[Meduza] Valery Garbuzov and his colleagues aren’t going quietly. Last week, after penning an essay about Russia’s "post-imperial syndrome" and the Putin regime’s reliance on anti-American myths, Garbuzov lost his job as the director of the U.S. and Canada Studies Institute at Russia’s Academy of Sciences. Roughly a week later, the institute’s staff issued a public statement in Garbuzov’s defense, published simultaneously with a second article about Kremlin propaganda. All three texts initially appeared in Nezavisimaya Gazeta, but the newspaper quickly unpublished the faculty’s letter without explanation. Meduza reviews what happened after a respected scholar accused Russia’s "ruling elite and the oligarchy integrated within it" of using propaganda to "retain power and property, indefinitely at any cost."
Valery Garbuzov joined the U.S. and Canada Studies Institute (ISKRAN) in 2000 and became its director in 2016. The institute is considered one of Russia’s leading think tanks on U.S. matters, particularly during the Soviet period when it exerted significant influence on Moscow’s foreign policy. Today, ISKRAN employs more than 130 people, including 85 research experts. "By the founder’s decision," Garbuzov was replaced on September 1, 2023, by Sergey Kislitsyn, the 33-year-old head of the Center for the Study of Strategic Planning at the National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations.
ISKRAN’s press service directly linked Garbuzov’s dismissal to his August 29 article, "On the Lost Illusions of a Bygone Era," published in Nezavisimaya Gazeta (a newspaper owned and run by Konstantin Remchukov, who’s worked closely over the years with Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin, managing his reelection campaign in 2018 and heading the city’s Public Chamber since 2016).
[Aljazeera] A Russian pilot who defected to Ukraine with a Mi-8 helicopter will receive a substantial reward of half a million dollars for changing sides and taking Russia’s military equipment with him.
Ukraine’s military intelligence spokesman, Andriy Yusov, said on Ukrainian television on Tuesday that the money would be paid in the national currency, the hryvnia, and called on other Russian military personnel to follow suit and defect to Kyiv’s side.
The case of the 28-year-old Russian helicopter pilot, Maxim Kuzminov, has been widely reported on by Ukrainian media.
"Once again, those Russians who don’t want to become war criminals, please, surrender, defect to the Ukrainian side and defend your own honour and conscience, fight against [Russian President Vladimir] Putin’s regime," Yusov said in a television discussion on the high-profile defection.
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[LB] Ukrainians are also holding back the enemy's offensive in the Maryinka area.
by Vera Perun
In the Bakhmut direction, Ukrainian defenders successfully repelled attacks by Russian troops in the area north of Klishchiivka, Donetsk region.
This is reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine .
In addition, the Russians launched an unsuccessful offensive in the Novoyehorivka district of the Luhansk region on Lymanskyi . And in Maryinka , the Defense Forces continue to hold back the enemy's offensive in the Maryinka district of the Donetsk region.
During the day, the occupiers carried out 32 airstrikes, launched 39 attacks from rocket salvo systems.
More than 20 military clashes took place.
Aviation of the Defense Forces made 11 strikes on the areas of concentration of personnel, weapons and military equipment and two - on the enemy's anti-aircraft missile systems. During the day, units of missile troops and artillery struck the area of concentration of personnel, weapons and military equipment, 12 artillery pieces in firing positions and an ammunition depot.
The situation at the front as of 18:00 on September 5 is as follows:
on the Volyn and Poliske directions, the operational situation has not changed significantly;
on Siverskyi and Slobozhanskyi, the enemy carried out airstrikes in the areas of Sydorivka, Sumy Region, and Udy, Veterinarny, Kharkiv Region. He carried out mortar and artillery attacks on more than 15 settlements, in particular, Klyusy, Karpovychi, Buchki of the Chernihiv region, Znob-Novgorodsk, Romashkovo, Bugor, Vorozhba, Veselovka, Popivka of the Sumy region and Uda, Strelecha, Ohirtseve, Vovchansk, Nesterne, Chorne of the Kharkiv region region;
in Kupyansk, the enemy continues to fire artillery and mortar attacks on populated areas, including Masyutivka, Kucherivka, Kislivka, Berestovka, Kovalivka of the Kharkiv region;
on Lymanskyi, the enemy carried out airstrikes in the areas of Bilogorivka, Luhansk region, Torsky, Siversk, and Spirny, Donetsk region. Continues artillery and mortar attacks on populated areas, including Nevske, Bilogorivka of Luhansk region and Torske, Dibrova, Verkhnokamianske, Spirne of Donetsk region;
in Bakhmutskyi, more than 10 settlements were hit by enemy artillery fire, including Fedorivka Druga, Tikhonivka, Orihovo-Vasylivka, Bohdanivka, Ivanivske, Kostyantynivka of the Donetsk region
in Avdiivske, the enemy shelled the settlements of Oleksandropil, Keramik, Stepove, Avdiivka, Severna, Nevelske of the Donetsk region with artillery and mortars;
on Maryinsky, the Russians launched an airstrike in the Krasnohorivka region. The settlements of Krasnohorivka, Georgiivka, Pobyeda, Katerynivka, Vesely Hay of the Donetsk region were hit by artillery fire;
on Shakhtarsky, the enemy carried out airstrikes in the areas of Vugledar and Staromayorskyi. More than 10 settlements, including Vodyane, Novoukrayinka, Shakhtarske, Urozhane, Fedorivka, Shevchenko of the Donetsk region, were hit by artillery fire;
in Zaporizhzhia, the enemy carried out airstrikes in the districts of Mala Tokmachka, Robotyny, Orikhov of Zaporizhzhia region. More than 10 settlements, including Velikomykhailivka, Nikopol, Dobra Nadiya of the Dnipropetrovsk region, Novodarivka, Malynyvka, Zatyshsha, Novoandriivka, Stepove, Kamianske of the Zaporizhia region, were hit by artillery fire;
in Kherson , the enemy carried out an air strike in the area of Mykhailivka. More than 10 settlements, including Zolota Balka, Respublikanets, Odradokamyanka, Olhivka, Tokarivka, and Sonyachne of the Kherson region, were hit by artillery fire.
