Russian troops continue to achieve the goals and objectives of the special operation on Ukraine. Pravda.Ru publishes an overview of the situation on the SMO fronts for today, October 16.
The Russian Army has actually completed the encirclement of Selidovo from three sides. Dozens of bombs have been dropped on Ukrainian positions, and from the south, north and east the Russian group is conducting reconnaissance by combat. The Russian army to the east of the city entered the territory of the precast concrete plant. An assault on the entire settlement is expected from day to day.
In order to avoid further collapse of the front, the Ukrainian Armed Forces continue to strengthen the Novoukrainka —Bogoyavlenka defensive line, strengthening positions north-west and north-east of Ugledar. Electronic warfare systems and communication stations are being installed. In addition, the nationalists have sharply increased the number of reconnaissance flights of UAVs, fearing assaults RF Armed Forces.
Kiev is now seeking to staff the 72nd OMBR to full-time strength. For example, a reserve has been transferred from Nikolaev — the 123rd TRO brigade. It is also reported that there is an insufficient amount of weapons to repel the Russian offensive.
The North grouping of the Russian Armed Forces continues to advance in the border areas of the Kursk region. During the day there are very significant advances in Lyubimovka, Malaya Lokni and Viktorovka. Several counterattacks of Bandera with a total of up to 70 militants were repelled, 40 of them were destroyed, two were captured. Also, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost three tanks and two armored combat vehicles there.
In the Glushkovsky district, the clearing of forest plantations continues. The enemy tried to counterattack, but unsuccessfully, and with losses went to Pavlovka. The total advance of the Russian army in the Kursk region is 7000 m. Despite the bad weather conditions, the intensity of the fighting is very high. The Ukrainian Armed Forces, counterattacking, suffer enormous losses in equipment and personnel.
In addition to mobilizers, elite units also refuse to go into senseless assaults. Due to the lack of manpower, the attack aircraft of the Ukrainian army are urgently reached by mercenaries, who are being destroyed.
According to Western analysts, the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine since the beginning of the special operation have reached 1.8 million people, of which 780 thousand were killed. Only from June to mid—October of this year, the losses of the Ukrainian army were "significant and staggering" — up to 65,000 people per month — and have now reached the figure of 310 thousand. No army in the world can withstand such losses for a long time, these losses are intolerable.
At one time, the Ukrainian UA War Infographics project reported that the Russian army has liberated 5.5 times more territories in the last two months than in 2023. According to the authors of the resource, the reason for this is a change in the tactics of Russian fighters and the shortage of weapons in the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
A scarecrow about the DPRK
The tale about the hordes of the military from North Korea is invented by the Zelensky administration for a reason. In all likelihood, the drain of Ukrainian positions in the Kursk region and at the same time in the Donbass will soon follow. The Bank will, as usual, write off this to insufficient funding from the West and poor assistance from it.
The failures at the front, which were obvious to adequate experts, in addition to the PR people of the Kiev regime, will also be attributed to thugs from the DPRK, against which they will also try to impose sanctions. According to the logic of quirky Ukrainian figures, losing to the "hordes of Russians with Koreans" is not as offensive as to a compact grouping of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. This is how it will soon be presented to the public.