DPA Communities
JOIN THE DPA ARMY (FUNDING)
Rumble Channels
Youtube Channels
FEATURED
Featured DPA Pieces
Twenty-First Century Artillery: What Can We Learn From the War in Ukraine?
Day 1000 Special: A Retrospection; Strategic Analysis
Austria’s Bold Stance on Russian Gas: A New Chapter in Energy Politics
Frontline Changes Report – Day 967-968 (17-18 October 2024)
Ukraine War SITREP – Day 961, 11 October 2024
COVER STORY
SUPPORT DPA ON PATREON
Become a DPA Insider on DPA's Patreon to access Exclusive Reports & Content.
submit the article with the form below,
and we will contact you shortly.
INTERNATIONAL HEADLINES
LATEST NEWS / ARTICLES
[ Kharkiv Front ] Major counteroffensive by the Ukrainian Forces around Kharkiv
Finally some “good news” from the Ukrainian side; seems to be linked to the our reports on some Ukrainian offensive new Balakliya, the Ukrainians had secured Slobazhanske, Donets, Andriivka as well as capturing Chuhuiv and Derhachi from the Russians.
[ Donbass Front ] Russian offense on wide front southwest of Donetsk
Russian forces continues to progress on a wide front in a frontal assault against the East Army; pincer developing around Severodonetsk and a major fight for Hulyaipole which could affect the life and death of the Ukraine East Army. Details + Analysis in the video:
[ Al Mayadeen ] 450 Arab and foreign extremists from Idlib arrive in Ukraine
Close to 450 extremist Arab and foreign nationals have arrived in Ukraine from Idlib to fight against Russia’s forces, less than only three days after they left Syria, passing through Turkey. Relatives of extremists that have arrived in Ukraine told Sputnik that senior fighters from terrorist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (the rebranded version of Jabhat Al-Nusra, i.e Al-Qaeda)…
Ukraine President Zelenskyy soften stance in interview with ABC
In an exclusive interview with David Muir of the ABC News, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was asked if he would go with the 3 conditions set by Russia to end the war: change constitution to give up joining NATO, recognise Crimea as part of Russia and recognise the independence of 2 separatist region in the east.…
DPA youtube now have a custom URL: youtube.com/defensepoliticsasia
Thanks to all your support on our Youtube channel, we have past 200 subscribers today – as a result, we were given the permission by Youtube to have a custom URL for our youtube channel. You can now find the #DPA Youtube Channel on http://youtube.com/defensepoliticsasia !!! This is all possible only because of your support. Please continue to share,…
[ #Mykolaiv Front ] Russian Forward Operating Base revealed; Ukr not going on counter : blow bridge
Not much action on the Mykolaiv Front, but we have information of where the Russians’ “entrenched positions” are in Mykolaiv – giving us at least some clarity as to the situation on the ground in the Mykolaiv front. Ukrainian forces also blew up a bridge south of Mykolaiv to take out one of the southern…
[ Luhansk Front ] LPR / Russian Forces restart offensive against Severodonetsk
After the major consolidation of the newly capture all the way to the border of Luhansk for the past 2-3 days, the Luhansk People’s Republic / Russian Forces had decided on their next objective: Severodonetsk. Severodonetsk is the final Ukrainian stronghold in Luhansk oblast. The fall of the city and it’s twin city, Lysychansk would…
[ Battle of Izyum ] Russian forces captures the northern half of Izyum; south separated by river
Progress reported by Russian sources, that the Russian forces had captured the northern half of Izyum. The Ukrainian forces retreat across the Siverskyi Donets River into the southern half of the city. Update (not in video): Russian forces had crossed the Siverskyi Donets River into the southern half of the city.
[ Battle of Mariupol ] New Information on fighting locations; Sartana captured by DPR / Rus forces
We went from nearly no information on the battle at Mariupol to suddenly, quite a bit of information. In short: Sartana captured by Russians; Azov Battalion fired at Ukrainian Troops; Fighting at 5 different locations in the city; 150 civilians evacuated to Russian position in the east. Watch the youtube quick update for full details:
New Russian Narratives: 3 New Justifications For War – in the middle of the war
In the past 24 to perhaps 48 hours, 3 major accusations or narrative had been thrown up by the Russian side – all of them can be good enough to be justification of war on top of the official reasons Putin had spelt out. The 3 new narratives are: Ukraine President Zelenskyy alluded in his…
Evacuation of civilians from Mariupol failed again for a 2nd time – both sides blame each other
Convoy of buses left Zaporizhzhia and with the details of evacuation being announced by the Ukrainian side, this evacuation of Mariupol looks to be very promising. But somehow, this evacuation failed again. According to the Ukrainians: The Russians again disrupted the opening of the humanitarian corridor. The humanitarian convoy of 8 trucks, as well as…
[ Donbass Front ] Humanitarian Updates; Mariupol evacuation resumes on a reroute from Nikolske
After the Mariupol evacuation seemed to be dead on arrival after the Mariupol city council unilaterally postponed the evacuation – the Ukrainian govt announced that the humanitarian corridor is open again and evacuation will be carried out today, on mostly the same route, but with a reroute away from Nikolske (probably due to fighting).