The Defense Forces of Ukraine continue to conduct an offensive operation in the Melitopol direction, are entrenched at the achieved boundaries, and carry out counter-battery countermeasures.
It will be recalled that the General Staff recently announced that Ukrainian units were successful in the direction of Robotyne-Novoprokopivka.
During a working trip to Donetsk region, the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyi, visited combat brigades that are conducting offensive operations in the Bakhmut region.
Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title
22:10 North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is preparing to visit Russia to meet with Putin to discuss a potential agreement on the supply of arms to Moscow. About. what is known about the visit - in the material What Putin has in mind.
21:52 OSINT-analysts of GeoConfirmed have established the place of detonation of the Russian drone in Romania - a point in the field with coordinates 45.328864, 28.803601. Less than 1.5 km from this place is the Romanian border village of Plauru.
21:38 Germany handed over to Ukraine another package of military assistance, which included, in particular, 10,080 ammunition for Gepard anti-aircraft guns, more than 8.5 million rounds of ammunition, 27,000 40-mm ammunition, the Biber armored bridge layer, 32 Zetro trucks.
21:29 Washington calls on the DPRK to stop negotiations with Russia on weapons and to comply with its public commitment not to supply or sell weapons to Russia, State Department Deputy Speaker Vedant Patel said. "Last month, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu went to North Korea to try to persuade Pyongyang to sell artillery ammunition to Russia. And we have information that Kim Jong-un expects these negotiations to succeed," Patel added.
19:24 The Russians attacked Nikopol from a drone - an infrastructure facility, an educational institution, a warehouse, a private enterprise, and a residential building were damaged. People were not injured, said the head of the Dnepropetrovsk OVA Serhiy Lysak.
19:20 Romanian President Klaus Iohannis claims that there were no drones on the territory of his country: “I can tell you that there was no part, no drone, no part of any device that would end up in Romania ... We are implementing full control over our national space, we checked absolutely everything, and I can reassure the population: nothing got into Romania."
19:12 The Cuban authorities announced the disclosure of a criminal network for human trafficking, whose participants forced Cuban citizens to fight on the side of Russia in Ukraine. Read more in the article How Russia recruits mercenaries .
18:38 NSDC Secretary Aleksey Danilov reproached NATO countries for ignoring Russian strikes on their territory: "When Iranian and Russian shaheeds accidentally or not accidentally flew into Romanian territory and exploded there, NATO calmly watches all this and says: well, not "It was like that. Let it not happen. That way you can play to the point that you will boil, and you will say that it is cold. These are very dangerous examples."
He also accused Western politicians of being afraid of Russia: "With your poached eggs, you will cause autocratic regimes to seize power all over the world."
18:10 Putin said that "Western curators put an ethnic Jew at the head of modern Ukraine and thus cover up the glorification of Nazism."
17:44 For the first time since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion, Armenia has sent humanitarian aid to Ukraine, Radio Liberty reports. What kind of assistance and to what extent it is still unknown. Yerevan should make an official announcement soon.
17:02 The Supreme Anti-Corruption Court satisfied the claims of the Ministry of Justice against the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Belarus and the Russian group of companies Volga-Dnepr and recovered their assets - aircraft engines for aircrafts of the Academy of Sciences Ruslan - to the state's income, the Prosecutor General's Office said.
The military-political leadership of the Russian Federation used AN Ruslan aircraft in a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. These aircraft transported military equipment, delivered military cargo and dual-use goods from other countries to the territory of Russia.
16:51 Ex-head of the Security Service Valentyn Nalyvaichenko told The Economist that in 2015 a department was created in the SBU to eliminate collaborators. We are talking about the fifth department of counterintelligence of the SBU, which acted as a sabotage group in response to Russian aggression. She is credited with the murder of key pro-Russian commanders in the Donbas - Givi, Motorola, Alexander Zakharchenko. The publication's sources say the Fifth Directorate was "the most efficient" for such tasks, as the budget of the SBU is five times the budget of the Main Intelligence Directorate.
