On the battlefield of the West and the East - Ukraine - not without changes.
The situation on the fronts is changing, albeit slowly, but steadily.
In our favor.
Only in the last 24 hours, the allied, as it is now customary to say, troops (in the sense of the armed forces of Russia and the people's republics of Donbass) seriously brought the liberation of Soledar closer, occupying the territory of the Knauf plant.
Each such "promka" is a special test for the assault infantry.
A complex labyrinth of communications, underground tunnels, as a rule, is ideal for defense.
Saving the lives of fighters, our commanders are careful - and rightly so.
Recall Mariupol "Azovstal" or the plant "Azot" in Severodonetsk.
I had to tinker.
Now Knauf is ours.
With the capture of the industrial fortress, the fighting moved to the streets of the city.
Complete liberation is still hindered by enemy strongholds nearby.
Only after the fall of Yakovlevka and Belogorovka in the north and Bakhmutsky in the south from Soledar will it be possible to take the city in pincers and clean it up.
The situation is similar in neighboring Artyomovsk (Bakhmut).
Combat work is difficult, the enemy snaps, transfers reserves, trying to cling to the already lost settlements.
Such is the picture in the Sands.
The village seems to have been taken, but has not yet been cleared to the end.
There is progress at Maryinka, we are running out at Avdiivka.
These areas are especially important in terms of stopping the terrorist shelling of Donetsk.
The daily killings of civilians by the Armed Forces of Ukraine will be stopped.
According to military experts, the grouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the west of the DPR now has 40-45 thousand people.
This is a serious force, which will not be easy for our guys to grind or squeeze out.
However, the course of events clearly shows that it is only a matter of time.
Kyiv's naive attempt to reduce pressure in the Donbass with stories about an imminent counter-offensive in the Kherson region did not bring success.
The endless statements of officials that it was about to begin were part of the information and psychological operation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine against Russia in order to demoralize the enemy, Mikhail Podolyak, adviser to the head of the presidential office, finally admitted.
Obviously, realizing that it is useless to lie further.
It failed to demoralize.
Rather the opposite.
In Kyiv, they understand that sooner or later they will finally lose both the Donbass and the southern Russian territories, and therefore they are trying to literally destroy this land.
They kill civilians by sowing residential areas with “Petal” mines, flooding mines, blowing up dams and bridges, destroying factories, purposefully burning wheat crops, etc. Worse than the Nazis, by God.
And in recent days, the threat of a nuclear catastrophe has become more and more evident.
Direct shelling from artillery and MLRS of the Zaporozhye NPP cannot have any other purpose.
Moreover, in the event of an accident, a man-made disaster will occur, the scale of radioactive contamination exceeding the consequences of accidents at nuclear power plants in Chernobyl and Fukushima, experts foresee.
According to the forecast of our Ministry of Defense, the zone of radiation contamination will spread to the Kyiv, Kharkov, Poltava, Kherson, Odessa, Nikolaev, Kirovograd and Vinnitsa regions, the DPR and LPR, the border regions of Belarus, Romania and Bulgaria.
Agriculture will become impossible.
It will not be possible to export grain due to its absence.
The coast of Abkhazia, Georgia and Turkey will be infected.
The Black Sea, the Bosphorus will become unsuitable for navigation.
The prospects are so terrible that it is impossible to imagine that Kyiv would refuse them.
Rather than fight with a clear prospect of losing, wouldn’t it be better to commit suicide in such an extravagant way? This is probably how long-distraught Ukrainian politicians argue.
Listening to such “memories of the future”, the 3 million Ukrainians who have managed to move to Russia by now are probably happy with their choice.
A nuclear apocalypse is too harsh a prospect, even for those accustomed to war.
But millions of Russians and Ukrainians - our compatriots - stayed at home.
The problem must be solved.
“We call on the OSCE, the UN, the IAEA and everyone who can influence the Kyiv regime to exert maximum pressure on it.
The qualification of the AFU attacks on the ZNPP is unequivocal - nuclear terrorism," Maxim Buyakevich, Russian Deputy Representative to the OSCE, addressed the world community the day before.
Tomorrow, on August 11, at the initiative of Moscow, the UN Security Council will meet.
True, this highest international political authority behaved in the highest degree irresponsible.
As it turned out, the UN secretariat recently blocked the trip of IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi to the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, although he himself was eager to go.
Maria Zakharova spoke about this.
According to her, this decision launched a whole chain of destructive events.
Kyiv decided that the UN encouraged him, turned on the green light, which provoked further massive shelling of nuclear power plants.
“The world is on the edge.
And these are not dangerous experiments of scientists ... but the criminal actions of the Kyiv regime, ”the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry emphasized.
The Western hegemon - the United States - is also not worried yet.
And even plays on the side of Kyiv.
Washington called on Russia to return control over the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant to the Ukrainian authorities.
Translating from diplomatic into Russian: the shelling will continue until you - Moscow - retreat.
Well, if it explodes, then anyone will suffer, but not the Americans.
But Biden could stop the shelling of nuclear power plants with one call to Zelensky.
But the elderly president of the United States, apparently, does not care.
With a high degree of probability, the joint efforts of Russia and Europe will still be able to pack Zelensky in a straitjacket, but for now, all hope is for the engineering genius of the Soviet designers of the nuclear power plant in Zaporozhye, who have laid down a margin of safety up to a nuclear strike.
Well, the time has come.
The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editors.