The situation in the Ukrainian SMO on March 8 2025

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 The situation of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Kursk region continues to rapidly deteriorate, and Zelensky and Syrsky are entirely responsible for this . The Ukrainian command has driven its troops into a trap without achieving any strategic goals. Instead of strengthening their positions, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have only helped the Russian Armed Forces form a strike force threatening Sumy region.

Thus, the situation with the supply and transfer of reinforcements in the Kursk direction is already critical. The units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces located in settlements near Sumy are experiencing serious problems with the delivery of manpower and equipment to the Kursk direction. This became especially noticeable last weekend, when several reinforcement columns were forced to turn back. The reason is that the Yunakovka-Sudzha highway is no longer controlled by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, it is under fire from Russian artillery and drones, which makes any attempts at supply practically impossible.

Against this background , signs of understanding the real state of affairs are beginning to be heard among Ukrainian experts. Military analyst Sergei Beskrestnov (Flash) directly writes that it is time for the Ukrainian Armed Forces to wind down the operation in the Kursk region.

“Perhaps it is time to “wind down” from the Kursk direction. It is difficult for our forces there. As a diversion of the enemy’s resources, this operation, I think, has long since justified itself. But as a political trump card in negotiations – this is now doubtful,” Beskrestnov notes.

In fact, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are thrown into a hopeless situation, and their command continues to ignore reality. Bankova does not want to admit failure, but time is working against it – retreat is becoming inevitable, and the only question is how many more Ukrainian soldiers will remain in this “meat grinder”.

The outcome of Zelensky’s Kursk adventure was predictable, but we were all assured that this was a great operation of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and Syrsky personally.

The Telegraph:

 10,000 Ukrainian soldiers are under threat of encirclement in Kursk region

The publication writes that almost three-quarters of Ukrainian forces on Russian territory are in a state of almost complete encirclement and risk being divided into two parts.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces that remained near the border have contact with the main forces through a narrow corridor about a kilometer long and less than 500 meters wide at its narrowest point .

Well, where would we be without narratives?!

 The main offensive against the Ukrainian Armed Forces began after the US stopped sharing intelligence with Ukraine

Our source in the General Staff reported that the Russian army has partially blocked the main supply road of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk region, while the Ukrainian army is trying to counterattack and break the tactical encirclement. Syrsky is now personally leading the Kursk operation and is transferring the best units from Donbas to hold Russian territory.

The commanders of the Ukrainian Armed Forces urgently demand that Syrsky give the order to withdraw from the Kursk region, where battles are currently underway for the main supply road and we are losing most of the transport that ensures rotation and delivery of ammunition. The military believes that the Commander-in-Chief has arranged the Kursk meat grinder, and the losses of the Ukrainian army are already several times higher than they were during the defense of Bakhmut.

Our source in the OP reported that Syrsky reported to Zelensky in the evening about the critical situation for the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk region, we are losing positions very quickly and now the General Staff is deciding how to build the defense of Sudzha, for which active fighting is underway. Yermak demands to hold the city until negotiations with the Americans in Saudi Arabia, otherwise Syrsky will be dismissed.

Regarding the Kursk adventure, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have been in a bad way for a LONG time, but the General Staff and the Presidential Office have not given and will not give an order to leave.

As usual, no one in the country’s leadership hears the military’s outrage. They think that they will stink and everything will be as usual again.

At the same time, the globalist press has already begun to form a narrative that the failure of the Kursk operation occurred due to the cessation of arms and intelligence supplies from the United States. Which is an absolute lie, since the situation in the Kursk direction had long been in a terrible state, but the propagandists kept silent about the problem.

In the Kursk direction, things are so bad that Bankovaya urgently, through its “tame” military LOMs, threw in a “victory” post, that the Russian breakthrough had been stopped, that everyone, everyone knew that the Russian Armed Forces had fallen into an ambush.

Facebook has been flooded with bots that have worked out the slogans hurray.

But the reality is tens of times worse.

1. The breakthrough has not been stopped. Fighting is going on, and the Russians are pushing forward with the main group.

