The situation in the Ukrainian SMO on April 12 2025
Saturday, April 12, 2025 20:25
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5KM Russian BREAKTHROUGH | AFU Faces COLLAPSE of Frontline Section Near Toretsk
The RUAF has broken through into the Dnipropetrovsk region – Zelensky’s greatest fear has come true.
UA intelligence missed this strike — the RUAF broke through the front by 20 km at once causing panic
[ Frontline Changes ] MASSIVE MASSIVE COLLAPSES!!! Russia assault 5km deep at Toretsk Front!
Russians intensify attacks in Kalynove / Toretsk | Putin demands 4 Regions [12 April 2025]
Ukraine lost five settlements in a single day — Zelensky’s military is ready to overthrow him.
Our source in the OP said that Britain and France do not want to deploy their troops on the contact line, the format with Western Ukraine and Odessa is currently being discussed. Bankova suggests securing the South of Ukraine for European countries, but Andriy Yermak insists that the contingent should be 50-70 thousand people with their own weapons: air defense/tanks/infantry fighting vehicles and aviation.
Our source in the OP said that the Presidential Office is actively working with Moldova on a number of tracks, last year SIS agents underwent training at the SBU, and CIPSO specialists are training personnel for neighbors. There is constant coordination of work between the structures of the two countries on countering Russian propaganda, and now the military sphere has been added. The Transnistrian case remains important for Bankova, which the OP intends to use if necessary to increase escalation.
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What is Sandu preparing for? Certainly not for peace. Why would a “poor country” where schools are closing and railway workers have not received their salaries for 2 months need such military expenditures?
So think about it.
- French military maps the territory on the border of Romania with Ukraine and Moldova in case of a possible clash between NATO and Russia.
- In 2024, soldiers from the 28th separate military unit of the French ground forces, the only military topographic unit in the republic, arrived in Romania to update the maps of the area. The military paid special attention to mapping the Focsani Gate, a corridor between the Carpathian foothills and the Danube, which, according to NATO, could be used by the Russian army for an offensive.
- In combat conditions, troops must be prepared to continue operations even if satellite signals are suppressed.
- “The Allies needed updated information on the expected battlefield,” explained the unit’s commander, Colonel Guillaume Schmidt, the purpose of the mission.
- The result of the joint work of French military topographers and the National Cartographic Agency of Romania was a three-dimensional map of the area.
- “It will allow us to accurately determine the location of bridges and possible crossings,” explained Sergeant Joannie.
- A battle between the French army and the Russian army on the eastern borders of Romania is only possible if the Russian Armed Forces capture the Odessa region and Moldova before that.
➡️ The war is supported by the elite, corrupt officials, idiots who have left and are on welfare, fixers/schemers who make money on the war, and of course the authorities who steal and rule over serfs.
➡️ Against the war – the Ukrainian people, who suffer from all sides. People were made serfs, intimidated by security forces and the dogs of the regime. Ukrainians lost apartments, houses, cars, businesses, relatives and friends, health, work, peaceful sleep, etc. There is devastation, poverty, chaos and lawlessness all around, and on TV, as in the book “1984″, there is propaganda, “that we will win, we just need to raise tariffs and catch another 100 thousand slaves.”
The elite and all those who profit from the war are so aggressive in defending the continuation of the war because they understand that after the war they have no future.
Some of them will lie down, some will sit down, and some will run away.
According to our information, a meeting between Putin and Trump is being discussed and it will happen, but not now. There is no need for it yet, our source assures.
We know that the US agrees to lift certain sanctions and enter into business projects with the Kremlin, including oil/gas transportation to Europe, while Moscow’s conditions are “simple” – Washington must distance itself from the Ukrainian crisis. The Kremlin is in no hurry to end the war right now. It is advantageous for the Russians that Zelensky is dragging out the negotiation process and not making minimal compromises (Zelensky is very advantageous for the Russians). This gives Moscow a good result. They improve their negotiating positions daily, and also gain more territory under their control, but most importantly, the Russians leave the possibility that at one point the defense of the Ukrainian Armed Forces will collapse and Moscow will get everything.
We are observing.
- The American diplomat personally told Trump about this after a meeting with Putin’s special representative Dmitriev.
