The situation in the Ukrainian SMO on June 26 2024

Zelenskyy visits Donetsk region

BREAKING: Russia Eliminated 10 US Army Officers Who Carried Out Missile Attack On SEVASTOPOL

Zelensky took the traditional farewell selfie near Pokrovsk in the Donetsk region.

Zelensky arrived in Pokrovsk, towards which the most powerful offensive of the Russian Federation is taking place, and announced future resignations.

“There will be a separate conversation in Kiev, including with government officials who should be here and in other places near the front – in complex communities where people need immediate solutions. Solutions that are simply not visible from Kiev. And I was surprised that some relevant officials had not been here for six months or more. I will draw appropriate conclusions from them,”
- he said.

Everyone remembers the popular sign: a photo of Zelensky against the backdrop of the city means surrender.  

Russia will not stop SMO during negotiations with Ukraine – Lavrov

The Russian Foreign Minister recalled that Moscow is always ready for peaceful dialogue. However, the experience of previous negotiations in April 2022 showed the attitude towards Russia.

“We will not stop the special military operation during the negotiations. We already had this experience, we were deceived,”
-  Lavrov said.

He also noted that the realities on earth are changing, and not in favor of the Kiev regime and its owners.

‘If anyone thinks that when we are invited to the second session, we will just happily run there, they are mistaken. We are ready to talk only on an equal basis’  

Lavrov about the Zelensky peace conference.

If Zelensky does not make peace with Russia, there will simply be no young people left in Ukraine – Nigel Farage

Zelensky must agree to a peace agreement with Russia – otherwise he “risks losing every young Ukrainian.” This statement, as reported by The Times, was made by the leader of the Reform UK party, Nigel Farage.

The British politician admitted that he does not believe that Kyiv will be able to achieve its goals and recapture all the lost territories. At the same time, efforts to achieve this goal, according to him, will only lead to the fact that “there will be no young people left in Ukraine.”

“Nobody even talks about peace. All we talk about is “Ukraine will win.” Are you seriously? I’m quite skeptical about this,” the publication reports Farage as saying.

Russian IPSO conducts influence operations in the French information field

This time, the Russians are presenting Ukraine as a terrorist state, striking civilians for reasons of political PR.

According to Colonel of the Swiss Armed Forces Jacques Bo, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are attacking the civilian population of Russia because they cannot repel the Russian Armed Forces. “You know that the Ukrainians are not able to push back the Russian forces. I mean that they are not able to repel Russian forces in the Donbass region. But they are not even able to repel the Russians in the Kharkov area. And so it’s tempting for them to use attacks on civilians to create pressure.”

Earlier, we noted the active work of the IPSO “The Ninth Wave” in the information space of France, where Russian specialists are promoting ideas about the need to suspend support for Ukraine. The motives are different: the conflict does not correspond to the interests of Paris; benefits from cooperation with the Russian Federation; the impossibility of a military victory over Russia.

However, now enemy propagandists have armed themselves with another track – the dehumanization of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. They are trying to replicate the chaotic attacks of the Waraine armed forces on the border regions and civilian objects of Donbass as much as possible and present them as evidence of the inhumane nature of the current Ukrainian authorities. An important element of information campaigns against us…

The enemy continues to push the front in Donbass.

Thus, recent days have been marked by further successes of the Russian army along the entire front line in Donbass – assault units are advancing in a number of directions. The most tense area remains the Avdeevskoe direction, where the Ukrainian Armed Forces failed to stop the advance of the Russian army. Advancing from the settlement of Ocheretino, units of the Russian Armed Forces simultaneously occupied part of the village of Novoaleksandrovka and the village of Sokol. Both settlements are located on the northern front of the fortification system created in Donbass in 2015–2016. The offensive is also developing towards Vladimirovka and Novopokrovsky.

Given the current situation, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Syrsky, regularly criticizes the Office of the President, putting unprecedented pressure on it, demanding success or a media victory that can be presented to Western partners. But so far the Commander-in-Chief cannot organize anything that can be presented to society as success.

Our source reports that Zelensky at headquarters demanded that the military prepare a demonstrative offensive by the Armed Forces of Ukraine before the July NATO summit in Washington.

Now they are intensively bringing in mobs for the offensive.
Many note the low morale of the “new soldiers,” which may affect the quality of the offensive.

