A new Russian attack on the besieged Azovstal metallurgical plant in Mariupol has been going on for at least two days. Britain’s Defense Ministry said it is likely an effort through the Russian military to achieve at least one symbolic victory in the city that President Vladimir Putin can then tout on the anniversary of Victory Day on May 9.
Seemingly a patriotic reminiscence of the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in 1945, with army parades on Red Square, Victory Day co-opted by Putin and his regime as an annual nationalist spectacle of army strength and equipment. This year’s anniversary has a greater importance in general. given that the Russian government has claimed that the “denazification” of Ukraine is a key objective of its operations there.
Two weeks ago, Putin officially ordered the Russian military to surround the metal plant, where many civilians, including women and children, are entrenched in addition to Ukrainian defenders. Russian officials denied any change in their operational stance in Mariupol earlier this week, despite reports to the contrary from Ukrainian forces.
The courageous and so far successful defense of the site by Ukrainian forces, who have continued to fight despite significant losses over the past two months, has a national rallying cry. The vast structure of the metal plant, several kilometers long, with extensive underground tunnels, is designed to cope with a nuclear attack, so the uninterrupted bombardment has not driven out the troops and civilians who remain inside.
WARNING: Some of the updates below involve graphic elements.
Before we get into the rest of the most recent updates below, readers of The War Zone can first keep abreast of previous developments in the confrontation in Ukraine with our previous uninterrupted policy here.
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Russian troops have continued their offensives in southeastern and eastern Ukraine since May 6, but have continued to fight to achieve significant tactical advances outside the Donbass and Crimean spaces they already control.
It has been observed that Belarusian forces are being deployed for training inside their country in northern Ukraine, raising concerns. The British Ministry of Defense had assessed in the past that the Russian military could exploit such training while forcing Ukrainian forces to maintain a presence across parts of the territory. the country’s northern border, which would prevent them from redeploying to join the fighting in the east. Meanwhile, Russian missile movements continue to penetrate deep into the interior of Ukraine, destroying military and non-military targets in the process, the latter category of which includes schools, hospitals and homes.
For his part, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko says his country is not involved in the war in any way and that his army’s training does not pose a risk to Ukraine. Lukashenko, a key best friend of Russian President Putin, has also taken the step of saying publicly that so far his former neighbors have failed to achieve their goals in Ukraine.
The Kremlin has strongly denied reports that it is preparing for a full mobilization of its armed forces in order to expand operations in Ukraine. Reports that such a move could stick to the Russian military’s abandonment of its initial attack on the capital, Kyiv, in order to massify troops and apparatus in the south and east, where a new offensive has been brewed.
As the Russian air and ground forces continue their operations, there are rumors that the Russian Navy would possibly have lost, or at least suffered significant damage, at the hands of some other main surface fighter. Unfounded accounts that the Admiral Grigorovich-class frigate, Admiral Makarov, one of Russia’s most complex war shipments, was hit by Ukrainian anti-shipping missiles while en route to the Black Sea, began appearing on May 6. A highly suspicious video of the burning shipment appeared on Twitter and has been widely discredited as video game footage, yet Russia has yet to deny mainstream reports that at least one of its war shipments suffered significant damage. You can read more about all of this here.
In other reports on Russian shipments, at least one victim of the sunken missile cruiser Moskva officially “disappeared” rather than perished in an act of war, according to Russian authorities. The parents of Russian sailor Dmitry Shkrebets were informed that the shipment never entered Ukraine. It sank on its own without the help of Ukrainian Neptune anti-ship missiles. Not only does this support the Russian government’s line that hostile action was not to blame for the sinking of the cruiser, but may also isolate the Shkrebets and the families of other deceased. sailors of the benefits granted to workers assimilated to the army corps killed in combat.
A recent NBC News report also indicates that the sinking of the Moskva, the flagship of the Russian Black Sea fleet, was carried out with the obvious help of American intelligence. The White House described the report as “inaccurate” but did not specify what is particularly false in its contents. The Pentagon also rejected another recent New York Times report that U. S. intelligence was not used to the U. S. The U. S. helped Ukraine attack Russian generals on the ground, but at the same time showed that U. S. officials were attacking Russian generals on the ground. U. S. troops are transmitting data vital to the war effort for Ukrainian counterparts.
Despite the humiliating loss of Moskva and other setbacks suffered by the Russian Navy, the passage of goods through Ukrainian ports is severely restricted. .
Ukraine also continued its call for help, adding Western fighter jets and surface-to-air missiles. It remains to be noted how temporarily Ukrainians can be trained to fly unknown cells and whether they could do so without much outside help.
However, Russian efforts to threaten the foreign coalition that supplies arms and other goods to Ukraine, and to disrupt the shipment of those materials to the front, appear to be ineffective. M777 howitzers and a host of other new weapons continue to appear in Ukraine, while videos and photographic evidence of their actual use in fighting continues to proliferate online.
A remarkable progression in terms of the emergence of more foreign army aid for the Ukrainian armed forces on the battlefield occurred in the form of photographs that would have shown parts of a Brimstone missile provided across the UK. Last Friday, British officials said they expected those missiles to take “weeks” to reach the country.
The weapons provided and produced locally had devastating tactical effects on the Russian forces, as evidenced by the turret of the T-72 tank nailed to the sidewalk in the photo below. The water-soaked corpse of a Russian attack helicopter that emerged from the water where it crashed, noted in the Tweet below, is another example. Russian tank losses in Ukraine now come with at least one T-90M, one of the country’s most complex combat vehicles, and one that is in short supply.
Ukrainian drones continue to wreak havoc among Russians, while satellite images continue to show the devastation of Ukraine, as evidenced by the video below.
A reported video of the use of U. S. -made Switchblade stray munitionsThe U. S. military, commonly known as suicide drones, has appeared in Ukraine. The clip shows the small but well-directed explosion of a Switchblade scatter shrapnel through a Russian device gun slot. Russian forces then posted images of the drone’s corpse on social media. USA. The U. S. Navy promised many more Switchblades, as well as mysterious new drones called “Phoenix Ghost,” which were designed by the U. S. Air Force’s Big Safari office. U. S. for use in Ukraine against Russian forces. , they still have to go live.
A British Martlet surface-to-air missile was able to shoot down another Russian Orlan-10 drone, in what appears to be a cannon case to kill a mosquito until one considers the fatal role that small unmanned systems have taken on this. war.
A reminder that Ukraine is not immune to the downing of its own drones, it is believed that Russia may also use captured Soviet-era jet drones such as the Tu-141.
Russia reportedly hit the home of a Ukrainian grandmother who has become an icon in Russia for waving a Soviet flag over Ukrainian troops. Russia’s consul general later admitted that his Twitter account was hacked after the account posted photos of protesters dressed in yellow and blue with symptoms. saying “I Ukraine”. The Consul General then gave his personal account.
A new list of sanctioned individuals has passed through the BRITISH Treasury. The list included a journalist who ran for Russia Today.
In another war-related episode, Israel’s prime minister told Reuters on Thursday that Russian President Vladimir Putin apologized for Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s comments that Adolf Hitler was partLy Jewish and that Jews were guilty of the Holocaust. The Kremlin then declined to say whether the verbal exchange or apology has taken place.
More evidence has emerged that this war will spread on the internet through a soldier who spray-painted his Instagram account on the wall of a civilian area amid the fatal attack by Russian forces through Bucha.
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