The situation in the Ukrainian SMO on May 07 2023

A wave of Shahed Drones towards Kiev

Russia Kh-22 missile reaches Ukrainian warehouse on Odessa coast

Massive airstrike in Ukraine reported

There are reports of the activity of Tu-22M3 strategic aircraft in Shaikovka and Tu-95 in Engels. Until aviation has reached the point of launching cruise missiles, Geran-2 drones are actively flying at the facilities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

An air alert has already been announced in Zaporozhye, Dnepropetrovsk, Kherson and Mykolaiv regions.

A lot of explosions in the Odessa region. It is reported that at least 7 hits on the objects of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were recorded. There are also reports that a bridge in Zatoka was hit by a missile attack, through which the Armed Forces of Ukraine pulled up reserves, fuel and equipment from Romania near Kherson and Nikolaev.

New missile strike – unusual even by SMO standards!

Actively flies on the positions and objects of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in several directions at once.

Everything that can be used is used: Geran-2 drones, Kh-22/32 missiles. There are at least five to seven Tu-22M3 aircraft in operation.

Launches of Kh-101 and Kalibr cruise missiles are expected. Apparently, the list of targets to defeat is very large.

Air alerts have been declared not only in the southern regions of Ukraine, but also in the central regions – Vinnitsa, Kirovohrad, Cherkasy and Poltava.

Combat aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces strikes at targets on the territory of Ukraine.
Powerful arrivals of Geraniums in Odessa, the Nikolaev region and other regions.
One of the goals was again the bridge in Zatoka.

According to unconfirmed reports, Tu-22M3s are working.

 The fleet is also preparing for launches of “Kalibers”.

It is reported that strikes are also carried out on the points of concentration of Ukrainian troops in the Transnistrian region.

Odessa: a strike at Lighthouses, there is a road bridge across the Dniester.

If the strike on the railway bridge in Zatoka and the automobile bridge are successful, then they are cut off from Romania.

We’ll wait We’ll see… 

@rybar “If  the informaton about strikes on Mayaki and Zatoka is confirmed, then logistics in the Odessa region will be cut off from the southwest. And this opens up quite interesting scenarios for the further conduct of hostilities in the Black Sea theater of operations.

Another question is whether they will use it and how.

In general, in the context of the already happened transfer of a colossal number of personnel to the east of Ukraine and the Donbass in preparation for the counteroffensive (seriously, some reports already feature figures of 200 000 personnel, although according to our estimates, there will not be 100 000 along with Troops) such activation in the Odessa direction looks somewhat unexpected. In any case, the fire defeat in Odessa and the region is the decommissioning of presonnel and weapons that threaten the Crimea and Kherson.

Let’s wait for the morning and the results, while it’s premature to talk about something.”

WHAT THE INCREDIBLE STRIKES AGAINST UKRAINE ARE TALKING ABOUT
By Alexander Sladkov:

1. We have something to hit with, we never shoot remnants.

2. We have established a new intelligence network, which, admittedly, by the beginning of the NMD was defeated by the SBU.

3. We own the initiative. We know when to strike and, most importantly , where.

4. We are losing hope of luring the Armed Forces of Ukraine into attacking us. Perhaps the time has come for our offensive initiatives.

@rybar “In general, judging by the reports on the Internet, the Russian Armed Forces attacked the logistics centers and areas of concentration of reinforcements of the AFU along the contact line. Hence the strikes on Chasov Yar and Ugledar.

The targets for fire damage in the Sumy, Chernigov and Zhitomir regions could be concentration areas and training grounds, where units 9 and 10 of the Armed Forces of the AFU are now being coordinated, which form the backbone of the counteroffensive and the spring-summer campaign.

As for the Odessa region, the most likely target is warehouses with UAVs and transferred weapons. Blazes in Odessa now loudly.”

The people on the other side report: The Ukrainian Armed Forces are forcibly evacuating the local population from the following settlements:

Kherson region:
Kherson, Kizomys, Stanislav.

Zaporizhzhya region:
Stepnogorsk.

At the same time, enemy forces are being actively deployed to these settlements (and not only to them, but more on that later).

Russia has struck depots and posts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the city of Orekhov, Zaporizhzhya region. The Russian Armed Forces have been actively using kamikaze drones and cruise missiles.