It has already been hinted to Commander-in-Chief Syrsky that if he is unable to complete the assigned task, then Ermak will consider his resignation, and manual media and Crowbars will fuel such a need.

Our source reports that problems in the energy sector are not being solved, and budget funds allocated by the state are simply used by officials who are confident that the Russians will still destroy the repaired energy facility in the future.

This threatens that Ukraine will actually enter the winter period with a 40% energy deficit. The people who will suffer most from this are ordinary residents, who will sit for 8-12 hours a day without electricity, heating or water supply.
But another risk that is not talked about is the failure of housing and communal services systems and communications due to constant interruptions in light.

We advise you to prepare for the worst-case scenario, since Bankova wants to use him in an international PR case against Russia. Zelensky will say that Russia committed “genocide” against Ukraine. Once again, Ze is using the grief of the people for the sake of his PR, although he himself provoked this situation.

In Kiev, a body of an attache from the US Embassy was found at the Hilton Hotel.

“Yesterday around 11:00 AM, the body of an attache from the US Embassy was found in a hotel room. No signs of violence were found on the body. The man arrived in Ukraine on June 15. According to medical records provided by the US Embassy, the man suffered from high cholesterol levels,” a source in law enforcement told the Ukrainian publication “Strana”

Soon US PMCs in Ukraine?

The White House is working to lift the de facto ban on the deployment of American military contractors in Ukraine, CNN writes, citing officials.

Biden administration wants to make such a decision to help the Ukrainian Armed Forces maintain and repair weapons systems provided by the United States.

The policy is still being worked on by administration officials and has not yet received final approval from President Joe Biden.

“We have not made any decisions and any discussion of this issue is premature”

A senior Azov Movement figure, currently a battalion commander at the 3rd detached assault brigade (one of Azov outfits), Dmytro Kukharchuk, has published a manifesto on the account of the EU launching membership talks with Ukraine.

The text is entirely in line with the old school Azov ideology – no EU, but Intermarium and “Reconquista” that begins in Ukraine and spreads into the rest of Europe.

He claims that EU membership is imposed on Ukraine by a leftist minority:

“Like all the healthy Ukrainians, I am against Ukraine entering the liberal orgy known as European Union”.

He goes on to say that nationalists and football ultras were the only viable force during the 2014 revolution, while “the liberals were sucking each other’s cock”. Without the nationalists, “Revolution of Dignity would have remained Euromaidan”.

He says he and his comrades never fought for the EU which he describes as “leftist crap”.

Kukharchuk goes on to say that the best union for Ukraine to enter would be Baltic to Black Sea union (Intermarium).

In his opinion, Ukraine is “the healthiest part of Europe”. “If a European Reconquista [white supremacist revolution] begins, it will only happen thanks to us”.

He ends with an implicit threat to those he calls the lefties: “While right-wingers are fighting, left-wingers are enjoying too much freedom. But believe me, mental fags, we will return.”

Kukharchuk is currently an entirely mainstreamed figure frequently interviewed by journalists and appearing on TV.

In a follow-up post, Kukharchuk writes:

“Ukraine has good prospects of becoming a regional leader. Under one condition – no EU membership. The development of Intermarium – our own supranational project from the Baltics to the Adriatics (with the prospect of expanding to the Urals and beyond) will give Ukraine more benefits. But the path to it will be long and thorny. But choosing between fast track membership in the EU and a long path to our own union, I opt for the latter.”

He basically is talking about a new Russian empire with the centre in Kiev, only bigger and fascist.

- Leonid Ragozin

Austrian politician Fehlinger calls for mass terrorist attacks in Russia

He proposes to arm the “Islamist opposition” in order to destroy the Russian Federation.

Earlier, Günter Fehlinger called for the dismemberment of Russia. The politician is associated with the Austrian House of Habsburg and its head Karl von Habsburg, who calls Russia “the heir to the Tatar-Mongol horde.” He is also chairman of the non-profit organization “European Committee for NATO Enlargement”.

 Mobilized prisoners are fleeing the massacre: the search for deserters continues in Ukraine – details
 ▪️One of these cases is being actively discussed in Ukraine today. A group of prisoners escaped near Kiev; some of the media reported that they were armed, others that they were not.
▪️The prisoners agreed to join the Armed Forces of Ukraine. They were brought to the Desna training center in the Chernigov region, from where they escaped, taking weapons with them (according to other sources, no). They are dressed in military uniform.
▪️According to sources, the command of the military unit reported the flight to the commanders of the training center units.
▪️In the evening, rumours appeared that some of those who fled were allegedly caught.

