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The city of Lutsk, home to airfields used by the Ukrainian army, was the hardest hit, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. It lies in western Ukraine near the border with Poland, a region that is a crucial hub for receiving foreign military aid.

The attack comes at a time of increased uncertainty over the supply of crucial American weapons and as U.S.-led peace efforts have stalled. Zelenskyy said that the Kremlin was “making a point” with it.

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https://english.nv.ua/amp/fighting-in-sumy-oblast-ukrainian-troops-launch-series-of-counterattacks-and-advance-50528377.html

edit here is an article

Unconfirmed but notice how this reality does not fit western media coverage at all.

The best Russia can hope for now is to scare Ukraine out of fighting any longer or conversely baiting Ukraine into a counterattack that they overcommit too.

The current Russian offensive is catastrophically unsustainable for the Russian warmachine, it won't work when they have fooled themselves into thinking demechanization was a good idea against artillery and that APCs are obsolete (no, Russia's APCs are obsolete, even their newest armor is still obsolete).

Ukraine will gain the operational freedom to f&$# up Russia bad soon, Ukraine needs to understand there is no more critical moment to retain poise and situational awareness, the rush of being able to decisively fight back easily overwhelms the war saturated defender's caution.

No let these coming counterattacks be calmly executed with precision to make Russia pay and not leave them a single inch to exploit in the associated manuevers.

As military analyst Stephen D. Biddle asserts, “Force em­ployment had played a more important role than either technology or prepon­derance for twentieth century war­fare.” Therefore, although military hardware matters, doctrine will have a greater role in enabling success on the battlefield.

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Therefore, rather than narrowly apply­ing synchronization to direct and indi­rect fires, leaders must consider the synchronization of all friendly warfight­ing functions (WfFs), consisting of command and control, movement and maneuver, fires, intelligence, sustain­ment, and protection, as well as the desynchronizing of enemy WfFs.

In­telligence is its own breaching tenet, but degrading the enemy’s intelligence capability serves an equally important role. As another example, sustainment has a critical role in ensuring resources are available to the support, breach, and assault forces during all phases of the operation.

Additionally, vehicle re­covery plans are critical to prevent breach lanes from being blocked by im­mobilized vehicles. Shaping operations near Rivnopil which targeted RAF sus­tainment had both physical and moral effects on the defending company, and enabled 31st Mechanized Brigade’s assault. Thus, commanders and staffs must look beyond synchronizing friendly action and aggressively tear apart the enemy’s system.

https://www.army.mil/article-amp/286857/blocked_and_bloodied_lessons_from_the_combined_arms_breach_during_the_2023_ukranian_counter_offensive

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Another report from Frontelligence team

Full details in the linked article. Key takeaways below taken from https://xcancel.com/Tatarigami_UA/status/1941169819581296938

For many in developing countries, Russia offers a chance to earn blood money they might never otherwise see. Hundreds of Cubans have taken that path, and our team Frontelligence Insight used them as a case study to find out how many foreigners are now fighting for Russia.🧵Thread

2/ In 2023, a major data leak exposed records of hundreds of Cuban mercenaries, later investigated by @InformNapalm. We analyzed 176 personal files and found that most recruits were between 30 and 39 years old, followed by those aged 40 to 49 - with a few even over 60.

3/ With their full names in hand, tracing their whereabouts on Russian social media was relatively easy. One mercenary in particular, Enriquez Linares Livan Michel, proved especially useful. His social media profile contained both photographs and geodata.

4/ Several of the geotagged images labeled “Krym” actually led us to the Slobodka training grounds near Tula, used by the 106th Guards Airborne Division. The presence of Cuban recruits at this location had previously been confirmed by another investigative group - @cxemu

5/ For verification, we tracked another Cuban mercenary who posted photos in 2024 under the name Luis Darien and geolocated him in the same spot as well - on the premises used by the 1060th Separate Logistics Support Battalion of the 106th Airborne Division.

