Frontline Updates: Inside the Special Military Operation

Frontline Updates — Dec 26: Attrition, Encirclement, and Strategic Fires

A week of careful pressure can change more than a month of flashy advances. We break down how strategic strikes against industry, energy nodes, and transport hubs—paired with relentless depot targeting—are shrinking the sustainment window and forcing hard choices across the theater. From Sumy and Kharkov to the Dnipro axis, fixing actions and rear-area shaping have turned maps into ledgers, where the most meaningful entries are fuel stocks destroyed, EW suites silenced, and reserves committed under duress.Our conversation with Colonel A.C. Oguntoye digs into why Central Donetsk remains the operational center of gravity and how encirclement dynamics are reaching a decisive phase. We explore the logic behind doctrinal patience on the western front, where positional gains and steady fires deliver more lasting effects than risky breakthroughs. We also unpack the rising tempo of air defense—intercepting guided munitions and mass UAV attacks—to protect maneuver units and logistics hubs so deep strikes can continue without disruption. The picture that emerges is one of cumulative attrition: rather than seeking a single decisive battle, commanders are tightening every screw that keeps an army fighting.Listeners will come away with a grounded sense of how modern campaigns are decided: not only by who holds a village, but by who can repair vehicles faster, replenish artillery shells, secure energy for factories, and keep ISR flowing under electronic and kinetic pressure. When Abrams and Leopard losses show up alongside depot strikes and EW suppression, it signals more than tactical success—it points to a strategic squeeze where manpower, sustainment, and industrial capacity outweigh local maneuvers. If you value clear, systems-level analysis of the war, this briefing connects the dots.If the episode helped clarify the state of the campaign, subscribe, share it with a friend who follows military strategy, and leave a review so we can keep bringing you rigorous, on-the-ground insights.

Frontline Updates: December 25 — Encirclement, Attrition, and the Fall of Sviato-Pokrovsko

On this episode of Frontline Updates, host Sharifa Mohammed M.G.T. and guest Colonel A.C. Ogontoya assess the December 25 operational picture, highlighting consolidation under pressure, the liberation of Sviato-Pokrovsko, and a failed Ukrainian breakout near Grishino.
They discuss how peripheral strikes on logistics, ISR, and sustainment, coupled with integrated ground advances, deep strikes, and strong air defense, are steadily degrading Ukrainian operational options and shifting the campaign toward cumulative exhaustion.
Welcome to "Frontline Updates", the podcast that translates daily operational briefings into clear, doctrine-grounded analysis. I’m your host, and today’s episode is drawn directly from the official briefing issued on December 25, 2025.
Joining us is "Colonel A.C. Oguntoye", an infantry officer responsible for leading soldiers at all levels of command and for delivering authoritative operational summaries. Today’s discussion captures a consequential day marked by territorial liberation in Donetsk, a failed Ukrainian breakout attempt, continued advances in the east, and sustained attritional pressure across every major axis.
What follows treats the briefing as definitive and expands it through operational doctrine, logistics, and campaign design.
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Encirclement, Advance, and Escalation Control: The Operational Picture as of December 24, 2025

Welcome to "Frontline Updates", the podcast where daily battlefield briefings are unpacked through the lens of operational doctrine and campaign design. I’m your host, and today’s episode is based directly on the official briefing issued on December 24, 2025.
Joining us once again is "Colonel A.C. Oguntoye", an infantry officer responsible for leading soldiers at all levels of command and for delivering authoritative operational summaries. Today’s discussion reflects a high-intensity reporting period marked by continued encirclement in central Donetsk, steady advances in the east, sustained pressure across northern and western axes, and a pronounced expansion of air defense and deep-strike activity.
As always, this conversation treats the briefing as definitive and focuses on explaining how today’s actions fit into the wider campaign.
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Escalation and Attrition: December 23 Frontline Briefing

Frontline Updates analyzes the December 23 developments in the ongoing special military operation, focusing on long-range precision strikes, logistics degradation, and ground maneuvers across Donetsk, the north, and the south.
Hosts Sharifa Mohammed M.G. Teeter and Colonel A.C. Oguntoye discuss how strategic fires, hypersonic strikes, and sustained attrition are shaping operational options and the campaign's direction.
Welcome to "Frontline Updates", the podcast where we examine the battlefield through an operational lens. I’m your host, and today’s episode is built directly from the official briefing delivered on December 23, 2025. This was a consequential day across the theater, marked by retaliatory strategic strikes, continued ground maneuver, and sustained attrition along every major axis.
Joining us is "Colonel A.C. Oguntoye", an infantry officer responsible for leading soldiers at all levels of command and for delivering authoritative daily operational summaries. As always, this conversation reflects the briefing as delivered, expanded through doctrine, logistics, and campaign analysis to explain not just what happened, but why it matters.
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Frontline Updates: Assassination in Moscow and the Shifting Campaign