[ Siege of #Mariupol ] #Russia Forces takes suburb of Staryi Krym
Briefing by the official representative of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation Igor Konashenkov as of 9.30 on March 6, 2022: Units of the People’s Militia of the Donetsk Republic are conducting successful offensive operations on the western and north-western outskirts of the city of Mariupol. The residential quarter of STARYI KRYM was…
[ Donbass Front ] Crimea forces punches into the rear of Ukraine’s East Army’s southern line
Remember I mentioned yesterday the Ukraine’s south-eastern line is on the verge of collapse? This is the latest situation on the ground. The Russian Crimea force continue punching through into the rear of the Ukrainian “East Army’s” southern defense line, while they were busy holding back the Donetsk Republic/Russian forces that were fighting northward, west…
[ Donbass Front ] Ukraine’s South-Eastern Line on the verge of collapse ; Russian pincer developing
Russian Forces from the Crimea Front is punching through large expanse of undefended territory into the rear of the Southern most part of the Ukraine’s Eastern Front/Line. With the Donetsk / Russian Forces which these Ukrainians forces are fighting against advanced quickly (7km deep) – the entire Southeastern defense line of the Ukraine’s “east army”…
Ukraine bombed train bridges at border with Moldova / Transnistria
Unrelated to any of the Russian offenses or critical defense position of the Ukrainian side – Ukraine decided to bomb the bridges at the border between Ukraine and Moldova / Transniatria. “The Armed Forces of Ukraine blew up two railway bridges on the border of Odessa and Transnistria The first explosion occurred between the Transnistrian…
[ Donbass Front ] Encirclement of Mariupol complete; Russian forces punches out of Luhansk!
“Briefing by the official representative of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation Igor Konashenkov as of 17.30 on March 4, 2022 on the progress of the special operation in Ukraine: The grouping of troops of the Lugansk People’s Republic captured the settlements of SHANDRIGOLOVO, ALEKSANDROVKA, DERILOVO, SREDNE and LOZOVOE. The armed forces of…
[ Crimea Front ] Major Russian advance across a wide front south of Zaporizhzhia
“Briefing by the official representative of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation Igor Konashenkov as of 17.30 on March 4, 2022 on the progress of the special operation in Ukraine: Units of the Russian Armed Forces continue the offensive on a wide front have established control over the settlements of PYATIHATKI, SHEVCHENKOVO, POLOGI,…
We told you so: NATO rules out policing no-fly zone over war-hit Ukraine
“What is taking place now in Ukraine is horrific. It’s painful and we see human suffering, we see destruction at a scale we haven’t seen in Europe since the Second World War,” he said. But, he added: “We are not going to move into Ukraine, neither on the ground, nor in the Ukrainian airspace.” Under…
Summary of Russian’s perspective of the “Special Operation” in Ukraine so far
[ the article is MS Edge translated and is copied as-is in full from the original article’s translation ] Steps of victory: a summary of the special operation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation on the demilitarization of Ukraine Published: 03 march 2022 20:58By Vasily VasikovRiafan.ru Exactly a week ago, on February 24,…
[ Crimea Front ] Russian forces as taken undefended Enerhodar
Russian forces had entered Enerhodar without any fighting as the only deterrence were the civilians trying to stop the operation by blocking the road. They were dispersed by the warning shots and the mayor of the city urged everyone to stay at home. So much talk about how brave and courageous the Ukrainian civilians are…
Georgia officially applies for EU membership
Upon seeing wartime Ukraine taking the advantage of hyper attention and “concern” for Ukraine by sending an application to join the European Union (EU), Georgia immediately hopped onto the bandwagon to follow suit. According to a tweet by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, they wrote that their Prime Minister, Irakli Garibashvili had signed…
[ Donbass Front ] Entire Ukraine’s line north of Severodonetsk in Luhansk is broken
Large portion of territory north of Severodonetsk has fallen to the Luhansk People’s Republic – Russian forces. If all the other unmarked territory is under Russian control – Luhansk is effectively 90% “liberated”. — edit — My theory that 90% of Luhansk is liberated had just got corroborated by a Russian article: Liberation of the…
[ Crimea Front ] Heli insertion north of Mykolaiv – Battle for Mykolaiv International Airport
4 Helicopters were reportedly inserting Russian troops into the town of Balovne, north of Mykolaiv and the forces immediately proceed to try to capture Mykolaiv International Airport which were met by Ukrainian defenders. To the north-east of Mykolaiv, a major convoy of up to 800 vehicles were allegedly destroyed by the Ukrainian forces and air…
[ Crimea Front ] Battle for Vozesens’k by Russian airborne troop
Russian forces has been confirmed to be attacking Voznesensk, which is the location with a nuclear power plant to it’s north. As there are no indication of a “land route” towards this city, we assessed that this could be airborne operation insertion via helicopters.
