Ukraine – 7/25/2023 Sitrep
By: Bohdan Chomiak & Robert Homans
July 25, 2023
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“Ukraine’s Stalled Offensive Puts Biden in Uneasy Political Position”/Wall Street Journal
“A potential stalemate would test President Biden’s stated strategy of pouring billions of dollars in military aid into Ukraine, to enable Kyiv to negotiate with Russia from a position of strength.” Where is the word “victory?”
If there is anything obvious since the start of the war, for Ukraine negotiating from a “position of strength,” if it involves ceding territory that is within Ukraine’s 1991 borders, will be considered by Ukraine as a loss. For Ukraine, the term “position of strength” is meaningless, yet the Biden Administration seems to go right on saying that Ukraine negotiating from a “position of strength” is their stated strategy.
This outcome, “negotiating from a position of strength” part of the Biden Administration’s “stated strategy,” will be a loss not only for Ukraine, but for Europe, the United States especially for the Biden Administration that wants another 4 years in office, and even for Africa, where for several decades territorial integrity is their stated policy. If a negotiated peace takes place in Ukraine, that includes ceding of Ukrainian territory, one might expect the Wagner Group, operating in countries like the Central African Republic, Mali or Sudan, to move to take over territories in neighboring countries on behalf of their respective hosts, under the pretext that they’re only helping their allies unite fraternal people, in other words the same pretext that Russia used to invade Ukraine.
Although Ukraine’s offensive is moving slowly, it IS moving. Over the past 24 hours according to reports we have included, Ukraine has halted Russian offensives in Luhansk, achieved a minor breakthrough south of Bakhmut, and they’re making gains in the south. At the same time Ukraine has increased its tempo of attacks against Russian logistics. This is exactly the same strategy, wearing down Russian defenders by hitting their logistics, that Ukraine used last year, in the offensive that liberated Kherson City. As is the case now, there were the pundits who were grousing about the slow pace of Ukraine’s offensive.
It is therefore ironic that despite Ukraine’s past successes in liberating territory, by employing the same tactics that they’re using today, Ukraine is faced with handwringing pundits and an Administration that seems incapable of employing the word “victory” as part of their “stated strategy.”
News From the Battlefield
“Gerasimov’s Defensive Strategy”/Gen. Mick Ryan (Ret.)
From reading Gen. Ryan’s excellent analysis, on a larger scale Russia seems to be finding itself in the same place as they were in late Summer/early Fall of 2022, at the beginning of Ukraine’s Kherson offensive. Russia employed much the same defensive strategy last year in the part of Kherson Oblast on the Right Bank of the Dnipro River. Russian defenders caused Ukraine a lot of problems; there were grumbles from the Western pundits about the Ukrainian offensive stalling out. Then, the consequences of Ukraine’s strategy of hitting Russian logistics began to take its toll.
“Reporting From Ukraine” covers almost the entire front, including:
· Russian attacks on Ukrainian grain ports very close to Romania. What would happen a Russian missile strikes Romanian territory? Romania is a NATO member.
· Ukraine is expanding incursions in the south, partly a result of accelerated mine clearing.
· Ukraine is increasing its rate of fire in the south, much of it using the new cluster munitions.
· Ukraine appears to be blunting Russian incursions in Luhansk Oblast, where they are likely trying to draw Ukrainian forces away from the south.
· Continuing strikes on Russian logistics which, as “Reporting From Ukraine” points out, is very similar to what Ukraine did last year, to support its offensive in Kherson Oblast.
The Latest Denys focuses on a mini-breakthrough by Ukraine south of Bakhmut.
“Russian Influence on Africa Exaggerated, Experts Say”/Kyiv Independent
There is an up-coming Russia-Africa Summit, a follow-on from the previous summit that took place in 2019.
· The article states that Russia has contributed approximately $14 billion in foreign direct investment (FDI) in 2022, or around 1% of the total, a decline since the last Russia-Africa Summit in 2019.
· Russian FDI is concentrated in only 4 countries, S. Africa, a fellow member of the BRICS and location of the next BRICS Summit, Algeria, Morocco, and Egypt. In other words, Russia provides very little foreign direct investment in Sub-Saharan Africa, ex South Africa.
