Don's Weekly, 3 June 2024: Part 1

….and now to continue with Don’s usual summary for the last week.

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Kharkiv

Since the US gave Ukraine permission to attack Russian ground forces inside Russia with US-made weaponry, I expect to see more videos published next week showing the effect of this political decision.

After expending their forces on Ukrainian defenses north of the river in Vovchansk, Russia tried to cross the river to the west. The briefly established a foothold but Ukraine forced them back across the river. Ukraine then began attacking Russian positions along the river while Russia destroyed all the bridges and replacement pontoon bridges they could find and started digging defensive positions.

Russian bloggers said that an armored column was formed 8 km from the border not far from Sumy. The lead and rear vehicles in the column were knocked out, and then the rest of the column was systematically destroyed…https://x.com/AndrewPerpetua/status/1796998318624481346

Russia destroyed some of the bridges of the small rivers leading to Vovchansk. Ukraine is using scissor bridges carried on MTU-72’s. Russian Lancets damaged one here…https://t.me/warriorofnorth/629

Ukraine is using a lot of Bohdanas in the region and this one was damaged by a drone…https://x.com/Maks_NAFO_FELLA/status/1795555894958202946

Russian bombardment of Ukrainian positions, to include the destruction of two vehicles…https://x.com/giK1893/status/1795531710693580891

Video of heavy bombardment and then house to house combat in Vovchansk…https://x.com/JulianRoepcke/status/1796476824073163208

Ukraine evacuates a wounded comrade while under artillery fire…https://x.com/ng_ukraine/status/1795431443256217891

A drone drops a grenade on a Russian soldier…https://x.com/Danspiun/status/1795572391784886752/video/1

A BM-21 is destroyed by a Ukrainian drone…https://x.com/Alfaiomi/status/1795807817992994895

The 82nd brigade in street combat…https://x.com/CasualArtyFan/status/1793287404779884898

A Ukrainian air defense system is hit at the Kharkiv airport by a Lancet…https://x.com/EjShahid/status/1796896952107332078

Vovchansk being destroyed…https://x.com/JulianRoepcke/status/1795888266006171842

Russia’s TOS-2 in action…https://x.com/RALee85/status/1795898658732298709

Magyar and his drone unit moved from Bakhmut to Kherson and are now operating near Lyptsi…https://x.com/NOELreports/status/1796614492517789743

One of the regiments that’s been contributing to the high Russian casualties…https://x.com/moklasen/status/1793384389713285191

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Western Luhansk

Russia didn’t gain any territory but small-scale fighting added to attritional losses along the sector.

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Bilohorivka

Severe bombardments continued, as did limited Russian attacks, but no territory changed hands.

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Bakhmut

A ‘lonesome’ Russian assault made it to the canal in the north before being eliminated. Russian troops moving towards the canal district suffer a lot of casualties, but those that survive continue to press into the town. It’s likely that Russia controls the eastern and southern fringes of the canal district and they are asserting more control of the woods south of the district.

Russians try to approach Chasiv Yar from the north while under fire…https://x.com/front_ukrainian/status/1795160933779517737

Russians drop off infantry into the woods east of the canal district. They will move through the woods to continue the attacks on the district…https://x.com/GirkinGirkin/status/1795087105263104404

Russian infantry is dropped off in the open and are hunted as they enter the forest between Ivanivske and the canal district…https://x.com/StettingerN/status/1795477259504984137/video/4

(….to be continued…)