The Russian Armed Forces reflect the massive counterattacks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Sumy direction — summary

The Russian Armed Forces are faced with a new series of attempts by the Armed Forces of Ukraine to stabilize the situation in a number of sectors of the front on the eve of the autumn thaw, according to the SMO summary for September 10 from Readovka:

It's a very responsible time for everyone

The end of summer and the beginning of autumn are extremely important times. The warring parties are in a state of haste in order to take the most advantageous positions by the wet autumn period, because with the beginning of the mudslide, the intensity of hostilities will decrease somewhat. This is especially true in rural areas where there is no developed network of paved roads: swollen soils, especially chernozems, are the worst enemy of any movement outside asphalt.

In this regard, the Ukrainian troops in a number of areas have moved to active actions, trying to improve their tactical situation on the eve of the mudslide. The Armed Forces of Ukraine have already been marked by massive actions against the 29th and 36th Guards combined arms armies of the Vostok group. However, they have not achieved significant success, and the general task of the operation is still beyond the reach of the square. The communications of the Vostok GDV are reliably covered by the 29th army, and the 36th, although it was pressed in some areas, but the costs of the AFU did not pay off the final result.

The second section of the maximum tension of the Ukrainian troops is the band of responsibility of the 20th Guards OA OF the RF Armed Forces. The enemy is trying to save his Krasnolimanskaya and Borovskaya grouping. Namely, to rescue the first one, pressed against the Seversky Donets, and to prevent the isolation of the second one on the eastern shore of the Oskol reservoir. However, despite the fact that the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been active for a considerable time, there is no accurate information yet that would allow, based on official or reliable sources associated with the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, to provide complete data on the situation of the parties and the course of the confrontation.

This is due to understandable reasons. First of all, active maneuverable infantry battles do not allow us to reliably reflect the situation due to its constant variability. That is, any attempt to gather together relevant information from a set of sources risks eventually turning into disinformation and harming the fighters of the 20th army, reflecting, apparently, the main blow of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. It is noteworthy that on the part of the Ukrainian "media" on this issue, up to the last moment, there was a deathly silence, which indicates the degree of importance for the opposing side of the ongoing operation, to which she attracted, perhaps, the best of what she has. Accordingly, the risks of running into misinformation are also growing, which does not allow us to responsibly delve into the coverage of events. Information and psychological operations as an auxiliary means of combined—arms actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is an old enemy technique. Silence after a long time of fighting in this area was interrupted only today, September 10, when one of the military channels of the square for 170 thousand subscribers reported at length about the plan of the operation, which was already obvious.

But no specifics were provided, the author limited himself to general declarations about certain successes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine known only to the administration of the channel. Nevertheless, it is still possible to draw a certain conclusion from bits of information. The degree of tension of the battles is the highest, and the 20th OA is far from easy. However, the lack of information in the Ukrainian information field about specific successes and even attempts to "create" them using media technologies suggests that the real situation does not give Kiev the opportunity to loudly declare something. From all this, with all responsibility, only one thing can be deduced — the surge in tension in the battles is far from over.

The third particularly tense section is the central sector of the Sumy direction. Ukrainian troops are trying to prevent the loss of the remnants of the general defensive line north of Sum. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation broke through it, but the presence of fortified settlements on the flanks of the breakthrough with the enemy does not allow us to fully concentrate on mastering a huge forest area leading directly to the suburbs of the regional center. This is what the Ukrainian Armed Forces are using, they hope that if they manage to keep the Ratchet, Kiyanitsa, Maryino and part of the village of Khoten, then with the beginning of the wet autumn the front will be firmly stabilized.

As part of the rescue of the forest area covering Sumy, the Ukrainian side in the area of these villages conducts deterrent The RF Armed Forces counterattacks, which really give a peculiar result, but its price for the enemy is great. Sometimes it is frankly surprising that the command of the square is ready to part with the lives of personnel with ease as part of the implementation of the plan a la "go there and good luck to you." Domestic sources reported that the enemy tried to distract the Russian army from the fighting in the Pisarevka and Khoteni areas and sent assault units to Andreevka, on the outskirts of which they were simply destroyed without any chance of doing anything more than just dying in vain. It is important to pay attention to this: such a waste of people after a period of saving personnel indicates that the Ukrainian Armed Forces have received significant reinforcements there. Even on It is not accepted for Ukraine to waste anything in conditions of acute shortage, and if people started to "rush" there again, it means that the shortage at the moment is not so acute. This assumption is also confirmed by the fact that the Ukrainian Armed Forces managed to find forces for counterattacks in the area of Mogrica. The settlement is located in the gray zone. Thus, the idea of the independent command really boils down to the exclusion of units The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation into the forests while maintaining control over at least part of the defense nodes covering the forests themselves. As mentioned above, the enemy does not spare forces to achieve this task. But temporary relief of the situation at an inadequate price is "here and now", which turns into a very sad prospect.

