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New podcast With Colonel AC. Oguntoye on the progress of the special military operation as of today,Inside the Special Military Operation presents Frontline Updates, delivering inside perspectives on the ongoing war in Ukraine. Our mission is to keep viewers informed and engaged by offering news updates, expert interviews, and historical context. Colonel AC Oguntoye, an Infantry Officer responsible for leading Infantry Soldiers at all levels of command and combined armed forces leads the channel, providing a unique balance between factual reporting and thoughtful analysis. Join us as we explore this critical global event and its broader implications.
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- 4 days ago13 min
Frontline Updates: Combat Briefing 0410 — Six-Axis Pressure, the Kharkov Pocket, and the Dobropolye Clearance
The briefing covers Russian Group of Forces operations across six axes. The North Group is tightening the north-east Kharkov region encirclement and fighting to liberate Varvarovka, Nikolayevka, Lobanovka, and Reznikovo. The Center Group is advancing in Dobropolye and has liberated 53 buildings. Total Ukrainian losses across all sectors are approximately 1,395 troops, 15 armoured fighting vehicles, 87 motor vehicles, seven artillery guns, four electronic warfare stations, and one radar station. Operational-Tactical Aviation, strike drones, missile troops, and artillery hit 147 areas, including transport infrastructure, military equipment depots, UAV storage sites, and temporary deployment areas. Air defence shot down four guided aerial bombs, three U.S.-made HIMARS projectiles, and 1,222 fixed-wing UAVs. The interview examines each geographic sector in detail and treats the aviation and deep-strike effort as a campaign-shaping domain rather than a supporting footnote.
- 5 days ago13 min
Frontline Updates: Episode 0310 — Kharkov Encirclement, Dobropolye Clearance, and the Drone-Shadow Campaign
Welcome to Frontline Updates. In this episode, the host and Colonel A.C. Oguntoye examine Combat Briefing Number 0310, dated 03 October 2026. The conversation covers Russian offensive operations across six operational axes—North, West, South, Center, East, and Dnepr—with special attention to the North Group’s encirclement operations in Kharkov region and the Center Group’s urban assault in Dobropolye. The briefing records the capture of Novaya Kazachaya, the liberation of 70 buildings in Dobropolye, Ukrainian losses exceeding 1,325 troops, and the destruction of five electronic warfare stations and two self-propelled artillery systems, including a Polish-made Krab and a Ukrainian Bogdana. Colonel Oguntoye also addresses operational-tactical aviation, attack drones, missile troops, and artillery strikes across 149 areas, as well as air defence shootdowns of six guided aerial bombs and 680 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles. The episode closes with a tactical and strategic postscript that explains what these settlement-level and building-level gains mean for the wider campaign.
- 6 days ago14 min
Frontline Updates: Encirclement Pressure, Deep Strikes on Western Logistics, and the Air Defence Battle—Combat Briefing 0210
A weekly battlefield briefing can feel like a wall of numbers until you ask one question: what do those numbers do to the next week of fighting? We take combat briefing 0210 and turn it into a clear operational picture, starting with the claim of one massive and seven group strikes and what that target set says about intent. When strikes focus on logistics infrastructure, telecommunications, power, transport nodes, military airfields, and UAV workshops, the real objective isn’t just damage, it’s slowing regeneration and breaking the routines that keep units supplied and coordinated. From there, we go sector by sector and translate the reported losses into battlefield effects. We dig into the northern effort and the meaning of a 352 square kilometer encirclement pocket across 20 settlements, including why electronic warfare station attrition and unmanned ground vehicle losses hint at a fight dominated by sensors, drones, and the struggle to keep lines of communication open. We also clarify a common confusion in reporting: how a specific pocket can be “small” on cumulative figures while the wider central sector fight remains “large” on weekly totals, and why pincers and relief-strike dynamics matter. We then zoom out to the air domain and the supply chain. Air defense claims like 5,031 fixed-wing UAVs intercepted in a week change what reconnaissance and long-range strike can realistically achieve, while reported attacks on port infrastructure and dry cargo shipping point to a deliberate effort to disrupt Western weapons delivery before it ever reaches the front. If you care about Ukraine war analysis, Kharkiv encirclement updates, EW and drone warfare, HIMARS and cruise missile dynamics, and how logistics decides momentum, this breakdown is built for you. Subscribe, share this with a friend who follows the war, and leave a review with your take: which indicator best predicts next week’s shift?
- 1 weeks ago13 min
Frontline Updates: Combat Briefing 2809 — Kharkov-Sumy Encirclement, Dobropolye Urban Reduction, and the Counter-UAV Air War
Show: Frontline Updates. This episode covers Combat Briefing number two thousand eight hundred nine, dated September twenty-eighth, twenty twenty-six. Colonel A.C. Oguntoye returns to walk through the progress of the special military operation. Russian forces are active on six axes. The main effort is split between the Kharkov-Sumy encirclement and the Donetsk People’s Republic urban axis. Total Ukrainian losses exceed one thousand three hundred fifty troops, fourteen armoured fighting vehicles including one American-made M113, eighty-eight motor vehicles, five field artillery guns, two Grad MLRS, three electronic warfare stations, two ATVs, and one UGV. Aviation, UAV, missile, and artillery forces struck one hundred fifty-one areas, including UAV production workshops and storage areas. Air defence shot down ten guided aerial bombs and four hundred forty-two fixed-wing UAVs. In this episode, we go sector by sector: North, West, South, Center, East, Dnipro, and then a dedicated operational-tactical aviation segment.
