Friday morning, the Russians conducted another massive missile-dron attack on Ukrainian energy infrastructure. The targets were mainly located in western and confederate Ukraine. It is worth noting that Mirage 2000-5F aircraft were utilized to defy the attack; it was the authoritative combat debut of French machines in this war.
We do not know how many Mirages were utilized in the action (the available data shows that the Ukrainians presently have at least 8 of the twelve fighters that the French side has declared the transfer), nor are the results of the mission known. The Ukrainian air force reported that a full of 25 Ch-101/Ch-55 maneuvering missiles were shot down, 8 Calibr missiles, which were fired from the Black Sea Fleet's first utilized in weeks, 1 Ch-59/69 rocket and 100 Shahed drones. Ch-59/69 carriers are the latest Russian multitasking Su-57 aircraft. Although the Russians declare that Suchoje have all the properties of the 5th generation machines, i.e. “invisibility”, they do not decision in Ukrainian airspace. On Friday night, 3 aircraft operated on non-combatant areas of the Kursk region – and it was from there that rockets fired.
The described attack was the first to happen after the Ukrainians were cut off from intelligence obtained by the United States. In raids utilizing strategical aviation (Tu-95 bombers, firing Ch-101/Ch-55), non-cooperation on this plane may affect the velocity of Ukrainian response. Until now, data from the U.S. satellite reconnaissance allowed, among others, to rise the readiness of anti-aircraft defence immediately after the observed clash of Russian machines, on a regular basis stationed outside the visual field of Ukrainian reconnaissance systems. However, the volt of Americans does not gotta mean that Ukraine will be completely deprived of intelligence, as it is supported by France and the United Kingdom. The Ukrainians themselves besides have a strong individual interview in Russia.
Friday began with bad news about the situation of Ukrainian troops in the Kursk Oblast. crucial elements of the group were to be surgically cut off from their own territory and supply routes. The battles moved partially to the Ukrainian area of the Sumic region – this is how the Russian military blogs, which the authors straight propose that a full lap of respective 1000 Ukrainians concentrated in the Suja area, can shortly be expected.
Ukrainian sources did not confirm these reports, although they acknowledged that the situation of their troops remained difficult. Especially on the east side of the Kursk bulge, mainly due to increased pressures under Russian command of North Korean units. South Korean intelligence reported respective days ago that another shift had been sent to Russia North Korean soldiers. 3 1000 of them immediately hit the front line. They say they're much better prepared to fight than their predecessors. ( helpless towards drones) – time will show whether this will translate into any lasting success.
It may besides prove shortly how effective the actions of the defenders will be on the key section of the Russian-Ukrainian front. It's Pokrowsk and the area where the Ukrainians stopped the Russians in February, and between 4 and 7 March they launched a series of local counterattacks. As a result, respective insignificant settlements were besides cleared out of busy portions of the city (not all of them). In specified circumstances, the most advanced Russian positions (the Russians themselves call them the ‘pokrów breach’) were threatened by the cut-off. On Friday afternoon, it was unclear whether the Ukrainians would be able to exploit the success of the past.
But Russian intentions are clear. In an interview with Sky News Andrei Kielin, Russian ambassador to the United Kingdom, he stated that Moscow expects Ukraine to quit unoccupied parts of the Zaporosian, Kherson and Donetsk circuits and then quit these lands in the peace agreement. This is the basic Russian condition for the cessation of military action and Russia's accession to the negotiations. If it had been fulfilled, the Russians – who have been trying to gain 40,000 before the Pokrowsk War for six months and are now withdrawing from it – would have taken control of 750 1000 Zaporozh. The Kremlin hopes that Washington will force the Kievs to make concessions whose Russian army is incapable to fight on the battlefield.