· Russia is trying to use the curtailment of the Black Sea Grain Initiative to its advantage, blaming Ukraine and the West, and at the same time offering emergency food assistance to needy African countries.
· “About a third of Africa's wheat exports come from Russia, and another 12% from Ukraine.”
· “Across Africa, activists and artists have been organizing events in solidarity with Ukraine – and condemning Russia's war. In addition, opposition leaders in countries with strong ties with Russia have also voiced their criticisms of the Kremlin and support for Kyiv – most notably in South Africa, where the government has been accused of supplying Russia with arms.”
· It is also likely that Russia’s reputation as an arms supplier has taken a hit, given the lousy performance of Russian arms in Ukraine.
7/25/2023 Sitrep
Russian Invasion of Ukraine 12:00 noon July 24 to 12:00 noon July 25, 2023
Abbreviations:
RMA = Regional Military Administration SBU = Security Service of Ukraine
RASHISTS = russian Facists/all russian invaders
INTERNATIONAL
Tuesday, July 25
8:08 am Politico: Today, the US will announce a new $400 million military aid package for Ukraine.
· Part of this package includes additional de-mining equipment and rescue vehicles to help remove equipment disabled by mines.
8:08 am: The White House commented on the drone attack on Moscow: this is a war that Russia has unleashed, and which the Kremlin can stop at any moment by withdrawing its troops from Ukraine. This was stated by White House spokeswoman Karin Jean-Pierre during a press briefing in Washington.
8:08 am: Poland is a NATO member, so the United States will defend every inch of its territory in the event of a real threat from Russia or Belarus. This was stated by the spokesman of the US State Department, Matthew Miller.
11:45 am: Russia may be preparing an operation under a foreign flag in the Black Sea after the recent attacks on Odesa and the Danube infrastructure, - US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller.
● In addition, according to him, last week the Russian military conducted training on assaulting ships.
Monday, July 24
1:38 pm: Twitter has officially changed its logo. Now, instead of a bird image, users see a black and white letter X.
● Elon Musk posted the photo on his page, writing that this is what the company's headquarters looks like.
3:36 pm Politico: China is secretly sending enough equipment to Russia to equip an army.
● According to the publication, Russia imported 30 times more drones from China than Ukraine. The amount of supplies exceeded 100 million dollars.
● The supply of other military goods to the Russian Federation also increased. Exports of Kevlar for body armor increased to $225 million, while exports to Ukraine decreased to $5 million.
5:46 pm: Postage stamp "Russian warship, go...!" won the award of the international philatelic award "Asiago", which is also called the "philatelic Oscar".
● "Ukrposhta received such a high award for its unique and unprecedented reaction to Russian aggression and a special idea of implementation," - writes the press service of "Ukrposhta".
6:47 pm Spanish Ministry of Defense website: In the morning, the Spanish government sent 4 Leopard 2A4 tanks to Ukraine as part of a new aid package.
● Also, 10 armored personnel carriers, 10 trucks, several ambulances (including armored ones) and various ammunition were sent to Ukraine.
9:01 pm Ministry of Defense of Lithuania: The Council of National Defense of Lithuania has approved a three-year €200 million support plan for Ukraine.
● The main areas of support will be: purchase of lethal and non-lethal equipment, military education and training, financial contributions to aid funds, repair of military equipment in Lithuania and training of personnel.
NATIONAL
Tuesday, July 25
1:40 am: Eastern Ukraine - the threat of using ballistic weapons.
7:30 am: Due to shelling, the route of trains in the Lviv direction has been temporarily changed, - Ukrzaliznytsia
● The route change will affect trains #96 Rakhiv - Kyiv, #3 Uzhgorod - Zaporizhia, #87 Zaporizhia - Kovel.
7:42 am General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: Over 35 combat clashes took place during the past day, -.
● Tonight, the Russian Federation struck another blow with Iranian attack UAVs of the "Shahed" type on Ukraine. Information about the consequences is being clarified.
● Over the past day, the aviation of the defense forces struck a Russian command post, 8 strikes on personnel concentration areas, and 6 strikes on anti-aircraft missile complexes. During the day, our defenders destroyed 3 Shahed-136 type attack UAVs.
● Units of missile forces and artillery during the past day hit 4 control points, 3 anti-aircraft defense equipment, 9 artillery equipment in firing positions and 4 electronic warfare stations.