6/ Satellite imagery from May 2025 shows visible vehicle tracks and signs of grass fires at both the shooting range and vehicle training area - typical indicators of training exercises. That said, we cannot confirm whether any Cubans remain there in 2025

7/ Under standard contracts, Cubans were promised a 195,000‑ruble signing bonus, monthly pay of 204,000 rubles in the active combat zone, injury compensation up to 1,000,000 rubles, and 2,000,000 rubles for death benefits. Contracts explicitly mention "special military operation"

8/ While our team cautiously estimates that just over 500 Cubans and a similar number of Serbs have attempted to enlist in 2023 and 2024, pinpointing exact figures for each nationality is difficult. That said, drawing on two key data points, we can offer a range

9/ One key reference comes from an investigation by iStories. In April 2025, using data from a hacked Unified Medical (EMIAS) database, iStories analyzed and identified more than 1,500 foreign citizens who went through Moscow recruitment center for contract military service

10/ A second reference comes from internal personnel documents from several Russian brigades and regiments. Although these records give only a partial view, given the unknown distribution of mercenaries across units, they still help approximate the overall scale

11/ Documents showed only a small number of foreign fighters, often less than a platoon. This suggests the overall count is far lower than some media claims. If there were truly 5,000 Cubans or 15,000 Nepalese, as CNN reported, their presence would be far more visible

12/ After approximating the total number of brigades and regiments, estimating the average number of foreign fighters per unit, accounting for higher concentrations in airborne divisions, and subtracting losses since 2023, we arrived at a range of 4660 - 8000 foreign mercenaries

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Paywall Bypass Link https://archive.is/gvHhw

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Ukrainian defense officials have stated that monthly output reached 20 units, with optimal conditions allowing for up to 36. By mid-2025, more than 85% of components were sourced domestically, with a target of reaching 95% by the end of the year. Manufacturing operations are distributed across facilities in Ukraine and EU member states to reduce exposure to missile attacks.

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Earlier, in April 2025, Ukraine nearly doubled the monthly production rate of its Bohdana self-propelled howitzers to as many as 36 units. The increase followed efforts to decentralize manufacturing across domestic and international facilities, with over 85% of components produced within Ukraine.

The patent news was already posted, but the details in this article are good and look at that production increase. It could not come at a more crucial time either. This is one of the largest shifts in power in the war so far, I know people think I am weird for emphasizing artillery but I don't see this shift in power being delineated by the media and it is a crime especially for the morale of Ukrainians. These cannons are saving the lives of Ukrainian soldiers over and over again as we speak.

Here is info on production of towed Bohdanas.

In an interview with Channel 5 published the day before, Major General (Ret.) Ivan Lisovyi stated that five batches of Bohdana-BG howitzers had already been delivered in 2025. This suggests a high production tempo, likely in the range of 10 to 20 units per month, comparable to the self-propelled version

https://en.defence-ua.com/industries/how_many_domestically_produced_bohdana_bg_towed_howitzers_have_ukrainian_forces_received_in_2025-15070.html

For an example of why this kind of artillery is more relevant than ever see the details of this successful artillery strike from a great distance in coordination with drone spotters.

https://en.defence-ua.com/video/ukrainian_zuzana_2_system_delivers_scores_deep_strike_with_nato_howitzer-50.html

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/155_mm_SpGH_Zuzana

The strike targeted russian 152 mm artillery system at a reported distance of over 25 kilometers.

A total of eight rounds were fired from the Zuzana 2 system, reportedly achieving a high concentration of impacts on the identified position. The strike was carried out beyond visual range and is described as the unit's current record for precision engagement at extended distance.

Let me put this in perspective cus y'all must think I am crazy.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_artillery_by_country

The wikipedia entry for artillery by country doesn't even have an entry for Ukraine and yet by many metrics Ukraine is now producing sophisticated 155mm artillery systems with world class barrels at a rate that rivals any other country on earth, whether we are talking towed artillery or armored self propelled artillery, especially given the sophistication of the bohdana's fire control systems.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2A36_Giatsint-B

^ A side note, the carriage for the towed Bohdana version is currently a repurposed one originally designed for the Soviet Union's Giatsint-B "Hyacinth" towed 152mm artillery. This is a smart move as it repurposes as much as possible from Ukraine's inventory of 152mm artillery of this type along with the relevant logistics and supply chain elements specific to just the carriage of the artillery piece and creates a natural strategic flexibility for Ukraine that Russia is poorly situated to rival especially given the incredible increase in 155mm artillery ammunition production globally, Russia is going to be left out in the cold rain with an artillery caliber (152mm) that is vastly underproduced compared to 155mm while Ukraine simultaneously will retain a powerful capacity to repurpose any Russian artillery or ammunition it gets its hands on even very late into a war of attrition as it is actively fielding artillery pieces of both calibers with as much shared mechanical aspects between the two as possible.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=E8pu6WiEICc&pp=0gcJCfwAo7VqN5tD

In the peculiar way power is projected in war, the simple capacity to place a sophisticated 155mm cannon onto a soviet era 152mm artillery carriage in a simple, effective, and expedient manner at an industrial scale has an immediate impact in the threat of burst potential it creates strategically. Russia knows it is losing the artillery war bad, but if they can't even count on it at least taking some time to arrange mass production of artillery carriages for the towed guns to mate them too and iron out all the problems... suddenly forecasting out the strategic outlook becomes much harder for Russia.

