Selamat buat Anthony Sinisuka Ginting yang sukses dengan gemilanh menjuarai KFF Singapore Open 2023. Ini keberhasilan yang didapatnya berkat perjuangan keras yang patut disyukuri.
"Puji Tuhan, tahun ini bisa juara lagi," ucap Anthony Ginting, usai memenangkan partai final Singapore Open 2023, Minggu 11 Juni 2023.
"Saya mengucap syukur dan berterimakasih. Cuma rasa syukur yang bisa saya sampaikan," ucapnya.
"Dan pastinya senang juga biasa kembali menjuarai Singapore Open 2023," tambahnya.
"Dan semoga dengan gelar Singapore Open tahun ini bisa lebih membuat saya percaya diri lagi ke depannya. Untuk menghadapi even-even yang lebih besar lagi, lebih bergengsi lagi," imbuhnya.
Memaknai keberhasilan yang diraihnya dua kali di turnamen BWF super 750 di Singapore Open berturut-turut, Anthony Ginting membuat dirinya lebih percaya diri lagi.
Lantas, apakah ada perbedaan yang prestasi yang diraihnya tahun 2023 dan tahun 2022 lalu, dikatakan Anthony Ginting menjadi cikal bakal kebangkitan bagi performanya.
"Bedanya apa ya? Sama aja sih," ucap Ginting.
"Mungkin tahun lalu menjadi cikal bakal saya ke performa," katanya.
"Karena sempat mindset, setelah olimpiade sampai Singapore Open tahun lalu, dari performa kurang puas dan kurang bagus," jelasnya.
"Jadi, di Singapore Open bisa juara tahun lalu lebih bermakna aja sih. Karena memang untuk keluar dari waktu-waktu yang saya struggle itu tidak gampang. Puji Tuhan bisa keluar dari (situasi) itu," terangnya.
Penampilannya di final Singapore Open 2023 menghadapi Anders Antonsen, Anthony Ginting di set pertama sempat bermain tidak nyaman dan masuk ke pola permainan lawannya.
Hingga membuat dirinya tertinggal poin di awal-awal set.
Kata Anthony Ginting, sejak awal gim pertama, Antonsen bermain agresif dan terus menekan.
"Saya beberapa kali ke ikut irama dia. Menjadi tampil tidak tenang. Untung kondisi lapangan yang kalah. Jadi bisa lebih mengembangkan permainan, lebih leluasa di set pertama," terang Ginting.
"Pelatih juga mengingatkan, gak apa-apa, coba buat nge-push dari awal. Dari servisnya. Dan puji Tuhan, bisa lebih tenang, bisa mengembangkan permainan," ungkap Ginting.
Lalu di gim kedua, malah Antonsen yang tampil tertekan dan banyak melakukan kesalahan.
Tentu saja ini menguntungkan Anthony Ginting.
"Berbeda di set kedua. Bisa lebih tenang, lebih agresif lagi. Jadi pastinya Antonsen merubah permainannya lagi. Tapi mungkin tadi Antonsen cukup lost strategi. Jadi gim poinnya agak jauh. Puas sih dengan hasilnya," pungkasnya.
“Saya seperti main di rumah sendiri. Dari masuk lapangan sudah di-support penonton. Terima kasih dan bersyukur atas dukungannya. Saya selalu merasa senang setiap datang ke Singapura,” katanya dalam rilis resmi PP PBSI.
Presiden Jokowi mengucapkan selamat kepada bintang bulutangkis Indonesia, Anthony Sinisuka Ginting yang berhasil menjuarai turnamen Singapore Open 2023.
"Kabar gembira dari arena kejuaraan bulutangkis Singapure Open 2023: Anthony Sinisuka Ginting sukses mempertahankan gelar juara tunggal putra, setelah mengalahkan Anders Antonsen dari Denmark dua gim langsung, sore tadi. Selamat kepada Ginting!" kata Jokowi via Twitter, hari Minggu, 11/06/2023.
Menteri Koordinator Bidang Perekonomian Airlangga Hartarto dalam acara diskusi Lembaga National Single Window (LNSW) Sinergi dalam Rangka Transformasi Layanan Publik Untuk Indonesia Maju di Jakarta, hari Jumat, 09/06/2023. ANTARA/Bayu Saputra.
