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Pekka Kallioniemi<p>By Cheong's account, the <a href="https://defenseofliberty.social/tags/counteroffensive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>counteroffensive</span></a> that re-captured <a href="https://defenseofliberty.social/tags/Kherson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kherson</span></a> was a failure, and <a href="https://defenseofliberty.social/tags/Bakhmut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bakhmut</span></a> was a <a href="https://defenseofliberty.social/tags/Russian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Russian</span></a> master plan to put <a href="https://defenseofliberty.social/tags/Ukrainians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ukrainians</span></a> into a meat grinder. He's also called <a href="https://defenseofliberty.social/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a> the underdog in the <a href="https://defenseofliberty.social/tags/war" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>war</span></a>. </p><p>14/24</p>
Tim Mak<p><a href="https://journa.host/tags/UKRAINE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UKRAINE</span></a> STARTS NEW <a href="https://journa.host/tags/KURSK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KURSK</span></a> <a href="https://journa.host/tags/COUNTEROFFENSIVE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>COUNTEROFFENSIVE</span></a>: <a href="https://journa.host/tags/Kyiv" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kyiv</span></a> launched new assaults in the Kursk region, advancing 2.5 kilometers deep in <a href="https://journa.host/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a>, Zelenskyy stated. Meanwhile, the North Korean military has returned to fighting, following earlier reports that it had retreated following losses. </p><p><a href="https://t.me/OP_UA/14766" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">t.me/OP_UA/14766</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Dmitry Borodaenko<p>Glad that <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WaPo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaPo</span></a> is writing about <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a>, but if you're doing exact same story <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://journa.host/@timkmak" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>timkmak</span></a></span> did in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CounterOffensive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CounterOffensive</span></a> two months ago, a hat tip wouldn't kill them, would it?<br><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/28/ukraine-runs-low-ammo-civilians-build-troops-diy-drones-home/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">washingtonpost.com/world/2024/</span><span class="invisible">04/28/ukraine-runs-low-ammo-civilians-build-troops-diy-drones-home/</span></a></p>
Norobiik @Norobiik@noc.social<p>Volodymyr <a href="https://noc.social/tags/Zelenskiy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Zelenskiy</span></a> asked his most senior military commander, Valerii <a href="https://noc.social/tags/Zaluzhnyi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Zaluzhnyi</span></a>, to step down on Monday but the popular general refused, triggering speculation that he will be dismissed instead.</p><p>Tensions between the two have been simmering for weeks amid the failure of <a href="https://noc.social/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a>’s summer <a href="https://noc.social/tags/CounterOffensive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CounterOffensive</span></a>. </p><p>Ukraine’s top general refuses request from Zelenskiy to step down <br><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/30/volodymyr-zelenskiy-asked-top-general-to-step-down-but-he-refused" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/world/2024/jan</span><span class="invisible">/30/volodymyr-zelenskiy-asked-top-general-to-step-down-but-he-refused</span></a></p>
Tim Mak<p>We’ve reached the seven-month mark of The <a href="https://journa.host/tags/Counteroffensive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Counteroffensive</span></a> — a mark which I, quite honestly, was doubtful we could ever reach.</p><p>The costs of war correspondence are incredibly high, and it is combined with the strain of launching what is essentially a startup in a war zone.</p><p>Making it this far is a testament to our readers who have stepped up.</p><p>You’ve equipped a small team in <a href="https://journa.host/tags/Kyiv" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kyiv</span></a> with body armor, emergency batteries, and the tools we need to report.</p>
Tim Mak<p>We are breaking our usual format for this issue because it feels like we hit a troubling milestone in the war this week.</p><p>I want to bring you inside some discussions we’ve been having on recent foggy, wet days in the capital. </p><p>The <a href="https://journa.host/tags/Counteroffensive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Counteroffensive</span></a> has daily 9 a.m. meetings in <a href="https://journa.host/tags/Kyiv" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kyiv</span></a>. </p><p>And this week there’s been a lot of energetic discussions about what will happen next.</p>
