Putin's "diabolical armada" advances - strategic encirclement as the goal

Created: 06/23/2022, 10:51 am

By: Stephanie Munk

The Ukraine probably fails in the war with the recapture of the snake island, while Russia seems to be getting closer to an important goal.

The news ticker about the war.

• Russian attacks

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  Ukraine

  in the east - strategic encirclement as a goal.

• Ukraine

  wants to

  recapture

  Snake Island : Landing maneuver probably failed.

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Update from June 23, 8:19 a.m

.: While Ukraine is heading for the status of an EU candidate country, Russia is stepping up attacks in the east of the country.

The strategically important city of Lysychansk in the Luhansk region is increasingly becoming the target.

On Thursday night, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy again called for faster arms deliveries "to stop this diabolical armada and push it out of Ukraine's borders".

Russian attacks on Ukraine in the east - strategic encirclement as a goal

The positions of the Ukrainian army in the eastern industrial area of ​​Donbass were bombed by the Russian military with planes and shelled with rockets and artillery, the General Staff of Ukraine said.

In the evening situation report, more than four dozen cities and towns were listed that had been shelled.

Russia relies heavily on artillery to advance from place to place after massive shelling.

Russian tank driving through devastated areas near Lugansk in eastern Ukraine.

© IMAGO/Alexander Reka

The Russian military is advancing closer to the city of Lysychansk from several directions.

It is separated from the neighboring Sieverodonetsk by a river.

Severodonetsk is now largely under the control of Russian troops, although they are still meeting resistance.

The Russian leadership around President Vladimir Putin named gaining control over the eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk as one of the goals of the war of aggression.

A military expert explained that Russia is getting closer and closer to this goal.

Ukraine-News - "Significant casualties" among Russian troops after targeted attack

First report from June 22nd:

Odessa - In the escalating Ukraine conflict there has again been heavy fighting for the Snake Island in the Black Sea.

Russia occupied the 17-hectare island shortly after the war began - it is strategically located 35 kilometers south of the city of Odessa.

Anyone who controls them can monitor the airspace on the Ukrainian Black Sea coast from there.

Now the Ukrainian army has made an attempt to recapture Snake Island - and probably hit Vladimir Putin's troops hard in the process.

As the responsible Ukrainian commander explains in a Facebook video, Ukraine has launched a targeted attack on the island.

"There was a concentrated strike using multiple methods of destruction," the commander announced, according to a translation of British newspaper

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The Russian troops stationed on the island suffered "significant casualties".

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Ukraine wants to recapture Snake Island - landing maneuver probably failed

The Russian military, on the other hand, emphasizes that it successfully repelled the "crazy" attack by Ukraine.

This was stated by the spokesman for the Russian Ministry of Defense Igor Konashenkov.

The Ukrainian army would have planned air strikes and artillery shelling, then land and take Snake Island.

15 attack and reconnaissance drones from Ukraine were involved, while rocket launchers and howitzers fired at the island.

Russian forces shot down 13 drones, 4 Tochka-U rockets and 21 reactive missiles from the Uragan rocket launcher.

The Ukrainian soldiers were then forced to abandon the planned landing maneuver.

This black and white image from Maxar Technologies' WorldView-1 satellite shows the southern end of Snake Island with a destroyed tower and burned vegetation in several places in the Black Sea on June 21, 2022. © Uncredited/Maxar Technologies/dpa

The information provided by both sides was initially not independently verifiable.

Destruction on Snake Island can be seen on satellite images from Maxar Technologies on June 21.

You can see a destroyed tower at the southern end of the island and burned areas at the northern edge of the island.