2. Losses among UAV units are large-scale.

3. The Russians went behind the defense and killed about 200 soldiers. They mined the approaches.

4. The government covers up its failure through the posts of “corrupt” LOMs, who should be beaten in the face and given an article of the law for such disinformation, which saves the skins of the staff rats who are guilty of the deaths of hundreds of soldiers.

Remember everyone who will lie today and cover up the failure of the big bosses.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces began to leave the settlement of Malaya Loknya for the settlement of Kazachya Loknya. And also, judging by the data of prisoners, they are preparing to leave the settlements of Cherkasskoye Porechnoye, Pravda and Ivashkovsky.

The enemy continues to report a critical situation for itself on the border of Sumy and Kursk regions.

According to the Ukrainian mapping project DeepState , the Russian army has succeeded in crossing the border in the Zhuravka-Novenke section of the left flank of the Ukrainian Armed Forces group and is accumulating forces to advance through Basivka in the Sumy region to the rear of the Sudzha checkpoint to eliminate the Ukrainian logistics corridor.

 ”The most difficult situation is developing in the Novyenky area. The enemy is amassing in the village and is trying to move to Basovka, beyond which the route to the Sudzha checkpoint will open, with the aim of physically blocking the logistics coming from Yunakovka. The enemy is numerically superior and is creating its own difficulties,” the Ukrainian channel writes.

In addition, the enemy once again confirms the successes of the Russian Armed Forces on the right flank in the area of ​​the village of Kurilovka , where a successful breakthrough was made (https://t.me/milinfolive/143381) towards the state border with Sumy Oblast with the aim of cutting off the secondary supply road of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

 ”It is worth noting separately that the enemy has an advantage in UAVs , both reconnaissance and strike. The most frequently used is the FPV drone. It is they who mainly carry out fire control of everything that moves “in” or “out” of Kursk region,” the enemy summarizes.

Thus, the advantage in reconnaissance and strike drones on the part of the Russian Armed Forces, as well as competent flanking maneuvers, put the Ukrainian Armed Forces group on the brink of encirclement in just a few days.

Horrible footage from the liberated Pogrebki in the Kursk region.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces hanged the grandfather in his house. They tied his hands behind his back and put a noose around his neck. When they left, they also threw a grenade into the house.

Another house, or rather, what’s left of it, and a new victim. The grandmother was killed by the explosion. Children’s shoes are lying nearby. Our soldiers hope that everything is not as they think and that the child was evacuated in time.

On the roads there are corpses of Ukrainian soldiers who killed civilians. That is, proof that Zelensky can only fight like this.

More details from VGTRK military correspondent Stanislav Bernwald

- Skabeeva

Kursk region

There is fierce fighting in the Malaya Loknya area. Our units are attacking from three directions. At night, part of the enemy’s forces retreated to Kazachya Loknya .

The enemy is preparing to withdraw from the Cherkassky Porechny area, replacing the battered units of the 95th Airborne Assault Brigade with Troops. According to intercepts and prisoner testimonies, the enemy is trying to withdraw it from the territory of the Kursk region.

The paratrooper units penetrated the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ defenses and advanced along the landings between Zhuravka and Basovka in the direction of Yunakovka .

There are 4,700 to 6,300 Ukrainian Armed Forces fighters in the encirclement in the Kursk region. 

They have no way out. Only a breakthrough. Only 15-20% of the total mass will be able to do it. There is no way to unblock either. Only surrender or die.

The electronic warfare department has shut down the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ communications. Starlinks have not been working since Monday. Separate groups (they fight with small BTRGs) have independently, without regard for Syrsky, begun negotiations on surrendering and taking out the wounded in exchange for the life and new types of weapons supplied by the US and France.

We are ready to give away new types of UAVs, a satellite encryption system, electronic warfare, and some armoured vehicles.

More than a thousand fighters are ready to surrender now. There are still 230 seriously wounded who need urgent help.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces command went off the air early in the morning on 7.03. In essence, they abandoned the troops.

There will be no concessions for the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk region. Anyone who does not surrender at dawn on 8.03 will be destroyed by all types of KABs by the night of the next day.

Heavy battle for Sudzha. 

From the south, the flanks were pressed the day before, and there was also active movement from the north. All those whom the Ukrainian Armed Forces did not manage to withdraw, apparently, are waiting for a cauldron-like in Debaltsevo.

