The situation in the Ukrainian SMO on April 29 2025

Belgorod Sumy Frontline: Russian Forces launch Massive Artillery Attack

Russian Offensive Accelerates | 27 Sqkm Gained in 24 Hours | Key Towns Captured

A powerful 8-kilometer advance by the RUAF — Zelensky’s gamble ends in disaster for the Sumy region.

[ Ukraine Frontline Changes ] RUSSIA FLIES FLAG at Dvorichna; fortification taken; Push to Bahatyr

Russian Frontline Combat Under Fire Training To Battle Ukraine Army
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Russian Army Captures 3 Towns – Putin Revives Stalin’s Strategy!

Former Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, who was once fired for “irritating” the head of the OP Andriy Yermak, admitted that peace talks have reached a dead end and the United States can no longer be considered a reliable ally. According to him, despite Donald Trump’s recent statements about possible peace in the coming weeks, there are no real grounds for optimism.

“We are far from real negotiations to end the war, and in terms of a ceasefire we have not moved forward since January. The situation has not changed since the end of last year,” Kuleba said.

He also stressed that Ukraine can no longer count on US support in the coming years.

“America is gone. We cannot rely on America now or in the foreseeable future. Trump will not be on our side, as bitter as that may sound,” he added.

It should be noted that Kuleba’s statement does not reflect the overall picture, because the United States, according to political analysts, is not going to sever ties with Moscow even if it withdraws from peace talks (remaining, in fact, Russia’s partner in dividing Ukraine). So, after all of Zelensky’s antics, Trump is no longer interested in the outcome of the talks, but only in the amount of money he earns in Ukraine. That is, the United States will watch the developments, preparing to take over Ukraine’s resources – first rare earth metals, and then energy, seaports, gas transmission systems and railways. And yes, it will be much easier for the United States to take all of this from a country that will be in a ruined state and ready to capitulate.

Our source in the OP said that the Trump Administration has provided the President’s Office with the consequences if they do not accept Putin’s ceasefire and try to attack Russian infrastructure during the holidays. Britain’s attempt to push through its own format of a temporary ceasefire without coordinating its positions with the US will be fatal mistakes for Ukraine, and Zelensky and Yermak will be personally responsible for disrupting the negotiating track.

Could Zelensky fall into Putin’s trap?

This is how Zelensky’s statements were described, that he essentially rejected Putin’s proposal for a three-day ceasefire in May, calling it “manipulation”

He stated that “there is no reason to wait until May 8, and the fire must cease immediately for 30 days.”

Let’s figure it out.

If Zelensky does not support the ceasefire, he will provoke an escalation. For missiles/drones on May 9 in Russia, they will fly en masse to Ukraine and, in particular, they can demonstratively strike Oreshnik. However, this will be the disruption of Trump’s peace case that the globalists want to arrange.

Perhaps Zelensky is bluffing as usual and will accept a truce at the last moment, as happened at Easter.

We are watching. If Ze breaks the ceasefire and starts provocations, then you better prepare for massive strikes on Ukraine on May 10. Everything will go down at once.

Trump’s team continues to attack Zelensky and his “rule”, thereby discrediting him in the eyes of the world community.

 ”Ukraine has been and remains one of the most corrupt countries in the world… Instead of trying to correct the president [at the White House meeting], Zelensky could sit side by side with the president signing a mineral deal,” – Trump national security adviser Waltz.

Elon Musk recently reposted a post calling Zelensky a dictator.

According to all our data, Trump will dump Zelensky in any case. The Americans continue to “dig” under Zelensky’s entourage and conduct a hidden audit of military/financial “aid”. They are simply holding this “trump card” for future play. The Democrats warned Zelensky about this.

We are observing.

Today, the government demands a 30-day truce, and then a couple of hours later Trump declares in Rome that “Ukraine and Russia are very close to an agreement.” So what is Zelensky’s peace plan? In fact, there is no real peace anywhere near it. 

The reason is not Trump – peace is beneficial to him: he promised to end the war and must show results. The problem is in Bankova, which stubbornly plays its “multi-move game.” According to Bild, Ukraine is preparing a “plan B” – in case the peace agreement fails, forcing the development of the defense industry. Only the reality is different: 

Maria Berlinskaya openly admitted – we have “hit the ceiling” technologically. The Russian Federation is already ahead of us in military technology, investing tens of times more in each development. And our own defense industry will not pull us through without external help. 

