re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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??#Russia guarantees that if #Kyiv demines the ports, #Moscow will not use this situation for military purposes - Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov. LINK

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well if they promise it then why the hell not

That Lavrov guy seems like a straight shooter…

LINK

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Pedro Andryuschenko spoke of the newly appointed head of Ukraine’s Donetsk People’s Republic on his official telegram channel where he stated:

“The Donetsk Region’s occupation authorities have rotated. A new head of the occupying government, Russian Vitaliy Khotsenko, has been appointed. This is the first time a direct appointment from Russia to the conditionally senior bodies of power of another state.”

“However, the picture would not be complete without adding that the rotation of the occupying government took place simultaneously with the visit of the first deputy head of the administration of the president of Russia Serhiy Kryyenko.”

“He duly delivered the order and supervised its implementation. Pashilin and Kriyenko then visited Marupol. Importantly, there was neither accompaniment nor participation of local collaborators or of Russia’s handlers Sablin and co.”

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Daily Military Update: June 9 - Kyiv Post

UAF: Kremlin Ground Attacks petering out, Severodonetsk sees no assaults

Russian Federation (RF) ground assaults have stopped across almost all of Ukraine and the attacks that are taking place are limited in scale, Ukraine’s Army General Staff (AGS) said in a Thursday, June 9 statement.

The June 9 AGS morning situation estimate said Ukraine Armed Forces (UAF) units observed RF “offensive and assault operations” only at a total of five locations in the Donbas sector. Two unsuccessful attacks took place near the villages of Bohorodychne and Dovhenke, the statement said.

more details within....

Kyiv Post

From the same article ...

Pundits on both sides of the fighting lines said the dramatic reduction in the scale of RF ground attacks in Donbas, and increase in RF reliance on artillery bombardments alone, were largely due to serious manpower shortages particularly in RF infantry units, and increasingly common flat refusals by Russian soldiers to risk attacking UAF positions.

Oleksiy Arestovych, a spokesman for the Ukrainian Presidential Administration, in a televised interview published on the evening of Wednesday, June 8, said the shift in RF tactics was likely to be long-term, because the RF command was unlikely in future to find a way to motivate many of its troops to attack into the teeth of Ukrainian defenses.

Igor Girkin, a Russian military commentator best known as a former mid-level commander of RF forces invading Ukraine in 2014, offered much the same opinion in televised comments, saying low morale and unwillingness to fight have devastated RF units that are needed for the war in Ukraine.

Girkin cited as an example a Rosgvardia paramilitary police battalion which, he said, lost half of its men overnight, because they quit instead of following orders to be deployed to Ukraine. More than 80 officers chose to face criminal charges and risk going to prison, rather than to go and fight, Girkin said.

The problem is widespread across the RF military, Girkin claimed.

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Pundits on both sides of the fighting lines said the dramatic reduction in the scale of RF ground attacks in Donbas, and increase in RF reliance on artillery bombardments alone, were largely due to serious manpower shortages particularly in RF infantry units, and increasingly common flat refusals by Russian soldiers to risk attacking UAF positions. Oleksiy Arestovych, a spokesman for the Ukrainian Presidential Administration, in a televised interview published on the evening of Wednesday, June 8, said the shift in RF tactics was likely to be long-term, because the RF command was unlikely in future to find a way to motivate many of its troops to attack into the teeth of Ukrainian defenses. Igor Girkin, a Russian military commentator best known as a former mid-level commander of RF forces invading Ukraine in 2014, offered much the same opinion in televised comments, saying low morale and unwillingness to fight have devastated RF units that are needed for the war in Ukraine.

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There is NO way this is true dude. We were informed by one of our resident experts that honor and sacrifice are engrained in the Russian DNA and it’s something our military would never understand. Surely this is propaganda.

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HUGE if true for sure.


Hoping other sources can confirm. We'll see.

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Yes, the smoke will eventually clear and we will see if it’s really happening.

This may be coindence...or not.

From June 6 ISW Assessment...

The information environment in Severodonetsk remains dynamic and control of terrain is likely changing hands frequently as Ukrainian and Russian troops are locked in close-quarters urban combat.[12] Haidai cited intercepted information that Russian forces have been tasked with completing the capture of Severodonetsk by June 10, though no other sources have reported this deadline and ISW cannot confirm it at this time.[13]

They always do. That’s Russian fighting tactics. Artillery followed by cannon fodder infantry then drop some more artillery not really caring if it hits their own troops or not.

For the geeks

Google Earth: Land cover data just got real-time

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To help turn satellite imagery into more useful information for quantifying change, we worked with the World Resources Institute (WRI) to create Dynamic World. Powered by Google Earth Engine and AI Platform, Dynamic World provides global, near real-time land cover data at a ten-meter resolution, giving an unprecedented level of detail about what's on the land and how it's being used — whether it’s forests in the Amazon, agriculture in Asia, urban development in Europe or seasonal water resources in North America. With this information, people — like scientists and policymakers — can monitor and understand land and ecosystems so they can make more accurate predictions and effective plans to protect our planet in the future.

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Will be interesting to see how this can be used to follow the war.