Escalating Cruelty

Live from Ukraine

Kharkiv Oblast’ – In recent days, the number of Russian attacks on Ukrainian positions has nearly doubled across all main flanks of the front, with particular intensity in the Sumy and Kharkiv oblasts. The Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Oleksandr Syrskyj, has confirmed our impressions from the field in the past few hours, so much to state that the enemy had launched a significant offensive against both regions of Ukraine.

Alla getting out of a trench. Russians had just escaped. After a significant strike by Ukrainian forces, the situation in the Donbas region has escalated – copyrighted photo Giorgio Provinciali

This once again confirms the effectiveness of operations such as those culminating in the Ukrainian penetration of Kursk and Belgorod because, without such preventive maneuvers, it is beyond doubt that both Sumy and Kharkiv would have been overwhelmed like the eastern areas of Ukraine.

Me after a heavy strike in Donbas, Ukraine 🇺🇦 – copyrighted photo Giorgio Provinciali

The greatest upsurge in war activity is certainly visible in the areas of Basivka and Yunakivka, so much so that several Russian milbloggers have falsely reported the Russification of the first of the two districts. As Alla Perdei and I have documented from ground zero, this is not true because both villages remain firmly under Ukrainian control.