16:33 The government allowed combat medics to transfuse blood at the pre-hospital stage. Thus, not only people with medical education, but also military personnel who have undergone appropriate training will be able to transfuse blood. For this, the Ministry of Health is expanding a special training program.
15:42 The Ministry of Defense has changed the list of diseases to assess fitness for military service. The Medical Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine explained why they did it and where they will serve with limited fit. More details - in the material Diseases with which they will be taken into the army .
14:55 The Russians fired mortars at Ivanovka in the Berislavsky district of the Kherson region, two people were injured, the head of the OVA, Alexander Prokudin, said.
14:51 Damage to the environment as a result of undermining the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station by the Russians is about $ 1.5 billion, said the first deputy head of the State Environmental Inspectorate Dmitry Zaruba. According to him, the main problem for the assessment is that the inspectors cannot now reach all the territories. Final calculations will be possible after collecting all the information.
14:34 The German arms company Diehl Defense plans to significantly increase the production of IRIS-T air defense systems and missiles for them against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine. In 2025, the company plans to produce at least eight air defense systems, while this year it was planned to produce three or four.
14:18 Erdogan expressed hope that "good results" will be achieved in the near future on the renewal of the grain agreement, which will "justify expectations." According to him, Russia has two special requests: the connection of the Russian Agricultural Bank to the SWIFT system, as well as insurance of ships used in transportation.
Erdogan noted that Turkey is in close contact with the UN on the renewal of the grain agreement, so he will discuss this issue with Secretary General António Guterres in New York. "Guterres proposed not a direct SWIFT, as the Russians wanted, but an intermediate mechanism that would result from the SWIFT transaction," Erdogan added.
14:12 Zelensky said that he had met with the military in the Bakhmut direction: "Very significant results for Ukraine: our movement forward, the destruction of the occupiers. Together with General Syrsky, we talked with commanders, with soldiers. Additional questions for the Headquarters. Awarded the best soldiers."
13:23 Zelensky signed a law on changing the administrative-territorial structure of Crimea, the main goal of which is to prepare the ground for the de-occupation of the peninsula. The document instructs the government to determine the territories and administrative centers of territorial communities in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea within a month, and within three months to create a regional state administration of new districts and submit a bill to the parliament on the specifics of restoring public authority in Crimea after the de-occupation.
13:07 Erdogan said that there are no prospects for achieving peace in Ukraine on the horizon.
12:58 Germany handed over to Ukraine the first batch of new ammunition for Gepard self-propelled anti-aircraft guns, the country's Ministry of Defense reported. The department emphasized that the construction of a production line for the manufacture of these ammunition was successfully completed in an ambitious time frame. In total, under the contract, Ukraine will receive 300,000 ammunition, of which 150,000 are armor-piercing, the remaining 150,000 are high-explosive incendiary.
12:05 Corruption in Ukraine slows down the supply of weapons from the West, said Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda: “This is a very important reason. Imagine that voters in one state or another see that very visible corruption scandals are taking place in the country to which aid is directed. This is a huge blow to the reputation of this state."
11:11 Anna Malyar said that "an offensive is a long process, and a war is a long one": "Now we see that our offensive is underway. For example, in one place we passed certain lines, in another - the first line of defense. We move on "But a person who simply reads the news does not see this, does not feel it. It seems to him that everything seems to be going on for a long time. In fact, this is a very dynamic, active process, and, believe me, it does not seem so to warring people."
The Deputy Minister of Defense stressed that the command has plans and an understanding of what to do next, and the military is doing their job efficiently.
10:39 The New York Times writes, citing sources, that Russian General Sergei Surovikin, who was detained after Prigozhin's rebellion, was released from custody. According to the publication, this happened three days after the death of the head of PMC Wagner on August 23. The general allegedly retained his rank, but no longer has "career prospects."
09:58 The security service blew up the "head of the LPR customs" Yuri Afanasyevsky, Babel reports, citing sources in the SBU. The explosion occurred at Afanasevsky's house. Now he is in intensive care in a serious condition with numerous shrapnel wounds. The SBU noted that Afanasyevsky is a major general and an agent of the FSB, who became a "financier" of the leader of the "LPR" Pasechnik - he laundered money for the armed formations that fought against Ukraine.
09:04 The Cuban Foreign Ministry said that Russia is recruiting Cuban citizens for the war against Ukraine. First of all, recruiters targeted Cubans living in Russia, but cases of recruitment of mercenaries were also revealed on the island itself. Havana claims that attempts of this kind were neutralized, and criminal cases were opened against those involved in this activity.
"The enemies of Cuba are spreading false information aimed at tarnishing the image of the country and presenting it as an accomplice in these actions, which we strongly reject ... Cuba is not participating in the war in Ukraine," the statement said.
08:39 In the Donetsk region over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, two people were injured - in Avdeevka and Toretsk. One child was wounded in the Kherson region. In the Zaporozhye region, one person died during the shelling of Malaya Tokmachka, according to the IVA.
