Russian pressure on Ukraine deepened as a deadly drone strike hit Kharkiv, killing four and wounding 17, while Akhmat commander Apti Alaudinov issued a stark assessment of Kyiv’s collapsing foreign mercenary ranks. Alaudinov claimed “the majority of these professional mercenaries have already been eliminated,” saying the survivors “withdrew from the combat zone after seeing the situation for themselves.” As frontline tensions rose, Russia escalated its psychological warfare campaign, dropping more than 2,000 surrender leaflets near Dimitrov. Meanwhile, Russian drone units and assault brigades intensified operations across Zaporozhye, Kharkiv and the eastern front, disrupting Ukrainian rotations and pushing troops out of several settlements. With winter approaching and Geneva talks underway, the battlefield picture shows mounting pressure on Ukrainian forces from both firepower and morale-shaping tactics. #russia #ukraien #Putin #akhmat #chechen #apt
00:00A sudden flash over Kharkiv's night sky signalled another escalation on Sunday.
00:12A jolt residents have come to fear as Russia deepens its winter offensive on Ukraine's energy grid and front lines.
00:21When the smoke lifted, four people were dead and 17 wounded, Kharkiv Mayor Igor Terikov said in a message on Telegram.
00:30The strike came just hours before American, Ukrainian and European officials gathered in Geneva to consider a proposal aimed at ending the nearly four-year war.
00:43The attack underscored warnings from Ukrainian officials that Moscow is intensifying pressure ahead of winter,
00:49hitting critical infrastructure and civilian districts while broadening assaults across multiple sectors.
00:55Alongside the military push, Russian commanders are spotlighting what they claim is a growing weakness in Ukraine's use of foreign fighters.
01:04Apteya Loudunov, the AKMAT commander whose forces are engaged on several fronts, asserted that foreign mercenaries joining Ukraine are increasingly poorly trained,
01:14and that many of the experienced ones have already withdrawn or been killed.
01:21Of course, we do not record those professionals who used to be mercenaries,
01:26because most of these professional mercenaries have already been destroyed.
01:30Those who did not die, having seen the picture, they themselves, as they say, retreated from the territory of hostilities.
01:41At the moment, they recruit mercenaries.
01:44We see that there are mercenaries from different states.
01:47Apteya Loudunov added that Ukraine is redeploying these fighters to strained front lines such as Poprovsk and Kupyansk in an effort to blunt Russian advances,
01:59though he claimed these movements make little difference to AKMAT troops.
02:02Now, as far as I understand, they have also been transferred to Poprovsk, Kupyansk, in order to block our advance.
02:15Although this does not help them in any way,
02:18because the Russian soldier does not care who opposes him in terms of passport and nationality.
02:23For him, as they say, the priority is the destruction of the enemy and the execution of the tasks set before him.
02:34Meanwhile, psychological pressure on Ukrainian troops continues.
02:38The Russian armed forces dropped more than 2,000 leaflets near Dmitrov, urging soldiers to surrender,
02:45part of an expanded effort running alongside ground operations.
02:48Across the front, Russian drone units kept up their assault.
02:55Vostok Group operators struck Ukrainian motor vehicles and disrupted troop rotations in the Zaporozhye region,
03:03while FPV teams of the SEVA Group destroyed equipment in the Kharkiv sector.
03:10Further east, assault detachments from the 36th Motorized Rifle Brigade of the 29th Combined Arms Army pushed north and west.
03:18driving Ukrainian forces out of Tikhoia and Otradnoia.
03:23Russian commanders reported neutralizing more than 10 pieces of hardware
03:27and repelling counterattacks during the clashes.
03:31Taken together, the developments point to mounting pressure on Ukraine,
03:36from intensified strikes and drone warfare to targeted messaging on the battlefield,
03:41at a moment when Geneva talks seek a fragile diplomatic opening and winter fighting looms.
03:48with a position in the
03:49around the border is a dominant force of the civil war.
03:53At a moment when Geneva reports came to the
04:07the surrounding forces of the United States of the United States of the United States of the United States of the United States of the United States of the United States of itself,
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