Even after three months of fighting for #Severodonetsk and #Lysychansk, many people are still pro-#Russian. However, #Ukrainian partisans have become increasingly active across the eastern #Luhansk region, particularly since early July. https://
bit.ly/3phkSos
Full-scale invasion and national resilience, broadcasted live.
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Ukrainian partisans active in Luhansk despite pro-Russian stance
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Russian plan to take over city with inside help fails
I think the most likely explanation is that the Russians believed they had people on the inside (as it's a mostly Russian-speaking city) who would help them take it over. But that plan evidently didn't work out.
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Ukraine downs Russian jet and drones
Military: Ukraine shoots down Russian Su-25 jet. Over the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian military also destroyed four Russian Orlan-10 drones in the east of Ukraine, the Joint Forces Operation reported on Aug. 13.
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US Defense Official: Ukraine’s Armed Forces are a ’12’ in effectiveness
.@DeptofDefense official
"…On a scale of zero to 10, the effectiveness of Armed Forces would be a 12… just based on how impressive they've been to us in so many different ways. … They have found ways to do things that we might not have thought were possible."
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20 commandos killed in school fire
15/ As a result, up to 20 of our commandos perished in the completely burnt-out school. pic.twitter.com/WsQS2ZhEPl
— ChrisO_wiki (@ChrisO_wiki) 13 août 2022As a result, up to 20 of our commandos perished in the completely burnt-out school.
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Russian Spetsnaz fight ten-hour battle against attackers
12/ According to eyewitnesses, the Russian spetsnaz refused to surrender and the guys fought an unequal battle for about ten hours, until darkness fell. The guys withstood three assaults. https://t.co/C4gs6BNCBK
— ChrisO_wiki (@ChrisO_wiki) 13 août 2022According to eyewitnesses, the Russian Spetsnaz refused to surrender and fought an unequal battle for about ten hours until nightfall. The men withstood three assaults.
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Ukrainian BTR-4 destroyed as scouts resist surrounded building
10/ The building was surrounded, the scouts put up fierce resistance and a Ukrainian BTR-4 "Bucephalus" was destroyed. pic.twitter.com/2xRGWPMtRQ
— ChrisO_wiki (@ChrisO_wiki) 13 août 202210/ The building was surrounded, the scouts put up fierce resistance and a Ukrainian BTR-4 "Bucephalus" was destroyed.
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School surrounded by Ukrainian forces with tanks
The school was surrounded by fighters from the 92nd Brigade of the AFU, police special forces Kord, Omega, and the [territorial defence] on heavy military equipment, including a tank brought up by the Ukronazis, who began firing from a safe distance using RPG rounds.
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Troops unprepared, ambushed, reminiscent of Grozny 1994.
7/ but simply driving around the city for some time, trying to find out where they were expected and what they should do. (Very reminiscent of the first storming of Grozny [in 1994] when the troops were thrown into ambushes prepared on their routes – ed).
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@chriso_wiki — 2022-08-13
2/ "The dead have no shame". Today Russia knows in detail about the "Gostomel" landing, the marines and the 9th regiment of the DNR army that took Mariupol. Unfortunately, many more pages of deeds of the Russian guys are still hidden from us.