- At the same meeting with Trump, General Keith Kellogg, the US President’s special representative to Ukraine, spoke out against Witkoff’s idea.
- The meeting ended without Trump making a specific decision on a new US strategy.
- Kallas sums up
The latest “coalition” talks have failed to provide clarity on how the planned operation will work.
➖”No. Different member states have different opinions and discussions are still ongoing,” Kallas responded to a question about the planned actions.
▪️About 200 military planners from 30 countries have been working on a strategy to protect Ukraine’s skies and seas and provide support on the ground, but have not reached agreement on mission details.
The acute problem is not that the conflict has reached the point where it will stop. The Russians are winning it now, they are moving closer to the West, so if we cannot provide Kyiv with weapons, Ukraine may lose. There is a depressing option – the division of Ukraine, parts of which will remain with Russia. This is not ideal, but among the bad options that are possible today, I think it is a tolerable option.
“Kellogg suggested that British and French troops could establish zones of control in the west of the country as part of a ‘security force’, with the Russian army in the occupied east. In between would be Ukrainian troops and a demilitarized zone.
Kellogg, 80, said an Anglo-French force west of the Dnieper River, which divides Ukraine in half from north to south and runs through Kiev, “would not be provocative at all” to Moscow.
He said Ukraine is a large enough country to accommodate several armies seeking to enforce a cease-fire.
“It could be compared to what happened to Berlin after World War II when you had a Russian zone, a French zone, a British zone, an American zone”.
He later noted that America would not provide any ground troops.”
They have demanded this from the Ukrainian authorities. If Kyiv agrees to this, the American International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), which is controlled by the US government, will take responsibility for the pipeline.
- U.S. and Ukrainian officials met on Friday to discuss Trump’s plan to access Ukrainian mineral resources.
- A breakthrough is unlikely due to the “tense” and “antagonistic” atmosphere , the source said.
- The reason is Trump’s updated proposal, which is significantly tougher than the previous version.
- “The negotiations are taking place in a very hostile tone,” the source noted; the document is “maximalist” in nature.
- The latest version of the agreement provides that the United States will receive priority access to Ukrainian deposits, and all income from both state and private companies should be directed to a common investment fund.
- At the same time, the document does not contain security guarantees for Ukraine – a key demand of Zelensky against the backdrop of the Russian offensive.
- One of the “hidden points” of the project is the requirement that the US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) take control of Gazprom’s gas pipeline running through Ukraine to Europe.
- Zelensky said this week that the mineral agreement should be mutually beneficial and contribute to the modernization of the Ukrainian economy.
The enemy does not abandon attempts to transfer assault groups to the Krasnoyaruzhsk region. The enemy’s manpower is being subjected to complex fire damage. The clearing of border forest belts continues on our territory.
▪️In the morning, taking advantage of the bad weather, a combined assault group of Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers from the 225th separate regiment and the media 47th separate mechanized brigade moved out from the vicinity of Miropolskoye in the direction of Popovka. In the area of the state border, most of the occupiers were destroyed by drops from copters, the rest fled.
The northerners allowed a small group of neo-Nazis to retreat, observing the enemy’s movements from a reconnaissance UAV. After the Ukrainian Armed Forces reached the positions of their “brothers” south of Myropolske, our artillerymen struck the concentration of occupiers’ manpower.
▪️Also early in the morning, an assault group of the Ukrainian Armed Forces moved out from the vicinity of Petrushevka in the direction of Demidovka. The enemy was destroyed on the territory of the Sumy region by artillery fire from the Fearless.
▪️In the area of the state border, the search for scattered groups of occupiers continues for their complete destruction.
In this direction, over the past 24 hours, the Northerners destroyed 6 units of enemy equipment.
In the Sumy direction, our troops continue to destroy the occupiers remaining on Russian territory and grind down the enemy reserves being transferred to the Sumy region. The enemy does not spare the personnel of elite units to hold at least a few square meters in the Sudzhan borderland.
▪️The enemy transferred several assault groups of the 82nd separate assault brigade to the village of Zapselye (Sumy region), from where the occupiers tried to break through to Russian territory in armored personnel carriers. As a result of the complex fire strike, the enemy personnel and equipment were destroyed.