Menteri Koordinator Bidang Perekonomian Airlangga Hartarto menyebutkan pemerintah meluncurkan sistem Indonesia National Single Window (INSW) 2.0 untuk meningkatkan efisiensi sistem logistik guna memperkuat daya saing nasional.
Airlangga Hartarto menilai penguatan INSW tersebut mampu membantu menjaga kinerja perdagangan RI, baik dari segi impor maupun ekspor.
“Saya menyampaikan apresiasi dan penghargaan kepada seluruh jajaran yang telah berperan besar melakukan reformasi dan transformasi layanan publik, khususnya melalui Sistem dan Portal Nasional, yang terintegrasi secara elektronik,” kata Airlangga dalam keterangan diterima di Jakarta, Sabtu.
Penguatan kelembagaan INSW juga telah menunjukkan kinerja yang baik. Hal tersebut di antaranya dapat dilihat dari angka dwelling time di 2017 yang masih berada di 4,06 hari dan terus mengalami perbaikan hingga menjadi 2,84 hari pada 2022.
Lebih lanjut, Airlangga menyebutkan bahwa hal tersebut menunjukkan perbaikan signifikan pada sektor logistik. Sistem INSW diharapkan terus mampu mewujudkan harmonisasi dan sinkronisasi, simplifikasi dan standardisasi.
Adapun INSW merupakan sistem yang berfungsi memfasilitasi penyederhanaan tata niaga ekspor dan impor, integrasi proses bisnis, peningkatan pengawasan PNBP Minerba, hingga penyelenggaraan sistem aplikasi Kawasan Ekonomi Khusus (KEK).
Pengembangan INSW bersifat dinamis, dan menyesuaikan dengan tuntutan kebutuhan nasional, serta perkembangan praktik perdagangan internasional dan logistik.
Simplifikasi proses bisnis dilakukan dengan berbasis pada manajemen risiko melalui otomasi proses bisnis. Sementara itu terkait standardisasi proses bisnis perlu memperhatikan SOP dan prosedur yang diterapkan saat ini supaya sejalan dengan standar internasional yang dipergunakan dalam proses perdagangan internasional.
“Pengembangan sistem INSW tidak hanya semata-mata membangun sistem Single Window, namun juga perlu memperhatikan trajectory yang diamanatkan oleh ASEAN Single Window (ASW) Agreement and Protocol," ujar Airlangga.
Pada proses harmonisasi dan sinkronisasi, INSW perlu fokus pada penyelarasan agar sistem dan prosedur berjalan baik, serta menghindari tumpang tindih dengan kebijakan K/L lainnya.
INSW (Indonesia National Single Window) adalah sistem yang akan melakukan integrasi informasi berkaitan dengan proses penanganan dokumen kepabeanan dan pengeluaran barang, yang menjamin keamanan data dan informasi serta memadukan alur dan proses informasi antar sistem internal secara otomatis.
“Saya menyampaikan apresiasi dan penghargaan kepada seluruh jajaran LNSW yang telah berperan besar melakukan reformasi dan transformasi layanan publik, khususnya melalui Sistem dan Portal Nasional, yang terintegrasi secara elektronik,” kata Menko Airlangga.
Pernyataan tersebut disampaikan Menko Airlangga saat menghadiri acara peringatan Hari Jadi Lembaga National Single Window dengan tema 'Sinergi dalam rangka Transformasi Layanan Publik untuk Indonesia Maju' di Jakarta, hari Jumat, 09/06/2023.
Menko Airlangga menyampaikan ekonomi Indonesia masih terus memperlihatkan ketangguhan dan tetap terjaga di atas 5 persen pada 6 kuartal terakhir berturut-turut.
Airlangga menyebutkan konsumsi domestik, investasi, dan performa ekspor menjadi determinan yang mendorong laju pertumbuhan.
Performa ekspor juga turut berkontribusi penting terhadap mengilapnya kinerja Neraca Perdagangan Indonesia (NPI) yang telah mengalami surplus selama 36 bulan berturut-turut sejak Mei 2020.
Pada April 2023, NPI kembali melanjutkan surplus dan tercatat sebesar USD 3,94 miliar.
