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Energodar shelling near the nuclear power plant
Ukrainian artillery hit Energodar.

According to preliminary data, the shells fell near the coastline near the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant.
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⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦⚔️ Situation in the #Soledar Direction until 13:00 on 12 Dec 2022⚡️

Fierce fighting continues on the outskirts of #Bakhmut. Rumours are circulating on the net that Ukrainian troops have completely withdrawn from the populated area, but this is not the case. While some units have indeed withdrawn from the town to be re-staffed, the remaining garrison is still holding their ground.

♦️#Bakhmut (#Artemovsk) Sector:

▪️ Units of the AFU's 54th AFU Mechanized Brigade, supported by artillery, halt the advance of Russian forces. The AFU suffers heavy losses and some personnel have been withdrawn to #Konstantinovka.

▪️ Wagner PMC assault units have gained control of two platoon strongholds on the #Bakhmut - #Soledar line and are approaching the road connecting the settlements.

▪️ Reinforcements from #Chernigov region have been transferred to reinforce the Ukrainian grouping, while the AFU's 57th Brigade is being restaffed with mobilised men without combat training.

▪️ Separate units of the AFU's 128th Mountain Assault Brigade, previously based at the #Zaporozhye command, arrived in #Paraskovievka the day before.

▪️ In addition, formations of the AFU's 77th Airmobile Brigade, trained in the UK, are scheduled to arrive from #Zhytomyr region in the near future.

♦️#Toretsk (#Dzerzhinsk) Direction:

▪️ The DPR People's Militia military forces, supported by artillery, conduct an offensive east of #Toretsk.

In order to hold the lines from #Kleshcheyevka to #Toretsk and #Druzhba, the personnel of the 3rd Battalion of the AFU's 28th Mechanized Brigade, which previously arrived from the #Kherson direction, have been redeployed.

♦️#Lysychansk Section:

▪️ The AFU are preparing for an offensive near #Belogorovka. Two assault groups have been formed in #Serebryanka and a collection point for the wounded was organized in #Grigorovka.

▪️ Two Furiya and Leleka-100 reconnaissance UAVs are operating in the area northeast of #Seversk.

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⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦💡 Massive Strike on #Ukraine's Infrastructure on 16 Dec 2022 - what is known by 12:00⚡️

The RF Armed Forces have launched another massive missile strike on targets across #Ukraine.

▪️ In Kiev, CHPP-5, CHPP-6 and Darnitskaya CHPP were hit again. The underground was stopped, electricity was partially lost and water supply stopped.

▪️ #Zaporozhye region was hit by at least 12 strikes, local authorities said. In occupied #Zaporozhye, electricity and water were partially lost.

The engine room of the #Dnipro HPP was hit.

▪️ In #Kharkov, ground transport and the metro have come to a complete halt. There are disruptions in mobile communications. Partially there is no light and water. 7 strikes have hit the regional centre and 3 in the region.

#Zalyutino 330kV substation and #Kharkov 330kV PS were most likely hit. The previous day, the RF struck at CHPP-5. However, CHPP-3, which supplies power to all industrial facilities, remained unharmed.

Judging by the reports of the strike in the #Chuguev district, the fire attack might have been on CHPP-2 Eskhar.

▪️ Light went out in #Poltava and the Poltava region. The #Kremenchuk 330kV PS is likely been hit again. The #Mirgorod 330kV PS is also suspected of being hit.

▪️ In #Dnipropetrovsk region, there were explosions in #Kamenskoye and the regional centre. #Prydniprovska TPP is likely been hit again - traffic on Yuzhny Bridge opposite the TPP is blocked. The Prometey 330kV PS in #Kamenskoye is suspected been hit.

Explosions also occurred in #Pavlograd (likely the 330kV Pavlograd PS). Boiler houses and water supply are suspended in the city.

In #KrivoyRog, locals reported an explosion. Water and light were lost in the city. We already wrote that the Krivoy Rog TPP was shut down 1 1/2 month ago. Therefore, it is likely that either the Kirovskaya 330kV or Yuzhnaya 330kV PS was hit. In terms of logic, the Kirovskaya 330kV PS is most likely been hit - it supplies the water supply system.

▪️ There was a blackout in the #Cherkasy region. This could have been caused by both, the Polanyi 330kV PS being hit and the entire 330kV line along the Dnipro River being de-energised.

▪️ In #Kirovograd region, the Ukrainka 330kV PS was most likely hit. Pumping stations are shut down and power is lost. Several railroad sections are de-energized.

But the fact that the entire oblast is switched off could indicate that the 330kV switchgear of the Southern Ukraine NPP is down.