9:51 a.m.: The SBU reported suspicion of treason to ex-Peoples Deputy Muraev
● According to the investigation, Murayev used the "Nash" TV channel under his control for mass dissemination of Kremlin narratives in the information space of Ukraine.
● In this way, he purposefully used his own media resource to manipulate the public opinion of Ukrainians in the interests of the Russian Federation.
9:56 am: Attention! Missile danger in Dnipropetrovsk, Poltava, Zaporizhzhya, Donetsk, Sumy, Kharkiv regions, where the alarm has been declared! The threat of cruise missile launches from the Tu-22m3 aircraft from the north-eastern direction! - Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Monday, July 24
12:43 pm: Ukraine will soon inform the Pentagon about the consequences of using American cluster munitions, Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov told CNN.
● Details of the strikes will not be released pending the filing of this report.
● "I hope that they will be more effective than conventional ammunition. Especially against artillery systems, during counter-battery battles, as well as against armored personnel carriers, infantry fighting vehicles and infantry in the fields," said Reznikov.
1:19 pm press service: Employees of NABU and SAP have exposed the head of the State Judicial Administration of Ukraine for soliciting a bribe to ensure that judges of the Supreme Court issue a decision in favor of a commercial enterprise.
● The law enforcement officers do not name the suspect, but the State Judicial Administration is headed by Oleksiy Salnikov.
● According to NABU, on March 5, the current head of the DSA received 7,500 USD from a representative of a commercial enterprise, 5,000 USD of which was to be given to the judge for rendering a decision, and 2,500 USD was to be kept for himself for mediation services.
3:16 pm Prosecutor General's Office: Law enforcement officers have warned against the withdrawal of billions worth of assets from "Sens Bank" abroad. This happened before nationalization.
● According to the Office of the Prosecutor General, the former owners of the financial institution planned to transfer their own share in the management of the financial institution to controlled persons. And on behalf of the "new" beneficiaries, take billions worth of capital out of Ukraine.
5:16 pm: Kharkiv and Donetsk regions - threat of ballistic weapons use.
5:20 p.m.: The water level around the Dnipro Hydro Electric Station has reached the critical level necessary for the full operation of the Dnipro hydroelectric plant.
● This was stated by the general director of "Ukrhydroenergo" Ihor Syrota in an interview with Forbes.
● "The average level of the lower reservoir near the Dniprovska HPP dam is 12.05 m," Sirota noted.
6:27 pm: Volodymyr Zelenskyi held a meeting regarding the export of Ukrainian agricultural products.
● "Our position is clear: blocking exports by land after September 15, when the relevant restrictions cease to apply, is inadmissible in any way," the president wrote.
7:27 pm Operational information from the General Staff of the Armed Forces as of 18:00 on July 24:
● "During the day, the enemy launched 1 missile and 58 air strikes, carried out more than 26 attacks from rocket salvo systems on the positions of our troops and populated areas.
● Unfortunately, there are dead and injured children and civilians.
● Port infrastructure and grain storage facilities in the south of Ukraine, residential buildings and other infrastructure were destroyed and damaged."
● "In the settlement of Radensk, Kherson Region, Russian servicemen have equipped the territory of a local kindergarten for a field hospital
● Dozens of wounded occupiers are being treated there."
● "Russians continue to commit looting on the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine.
● In particular, in the village of Myronivskyi, Donetsk region, since July 10, the arrival of occupiers from the "Akhmat" unit of the Russian Guards, who forcibly evict local civilians from their houses to the street and arbitrarily move into housing, has been established.
● Also, the above-mentioned representatives of the Russian occupation forces engage in massive looting, which causes a wave of discontent among civilians."
● "During the day, the aviation of the defense forces made 8 strikes on the areas of concentration of personnel, weapons and military equipment and 4 - on the enemy's anti-aircraft missile systems.
● During the day, our defenders destroyed 3 enemy attack UAVs of the Shahed-136 type."
● "Units of missile troops and artillery hit 4 control points, 3 anti-aircraft defense means, 9 artillery means in firing positions and 4 radio-electronic warfare stations of the occupiers during the day."
10:01 pm: Over the last day, the losses of the Russians in the Tavria direction amounted to almost two companies killed and wounded.