Ukrainian publics report that over Kiev and the region
now there are three or four loitering ammunition, they fly randomly (they are looking for something, or they got lost)

Another UAV is heading for Kyiv from the west (very close to the city itself)

NATO and Ukraine Soviet-style air defense continues to be placed in residential areas (and shoot down kamikaze drones and their rockets ending in residental buildings per tradition) over densely populated areas of the capital Kiev

3 injured at the site of the explosion in Solomyanskyi district and one in Svyatoshynskyi. Medical assistance is provided on the spot. – Kiev Mayor Klitschko.

According to an image published online, reportedly from a NASA satellite, the entire central part of Ukraine is now under intense attack.

Profile channels describe the strike as the most massive since the SMO began.

There are reports that Snake Island was also bombed

Tonight has been hell for multiple areas of Ukraine. The whole rear of Bakhmut is being hit with everything the Russians can muster. Glide bombs, Drones, missiles and a vast array of artillery is working on Chasov Yar. It feels to me as though this whole “Wagner drama” was perfectly resolved and a plan is being executed to a higher degree. I believe it was one last attempt to get commitment from Ukraine in the city before the wrap up operation began. If Bakhmut end decisively for the Russians it could spring board them towards their next goal especially with the alleged arrival of Akhmat forces in the area (unconfirmed).

Keep your eyes out in a other directions where Ukraine could attempt an offensive action to distract from Bakhmut. My personal opinion is that they go for the ZNPP in Enerhodar. Small more achievable goal that could snowball if done properly. Do I think this will work? No but I don’t see them dropping their obsession with the NPP.

Syrsky said the task of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is to prevent Bakhmut’s capture until May 9.
Furthermore, then, are there no more forces? Well, okay – in 1945 ours liberated Prague on May 11th. Just in DPR will be Republic Day

“Russia will panic when the Ukrainian counteroffensive begins” -  Ukrainian Deputy Minister of Defense Volodymyr Havrylov tells The Independent.

According to him, holding Bakhmut(Artyomovsk) was a key point in Ukraine’s preparations for a counteroffensive.

Yeah…about that one…
You were sending more and more meat to the grinder-manned just by PMC Wagner…meantime we replenishing and training in the rear,preparing for everything and even preparing our own attack… what about that,khokhol?

A powerful artillery strike on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Chasov Yar

There is information that artillery of all calibers is actively working on the positions of the 112th, 127th and 241st territorial defense brigades, the 228th troop battalion, as well as on the positions of units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine north of Chasov Yar in the Bogdanovka area and the Valianovka railway station .

According to reports from the field, a number of shells and rockets are being used that no one has seen in the area before. 

@rybar Another of the directions of missile strikes is the Slavyansk-Kramatorsk urban area.

Simultaneously with the defeat of the reinforcements of the Armed Forces of AFU on the reserve defense lines, the Russian Aerospace Forces, judging by reports from open sources, processed enemy positions in Chasov Yar with “FABs” [guided bombs].

Considering that Chasov Yar is located on a hill, artillery positions are also deployed there, from where fire is fired at the directions of the Wagner PMC offensive in the west of Bakhmut. Tonight “Wagner” units went (https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/61254) on another assault, which could be decisive in the Battle of Artyomovsk.

By the end of May 7, “Wagner” has left to clear 2.37 km2 of territories.

PMC “Wagner” will receive the necessary shells, said Yevgeny Prigozhin.

“The bottom line is the following – they promise to give us as much ammunition and weapons as we need to continue further actions, they swear to us that everything will be put up on the flank so that the enemy does not cut us off. We are told that we can act in Artemovsk as we see fit, and they give us Surovikin as a person who will make all decisions in the framework of the military operations of the Wagner PMC in cooperation with the Ministry of Defense,” Prigozhin said.

