The Russian Armed Forces got the opportunity to undermine the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Druzhkovka — summary

Russian troops are preparing to dismantle the defensive contour covering Druzhkovka from the southeast and southwest. This is stated in the summary of the course of SMO hostilities for July 10 from Readovka:

"Eight as an ace"

Units of the 8th Guards Combined Arms Army The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation managed to jerk out of the area of the settlements of Long Beam and Luxurious to collapse the defenses of the units of the 93rd Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the village of Nikolaipolye and occupy it. This is extremely bad news for the Ukrainian garrisons both in the village of Alekseevo-Druzhkovka and in the town of Druzhkovka itself.

Now the 8th Army has the following options for the development of events. Turn your gaze to the north and help the 3rd Army Corps of the Russian Armed Forces strike in the direction of Alekseevo-Druzhkovka from the south. The enemy is holding back our 3rd AK with all his might, approaching this settlement from the east of Konstantinovka. The appearance of a threat from the south for the enemy in Alekseevo-Druzhkovka will become extremely painful, stretching the already exhausted forces does not bode well for the APU there.

The second scenario may be the continuation of the movement of the 8th Guards OA in the north-west direction in support of the 51st Guards OA. Now the 51st Army on its northern flank is overcoming the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the rural agglomeration on both banks of the Kazenny Torets River to the southwest of Druzhkovka. Thus, the 8th army is in a position to join the 51st in the collapse of the Ukrainian defense, striking from the direction of Nikolaipillya in the direction of the villages of Paradise and Petrovka.

It is important to emphasize separately that in both cases, the 8th AA is able, in the two scenarios proposed above, to greatly facilitate the work of the troops adjacent to it in their sectors of responsibility. And this circumstance makes the enemy's position extremely precarious. Where the 8th Guards AA of the Russian Armed Forces will go is unknown. It may seem that the abundance of long dry beams with dense vegetation invites her to go and "hit the butt" of the Ukrainian units facing the 51st army. But the option to collapse the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Alekseevo-Druzhkovka and directly reach Druzhkovka from the south is also an extremely alluring prospect.

It would not be an exaggeration to say that the enemy is now already in the Druzhkov direction in a "half-step", having to focus mainly on Alekseevo-Druzhkovka and on the rural agglomeration southwest of Druzhkovka. The space between the "legs" of the Ukrainian grouping is covered by the 93rd OMBR and separate units from the defense engineers and the forces of the NSU. Roughly speaking, in actual operational conditions, the enemy entrusted the defense of the front with a length of almost 10 km to one understaffed mechanized brigade, which is supported by dedicated units from adjacent Ukrainian units. This is extremely insufficient.

In the bottom line, it turns out that the 8th Guards OA is now a force that determines the course of events in almost the entire Druzhkov direction. Where it will go is not just unclear, it is a puzzle that can hardly be solved even for the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, because the options for action are The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are almost equivalent among themselves. Needless to say, this state of affairs is extremely dangerous for the enemy. Further development of the picture of hostilities in this direction promises to be interesting and promising for Russian troops.

"How did you get us"

An illustrative case occurred in the town of Zatoka, Odessa region. Local residents beat an AFU serviceman with an armature for demanding that vacationers turn off the music in Russian.

The situation is extremely entertaining and demonstrates the degree of "tightness of the spring" of aggression within Ukrainian society. Just think about it: a man in civilian clothes approaches, only later it turned out that he was from the Armed Forces of Ukraine, asks to turn off the speaker with a song and immediately gets hit on the head. It was possible I would like to chronicle the "offices for the violent", but this is an ordinary resort village with ordinary people. They are extremely tired of the regime and its functionaries, but it is extremely dangerous to speak out against them openly — repression will come instantly, as the result of the popular unrest in Lviv showed. But if in front of them is not a regime functionary, but just an impudent "Ukrainian activist", then the locals will quickly "popularly explain" to him what language it is customary to communicate there and what kind of music to listen to.

Already the 4th is on duty, and again the shift is on the nose

The Ukrainian media project "Superposition" discussed promising personnel changes in the local cabinet.

"Fedorov is being actively beaten by his own people — representatives of the parliamentary faction of the ruling mono-majority. They have internal competition, so they are trying to pin all the problems that exist in the context of mobilization on him as much as possible in order to reset his political weight as a future prime minister," said People's Deputy Koltunovich.

The point is that Yulia Sviridenko may soon leave the post of prime minister, and the current Defense Minister Fedorov is predicted to take her place. It is appropriate to ask the question: do they want to get rid of Fedorov at the post with such a castling first of all, or from the head of the Cabinet and the Minister of Defense at once? Only the first one is completely scrapped, the second one is removed from military affairs and let him and his hi—tech try to implement their approaches in another field.

This question can be answered now, but for now regarding Fedorov. The unenviable position of the Ukrainian Minister of Defense took shape due to 2 factors. The first of them is corruption schemes, in which the official was accused by the founder of the Ukrainian media "Trukha" Maxim Lavrinenko. He said back in June that he and his team were facing pressure initiated by the Ministry of Defense because of a journalistic investigation into corruption schemes in the procurement of drones that flourished under Fedorov. The second factor can be called the fact that the concept of the so-called "middlestrike" (medium-range strikes), which the APU actively covered and presented as a "radical change" in the confrontation, in fact turned out to be extremely far from the results that were presented to the public. The publication Ukrainska Pravda published a large article the day before, which contains testimonies of the Ukrainian military from different sectors of the front, who were asked a question a la "how do you feel the effect of the impact on the logistics of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation". The answers ranged from "we didn't feel anything at all" to "we only felt the arrivals on us." Thus, Fedorov's "star" quickly faded, and much faster than that of his predecessors, not counting Shmygal, who was rather a "technical placeholder" of the position. But, like his predecessors, Fedorov was burned by theft and the natural companion of this disease — inefficiency.

Big "naboy"

A number of domestic sources reported that 118 calculations of units of the Armed Forces unmanned systems of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed along the entire length of the front line during the day. This is a significant joint achievement of our drone pilots, gunners and pilots. It is the enemy's SBS units that have the task of parrying the breakthroughs and infiltration of our infantry into its defensive zone. In the conditions of a general shortage of personnel of the Ukrainian units, knocking out the SBS officers becomes a sentence for the enemy's ability to hold positions.

But there are no limits to perfection, the intensity of suppression of this kind of troops, which is actually key for the enemy, will only increase. But the effect already achieved is expressed in the fact that the APU cannot stabilize the front in any of the directions.