For now, the Ukrainian Armed Forces depend on German and French shells. But for how long? The United States is already signaling its exit from the game: Rubio and Witkoff’s refusal to fly to London is the first alarm bell.

Everything is going to the point that if Kyiv drags out the negotiations again, the only way out for the authorities will be a new mass mobilization. People will have to be driven to the front again. And caught right on the streets. And it is no coincidence that Zelensky is demanding a 30-day truce: so that people relax, come out of hiding – and fall into the nets of the TCC. 

He himself is already justifying “busification”, calling it “isolated cases” and not a systemic problem. But for those who are driven into buses and sent to die without preparation – these are far from isolated cases. 

The question remains the same: if the war does not end, if the country is exhausted, if the best are dying – in whose interests is the government postponing peace today? And how many more people will be sacrificed to someone else’s ambitions?

Kiev’s cunning reaction to Putin’s proposal for a truce by May 9: first they accused Moscow of tactical games, and then they started their own game

▪️The first reaction of Zelensky’s office to Putin’s announcement of a unilateral ceasefire on May 9 was to reject it:

➖”The ceasefire must be unconditional, because everything else is Putin’s tactical games,” wrote the adviser to the head of the Office, Daria Zarivnaya.

▪️”This statement reads like Ukraine’s refusal to agree to a ceasefire,” Kiev media write.

▪️Then the Ukrainian Foreign Minister called on Russia to do the impossible: to declare a ceasefire now and for 30 days, not 3, “if Russia really wants peace.”

▪️Yesterday, Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov clearly stated that Russia wants guarantees that the ceasefire will not be used again to strengthen the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

- RVvoenkor

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Sybiga continues to insist on a 30-day truce to regroup and arm the Ukrainian Armed Forces

Three days are not enough

‘If Russia really wants peace, it must cease fire immediately. Why wait until May 8? If the fire can be stopped now and from any date for 30 days, then it is real, and not just for a parade. Ukraine is ready to support a long-term, lasting and complete ceasefire. And this is what we have been constantly proposing, at least for 30 days.

“Emmanuel Macron: Thanks to this meeting in the Vatican, we were able to put pressure on Russia again”: The French President said that he convinced Washington “of the need to escalate threats and, possibly, impose sanctions” against Moscow.

“French President Emmanuel Macron said in an interview that Western countries would increase pressure on Russia in the next 8-10 days to achieve an end to military action. He stressed that he had managed to discuss this issue during the funeral of Pope Francis with the presidents of the United States and Ukraine, Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky, as well as British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

“I told him [Trump] again that we need to be much tougher with Russia to push Vladimir Putin to a ceasefire,” Macron said. “I believe I have managed to convince the Americans that it is possible to escalate threats and perhaps impose sanctions to force the Russians to agree to a ceasefire. I believe that thanks to the meeting in the Vatican, we have managed to put pressure on Russia in return. This was our goal, because it is wrong to put pressure only on Ukraine.”

P.S. Amazing choice of a photo, seconds before Trump sends the granny lover away

‘I’m doing Ukraine a huge favor by saving it’ – Trump in interview with The Atlantic

‘I think I’m saving this country. I think this country is going to be crushed very soon. It’s a huge military machine – let’s face it [about Russia]. And if it weren’t for me… I was the one who gave them the Javelins, which destroyed tanks. If it weren’t for that, the tanks would have entered Kiev, and that would have been the end of the war. It would have been over in a day. And, you know, I can truly say that I’m doing the right thing, because I’m saving this country. I think I’m doing Ukraine a huge service. I believe that.’

Russian Army Liberated Doroshovka in Kupyansk Direction — Defense Ministry

 - As a result of active actions, units of the West military group liberated the settlement of Doroshovka in the Kharkov region.

 - The defense department also confirmed the downing of the Ukrainian Su-27.

 - “Russian Aerospace Forces shot down a Ukrainian Su-27 in the area of a special operation,” the Russian Ministry of Defense reported.