Dalam menjaga kinerja perdagangan internasional Indonesia dari sisi ekspor dan impor, lanjut Menko Airlangga telah dibentuk Indonesia National Single Window (INSW) sejak 2010 yang dikelola oleh LNSW.
Penyederhanaan tata niaga ekspor-impor, integrasi proses bisnis Perizinan Berusaha Ekspor-Impor, peningkatan pengawasan PNBP Minerba, hingga penyelenggaraan sistem aplikasi Kawasan Ekonomi Khusus (KEK) dilakukan melalui INSW.
Menurut Menko Airlangga, penguatan kelembagaan INSW dari semula yang berbentuk Pengelola Portal INSW dan kemudian menjadi LNSW, juga telah menunjukkan kinerja baik.
Menteri Koordinator Bidang Perekonomian Airlangga Hartarto saat menghadiri acara peringatan Hari Jadi Lembaga National Single Window dengan tema 'Sinergi dalam rangka Transformasi Layanan Publik untuk Indonesia Maju' di Jakarta, hari Jumat, 09/06/2023. Foto: Dokumentasi Humas Kemenko Perekonomian
Hal tersebut diantaranya dapat dilihat dari angka dwelling time di 2017 yang masih berada di 4,06 hari dan terus mengalami perbaikan hingga menjadi 2,84 hari pada 2022.
“Hal itu menunjukan adanya perbaikan signifikan pada sektor logistik kita," tegas Menko Airlangga.
Karena itu, lanjutnya, pada peringatan hari jadi LNSW kali ini, dia berpesan agar sistem INSW tidak hanya sekedar men-digitalisasi layanan atau proses bisnis yang sudah ada.
"Lebih dari itu Sistem INSW harus terus mampu mewujudkan harmonisasi dan sinkronisasi, simplifikasi, dan standardisasi,” ujar Menko Airlangga.
Pada proses harmonisasi dan sinkronisasi, LNSW perlu fokus pada penyelarasan agar sistem dan prosedur berjalan baik, serta menghindari tumpang tindih dengan kebijakan kementeria atau lembaga lainnya.
Simplifikasi terhadap proses bisnis dilakukan dengan berbasis pada manajemen risiko melalui otomasi proses bisnis.
Sementara terkait standardisasi proses bisnis perlu memperhatikan SOP dan prosedur yang diterapkan saat ini supaya sejalan dengan standar internasional yang dipergunakan dalam proses perdagangan internasional.
Pengembangan sistem INSW bersifat dinamis dan menyesuaikan dengan tuntutan kebutuhan nasional, serta perkembangan praktik perdagangan internasional dan logistik.
"Pengembangan sistem INSW tidak hanya semata-mata membangun sistem Single Window, namun juga perlu memperhatikan trajectory yang diamanatkan oleh ASEAN Single Window (ASW) Agreement and Protocol,” paparnya.
Menko Airlangga juga berharap bahwa ke depannya LNSW mampu mewujudkan visi untuk menjadi penggerak utama efisiensi layanan publik melalui penyelenggaraan dan pengelolaan sistem elektronik yang terintegrasi di bidang ekspor, impor, dan logistik untuk meningkatkan daya saing nasional.
Turut hadir dalam acara ini, antara lain Menteri Keuangan yang juga merupakan Ketua Dewan Pengarah LNSW Sri Mulyani, Menteri Perhubungan Budi Karya Sumadi, Menteri Perindustrian Agus Gumiwang Kartasasmita, Menteri Kesehatan Budi Gunadi Sadikin.
Kemudian hadir juga Plt Kepala Batan, Sekretaris Kemenko Perekonomian, Staf Ahli Bidang Keamanan Kementerian Pertahanan, Direktur Jenderal Energi Baru, Terbarukan, dan Konservasi Energi Kementerian ESDM, serta Deputi Bidang Pengawasan Pangan Olahan BPOM.
Over the course of the past few days, Ukraine has thrown two of its best-trained, best-equipped mechanized brigades into offensive operations against entrenched Russian defenders in the Zaporozhye sector of the front lines.
These two brigades had been hand-picked for this job, having been equipped with modern Western tanks and infantry fighting vehicles, supported by Western-supplied artillery, and using NATO-specific tactics shaped by NATO-provided intelligence and NATO operational planning. In short, these two brigades represented a top-level NATO-level capability, the epitome of the nexus between Ukraine and the Collective West in their ongoing war to destroy Russia.
