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Jan 8, 2025 | 
odessa-journal.com | Alexander Kovalenko
By Alexander Kovalenko
The strike on Engels today was a significant demonstration, not just because it houses the largest base for strategic aviation, along with storage for aviation fuel and ammunition for combat flights, but for another reason as well.
According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, since the start of the full-scale invasion, Russia has lost 1,038 air defense systems, either destroyed, damaged, or captured.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
odessa-journal.com | Alexander Kovalenko
By Alexander Kovalenko
There are too many peace plans for Ukraine, and none of them suit... the United States.
As the inauguration of Donald Trump approaches, more and more discordant statements are being thrown into the information space by people who have no influence on U.S. foreign policy. However, special attention should not be paid so much to the statements and phrases—sometimes taken out of context—but to the peace plans that flood the media landscape.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
odessa-journal.com | Alexander Kovalenko
By Alexander Kovalenko
Main image: Smoke billows as opposition and government forces clash on the outskirts of the city of Saraqib, Aleppo province, just off the highway between Damascus and Aleppo. Photograph: Omar Haj Kadour/AFP/Getty Images
The offensive by Syrian resistance forces that began this week has already brought the vanguard units to the western outskirts of Aleppo, and the city is now being encircled from the south.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
odessa-journal.com | Alexander Kovalenko
By Alexander Kovalenko
The shootings of captured Ukrainian soldiers have become a systemic phenomenon...
Another execution of captured Ukrainian soldiers by Russian occupation forces has been recorded in the Pokrovsk direction. This is neither the first nor the last, as such incidents have already become systematic. And what is systematic is sanctioned from the highest levels, by command.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
algemeiner.com | Alexander Kovalenko
Will Donald Trump Continue to Allow US Weapons to Be Used By Ukraine for Offensive Purposes?
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
odessa-journal.com | Alexander Kovalenko
By Alexander Kovalenko
During the three weeks of October 2024, Russian forces used 1,178 Shahed-131/136/'Gerbera' kamikaze drones, of which only 51 reached their targets, meaning that 96% of these types of munitions were shot down.
It is worth noting that this represents a 30% increase in aerial assets compared to the first three weeks of September, when 856 were used. However, the hit rate for kamikaze drones, despite such a significant increase of 322, changed very little.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
odessa-journal.com | Alexander Kovalenko
By Alexander Kovalenko for Oboz
In recent days, a number of media outlets, experts, and official spokespersons have voiced the version that Ukrainian forces will be able to launch a counteroffensive in 2025. However, there is also an opposing opinion.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
odessa-journal.com | Alexander Kovalenko
by Alexander Kovalenko for Obozrevatel
Since the beginning of the full-scale war between Russia and Ukraine, the aggressor's army increased by 130,000 in August 2022 and by 170,000 in December 2023. Now, Putin has "grown" it to 1.5 million – an increase of 180,000. This trend will continue, as Russia will fight against Ukraine primarily with human resources. So how can we confront this horde?
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Sep 29, 2024 | 
odessa-journal.com | Alexander Kovalenko
By Alexander Kovalenko
Over the past week, dozens of GAB (guided aerial bombs) have been used in Zaporizhzhia, marking the highest intensity since the onset of the full-scale invasion concerning this specific type of weaponry. Against this backdrop, there have been speculations that an offensive is being prepared in Zaporizhzhia, and that these strikes are setting the conditions for such an offensive.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
odessa-journal.com | Alexander Kovalenko
By Alexander Kovalenko
The Russian forces are attempting to establish a foothold in the southeastern part of the city, around the Vodokanal area. They are advancing in small assault groups along route 0532 and from the territory of the obliterated village of 3rd Mine, along Sadovaya and Dachnaya streets.