In particular the threat of a counter offensive, even if remote and unlikely, becomes much more serious if a large amount of your towed artillery is recovered by the enemy before you can destroy it... well now you just delivered the enemy a new set of artillery carriages for their factories.... Remember, no matter what the media says, these artillery pieces are too integral especially for attrition warfare to NOT use. Russia HAS to have at least some of them to conduct even basic aspects of modern warfare manuevers.

Consider that Russian generals, if they aren't idiots, are looking at all their currently in use 152mm artillery that have similar carriages and thinking "Ukraine can do far more damage with these than we can by ripping the shitty cannon off and replacing it with their vastly superior 155mm bohdanas they are producing at a stunning rate.."

That is not the kind of thing that generals who are winning think about when they stare blankly at a truck trailer on their smoke break.

Edit Also consider the strategic advantage inherent to simplifying decoy artillery production which is a simple age old strategy to protect your valuable artillery crew, and the flexibility to obscure important gaps in logistics, that come from Ukraine's seperate artillery calibers 152mm and 155mm mostly being mounted on very similar looking carriages as far as towed artillery is concerned. Now consider the perspective of Ukranian intelligence being able to glean the dizzying array of Russian artillery sizes needed to keep up their artillery fire pace, yes they just received a large number of North Korean Koksan artillery which have impressive performance from a purely hardware standpoint, but that is another seperate caliber fielded by an extremely distinctive looking artillery piece. If you are trying to design a counteroffensive or hit the enemy back at places that are already logistical bottlenecks to maximally increase the strength of your limited ammunition, then this kind of difference adds up every time battle occurs... but also it makes it that much harder for decoys to be effective and believable enough to fool Ukranian drones and intelligence because Russia needs more of them with more shapes to match the greater variety of distinctive artillery pieces in order to sufficiently confuse Ukraine and give Russia the space to make decisive operational maneuvers. You can say that well.. trained personnel know the difference between similar looking military equipment, but remember military intelligence often doesn't come from the military especially in wars where there is an occupying force that is generally unwanted by the population......


The Czech government has confirmed it will continue supplying artillery ammunition to Ukraine through 2026 as part of its international initiative, Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský said in an interview with Bloomberg on June 17.

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He noted that while exact delivery figures for 2026 have not been disclosed, shipments for 2025 are expected to reach 1.8 million rounds, backed by 11 countries and frozen Russian assets.

Lipavský described the Czech-led initiative as a turning point on the battlefield, stating that it helped reduce the firepower disparity between Ukrainian and Russian artillery from a 1-to-10 ratio in early 2022 to 1-to-2 in 2025.

https://united24media.com/latest-news/18-million-shells-for-ukraine-czech-led-ammo-surge-marks-war-turning-point-9219

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At Open Ulysses, we’re turning every word of James Joyce’s "Ulysses" into a clickable link.

Some links reflect the current state of the world, some capture modern culture, others are just playfully weird or totally random.

We've added a few pro-Ukrainian links, because we believe: supporting Ukraine is important. Can you suggest a few more?

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Marhanets, a town where more than 40 thousand people lived before the full-scale war, has been terrorized by Russians for over three years. The town has frequent power and water shortages, and the residents suffer from regular artillery shelling and drone attacks from the occupied Enerhodar on the left bank of the Dnipro, which is seven kilometres away in a straight line.

While the town is struggling to survive, Hennadii Borovyk, the mayor of Marhanets, makes money. In a year and a half, the local “Agency of municipal services”, ensuring the heating for the critical infrastructure, has made over seventy agreements for a total of UAH 123 million, more than UAH 112 million of which were received by only four entrepreneurs, directly related to Borovyk.

NGL.media investigated how the provision for municipal needs can be transformed into one’s own business.

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Mirror

"Krasnozavodsk Chemical Plant" is an enterprise in the Moscow region, specializing in the production of industrial and military chemicals. The plant is known for the production of artillery charges, explosives and components for ammunition.

https://t.me/supernova_plus/40977

56°26'44.2"N 38°13'55.9"E

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