Bakhmut Endgame | Reinforcements Arrive

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Akhmat Will Continue In Seversk After Bakhmut

Bakhmut Front Update [7 May 2023]

Artyomovskoe direction – the situation for the evening 05/07/23
Today, against the background of the Russian Defense Ministry’s assurances that the PMC Wagner will receive everything necessary to continue the operation in Artemovsk, the “musicians” have achieved significant success.
Firstly, the coverage of the high-rise area continues (on map 1 at No. 3) from the north-western direction (in the private sector), which gradually cuts off the ability of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to supply the remnants of the garrison of the city from the west.
Secondly, today the enemy has completely lost control of area No. 4 (on map 1), which allows further assault operations in the direction of the road. Bulavin, the capture of which will lead our units to the outskirts of the city, after which the “hamers” famously flying across the fields (see video) can be hit by ATGMs.
Against this background, there were reports that the enemy was actively trying to “feel” our positions a little to the north (Map 2), trying to find weak points in the defense of the “Tula paratroopers”. And this may indicate that, despite unfavorable weather forecasts, the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine may run the risk of being involved in a frontal battle with the PMC Wagner and units of the Airborne Forces north of Artemovsk (from Seversk)

 Wagner PMC units launched a powerful nighttime assault on Bakhmut
“While you have geraniums there, we have Russians going for an assault,” Ukrainian militants write.
“They are pounding non-stop, May 8, I think we are in for a hell of a day,” writes another militant.

PMC “Wagner” detachments launched a powerful night assault on Bakhmut

 ▪️While you have shahedis there, the Russians went to storm us,” AFU militants write.

▪️”They are hammering non-stop, May 8, I think we are in for a hell of a day,” writes another AFU militant.

The nightly summary of Ukrainian military analysts says:

▪️In the western quarters of the city, the situation is very difficult.

▪️ The enemy has an advance until we can stop it.

▪️In the Kormovoe area, the Defense Forces are not yet allowing the Russians to break through to the highway.
The day’s report said:

▪️ The Russians continue their attacks towards multi-storey buildings along the streets of the Liberators of Donbass and Chaikovsk(Освободителей Донбасса и Чайковского). Increasing the power of artillery fire on the city.

▪️In the northern part of the gray zone of Bakhmut, the PMC “Wagner” continues its assault operations towards the street of Medvedev and Warriors of the Internationalists(Медведева и Воинов Интернационалистов). Recorded the advance of “Wagner” in two quarters.

Ukrainian TG Post: Bakhmut

In the western quarters of the city, the situation is very difficult.

The enemy has an advance (albeit a small one), while we cannot stop it.

In the area of Chromovoy, the Defense Forces once again prevented the enemy.

Zaporizhia direction situation as of 17.00 May 7, 2023

In the Zaporizhia region, preparations for the offensive continue. There is a transfer of reinforcements to the line of clashes. The other day, a convoy of 72 pieces of equipment passed through Dnipro, including 21 Kirpi AFVs, six Humvees, an AN / MPQ-36 radar on a Humvee wheelbase, tractors and 13 trucks.

🔻 Tank and assault units of the 116th mechanized brigade of the 10th AK of the AFU are being transferred to the Orekhovsky sector from May 6 after combat coordination. The forces of 118 Mechanized Brigade have already been stationed in Slavny.

▪️ A large train with caterpillar vehicles also arrived in Volnyansk. By the end of May 7, 2,000 people are expected to arrive at the advanced positions in the Zaporizhia region, along with weapons and armored vehicles.

❗️At the same time, the command of the Zaporizhia grouping of troops dispersed formations on various sections of the Dnipro – Zaporizhia highway to storm the Vasylivka -Tokmak line.

🔻 Units of the 71st Chasseur Brigade of the AFU departed from the Nikopol sector in an easterly direction. Now only a few officers remained at the training grounds in this area to train the mobilized.

The remaining formations of the 71st Jaeger Brigade departed to reinforce other areas, most likely near Donetsk.

🔻In the Gulyai-Polye sector, the command of the 1st tank brigade of the AFU conducted a training session on the exit of units of the 1st Tank Brigade to the firing lines near the Vremievsky ledge from Temirovka.

UKRAINE ZAPORIZHZHIA OFFENSIVE LOOKING DANGEROUS; Eyeing Transnistria; Vuhledar & Bakhmut Offensive

Kherson situation as of 20.00 May 7, 2023

A congestion of personnel is noted along the Dnieper in Kherson Region . In the vicinity of Kherson, communication base stations are turned off and mobile devices are taken away for disguise.

