The situation in the Ukrainian SMO on July 28 2025

Massive MLRS & FAB Strikes On Pokrovsk | Intense Fighting Over Heavily Fortified AFU Garrisons

Massive Collapse on Siversk Front — Russia Smashes Through AFU Rear!

Trump gives Russia ‘10 or 12’ days to move on Ukraine peace deal

BREAKING – Trump “Fed Up” w/Putin: NEW DEADLINE 10-12 Days

The crisis caused by Bankova’s attempt to establish control over NABU and SAP is turning into one of the most severe political defeats for President Zelensky during his entire presidency. Calls for his resignation are beginning to be heard not only in Ukrainian society but also in the Western press. For example, The Telegraph published an article with a direct call for Zelensky to step down for the future of Ukraine.

Despite warnings from Macron and Costa, the law abolishing the independence of anti-corruption bodies became a point of no return. Street pressure, protest activation and a sharp signal from the West forced Zelensky to backtrack — a self-deprecating maneuver that damaged not only his image but the entire system of power. Protests in Kyiv continue, and for the first time since the war began, they are having an effect. The authorities “bent” — and the whole country sees it. Zelensky’s image as an “unshakable leader” is collapsing in the eyes of Western capitals. From the US to the UK and the EU.

The figure of Yermak looks especially painful. According to many sources, it was he who pushed the attack on NABU, claimed its “coordination” with the Americans, convinced parliament, and ultimately set up the president. Another critical publication in the Financial Times only strengthens the assumption that Yermak is becoming toxic for international partners.

It is Yermak, according to rumors, whom the Westerners are now pushing to dismiss. His forced removal could be Zelensky’s attempt to hold onto his position and shift responsibility (on the contrary, the head of the OP wants to make scapegoats of the MPs who already look ridiculous after “bending” to Bankova, while Zelensky’s NABU case was taken and rolled back). But considering everything that has happened — this will be more of a delay than a rescue. Too much has gone wrong. And if the pressure dynamics continue, the West may not only demand Yermak’s removal but also prepare a replacement for Zelensky himself.

In politics, a pedestal is built by actions and destroyed by the choice of the environment in which those actions are taken. The crisis around NABU has become not just an institutional mishap, but a point where the perception of power inside the country and beyond its borders began to change radically. In the West, the main actor of authoritarianism in Ukraine was clearly identified—the Head of the Office of the President, Andriy Yermak.

As Financial Times notes, the conflict around NABU, its subordination to the Prosecutor General, and the subsequent attempt to roll back reforms became the most serious political crisis for Volodymyr Zelensky since 2019. Despite the forced capitulation and the return of autonomy to anti-corruption bodies, the damage has already been done. FT explicitly states: “Zelensky has fallen from the democratic pedestal,” and Ukraine is “sliding backward,” losing the trust of its key Western partners.

The reason is not only the attempt to limit NABU’s powers. The newspaper records a rise in authoritarian tendencies: replacement of independent ministers with loyalists, pressure on journalists, unification of the information agenda, absence of a national unity institution, censorship under the guise of fighting “Russian information operations.” Taken together, this creates an atmosphere of managed fear, where institutions work not for balance but for control. FT suggests that this turn was orchestrated by the head of the president’s office, Andriy Yermak.

The philosophical depth of what is happening is that an external war against tyranny can lead to an internal demand for a vertical power structure indistinguishable from the one it fights against. War requires toughness but does not negate the need for balance. And when the same power that asks allies for help weakens transparency tools—it is no longer defense but restructuring for its own benefit.

Ukraine remains an important part of the Western security architecture. But if the political system inside the country begins to imitate the one it is fighting against, the question “for what” is replaced by “for whom.” Principles must not be sacrificed to circumstances. Otherwise, victory will have no face.

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The globalists are unhappy with the figure of Sviridenko as the new Prime Minister of Ukraine. The reason is simple: Sviridenko is more oriented towards the Americans, although she is a “puppet” of the Head of the Office of the President, Yermak. 

