Sitrep Operation Z: Back into The Grind while the penny drops in Europe

Obviously it takes a lot of ordinance to clobber a mountain. I suspect that to destroy a tunnel through a mountain you attack the entrance where it is most vulnerable. The blast wave would probably follow the tunnel, wreaking havoc with rails and power/signaling along the way. Doesn’t that seem more appropriate? Anyone with experience in this sort of thing want to comment?

Iskanders could greatly damage and close it for long stretches at a time, and force them to constantly work and spend on repairing it, and in constant danger from more missile attacks..i think since 60% of Ukraines total freight traffic to and from Europe goes through it, this attack may have been intended as a threat..If so, I suggest the time for threats is over.

“Our general expectation and still forming at the Saker Blog, is that we are going to see very huge changes in Europe first.”

To my utmost annoyance I still can’t tell what angle Macron (our french president) is working on. On one hand he’s been constantly in contact with Putin, had pled against russophobia and discouraged our corporations from leaving Russia, on the other hand he’s constantly supporting van der Leyen nonsense and his ministers have been babbling anti-russian propaganda. Same for our medias, they’re getting more and more divided on the conflict. France is living in a state of schizophrenia.
RT has made mildly positive statements regarding Macron’s diplomacy recently, so I assume he discussed with Putin about backstabbing the anglosphere somehow (he gained a reputation has a banker to doublecross his partners), but all that scheming is nervewrecking to the casual observer.
Even so, if we can’t get ride of Borrell and van der Leyen, Europe will still be stuck with a basket of nutcases.

France is celebrating the EU at this moment, and all the propaganda plastered in public places induces severe teeth grinding.

Confusing eh!  Well Macron doesn’t know the script either until it lands on his desk. 15 minutes in front of the mirror, both he and school mam wife go over his lines while trying to perfect his cheesy grin and then serious face, nothing’s left to chance. Rothschild & Co send him report cards on the 1st of every month.

Still when you have 3 or more bosses, Rothschild, EU Parliaments and the veto from America, then it’s little wonder France/Others are living in a state of acute schizophrenia.

Macron is not working on any angle whatsoever in my opinion. He pretends to listen to the Russians, but this is just insincerity. He has talked about being Jupiter, the chief deity in France, but in reality he is an errand boy who waits for instructions from the anglosphere. One must not be deceived.

How “denazification policy” works> Chinese Ambassador to Russia Zhang Hanhui: We must put an end once and for all to the hegemony of the United States, with its eternal desire to interfere in the affairs of sovereign states

Medvedev: Russia’s achievement of the goals of the special operation in Ukraine should lead to the creation of a new non US centric system of international security.

The PLA knows "how to send messages” Minister of Defense Richard Marles said the Chinese aircraft flew very close in front of the Australian jet and released a “bundle of chaff” containing small pieces of aluminum that were ingested into the Australian aircraft’s engine. “

“An interesting report on why Germany will not supply tanks to the Ukraine. Generally someone has remembered some history and they say they cannot again have German tanks on Russian territory: ”
Right. No German tanks on Russian territory. But that hasn’t stopped Germany from providing all manner of support otherwise to the Ukro-nazi’s. It doesn’t bother the German political establishment one bit that the German brand of fascism, along with its symbolism, has practically become institutionalized in Banderistan/404. And it didn’t stop German politicians, including government ministers, attending the Maidan so-called ‘protests’ & voicing open solidarity with them – protests led by Banderite Nazis. So Germany, as far as I am concerned, can go send itself off a cliff, it is a travesty that at the end of WW2, with tens of millions dead, that a German state was permitted to exist at all. Germany should have been dissolved then, the consequences of not doing so were seen in the destruction of Yugoslavia in 1991, an operation led by Germany. The good news is that Germany is in the process of destroying itself because of its servility to the US, which wishes to canibilize it economically. So good. Good riddance to a disgusting excuse for a state.