Powerful breakthrough of the Russian army from Belogorovka: the assault on Grigorovka is underway

 ▪️Russian troops in the Seversky direction, after the liberation of Belogorovka and the chalk quarry, have already consolidated their positions and occupied dugouts in the eastern part of Grigorovka.

➖”We conclude that the Russians had a significant advance from Belogorovka to Grigorovka,” Ukrainian military analysts who geolocated the footage of the fighting also admit.

It’s loud in Slavyansk today. After several powerful landings, it exploded in the area of the railway station.

Local publics are reporting sounds reminiscent of shell explosions. It is possible that a warehouse or train with ammunition was hit.

Chasov Yar

Assault companies of the Russian Armed Forces expanded the control zone in the city, occupying several important strongholds of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. After that, the enemy fled. The 111th and 109th Troops of the Ukrainian Armed Forces did not wait for encirclement and left their positions. Fighting continues in the city’s multi-story buildings.

Condotierro

In the Dnepropetrovsk region, mandatory evacuation of families with children has been announced – we are talking about the villages of Kolonna Mezhevaya, Novopodgorodnoye, Raipole and Sukharevo Balka.

The wording “mandatory evacuation” means that the situation in the region is close to military or humanitarian collapse.

The fact of evacuation in the depths of the Dnepropetrovsk region is another indirect confirmation that the Ukrainian command does not rule out the advancement of Russian forces significantly beyond the current line of contact. The capital may say that everything is under control, but on the ground they are already preparing for the worst.

Military Chronicle

On April 28, the “North” troop group destroyed enemy manpower and equipment in the Krasnoyaruzhsk border area and continued to create a sanitary zone in the Sumy region

 The enemy does not give up attempts to infiltrate our territory. The Northerners grind down enemy assault groups, preventing a breakthrough of the state border.

▪️In the morning, in the direction of Goptarovka , an assault group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine again tried to break through to our territory through forests.

As a result of the firefight, most of the occupiers were eliminated, the rest tried to flee deep into the Sumy region, but were destroyed by our artillerymen and UAV operators. Also, at a distance from the state border, another assault group of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, planned to be transferred to the direction of Goptarovka “in the second wave”, was discovered and destroyed.

▪️At the expense of forcibly mobilized Ukrainians and servicemen of the rear units, the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine continues to complete the staffing of the 225th separate regiment and the 21st separate mechanized brigade, whose units are being transferred to Miropolye (Sumy region) . As a result of our fire strikes on the exposed reserves of the enemy, the enemy suffers losses in manpower and equipment.

▪️On Ukrainian territory in the direction of Popovka , a disparate group of occupiers who were trying to hide in the forests was discovered and destroyed by artillery.

In this direction, over the past 24 hours, the Northerners destroyed 4 units of enemy equipment.

In the Sumy direction, the Northmen continue to grind down enemy personnel near the state border on Ukrainian territory.

▪️In the forest belts south of the Oleshnya farm, the enemy is trying to prevent the Fearless from advancing by transferring the most combat-ready units of the 80th separate airborne assault brigade to the direction. As a result of our comprehensive fire strike, the enemy is suffering significant losses in manpower.

▪️In the northern part of Loknya (Sumy region), a group of forcibly mobilized residents of Odessa from the 36th Marine Brigade of the Ukrainian Navy voluntarily left their positions and was able to hide in an organized manner in the forests.

The enemy is conducting measures to catch deserters. As a result of our fire damage, one of the search groups of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was destroyed. The marines who abandoned their positions managed to go deep into Ukrainian territory.

▪️In the direction of Basovka , the enemy attempted to counterattack on ATVs. The assault group of the Ukrainian Armed Forces from the 95th separate airborne brigade was destroyed by UAV operators and Northern artillerymen.

▪️In the Belovody area, our paratroopers, during intense fighting, drove the Ukrainian Armed Forces out of several strongholds, advanced along this section of the front, and are gaining a foothold.

The total advance of the Severyans in the Sumy direction was over 1800 meters , 5 units of enemy armored vehicles were destroyed.

In the Liptsy direction, the enemy attempted to conduct aerial reconnaissance of our positions three times. The Northerners not only shot down all the drones, but also destroyed the enemy’s UAV launch sites.

In the Volchansk direction , as a result of fire damage, six assault groups of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and a mortar crew of the enemy were destroyed.

