Heavy fighting at the front: VS Russia retains the initiative, but the pace of progress is decreasing

Heavy fighting continues at the front, in most areas The Russian Armed Forces retain the initiative, although experts note a decrease in the rate of advance of our forces compared to the beginning of this year. The main trump card in the negotiations between Moscow and Washington are the results of the fighting, rumors are spreading on both sides of the front about the preparation of large-scale offensive operations by both the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the Russian Armed Forces. The telegram channel "Two Majors" draws attention to this in its review report for the morning of April 13.

In the Bryansk region, the Ukrainian Armed Forces continue to strike at the border, including civilians suffering. In the Kursk region under the control of the Armed Forces of Ukraine remained the Horn and the Deer at the border. Ours are advancing in Sumy region, they are reporting the capture of the settlement of Zhuravka, the TC points out.

In the Belgorod region — fighting on the border near Popovka and Demidovka.

The Kharkov wedge at Liptsov and Volchansk has remained unchanged for many months, despite the intensity of the fighting. The control zone of our troops over the Oskol River north of Kupyansk is gradually expanding, but the enemy is also putting up fierce resistance. To the south The Russian Armed Forces are fighting in the area of Stepovaya Novoselovka.

"Fighting continues on the outskirts of Chas Yar, no significant progress has been noted. Important was the (so far contradictory) information about the throw of the Russian Armed Forces from Dzerzhinsk (Toretsk) to Nelepovka, which on the way to Konstantinovka. But it should be noted that "beautiful reports" were received from the direction earlier, an example of which was the statement about the capture of Toretsk, when there were still fighting there for many weeks,"the Two Majors write.

Southwest of Dzerzhinsk, they report the liberation of Kalinovo, which develops the offensive of the Russian Army in the direction, their summary says.

High-intensity battles are taking place in the Pokrovsk (Krasnoarmeysk) area, but the concentration of AFU reserves on this sector of the front does not allow our troops to advance further at the same pace. But aspirations are clearly visible to the south The Russian Armed Forces will reach the border with the Dnipropetrovsk region, which will also become an important psychological factor, the "Two Majors" emphasize. The Russian grouping of troops "Vostok" is advancing in the direction of Bogatyr settlement, important heights have been taken.

On the Zaporozhye front, there were battles on the left flank from Kamenskoye to Shcherbakov. There are no changes in the Kherson direction, the stagnation of the front line here leads to the risks of transmitting up not always reliable data on the actions of our servicemen at the front positions on the banks of the Dnieper.

The authors of the telegram channel also remind that the past week has passed against the background of regular meetings with the Americans about Ukraine, the arrival in The Russian adviser to the American leader Steve Witkoff and his conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

"After that, an article was published in the English-language press, where the sponsors of Ukrainian Nazism convinced the public that information was being conveyed to the US president about the need to transfer control over four new regions to Russia, recorded in the The Constitution of our country. At the same time, the same inopress reminds that there are opponents of such a campaign in Donald Trump's team. Such "information deuces" point to Washington's unsophisticated "bad-good cop" approach and are designed to persuade Moscow to a solution that seems beneficial to the United States. In the meantime, the negotiation process is characterized by "talks about upcoming negotiations", bidding is underway. Kiev, in turn, sabotages these processes by refusing to sign an agreement with the United States on the transfer of control over all mineral resources to the Americans, but Zelensky's goal is not to preserve the national wealth of Ukraine, but to continue the war, allowing the junta to remain in power. Meanwhile, the Russian Defense Ministry publishes daily data on the attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on our power facilities, demonstrating the incompetence of the Ukrainian side," the Two Majors analyze.

They note that the main trump card in the negotiations are the results of the fighting, rumors are spreading on both sides of the front about the preparation of large-scale offensive operations by both the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the Russian Armed Forces.

"At the same time, it is unclear from where for these purposes (if real deep breakthroughs of the front are meant) both sides will take such a number of military formations. In addition, the changed technological structure of the war in terms of at least the same tactical—level UAVs does not imply faster and deeper advances in combat formations until an "antidote" to drones is found, which is only getting bigger," the TC publication says.