{"id":11845,"date":"2026-10-30T07:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T06:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johanno1.se\/ukraine-frontline-report-30-october-2026-2\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T21:27:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T20:27:12","slug":"ukraine-frontline-report-30-october-2026-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johanno1.se\/en\/ukraine-frontline-report-30-october-2026-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine frontline report, 30 October 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Let’s end the week with a front update since it’s the legendary Friday binge drinking at johanno1.se with mandatory dog videos and where the first beer can fizz sound is heard already before lunch. DenGamle will tell stories no one believes and someone will get too drunk before one o’clock, but the mood is always at its peak until someone else gets insulted and the furnishings are torn apart in this week’s grand brawl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There has been a minor exodus of paying subscribers on Substack and it would always be fun to know why people leave so I can blame something else. I have long known that criticism of our slow governments in Europe is not always appreciated, and lately there has been a lot about the Russian subversive activities, but I think it is becoming urgent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am worried that Europe cannot handle the pressure and will force Ukraine to a ceasefire with EU membership. Trump (USA) and Russia have put it into high gear here and they hope that when we start experiencing fuel and electricity shortages this winter, we will threaten Ukraine with a paused EU membership if they do not agree to frozen fronts so that we can keep warm cheaply this winter as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the last front update, we discussed the upcoming encirclement of RU units between Torske \u2013 Yampil and it seems UA is actively working on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They have taken (or at least are fighting deep inside) both Yampil and Torske. The crossings over Zherebets are vanishingly few but there are not 5-6 brigades on the wrong side as I daydreamed about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Possibly three remain on the wrong side of the river and they surely have a prepared retreat route because if there is one thing the Russian bastards have excelled at throughout the entire war, it is managing to flee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Anyway, this means that Ukraine now has a formidable bridgehead on the eastern bank of Zherebets, so that terrain obstacle is passed, and also in an area with lots of cover where they can build up capability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There have also been persistent rumors for a long time that UA is fighting in Zalichne, Terny, and Ivanivka \u2013 I have gotten the impression that they were first inside the settlements, then RU counterattacked and now they are fighting in one or more again in round two. This remains unconfirmed until it is no longer so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Kostyantynivka, which Putin has declared fully conquered, Ukraine has thus sniffed out terrain well east of the city. The OSINT folks see this through Russian FAB bombings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have followed that battle too poorly but what is today a contested area in the city is mostly a hunt for Russian soldiers trying to hide in basements. Not much of a defense when you lock yourself in a room deep in a basement and stay completely silent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Unfortunately, Kostyantynivka is in lowland and Chasiv Yar, which is to the northeast, is in highland terrain so it offers no advantages for that settlement as far as I can see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The entire area from Lyman down south of Kostyantynivka is either 3rd AC or 1st Azov corps, which has now become two MILOs led by the two old Azov commanders. Together they are supposed to be well over 100,000 strong with an enormous amount of attached capability from drone weapons and GUR.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

South of 1st Azov, the Air Assault corps take over and they have also been conducting offensive operations for months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The entire stretch from Kupiansk down to Huliyapole has highly competent UA units all conducting offensive operations within their areas and have direct lines to SOF and drone weapons. Drapatyi has decentralized heavily and given great freedom of action to the corps commanders, so one can guess that the MILO commanders have even fewer reins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ukraine has more capability held back besides the strategic offensive reserve that has been flying around since October 2025, was it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The offensive operations we see now were wanted to be started by the defense forces already in autumn 2025 but were held back a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A whole plethora of brigades have been in the rear and re-equipped with all the materiel delivered during 2025, we posted many videos about that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have posted many posts about this offensive reserve that could be built up when Ukraine defends the front with a drone umbrella and sparse line shooting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We can absolutely expect much more of the retreating Russians going forward and the fact that Putin was forced to risk Trump means he is cornered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now Trump failed to hard-arm Ukraine into passivity, which probably shook Putin a bit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