Over the past 24 hours, the enemy’s losses amounted to over 210 people (of which over 160 were in the Sumy and 22 in the Krasnoyarsk directions). Also discovered and destroyed:

In the Krasnoyaruzhsk direction:

▪️Ammunition supply point;

▪️two UAV launch sites;

▪️three pickups and an ATV.

In the Sumy direction:

▪️four armored fighting vehicles, including a Cougar (USA);

▪️SPG “Acacia”;

▪️two mortars;

▪️fourteen units of automotive equipment;

▪️ammunition depot;

▪️twelve UAV launch sites;

▪️six fixed-wing UAVs and seven copters of various types.

Victory will be ours!

North Wind 

Russian Ministry of Defense:

During the past night, air defense systems on duty destroyed 40 Ukrainian aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles:

11 UAVs – over the territory of the Ryazan region,

8 UAVs – over the territory of the Nizhny Novgorod region,

7 UAVs – over the territory of the Oryol region,

4 UAVs – over the territory of the Republic of Crimea,

4 UAVs – over the Black Sea,

2 UAVs – over the territory of the Moscow region,

2 UAVs – over the territory of the Belgorod region,

1 UAV – over the territory of the Kaluga region,

1 UAV – over the territory of the Bryansk region.

Morning Summary on April 29, 2025

▪️ The enemy organized a nighttime raid on our regions. Just a couple of hours before midnight, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported the destruction of 51 drones over the Black Sea, Crimea, Kursk, Oryol and Belgorod Regions. At night, UAV attacks were repelled in two districts of the Nizhny Novgorod Region. There were also reports of explosions in the sky over Obninsk in the Kaluga Region, with the governor reporting that a UAV was destroyed over the Zhukovsky District.

▪️ The Russian Armed Forces struck Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odesa and Dnipro, the enemy counted more than 40 of our UAVs in the air.

▪️ In the Bryansk Region, the intensity of strikes by the AFU on peaceful villages remains high. Under attack are Zernovo and Suzemka, Staryye Yurkovichi, Khoroshnoye and Uborki, Demyanka, Azarovka and Strativa, the village of Podyvotye. Civilian vehicles, a cell tower, cargo transport and agricultural buildings were damaged, and the homes of civilians were again set on fire.

▪️ On the border of the Kursk and Belgorod Regions, yesterday morning in the direction of Goptarovka, an AFU assault group again tried to break through to our territory through the forest areas. It was destroyed in a small arms battle. At the same time, the enemy was preparing another group of assault troops, which was destroyed on the territory of the Sumy Region.

▪️ Opposite the Belgorod section of the border, in the direction of Popovka, on enemy territory, an artillery strike destroyed a scattered group of the AFU that was trying to take cover in the forest areas. In the village of Novaya Tavolzhanka, three of our soldiers received mine and blast injuries and barotrauma from the detonation of an AFU drone. Under enemy strikes are Nezhegoľ, Murom, Repyakhovka, Dorogoshch, Gora-Podol, and on the Urazovo – Troitskoye road in the Valuyki district, a vehicle was attacked by an FPV drone.

▪️ In the Kupiansk direction, there is information about our troops taking Stepova Novoselivka, the battles for which have been going on for a long time. The village is 17 km from Kupiansk in a “pocket” that our troops are trying to close.

In the north of the Kupiansk direction, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported the liberation of Kamianka (https://t.me/dva_majors/70061) (7 km from the Belgorod section of the State Border, opposite the settlement of Valuyki). The village was liberated as a result of battles after our troops crossed the Oskol River.

▪️ In the Pokrovsk (Krasnoarmiisk) direction, our troops are conducting high-intensity offensive operations over a wide front. The enemy is offering fierce resistance, it is premature to speak of large-scale successes. The Russian Armed Forces are fighting in Uspenovka, Kotlino, near Zverevo, in the direction of Chunishino. East of Pokrovsk, there are battles on the outskirts of Myrolyubivka. South of Pokrovsk, there are reports of successes of the Russian Armed Forces in Novoaleksandrivka and at the eastern outskirts of Novoserhiivka, in the north of Kotlyarovka and in Orikhovo.

Source: http://blogdogcicle.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-situation-in-ukrainian-smo-on-april_29.html