An observation regarding the Ukrainian Joint Forces Operation
Before the outbreak of Russia’s Special Military Operation, the Joint Force Operation, or JFO, was the element of the Ukrainian Armed Forces that was tasked with recapturing Donetsk and Lugansk from the Novorossiyan separatists. In fact, its mission was broader than that. Former Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko framed it in terms of “ensur[ing] More...
Kupyansk Direction: The Russians across the Oskil and at Zapadnoye?
Further to the recent FBEL article, In The Suburbs Of Kupyansk, which discussed a Russian advance towards that city on the Oskil River, there was an interesting detail included in the Russian Ministry of Defence’s More...
In the suburbs of Kupyansk
Those people who think that Putin and Russian Government is an agency for the City of London in the implementation of its New World Order will probably think that the Russian supremacy on the Ukrainian battlefield More...
Northern Donetsk, 14th January
As of yesterday the Russian Ministry of Defence started to present an update about the extent of its control in the “Donetsk direction” on the map it uses for its daily briefing, and it can be seen below translated More...
Keep watching southern Donetsk
It would very much appear that the section of the frontline that is least active at this time in the Russian undertaking known as the Special Military Operation is that which incorporates Southern Donetsk and Zaporozhe. More...
Artyomovsk and Soledar
In Donetsk, where the front line incorporates Artyomovsk and Soledar, all the news suggests that the Russians are developing an advance to the south and north of the conurbation. This can’t be discerned in the More...
Charted: Russian activity in the Kupyansk And Krasny Liman directions in December thus far
In the Russian Ministry of Defence daily briefings the action of its forces in the directions of Krasny Liman and Donetsk are explicitly called offensives. So much for the starry host of big name geopolitical analysis More...
The Kupyansk and Krasny Liman directions
The reader will no doubt have heard in the past week that the Russians have liberated the settlements of Ozaryanovka, Kurdyumovka and Andreevka. Unless the author is mistaken, these three places run consecutively More...
The Russian winter campaign has evidently already started (?)
As the title says, evidently the Russian winter campaign (in territory formerly part of Ukraine) has already started – or, in actual fact, the fighting that was already happening continues, but according to and More...
Watch southern Donetsk
While the “pro-Russian” OSINT-mongering twaterati can tell you everything you need to know about prospective Ukrainian “offensives” (as is their vocation), it seems entirely unreasonable that they should More...