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2025-05-14 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Russian Army attacks in 11 directions - Ukrainian General Staff
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Korrespondent] The Ukrainian Armed Forces are fighting in the east and south of Ukraine.

The enemy is most active in the Pokrovsk direction. There, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have already repelled 22 attacks in the areas of 17 settlements.


Since the beginning of the day, 84 battles with Russian invaders have taken place on the front. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in an operational report as of 16:00 on Tuesday, May 13.

Thus, in the Kharkov direction, the enemy once tried to advance in the Vovchansk area.

In the Kupyansk direction, the enemy attacked once in the Kupyansk direction.

In the Liman direction, 11 attacks have been repelled in the areas of Novomikhaylovka, Kolodyazev, Grigorovka and in the direction of Ridkodub, Lipovoye, Zelenaya Dolina, Olgovka. Three more attacks are ongoing.

In the Seversky direction, our soldiers stopped one enemy attack in the direction of Grigorovka.

In the Kramatorsk direction, there were six enemy assaults in the areas of Chasovy Yar and in the direction of Belaya Gora. Three combat clashes are still ongoing.

In the Toretsk direction, Russian occupiers carried out four assaults in the Toretsk area and in the direction of Dilievka.

In the Pokrovsk direction, 25 Russian attacks were recorded in the areas of the settlements of Malinovka, Elizavetovka, Zvirove, Kotlin, Novosergeevka, Udachnoye, Novoalekseevka, Novoaleksendrovka, Zaporozhye, Andreevka and in the direction of the settlements of Muravka, Alekseevka, Novaya Poltavka, Yablunovka, Mirolyubovka, Zarya, Promen. 22 assaults were repelled, three clashes are still ongoing.

In the Novopavlovsk direction, the invaders have gone on the offensive 15 times near Constantinople, Skudnoye, Privolnoye, Volnoye Pole, Shevchenko, Bogatyr, Novopol, Otradnoye. Our soldiers have already repelled nine attacks.

In the Orekhov direction, the occupiers attacked in the directions of Novodanilovka and Malaya Tokmachka. Both attacks were repelled.

In the Dnieper direction, the enemy attacked four times in the direction of Sadovoe, but had no success.

In Kursk region, our defenders repelled four attacks by Russian troops.

Let us recall that on May 12, Russia lost almost 1,100 soldiers killed and wounded at the front. The total number of Russian losses since the beginning of the great war is approaching 1 million people.
And none, sadly, a available any longer to father children. Perhaps both Russia and the Ukraine should freeze sperm samples from their recruits (and non-recruits as well) before sending them off to fight.

Posted by badanov 2025-05-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [153 views ]  Top

#1 ðŸ˜Ž
Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-05-14 01:45||   2025-05-14 01:45|| Front Page Top

#2 And none, sadly, a available any longer to father children

Eggs are expensive, sperm is cheap.
Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-05-14 01:46||   2025-05-14 01:46|| Front Page Top

#3 Biologically speaking, yes of course. BUT, given that Russia’s population was already falling significantly, every male not available to contribute to the gene pool significantly hastens the run to extinction. With frozen samples, the DNA is not lost, and a connection to the lost man for those who loved him.

The other piece of that is that the very act of making that donation leads each man to think about having a posterity, and is a nudge toward finding a way to create that without dying first.

Something to continue on this side of the ocean, too.
Posted by trailing wife 2025-05-14 02:06||   2025-05-14 02:06|| Front Page Top

#4 TW. There are many reasons for birth rate decline (except among welfare recipients), but lack of sperm is not one of them. And single mothers, regardless of socioeconomic status, are not a solution.
Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-05-14 03:27||   2025-05-14 03:27|| Front Page Top

#5 Grom, that’s all true. But Mr. Wife almost died in India once. And even as his parents and I were waiting to find out whether he was going to survive both amoebic dysentery and the hospital in Bhopal — his local colleagues called me long distance every day for several weeks and lied about his condition to keep me from getting on an airplane and flying over there— I was profoundly grateful that in the worst case we would have his baby daughter to remember him by.

It’s not the same as being a military spouse or parent, but I do have some idea what those left behind feel. And however difficult single parenthood most definitely is, Russia really needs her people to find reasons to have children.
Posted by trailing wife 2025-05-14 04:25||   2025-05-14 04:25|| Front Page Top

#6 Russia really needs her people to find reasons to have children.

Not just Russia
Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-05-14 04:47||   2025-05-14 04:47|| Front Page Top

#7 Ukraine is in worse shape, yes. So are Spain and Italy, South Korea, Japan… and Iran is heading in that direction…
Posted by trailing wife 2025-05-14 04:51||   2025-05-14 04:51|| Front Page Top

#8 ^There is nothing to be done.
Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-05-14 04:59||   2025-05-14 04:59|| Front Page Top

#9 Some how the species survived with a smaller population than we have now. Guess the gals were all chasing the same top 10% back then too.
Posted by Procopius2k 2025-05-14 09:09||   2025-05-14 09:09|| Front Page Top

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