New Frontline Footage Shows More Ukrainian Losses
Kiev forces continue to sustain human and material losses while attempting to advance as a part of their ongoing counteroffensive.
Several videos that surfaced online on July 7 and 8 showed some of the losses the Russian military inflicted on Kiev forces in different directions.
Two of the videos show recent strikes with FPV suicide drones against a group of Ukrainian troops as well as a T-72 main battel tank in an unspecified direction. A third video shows a strike with a Lancet loitering munition against an American-made AN/TPQ-49 counter battery radar that was deployed near Kupyanks.
Other videos showed pinpoint artillery strikes against an ammunition stockpile of Kiev forces near Kremennaya, a group of Ukrainian troops near Bakhmut and a military vehicle in an unspecified direction.
Kiev forces also continue to suffer losses in NATO-supplied equipment. A video from the direction of Zaporozhye shows another destroyed American-made Bradley infantry fighting vehicle along with an unidentified engineering vehicle near Malaya Tokmachka.
With Ukraine’s counteroffensive not going according to plans, the United States has made the decision to arm Kiev forces with cluster munitions.
Russian ambassador to Washington, Anatoly Antonov, said on July 7 that the decision is an admission of failure and a desperate attempt to stave off defeat.
“Cluster munitions are a gesture of desperation. Such a measure speaks of the awareness of the U.S. and its satellites of their impotence,” Antonov told reporters. “However, they do not want to admit their own setbacks and the failure of the Ukrainian military’s attempts to carry out an offensive against the Russian regions. Therefore, they commit new acts of madness.”
Washington continues to raise the stakes in the conflict “with tenacity worthy of a better use,” Antonov said, calling the current level of US provocations “really off the scale, bringing humanity closer to a new world war.”
Ukraine’s plan to join NATO also appears to be failing. President Joe Biden told CNN in an interview previewed on July 7 that the U.S. is willing to offer Kiev a sort of security arrangement currently offered to Israel instead of membership in the alliance.
“I don’t think it’s ready for membership in NATO,” Biden said. “I don’t think there is unanimity in NATO about whether or not to bring Ukraine into the NATO family now, at this moment, in the middle of a war.”
Membership in the U.S.-led alliance means a commitment to defend all of its territory, so “if the war is going on, then we’re all in a war. We’re at war with Russia, if that were the case,” Biden told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria.
Meanwhile, Poland continues to deploy troops on the border with Belarus. Warsaw’s 12th Mechanized Division announced on July 7 that around 1,000 troops and 200 units of equipment will be stationed in the eastern province of Podlasie, located alongside the border with Belarus.
The Polish military said that the deployment is meant to counter “attempts to destabilize” the region. However, Minsk said that the deployment is meant to support Belarusian coup-plotters who are being trained on Polish soil.
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