Tim Mak<p>Would you like to know more?</p><p>Follow along with The <a href="https://journa.host/tags/Counteroffensive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Counteroffensive</span></a> to stay up to date on the ground in <a href="https://journa.host/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a>. </p><p>You can read along with us (for free) here: <br><a href="http://counteroffensive.news" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="">counteroffensive.news</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Tim Mak<p>Here at The <a href="https://journa.host/tags/Counteroffensive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Counteroffensive</span></a> when we discussed this campaign and how it works, we naturally came to the question of fair competition when every participant in one or another way has the opportunity to cheat.</p><p>And indeed, people cheated, especially early on when organizers were taking texts from books, and people didn’t understand the idea behind it.</p><p>Ross may have also cheated at one point or another, as he abandoned his childhood angelic personality and became a teenager.</p>
Tim Mak<p>Despite coming from a region where many people spoke Russian, Arthur spoke Ukrainian to The <a href="https://journa.host/tags/Counteroffensive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Counteroffensive</span></a>. </p><p>He completely switched to it a few days before the full-scale invasion began.</p><p>"I should have done it earlier," Arthur said.</p><p>He said he did not want the Russians coming to save him from anything.</p><p>The Russians often justify their violent invasion of <a href="https://journa.host/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a> by saying they are saving Russian-speaking people.</p>
Tim Mak<p>Here's what The <a href="https://journa.host/tags/Counteroffensive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Counteroffensive</span></a> is reading today:</p><p>“We have information that the Russian military has been actually executing soldiers who refuse to follow orders,” U.S. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said. </p><p>Entire units are under threat of execution if they try to retreat. </p><p><a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/kremlin-executes-russia-soldiers-refuse-to-follow-moscow-orders-ukraine-war-white-house-washington/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">politico.eu/article/kremlin-ex</span><span class="invisible">ecutes-russia-soldiers-refuse-to-follow-moscow-orders-ukraine-war-white-house-washington/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://journa.host/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a></p>
Tim Mak<p>Here's what The <a href="https://journa.host/tags/Counteroffensive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Counteroffensive</span></a> is reading today:</p><p>At the counteroffensive’s peak this summer, Ukraine was able to advance on average 90 yards a day. </p><p>It is the same pace that the Allies advanced at during the Battle of the Somme in 1916, where over one million men died in five months. </p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/23/world/europe/ukraine-russia-war.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2023/10/23/world/e</span><span class="invisible">urope/ukraine-russia-war.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare</span></a></p><p><a href="https://journa.host/tags/ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ukraine</span></a> <br><a href="https://journa.host/tags/russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>russia</span></a></p>
Tim Mak<p>Here’s what The <a href="https://journa.host/tags/Counteroffensive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Counteroffensive</span></a> is reading today:</p><p>US-provided <a href="https://journa.host/tags/ATACMS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ATACMS</span></a> have been used by <a href="https://journa.host/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a> on a Russian air base for the first time. </p><p>The missiles carry 950 bomblets which reportedly destroyed nine helicopters, damaged the runway, and destroyed ammunition. </p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/17/world/europe/ukraine-atacms-attacks-russia.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2023/10/17/world/e</span><span class="invisible">urope/ukraine-atacms-attacks-russia.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare</span></a></p>
Tim Mak<p>Here’s what The <a href="https://journa.host/tags/Counteroffensive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Counteroffensive</span></a> is reading today:</p><p>It is the 600th day of Russia's full-scale invasion and <a href="https://journa.host/tags/Putin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Putin</span></a> is trying to lessen the Russian public's expectations over the <a href="https://journa.host/tags/Avdiivka" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Avdiivka</span></a> offensive, per ISW. </p><p>It's now “active defense” over "active combat."<br><a href="https://journa.host/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-october-15-2023" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">understandingwar.org/backgroun</span><span class="invisible">der/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-october-15-2023</span></a></p>