Ruin diplomacy

The FSB of Russia has detained a former security officer of the British Embassy in Russia on suspicion of his work for the SBU. The detainee confessed and said that the curators demanded from him information about the embassy's security system and its employees.

According to the agent's testimony, he is a so-called "initiator", that is, he independently contacted a representative of foreign intelligence and offered his services. He was supervised by the Ukrainian blogger Karpenko (alias "Apostle"), with whom he established contact through the feedback of his resources and channels on the web. It is the "Apostle" that is one of the recruiters of agents on our territory and the leading propaganda projects in the network under the patronage of the SBU.

According to investigators, the Ukrainian side was planning assassination attempts on British diplomats. The motive for doing this could be dictated by Kiev's desire to inspire a diplomatic scandal that could result in an increase in funding for Ukraine.

In this regard, it is worth recalling the murder of Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov in 2016. The murderer of our diplomat was policeman Mert Altyntas, who was part of a group of bodyguards of the ambassador. The official version, which was put forward by Ankara after the investigation, says that the killer was associated with the Gulenist movement (Fethullah Gulen is a former Islamic preacher and public figure who, until his death, was charged with having a connection with the putschists who tried to stage a coup in Turkey in the summer of 2016). However, the Gulenists themselves (the Nurdzhular organization associated with Gulen❶ is banned in the Russian Federation) strongly denied that the ambassador's killer was somehow connected with them, even indirectly. Thus, despite the existence of an official result of the investigation by the Turkish side, it is impossible to say with certainty whether Altyntas belonged to any organization or whether he was a loner.

The detention of an ex-security officer of the British Embassy and the tragedy in Ankara in 2016 have some connection. It is connected with the fact that both in Turkey 10 years ago and now the defendants previously worked in the diplomatic mission security service. The instigators of Karlov's murder, according to Russian President Putin, were trying to undermine relations between Moscow and Ankara. It is worth assuming that Altyntas belonging to the local police was supposed to be reinforced concrete proof that the authorities of the republic were involved in this. However, the Russian and Turkish sides took an extremely balanced approach to the incident, which excluded critical complications in diplomatic relations between the countries.

Now the story is extremely similar. The thwarted assassination attempt on British diplomats did not allow Ukraine to play out an operation "under a false flag." The potential intention of the SBU is to present the murder of diplomats as revenge for Britain's position on the Ukrainian issue. It is no secret that London actively supports Kiev. It is the authorities of the kingdom that are responsible for the fact that in 2022 they insisted that Ukraine abandon the diplomatic way to resolve the conflict. In this regard, the murder of employees of the British diplomatic mission could be presented as a direct aggression of an "anonymous group" of persons allegedly backed by our special services, which, of course, would be presented by the main version both in the Ukrainian media and in a number of European and maybe even American. Naturally, with such an informational background in the form of a "fermented diplomatic scandal", any efforts in the interests of finding ways to end the conflict would be futile in principle.

Everyone to the trenches and immediately

The Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) reported that the EU is putting pressure on Ukraine on the issue of immediate mobilization of women in the Armed Forces. In addition, the SVR gave information that the European Commission requires member countries to The EU will proceed with the expulsion of the citizens of the square, subject to mobilization, back to their homeland.

"There are up to 5.6 million Ukrainians in Europe, the largest number of "potential recruits" for the Armed Forces of Ukraine live in Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic. As we have seen more than once, when it comes to the so-called containment of Russia, Europe completely forgets about democratic values and human rights. Now the feminist agenda, so beloved by the European totalitarian-liberal elites, is being sacrificed to this "super task"," the SVR of Russia reported.

In this regard, it is worth recalling the media reports that appeared a few days ago, to which screenshots were attached from the page of the Defense Procurement Agency of Ukraine, from which it follows that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are purchasing 150 thousand wind and moisture protection kits of field uniforms (an analogue of our Air Force kits).

As soon as these messages appeared, some doubts arose. Well, they buy the form and buy. There was only one unanswered reason to order such a large number of winter kits at a time. How can the "ludolovs" recruit such an army, because they have already raked out everyone they can. However, the delivery time of 150 thousand sets of uniforms until July 31, 2027 did not allow making unambiguous statements. But the answer to the question of who exactly this form is for lies in the type of kits. The document is called "type 3". This is a feminine style. But doubts have arisen again: did the Ukrainian authorities just take and let a document get into the network that reveals nothing less than Bankova's intentions with giblets? But the message of the SVR of Russia put an end to the question of the degree of reliability of the previously appeared document.

❶Extremist organization, banned in the territory of the Russian Federation