Related to the video.
Can somebody answer this:
It is unclear why Russia doesn’t use aerial bombing with heavy bombers to attack Ukr. forces on open terrain, like near Doglinka. Ukr. forces are in the trenches and in the forest and their positions are known.

Outrageous action by Bulgaria, North Macedonia, and Montenegro. But the answer is totally plain what needs to be done. Recall the Russian Ambassadors from those states and break diplomatic relations. Let’s be frank here, those three tiny mice are a drain on Russian foreign ministry expenses anyway. There isn’t any really good reason to have an Embassy in those states. They made their beds with NATO, so it’s time to make them lay in them. The Russian Embassy in Serbia could handle any matters that come up involving those states. So just save the expense and show them how unimportant they are to Russia. If their populations ever decide to stop their subversive to their US master. Then things could change.But until then dealing with them isn’t even worthwhile :

Russian FM reacts to being barred from foreign visit
https://www.rt.com/russia/556686-lavrov-serbia-nato-bulgaria/

That’s what the Berlin newspaper TAGESSPIEGEL says

Have the Ukrainians lured the Russian troops into a trap?

Heavy fighting has been raging for weeks around the once 100,000-inhabitant town of Sjewjerodonezk in the Donbass. Ukraine succeeds in a surprising counter-offensive.

Militarily, the Ukrainians may have taken the Russian troops by surprise once again. They seem to have lured Moscow’s army into a trap in the heavily contested city of Sjewjerodonezk. Numerous recent reports on the social networks speak for this.

As is so often the case in this war, they cannot be independently verified.

What is certain as of Saturday afternoon is that the Ukrainian army is carrying out a very surprising and so far successful counter-offensive in the city in the Donbass. If one believes the numerous reports, which are said to be based on sources on the ground, the Ukrainians had previously feigned a retreat. Russian troops then advanced to the centre, occupying about two-thirds of the city’s territory. However, this probably happened without the appropriate cover and equipment, which made the troops vulnerable.

As could be seen in videos posted on social media on Saturday, fresh Ukrainian troops are now said to be in the city. Among them a brigade of foreign fighters and paramilitary units. This is surprising, as the supply routes into the city had been reduced to a highway heading west in the past week. And that too was under constant Russian artillery fire.

The battle for Sjewjerodonezk is considered to have been particularly bloody and full of casualties.
However, the Ukrainians have already proved in Mariupol that they can maintain supply routes even in almost hopeless situations. There, the fighters in the Asovstal steelworks were supplied by helicopter. Fresh troops were also brought in. Only when this supply line was discovered by pro-Russian fighters did the Ukrainians have to stop the flights.

In its daily briefing on the situation in Ukraine on Saturday, the British intelligence service assumes that mainly poorly equipped pro-Russian militias are in action in Sjewjerodonezk. They would be sent forward in order to spare the actual Russian troops in the fighting, which is causing many casualties.

Hardly any experts had recently considered it possible that Ukraine would be able to hold the city. British intelligence recently assumed that Russia would conquer the entire Luhansk region within the next two weeks. With the Ukrainians’ counter-offensive, however, that could take a little longer.

https://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/schwer-umkaempfte-stadt-sjewjerodonezk-haben-die-ukrainer-die-russischen-truppen-in-eine-falle-gelockt/28402354.html

By contrast, the newspaper EFSYN, published by its own staff, is striving for a more realistic portrayal

Battle thriller in Severontonetsk

Paramilitaries of the fascist battalion “Right Sector”, reinforced by heavily armed foreign mercenaries, took the Russian forces by surprise, who went on the counterattack and eventually occupied the city. ● Heavy losses for the Ukrainians. ● The Russians are destroying warehouses with Western weapons.

… Let’s start with everyone’s greatest thriller, the Ukrainians’ hopeless “punitive operation” in the three-sided Severontonetsk encircled by three sides.