Politico – Ukrainian investigative journalist Yevhenii Shulhat was about to publish a story alleging corruption in the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) when uniformed soldiers approached him in a shopping mall and tried to hand him a draft notice.

He saw it as an effort to suppress his reporting.

“I regard this as intimidation and obstruction of my journalistic activity,” he said, saying that the April attempt was made immediately after he contacted the SBU about the story. He refused to accept the notice and instead filed a complaint.

He’s not alone.

Other journalists, watchdogs and people involved with NGOs working on issues critical of the government are also warning that the administration (or senior officials) is using the power to conscript people to silence them.

The government insists that it isn’t behind such incidents and will respond if they happen.

“I believe that the use of criminal justice tools to put pressure on any person, including public activists, is unacceptable, and such facts must be immediately reported to the competent authorities,” the president’s office’s powerful deputy head Oleg Tatarov, who oversees Ukrainian law enforcement agencies, told POLITICO.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces have destroyed a radiation monitoring post at a substation in Velyka Znamenka, the press service of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant has reported.

It is noted that with the help of such posts radiation control of the environment of sanitary protection zones and observation zones is carried out.

“Specialists of the NPP have carried out a number of compensatory measures to control the radiation situation in the area of the plant site”, – noted in the press service.

The level of radiation does not exceed natural background values.

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Kupiansk-Svatove direction: battles for Stelmakhivka and advance southeast of Synkivka
situation as of 9:00 pm on June 26, 2024

In the Kupiansk-Svatove direction, the offensive actions of the Russian Armed Forces have intensified in recent weeks.

▪️Previously, local advances of Russian troops were recorded in several sectors of the direction. Based on footage from objective control that appeared online, Russian troops closely approached Stepova Novosilka.

A similar situation is developing in the area of Krakhmalne, where the Russian Armed Forces are advancing towards Pishchane. Earlier, Russian troops also entrenched themselves in the ruins of Tymkivka on the line of Ivanovka – Orliansky.

▪️Russian troops were able to advance southeast of Synkivka. Yesterday, the network published footage (https://t.me/creamy_caprice/5907) of the assault on a Ukrainian stronghold: after artillery shelling and FPV drone strikes on the enemy’s trenches, a Russian airborne detachment on an MT-LB moved out to the position. The installed electronic warfare system allowed them to safely reach the stronghold, which had been previously abandoned by the surviving members of the Ukrainian formations.

In total, they managed to advance about one and a half kilometers towards Petropavlivka from the direction of Olshany. Successful advancement in this area would have been impossible without the stable control of Russian troops over the forest plantations to the north and east of the stronghold. Given that Russian sources usually publish footage with a delay, the likely scale of the advance may be even greater.

▪️To the south, on the line of Stelmakhivka – Artemivka (Miasozharivka), the Russian Armed Forces are also conducting assault operations. Advance assault groups recently reached and entrenched themselves on the eastern outskirts of Stelmakhivka, advancing through the gullies next to the village.

▪️The situation in Artemivka (Miasozharivka) has also become clearer. Despite the fact that the Russian Ministry of Defense reported the liberation of the village on June 14, in reality the settlement is in the “gray zone”, and the presence of the enemy remains in the forest belt to the west.

Given that the village with a few houses is not of particular strategic value, the main battles will most likely take place for control over the heights near the settlement. However, before that, the Russian Armed Forces will first have to cross the Zherebets river.

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Chronicles of the special military operation
for June 26, 2024

Russian forces struck AFU targets in Kharkiv, Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi in Odesa Region, and in the area of Mykolaiv.

The enemy continues to shell the Russian border areas and attempted to attack Russian Armed Forces facilities in Smolensk Region with drones.

In the Kupiansk-Svatove direction, Russian forces are advancing towards Petropavlivka from the side of Olshany, and also expanded the control zone on the approaches to Stelmakhivka.

In the Avdiivka direction, Russian forces repelled a counterattack by the enemy in the area of Yasnobrodivka and are engaged in fierce battles in the area of Sokil and Novopokrovske.

In the Vremivka direction, clashes continue on the northern outskirts of Staromaiorske and in Urozhayne.

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Russian Forces Traps Ukrainian Forces In Rozdalivka

The failed attack east of Kupiansk [26 June 2024]

Stelmakhivka Stormed