donetsk Oblast borders or seizing all of Donbas.

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ISW @TheStudyofWar Russian forces will additionally likely face protracted urban combat if they successfully encircle Severodonetsk (as well as in other large towns like Bakhmut), which Russian forces have struggled with throughout the war.

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ISW @TheStudyofWar Russian forces are making greater advances in the past week than throughout the rest of May - but these advances remain slow, confined to smaller objectives than the Kremlin intended, and face continued Ukrainian defenses; they do not constitute a major breakthrough.

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Lyman, 14:19

“They just called from Gasiev 12a, they said ... that there are a lot of military men on the streets with white armbands.
The conversation was interrupted as the shelling began.

Possible full control ???? over the city

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