● Oleksandr Tarnavskyi, the commander of the operational and strategic group of troops "Tavria", announced this.
● 20 units of enemy military equipment and 3 enemy ammunition depots were destroyed.
10:09 pm: The activity of Tu-22m3 long-range strategic bombers from the Soltsi airfield of the Novgorod region was recorded.
10:32 pm: President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi said that the country is fully ready for negotiations on membership in the European Union.
● "I held several political meetings, in particular regarding the European Union, our integration in this matter. We must go to the beginning of membership negotiations. Ukraine is fully ready for this. We are doing what is necessary from our side and doing everything possible to ensure that the readiness of the European Union is also complete," he said in a video message on Monday.
11:07 pm: The air alert in the Sumy, Poltava, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhya, Donetsk regions is related to the activity of the Tu-22m3 from Soltsi airfield, Novgorod region of the Russian Federation.
11:43 pm: Countering the threat associated with Tu-22m3 activity.
● Sumy and Poltava regions are still in danger of enemy attack UAVs.
MORDOR - RUZZIA
Tuesday, July 25
10:28 am: GUR published a secret Kremlin report on how Russia purposefully disrupted the grain agreement.
● Measures to disrupt the Grain Agreement were divided into several stages:
● At the first, on Putin's initiative, Russia's participation in the ZU was suspended from 10/29/22 to 11/3/22. This led to a drop in grain export volumes from 4.2 million in October to 2.6 million in November.
● The next stage is measures to limit the admission of vessels to the Southern port, reduce the number of inspection teams (no more than two), and stop the registration of grain carriers. This led to "the inability of Kyiv to export about 20 million tons of goods."
● The third stage. From March 19 to July 17 this year. Particular attention was paid to the disruption of grain supplies by the Russians under the program of the World Food Program.
11:12 am: The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announces the attack of naval drones on the patrol ship "Sergei Kotov" of the Black Sea Fleet.
● According to them, the unmanned boats were destroyed, there were no casualties.
Monday, July 24
2:01 pm: Russia has modernized the Kh-22 missiles, making them more accurate and increasing the range, said Yuriy Ignat, the spokesman for the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
● "The Kh-32 is a version of the Kh-22, which was put into service quite recently in the 16th year in the Russian Federation and made its range longer. And the accuracy is probably higher there than that of the old Soviet, inaccurate destructive Kh-22. And yes, in general, in principle, it is a modernized Kh-22. The question is how many of them managed to be produced. But the fact that they were already used is certain," said Yuriy Ignat.
8:15 pm: In Ukraine, the commander of the "Leningrad Regiment" of the Russian Federation, Colonel Yevgeny Vashunin, was eliminated, — rosZMI.
● "Vashunin died on July 14, when his unit advanced to the aid of a detachment of Russian servicemen who had fallen into an operational encirclement," the report says.
10:56 pm: New interception of GUR of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine
● A Russian serviceman complains about cases of desertion among soldiers, as well as the refusal to evacuate the wounded and dead.
REGIONS
KYIV
Tuesday, July 25
1:47 am: Kyiv region - threat of attack UAVs being used by the enemy.
2:21 am: Head of the Kyiv Municipal Military Administration, Serhiy Popko, reported on the work of the Air Defense Forces in the Kyiv region, on the approaches to the capital.
3:23 am Social Networks: Explosions are heard in the Kyiv region. Initially, the work of air defense.
3:33 am Social Networks: Explosions are heard again in the Kyiv region, Initially, the work of air defense.
3:40 am Kyiv RMA: The movement of enemy UAVs was recorded in the Kyiv region. Air defense works in the region, -
4:03 am: "The threat of using attack UAVs for Kyiv continues. In the region, near the capital, air defense is working. Stay in shelters," — Serhiy Popko, head of the Kyiv Municipal Military Administration
5:24 am: All air targets were detected and destroyed on the approach to Kyiv by the forces and means of air defense, Serhiy Popko, head of the Kyiv Municipal Military Administration.
10:40 am: A driver hit two servicemen at a checkpoint in Kyiv, the Prosecutor General's Office reported.
● One man died, the other was hospitalized in serious condition.