08:32 The second line of defense of Russian troops in the Zaporozhye region is also quite powerful: although the density of minefields there is less, their number is still large. In addition, the enemy had a year to dig in, said Alexander Shtupun, spokesman for the Tauride Defense Forces. According to him, there can be whole labyrinths on the second line. "The only thing that can play into our hands is that the trenches, trenches and ceilings are not so strong," he added.
08:27 Ukrainian troops are successful in the direction of Rabotino - Novoprokopovka in the Melitopol direction, they are fixed on the achieved lines, said the speaker of the General Staff Pavel Kovalchuk.
08:19 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of September 5:
personnel - about 265,680 (+560) people,
tanks - 4489 (+9),
armored combat vehicles - 8670 (+7),
artillery systems - 5649 (+38),
MLRS - 747 (+6),
air defense systems - 504 (+1),
aircraft - 315 (+0),
helicopters - 316 (+0),
UAV operational-tactical level - 4512 (+31),
cruise missiles - 1447 (+0),
ships/boats - 19 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 8175 (+26),
special equipment - 851 (+4).
07:35 During the day, 29 clashes took place at the front, the General Staff reported in the morning report. In particular, the enemy unsuccessfully tried to attack in the Limansky direction - in the areas of Novoegorovka and Belogorovka of the Luhansk region, in Maryinsky - in the Maryinka region of the Donetsk region. In the Bakhmut direction, the Defense Forces continue their offensive south of Bakhmut, repulsed the attacks of Russian troops north of Kleshcheevka, Donetsk region.
05:46 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced the destruction of the "Ukrainian drone" over the Kaluga region. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said that another drone flying towards Moscow was shot down in the Tver region near Zavidovo. As a result of the fall of the wreckage of a drone in the Istra district of the Moscow region, a "household facility" was damaged. About 40 flights were delayed and two canceled at Moscow airports.
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[Korrespondent] The most important achievement of Ukraine during the counter-offensive was the superiority over the Russians in counter-battery combat, combined with the best means to detect enemy artillery.
The Ukrainian counter-offensive is gaining momentum, and this is already openly recognized by Western analysts. In particular, the Royal Joint Defense Research Institute (RUSI) released a report on September 4, 2023 called Stormbreak: Fighting Through Russian Defenses in Ukraine's 2023 Offensive (Storm Breakthrough: Overcoming Russian Defenses During the Counteroffensive of Ukraine 2023). Its authors Jack Watling and Nick Reynolds, who have been carefully researching the war unleashed by Russia against Ukraine for many months (in particular, have repeatedly visited Ukraine and visited the frontline areas), this time focused on the actions of the Ukrainian and Russian armies during the counteroffensive of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the south.
SUPERIORITY IN ARTILLERY
The advancement of Ukrainian forces during the offensive depends on the fire advantage. The most important achievement of Ukraine was the superiority over the Russians in counter-battery combat, combined with the best means to detect enemy artillery. However, the preservation of this advantage is limited by the serviceability of Ukrainian artillery pieces, the availability of interchangeable barrels and the continued supply of 155-mm ammunition, the authors of the report note. RUSI analysts emphasize that the Armed Forces of Ukraine currently use 17 different artillery systems at the front, so the replacement of barrels for all of them is an obvious problem due to the lack of barreled vehicles in NATO. Therefore, they consider it vital that Ukraine's international partners ensure stable supplies of a consolidated artillery fleet for the Armed Forces of Ukraine,
“If this is not achieved, it will undermine the prerequisites for Ukraine to continue to make progress next year,” RUSI researchers warn. They also cite the protection of weapons from the Lancet-3M UAV and other Russian munitions as a critical priority, urging the West to expedite the provision of such protection to Ukraine.
NEED HELP CLEARING MINES
The Armed Forces of Ukraine could make better use of the conditions at the front created by their fire advantage if the West provided Ukraine with greater opportunities for reconnaissance of minefields. Such assistance should focus on mine detection equipment and technology. For example, a technique that uses UAV algorithmic image analysis to quickly map minefields would be useful, RUSI notes. After all, Russia's departure from the "doctrinal" scheme of mining means that minefields differ in their real contours from those depicted on Russian plans. This makes it difficult for Ukrainian commanders to plan offensive operations and exploit advance breakthroughs. Whereas ample opportunities for demining could help Ukraine avoid unacceptable losses of the same Western equipment.
PLANS FOR 2024
The dynamics of winter hostilities is one of the issues that should now dominate the thinking and assistance strategy of Ukraine's international partners. Last year, Russia ill-prepared its troops for winter conditions, which inflicted disproportionate damage on its troops than on Ukrainians. Therefore, since the current offensive operations of Ukraine are likely to last until the autumn, it is important to raise the question of whether measures can now be taken to maintain the pressure of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the occupiers during the winter, analysts say. Otherwise, it is very likely that Russia will hope to end Ukraine's winter offensive in order to return to trying to destroy Ukraine's energy infrastructure. “Now it is clear that the conflict will drag on. Therefore, it is important that Ukraine's international partners invest now, to provide Ukraine with long-term benefits. Failure to adapt support for the Armed Forces in time will come at a high price in 2024,” the authors of the report note.
