The situation in the Ukrainian SMO on July 05 2025

Russia Achieves Sudden Breakthrough On Kharkiv Border

20,000 Ukrainian Soldiers Flee to Russia!

Trump Hints at New Sanctions. Russian Breakthrough – Konstantinovka. Militarization of Germany/NATO

Russia is preparing a summer of non-stop attacks on Ukraine as U.S. military aid is cut, WSJ reports

▪️Moscow is stepping up ground operations and bombing of Ukrainian cities.

▪️During a phone call with Trump on Thursday, Putin made it clear that he has no intention of stopping the war.

▪️Putin’s strategy is to break Ukraine’s ability and will to resist by increasing pressure on both the army and the population.

▪️Recent events have strengthened Moscow’s confidence that it can wear down Ukraine and its allies in a war of attrition. Kiev will be forced to conserve resources, and this will likely speed up the advance of the Russian Armed Forces on the front lines.

▪️Ukraine has so far managed to contain the Russian offensive in the Sumy region, but this has further stretched its already limited forces.

▪️Seizing territory is not the Kremlin’s main goal at this stage. Its task is to exhaust Ukraine’s forces, destroy weapons and undermine the morale of both the population and Western allies.

‘Supplying Ukraine with weapons is not going to help them hold the front lines. It’s only going to hurt the US itself’ – Jennifer Kavanagh, senior fellow at Defence Priorities think tank.

‘The main problem Ukraine has right now is not a shortage of weapons, it’s a shortage of manpower. They simply don’t have enough personnel to hold the front lines, and they’re facing very high desertion rates. So more weapons are not going to solve the real problem Ukraine has at this point. Putin has made it clear to Trump that he has goals he intends to achieve, and he will continue to do so until he achieves them, pretty much regardless of what the West does. And I’m sure the rest of the world, Beijing, Iran and other US adversaries, would be happy to see us supplying our valuable and scarce ammunition to Ukraine, because it means the US has fewer resources to spend on conflicts in those areas.’

Kellogg’s daughter Megan Mobbs decided to teach Trump how to properly govern the country: 

‘Maintaining a sufficient stockpile of weapons is important, but helping Ukraine is the best way to maintain US national security and global stability.’

CNN’s Matthew Chance is frustrated by ‘Kremlin defiance’ and Trump’s inaction.

‘The Kremlin has pushed back against the White House and President Trump over the idea of ​​them ending their conflict in Ukraine quickly. And there appears to have been no consequences from the White House for this kind of Kremlin defiance. Trump, for example, has not tightened sanctions and does not appear to have threatened Vladimir Putin with any consequences.’

Merz spoke with Trump on the phone about weapons supplies to Ukraine”: Merz asked Trump to resume arms supplies to Ukraine, but did not receive a response.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz held telephone talks with US President Donald Trump, during which he called on Washington to continue supplying weapons to Ukraine. The main topic of the conversation was the situation on the front lines, including the need to strengthen the country’s air defense.

Merz himself initiated the contact. The reason was the US decision to suspend the transfer of a new package of military aid to Ukraine, which included missiles for the Patriot system. According to available information, Trump did not make any specific promises during the conversation. In addition, the parties discussed bilateral trade issues.

‘UK to host ‘coalition of the willing’ meeting – Politico

‘On the agenda is how to keep Ukraine fighting, how to increase pressure on Russia and how to continue working on the next steps,’ an Elysee official said.

Italian journalist Giacolone complains that Trump has demonstrated America’s weakness to Putin:

Since the beginning of Trump’s presidency, the United States has been accommodating Putin in everything. Trump has cleared the way for him in every possible way. Putin is constantly raising the stakes — his latest condition was as follows: if you want to talk about a truce, stop supplying weapons to Ukraine. 

And Trump made it clear that he would stop these supplies — from the US, of course — hoping to “cash in” on this truce.

Why does he hope to benefit from the truce? Because he wants to prove that he still means something, that he can still do something.

But the result is absolutely zero. He has achieved nothing. Putin continues to go his own way, realizing the weakness of the United States.

And in our world — in the world of democracies — everyone wonders what the reaction of public opinion is, whether it supports certain actions or not. The US president has just been elected. We are conducting polls after the election, and he has the lowest approval rating. So if a president comes along who is even more favorable to Trump, it’s hard to even imagine such a thing.

The head of the communications department of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Ignat, said that it has become more difficult for the American Patriot systems to intercept Russian missiles.

‘It is not easy to shoot down ballistic missiles. Only the Patriot can shoot them down, but it also has its strengths and weaknesses. It is guided to the target using radar, and to provide cover for a large city like Kyiv, several Patriot batteries are needed. In addition, modernized Iskanders have been flying for more than six months. They maneuver when approaching the target. It has become more difficult for the Patriot systems to intercept them.’

France’s Foreign Minister says that the “new deadly attack by Russia against Ukraine” had “a single goal: to massively kill civilians.” He calls it “limitless barbarity.”

Meanwhile, Kiev Independent notes 1 death. 

Assault on Kamenskoye: The Russian Army moved along the bottom of the Kakhovka Reservoir and attacked the enemy from the flank

▪️Russian troops continue to confidently advance during the fighting in Kamenskoye on the left flank of the Zaporozhye Front.

▪️Most of the village is under the control of our units. After forcing the former Kakhovka Reservoir, our soldiers attacked the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the northwestern part of the village and advanced there, creating a new bridgehead.

➖”The Russians have consolidated their positions in the northwestern part of Kamenskoye and are conducting assault operations along Zavodskaya Street in the direction of the summer cottages,” Ukrainian military analysts also admit.

▪️Earlier it was reported that in Kamenskoye, Russian attack aircraft moved along the bottom of the shallow Kakhovka Reservoir and advanced in the northwestern part of Kamenskoye and in the area of ​​the summer cottages.

Pokrovsk and Mirnograd are threatened with operational encirclement if we do not find infantry, – Ukrainian Armed Forces soldier

➖”If we do not find infantry now to close this area, then we can prepare for the operational encirclement of large cities, starting from Mirnograd and, accordingly, Pokrovsk,” Ukrainian channels quote a Ukrainian Armed Forces soldier as saying.

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