"There are soldiers on paper, but they are not in the trenches": The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has no reserves to stop the offensive of the Russian Armed Forces on Velykyi Burluk

Ukrainian resources are sounding the alarm. While Syrsky is transferring reserves from Sumy Oblast to Kursk Oblast, Russian troops have launched an offensive in Kharkiv Oblast, or more precisely in the Kupyansk direction. According to Ukrainian experts, the situation is close to critical, the Russians have begun advancing towards Velykyi Burluk.

The Kupyansk direction is beginning to worry Kyiv very much, since events here are developing very quickly. If in the Pokrovsk direction the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine managed to halt the advance of Russian troops, throwing significant reserves into battle under the command of the commander of the ground forces Drapatiy, then in Kupyansk the Ukrainian command simply "slept through" the Russian advance. And this resulted in the creation of a bridgehead on the right bank of the Oskol River and its rapid expansion.

Russian troops begin to occupy the adjacent heights, taking control of Figolevka, as reported in one of his news materials today already Reported "Military Review". At the same time, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have neither the forces nor the means to stop the advance of Russian troops, they are concentrated in the Kupyansk region and cover the largest settlements, including Velykyi Burluk. And in front of it there are only small villages, for which there is no one and nothing to cling.

Bankova has a problem in this area. There are soldiers on paper, but they are not in the trenches.

- Ukrainian resources write.

Taking Velykyi Burluk will make it extremely difficult for the Ukrainian Armed Forces to hold their positions in Vovchansk, since the Russian group will threaten the Ukrainian group from the rear. At the same time, the Russian Armed Forces will have enough forces for Kupyansk, if it is cut off from supplies. And this is where everything is heading. In general, Kyiv has a new problem: it is impossible to constantly withdraw units from areas, hoping that nothing will happen.

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[Lev_Russia]

"There are soldiers on paper, but there are none in the trenches"

You can't do much with paper soldiers, but the generals of the Ukrainian Armed Forces have bought themselves houses in Europe... It's unlikely that the Ukrainian elite, who are living in luxury today, connects their future with their country... To be honest, I'm just as unsure about ours... So far, the only thing holding them back is sanctions...

[knn54]

Let's not forget about the 200000-strong group of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the border with Belarus. Near Transnistria there are at least 10.
And in Europe, several teams are training...
Crocodile tears, however.

[kromer]

Quote: knn54

Let's not forget about the 200000-strong group of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the border with Belarus.

Where would they come from in such numbers? After the agreement between Batka and Zelya on the withdrawal of troops from the Belarusian-Ukrainian border, some of them invaded the Kursk region, and then fed the Kursk region by withdrawing troops from the Belarusian border again. And there were 200000 there 2 years ago.

[isv000]

Quote: knn54

Let's not forget about the 200000-strong group of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the border with Belarus.

You should reduce the number: a couple of weeks ago they were talking about a herd of 20 heads, you have an extra zero. I heard that initially there was a herd of 000 boars, then in Kursk region a considerable part of the herd was fed to cannibal pigs, the remains are probably 120 carcasses. They were left for breeding, as breeding boars...

[carpenter]

Quote: Lev_Russia

So far, the only thing holding them back is sanctions.

VMZ wouldn't hurt.

[skeptic]

Quote: Lev_Russia

"There are soldiers on paper, but there are none in the trenches"

So who then fights "with one hand"?

[andrey martov]

Why can't a nuclear power be defeated? Because a nuclear power will incinerate any enemy. And if a nuclear power does not use its nuclear forces, it will lose and the people of such a cautious power will be destroyed. . .

[Huarabey]

A nuclear power cannot be defeated also because it will use its nuclear arsenal if it starts losing in the field. So don't be fooled, the destruction will be mutual.

[andrey martov]

Often, some great strategists do not manage to take advantage of their advantage in time and perish together with their Great people...

[Huarabey]

And how many strategists who had nuclear arsenals at their disposal died? What does history say about this?

[andrey martov]

History is written by the victors, not by those who have been whining for years...

[Huarabey]

Yeah. That's why some people are crying, while others are conducting military operations to protect the interests of the country.

