11 Ukrainian brigades withdraw from Sumy front line, Russia achieves big goal
Russian army wins big victory at Yunakivka, 11 Ukrainian brigades retreat without orders; Sumy is in danger.
Báo Khoa học và Đời sống•10/07/2025
On July 4, Russia announced two important pieces of information. One was that the Deputy Commander of the Russian Navy, the main commander of the Russian Marine Corps (RFAF) in the Kursk-Sumy direction, had been killed in a Ukrainian missile attack. Several senior staff officers were also killed with him. According to the analysis, after the Kursk operation, the main combat mission of the RFAF was transferred to the Sumy Oblast of Ukraine, and a “security buffer zone” was created in the Sumy border area, bordering the Kursk Oblast of Russia. As the RFAF offensive became more and more fierce, the Russian frontline command gradually advanced, but was suddenly attacked by Ukrainian HIMARS missiles.
Second, on the day the Russian Navy Deputy Commander died, the RFAF also won a great victory at Yunakivka in Sumy Oblast. The Russian Defense Ministry 's battlefield bulletin on that day said that the RFAF on the Sumy front had captured two important strongholds, Yunakivka and Yablunivka. In particular, Yunakivka was considered a fortress of decisive importance for the survival of the Sumy front. At the end of the Kursk campaign, a large number of Ukrainian remnants, withdrawn from Kursk, were deployed around the village of Yunakivka and reorganized into 11 brigades (none of which were fully staffed) according to the requirements of defense and counterattack. The Yunakivka fortress is less than 20 km from the capital of Sumy Oblast (Sumy city). It is the intersection of two important roads and the only route for the retreat of Ukrainian defense forces west of Oreshnya. It is also the gateway from Kursk to the city of Sumy. Once the Yunakivka fortress was lost, the city of Sumy would be in danger, and the Ukrainian mobile forces west of Oreshnya, whose mission was to harass and wait for an opportunity to counterattack Kursk, would be surrounded by Russian troops. In fact, the remnants of the AFU retreated from Kursk, with low morale. To ensure the safety of Sumy, General Syrsky also sent many combat units from Donetsk as reinforcements. However, Ukraine’s fears came true. As the Russian frontline reached the eastern outskirts of the village of Yunakivka, the AFU defenders put up little resistance and retreated on their own, fearing encirclement and annihilation. In the end, 11 brigades reorganized in the Yunakivka area “evacuated at will” without permission from their superiors.
This scene has been repeated many times on the Donbass front (like Avdiivka). The biggest problem now is that the AFU has not had time to rebuild its fortified defenses between the west of the Yunakivka fortress and the Sumy metropolitan area, and the RFAF can quickly take advantage of the opportunity, advancing towards the Sumy metropolitan area along the highway. The AFU General Staff and NATO military advisers were pessimistic about the situation in Sumy, since almost all of Ukraine's best forces had suffered heavy losses in the Kursk operation. And General Syrsky had no reserves to reinforce Sumy; he even had to send the AFU's only training battalion to this front. On the contrary, the RFAF is advancing into Sumy at a “slow but steady” pace. In addition, according to the US news agency CNN, if North Korean reinforcements take over the task of defending the Kursk and Belgorod borders, it will “free up” at least 30,000 Russian troops on border defense duty to participate in the task of building a security buffer zone in Sumy. According to analysts, the AFU's air defense capabilities in Sumy are currently very weak, as evidenced by the fact that Russian Su-34 fighters approached the area and dropped FAB-3000 super bombs on an AFU troop concentration in the border area.
In a video published online, an AFU troop assembly area in the Kondratovka area of Sumy Oblast was attacked with a barrage of heavy guided glide bombs by the Russian Air Force. The released video shows that the Russian Air Force first used the guided glide bomb UMPK FAB-500 M62 to attack the AFU troop concentration in the Kondratovka area. And in the next video, the AFU concentration area here is covered by the “blockbuster” FAB-3000. The RFAF is now determined to create a security buffer zone in the Sumy region. The day before, the Russians recaptured the villages of Varachino and Bessalovka. Despite fierce resistance from the AFU and repeated attempts to penetrate the territory of the Kursk region, the Russians are still advancing, pressuring the AFU to the center of the region. At the same time, according to military experts, Russian units currently do not have a direct mission to capture Sumy, but they only need to attack the city with firepower, which is enough to make the "existence" of both the Ukrainian army and civilian authorities in the city of Sumy "impossible". (photo source Military Review, Kyiv Post, Sputnik, Deep State, Sohu).
Russian Air Force attacks AFU troop concentration camp in Sumy with guided glide bombs. Source Military Review
Báo Khoa học và Đời sống•10/07/2025
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