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تستمر الحرب في أوكرانيا بضربات متبادلة مستمرة. أطلقت قوات روسيا وأوكرانيا ليلة الأمس موجات جديدة من الهجمات في المناطق الخلفية لبعضهما البعض. في حين أظهرت الضربات الروسية دقة مخيفة في تفكيك البنية العسكرية لأوكرانيا، اختَرَقت هجمات الطائرات المسيرة الأوكرانية عمق الأراضي الروسية في ما يبدو محاولة يائسة لإظهار القوة وسط تواصل الخسائر في ساحة المعركة والهزيمة السياسية. وتبرز النتائج المتباينة لهذه المبادلات التفاوت المتزايد في القدرات بين الطرفين المتحاربين.
شنت القوات الروسية هجوماً شاملاً آخر، مستهدفة مراكز القيادة ومستودعات الأسلحة ومحاور اللوجستيات عبر المناطق الشرقية والجنوبية من أوكرانيا.
Over the past day, Russian strikes were recorded in the Donbass, Sumy, Kharkiv, Zaporozhie, Kherson, Dnepropetrovsk, Chernihiv regions. According to the Ukrainian military, 59 UAVs out of 71 drones launched during the night were allegedly destroyed.
خلال اليوم الماضي، سُجِّلت ضربات روسية في مناطق دونباس، سومي، خاركيف، زابوروجيه، خيرسون، دنيبروبتروفسك، وتشيرنيهيف. وبحسب الجيش الأوكراني، تم تدمير 59 طائرة بدون طيار من أصل 71 طائرة أُطلقت خلال الليل بحسب الزعم.
The attack followed a clear pattern of degrading Ukraine’s ability to coordinate and supply its forces amid the ongoing Russian offensive in the Donbass.
In the Donetsk People’s Republic, the small town of Svyatogorsk became the epicenter of a devastating precision strikes. At least four Geran loitering munitions slammed into buildings housing the Ukraine’s 115th Mechanized Brigade’s command post. The complete destruction of a communications hub containing Motorola DM4600e radios, Starlink terminals and a Cisco tactical router were destroyed. Nearby, a warehouse storing US-supplied Javelin anti-tank systems was smashed into smoldering rubble, with at least 15 missile tubes destroyed in the blast. By eliminating this command node, Russian forces have effectively blinded an entire Ukrainian brigade at a critical moment.
في جمهورية دونيتسك الشعبية، أصبحت بلدة سفياتوغورسك الصغيرة مركزاً لهجمات دقيقة ومدمرة. سقطت على الأقل أربع ذخائر جوالة من طراز Geran على المباني التي تحتوي مقر قيادة الفوج الميكانيكي الأوكراني رقم 115. تم تدمير مركز اتصالات يضم راديوات Motorola DM4600e ومحطات Starlink وموجه Cisco تكتيكي بالكامل. بالقرب من ذلك، تم تفجير مستودع يخزن أنظمة Javelin الأمريكية المضادة للدروع، وتحطمت في الأنقاض المشتعلة، وتدمر ما لا يقل عن 15 أنبوب صاروخ في الانفجار. بإأْلَـقَاء هذه العقدة القيادية، عزلت القوات الروسية فرقة أوكرانية كاملة في لحظة حاسمة.
Another Ukrainian military command post was destroyed in the front town of Zoloty Kolodez. Two drones struck the headquarters of the 2nd battalion of the 4th Rapid Reaction Brigade of the National Guards.
Ukrainian positions in the Chernihiv region came under massive attack. Ukrainian hideout hidden in the local sawmill building was struck in Semenovka. Grad system was destroyed in Naumovka. Hangar with military vehicles was also struck in Naumovka.
In the city of Zaporizhzhia, a Russian heavy bomb strike on the city’s bus station left scenes of carnage, with emergency services reporting about 20 civilians wounded. While Ukrainian officials condemned the attack as indiscriminate, the station was being used to transport military personnel and equipment.
In another devastating attack, Russian drones successfully hunted down and destroyed a Ukrainian S-300V air defense battery near Vorozhba in the Sumy region. A Geran-2 drone impacted directly on the launcher, triggering secondary explosions that lit up the night sky. This marks the third such system lost by Ukraine in as many weeks, further eroding the country’s already strained air defenses.
The local grain depot was struck by Russian drones in Sobichevo in the same Sumy region. The civilian facility was turned into a warehouse and a fuel depot by the Ukrainian military.
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The Ukrainian military is set to play muscles and escalate the conflict amid the upcoming Putin-Trump talks. For the first time in the conflict, Ukrainian drones penetrated as far as the Komi Republic located nearly 2,000 kilometers from the border, where residents of Ukhta reported explosions near a major oil refinery.
من المتوقع أن تُظهر القوات الأوكرانية قوتها وتتصاعد بيانات الصراع في ظل المحادثات القادمة بين بوتين وترامب. لأول مرة في الصراع، وصلت طائرات دون طيار أوكرانية إلى جمهورية كومى الواقعة على مسافة تقرب من 2,000 كيلومتر من الحدود، حيث أبلغ سكان أوكْتة عن انفجارات قرب مصفاة نفط رئيسية.
The attack on Russia’s industrial heartland proved more symbolic than substantive. While the long-range capability demonstrated by Ukraine’s drone program surprised many observers, the actual damage appeared minimal. Local authorities reported no casualties and only minor infrastructure damage at the targeted facility.
More consequential strikes occurred closer to the frontlines. In the Tula region, a Ukrainian drone struck a civilian industrial plant, killing two workers and injuring three others. The attack triggered outrage among Russian officials, with the Foreign Ministry spokeswoman again condemning Kyiv for the “terrorist strikes on peaceful factories.”
The night’s most damaging Ukrainian attack came in the Nizhny Novgorod region, where drones reportedly struck the Arzamas Instrument-Making Plant, a facility with both civilian and military production lines. One worker died instantly when a drone struck an administrative building, while two others suffered heavy shrapnel wounds. Emergency crews worked through the night to contain fires sparked by the explosions.
The contrasting results of these exchanges underscore the fundamental imbalance in the conflict. Russian strikes continue to achieve tangible military effects, systematically dismantling Ukraine’s combat capabilities with frightening precision.
Conversely, while Ukraine’s drone campaign demonstrates impressive range and persistence, its strategic impact remains limited. The strikes in the rear, while symbolically significant, cause minimal damage to Russia’s war effort. Even the deadlier strikes on Russian industrial facilities appear aimed more at generating headlines than achieving military objectives. The Ukrainian drone offensive is still increasingly disconnected from battlefield realities. These attacks generate media attention, but they do little to alter the fundamental dynamics of a war that Russia is winning.