▪️ There are strikes in #Nikolaev and the region. Locals report power outages.

▪️ There are explosions in the #Ternopil region. There is only one 330kV Ternopil PS in the entire region.

▪️ In #Vinnitsa, shocks were also recorded. The Vinnitsa 330kV PS may have been hit.

▪️ An infrastructure facility in the #Odessa region has been hit. Power is partially lost in the regional centre.

▪️ In #Zhytomyr region, the Lesnaya 330kV PS in Korosten is affected. The PS bypassed the #Chernobyl NPP switchyard and supplied power to #Kiev from the #Rivne and Khmelnytskyi NPPs.

▪️ In the #Volyn, #Lvov, #Rivne, #Sumy and #Kherson regions, emergency blackouts occurred.

This is a direct consequence of the strikes in other regions. The same #Sumy is dependent on #Kremenchuk and #Kiev. And due to strikes on the Lesnaya 330kV PS, the Rivne NPP reactors could have shut down.

🩸Although the missile strike cannot be called the most massive in recent months, the number of missiles fired and the geography of targets is still impressive.

This confirms the systematic nature of the firing.

A new story has emerged in the Ukrainian infofield. People in chat rooms convince each other that the power was cut off before the strikes in order to mislead the enemy. Some even write that PPs are stopped on purpose for the duration of the raid.

There is no practical sense to be gained from such measures. But the Ukrainians believe such fables and convinces one another that the strikes by the RF are ineffective.

And this is not the case!

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⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦⚔️ #Chronicle of the Special Military Operation for 19 Dec 2022⚡️

⚠️ All @Rybar map reports and more Rybar content are accurately translated on t.iss.one/sitreports!

♦️#Kiev Region:

▪️ Russian Geran kamikaze drones have hit an autotransformer at the 330/110 Nivki substation in #Kiev, causing a major fire at the arrival site.

♦️#Belgorod Region:

▪️ Overnight, the AFU militants struck the village of Krasnaya Yaruga. Residential buildings, a gas pipeline and power lines were damaged. Two civilians were injured.

▪️ In the morning, Ukrainian militants shelled Shebekinsky urban district, power lines were damaged and temporary power supply problems occurred in several localities.

▪️ In #Pankov farmstead, residential buildings were hit, windows were shattered by shrapnel, no deaths or injuries.

♦️#Kursk Region:

▪️ During the day, the enemy militants shelled the village of #Yelizavetovka in Glushkovsky district with mortars, a residential building was damaged. There were no casualties.

▪️ AFU militants carried out strikes near the village of #Guevo in #Suzhan district. There were no casualties or damage.

♦️#Starobelsk Direction:

▪️ There are no significant changes on the frontline. Russian forces are engaged in positional fighting with Ukrainian formations in the area of #Ploschanka and #Chervonopovka.

▪️ Artillery duels continue along the entire contact line. The RF Armed Forces have hit enemy concentrations in #Krakhmalnoye and #Makeyevka.

♦️#Soledar Direction:

▪️ In the #Soledar area, the Ukrainian command is strengthening its defences to counter a possible Russian offensive towards #Soledar.

▪️ In the #Bakhmut (#Artyomovsk) sector, Wagner PMC assault troops continue fighting in #Bakhmut and #Opytnoye.

▪️ The enemy is moving reserves into the combat zone and preparing for a counterattack on the Russian positions in #Ozaryanovka and #Kleshcheyevka.

♦️#Lugansk People's Republic:

▪️ Ukrainian militants shelled #Novoselovka and #Svatovo with rocket and barrel artillery, damaging residential buildings and the post office.

♦️#Donetsk Direction:

▪️ Russian motorized riflemen continue fighting in the centre of #Maryinka, advancing towards the western outskirts of the city.

▪️ In the morning hours, a crew of the DPR Prople's Militia's 11th Regiment have hit a Ukrainian Mi-8. As a result of the damage to the helicopter, it crashed near a forest plantation in the #Pervomayskoye area.

▪️ Ukrainian terrorist forces shelled residential buildings and civilian infrastructure in #Donetsk, #Gorlovka, #Yasynuvata, #Aleksandrovka, #Khartsyzsk, #Makeyevka and other settlements in the agglomeration. There are casualties among the civilian population.

♦️#Zaporozhye Direction:

▪️ The Ukrainian command is moving additional forces to the contact line and preparing for a possible offensive on #Tokmak.

▪️ Both sides are engaged in artillery duels. Russian forces shelled enemy positions near Malaya Tokmachka, #Charivnoye, #Temirovka and #Novoandreyevka.