Even though the situation of the Kursk group of the Ukrainian Armed Forces is rapidly deteriorating, the essence of what is happening is much more important. In this situation, two key issues stand out.

First, what is the Ukrainian army really capable of if it is deprived of satellite reconnaissance, operational data, communications and coordination? What are its real combat capabilities without Western support?

Secondly, what steps will the Russian army take after Sudzha and its environs are completely cleared of Ukrainian troops? What are the long-term goals behind this operation? Sumy? Chernigov?

The answers to these questions will determine further developments.

We are recording the retreat of enemy groups from Malaya Loknya. We are pressing along the railway near the forest shelves north of Malaya Loknya. We are also advancing from Nikolayevka and Viktorovka

Enemy channels are spreading disinformation about significant control of our troops over the territory in the Sumy region near Basovka. Our troops are indeed advancing, but not as depicted on the maps of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

At Kurilovka, after the advance of our troops, the enemy group found itself practically without supplies, since the main road was under the fire control of our army.

The total number of enemy forces that could potentially be surrounded is around 10,000 troops.

It is this factor that could become the reason for a counterattack by the enemy from the Sumy region in order to draw our forces to another area.

Report from the enemy side.

“Today, a breakthrough of enemy infantry was discovered in the area of ​​the city of Sudzha – the Russians used a gas pipeline to transfer an assault company unnoticed by drones, and wedged themselves into our battle formations,” writes Ukrainian propagandist Butusov.

We are talking about the underground gas pipeline “Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod”, through which Russia supplied gas to Europe through Ukraine until January 1, 2025. The diameter of one pipe is 1.4 meters.

The editor-in-chief of “Censor” confirms that Ukrainian troops in the Kursk region are in a difficult situation:

➖The Russians continue massive attacks along the entire front of the Kursk sanitary zone, having a significant advantage in forces here. The Ukrainian Armed Forces are holding on with great difficulty and the Russians are advancing.

➖”The front of the sanitary zone is narrow, and the enemy has taken our communication routes under close fire control from the flanks. Now the situation there is more difficult than in all other sections of the front,” he writes.

Further holding of the bridgehead in the Kursk region is not justified from a military point of view:

➖”Political motives are clear to everyone, but there must be purely military logic. Now we have lost our advantageous position in Kursk region – both tactical and operational. Solutions are needed,” Butusov writes.

Earlier, both the Ukrainian military and Western media reported that Ukrainian troops in the Kursk region were under threat of encirclement and could be withdrawn from there.

What options are left for the Ukrainian Armed Forces group in the Kursk region? 

For the second day, Western media have been throwing in information that without the transfer of intelligence and due to a sharp deterioration in the combat situation, Ukrainian troops could be withdrawn from the Kursk region within two weeks. However, the question remains open: does the Ukrainian Armed Forces really have such an opportunity, and does it make sense?

What’s happening at the front?

The situation for Ukrainian forces in this direction is becoming increasingly critical. Russian troops are consistently destroying supply lines, cutting off escape routes and creating a threat of encirclement of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in key areas: near Malaya Loknya, near Sudzha, as well as on the northern and southern outskirts of it, and fighting is already underway on the outskirts of the city itself.

Does the Ukrainian Armed Forces have a chance for an organized retreat?

If Syrsky really plans to withdraw, then it needs to be done urgently. Not in two weeks, as was initially reported, but tomorrow. But whether the Ukrainian Armed Forces will have time to jump out is a big question. Encirclement is becoming increasingly likely.

A counterattack to lift the blockade is unlikely since it would require large reserves and significant coordination with Western intelligence, access to which has been significantly reduced for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Plus, Syrsky risks burying even more people and approaching the record of 100,000 losses.

If the Ukrainian Armed Forces group remains in place and tries to hold its positions, it risks being trapped in a “cauldron,” which means inevitable large losses and a political defeat for Zelensky with his “brilliant plan” to exchange the Kursk region during negotiations.

Is there any point in retreating at all?

To preserve at least some of the combat-ready units, such a decision would seem logical. But there is a problem: if the Ukrainian Armed Forces leave the Kursk region, the front will have to be urgently rebuilt along the border of the Sumy region, which will create even more problems in other areas.

