Threads are moving so quickly for a Friday night!

New Simplicius: https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-8125-chasov-yar-falls-pokrovsk

Highlights:
>Zelensky reconvenes Rada in order to amend the anti-corruption law. Goncharenko goes on a rant against Zelensky (video)
>String of puff pieces about Zaluzhny in western media may hint at potential attempt at regime change in Kiev
>Trump admits "bone-crunching" sanctions on Russia "may not work" - NYT (https://archive.is/liCWK)
>Russian summer offensive is turning into an escalating crisis for Ukraine - CNN (https://archive.ph/kG973)
>On the Pokrovsk front, Russians are already inside Rodisnke and Bilytske and closing in on Dobropillia further noth, threatening to cut off the T-05-15 leading to Mirnograd and Pokrovsk proper
>Ukrainian commander of the 93rd mechanized brigade complains he has not been sent new personnel for eight months (CNN)
>Russians close enough to threaten Kupyansk (CNN)
>Once Pokrovsk falls, the road to Pavlograd is open - The Telegraph (https://archive.ph/f1zqm)
>Ukrainian TG channels attribute the deterioration of the Pokrovsk front to the redeployment of elite Russian drone units from the Kursk direction
>Ukrainians claim that Pokvrovsk itself has been penetrated by Russian DRGs which operate with impunity for want of AFU reinforcements
>Ukrainian analyst Myroshnikov says that Pokrovsk will hold out until winter
>On the Zaporozhye front, Ukrainian TG channels confirm that Russians have consolidated their control over Kamyanske and entered Plavni and Stepnogorsk. They attribute this to the redeployment of AFU troops in the area to the Sumy direction.
>In the Velyka Novosilka direction, Russians (the 394th Motor Rifle Regiment of the 127th Motor Rifle Division of the 5th Combined Arms Army) have captured Temirovka (Videos)
>To the north, Russians have captured Zeleni Hai and are now moving towards Ivanovka
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