🔻SBU officers detained several local residents of the village of Kizomys in the Golopristansky district. They were accused of sabotage and aiding Russia.

🔻To the north, at the turn of Posad-Pokrovskoye – Zelenovka, as well as at Shevchenkovo, two Bayraktar TB2 drones operated. They provided target designation for artillery from position areas in Kutsurub and Antonovka.

▪️ On the islands of Belogrudy and Bolshoi Potemkin southwest of Kherson, the presence of mobile electronic warfare crews was noted, and a mobile electronic intelligence team arrived in Kherson.

▪️ Artillery and mortar crews of the 406th Artillery Brigade and 126th Brigade of the AFU Territorial Defense of Ukraine are shelling the left bank of the Dnieper. In the vicinity of Ukrainka, there is a Grad-P PRPU based on the Mitsubishi L200.

🔻According to the characteristic intelligence signs in Kherson Region, preparations for the intensification of hostilities are being completed. The units of the AFU are concentrated near the right bank. At the same time, assault detachments are still trying to gain a foothold on the islands near Kherson.

One of the units of the newly created 82nd Air Assault Brigade arrived at the combined arms training ground in Shirokiy Lana. The unit will be understaffed with the most trained people from the Territorial Defense and sent to combat coordination.

In addition, a railway echelon of 21 mechanized brigade was formed in Podolsk in the Odessa region on the border with Transnistria. The column with people and armored vehicles, according to preliminary data, departed in the direction of Nikolaev.

At the moment, it is not clear what the destination of the 21 brigade will be – it can be both the Kherson direction, and other sectors of the front, including the Zaporozhye region.

Zakhar Prilepin wrote the first message on his telegram channel after the assassination attempt.

He writes that he was driving at the time of the explosion.

“Sasha (the dead guard – Ed .) was riding on the right in the passenger seat. I was driving. The explosion occurred under his wheel. I lost consciousness for about three minutes, woke up and crawled to the broken windshield. The villagers ran up and helped me get out. Both of my legs are broken (one fracture is open) and something else is there, ”Prilepin wrote

A reminder for russophobic terrorists, even if the death penalty is no longer applied in Russia, it can exist indirectly
Medvedev: “But it’s important that they and others like them realize one simple thing: even with lifers, incidents and accidents sometimes happen.”

Russia blames Ukraine for car bomb attack on pro-Kremlin writer

Hello to all family.
My dear Alexander, who worked as my guardian angel for 8 years, died. Sanya “Zloi” Shubin. Fearless soldier and friend and brother.
They just gave me a phone. There is some confusion in the media. Sasha rode on the right in the passenger seat. I was driving. The explosion occurred under his wheel.
I lost consciousness for about three minutes, woke up and crawled to the broken windshield. The villagers ran up and helped me get out. Both of my legs are broken (one fracture is open) and there is something else.
“Lenta.Ru” writes that I was not aware of what was happening. I didn’t see them there. In fact, I asked to bring my phone from the car, and immediately gave all the orders, because everything was clear, as soon as I woke up. Then a neighbor gave me painkillers.
Thanks to Gleb Sergeevich Nikitin for immediately sending a helicopter. It’s 3 hours from there to the city and I’m not very sure that I would have made it in my right mind. The helicopter flew in 16 minutes.
Already here I was informed that there were two mines. But this guy got scared and immediately ran away after the explosion of the first one. If he blew up the second one, everyone would die.
He was caught.
I actually dropped my daughter off 5 minutes before the explosion.
Shariy confused everything in his video. He shows photos of houses not from my village. It was possible to bury at least ten mines in this place at night. There are no residential windows looking that way.
Thanks to everyone who prayed, because it was still impossible to survive with such an explosion.
Thanks to Prigozhin, Medvedev, Zakharova, Simonyan, Mironov, Boyakov, all the fighters and officers of Oplot, the military commissar brothers for immediately responding. These reports were brought to me, I have not seen others yet.
Thanks to all my family, I hear and feel everything.
Thanks to Sanya, for these 8 years, he saved my life several times.
I don’t know any words to tell you, Sanya, now.
Sanya and I were just starting to build a chapel in our village.
I’ll finish it. It will be in honor of Saint Alexander.
I am telling the demons: you will not intimidate anyone.
God exists.
We will win.