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Ukraine is now firing twice the artillery shells and rockets as the Russians in the areas of their offensives. Each shell is more effective and Russia has no defense against the guided weapons.
In addition Russia has little counter battery fire capability left and often don't respond as their counter battery radars have been destroyed and rely on recon and suicide drones. Meanwhile the Ukrainians are taking an increasing toll of Russian artillery with western supplied guided munitions.
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[RIA] Almost all of our media spread this news, from the provocative headlines one could even imagine that the American corporation McDonald's was about to return to us. In fact, no, it just became known: when they left, they expected in advance to return to Russia, "if circumstances change." And such an opportunity was laid down in last year's agreement on the transfer of control over 850 Russian outlets "Maka" to our new owners.
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[EngMilRu] Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation (5 September 2023)
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
In Donetsk direction, units of the Yug Group of Forces, in cooperation with aviation and artillery, have successfully repelled 4 attacks by AFU assault groups close to Kleshcheevka and Vesyoloye (Donetsk People's Republic).
The enemy losses were up to 225 Ukrainian servicemen killed and wounded, two armoured fighting vehicles, nine motor vehicles, one U.S.-manufactured M777 artillery system, and one Grad MLRS system.
In addition, one control point for AFU drones has been destroyed near Pervomaiskoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
In Zaporozhye direction, units of the Russian grouping of troops, aviation, artillery, and heavy flamethrower systems have repelled two attacks by the 47th Mechanised Brigade of the AFU close to Rabotino (Zaporozhye region).
The enemy losses were up to 170 Ukrainian servicemen, two tanks, three armoured fighting vehicles, four motor vehicles, three U.S.-manufactured M777 artillery systems, and one M119 howitzer, one German-manufactured Panzerhaubitze-2000 self-propelled artillery system, one British-manufactured FH-70 gun, and one 152mm D-20 and one 122mm D-30 howitzers.
One ammunition depot of 46th Airmobile Brigade of the AFU has been destroyed near Orekhov (Zaporozhye region).
In Krasny Liman direction, as a result of coordinated actions by units of the Tsentr Group of Forces, Army Aviation, artillery and heavy flamethrower systems, three attacks by assault groups of 63rd and 67th Mechanised Brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been repelled close to Torskoye (Donetsk People's Republic), and Chervonaya Dibrova (Lugansk People's Republic).
The enemy losses were over 70 Ukrainian servicemen, three armoured fighting vehicles, one Polish-manufactured Krab self-propelled artillery system, and one 152mm D-20 howitzer.
In Kupyansk direction, the attacks, launched by aviation, as well as artillery of the Zapad Group of Forces, have resulted in the neutralisation of the enemy manpower and hardware close to Sin'kovka, Peschanoye, Berestovoye (Khar'kov region), and Stelmakhovka (Lugansk People's Republic).
The enemy losses were up to 50 Ukrainian servicemen, two motor vehicles, and one 122mm D-30 howitzer.
In South Donetsk direction, units of the Vostok Group of Forces have inflicted a comprehensive fire attack on two AFU manpower and hardware concentration areas near Ugledar and Makarovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
The actions of one Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group have been disrupted close to Urozhainoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
The enemy losses were up to 175 Ukrainian servicemen killed and wounded, four motor vehicles, and 152mm D-20 and 122mm D-30 guns.
In Kherson direction, the enemy losses were up to 40 Ukrainian servicemen, including two AFU sabotage and reconnaissance groups, two motor vehicles, and two 122mm D-30 howitzers.
Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have neutralised manpower and military hardware in 132 areas.
In addition, the control point of the 72nd Mechanised Brigade of the AFU near Ugledar and the 8th Mountain Assault Brigade of the AFU have been hit near Razdolovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
Air defence facilities have intercepted 21 HIMARS and 220mm BM-27 Uragan MLRS projectiles.
In additon, 33 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles have been destroyed and suppressed by electronic warfare means close to Topolevka, Zaliman, Krasnorechenskoye (Lugansk People's Republic), Berestovoye, Petrovskoye, Semigorye, Vesyoloye (Donetsk People's Republic), Khar'kovo, Romanovskoye, Mirnoye, Ocheretovatoye (Zaporozhye region), Golaya Pristan, and Novaya Mayachka (Kherson region).
In total, 467 airplanes, 248 helicopters, 6,409 unmanned aerial vehicles, 435 air defence missile systems, 11,653 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,148 fighting vehicles equipped with MLRS, 6,230 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 12,715 special military motor vehicles have been destroyed during the special military operation.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:58 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 09/04/2023 to 00:00 09/05/2023
Over the past day, the Representation reported 37 facts of firing by the AFU.
Over the past day, information was received about the death of two civilians in Mironovskoye.
A total of 11 civilians received injuries of varying severity, incl. three children born in 2012, 2006, 2012 in the Voroshilovsky district of Donetsk, the Central City district of Makeevka, Mironovsky.
A total of 18 houses were damaged in Voroshilovsky, Kievsky, Petrovsky, Kuibyshevsky districts of Donetsk, Chervonogvardeysky district of Makeevka, Mironovsky.
