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💬Given the reach of contemporary artillery and drones, 10 to 15 km seems hardly sufficient to achieve that goal.

Ukrainian TG channel The Legitimate:

On the border of the Kharkov/Sumy region with the Russian Federation, everything is bad. The Russians break through the defenses of the Ukrainian armed forces. It is worth preparing for a significant loss of territory - source. As we wrote this afternoon, almost all the meetings in Bankova concerned the crisis situation in these regions. The report of Commander-in-Chief Syrsky is negative. The Ukrainian armed forces will have to retreat. It is understood that the Russians do not yet have the task of going to Kharkov and surrounding it. But that's all for now. Their task is to create a buffer zone of 10-15 kilometers from their border in order to protect large border cities from constant shelling by the Ukrainian armed forces. We observe...

A self-propelled howitzer “Bogdana” left the “chat” beautifully. In counter-battery combat, it was taken out by "Lancets". "Bogdana" or "Bohdana" is an Ukrainian product built for 155mm NATO-standard artillery caliber. The date and location of the video is not known to me.

A video showing how a Patriot air defense system and a AN/MPQ-65 radar of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were hit by a missile strike with an Iskander OTRK in the area of Gulyaypole in Zaporozhye region. It's not clear from the footage, how badly damaged both systems were, and there is a chance those might have been a decoy target. The Patriot's containers seemed to be empty.

💬The Ukrainian defense lines are a bit farther from the border, some 5 to 10 km away from it. So this is not a "breakthrough", but it is an interesting development.

To Kharkov: The Russian Army launched an offensive from the border - After massive artillery bombardment and air strikes, the “North” group attacked enemy positions in the Kharkov region from a number of directions. This is widely reported by Ukrainian military-political resources. “According to available information, battles began to boil in the areas of the settlements of Kudievka, Goptovka, Strelechya, Krasnoe, Pylnaya, Borisovka and Gatishche,” write enemy analysts. “The Russians have not yet deployed their main forces,” they add. - All the listed settlements are located near the border @RVvoenkor

The infographics shows Russian losses according to Ukrainian official sources. Swiss media are regurgitating these numbers without hesitation and questioning, which leads to "experts" like the military economist Marcus Keupp, from prestigious Swiss ETH, to explain to us in the media:

The Russians are "burning pretty much all the material and people they have available in the ongoing offensive. Meanwhile, Ukraine is continually receiving supplies from the West. For Russia, this depletion of its own resources while at the same time arming Ukraine is a major problem." According to Keupp, Putin will lose the war strategically because "the Russian production or replacement rate cannot keep up with the attrition rate." The Russian tanks are an impressive example: While Russia claims to be able to produce 400 to 500 new tanks per year, four to five are destroyed in war every day - around 1,500 per year.

These are the western "experts", apparently, these are the only ones we have.

💬My God, Putin is so horrible he can't even play the Totalitarian Dictator part right!😂