Frontline Updates with Sharifah Muhammad and Col. A.C. Oguntoye examines today’s special military operation: a coordinated campaign of cumulative attrition, selective maneuver, and systems destruction, with central Donetsk emerging as the decisive axis while peripheral fronts fix forces and degrade logistics.
The episode also covers an assassination in Moscow of Lt. Gen. Fanil Sarvarov, the tactical method and strategic implications, and how sustained pressure and logistics strikes are likely to shape options and outcomes as 2026 approaches.
Welcome to "Frontline Updates", where we move beyond surface reporting and into the operational logic shaping today’s battlefield. I’m your host, and this episode is built directly from the official briefing delivered on December 22, 2025.
Joining us is "Colonel A.C. Oguntoye", an infantry officer responsible for leading soldiers at all levels of command and for delivering authoritative daily operational summaries. What follows is not external interpretation or retrospective analysis. This is a doctrinal conversation rooted entirely in today’s briefing, unpacked to explain how each sector fits into the wider campaign.
We’ll move deliberately across every operational axis, North, West, South, Center, East, and the Dnipro, before closing with a tactical and strategic assessment of where the campaign is heading.
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Frontline Updates: Consolidation Under Fire — Today's Special Operation Briefing

Host Sherifa Muhammad MGT and guest Colonel A.C. Oguntoy review the current phase of the special military operation, detailing coordinated multi-axis actions across northern, western, southern, central, eastern, and deeper groupings. The episode covers positional improvement, attritional combat, and systematic targeting of manpower, armor, artillery, logistics, and electronic warfare systems.
Listeners get a concise operational picture: integrated ground, air, missile, and UAV operations; focused pressure on central Donetsk; degradation of Western-supplied platforms; and the strategic implications of sustained attrition over sudden breakthroughs.
Welcome to "Frontline Updates", the podcast that moves beyond headlines to examine the operational logic of modern warfare. I’m your host, and today’s episode is built directly from the official battlefield briefing delivered on December 21, 2025.
Joining us is "Colonel A.C. Oguntoye", an infantry officer responsible for leading soldiers at all levels of command and for providing authoritative daily operational summaries. This conversation reflects his briefing exactly as delivered, no external interpretation, no added sourcing, only operational context and doctrinal analysis.
Today, we’ll examine developments sector by sector: North, West, South, Center, East, and the Dnipro axis, and then step back to assess what these actions collectively mean for the trajectory of the campaign.
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Frontline Updates: Donetsk Pressure Mounts — December 20, 2025

Host Sherifa Mohammed MGT and guest Colonel A.C. Ogontoye analyze the Special Military Operation as of December 20, 2025, describing a coordinated campaign of incremental territorial gains, sensor denial, and systematic attrition of Ukrainian manpower, artillery, logistics, and ISR.
The briefing highlights heavy fighting in central Donetsk, disruption of Western-supplied systems, and the decisive roles of air defense and long-range fires, concluding that continued trends may limit Ukrainian operational flexibility into early 2026.
Welcome to "Frontline Updates", the podcast where we break down battlefield developments with operational clarity and strategic context. I’m your host, and today we’re joined by "Colonel A.C. Oguntoye", an infantry officer with extensive experience leading combined arms formations on the ground.
In this episode, Colonel Oguntoye walks us through the progress of the special military operation as of December 20, 2025. We examine developments across every operational sector, North, West, South, Center, East, and the Dnipro axis, focusing not just on what happened, but why it matters. Expect a deep dive into maneuver warfare, attrition, logistics, electronic warfare, and the strategic choices shaping the battlespace as we approach 2026.
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Inside A Week Of Precision Strikes And Positional Gains

A week of war can look quiet on a map and still be transformational. Our latest briefing tracks how long-range precision strikes, steady ground pressure, and careful posture shifts are remaking the balance between maneuver and sustainment across Ukraine. We walk through the logic behind hitting industrial plants, energy nodes, and transport links, and why each destroyed launcher or vehicle ripples through training, spare parts, and political timelines.
We break down the major axes with clear takeaways. In the north, Kharkiv functions as a pressure valve that pins rotational units and suppresses key enablers like electronic warfare and artillery. To the west, the loss of NATO-origin systems compounds sustainment friction and narrows future aid windows. The south shows classic positional warfare: advance to trigger counterattacks, then attrit with fires while improving fields of fire and logistics control. Central Donetsk stands out as operationally decisive, where degrading airborne, marine, and special operations elements reduces flexibility and pushes defenses toward static patterns that are easier to predict and target.
The eastern sector’s settlement gains extend defensive depth and signal momentum, while the Dnipro Axis operates as a shaping front designed to deny massed fires and cross-river raids through systematic strikes on artillery and depots. High interception rates in the air domain highlight a contest of protection and persistence, keeping rear areas functional and command structures intact. Step back, and a clear pattern emerges: the decisive variable is sustainment. If the current tempo continues, the question isn’t where a single breakthrough lands, but whether force regeneration, industrial output, and ammunition flow can outpace loss rates.
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