They failed.
As the world comes to grips with the imagery of destroyed US-manufactured M-2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicles and German-made Leopard 2A6 tanks abandoned and burning on the Ukrainian steppe, the harsh truth regarding the futility of its larger designs—the strategic defeat of Russia—is starting to sink in.
The reality, however, is that Ukraine was never going to achieve its stated objective of punching through the Russian defenses to sever the land bridge connecting Crimea with Russia proper. This was pie-in-the-sky thinking promulgated by Ukraine's Western supporters to motivate the Ukrainians into committing the equivalent of mass suicide to inflict similarly prohibitive casualties among the Russian defenders.
The Western hope was that Russia would become demoralized by these casualties and accept a negotiated end to the conflict on terms acceptable to both Ukraine and its Western allies.
So far, Ukraine and its Western allies have failed.
The genesis of this failure can be traced to two things. First, the low-opinion Ukraine and their NATO allies had regarding the combat capabilities of the Russian army, and in particular those forces deployed in the Zaporozhye region, and second, the unrealistic expectations assigned to NATO training and equipment that had been provided to the Ukrainian forces assigned the task of breaking through the Russian defenses.
The area selected by Ukraine and its NATO partners as the focus of effort for the counteroffensive was held by the 42nd Guards Motorized Rifle Division, part of the 58th Combined Arms Army. The Institute for the Study of War, a US-based think tank with close ties to US and NATO, claimed that the troops of the 42nd Guards Motorized Rifle Division "are predominantly comprised of mobilized recruits and volunteers and are therefore likely to face some problems with poor training and discipline."
Moreover, it accused at least one of the subordinate regiments—the 70th motorized rifle regiment—of performing poorly during the initial phases of the Special Military Operation in 2022.
It is therefore reasonable to believe that NATO and Ukrainian military planners, using intelligence assessments that highlighted perceived command and control weaknesses and poor morale among the Russian forces which, when combined with poor past performance, believed that the Russian defenses in the Zaporozhye sector manned by the 42nd Guards Motorized Rifle Division would collapse under the weight of a NATO-style assault, allowing Ukrainian forces to penetrate deep into the Russian defenses.
While the fighting in Zaporozhye is not yet finished, the initial results on the battlefield show that, contrary to the expectations of Ukraine and its NATO partners, the men of the 42ndGuards Rifle Division performed their tasks in a professional manner, decisively defeating the Ukrainian assault forces. The 70th Motorized Rifle Regiment has been singled out as performing very well under difficult circumstances. The same can be said of the 291st Motorized Rifle Regiment and the 71st Motorized Rifles Regiment, along with special forces soldiers from the 22nd Spetsnaz Brigade. Analysts from ISW, in assessing the initial successes of the Russian defenders, noted that "Russian forces appear to have executed their formal tactical defensive doctrine in response to the Ukrainian attacks."
This, of course, should have taken no one by surprise, since the individual in command of Russian forces in the Zaporozhye area is Colonel General Alexander Romanchuk, the man who is responsible for conceiving modern Russian defensive doctrine. In April 2023 Romanchuk, who at that time was serving as the Rector of the Combined Arms Academy of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (the equivalent of the United States Army’s Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth), co-authored an article titled "Prospects for Improving the Efficiency of Army Defensive Operations."
In the article, Romanchuk noted that the main mission of a defending force "is to neutralize the initiative of the advancing enemy, i.e., to bring him to the state of impossibility to continue advancing with deployed forces. Ultimately, this allows you to reduce his activity and seize the initiative by going over to a decisive counter-offensive to defeat the enemy with shock groups."
This represents a restatement of Soviet-era doctrine. Indeed, Romanchuk draws upon the defeat of German offensive operations in the vicinity of Lake Balaton in March 1945 as representing an ideal implementation of this doctrine, underscoring "a bold maneuver of the reserves…especially artillery, the skillful use of anti-tank reserves, vigilant detachments of obstacles and the arrangement of fire ambushes" by the Russian forces in defeating the German attack.
Romanchuk, however, did not simply reiterate old doctrine in his paper. Instead, he emphasizes the concept of "dispersed forces'' in building a defensive scheme capable of prevailing on the modern battlefield. "A dispersed defensive operation should become a logical response to a superior enemy," Romanchuk writes.