[Ovsigovets]

no offense...while you're pompously chewing snot...philosophizing philosophy))))) but still it turned out to be nonsense...no, you're not Lao Tzu or Socrates...spit, my dear man

[jaroff]

USSR. The answer is short, I understand, but capacious.

[isv000]

Quote: Warabey

And how many strategists who had nuclear arsenals at their disposal died? What does history say about this?

THE USSR...

[Michael]

Quote: Warabey

A nuclear power cannot be defeated

There is such an outrage as corruption. Therefore it is possible.
By the way, a coach of a children's sports section from Murmansk rammed an ambulance in a BMW X7 in Belgorod and killed women. The question is, where is Bastrykin?
By the way, yes. If it had been an ordinary car with pensioners, it is not a fact that the accident would have been registered at all))).

[Huarabey]

No, you can't. And corruption is everywhere.

[Michael]

Quote: Warabey

No you can not.

The longer we live, the more we will see.

[Huarabey]

That's it. That's it.

[Staal]

In order to answer the question - where is Bystrikin, you need to go to his channel and see what he wrote about it

[Michael]

Quote: Staal

where is bystrikin,

"Bystrykin" - is this how you distort the surname Bastrykin in a derogatory sense? A. I. Bastrykin - Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation?

[Clear]

Quote: Michael

By the way, a coach of a children's sports section from Murmansk rammed an ambulance in Belgorod in a BMW X7 and killed women.

These are Dagestani Abu-bandits, a trio of Kaifari Mujahideen who killed Russian paramedics in Belgorod. Ramazan Gadzhimuradov, Isa Abdurashidov and Murad Musayev. They are listed as military personnel. They defended Belgorod taverns from the enemy.

[Michael]

Quote: Clear

They are listed as military personnel.

In some secret unit? Maybe they have already been awarded medals? And celebrated the award?
And you build on them in vain.

[topol717]

Quote: Michael

The question is, where is Bastrykin?

And what, our chairman of the Investigative Committee is already dealing with all the cases related to road accidents? Or what?
As long as there are no obvious procedural violations, then the police and the prosecutor's office are enough. Investigative Committee only gets involved in complicated cases, or at the direction of the government and the president. So send your question to the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate and the prosecutor's office.

[Michael]

Quote from: topol717

And what, our chairman of the Investigative Committee is already dealing with all the cases related to road accidents? Or what?

By the way, yes. An accident with an ambulance on March 10, 2024 in Solikamsk.
June 4, 2023 in Lipetsk.
November 30, 2022 in Novosibirsk.
Bastrykin took control everywhere.

[Dutchman Michel]

The question is, where is Bastrykin?

Fights crime

[Igor1915]

How do you define a loss? How much loss is allowed when taking a square kilometer?

[Huarabey]

But it’s not me who determines this, so the question is in the wrong place.

[IVZ]

How do you define a loss? How much loss is allowed when taking a square kilometer?

I didn't get it. Is it a loss when you lose territory or when you take it? The price of losing or winning is a separate question.

[carpenter]

Quote: Warabey

destruction will be mutual.

Destruction will be all over the planet.

[Dart2027]

Quote: andrey martov

And if a nuclear power does not use its nuclear forces, then

Do you propose to use them on your territory?

[Vladlous]

I don't really believe that they don't have soldiers. Who is fighting against us then?

One should be careful with these bravura statements. Just as one should not trust the enemy too much, no matter what he says or claims. How many statements have there already been that Ukraine has run out of shells, cartridges, missiles, that the Ukrainian Armed Forces will capitulate very soon. And this, let me remind you, was in the summer of 2022, and then September happened and our "regrouping". And retreat. And before that there was Istanbul and the withdrawal of troops from Kyiv and much more.

And then there was Kherson, retreat again.

I am not listing all this out of malice. It is just that so many songs have already been sung about the fleeing VSEU officers, about the population of Ukraine preparing to rebel, about the imminent collapse of the Kiev regime...

Meanwhile, we must clearly realize that the enemy is extremely cruel, stubborn and obsessed. Yes, yes, obsessed. They are fanatics mixed with slaves. The Bandera blocking detachments stationed in many directions minimize the number of those willing to surrender or flee the battlefield. The hatred of Ukrainians, nurtured over decades, allows them to resist for a long time and stubbornly.