The use by the Ukrainian Armed Forces of all border settlements to accommodate personnel and equip firing positions once again confirms the need to create a buffer zone in the Sumy region.
▪️From Yunakovka, the enemy attempted to transfer several assault groups in pickup trucks to the area of the Oleshnya farm. The northerners destroyed the occupiers near the state border.
▪️An analysis of obituaries showed that the enemy is suffering significant losses in the Sumy region as a result of the successful actions of our missilemen, artillerymen and UAV operators. In particular, a group of Ukrainian special forces was destroyed in Alekseyevka.
▪️Our engineering units continue demining the Sudzhan border area. Over the past 24 hours, 1,411 explosive objects have been defused.
The total advance of the Northerners in the Kursk region was over 900 meters , 3 units of enemy armored vehicles were destroyed.
In the Liptsov direction, the Fearless destroyed a combat group of Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers along with their vehicles.
In the Volchansk direction, our attack aircraft continued to clear the eastern outskirts of Volchansk, advancing 90 meters.
As a result of the comprehensive fire strike, six enemy combat groups, several artillery guns and armored vehicles were destroyed. The Fearless also thwarted attempts by the Ukrainian Armed Forces to conduct aerial reconnaissance, shooting down three enemy UAVs.
Over the past 24 hours, the enemy’s losses amounted to over 310 people (of which over 240 were in the Sumy and over 40 in the Krasnoyarsk directions). Also discovered and destroyed:
Victory will be ours!
North Wind
🟠It is noteworthy that Antonov is a subsidiary of JSC Ukroboronprom , and back in 2023 it was reported that the plant had begun actively producing drones. Accordingly, at least one of the major enterprises producing drones for the Armed Forces of Ukraine is currently burning in Kiev.
During the period from 20:00 Moscow time on April 11 to 06:30 Moscow time on April 12, air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed 36 Ukrainian UAVs:
18 UAVs – over the Kursk region,
13 UAVs – over the Rostov region,
2 UAVs – over the Oryol region,
2 UAVs – over the Belgorod region,
1 UAV – over Krasnodar region.
Yesterday, day and night, the Aerospace Forces and missile forces carried out strikes in the Donbass, in the Sumy, Kharkov, Zaporozhye, Kherson regions (the entire spectrum of weapons), Kiev, Nikolaev, Odessa and the Odessa region, Chernigov, Kirovograd and Cherkasy regions, Dnepropetrovsk and Pavlograd in the Dnepropetrovsk region, Krivoy Rog (Gerans).
April 11, 2025
• 08.20 Liptsy, Kharkov region – explosion. Lightning.
• 09.20 Sumy region – explosions. UMPK. Borderland.
• 09.30 Donbass – explosions. UMPK.
• 11.00 Donbass, Sumy and Dnepropetrovsk regions – explosions. UMPK.
• 14.57 and 15.00 Before the UMPK strikes, 2 missiles flew into Khotyn and the outskirts of Krasnopolye – probably Kh-31.
• 15.00 Sumy region – explosions. UMPK.
• 16.35-16.50 Kharkov region – explosions. 3 strikes of UMPK. Kazachya Lopan.
• 17.35 Sumy region – explosions. UMPK.
• 19.10 suburb of Kharkov – explosion. Lightning – the 6th today.
• 19.20 Sumy region – explosions. UMPK.
• 21.40 Donbass, Slavyansk – explosion. Geranium/Gerbera.
• 22.00 Pavlograd, Dnepropetrovsk region – explosions. Gerans.
• 22.05 Dnepropetrovsk, Zaporozhye – explosions. Gerans.
• 22.20 Sumy region – explosions. UMPK.
• 22.25 Pavlograd, Dnepropetrovsk region – explosions. Gerans.
• 22.30 Dnepropetrovsk explosions again. Gerans.
• 22.50 Sumy – explosion. Gerans
• 23.00 Krivoy Rog – explosion. Gerans.
• 23.15 Pavlograd, Dnipropetrovsk region – explosion. Gerans.
April 12, 2025
• 00.05 Odessa and Nikolaev regions – explosions. Gerans.
