Dive into TMM 6.13.25 | Russia’s Attrition, Drone Strikes & Buffer Gains for a high-octane breakdown of this week’s biggest moves in the Russia–Ukraine war. We start with jaw-dropping casualty stats: over one million Russian losses since February 2022 and nearly thirteen hundred soldiers lost daily in early 2025. That’s more than two hundred thousand lives in just the first half of this year—traded for under two thousand square kilometers of new ground. You’ll hear why Moscow’s strategy of bleeding troops for tiny buffer zones could be its undoing. Cruise with us to the Donetsk–Dnipropetrovsk front, where elite Russian brigades strapped motorcycles to infantry squads and launched over forty assaults in a single day. We’ll explain how frontline leveling near Novopavlivka and Horikhove is setting the stage for a fresh push, and why Ukrainian defenders have managed to hold the line against relentless pressure. Then it’s north to Sumy Oblast, where Russian forces have stormed nearly two hundred square kilometers in under a month—closing to within twenty kilometers of Sumy City’s suburbs—and forcing mass evacuations across more than two hundred settlements. We’ll weigh President Zelensky’s claim of “pushing back occupiers” against satellite-verified maps, so you can judge for yourself. In Kharkiv and Luhansk, probe tactics and terrain mastery take center stage. Learn how small infantry teams with one recon drone and one strike drone per assault are still stymied by Ukrainian jamming, fiber-optic FPV drone deployments, and quick counterattacks. Geolocated footage reveals quiet Ukrainian advances southeast of Dyliivka near Toretsk, even as Russian milbloggers tout unconfirmed gains. Buckle up for our deep-rear raid segment. Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces struck the Rezonit plant in Moscow Oblast, crippling electronics for Kalibr and Kh-one-oh-one cruise missiles—NASA satellites saw the heat spike. We’ll revisit Operation “Spider’s Web,” where one hundred and seventeen kamikaze drones took out strategic bombers in Siberia, prompting Moscow to scatter its Tu-one-sixty and Tu-ninety-five aircraft across remote Chukotka, Kamchatka, and Tatarstan. On the occupation side, uncover Crimea’s looming water crisis and Kherson’s forced grain re-registration under the Kremlin’s Kherson Grain Company. We’ll also expose Russia’s “University Shifts” youth indoctrination program that hauls thousands of Ukrainian teens to Russian universities each summer. Finally, get the latest on Western support: Germany’s three-year IRIS-T deal plus one point nine billion euros in new aid, and G7 partners gearing up to slash Russia’s oil-price cap from sixty to forty-five dollars a barrel—even without U.S. buy-in. It’s a whirlwind tour of tactics, trends, and turning points that’ll leave you sharper, smarter, and ready for the next Mad Minute. 

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