Damaged nine objects of civil infrastructure in Voroshilovsky, Kuibyshevsky districts of Donetsk, Mironovsky.
Under enemy fire were areas of six settlements of the Republic: Mironovsky, Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district), Yasinovataya, Yasinovatsky district, the capital city of Donetsk (Voroshilovsky, Kuibyshevsky, Kirovsky, Kievsky, Petrovsky districts), Makeevka (Chervonogvardeysky district).
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy made 29 artillery attacks from 152 and 155mm artillery, incl. with a cluster warhead.
On Gorlovsky four artillery attacks from 122mm artillery.
On Yasinovatsky three artillery attacks from 155mm artillery.
On Svetlodarsky one artillery attack from MLRS.
By releasing 110 units of various ammunition.
In the previous day, 75 artillery attacks were recorded from the side of the VFU.
21:50 Situation on the fronts from FRONTIER (@zvofront)
Mar'inka: there is great progress in promotion in the city.
Zavetnoye Xhelanie : there are fights, the scales of confrontation are frozen in an unsteady balance.
Near Kremennaya, our guys recaptured a few more positions.
21:20 Zaporozhye direction, Rabotino:
Video filmed at 19:00 enemy vehicles are on fire in the center of the village. There is a tense battle for the village. Our 76th Airborne and 42nd Motorized Rifle Divisions are attacking. The Ukrainians are retreating. A bit of legerdemain on the part of the writer 20:50 Destroyed Challenger 2 in lens drone cameras.
20:20 Security day and night:
Tanker driver Vasily provides Russian troops with fuel and lubricants. Previously, the soldier served as a driver of an infantry fighting vehicle.
“I used to work for the BMP, now other guys work the same way. And day and night, and without headlights, in any way. We always deliver everything on time, we have time, despite the artillery attack of the enemy,” Vasily notes
19:35 Arrival of the Lancet on the Ukrainian T-64BV in the Zaporozhye region. He tried to evacuate the Leopard, but he evacuated to the hangar.
18:50 Fighting near Kremennaya: "The Brave" thunder Nazis in the Krasnolimansky direction:
In the area of the Serebryansky forest, assault groups without the support of the armored vehicles of the Azov brigade and 67 Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine made five attempts to dislodge our fighters from their positions. All attacks were repelled, the enemy was destroyed.
A mortar crew destroyed a group of infantry from the Azov brigade*, which had secretly advanced to strengthen the front line.
The special forces group destroyed the DRG of the Azov brigade, which was trying to penetrate into the rear areas.
In the area of N. p. Torskoye repelled two attacks by assault groups of 21 and 63 Mechanized Brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The enemy was destroyed by artillery fire.
The ATGM crew destroyed an armored car of 63 Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during the rotation of militants.
18:30 Su-34 Russian Aerospace Forces destroy positions of Ukrainian militants in the special operation zone:
Pilots of the Russian Aerospace Forces perform the tasks of air patrols and cover the actions of units of the Russian Armed Forces at any time of the day and in any meteorological conditions.
“We are destroying strongholds, mobile equipment, manpower of the enemy. After performing combat use, we shoot off infrared and radar heat traps, leave at the shortest distance to the home airfield, ”says the crew commander.
17:55 The fate of a serviceman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is either to die or surrender:
Another captured Ukrainian soldier claims that the local military commissar forced him to enter the service under pain of prison.
At the training ground, Ukrainians were taught the basics of handling a machine gun and were allowed to shoot once. More serious classes with recruits were not carried out: no tactics and assault actions.
When the Ukrainian fighters arrived at the front, they were given the task of crossing the Dnieper. The Ukrainian Armed Forces knew that it was a one-way ticket.
The unfired recruits were not ready for such a task, they did not even know what it meant to “force”. Despite this, at gunpoint, the newly arrived servicemen were put into boats and sent towards the Russian positions. After that, they were left with only two options - either die or surrender.
16:55 Commander of the Vostok Battalion and Deputy Head of the National Guard for the DPR Alexander Khodakovsky aboutsituationson the section Novodonetskoye - Novomayorskoye:
“The enemy has succeeded in pushing our units, but the result is still more modest than the efforts. At the same time, about four enemy tanks were disabled (there is no confirmed information yet) and up to an infantry platoon. The spent efforts call for the continuation of the offensive, but the forces of the first wave are already running out, so the enemy is preparing to throw the 38th reserve brigade into battle. Well, it's not evening yet…”
16:25 76th Guards Airborne Division of the Russian Federation returned Rabotino under the control of the Russian Army.
15:55 South-Donetsk direction, Vremievsky ledge.
After 13:30, the enemy resumed attempts to break through the front in the area of Novodonetsky and Novomairsky. The Armed Forces of Ukraine are attacking our units end-to-end. Only these are not frightened raw "mobiles" - a clear interaction has appeared between our units.
The fight is in full swing.
14:55 Always in full combat readiness:
The commander of an artillery subunit with the call sign "Kas" performs combat missions in the zone of a special military operation.
