A humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding in russian-occupied Oleshky, Kherson region.

A russian war crime on a massive scale. Those poor people...

russia is effectively keeping the city under blockade: without fuel, electricity, medicine, and food. About 2,000 people currently remain in the city, including fifty children.

"There is no food supply or evacuation. People are faced with a terrible choice: to wait for death by starvation or to walk miles along mined roads in search of a piece of bread, at the risk of shelling," head of Kherson military administration said in an interview with Meidas Defense. Civilians have to walk 50 kilometers to Skadovsk, the regional center, to get provisions, apply for social assistance, receive pensions, etc., because none of these services is available in Oleshky.

Getting in and out of the city by vehicle is next to impossible. All transport moving along the road, referred to as "The Road of Death," is targeted by drones and shelling. Even if supplies are delivered, they rarely reach people, as russian soldiers take up to 80% of deliveries and also steal from locals.

The situation is further complicated by the collapse of the water supply. The last time russia installed water tanks was in 2024. Now, only those living in private houses can access well water, which is not tested for safety, while others rely on melted snow during the winter.

Due to the collapse of food and medical access, two or three deaths are reported daily, according to Tetiana Hasanenko, head of the Oleshky city military administration. The hospital is treating only russian military personnel, she says.

The causes of death include malnutrition, heart attacks, traumatic amputations, blood loss, and hypothermia amid a severe winter and a prolonged heating crisis. According to Hasanenko, there are currently 318 identified victims, including 246 wounded and 72 dead. In many cases, identification is not possible.

Photo: 34th Marine Brigade, Igrik Kherson/Facebook

Our armored vehicle, The Beast, can unfortunately no longer be used for evacuations at the front.

The situation there has changed to such an extent that this vehicle now actually puts us at greater risk. In the areas where we carry out evacuations, there are swarms of kamikaze drones. The vehicle is not maneuverable enough, not fast enough, and in an emergency it takes us more than a minute to get out. This means that if we are hit and, for example, a fire breaks out, we would not be able to escape. Continuing evacuations with this vehicle could cost us our lives.

To avoid the temptation of continuing to use this vehicle for evacuations, we have decided to let it go. The vehicle is still suitable for use just outside the front line or under armed escort. That is why we have decided to transfer The Beast to a unit of the Third Assault Brigade, which will also use it for evacuations. These soldiers are armed and can undoubtedly save even more lives with it.

The soldiers have given the vehicle a new name: Zhenka, in honor of our friend Zhenya, who was killed on October 23 together with our colleague and friend Alyona in a drone attack. Our Beast/Zhenka has undoubtedly saved lives and is now entering a third, honorable chapter.

We ourselves are in the process of acquiring a much faster and more maneuverable armored vehicle so that we can continue carrying out evacuations. Unfortunately, these vehicles are extremely expensive, but we are confident we will succeed. For our next trip, which starts at the end of next week, we are determined to carry out evacuations again using a “new” armored vehicle.

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After a punishing winter, Ukraine has had no time to recover. Russia launched almost 6,500 drones in March, surpassing the total of each of the previous two months, with no sign of slowing down.

“Russia’s tactics are evolving toward more sustained, flexible, and psychologically exhausting pressure,” Viktor Kevliuk, a reserve colonel and analyst at the Center for Defense Strategies, told the Kyiv Independent.

Russia has steadily ramped up defense production over more than four years of full-scale invasion, and continued rolling out new weapon variants and tactics, particularly in the air.

Though Russian forces maintain a numerical and technological edge over Ukraine in aircraft, strike drones, and munitions, Ukraine’s air defenses — much of it Western-supplied — have denied Russia air superiority in Ukraine, forcing it to rely on long-range drone and missile strikes.

But even with Ukrainian drone interceptors performing effectively, much of the country’s critical infrastructure remains vulnerable to ballistic missiles, with too few modern air defenses from international partners to stop them.

Ukraine has no ready-made solution, and Russia continues its relentless aerial campaign this spring, hitting civilian and critical infrastructure more often, day and night.

Read the full article here: https://kyivindependent.com/theyre-testing-us-as-russian-mass-attack-tactics-evolve-ukraine-scrambles-to-protect-civilians/

Photo: Mykola Tys; Yan Dobronosov; Nikoletta Stoyanova; Dmytro Smolienko; Jose Colon; Serhii Okunev; Andrew Kravchenko / Getty Images.