CHERNIHIV
Tuesday, July 25
12:27 am: Chernihiv region - threat of enemy use of attack UAVs.
Monday, July 24
12:10 pm Chernihiv RMA: Over the past week, the Russians shelled 18 settlements in the Chernihiv region 28 times. Two women died.
● the Russians carried out 3 air raids; 1 raid using kamikaze drones of the "Shahid" type; 1 missile attack using "Iskander" cruise missiles.
● Civilian infrastructure and private houses were damaged and destroyed.
SUMY
Tuesday, July 25
11:31 am Sumy RMA: During the night and morning, the Russians launched 5 shellings, 41 explosions were recorded.
● 4 settlements in 4 territorial communities were shelled: Krasnopilska, Bilopolska, Seredino-Budska, Shalyginska.
● Initially - without human losses and destruction of civil infrastructure.
Monday, July 24
2:39 pm Social Networks: Explosions are heard in Sumy.
2:53 pm Sumy RMA: Air defense forces are working in Sumy Oblast.
7:14 pm Social Networks: Explosions are heard in Sumy region.
10:39 pm: Sumy region - threat of enemy use of attack UAVs.
KHARKIV
Tuesday, July 25
10:55 am Kharkiv RMA: Last day, Russians fired artillery, mortars and with the help of combat aircraft at the settlements of Bogodukhiv, Kharkiv, Chuguiv and Kupyan districts.
● In particular, Guryev Kozachok, Pishchane, Vovchansk, Dvorichna, Zapadne, Kupyansk and other settlements were under fire.
● In the village A private house was damaged by sand shelling. A 12-year-old boy and 2 women aged 31 and 48 were injured.
Monday, July 24
2:18 pm Kharkiv RMA: As a result of the shelling of the villages of Pischane and Dvorichna, four people were injured.
● Three people were injured in Pišchane village: a child and two women. In the village of Dvorichna, a 60-year-old man was wounded as a result of shelling
DONETSK
Tuesday, July 25
8:57 am: Attention! Donetsk region - missile danger, - Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
9:23 am General Staff: The defense forces knocked out the Russians from positions near Andriivka in the Bakhmut direction.
● The spokesman said that Ukrainian troops are conducting offensive actions north and south of the city of Bakhmut.
● At the same time, the Russians unsuccessfully advanced in the areas northwest of Orikhovo-Vasylivka, south of Ivanivskyi and west of Klishchiivka, he added.
11:54 am Social Networks: Explosions rang out in temporarily occupied Donetsk. We are waiting for official information.
Monday, July 24
2:36 pm: According to the SBU, a Russian special forces fighter who stormed Bakhmut was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
● The perpetrator was part of the Storm special unit of the Southern Military District of the aggressor country.
● After the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion, he was involved in the arrangement of fortifications and firing positions of the Russians near the railway station in Ilovaisk.
● He also repeatedly participated in attempts by the occupiers to break through the defenses of Ukrainian troops in the Bakhmut area.
3:03 pm: Commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi published a video from snipers near Bakhmut.
● "The Bakhmut direction. The work of the "Pryvid" group of the Separate Presidential Brigade named after Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytskyi. When the "Pryvid" works, the Russian enemy dies. That's what happened this time, too," Syrskyi wrote.
7:02 pm Social Networks: Explosions are heard in the Kramatorsk district of the Donetsk region.
9:12 pm Donetsk RMA: A seriously wounded child died as a result of Russian cluster munition shelling of Kostiantynivka.
● It is known about 6 more wounded civilians, among the wounded are three children.
● "Around 7:00 p.m., the Rashists opened fire on the local reservoir, on the banks of which people were resting," Kyrylenko writes.
ZAPORIZHIA
Tuesday, July 25
12:14 am: The IAEA was informed about the presence of anti-personnel mines on the territory of Zaporizhzhya NPP - in the buffer zone between the internal and external perimeter of the plant.
Monday, July 24
4:56 pm: In the Berdyansk direction, the Ukrainian military advanced from 350 m to 1.4 km in depth of the enemy, said the representative of the United Press Center of the Defense Forces of Ukraine in the Tavriysk direction, Major Valery Shershen.
● The major noted that in connection with dense mining, Ukrainian clearance groups and assault units carry out demining measures, inflict fire damage, and the rest of the shock units are entrenched on captured lines and are ready for further offensive actions.