“The calculation is always in full combat readiness. We hit the enemy both on the offensive and on defense, any targets that come, ”says the soldier.
“Cas” notes that “the attitude in the team is excellent, we understand each other perfectly, like one big friendly family.” Thanks to good mutual understanding, gunners inflict 100% defeat on the enemy.
“We carry out combat missions for a just cause. And victory in any case will be ours!” - the artilleryman is sure.
14:28 Orekhovsky area setting as of 14.00 September 5, 2023
At the turn of Rabotino-Verbove, Ukrainian formations cannot break through the line of defense of the Russian army for a week. There are tactical successes, but it was not possible to capture Rabotino, and they never entered the Verbovoye Armed Forces of Ukraine.
All yesterday, Ukrainian air assault brigades attacked with consolidated infantry groups either east of Rabotino or west of Verbovoye. What is there, that it was not possible to gain a foothold there, some of the assault groups of 82 Air Assault Brigade refused to fight, and one of the commanders was taken prisoner.
The number of casualties in the tactical group "Marun" is growing. Now, for the first time in a long time, units of the 71st Jaeger Brigade have appeared near the contact line, which have been understaffing since the battles for Bakhmut.
And, looking at the movements of reinforcements (which are also noted near Lobkove, where vacations were suspended for the 128th Brigade), one gets the impression that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are preparing for a new attack on a wide front.
And this time more massive. Mobile fire groups have been deployed to Malaya Tokmachka to cover ground forces, and the destruction of the British Challenger indicates their movement to the LBS.
Probably, the tank was moving to its original position before the offensive, which should begin in the near future, but came under a precise blow from the artillerymen of the RF Armed Forces.
The military campaign of the Ukrainian troops in the south of Ukraine depends on the success in this area, since operations in the Kherson region are possible only if the Armed Forces of Ukraine break through to Tokmok. However, the spring-summer, and now autumn, operation of the enemy is obviously faltering, and the loss of the first Challenger reduces the number of "super-techniques" that should turn the tide of the war.
13:53 Kherson direction setting as of 13.00 September 5, 2023
In the Kherson region, the situation remains the same: Ukrainian formations continue to shell the opposite bank, creating conditions for reconnaissance groups to cross the Dnieper.
And if the situation has stabilized in the island zone in the Golopristan sector and the Armed Forces of Ukraine are limited only to strikes, then east of Kherson, the activity of Ukrainian formations does not decrease.
Under the Antonovsky Bridge once again landed two DRGs of the territorial defense in two boats of ten people each. Russian artillery works on them, but the Armed Forces of Ukraine use the concrete columns of the bridge as a cover.
It also remains unclear the fate of the reconnaissance groups of the 124th Brigade of the territorial defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which a few days ago were transferred to the left bank on Alekseevsky Island, one km east of the Antonovsky Bridge.
Until now, there is a foothold of the Armed Forces of Ukraine a few kilometers northwest of Podstepne, where about ten people from the 126 troop brigade are equipping fortified strongholds and preparing for an attack on the Kazachi Lagery.
At the same time, these areas are more likely to be distracting, and the main blow, judging by the movements of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, will be concentrated on the island of Pereyaslavsky (Kozatsky), where the DRG 121 SRW and 131 orbs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are planned to be deployed.
After securing on the island, they plan to land several assault groups to reach Novaya Kakhovka. In recent days, artillerymen of the 406th Brigade from Tamarino have been artillery attack this area with high-precision M982 Excalibur projectiles.
And the timing of the start of the operation on the Dnieper depends on the success of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Orekhovsky sector, since movement inland is possible only if the Armed Forces of Ukraine break through the first line of defense of the RF Armed Forces.
13:25 APU inflicted attacks on the village of Kozinka, Belgorod Region. Shell fragments damaged more than ten residential buildings, as well as power lines and a gas pipe.
Due to the ongoing shelling, repair teams are not yet able to begin to eliminate the consequences.
13:00 Vremyevsky section setting as of 11.00 September 5, 2023:
Early in the morning, on the right flank of the Vremievsky sector, the enemy became more active on the line between Zolotaya Niva and Prechistovka. Two armored fighting vehicles of the 38th Infantry Regiment, deployed there the day before, reached the line, where they were covered by artillery of the 40th Guards Naval Infantry Brigade. One of the armored vehicles was destroyed, the second went back.
A couple of hours later, Ukrainian formations attacked the positions of the 37th Brigade of the RF Armed Forces in Novodonetsk on one tank and five or six armored vehicles. The tank immediately hit a mine near the village, and the rest were dealt a massive blow from the 122mm 2S1 "Carnation" and 122mm BM-21 "Grad" 40 Gvobrmp, because of which they retreated.
And around 0800 hrs, the Armed Forces of Ukraine launched an attack on Novomayorskoye with infantry groups supported by two tanks. The attack was also repulsed by the forces of Russian marines.
The enemy’s intention here is obvious: the Ukrainian formations wanted to strike at the joint of the 37th Brigade and 40th gvobrmp, taking advantage of bad weather conditions, which made it difficult to use aviation, which was what Voin DV said.