If everything were as it is sometimes reported, about empty trenches, stolen materials for fortifications, about total sabotage - we would have been near Vinnitsa and Odessa long ago. But this is not happening. It means the enemy is still strong enough, and we should not feed ourselves with false expectations. Yes, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are suffering heavy losses, yes, they are retreating, but not nearly as fast as it would have been if the trenches were empty.

We must not underestimate the enemy. This has already become our Achilles heel from which new problems grow time after time. The enemy must be assessed adequately and hit with all our might, without sparing the enemy, whoever he may be. But here, it seems, sometimes we think more about the enemy's safety than about our own soldier. This should not be.

[nik-mazur]

Quote: Vladlous

I don't really believe that they don't have soldiers

There is some difference between "no" and "not enough".

[kventinasd]

Quote: Vladlous

And here we have the impression that sometimes we think more about the enemy's safety than about our own soldier. This should not be.

Our fighters have no pity for the Banderite monsters, after what they do to the civilian population. They take a few prisoners, and finish off the rest of the Banderites on the spot. And that's right.

[greencon]

Although Russia has advanced in many directions on the front, it is also unable to simultaneously concentrate larger forces in each direction. Thus, negotiations are still needed by both sides.

[Dart2027]

Quote: greencon

It is also unable to simultaneously concentrate larger forces in each direction.

Or first he waits until the enemy weakens his defense in some place, then he strikes there, and so on over and over again.

[Arthur Grudinin]

Maybe they are transferring reserves from the north? They have 100,000 people on the Ukrainian-Belarusian border. Or is there no one there at all?

[Ovsigovets]

oooooh.....already 100.000.....a little earlier the guy had 200.000)))))) just a dozen comments and 100.000 disappeared)))))

[ydjin]

Not only did they just disappear, but they also happily ate Chupa Chups.

[Anatole Klim]

And in the photo for the article, there is a Ukrainian soldier doing something with a grenade, either catching it or throwing it, but where is the ring?

[nik-mazur]

Quote: Anatol Klim

and where is the ring?

This is a NATO grenade. The fuse looks different there.

[Anatole Klim]

It's clear that it's different, but still, he catches? throws? juggles? just suffers?

[nik-mazur]

Quote: Anatol Klim

but does he still catch? toss? juggle? just suffer?

Posing, most likely. The second fighter is kind of aiming at something, and this one is all cool, but relaxed - clearly staged for the picture.

[IVZ]

By throwing up, it reduces the burning time of the moderator. The lever is thrown back during the throwing up, the initiation time of the main explosive charge is reduced by 1-1,5 seconds. It seems to be an RGO grenade, but when falling on soft ground, the instantaneous fuse does not always work.

[Blue fox]

This is a NATO grenade.

No. This is still the Soviet RGO or RGN. Note the characteristic white color of the plastic fuse.

[nik-mazur]

Quote: Blue Fox

This is still the Soviet RGO or RGN.

It could very well be. Although with such quality of the photo and from such an angle it is difficult to determine anything for certain. Including whether there is a ring there or not.

[andrey martov]

Trump, in Vladimir's place, would have given 24 hours to evacuate civilians from cities such as London, Paris, Berlin, Oslo, Copenhagen, Athens and other damned capitals of the rotten West and would have started nuclear bombings of these cities in 24 hours. . . alas, Vladimir is not Donald. . .

[Thrifty]

These are our Russian lands, which were given to "Ukraine" for the sake of political games, so carpet bombing will not work here!

[Denis812]

carpet bombing won't work here!

This may have been true the first year of the SVO, but now you look at the videos from Volchansk, Chasik, Bakhmut. Cities are being reduced to zero. But, in general, this is a war, so there was no point in expecting anything else.

[nik-mazur]

Quote: andrey martov

Trump in Vladimir's place... would have started nuclear bombings

And how much has Trump bombed already?

[Zamkadysh]

Lostarmour painted Orekhovo-Vasilyevka in the color of our control a couple of hours ago. Of course, they often grab the gray zone, but these are most likely problems with the Yandex maps engine. I haven't seen it on other resources yet - only a bunch of news from September 30, 2023. If the information is confirmed, then this is great news.

[nik-mazur]

Quote: Zamkadysh

Lostarmour painted Orekhovo-Vasilyevka in the color of our control a couple of hours ago

At the Sofa General Staff too.