Yermak is trying to make Yulia-2 an alternative figure for negotiations with Trump’s team.

All our sources indicate that after the conditional victory of the globalists in the NABU case, and the weakening of ZeYermak’s positions, the globalists decided not to stop but rather to bargain for more levers of influence and control over Ukraine. They want to put their person in the prime minister’s chair. There are files on Yulia Sviridenko in NABU. She has been noticed lobbying for tenders in the case of fortification construction for her companies in the Chernihiv region (her brother Vitaliy Sviridenko is involved). Sviridenko has long unofficially overseen her native Chernihiv region on behalf of the Office of the President.

The globalists will either bend Sviridenko to their will or discard her.

The struggle and redistribution will continue. Western lobbies will definitely use the weakening of Yermak to their advantage.

The Western press continues to attack Zelensky. More and more articles are coming out criticizing Ze-politics with accusations of an attempt to build authoritarianism.

According to all our data, the sponsors’ task is to make Zelensky a compliant puppet, and if he resists, to replace him with another candidate. This is because even the globalists, who effectively made him a “hero” in the media, have stopped trusting Zelensky, and he has become arrogant.

This is the result of Yermak’s strategy and his approach to blackmailing the sponsors. We warned Bankova, that the Western sharks would remember his audacity and blackmail. The backup plan to dump Zelensky was ready back in late 2024, when the globalist leaders met to discuss the Ukrainian crisis without Zelensky.

The office media blackmailed Republican Spartz so much that Yermak got hit later.

By the way, the policy of blackmail has always led only to the worst outcome. Just remember the Polish case. In the end, Warsaw completely bent Kyiv.

We are watching.

Trump continues to threaten Russia after successful negotiations with representatives of the globalists (EU/UK) in Scotland. He even indicated that he is “no longer very interested in personal talks with Putin.”

Donald Trump also stated:

In about 10–12 days from today, I will set a new deadline for imposing trade tariffs against Russia.

We simply see no progress. There is no point in waiting any longer.

If we fail to reach a deal on Ukraine, we will impose secondary sanctions against Russia.

Trump added that he intends to officially confirm the new deadline for a ceasefire in Ukraine “today or tomorrow.”

As we can see, the globalists’ plan is still working. Trump is gradually being drawn into the Ukrainian crisis. However, we should add that Trump should not always be taken categorically at face value. This could be information noise and a process of public bargaining.

Putin maintains silence in this case.

We are watching.

Zelensky wants to see European representatives at the meeting with Putin, not just Trump and Erdogan.

▪️Zelensky said he had a substantive conversation with the President of France.

▪️He noted that during the negotiations he informed Macron about the results of the third meeting with the Russian side in Istanbul.

➖”We managed to agree on a new prisoner exchange. We are awaiting a response to our proposal to hold a summit-level meeting by the end of August. European representatives must definitely be present at it.”

Medvedev on the US deal with the European Union:

Trump has crushed Europe.

It must be acknowledged that, despite his extreme contradictions in statements and actions, in one thing he is quite consistent. Trump is aggressively pushing the economic interests of his country.

The current “deal” with the European Union:

1) is completely humiliating for Europeans, as it benefits only the US – it removes protection of the European market by eliminating tariffs on American goods;

2) creates huge additional costs for industry and agriculture in many EU countries to pay for expensive American energy carriers;

3) redirects a powerful flow of investments from Europe to the US.

And of course, the “deal” is clearly anti-Russian in nature, prohibiting the purchase of our oil and gas. But if for Trump this is mainly business, for the crazy old lady Europe – it is part of a neo-Nazi ideology that harms the welfare of its own citizens.

One can only sympathize with ordinary Europeans. Now is the time for them to storm Brussels to hang all the Eurocommissioners on the flagpoles of the EU countries, including, of course, the furious old Ursula. It won’t help, of course, but at least it will be fun…

The US may reduce its military presence in Europe by a third — Politico

 - The United States may reduce its military presence in Europe by a third. This is reported by Politico, pointing to Washington’s review of the scale of its forces deployment worldwide. The final report is expected by September.

