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As diplomatic talks in Istanbul remain in their preliminary stages, the intensity of military operations on the frontlines shows no signs of abating. Both Russian and Ukrainian forces have escalated aerial and ground engagements, underscoring the fragile nature of the current ceasefire negotiations.
Russian air defense systems reported intercepting and destroying 65 Ukrainian UAVs overnight, with the majority—43 drones—neutralized over the Black Sea and another 21 over Crimea. A single drone was downed in the Belgorod region.
Crimea faced concentrated attacks, with Ukrainian drones reportedly striking an ammunition depot in Perevalnoye, leading to road closures and heightened security measures.
In their turn, Russian forces reportedly launched 112 strike drones, primarily of the “Geran” type, targeting Ukrainian infrastructure, including in Kyiv and Odesa. Ukrainian defenses struggled to repel the onslaught, losing another F-16 fighter jet in the process. The pilot ejected safely, but the incident highlights the growing strain on Ukraine’s air capabilities.
On the frontlines, Ukrainian forces renewed attempts to breach Russian defenses in the Kursk region, deploying infantry, mobile units, and even boats to cross the Seym River. Russian troops repelled multiple incursions, destroying armored vehicles and thwarting sabotage groups disguised in Russian uniforms. However, Ukrainian rocket attacks inflicted damage on civilian infrastructure, including a hospital and a church in Tetkino, further escalating tensions.
The Russian offensive continued on Donbass frontlines, with the liberation of Volnoye Pole in the south and sustained pressure on key strongholds like Konstantinovka in the north. Russian victory in Torske near Krasny Liman further weakened Ukrainian positions, with reports indicating severe manpower shortages in defending Ukrainian units. Russian forces, meanwhile, consolidated gains near Pokrovsk, threatening to envelop Ukrainian defenses along the Kazenny Torets River. Western analysts noted a cascading collapse of Ukrainian defenses in several directions, attributing Russian gains to relentless airstrikes and artillery barrages.
The juxtaposition of ongoing negotiations and escalating combat operations underscores the precarious nature of the conflict. While diplomats are trying to engage in dialogue, the battlefield realities suggest neither side is willing to cede ground without a fight. The coming days will reveal whether the talks in Istanbul can yield tangible de-escalation or if the war will continue to overshadow diplomatic efforts.
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russia must destroy the kiev neonazi junta, they will not surrender. and don’t come with your “martyr” bs. for decades palestine has had thousands of martyrs and that didn’t help them, zero
biletsky says his fondest dream is to have as many monuments to him as bandera has dotting the ukrainian landscape.
boy, that’s an awful lot of marble…..
yea why havent they?
ukraine will never surrender…bring it you orc shitstains!!!
hheheheheheheeh
but it will cease to be a nation with no male population
it never really was a nation, just a hodgepodge of bits and pieces of russia, poland, hungary, romania……
it was once a nation called khazaria, until that is sviatoslav i of kyiv put paid to the pretend sematic joo’s there, which is why they hate russia, and want it back.
famous last words.
who wants it to surrender?
if they dont end the war in a negotiated settlement the terms will be much less favorable for them in the long run as well themassive amount of lives wasted on this senseless conflict. the best chance they had to end the conflict was in september 2022 when they had won 3 major victories near kiev and in cherson and kursk. that was the best time to end the conflict favorably for ukraine.
yet the biden and boris johnson administration did not want a end to the conflict they wanted it to continue as long as possible. the supposed summer offensive at robotyne that was supposed to take back the land bridge and crimea failed miserably and ukraine has been loosing territory and battles since while being on the defensive.
the supposed pr stunt kursk offensive failed and ukraine didnt manage to capture the kursk nu clear powerpant so they dont have leverage to negotiate back the zaporizia powerplant from the russians.
the longer ukraine keeps the conflict going the more they will loose as the russians have fully ramped up their warindustry along with the chinese and north koreans. they will out produce ukraine even with all the aid they get from european countries.
they said that about south vietnam, but they did. hehehe
axe and fork in your ass. you jewish slavery whore.
ukraine are grease stains
ukraine don’t have a say they are just puppets of nato being used as a proxy, my god you people are stupid dying for foreigners.
dudes one 10,000 battles from his keyboard, provoking reactions such as mine, listen brother if you were strong enough and not a coward you would go out and fight your own wars.
expendable goyim, cannon fodder for zio interests. (((the people))) who foment wars all over the world.
globe trotting zelensy still has much cocaine to share with macron and the other eu puppets . the money laundering cia mafia complex will provide all they could ever desire . the mexian drug cartels probably have a drop shipping network just for this .
it comes in through odessa on the grain ships.
they stuff it into gun barrels, so they can snort the barrels clean when checking the merchandise.
i’m old enough to remember the paris ‘peace talks’ during the vietnam war that the us lost, and as the talks were going on the fighting and dying continued in the conflict zone. this conflict is mirroring that conflict, and will also be decided on the battlefield. saigon was in total chaos post the norths victory, so it is anyone’s guess what’ll happen in kiev, zelenskyy will no doubt flee, as will the other joo’s in that government.
id prefer he die a horrible death
and zelenska with him.
russia needs to mobilize a massive army and take land up to the dnipro river draw a line and fortify it and have a free fire zone for anything approaching it they also should take odessa and kharkiv or this war will never end.
yea so why havent they? lets ask putin
everywhere in msm and youtube etc are saying russia is losing despite the facts. i do appreciate southfront
yeah, so do i. that’s why i’ve not bothered with british msm since way the before the conflict, so much propaganda, when it was iraq and before hat argentina, and, it is the same with iran, no being neutral, it is disgusting. and with ukraine the word de facto word ‘invasion’ is constantly used. “if you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.” joseph goebbels
the mainstream media (and not just fleet street but worldwide) has been propaganda since before caxton…….
yeah, but modern western propaganda is obnoxious.
zelensky is about to ride into moscow on a white horse in triumph at the head of his million strong army, spearheaded by the heroes of snake island, with the ghost of kiev and tom cruise providing air cover. because the russians only have shovels to fight with and they have all been killed. in fact the only people left in russia now are north koreans and iranians. putin is at his wits end and can’t decide whether to shoot himself or flee to north korea.
he has a plane standing fuelled up on the tarmac ready to whisk him away. but he is dying of 12 deadly diseases, in fact he is already dead and has been replaced by a body double. in fact he has gone mad and had all his generals shot, though all the generals he has had shot have risen up and overthrown him and put him in the loony bin. all this has come from totally reliable sources and has been fully confirmed by bbc verify and multiple fact checkers.
war is the ultimate form of diplomacy. it seems that the only way to reconcile a failed state of diplomatic failure by known teasonous state actors, civil war is the only solution that the citizenry of western states have at their disposal. or do you like mandated death jabs by know coke sniffing pedophiles?
in burgerland we prefer taliban sodomy but democratically accept all sodomy–freedumb in amerika