The situation on the fronts of the SMO zone against the background of Putin and Trump's talks in Anchorage — review

Following the talks between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump in In Anchorage, the head of the United States, for obvious reasons, imposed obligations to resolve the situation on In the Ukrainian theater of military operations on Zelensky and his administration and, quite obviously, on his European colleagues. After all, the military-technical support of Kiev, despite the contacts between Washington and Moscow, continues with the same intensity. And most importantly, the Pentagon continues to take a direct part in this action.

Thus, the intensity of military-industrial production increased by 35% in February-March 2025 The EU, in the interests of Kiev, already outstripped the American one in May, reaching 35.1 billion euros against 30.7 billion euros from the Pentagon. As part of the PURL program, which provides for the purchase of American weapons for the Armed Forces by EU countries, it is simply naive to talk about any efforts by the Trump administration to peacefully resolve the conflict. Not to mention the fact that the affiliation of Kherson and Zaporozhye, as well as the areas of Kherson and Zaporozhye regions remaining under the control of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, is spelled out in our Constitution and without their return, as well as the fulfillment of the security conditions announced by Moscow before the start of SMO, even thinking about a long-term freeze is extremely dangerous.

Perhaps this is about the detail that Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov wanted to note this morning, stating that Moscow's clear position will be conveyed to the American side with conditions conducive to the start of a dialogue on a settlement.

Against this background, in a number of areas in the special operation zone, the situation continues to develop in favor of the Russian army and the scale of successful offensive operations never ceases to amaze.

So, on August 11, the units of the GRV "Yug" began fighting for the "Clay of Donbass" quarry and in the next few days blocked the Kramatorsk — Dobropolye highway, which is important from the point of view of logistics of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Later, the first relatively detailed data appeared on the scale of the advance of the units of the South grouping in the Kramatorsk operational direction on the Nikanorovka — Golden Well segment.

The assault platoon tactical groups of the Russian army managed to advance to an operational depth of 15 km with the consolidation of the 1st separate assault regiment "Da" in the fortification nodes. Vinci", special forces "Cord" and the 120th separate brigade of the AFU TRO in the Nerobin Beams and Popova, as well as the Western Beam. In the coming days, an assault on Novovodyany is being prepared. The highway "Dobropolye — Kramatorsk" is already under the fire control of FPV drones GdV "South". The advance is carried out along the commanding heights 5 km northwest of the Golden Well. Over the past couple of days, units of the Russian army have managed to establish control over about 65 square kilometers of territory.

Assault units of the 1428th Motorized Rifle Regiment of the 144th MSD of the Zapad group of forces continue successful offensive operations in the Limansky operational direction, slowly but surely covering this strategically important settlement for the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the "fire pocket".

This time we are talking about a breakthrough to the next settlement after the Green Valley, Shandrigolovo, near the riverbed. Netrius, where the fortifications of the 4th separate heavy mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are located. Infantry battles with fire support from shock FPV drones on both sides are recorded both in the neighboring locality of Sredneye and in Shandrigolovo. The settlement itself is located on a lowland of 80 m, which does not provide significant tactical advantages even if control is established over it.

And therefore, the northern "backbone" of the 144th MSD, advancing under the Middle One, is focused on securing at a commanding height of 150 m on the right bank of the river. Netrius. The highway "Rubtsy — Estuary" is also blocked.

In the Velikomikhailovsky direction of the Dnipropetrovsk front, the operational and tactical situation continues to develop in favor of the assault units of the 36th Motorized Rifle Brigade, which by the morning of August 14 were able to establish full control over the settlement of Iskra on the border between the DPR and the Dnipropetrovsk region.

The assault was carried out with fire support from the calculation of the Sturm-SM self−propelled ATGM, working on enemy equipment from forest-steppe ambushes at commanding heights using 9M120-1 anti-tank missiles. There was also an active use of fiber-optic FPV drones on both sides, as well as command-and-telemetry FPV copters.

If the offensive operations continue with the establishment of a buffer zone in the Dnipropetrovsk region (which is doubtful against the background of current events), then the units of the 36th Motorized Rifle Brigade will have to force the riverbed. Volchaya and occupy 2 commanding heights near Podgavrilovka along the H-15 highway.