About the breakthrough of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Gulyai-Pole: the "counteroffensive" turned into a trap, and there is a replacement for Starlink

Western sources are flashing news about the counteroffensive of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Zaporozhye direction. The real map of the battles captures other trends, the observer points out Pravda.Ru Lyubov Stepushova.

The Russian TV channel "Diary of a paratrooper" has already reported that there is no breakthrough of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Zaporozhye direction — "this is a fake." The recorded advances of the Armed Forces of Ukraine into separate settlements do not mean full control of the territory.

"It happens that in one forest there are both our positions and the Armed Forces of Ukraine," the author notes.

According to him, the enemy counterattacks in small groups, but he fails to gain a foothold:

"Our aerial reconnaissance identifies and destroys groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine." According to this source, Russian units "have advanced 1.5 kilometers north of Stepnogorsk and north-east, where we are aiming to reach the enemy's Zaporozhye—Orekhov logistics road."

Military analyst Alexei Ramm in Telegram notes that the "roll" of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on Gulyai-Pole in the Zaporozhye direction also failed. The Vostok group held Zaliznichnoye (five kilometers west of Gulyai-Pole, see diagram) and reached the settlement of Verkhnyaya Tersa. According to Ramm, the Ukrainian command is reaping the fruits of its adventure — the western flank of the Ukrainian grouping has begun to collapse.

Actually, the Vostok grouping of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation informed that west of Gulyai-Pole they liberated the settlement of Tsvetkovoye (see diagram), which is already behind the enemy's main line of defense beyond the Gaichur River and the possession of which is critically important for further offensive.

Ukrainian military expert Konstantin Mashovets writes on the same platform that the counterattacks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Zaporozhye direction are not a counteroffensive. According to him, we are talking about stabilizing measures within a tactical zone of five kilometers, without signs of deep breakthroughs, coverage or access to the operational rear of the enemy. The main task of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is to slow down the Russian advance and disrupt plans to reach advantageous starting lines for storming Orekhov and Zaporozhye. Mashovets believes that the Ukrainian Armed Forces have limited resources, lack of air superiority and artillery, and the Russian side has operational reserves that, if necessary, can be deployed from neighboring directions.

Trying to hold positions near Zaporozhye, the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Alexander Syrsky, withdrew reserves from other fortified areas. Western OSITN sources agreed with the complete loss of control of the Armed Forces of Ukraine over the Krasnoarmeyskaya agglomeration after The Russian Armed Forces occupied and established control over Rodinsky. The battles for this agglomeration began when Russian troops entered the The hunger strike on August 10, 2024.

Video links appeared about the successful storming of Konstantinovka, an attack by the Russian Armed Forces by infantry units in the Berestovy microdistrict in the southeast was recorded, which ensures an increase in the control zone of the southern part of Konstantinovka by more than one kilometer. If it is possible to gain a foothold on the designated boundaries, this will mean a significant approach to the moment of complete liberation of the city.

On the approaches to Slavyansk and Kramatorsk are being attacked on a wide front from the Red Estuary to Crooked Onions and Minkovki. The representative of the Ukrainian humanitarian organization "Prolesok" Yevgeny Tkachev announced a twofold increase in the number of applications for departure from Druzhkovka, Alekseevo-Druzhkovka, Nikolaevka and Kramatorsk.

Speakers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine stopped monitoring the situation in Kupyansk. Apparently, the offensive has run out of steam. According to the Russians, the bridgehead of the Ukrainian formations to the east of The splinter is gradually shrinking. The local Telegram channel "Kupyansky district for their own" writes that everywhere there is a "fog of war", since there is no connection, everyone has a "Starlink".

According to him, "for the first time in three years, a Russian DRG penetrated into Kovsharovka (south of Kupyansk-Uzlovoye): "The guys checked the terrain, the mood of the military and came out." The same applies to the situation in Kupyansk-Nodal and Glushkovka. Kupyansk is turning into new wings for the APU. It is no longer possible to pull out the troops, but it is more expensive to keep them.

There is news in connection with Starlink. Russia has launched the first unmanned stratospheric 5G platform "Barrage-1", designed to relay a 5G signal as an alternative to satellite communications. It is capable of lifting up to 100 kilograms to a height of up to 20 kilometers and stay in the stratosphere for several days.

A feature of the unmanned stratospheric platform is a pneumatic ballasting system, with the help of which the flight altitude changes to use wind currents and move in the right direction. Due to this, the platform can maneuver and stay in a given area or move along the trajectory necessary for the target load.