♦️#Kherson Direction on Southern Front:

▪️ Russian artillery hit accumulations of AFU manpower and armoured vehicles in #Sadovoye, #Kamyshany, #Berislav and around #Kherson.

In turn, the Ukrainian militants shelled residential buildings in Novaya Kakhovka with barrel artillery.

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⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦💥 #Chronicle of Strikes and Mutual Shelling in the #SMO Zone on the Night from 2 to 3 Jan 2023

▪️ Russian air defence assets overnight shot down enemy drones near #Sevastopol and #Simferopol.

▪️ The RF Armed Forces hit AFU staging areas in #Lipovka and #Yelino, Chernigov region, and #Volfino, #Pavlovka and #Pokrovka, #Sumy region.

▪️ In Kharkov region, Russian troops hit enemy positions in #Ogurtsovo, #Kamenka, #Strelecheya and #Staritsa.

▪️ In the #Starobelsk direction, the RF Armed Forces targeted accumulations of manpower and armoured vehicles of the Ukrainian formations in #Dvurechnaya, #Kupyansk, #Berestovoye and #Ternoye.

The enemy shelled #Ploshchanka, #Dibrova and #Chervonopovka.

▪️ During the night, the RF Armed Forces hit an AFU deployment point at the ice arena and an ammunition depot in #Druzhkovka.

▪️ In the #Bakhmut (#Artyomovsk) direction, Russian missile forces and artillery struck the AFU staging areas in #Bakhmut, #Soledar, #Kleshchiyevka and #Dyleyevka.

▪️ In the #Donetsk direction, the RF Armed Forces targeted enemy positions in #Avdyeyevka, #Veseloye, #Georgievka and #Vodyanoye.

In turn, Ukrainian terrorists shelled residential buildings and civilian facilities in #Donetsk and #Gorlovka using barrel artillery.

▪️ In the #Southdonetsk direction, Russian artillery hit concentrations of enemy forces in #Novomikhailovka, #Ugledar and Zolotaya Niva.

▪️ In #Zaporozhye region, Russian forces hit AFU positions in #Olgovskoye, #Gulyaypole, #Dorozhnyanka and Malyaya Shcherbaki.

▪️ In #Dnepropetrovsk region, the RF Armed Forces hit firing points of Ukrainian formations in #Nikopol and #Pokrovskoye.

▪️ In the southern sector of the front, Russian troops targeted enemy positions in #Kherson, #Zelenovka, #Inzhenernoye and #Berislav.

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⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦⚔️ Frontline Report for the Morning of 5 Jan 2023; pub. 10:02⚡️

♦️Russian artillery is active in the #Kherson direction. In addition to the regional centre, strikes are also directed at #Stanislav, #Belozerka, #Antonovka, #Ponyatovka, #Tyaginka and #Berislav. (Fig. 1)

♦️In the #Zaporozhye sector, Russian artillery has been striking almost all along the line of contact for the second day in a row. #Plavni, #Kamenskoye, #Novodanilovka, #Gulyaypolskoye, #Gulyaypole, Zeleny Gay, #Olgovskoye - all under fire. The AFU launched a missile strike on #Vasilyevka. Let's not guess why. The point is the road to #Melitopol. At the same time, in other parts of the #Zaporozhye direction, where the Ukrainian army, in principle, could have advanced, it is not active. And near #Vasilyevka now the AFU has little chance. (Fig. 2)

♦️#Donetsk Front. Another attack by the Russian army in the direction of #Novomikhailovka. Urban fighting in #Maryinka. Very difficult for both sides. So far the RF Armed Forces are attacking. Another head-on attack on the AFU stronghold in #Krasnogorovka. (Fig. 3)

♦️South of #Bakhmut, the Wagner PMC apparently decided to expand its likely coverage area. Attack on #Druzhba. Counterattacks on the eastern outskirts of the city itself. To the north, the Wagner PMC attempts to reach Krasnyaya Gora. (Fig. 4).

♦️In the #Lugansk sector, there is again an attack by Russian troops in the direction of #Belogorovka. And to the north, in the direction of #Stelmakhovka. (Fig. 5)

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Artillery raid on the position of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Gulyaipole

Russian troops continue to expand the zone of control around Dorozhnyanka, which was liberated on December 31.

Holding back enemy attacks in other sectors of the Zaporozhye direction, the RF Armed Forces are probing the enemy's defenses south of Gulyaipol.

Marines-artillerymen opened the positions of Ukrainian formations in the forest belt east of the Dorozhnyanka-Gulyaipole road.