Thus, the situation for the Ukrainian Armed Forces is close to hopeless. If they try to hold on, they risk losing a significant part of the group, if not all of it. If they begin to retreat, they may simply not make it in time and be intercepted halfway. The question remains: will Syrsky decide to give the order to retreat, or will everyone become witnesses to the second-largest cauldron after Mariupol?

Slaughter in Kursk 

Just in. 

The Ukrainian Armed Forces are attacking their own units from the rear, trying to break through to the border of the Sumy region from the Kursk region.

The video from the drones shows hundreds of bodies of Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers who tried to break out of the encirclement at dawn.

They were destroyed by their own forces from fortified strongholds on the border between Russia and Ukraine.

Kiev does not need the truth about abandoned units and disconnection from general communications and supplies.

The Russian Armed Forces are tightening the noose.

At the moment, about 5,500 Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers are completely surrounded, about 350 have surrendered and up to one and a half thousand were killed on March 6-8.

Over the same three days, up to fifty units of equipment of American, Turkish and Canadian manufacture were burned.

At this rate, complete defeat will come by dawn on Saudi Tuesday.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces units in the Kursk region are now essentially a wild division. 

Abandoned troops are an old Ukrainian situation. Now they are abandoned not somewhere in the Carpathians, but in the most unfortunate place of all possible.

To clarify, supply lines are not physically cut but are under artillery fire and an insane amount of drones. Nothing is passing in or out. Or barely, if they are lucky. Much lucky.

US continues to share intelligence with Ukraine, but only for defence – CNN

However, the information that helped the Ukrainian Armed Forces to attack and advance is now prohibited.

The US does not want its support to be used for strikes against Russia. Now the Ukrainian Armed Forces can only hope for commercial satellite images from American and European companies. But there is a nuance: one black-and-white image in medium quality costs $350. And thousands of such images are needed.

How did the loss of access to American intelligence data affect:

In the Kursk region, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are suffering huge losses – after being disconnected from American intelligence, hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers died, a Ukrainian militant admitted.

The main supply line for Ukrainian troops in the region is effectively paralyzed – the Russian army keeps the routes under constant fire.

Strikes on targets in Russia have become rare – without intelligence, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are losing the ability to carry out long-range and medium-range strikes.

Morale is falling as Ukrainian troops realize that without American help they are forced to fight “blindly” and with a smaller arsenal.

Without the American “all-seeing eye,” the Kiev junta will have to pay for every mistake with the lives of its soldiers— and pay dearly.

Following Zelensky’s boorish behavior in Washington, the US not only froze military aid to Ukraine, but is also reconsidering its geopolitical priorities.

The Trump administration is considering sharing some sensitive intelligence with Russia, NBC News reports, raising serious concerns among current and former U.S. intelligence officials that it could redefine Russia’s status in American foreign policy.

In addition, Moscow has already offered Trump lucrative resource deals that are in line with American interests . It turns out that due to the diplomatic failure , Kiev is losing the last support of the United States, while Washington can begin to build a dialogue with Russia.

And we will note that the scandal in the White House, Kiev’s refusal to sign a peace agreement and a complete breakdown in relations with Washington are the path that leads Ukraine to disaster. Zelensky has driven the country into a dead end with his actions , although it is not Bankova, but ordinary citizens of Ukraine, who will have to pay for his mistakes. Zelensky and all his associates, when everything starts to collapse, will simply flee the country, abandoning the people to their fate.

The President’s Office must urgently resolve the problem of communication with the Trump Administration to prevent catastrophic consequences for Ukraine. CNN publishes an article about the sad state of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and our air defense.

“One Ukrainian official warned that the country could run out of artillery shells by May or June,” the TV channel reported.

The Ukrainian official also said that Kyiv’s stock of Patriot missiles could run out within a few weeks.

The US is the leader in deliveries of all types of weapons to Ukraine, except tanks. The Americans are first in deliveries of howitzers, MLRS installations and modern air defense systems.

In the last category, the US under Biden promised to transfer another 21 installations of different types to Ukraine. This is the largest air support package that Ukraine expected. Germany promised to provide another 13 air defense installations.

