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Orcs are hammering UA with both misiles and drones. Drones are more effective, because there's a lot of them, unfortunately.
UAF confirms withdrawal from Sivers'k to the hills W of the city. Not ideal, since the enemy crossed the Bakhmutka river, and can now start infiltrating their way towards Slov'yans'k itself.

A group of about 100 orcs raided across the Belgorod-Sumy border and took positions in the village of Hrabovs'ke. The 50-odd residents who refused to evacuate previously were rounded up and taken across the border as hostages.

We are back into Middle Ages slave raids between Rus' and their steppe nomad neighbors. Lovely.

A car bomb in Moscow killed a Leutenant-General who was part of the General Staff and responsible for combat readiness of various UNIS. Since he lived in a soviet-style apartment in Moscow and drove a Kia, we can presume he was one of the more conscientious ones, so this is obviously good news.

The Espanola volunteer brigade composed of orc football ultras was recently disbanded-most likely due to their conflicts with the Kadyrovite Akhmat units; their leader was revealed to have been killed by law enforcement in Crimea- suspicion of gun-running.

So, apparently, the DoJ "redacted" the Epstein files PDFS by using the black highliter tool on them.
Copy-pasting the blacked out text makes it visible. Most of it, at least.

This admin would be terrifying, if it was actually competent.

EU managed to agree on a 90B EUR loan to UA. So there's sufficient funds to continue the war for at least a year.

An airbase in Crimea was hit again, with claims of 2 Su-27 planes being destroyed. I'm beginning to notice a pattern here...

Meanwhile, the orcs are trying to sever the SW half off Odessa Oblast between the Dnister and the Danube rivers from the mainland. The estuary of Dnister is a wide bay that's spanned by several bridges, but the situation with the border with Moldova is complicated (the way Soviets drew the border didn't leave any land connection aside from the Zatoka bridges. Moldova and UA did a small land swap to establish one, in exchange for Moldova getting access to the navigable Danube, and becoming a maritime country via access to the Danube and the Black Sea). In general, Odessa Oblast's been getting pummeled this week, and the anti-air's not able to handle the onslaught.

The orcs seem to have meneged to gain a foothold in Sivers'k, and the UAF is pulling back to the hills W of the city. There are concerns about Hulyaipole in the S as well.
The enemy is inching forward through Pokrovsk, but their attempts to cut off Myrnohrad from the N (in the direction of the former Dobropillya salient) have been thwarted so far.

UAF successfully tested their sub drones. On a submarine capable of launching Kalibr missiles, that was parked in Novorossiysk. Z-heads are still trying to gett o grips with this, so not a lot of whining just yet.

I do feel that we lost the element of surprise that could've inflicted more damage en masse, but then again, they needed to test with a small batch, b/c resources are limited.

UAF also carried out massive strikes on Astrakhan Gas Plant, and multiple oil and gas rigs in the Caspian Sea.
2 refineries halted operations after drone strikes last week- Syzran' and Yaroslavl'

Odessa still has half the city without power after multiple strikes. UAF carried out (apparently) missile strikes on the thermal power plant in Belgorod, cutting power for residents there.

Negotiations continue in Berlin between Ukrainian delegation and Witkoff & Kushner. "There's some limited progress". Lol. Still waiting to hear about any confirmed orc concessions in the "negotiations".

Lukashenko released a batch of over 100 political prisoners, in exchange for US sanctions being lifted from their potash fertilizer exporter. Apparently, he's going to free "another thousand" soon.

Played both Hellblades back to back.
Combat gets a bit wonky in the second game, but the presentation's top notch.
The collectibles in Senua's Saga included stone faces you need to focus on to open new paths. By the end of the game I was seeing those faces in every rock texture, so the game did its job of instilling some of Senua's paranoia into me. Good job, I guess.