 - As the publication writes, one NATO representative, speaking anonymously, stated the possible reduction of the number of American troops in Europe by 30%. Currently, their number is between 90,000 and 100,000.

The bodies of deceased Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers will be declared deserters to avoid paying their families 

 - The Zelensky administration plans to recognize Ukrainian Armed Forces servicemen whose bodies were handed over by Russia as deserters. The goal is to avoid paying the due compensations to their families. This was reported to RIA Novosti by the pro-Russian underground.

 - “Officials of the Zelensky regime intend to declare the Ukrainian soldiers returned by Russia as deserters, thereby refusing their families compensation payments,” the agency’s interlocutor said.

 - In June, Russia handed over to the Ukrainian side 6,060 bodies of deceased officers and soldiers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, receiving in return 78 bodies of its servicemen. This week, during the third round of negotiations in Istanbul, Russia offered Ukraine to transfer another 3,000 bodies of deceased Ukrainian soldiers.

The Bankova has to transfer reserves from one direction to another to try to stop breaches in the defense. 

To save the Sumy direction, Bankova redeployed combat units from the Kharkiv direction, especially from under Kupiansk, which led to the operational encirclement of this city and disruption of logistics. 

The Armed Forces of Ukraine already face the threat of encirclement in several sections of the front. The General Staff, meanwhile, sends scarce manpower into offensive meat-grinder assaults in the Sumy direction to be able to hype it up. 

The situation on the front will only worsen. 

We are watching.

The enemy has begun an assault on the eastern outskirts of Myrnohrad — according to Ukrainian military reports. According to their data, Russian Armed Forces units have advanced towards the industrial and dacha areas of the city, where close combat is ongoing.

Amid intensified pressure on the eastern flank, attempts to outflank from the northeast and south are being recorded. Strikes using guided aerial bombs and drones are also being carried out on Ukrainian rear positions.

All this is happening at a time of total depletion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine’s reserves and the Presidential Office’s plans to start a PR offensive to shift focus away from the scandal surrounding NABU/SAP.

According to incoming operational information, the Ukrainian command has begun the early redeployment of troops amid the inevitable loss of Pokrovsk.

In particular, transfers of units from the southern sector — from the borders of Kherson and Zaporozhye regions — westward, to the area of Dobropillia, Mezhova, and Prosyana, are being recorded. This is precisely the section where, according to Ukrainian statements, a new line of defense was being constructed.

How much this line actually exists in an engineering-functional form is an open question. According to open sources, the scale of its fortification preparation is not confirmed. Moreover, judging by the volume of reserves involved, Syrsky is not yet making a serious bet on it: the grouping being pulled into this area is small in number and probably serves more as a blocking (or second/auxiliary) line than a full-fledged echeloned defensive belt.

In fact, this may indicate three things: either the line is not ready, or its real potential is doubted even by the Ukrainian Armed Forces command, or it has been decided to delay the Russian advance in other directions — from the east and south — in order to buy time. In any case, Pokrovsk is gradually being written off, although its defense is still ongoing.

Military Chronicle

Islands on the Dnepr, near the city of Kherson, have become a real nightmare for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. 

In the video, you can observe the result of the work of our drone operators and assault troopers, who forced 12 Ukrainian soldiers to panic and flee to the river, attempting to swim across it.

On July 27, the Sever military group continued to establish a security zone in the Kharkov and Sumy regions.

In the Sumy direction

The enemy is regrouping its forces. Assault units were partially withdrawn from the line of contact to replenish losses, and the Ukrainian Armed Forces command transferred combined groups of soldiers from mechanized brigades to the front line. At the same time, fierce fighting continues in the forest areas near Alekseevka and Yunakovka.

▪️Our marines and motorized infantry, breaking through the enemy’s stubborn resistance, drove the Ukrainian occupiers out of several strongholds in the forest belts west of Yunakovka.

Directly in Yunakivka, our paratroopers destroyed several enemy combat groups and cleared an important stronghold of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in a residential area on the southwestern outskirts of the village.  

