Small steps are very important. Ukrainian forces are still modernizing and gaining experience. I assume the Bradley fighting vehicles and Leopard tanks were used in this battle?
Link Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, July 26, 2023 | Institute for the Study of War
If the goal is to take out factories and the workers making war materiel, then it’s not terrorism; damage to civilian infrastructure and the deaths of civilians not directly involved in the war effort, if inadvertently caused while carrying out targeted attacks on those factories, is collateral damage.
That doesn’t seem to be what Russia is doing in the present conflict. Instead, they are deliberately targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure. Apartment blocks, hospitals, schools, and now agricultural exports are all being hit with precision-guided munitions, i.e. they’re not collateral damage associated with an attack on a legitimate military target.
The Russians found a weak spot and had success in retaking a Ukrainian position. It was defended by inexperienced soldiers that were also training.
The transcript is available if you don’t want to watch the video. It’s under the description.
Russian Mafia Puts Out Hit on Vladimir Putin Over ‘Disastrous’ War in Ukraine
“He has cut off the oligarchs and their criminal associates from legitimate and underground dealings with Ukraine, the rest of Europe, and the United States,” the source told us. “They’re furious.”
Even more shocking was the international intelligence agent’s claim that the Russian Mafia has already tried to kill Putin on at least three separate occasions. …
“The oligarchs — and the mob — are fed up with Putin,” the source explained further. “They helped put him in power — but now he’s cutting into their profits and they want him eliminated.”
“But Putin won’t go quietly,” the intelligence agent concluded. “He knows he’s in trouble and has been killing off all rivals.”
just as a tangent … I earlier today read a short article in a german-speaking mainstream medium, using the same figure speach (weak spot) … but used it for the UKR attack in zaborishsha (sp?) … IOW UKR found the weak spot in RU defense line
just goes to show … stick with the data, avoid any interpretations that some intermediary (underpaid journalist or click-whore) is going to do…
Prigozhin was seen in St. Petersburg at the Russia Africa summit. It seems all is forgiven. That unfortunate misunderstanding never happened. 
I was so sure that was going to be a link to The Onion.
I think I’ll just go back to bed now.
Radar Online isn’t much better if you’re hoping for facts.
It would not surprise me if it was true.
Not that that site has factual insider info on-point, but that they’re correct in general just based on the atmospherics of how business / politics are done in a mature kleptocracy.
Seeing Prigozhin on the loose in Russia is the more surprising “news”. Assuming it was really him and not a staged exposure of a well-guarded prisoner. Curiouser and curiouser.
Russian mafia, Russian army, who can tell the difference?
(maybe it was because they were using rocket propelled grenade grenades)
One of them is significantly better armed and organized. And the other is the Army.
One has good OpSec. The other, … well … not so much.
The Russian 7th VDV Division said hell no, we won’t go! (or the equivalent in Russian) 
It’s terrible that fighting in and near Bakhmut has continued for a year. I remember the city’s name first reported last summer. The casualties on both sides must be horrific.
Link Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, July 28, 2023 | Institute for the Study of War
Wow, Ukraine apparently was delivered some seized North Korean rockets for their mobile launchers. No word on who seized them and delivered them at the moment.
Black market shipping has few delivery guarantees. Amazon it ain’t.
NK to Iran to Houthi rebels is the probable pathway. US and allies have cut the Houthi pipeline a number of times.
Of course, they could have fallen off the back of a truck or some guys were just in your neighborhood - had a few extra - would make you a good deal so they don’t have to take them back to the warehouse.
Why would Iran and the Houthis be involved? NK and Russia share a border near Vladivostok. It seems the simplest route would be by rail from Vladivostok.
Then they would be delivered to Ukraine pointy end first? Why would the Russians give missiles to Ukraine? These are from an (internationally) illegal North Korean weapons shipment confiscated by a nation friendly to Ukraine.
I was interpreting “ally” in the sense that Russia itself has been a source of Ukrainian equipment. In other words that Ukraine had captured some Russian weapons on the battlefield, which just so happened to have been originally supplied by NK.
It seems Russia has decided to target the smaller cities. They’re not defended as well.