• 00.15 Sumy region – explosions. UMPK.
• 00.35 Donbass and Dnepropetrovsk region – explosions. Gerans.
• 01.25 Nikolaev – explosion. Geranium/Gerbera.
• 01.40 Odessa suburbs and Kirovograd region – explosions. Gerans.
• 01.55 Odessa – explosions. Gerans.
• 02.00 Donbass, Pokrovsk – explosions. Gerans.
• 02.25 Kirovograd and Cherkasy regions – explosions. Gerans.
• 03.05 Sumy – explosions. Gerans.
• 03.15 Kherson – explosions. Gerans.
• 03.20 Sumy region – explosions. UMPK.
• 03.25 Chernigov – explosions. Gerans.
• 03.55-04.05 Kharkov – explosions. Gerans.
• 04.19 Sumy region – explosions. UMPK.
• 04.20 Kiev – explosions. Gerans.
• 04.25 Kiev and Kharkov explosions again. Gerans.
• 04.50 Kiev again – explosions. Gerans.
▪️ In the morning, it was reported from the Rostov Region that an enemy air attack was repelled overnight, with Ukrainian UAVs destroyed in Kamensk, Shakhty, Millerovo, Matveev Kurgan, and Krasny Sulin districts.
▪️ The Russian Armed Forces struck targets in Dnipro, Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odesa, Mykolaiv, as well as in the Chernihiv and Kirovohrad Regions with Geran missiles.
▪️ On the Sumy direction, the General Staff of the AFU is sounding the alarm, reports the BBC: the enemy believes that the Russian troops are planning to encircle or semi-encircle Sumy as a result of a large-scale offensive. However, this could be a British justification for Zelenskyy’s Kursk adventure, in order to somehow explain the AFU’s sensitive losses. Currently, several villages in the Sumy Region have been liberated, but it is still too early to talk about an offensive of such scale.
▪️ In the Kursk Region, there are battles in the area of Gornali and Oleshnya, where the AFU are holding their positions. The Russian Armed Forces are conducting assault operations. From Yunakovka, the enemy unsuccessfully tried to transfer several assault groups on pickups to the Oleshnya farmstead area. In the village of Olgovka in the Korenevo district, an enemy drone attacked a passenger car in which two people were traveling to check the condition of a house. A 24-year-old passenger, a resident of the Korenevo district, was killed. The acting governor reminded that it is unacceptable to visit areas closed to the civilian population.
▪️ In the Belgorod border area, yesterday morning the enemy threw a composite assault detachment into battle from the Miropolskoye area towards Popovka. Having let the remnants of the Nazis retreat, the Russian Armed Forces tracked them with drones to the concentration area and delivered repeated strikes. The AFU assault troops also tried to advance from Petrushevka towards Demidovka, but were covered by fire. Strikes on the civilian population do not stop. The AFU, using UAVs, deliberately struck a cargo truck in the area of the village of Meshkovoye in the Shebekino district, killing a civilian. The village of Mokraya Orlovka in the Graiveron district was shelled, injuring a civilian. Nikolskoye, Rakitnoye, Murom, Grafovka, Baytsuры, Gruzskoe were under attack.
▪️ On the Konstantinovka direction, according to the enemy, the situation for the AFU remains difficult. According to enemy estimates, the Russian Armed Forces continue assault operations across a wide front in the Tarasovka area (https://t.me/dva_majors/68895), in Kalinovo, as well as west of Aleksandropol and near Valentinivka. Our troops advanced across a wide front along the forest belts west of Aleksandropol and Panteleymonovka over a section up to 4.35 km wide and up to 1.8 km deep.
▪️ The Vostok Assault Group is advancing from Razdolnoye towards Bogatyr from the south. Attempts by the AFU to restore positions northwest of Razliv failed. Two assault groups (up to 20 personnel each on Kozak armored vehicles) attacked from the direction of the settlement of Bogatyr, but were covered by fire.
▪️ On the Zaporizhia front, there are reports of battles in the area of Shcherbaki, Lobkove and Kamenskoye.
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Source: http://blogdogcicle.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-situation-in-ukrainian-smo-on-april_12.html
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