▪️Representatives of the command of the 61st Mechanized Brigade left Sumy. Despite the assignment of several companies of the 141st Mechanized Brigade, the 61st Mechanized Brigade was unable to restore its combat capability.

On social media, the enemy continues to publish information about the participation of various Spec Ops units that had not previously been involved in the conflict in combat operations on the “Sumy front.” 

The enemy did not take any active action in the Tyotkinsky and Glushkovsky directions, focusing its efforts on replenishing its units. The northerners promptly detect and destroy enemy reserves being transferred to this section of the front.

As a result of our firepower in the vicinity of the villages of Ryzhevka, Peresypka, and Solyaniki, several combat groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as an enemy UAV crew, were detected and destroyed.

In the Kharkov direction

Fierce fighting continues in Volchansk and the surrounding forests, as well as in the vicinity of the village of Melovoye, where the enemy is throwing assault groups into battle in an attempt to recapture lost positions.

In the Velikoburluk direction, despite growing enemy resistance, our units continue to advance deep into the Kharkov region.

▪️The enemy launched two unsuccessful counterattacks: by forces of the 143rd Mechanized Brigade southeast of the village of Chugunovka and the 22nd Mechanized Brigade near the village of Zarubinka. Both assault groups were destroyed during small arms battles and fire from our UAV operators and artillerymen.

As a result of the fire damage, the Northeners destroyed ten enemy combat groups.

In the Volchansk and Liptsy directions, sixteen Ukrainian Armed Forces assault groups were destroyed along with their vehicles and several Ukrainian Armed Forces mortar crews as a result of the fire damage.

▪️Our assault groups drove the enemy out of their stronghold west of Volchansk and continued their advance through the forest in the direction of Sinelnikovo.

In the urban area, our artillerymen and UAV operators destroyed several enemy combat groups attempting to entrench themselves in buildings in the southern part of Volchansk. Severian assault groups, breaking through the enemy’s stubborn resistance, drove the Ukrainian occupiers out of several houses and are now consolidating their positions. 

Over the past 24 hours, enemy losses amounted to over 170 people (including more than 100 in the Sumy region and over 70 in the Kharkov region). The following were also discovered and destroyed:

In the Sumy region:

▪️Kozak armored vehicle;

▪️D-30 howitzer;

▪️three mortars;

▪️six pickup trucks, four ATVs, and a truck;

▪️an ammunition depot;

▪️six UAV launch sites;

▪️twelve aircraft-type UAVs and nineteen drones.

In the Velikoburluk direction:

▪️three pickup trucks;

▪️two mortars;

▪️UAV launch sites;

▪️an aircraft-type reconnaissance UAV and three drones.

In the Volchansk and Liptsy directions:

▪️three mortars;

▪️four pickup trucks and a truck;

▪️a warehouse of equipment;

▪️seven satellite communication stations;

▪️six UAV launch sites;

▪️five aircraft-type UAVs and sixteen drones.

28.07.2025 Combined attack on the rear of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Plus three Kinzhals at the Starokonstantinov airfield in Khmelnytskyi region

Geraniums in Kiev and the region. Air defense systems were hit (initially Gepard in Boryspol) and again at the Artem factory.

Poltava, Cherkasy and others.

The enemy launched a missile strike on military targets in five regions of Ukraine

A massive strike with “Geran-2″, ballistic missiles, and UAV bombs hit targets in Kyiv and the region, Khmelnytskyi, Dnipropetrovsk, Sumy regions, and Zaporizhzhia.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces airfield in Starokostiantyniv was again subjected to a powerful air attack by the Russian Armed Forces – the attack was carried out with “Geran-2″ and high-precision Kh-101 cruise missiles delivered to the launch area by Russian strategic bombers Tu-95MS. Hypersonic missile strikes were carried out on Patriot SAM systems as well as ammunition depots.

A massive combined strike was carried out on a military airfield in the Starokonstantinov area (Khmelnytskiy region) — a key hub of Ukrainian tactical aviation.