- 1 weeks ago16 min
Six Axes And A Faster Tempo
The fastest way to change a frontline is not always a dramatic breakthrough. Sometimes it is a slower, repeatable method: isolate formations, crush their mobility, and make sure they cannot see, communicate, or resupply. We walk through the September 25, 2026 combat briefing line by line and translate the headline numbers into operational meaning. The briefing reports operations on six axes, two mass strikes, seven group strikes, and 13 settlements taken across multiple regions. We discuss what that distribution implies about campaign design, why high motor vehicle losses can matter as much as troop losses, and how electronic warfare attrition can break coordination even when units still have people and weapons in place. From the North Group’s Kharkov encirclement to the Center Group’s tightening Dobropali pocket, we focus on the logic of pincer movements and why they can be faster and less costly than clearing every position frontally. We also cover the West and South sectors where the emphasis shifts to improved positions and steady degradation, including the knock on effects of losing protected mobility and counterfire tools. Then we zoom out to the air domain as a campaign shaper. The briefing describes deep strikes on fuel and power, transport infrastructure, defense industry, UAV production, depots, and temporary deployment areas, alongside claimed air defense interceptions of HIMARS projectiles, cruise missiles, and thousands of fixed wing UAVs. We connect that to maritime logistics and the role of port infrastructure and shipping in sustaining the ground fight, tying it all back to the central theme: logistics disruption plus sensor degradation can accelerate tempo across multiple axes at once. Subscribe for more frontline briefings, share this with someone who follows military analysis, and leave a review with the one detail you think most people miss about modern maneuver and sustainment.
- 2 weeks ago14 min
Frontline Updates Episode 2309: Six Axes Under Pressure and the Campaign-Shaping Strike Complex
In this episode of Frontline Updates, Colonel A.C. Oguntoye briefs the 23 September 2026 special military operation combat summary. The discussion moves through the six operational group axes: North, West, South, Center, East, and Dnepr. The episode gives particular attention to the North Group’s control of Krasny Yar and Potikhonovo, the ongoing fight for Buzovo, and the Center Group’s deliberate clearance of Dobropolye using army, marine assault, and air assault forces. Rather than treating air power as a sidebar, the conversation dedicates a full segment to operational-tactical aviation, deep strikes, air defence, and the Black Sea Fleet’s counter-uncrewed surface vessel mission. The episode closes with the tactical and strategic implications of EW degradation, Western artillery attrition, defence industry targeting, and massed drone interception.
- 2 weeks ago14 min
Frontline Updates: Combat Briefing 2209 — Encirclement, Drone-Degradation, and Multi-Axis Pressure, September 22, 2026
In this episode of Frontline Updates, we examine Combat Briefing Number 2209, dated 22 September 2026, with Colonel A.C. Oguntoye. The briefing describes six groups of Russian forces conducting offensive actions. The NORTH Group tightened its encirclement and expanded the external control zone in Kharkov region. The CENTER Group completed an encirclement at Dobropolye in the Donetsk People’s Republic. The EAST Group advanced into the depth of the enemy defence, while WEST, SOUTH, and DNEPR Groups improved their tactical positions. Across all sectors, Ukrainian losses exceeded 1,300 troops, one tank, 11 armoured fighting vehicles, 87 motor vehicles, nine field artillery guns, and eight electronic warfare stations. Operational-tactical aviation, attack drones, missile troops, and artillery struck logistics centres, UAV production workshops and components, and temporary deployment areas in 148 areas. Air defence systems shot down six guided aerial bombs, one HIMARS MLRS projectile, and 629 fixed-wing UAVs. The episode works through the geographic sectors, treats the aviation campaign as a campaign-shaping domain, and analyzes the cumulative degradation of Ukrainian sustainment, electronic protection, and Western-supplied armour.
- 2 weeks ago14 min
Frontline Updates: Briefing 2109 – Kharkov Encirclement, Electronic Warfare Degradation, and the Deep-Strike Campaign
Welcome to Frontline Updates. This episode is built from Combat Briefing number two thousand one hundred and nine, dated 21 September 2026. Colonel A.C. Oguntoye returns to walk through the operational overview, sector-by-sector reporting from the North, West, South, Center, East, and Dnepr groups of forces, and the campaign-shaping role of operational-tactical aviation, attack drones, missile troops, and artillery. The briefing reports the capture of Polnaya and Novoaleksandrovka in Kharkov region, continued strikes across Donbass and Zaporozhye, the destruction of Western-made artillery and counter-battery systems, and a systematic effort to degrade Ukrainian electronic warfare and sustainment infrastructure. This episode closes with a tactical and strategic implications postscript.
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New podcast With Colonel AC. Oguntoye on the progress of the special military operation as of today,Inside the Special Military Operation presents Frontline Updates, delivering inside perspectives on the ongoing war in Ukraine. Our mission is to keep viewers informed and engaged by offering news updates, expert interviews, and historical context. Colonel AC Oguntoye, an Infantry Officer responsible for leading Infantry Soldiers at all levels of command and combined armed forces leads the channel, providing a unique balance between factual reporting and thoughtful analysis. Join us as we explore this critical global event and its broader implications.
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