Seeing that they were losing forever their last stronghold in the province of Lugansk, the Ukrainian paramilitaries of the fascist “Right Sector” battalion, who had been stranded in the industrial zone of Severontonetsk and especially in the chemical factory Azot, proceeded on Friday night to a militarily inexplicable counterattack towards the already Russian-occupied center of the city, reinforced by a group of a few dozen heavily armed foreign mercenaries – consisting mainly of fanatical anti-Russian Georgians, but also French, British and Australian volunteers.

This motley “commando” did indeed temporarily surprise the Russian-speaking militiamen and Chechen fighters operating there, recovering and turning several inhabited districts into battlefields. Thus, in combination with the accurate – thanks to live satellite information from the US – artillery firings from the outskirts of the city, it caused significant losses not only to the fighters, but mainly to the Russian-speaking civilians of Severontonetsk, “punishing them” – according to posts in the Ukrainian social media – for the audacity they showed by welcoming the liberators warmly and publicly, for them, their compatriots.

However, after the first shock, Russians and Chechens counterattacked with cover of aircraft, helicopters and a fierce barrage of artillery, and on Sunday night the Russian Staff announced the final capture of Severontonetsk, as it appears that their last stronghold at Azot was abandoned, with the few Ukrainian survivors retreating to the also surrounded by three sides Lisitsansk, leaving behind dead, wounded and all their heavy weaponry.

In dire straits
The losses of the Ukrainian and foreign volunteers, however, seem to be very heavy, as the Russian ULA mentions hundreds of dead and the destruction of up to 90% of the Ukrainian armed formations (parts of the elite 79th Airborne Brigade, two battalions of conscripts of the 111th Territorial Defence Brigade and of course the neo-Nazi paramilitaries mentioned above) that were still operating in the city.

And of course, the concentration of thousands of Ukrainians in Lisicsansk is far from protecting them, since even a simple glance at the map shows how dire their position is and how much more difficult it becomes from hour to hour for a possible retreat to the second heavily fortified line of defense, namely the Slavyansk-Kramatorsk axis.

Russian pyrotechnicians are said to have already entered the Azot factory, where Ukrainians have reportedly explosively trapped huge tanks containing nitrate and nitric acid, following the “scorched earth” policy they have already demonstrated by blowing up factories and dams and destroying entire towns and villages in other areas of Donbass as well.

Perhaps the worst crime of the last 24 hours, at least from a historical and religious point of view, is the arson of the famous wooden Church of All Saints at the Monastery of Agia Lavra in Svyatogorsk, one of the holiest places for Russian Orthodoxy, west of the newly occupied by the Russian city of Liman: the two sides, as usual, are accused of each other, but it is certain that no Russian would ever set fire to his own church, nor would he murder (at least) four monks. Besides, the temple has been burned before, by the original Nazis, during the previous battle for the liberation of Donbass, after the battle of Kursk in 1943…

As in Lisitsansk, in Sviatogorsk things are not at all good for the Ukrainians, as the Russians have reached the outskirts and have already occupied the suburb of Yarovaya in the north, advancing from three directions.

The bridges on the river have already been blown up and the only way left to the defenders of Sviatogorsk is to escape by swimming (!) to Slavyansk, the headquarters of the Ukrainian army in Donbass, where everyone is preparing for the “mother of battles”, which will apparently begin within the next 24 hours.

All the more so since we have now entered June, temperatures are rising and with them the level of the hitherto impassable Severski Donets River is falling, allowing it to be much easier for the attackers to pass through without the heavy losses that have marked previous attempts.

On the brink of collapse seems to be yet another stronghold of the Ukrainians south of Lisicansk, in Zolote, but also one of the keys of the Ukrainian defense on the southern wall of the “cauldron”, in Avdiivka, where the bombing of the Russians is very intense, as it is the point from which the great Russian-speaking city of Donetsk has been systematically bombed – not only this year, but for eight years now –: In fact, the Ukrainians of Avdiivka again bombed the centre of Donetsk with Grad rockets on Saturday night, killing at least five civilians…

https://www.efsyn.gr/kosmos/eyropi/347004_mahes-thriler-sto-seberontonetsk

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