Such an operation "is based on the retention of important areas, objects and transport hubs in separate most important directions," and is "characterized by an even distribution of forces and resources in areas, and decentralized use of formations and military units of the armed forces and special forces."
Romanchuk then went on to describe the ideal deployment scheme for these "dispersed forces" — one which focuses on three separate "zones of defense responsibility" separated by distances of between 8 and 12 kilometers. These gaps are covered by Russian artillery. The first "zone" is the "cover" zone, whose task is to define the main axes of the enemy's advance. The next "zone" is the "main line of defense", which is designed to halt enemy attacks using obstacle belts and fire power (artillery and air strikes). The last "zone" is the "reserve", which is responsible for mounting counterattacks designed to push the attacking forces back to their original positions.
Romanchuk’s doctrine was the blueprint for the Russian defensive scheme employed in Zaporozhye. Indeed, Romanchuk was pulled from his teaching position at the Combined Arms Academy and put in command of the Zaporozhye sector. In other words, the place chosen by NATO and Ukrainian intelligence as the "weak spot" in the Russian defensive scheme was designed by Russia's top specialist in defensive combat and placed under his direct command.
NATO and Ukraine gambled that Russia lacked the military capacity to successfully implement its own military doctrine, believing that Russian command staffs lacked the communications necessary to coordinate the complex operations necessary to implement this doctrine, and that the Russian forces—especially those who were recently mobilized—lacked both the training and morale needed to perform well under stressful combat conditions.
They were wrong on both counts.
NATO and Ukraine's poor assessment of Russian military capability mirrored their own exaggerated assessments of Ukrainian units tasked with attacking the Russian defenses in Zaporozhye, namely the 33rd and 47th Mechanized Brigades. Both units were the recipients of modern NATO equipment, including Leopard tanks (the 33rd) and Bradley infantry fighting vehicles (the 47th). The officers and men of both units had been provided with the best training NATO could provide regarding modern combined-arms operations, including weeks of specialized training in Germany which focused on platoon, company, and battalion tactics and operations integrating firepower and maneuver while undertaking offensive operations.
The Ukrainian troops, working side by side with their NATO instructors, started by using computer simulations to introduce them to the complexities of the modern battlefield, before moving to the field for realistic hands-on training using the very NATO-provided equipment they would use against the Russians.
US "experts" like Mark Hertling, a retired US Army general believed that the combination of advanced western military equipment and superior NATO-style tactics "will allow Ukraine's emerging combined-arms teams to conduct high-tempo maneuver" capable of overwhelming the Russian defenders in Ukraine.
He was wrong.
Hertling and his active-duty NATO brethren would have done well to listen to the words of General Christopher Cavoli, NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe, when speaking before a Swedish defense conference this past January.
"The scale of this war [i.e., the Russian-Ukraine conflict] is out of proportion with all of our recent thinking," Cavoli noted.
The takeaway from this revelation is that NATO is neither trained nor equipped to fight the kind of fight they are demanding Ukraine execute against Russia.
The sad truth of the matter is that there are no NATO forces capable of successfully executing the offensive tasks that have been assigned to Ukraine. No one doubts the courage and commitment of the Ukrainian forces which have been thrown against Colonel General Romanchuk’s defensive barrier. But courage and commitment cannot overcome the reality that NATO lacks the ability, both in terms of equipment and doctrine, to successfully defeat Russia in a force-on-force confrontation, especially one which has Russia playing to its doctrinal strength (defensive operations) while NATO seeks to do something (an assault against prepared defenses) that it has no experience in doing.
Moreover, NATO and the Ukrainian high command threw the Ukrainian brigades into the teeth of the Russian defensive buzzsaw without adequate fire support, meaning that the Russians were free to maximize their superiority in artillery and air power to neutralize and destroy the Ukrainian attacking forces before they could generate the momentum expected from "high-tempo maneuver."
The end result: Russian reality trumped NATO theory on the battlefield, and it is Ukraine's military that once again paid the heaviest price. Moreover, there is no reason to believe that this situation will change anytime soon, if ever, a fact that bodes poorly for the future of Ukraine and NATO going forward.