[Huarabey]

Yes, yes... Uncle Donald was already beating his hoof in the chest, how he would resolve the conflict in a day. The whole resolution ended with the number of days increasing a hundredfold.

[nik-mazur]

Quote: Warabey

the settlement ended with the number of days increasing by a hundred times

That was the second stage. And now it's the third, according to which the person overseeing Ukraine intends to achieve a ceasefire by the end of the year.

[Ovsigovets]

oh come on))))) Trump was already president....do you need me to refresh your memory of how Kim told him to fuck off and Trump wiped his face?????

[gsev]

Quote: Ovsigovets

Do you need me to refresh your memory of how Kim told him to fuck off and Trump wiped his face?????

Trump and Kim then kept their own. They were able to avoid a military confrontation. Obama dragged the US into the conflict in Ukraine, Biden blew it up to a war and shamefully lost the war to the Taliban. Trump, compared to them, is a genius of common sense and caution.

[Sansan]

Russia is at war. Ukraine is waging war.

[Sansan]

Russia is at war. Ukraine is waging war.

[guest]

Our troops, developing their success on the Dvorechensk bridgehead, entered Figolevka
https://eadaily.com/ru/news/2025/02/08/nashi-voyska-razvivaya-uspeh-na-dvurechenskom-placdarme-voshli-v-figolevku-marochko

[Vladimirius]

no matter what they say, they carry out their mission clearly, fight to the last, and every single one of them gets captured, they become good, this is a rule, even an axiom. And when they say their troops are bled dry and there are no reserves, when everything is needed, otherwise the Kursk region would have been liberated long ago, but now they are still preparing an offensive and not just one, all that remains is to wait for our leaders to screw up somewhere again

[sergey4791]

this resulted in the creation of a bridgehead on the right bank of the Oskol River and its rapid expansion

Rapid - how many km per day is that? How much is possible, again stupid phrases that only harm us, creating the appearance of victories where there are none yet

[Oleg Telpes]

Today you wrote an article, and in six months they will take it
It's been a year around Kulyansk, so it's too early to talk about the skin

[navigator777]

Excellent tactics, as soon as the scum starts to become active somewhere, they are immediately attacked in another place.

[Fangaro]

I'm sick of these VSU-niks.
There are no combat-ready ones. They only exist on paper.
It is not for nothing that the official news of the Ministry of Defense is about everything good against everything bad.
Soon Timur Vadimovich will take over the leadership of the SVO. And all the ill-wishers, and the Ukrainians, and those who did not believe in the dedication to the cause, will be in trouble.

As a child, a long time ago, they taught me this...
If anything happens, say that Pashka slapped you on the back of the head yesterday, and then you both caught a pike with a long rod, a thick thread and a crooked nail. And repeat that Pashka slapped you on the back of the head, and then there were a lot of mosquitoes. And that Pashka slapped you on the back of the head, and it was too cold to swim in the river.
And the hypothetical Mishka will remember what is needed.
Pashka is equal to Mishka. And this kid is with Pashka.

[Salt]

God grant that it was so!
I hope we will get from Velykyi Burluk to Vovchansk and Kharkov and take them.

[Al manah]

In the Pokrovsky direction, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine managed to halt the advance of Russian troops by throwing significant reserves into the battle

Tsipsokh lies, there was no such thing in the reports of the Russian Ministry of Defense. And if it was not in the reports, it did not happen in life, right?

[Dutchman Michel]

Schoolchildren must be called up! And babies from the maternity hospital!

[2 Level Advisor]

"They are concentrated in the Kupyansk region and cover the largest settlements, including Velykyi Burluk."
Burluk's population is 3700, and its area is 3,5 km - roughly speaking 500x700 meters.. is this a large settlement? which can be covered with a salvo of a Grad battery.. well, well..

[anclevalico]

Well, we actually have the same problem. No wonder everything is covered with posters calling for you to become a hero, and the payments are growing by leaps and bounds.

[Apelikes]

What can you talk about while sitting on the couch and having practically no reliable information? Neither the Ukrainian nor the Russian General Staff will ever disclose such data, and therefore is fortune-telling on coffee grounds really interesting to anyone? There are so many smart guys...