UA has enormous capability near Kostyantynivka which could also be intended for Chasiv Yar?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RU has a fairly large task force near Bakhmut or alternatively they have built themselves a hedgehog defense but that is in lowland and they should be digging in at Chasiv Yar. The Russians have had the habit of going for the cities throughout the war and Bakhmut has some bright spots around it for them perhaps \u2013 it was the main event during 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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UA is positioned just north of Chasiv Yar still in dominant terrain but the city itself is a high point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are RU losses and they are at a very high level now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Zelensky and others have said the following: the daily loss count, which is now soon 1.6 million, is not all but only the permanently KWIA, i.e., severely wounded. Not included are lighter injuries, sick, and otherwise unfit for combat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Winter 2023, when we were digging into this, we concluded that 30% of those in hospitals in Luhansk had frostbite and absolutely could not be included in the loss figures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have had my own war about that loss count and finally had to give in, so it always feels good to have Zelensky on your side even if all those who stood on the wrong side of history have moved on and think I should get a life instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then it is often the Russian elite that is depleted so percentage-wise it becomes weaker faster and they keep the cooks, drivers, and warehouse staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Furthermore, UA has confirmed that KWIA is 1:5 but if you only count the killed, it is about 1:11. Previously UA has said that up to 80% of wounded return to service \u2013 their medical chain is simply very good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below is OSINT’s best estimate of UA losses, around 200,000. This is probably the first hard number we have had.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It fits into the bigger picture and gives you a clear indication of Putin’s problem \u2013 he simply does not have 10 times more soldiers available than Ukraine no matter how he twists and turns this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now UA has also confirmed that 30% of captured and perhaps also the killed they encounter are not Russians but from other countries. This has come up in rounds and presumably they send them forward to the spearhead to save Russians, but Putin clearly has an acute personnel problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Already in 2022 when they panic-mobilized and then summer 2023, we were reasoning about this and concluded that Putin can never mass mobilize and put weapons in the hands of a million men because then they are a bigger threat to him than Ukraine. Now it is almost November and they are still trying in every way to find recruits for Ukraine, but the larger mobilization we are waiting for has not come in the open and broad way we thought.<\/p>\n\n\n

Probably because they would then be a bigger threat to Putin than Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That does not prevent Putin from building up, which he has done, a formidable offensive strategic reserve outside Ukraine in addition to all the small private armies that exist to maintain the balance of power within Russia, but they do not want to waste these inside Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Russian army is said to be absolutely dreadful in Ukraine today \u2013 we have written several times that those who suffer the most in this war are Russian soldiers. The top-down control is total, corruption 100%, and since it is war, commanders do exactly as they please \u2013 one more dead Russian is nobody’s loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have all read about the bullying, sexual assaults, and all the conscripts who die annually in the Russian armed forces, but in the units in Ukraine, it is now said to be light years worse and difficult to endure even for a Russian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are blocking units behind every brigade that shoot to kill during retreats and so on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The motivation is presumably at rock bottom and they whip this along with threats and violence \u2013 somewhat like the orcs in The Lord of the Rings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are probably many Russian units that would take the first chance to either leave Ukraine, march towards Moscow, or surrender if it looked like an attractive option that they would survive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just the surrenders are interesting because Russian soldiers know how they themselves behave and the commanders constantly hammer in how much torture and murder there will be if they surrender, so they are completely radicalized and captured soldiers usually expect to be burned in a barrel at least.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if UA can switch to mobile warfare and cut off units, they surrender en masse; they will not die behind pyramids of spent shell casings, we can be quite sure of that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Russian combat leadership’s control can very quickly be lost entirely, but UA needs to get inside their decision cycle with mobile warfare for that, and that is probably what they are doing now \u2013 pressing everywhere to see where the cracks appear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since RU has siloed communication, top-down control, threats of dismissal for the slightest thing, corps and army commanders will not send bad news up the chain before it is absolutely necessary, but then it is too late.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No one cares about anyone else, and since they have had their own offensive for quite a while and did not expect a UA counterattack, some areas are poorly fortified and they have no rapid reaction forces behind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On top of that, UA has a drone umbrella so rapid reaction forces trying to reach breakthroughs and plug holes, which they do through constant attacks until it stops, are now running a gauntlet 150 km from the breakthrough area already.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A breakthrough can quickly become broad, and before you as MILO combat leadership understand what has happened, one of your army corps has surrendered, you have a 40 km wide hole in your defense, and no available units to slow down \u2013 this is where we want to get.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And this is what Putin and Trump are now trying to prevent by both stopping UA medium-range drone weapons until Starlink panicked and turned it back on, but also a ceasefire so the Russian defense can have time to lay mines, dig in, and carry out movements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oleshky, for which Melania Trump is now being praised, is really more of a ceasefire to be able to carry out movements than anything else \u2013 unfortunate that UA was forced into it because the civilians who are now being taken to Russia will hardly have it better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That Zelensky dared to openly and (for Trump) provocatively go against Trump also suggests that the above is not entirely wrong, UA knows they have potential and fight tooth and nail not to lose the initiative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This Friday we dedicate the first Mariestads tall can to the shooting in eastern Ukraine, the world’s best shooting as someone usually hammers in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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