Shortly after the fabled Ukrainian counteroffensive finally started, it became increasingly apparent that NATO military equipment and training won't be enough for the Kiev regime forces to penetrate Russian defensive lines.
With the Ukrainian offensive now underway, Kiev so far has virtually nothing to show in the way of gains, whereas images of wrecked Leopard tanks and Bradley infantry fighting vehicles used by Ukrainian troops have already started circulating on social media.
Even though the United States and its allies have been generously supplying Ukraine with armaments and military vehicles during the ongoing conflict, it appears that Ukrainian forces are "institutionally and operationally unable to successfully absorb the wide and inconsistent variety of equipment and weaponry" while "under fire and duress," said US Ret.Lt.Col Karen Kwiatkowski.
“This is the fault of the US and NATO which seeks to ride the back of Ukrainian patriotism in order to both confront and harass Russia, with an aim to take over Ukraine's land, people and resources once there is little Ukraine left - in a kind of mini-Marshall Plan, this time completely and wholly managed and conducted by US and international crony capitalists, like Black Rock,” Kwiatkowsky, a former US Department of Defense analyst, told Sputnik.
She suggested that the United States and Britain were likely the ones who actually needed Kiev to launch this counteroffensive and that it would seem “as if Western governments see Ukraine little more than a snuff film, for their entertainment and profit.”
“Clearly, what Ukraine needs is to find a way to get out from under the US political cycle and NATO's organizational expansion obsession, and make peace,” Kwiatkowsky mused, postulating that such a deal would likely entail the separation of the “Russian side of the former Ukraine” from the “Ukrainian side.”
She did point out, however, that so far the US and the UK politicians have been quick to suppress any attempts by the Ukrainian side to “make peaceful signs or noises.”
Meanwhile, Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest and former CIA station chief Phillip Giraldi has observed that some Western media outlets have been trying to make it look like the Ukrainian counteroffensive is succeeding and that Kiev regime forces are “overrunning the Russian positions.”
Commenting on this development, Giraldi suggested that politicians in the US, the UK and Germany “need to be able to speak positively about what is occurring” in Ukraine, since the public in their respective countries is starting to turn against the conflict “as it grinds on and on consuming hundreds of billions dollars worth of equipment.”
He further suggested that people in the United States, Britain and Germany are none too thrilled about their governments directly backing the regime in Kiev, which he described as “a regime that nearly everyone concedes is hopelessly corrupt.”
“There is talk here in Washington that the Ukrainian generals might depose Zelensky and enter into negotiations with Moscow,” Giraldi added.
Ukraine hits flood shelter with UK-supplied missiles – Kherson official
Ukrainian forces have attacked several temporary shelters for people evacuated in the wake of the breach of the Kakhovka dam, the acting governor of the Kherson region, Vladimir Saldo, said on Saturday morning, sharing pictures of the devastated facility.
The strike on the shelter on the left bank of the Dnieper River was carried out around 5am local time, allegedly using British-supplied Storm Shadow missiles, Saldo said in a statement. There was at least one casualty, a woman, according to preliminary information.
The Black Sea village of Zhelezny Port also came under “fierce shelling” overnight, with a local hotel hosting the evacuees “destroyed,” according to the official.
The acting governor shared several pictures of the heavily damaged facility, as well as a video of a villa engulfed in flames.
“The targeted strikes are being carried out with British missiles, delivered to the Kiev regime to unleash ‘peace’ on civilian infrastructure,” Saldo wrote.
Earlier on Friday, one person was killed and another injured after several rockets hit a children's summer camp in the same area. According to Saldo, first responders discovered the debris of Storm Shadows at the scene.
The Russian-held Kakhovka dam in Kherson Region was destroyed early on Tuesday morning. Several people were killed, while thousands more were exposed to flooding.
Kherson authorities declared a state of emergency across the entire territory controlled by Russia. Saldo said that a total of between 22,000 and 40,000 people were located in the disaster area.
Moscow and Kiev have traded accusations over who is to blame for the incident, which triggered mass evacuation efforts on both sides of the Dnieper River. Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov accused Ukraine of “deliberate sabotage” in a bid to deprive Crimea of drinking water and deflect attention away from Kiev’s botched counteroffensive in Donbass.
Russian MoD briefing on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine
Ukrainian forces continued unsuccessful attempts to conduct offensive operations in South Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions, as well as close to Artyomovsk.