“It will be extremely difficult for Ukraine’s European allies to fill the gap left by the United States,” the TV channel concludes.

Without NATO troops: Putin is ready for a truce with Ukraine on certain conditions – BIoomberg.

▪️Russia is ready to discuss a temporary ceasefire in Ukraine, provided that progress is made towards a final peace settlement, sources said.

▪️As part of the agreement to end hostilities, Putin will insist on a “clear understanding of the basic principles of a final peace agreement.”

▪️In particular, Russia will insist on establishing the parameters of a possible peacekeeping mission. Moscow has rejected the participation of EU and NATO forces, but does not object to troops from China and other countries neutral to the conflict.

▪️Trump calls on the warring parties to reach a ceasefire along the front line as soon as possible. Zelensky, on the other hand, is promoting the idea of ​​declaring a temporary moratorium on attacks on infrastructure while ground combat continues.

Seems doubtful that Russia gives Ukraine some breathing room, as it only benefits Ukraine.

Russian army attacks Dneproenergiya!

▪️In the South Donetsk direction, units of the “East” force group, after liberating the settlement of Skudnoe behind Velyka Novosyolka, closed the “pocket” southwest of Burlatskoye and began attacks in the direction of Dneproenergiya; fighting is underway on the approaches to the settlement.

Morning Summary on March 8, 2025

▪️ In the Rostov Region, an attack by UAVs was repelled overnight in the Millerovo and Chertkovo districts. In the Bryansk Region, the AFU struck the city of Starodub with six rocket-propelled UAVs. A resident of the Starodub municipal district was injured, a production facility is on fire at one of the processing enterprises, and residents from the nearest homes have been evacuated. The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that from 20:15 to 22:45 Moscow time, air defense forces destroyed 43 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles: 21 UAVs over the territory of the Krasnodar Territory, nine UAVs over the Bryansk Region, four UAVs over the Rostov Region, two UAVs over the Belgorod Region, one UAV over the Kursk Region, and six UAVs over the Sea of Azov.

▪️ The Russian Armed Forces struck “Geraniums” at rear targets in Ukraine. There were reports of numerous explosions in the Odesa Region – the destruction of the region’s infrastructure has been ongoing for more than a week.

▪️ In the Kursk Region, the situation for the AFU is close to critical. Yesterday, as a result of our actions, Nikolskoye, Viktorovka, and Staraya Sorochina were taken, and fighting was ongoing in Malaya Loknya. The clearing of the eastern outskirts of Lebedivka continues. South of Kurilovka, the invading enemy grouping was severed by a decisive strike. The enemy has almost completely lost logistics – the Russian Army has taken full fire control (https://t.me/dva_majors/66115) over the supply routes of the AFU. Therefore, the AFU will not be able to evacuate. Enemy units are experiencing communication difficulties, and the resistance, which is still organized and fierce, is becoming sporadic. Nevertheless, heavy fighting for the liberation of the Kursk Region continues. There are also battles in the border areas of the Sumy Region, with our forces trying to advance towards Basovka.

▪️ In the north of the Kupiansk direction, the Russian Armed Forces are expanding the bridgehead on the right bank of the Oskol River near Figolevka.

▪️ In Chasiv Yar, our troops are advancing in the Western district. At the same time, the enemy is spreading tragic footage of objective control with the destruction of our assault column of armored vehicles. Unfortunately, such tragedies still occur in the fourth year of the war, although the Russian Army has trained many commanders in combat who know how to conduct perfect assault operations with more cunning maneuvers.

▪️ In the Pokrovsk direction, fierce counter-attacks are ongoing in the area of Pishchane and Shevchenko. Settlements and positions are changing hands multiple times.

▪️ In Constantinople, they report on the success of our troops’ assault actions. From the liberated Andriyivka, the Russian Armed Forces are rushing west towards Oleksiyivka.

▪️ North of Velyka (Velyka) Novosilka, the Russian Army is expanding the control zone and conducting offensive operations in the areas of the settlements of Dnipro Energy and Volne Pole.

▪️ On the Zaporizhia front, the AFU carried out a massive artillery barrage of civilian objects in Kamianka-Dniprovska.

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