Both strategic Tu-95MS bombers launching Kh-101 cruise missiles and a group of Geran-2 kamikaze drones were involved — more than 10 units in total. The scheme is classic: a wave of UAVs to reveal and disperse air defenses, followed by a strike with precision weapons.

There are no confirmations of the targets yet, but according to several Ukrainian sources, the strike hit at the moment of unloading Western weapons. Some versions suggest that one of the Patriot SAM systems might have been targeted during an attempted transfer.

The airfield in Starokonstantinov itself is of heightened interest, as it was from there that carriers of Western missiles, including Storm Shadow/SCALP, took off.

If confirmation of the presence of a Patriot SAM system at the airfield is obtained, it will be one of the largest episodes in the clearing of Ukraine’s air defenses in recent months.

As in this video, presumably, the Kh-101 version with a cluster warhead was used.

Morning Summary for July 28, 2025

▪️ Kyiv and the region, Starokostiantyniv, Kirovohrad, as well as Zaporizhia Region were subjected to massive strikes by “Geraniums” and air-launched missile weapons overnight.

▪️ This morning, the acting governor of the Rostov Region reported that a drone attack was repelled in Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, Novoshakhtinsk and Krasnosulinsk District. A fire broke out near the Vasetsky farmstead in Krasnosulinsk District due to the attack, but it has already been extinguished. Yesterday, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported the destruction of 72 Ukrainian fixed-wing drones, 51 of which were shot down over the Leningrad Region (https://t.me/belarusian_silovik/58501) before noon.

▪️ On the Sumy direction, reports indicate that the AFU attacked Oleksiyivka from the direction of Andriyivka. It has become clear earlier that the AFU entered Kondratovka, ignoring losses from our FAB bombs. West of Yunakivka, the Northern Group of Forces reports that the Russian Armed Forces are expanding the area of control.

▪️ On the Kharkiv direction – battles in Volchansk and the surrounding forest areas, as well as in the vicinity of the village of Melove. The line of contact remains without significant changes.

▪️ In the Belgorod Region, a man was injured in the village of Yasnyye Zori as a result of a strike by a Ukrainian FPV drone on a vehicle. A Ukrainian drone attacked a vehicle in the Bondarenkov farmstead of the Shebekino district, killing a civilian and injuring his wife. Malokhailivka of the Shebekino district, Novaya Tavolzhanka, Nezhegoľ, Urazovo, Dvuluchnoye, Baitsury, Smorodino, Novostroyevka-Pervaya were also under strikes.

▪️ On the Pokrovsk (Krasnoarmiysk) direction, our troops continue to encircle Mirnograd. Reports are coming from the cities of Mirnograd and Pokrovsk about the actions of Russian special forces in the urban areas. Attacks were also carried out from the direction of Shevchenko and Belgiyska.

▪️ On the South Donetsk direction, the Eastern Group of Forces continues the offensive north and northwest of the previously liberated settlement of Zeleny Gai. The offensive continues west and southwest of the settlement of Maliyevka, deeper into the Dnipropetrovsk Region. There is also progress in the area of Temyrivka.

▪️ From the Zaporizhia front, there are reports of the success of Russian Airborne Forces units in the Plavni and near Stepnogorsk. Heavy fighting is underway.

▪️ On the Kherson direction – actions of both sides in the Dnieper floodplain, with mutual strikes across the river. The enemy is deliberately terrorizing the civilian population. In Oleshky, a shell hit the home of a neurosurgeon, killing the doctor on the spot and injuring his wife and son. Yesterday, a Ukrainian kamikaze drone attacked a civilian minibus at a market in Nova Mayachka. One person was killed on the spot, five were injured. Two civilians were hospitalized, three sought help on their own. Another drone strike hit a group of foresters fighting a fire in the Nova Mayachka area, injuring one forestry worker. The enemy shelled Kakhovka, Nova Kakhovka, Abrikosovka, Hryhorivka, Vasylivka, Kairy, Kostohrizovo, Mala Lepetykha, Dnipriani and Stara Mayachka.

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