Tim Mak<p>The Poles did not understand this decision, said Maria Haiseniuk.</p><p>As soon as the lawsuit became known, many of her friends wrote her angry messages.</p><p>"I tried to explain to them why <a href="https://journa.host/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a> did this... But most of them still didn't understand. History teachers from the school where I worked posted memes about Ukraine facing away from <a href="https://journa.host/tags/Poland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Poland</span></a>. Some of them wrote: ‘We come to you with an open mind, and you spit in our souls,’" Maria told The <a href="https://journa.host/tags/Counteroffensive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Counteroffensive</span></a>.</p>
Tim Mak<p>Don't miss our weekly newsletters! </p><p>Follow along with The <a href="https://journa.host/tags/Counteroffensive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Counteroffensive</span></a> (for free) for more on-the-ground journalism here: <br><a href="http://counteroffensive.news" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="">counteroffensive.news</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Tim Mak<p>Here’s what The <a href="https://journa.host/tags/Counteroffensive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Counteroffensive</span></a> is reading today: </p><p>The only difference between <a href="https://journa.host/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a> and <a href="https://journa.host/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> is that one is under attack by a terrorist organization and the other by a terrorist state, said Zelenskyy. </p><p><a href="https://journa.host/tags/Iran" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Iran</span></a> plots against both, he added.</p><p><a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2023/10/9/essence-is-the-same-ukraines-zelenskyy-likens-hamas-to-russia" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">aljazeera.com/amp/news/2023/10</span><span class="invisible">/9/essence-is-the-same-ukraines-zelenskyy-likens-hamas-to-russia</span></a></p>
Tim Mak<p>Those who have fired it tell The <a href="https://journa.host/tags/Counteroffensive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Counteroffensive</span></a> that it sounds like a terrible ripping at 150 decibels, as if the air itself was tearing apart, while a missile weighing nearly 3,700 pounds takes off to strike a target up to 300 kilometers away.</p><p>It’s the same missile system that <a href="https://journa.host/tags/America" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>America</span></a> has now decided to provide to <a href="https://journa.host/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a>, after much delay.</p>
Tim Mak<p>A filmmaker by profession, Sentsov was arrested in 2014 by the Russian <a href="https://journa.host/tags/FSB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FSB</span></a> while in <a href="https://journa.host/tags/Crimea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Crimea</span></a>. </p><p>Held on false charges, he was awarded the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought while in detention.</p><p>In 2019, he was finally released in a prisoner swap; when the full-scale invasion launched last year, Sentsov joined the Ukrainian military.</p><p>The <a href="https://journa.host/tags/Counteroffensive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Counteroffensive</span></a> sat down with Sentsov in a <a href="https://journa.host/tags/Kyiv" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kyiv</span></a> cafe, while he was off the front lines for a few days break. </p><p><a href="https://journa.host/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a></p>
Tim Mak<p>Oleh Sentsov is badly concussed.</p><p>The Ukrainian soldier lies on the ground, awaiting evacuation after his injury.</p><p>He decides to take out his phone and record a message, but can only speak at barely above a whisper.</p><p>“We just got out of the fight,” he said. </p><p>His unit had captured an important position for the ongoing Ukrainian <a href="https://journa.host/tags/counteroffensive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>counteroffensive</span></a>, but it had involved close combat and three of his fellow soldiers were injured.<br><a href="https://journa.host/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Cue-CfyJmkH/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">instagram.com/p/Cue-CfyJmkH/?u</span><span class="invisible">tm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D</span></a></p>
Mina Hanse<p>The situation in the Robotyne-Verbove area is developing in a positive direction for the Ukrainians. Ukraine has further penetrated the first Surovikin line near Verbove, now reaching the main trenchline.</p><p>Ukrainians have also overran Russian positions south of Robotyne.</p><p>Full thread:<br><a href="https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1698796521637007491.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">threadreaderapp.com/thread/169</span><span class="invisible">8796521637007491.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://nafo.uk/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a> <a href="https://nafo.uk/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a> <a href="https://nafo.uk/tags/counteroffensive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>counteroffensive</span></a></p>
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