5:37 pm Social Networks: Explosions are heard in the temporarily occupied Tokmak of the Zaporizhia region.
11:30 pm: Today at the ZNPP, in compliance with the order of the illegitimate management, power unit No. 4 was put into a "hot - stop" state.
● Such actions are a gross violation of the requirements of the license for the operation of this nuclear facility. Currently, the operation of power unit No. 4 of the ZNPP must be carried out exclusively in a "cold shutdown" state, - reports Energoatom
DNIPRO
Tuesday, July 25
12:38 am: Dnipropetrovsk region - threat of enemy use of attack UAVs.
10:04 am Dnipro RMA: The Russians shelled Myrivsk community twice during the night. Half a dozen heavy artillery shells were fired.
● 2 private houses and 3 farm buildings were damaged. Damaged cars and power lines. People were not injured.
KHERSON
Tuesday, July 25
12:50 am: The water level in the Kakhovsky Main Canal has dropped to a minimum.
● The video was shot near the village of Zaozerne of the Tavri community of the Kakhovsky district of the Kherson region.
● Russians transport the remains of stagnant water to the Berdyansky district. Locals are prohibited from approaching the canal and taking water from it.
Monday, July 24
12:28 pm: SBU detained FSB resident who created his own network of informants in Kherson
● He kept "in touch" with up to 10 informants in the region. According to the case materials, all of them were local residents who supported the armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine.
● The task of this intelligence network was to transmit to the Russian Federation up-to-date information about the units of the Armed Forces in the front-line areas of the Kherson region.
● In particular, the informants tried to identify the possible combat positions of the "Grad" salvo rocket systems and foreign M777 howitzers.
12:59 pm: The publication Astra published a satellite photo of what the Kakhov reservoir looks like after the Russian terrorist attack
11:16 pm: Defense forces destroyed 6 enemy anti-aircraft systems in the Kherson region.
● "We have worked on six enemy air defense systems in our area and they are no longer able to protect those planes. Tactical aircraft in our direction are delayed in the zone inaccessible to our air defense," said Nataliya Humenyuk, spokeswoman for the Southern Defense Forces of Ukraine.
ODESA
Tuesday, July 25
2:01 am: Odesa, Mykolaiv regions - threat of enemy use of attack UAVs.
Monday, July 24
8:46 pm: As a result of yesterday's Russian shelling of Odesa, 61 buildings were damaged, including 146 residential apartments.
● This was reported by the press service of the city council.
● "Yesterday, the conservation of residential buildings began, 869 window openings were covered with film," the message reads.
11:55 pm Odesa City Council: A wall may collapse in the Transfiguration Cathedral in Odesa, damaged during the Russian attack.
● "It is necessary to start the work as soon as possible. First, to dismantle the dangerous section of the wall. Second, to make a roof to avoid flooding in case of rain," the message says.
POLTAVA
Tuesday, July 25
8:39 am Poltava RMA: On the territory of Poltava region, air defense forces shot down a Russian drone at night.
CHERKASY
Tuesday, July 25
8:24 am Cherkasy RMA: At night, the Russians attacked Cherkasy with attack UAVs. There are three hits.
● Two "shaheds" hit a field, another an empty farm hangar. There were no casualties or fires.
KIROVOHRAD
Tuesday, July 25
12:23 am: Kirovohrad region - threat of enemy use of attack UAVs.
ZHYTOMYR
Tuesday, July 25
4:26 am Social Networks: Explosions are heard in Zhytomyr region. Initially, the work of air defense.
5:20 am Social Networks: Explosions are heard in Zhytomyr region. Initially, the work of air defense.
8:46 am Zhytomir RMA: At night, the Russians attacked Zhytomir region with kamikaze drones.
● According to preliminary data, an infrastructure facility was damaged. Information on the presence of victims and the extent of damage is being clarified.
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Comparing Soviet invasion of Afghanistan to Russian invasion of Ukraine using Wikipedia and Ukraine Ministry of Defense Daily Bulletins. Soviet and Russian military losses not including captured equipment.
SOURCES
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/
https://espreso.tv/
https://cutt.ly/Blyskavka
https://t.me/uawarinfographics
https://t.me/svoboda_radio