Precise artillery fire hit the trenches and caches of Ukrainian formations. Leaving the dead and wounded, the remnants of the APU platoon fled.

Coordinates: 47.603443, 36.267384

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⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦⚔️ #Artyomovsk Direction - Situation in the Morning of 22. Jan 2023; by YURI⚡️

♦️ Here, as yesterday, our pressure to the south of the city in the direction of #Krasnoye continues to intensify.

🔹 Yesterday the Wagner PMCs occupied several more enemy strongholds in the direction of this settlement, and apparently today this movement will continue. All the more so, the consequences from #Zaporozhye direction are already playing into our hands, where the enemy has already been forced to transfer reserves even from the north #Donbass front.

🔹 North of the city, stubborn fighting for control of #Paraskovievka (the most important road junction) continues.

🔹 Also, headquarters and all sorts of "logistics" are gradually being withdrawn from the town, which suggests that the AFU command is preparing for further territorial losses and is not particularly optimistic about retaining the town.

📌 For now it can only try to hold back our offensive in the hope that the crisis in the south will not be large-scale and this will generally allow it to retreat in an orderly manner to new lines east of #Slavyansk and #Kramatorsk and to hold Chasov Yar.

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⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦⚔️ #Chronicle of the Special Military Operation for 11-12 Mar 2023⚡️

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#Starobelsk Direction:

▪️ In the #Kupyansk sector, the situation has not changed significantly. Artillery duels and mutual reconnaissance continue along the entire frontline.

▪️ In the #Liman sector, the RF Armed Forces managed to dislodge the Ukrainian forces from several small strongholds.

🔹#Lugansk People's Republic:

▪️ Ukrainian terrorist formations fired HIMARS rockets at the town of #Perevalsk. Three civilians were killed, including a 17-year-old boy. Two children were among seven injured.

🔹#Soledar (#Bakhmut) Direction (MAP):

▪️ Northwest of #Bakhmut, Russian assault squads have broken through the AFU defence near Orekhovo-Vasilyevka, passing through fields to the south of the village and occupying about half of the settlement.

▪️ In #Bakhmut itself, Russian units have improved their positions by expanding their zone of control in the Budenov district.

▪️ In the southwest, the Wagner PMCs advanced near #Krasnoye, cutting key routes from the settlement to #Konstantinovka and #Bakhmut.

🔹#Donetsk Direction (MAP):

▪️ North of #Avdeevka, the RF Armed Forces advanced on Krasnogorovka, a major AFU stronghold. The Russian forces managed to gain a foothold on the eastern outskirts of the village.
The Ukrainian command is moving reinforcements in an attempt to hold the settlement.

▪️ The AFU terrorists subjected populated areas of the #Donetsk agglomeration to indiscriminate shelling. #Yasinovataya, #Makeyevka and #Donetsk were hit by barrel and rocket artillery.

🔹#SouthDonetsk Direction:

▪️ Southeast, Russian units came close to the village of #Kamenka south of Novoselovka II.

🔹#Zaporozhye Direction:

▪️ The situation in this section of the front is unchanged. Both sides are conducting reconnaissance activities and exchanging artillery strikes.

🔹#Kherson Direction on #SouthFront:

▪️ Artillery duels continue along the entire line of contact. Russian forces hit enemy concentrations in #Kachkarovka, #Kherson and #Kazatskoye.
In turn, the enemy terrorists shelled the left bank of the #Kherson region. Nova Kakhovka was also hit. Several houses in the Sokol microdistrict were destroyed, one woman was killed and several residents were wounded.

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⚡️🇺🇦🇺🇸👻 Lloyd Austin lies shamelessly about US Equipment Losses⚡️

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@Rybar: Losses of Western equipment handed over to Ukrainian formations were also noticed in the #Pentagon. But they reacted in a very peculiar way. US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin said that only 5 vehicles had actually been destroyed, which had simply been filmed "a thousand times from different angles".

We, of course, modestly remain silent about the fact that in only one shot from #Zaporozhye direction one can see as many as 9 hit Bradley IFVs. As well as the fact that the AFU reliably lost at least 101 vehicles, some of which are geolocated on our map. For #Pentagon representatives it is, by the way, available in 👉 🇬🇧 English version.

The thing is different: Long-time readers of our channel remember how we used to criticize the national defence ministry for its clumsy handling of information. And here the #US and its allies demonstrate exactly the same thing with even more ridiculous excuses and idiotic phrases about "environmentally unjustified" maneuvers.

📌 However, against the background of demonstrated quality and bias of foreign analytics on the #SMO over a year it is not even particularly surprising!

📜 RYBAR; 16 Jun 2023, 16:48

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