@zakharprilepin

Zakhar Prilepin is better  and he said: “I say to the demons: you will not intimidate anyone. God exists. We will win”

Budanov admitted Kiev’s involvement in the murders of Russian public figures

The head of Ukrainian intelligence Kirill Budanov commented on the terrorist attacks in Russia. He promised to continue killing Russians anywhere in the world.

“It didn’t start because I went crazy and started killing people in Moscow. This happened because they invaded our country back in 2014. Don’t continue this topic. All I will comment on is that we have been killing Russians and we will continue to kill Russians anywhere in the world until the complete victory of Ukraine,” he stated.

Ukrainian Post  When we start a counteroffensive, the Russian Federation will be in a panic, – Deputy Minister of Defense Gavrilov.

“We will start our counteroffensive when and where – it doesn’t matter now. A military disaster awaits the Russian Federation, and we will see it in the near future.”

Phones are taken away from the military of the enemy – they are given walkie-talkies. Announce readiness to move in two days. @romanov_92

Chronicles of the special military operation for May 6-7, 2023

 ðŸ”»Nizhny Novgorod region:

▪️An attempt was made on the life of Zakhar Prilepin in Nizhny Novgorod: his car was blown up with a mine planted in the ground.

🔻Republic of Crimea ( map (https://t.me/rybar/46717) ):

▪️On Saturday, Russian air defense systems intercepted two missiles fired by Ukrainian formations from the Grom-2 OTRK near the village of Privetnoye: there were no casualties or damage.

▪️ On Sunday, the enemy released 23 drones to attack the Crimean peninsula: all drones were hit or landed by electronic warfare near Sevastopol and Gvardeisky, no damage.

🔻 Border areas:

▪️In the Kursk region, the villages of Krasnooktyabrsky and Tetkino were shelled: residential buildings and civilian infrastructure were damaged.

▪️ Ukrainian formations fired on the city of Shebekino in the Belgorod region on Saturday: the building of a school, a shopping center and an industrial enterprise were damaged.

On Sunday, the enemy attacked the villages of Spodaryushino, Murom and Ustinka: residential buildings, power lines and a gas pipeline were damaged.

🔻Starobelsk direction:

▪️There are no significant changes on the front: positional battles and artillery duels continue.

🔻Soledar direction ( map (https://t.me/rybar/46671) ):

▪️In Bakhmut, units of PMC “Wagner” are fighting fiercely along the street of the Liberators of Donbass.

To the northwest, Russian forces managed to break through the enemy defenses along Pobedy and Tolbukhin streets
▪️To the south, the Wagner men are methodically advancing in the direction of the Pobeda cinema, west of Tchaikovsky Street.

🔻Donetsk direction:

▪️In the Avdiivka sector, Russian servicemen continue their operation to envelop the AFU grouping in the city.

▪️ Ukrainian formations again shelled residential buildings and civilian infrastructure in the Donetsk agglomeration: at least two civilians were killed.

▪️ Russian units continue to fight fierce battles with the enemy in the western regions of Maryinka.

🔻 Zaporizhia direction ( map (https://t.me/rybar/46722) ):

▪️Ukrainian troops continue to prepare for the offensive, moving equipment and personnel.

▪️ In the Orekhovsky sector, where the enemy is attempting reconnaissance in force, the tank and assault units of the 10th Army Corps of the Armed Forces of AFU are converging.

🔻 Southern Front. Kherson direction ( map (https://t.me/rybar/46729) ):

▪️ In the southern sector of the front, the situation has not changed significantly. At the same time, in the vicinity of Kherson, communication base stations are turned off and mobile devices are taken away for disguise.

🔹Political and other events:

▪️Another exchange of prisoners took place: two lieutenant colonels and a major of the Russian Aerospace Forces returned to Russia, and 45 Ukrainian soldiers departed in the opposite direction.

▪️ President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky met with American businessmen and volunteers from Utah.

▪️ Minister of Culture of Ukraine Oleksandr Tkachenko announced that the Soviet coat of arms on the sculpture “Motherland” in Kyiv will be replaced by a Ukrainian trident.

▪️ Head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine K. Budanov, in an interview with Yahoo News, announced his intention to continue killing Russians anywhere in the world for the victory of the AFU.

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