In Zaporozhye direction, two attacks from the Ukrainian military with the strength of up to a battalion reinforced with tanks have been repelled. In addition, two columns of four armored vehicles have been hit.
Close to Vremevskoi Vystup, the Ukrainian forces launched three unsuccessful attacks. Ukrainian losses amounted to more than 300 troops, nine tanks, including four Leopard tanks, 11 infantry fighting vehicles, including five US-manufactured Bradley vehicles, 14 armored fighting vehicles and one French-manufactured Cezar self-propelled artillery system;
Close to Artyomovsk, five attacks have been successfully repelled. No incursion into Russian defenses has happened. Russian forces destroyed up to 230 Ukrainian soldiers, two armored fighting vehicles and two D-30 howitzers;
In the Kupyansk direction, the actions of three Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups were thwarted. Russian forces destroyed up to 65 Ukrainian troops, one armored personnel carrier, two pick-up trucks, and one US-manufactured M777 artillery system. The actions of four Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups were thwarted;
In the Krasny Liman direction, the actions of one Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group was thwarted. Russian forces neutralized up to 60 Ukrainian soldiers, one infantry fighting vehicle, two armored fighting vehicles, Krab, Gvozdika and Akatsiya self-propelled artillery systems, one D-20 howitzer, as well as one ammunition depot;
In the Kherson direction, Russian troops neutralized up to 40 Ukrainian soldiers, one Akatsiya self-propelled howitzer as well as an ammunition depot;
Russian air defenses shot down one Su-27 aircraft, a MIG-29 fighter, two Storm Shadow cruise missiles, ten HIMARS missiles, as well as eight unmanned aerial vehicles in the LPR, DPR, Kharkov, and Zaporozhye regions.
Watch Ukrainian Armored Units Get Obliterated Amid Counteroffensive
Even though the much-anticipated Ukrainian counteroffensive has finally started, so far Kiev forces have little to show in the way of gains - despite sustaining heavy losses.
Ukrainian troops have launched several unsuccessful attacks against Russian positions during the past week, essentially throwing their men and equipment, including Leopard tanks and Bradley infantry fighting vehicles supplied by NATO that were supposed to tip the scales in Kiev’s favor, into the meat grinder.
While Kiev learns the hard way that NATO military hardware is not invincible and can be destroyed just like any other, Russia's Ministry of Defense has already released several videos showing elements of the Ukrainian war machine being dismantled in the field.
The Russian military has destroyed nine Ukrainian tanks, including four German-made Leopard 2s, as it successfully repelled attempts at advancing by Kiev forces, Russia’s Ministry of Defense has said.
Over the past 24 hours, Ukraine has “continued fruitless attempts to carry out offensive operations” in Russia’s Zaporozhye Region, in the south of Donetsk People’s Republic and near the city of Artyomovsk, ministry spokesman Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov said during a briefing on Saturday.
In Zaporozhye Region, Russian ground troops, artillery and aviation repelled two attacks by large Ukrainian units boosted by tanks in the area of Yablonevo and Novopokrovka villages, he said.
Two of Kiev’s armored convoys were struck near the settlements of Novodanilovka and Malaya Tokmachka, the spokesman also reported. There were also three smaller Ukrainian attacks in the region, which were also unsuccessful, he added.
Besides the nine tanks, Kiev forces are also down eleven armored personnel carriers, which include five US-supplied Bradley fighting vehicles, 14 armored cars and a French-made Caesar self-propelled howitzer, Konashenkov pointed out.
The Ukrainian military’s losses in terms of manpower during the fresh fighting in Zaporozhye Region has reached up to 300 troops, according to the ministry spokesman.
Five attacks were repelled near the city of Artymovsk, which the Russian forces captured from Ukraine in May after months of heavy fighting, he told the briefing. Kiev’s losses in this area over the past 24 hours, he pointed out, included up to 230 personnel, five armored cars and two Soviet-made D-30 howitzers.
According to Konashenkov, around 60 of Kiev’s soldiers were neutralized in the area of Krasny Liman, a Ukrainian-held town in the Donetsk Peoples Republic. An APC and several howitzers, including a Polish-made Krab self-propelled gun were also destroyed, he said.