Also, the concentration of the Armed Forces of Ukraine remains in the direction of Priyutnoye, where mutual artillery attack has been going on for the past few days, and the Armed Forces of Ukraine have pulled additional infantry units and mortar crews into the area in preparation for the attack.
12:30 Consequences of artillery attack of the Kirovsky district of Donetsk, as a result of which, according to preliminary data, three civilians were injured.
11:55 Ukrainian military equipment brightly blazes after the arrival of Russian rounds at the motor depot:
On the frames - the result of the successful work of the Russian army on the objects of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Now there is one Ukrainian depot less - only blazing vehicles remain. The sounds of explosions are also heard - this detonates the B/C.
The Russian military regularly destroys enemy storage sites for equipment and rembases. On the eve of the UAV "Geran-2" struck at the shipyard of Ukraine, where they assembled unmanned boats, with which they tried to attack the Crimea.
11:28 Front on the morning of September 5, 2023
On the Zaporizhia Front, at the turn of Rabotino-Verbove, several units of armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were shot down, incl. already traditionally - "Leoprad".
Enemy attacks were concentrated on Verbove.
In the evening, the enemy's MLRS was destroyed near Stepnogorsk.
In the Vremyevsky direction, fighting continues near Staromayorsky and Urozhayny. The Armed Forces of Ukraine are regrouping and building up forces.
At Kremennaya, the attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the Torsky ledge and at the Serebryansky forestry were repelled.
The past day was characterized by the activation of the enemy in the Bryansk direction.
The border guards accepted the battle with the DRG in the Sevsky district, they report the death of our serviceman.
UAVs attacked the Vygonsky district, the Klinovskaya thermal power plant, there is evidence of artillery attack of the border areas of the region.
At night and in the morning, enemy UAVs were shot down in the Moscow, Tver and Kaluga regions.
10:52 Novodonetsk. DNR. 09/05/2024
Fierce fighting is reported in the Novodonetsk area.
The enemy pulled up additional artillery forces and assault armored groups.
A couple of hours ago there was a massive artillery attack of our positions. Don't forget to answer.
10:25 Burning British Challenger 2 tank of the 82nd Airborne Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zaporozhye direction.
10:00 Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation: on the morning of September 5, an attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist attack of an aircraft-type UAV on objects in the territory of the Russian Federation was thwarted.
An unmanned aerial vehicle was destroyed over the territory of the Republic of Crimea by air defense on duty.
09:30 Peaceful areas of Donetsk have been under shelling by Armed Forces of Ukraine - Ukrainians hit directly on residential buildings
Kirovsky and Kyiv districts of Donetsk have been under artillery attack since the morning, civilians report that explosions were heard there starting at five in the morning. The consequences are yet to be ascertained when the artillery attack is over.
The footage shows that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are mercilessly beating right at residential buildings. According to some reports, an elderly woman was injured, she had to be hospitalized. Most damaged cars and buildings on Tupolev Street in the Kirovsky district.
09:27 Summaryon the morning of September 5, 2023
On the Zaporizhia Front, at the turn of Rabotino-Verbove, several units of armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were shot down, incl. "Leoprad". Enemy attacks were concentrated on the settlement. Willow. In the evening, the enemy's MLRS was destroyed near Stepnogorsk. Heavy air bombs were actively used (video of the front-line bird)
In the Vremevsky direction, fighting continues near Staromayorsky and Urozhayny. The Armed Forces of Ukraine are regrouping and building up forces.
At Kremennaya, the attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the Torsky ledge and at the Serebryansky forestry were repelled.
The past day was characterized by the activation of the enemy in the Bryansk direction. The border guards accepted the fight with the DRG in the Sevsky district, they report the death of our serviceman. UAVs attacked the Vygonsky district, the Klinovskaya thermal power plant, and there were reports of artillery attack of the border areas of the region.
At night and in the morning, enemy UAVs were shot down in the Moscow, Tver and Kaluga regions.
During the day in the DPR from the fire of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the civilian population, two civilians were killed, 11 were injured, including three children born in 2012, 2006, 2012.
08:17 The criminal Kiev regime continues to shell the civilian infrastructure of the settlements on the left bank of the Kherson region, yesterday during the day the Armed Forces of Ukraine were fired from barrel artillery:
-- n.p. Dnepryans 11 rounds;
-- n.p. Aleshki 14 rounds;
-- n.p. Golaya Pristan 12 rounds;
-- in the village of Korsunka nine rounds;
-- n.p. Solontsy 10 rounds;
-- n.p. Krynki eight rounds;
During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the settlement of Nova Kakhovka, the settlement of Kakhovka, Kardashinka, Gornostaevka, Kazachi Lagery firing a total of 34 cannon artillery rounds.
Civilian casualties and infrastructure destruction to be confirmed
08:10 Frontline summary on the morning of 09/05/2023
In the Zaporizhia direction on the ground, the opposing sides did not conduct active hostilities. But long-range weapons worked powerfully. Russian - on Ukrainian positions in Kamenskoye, Pyatikhatki, Orekhovo, Novodanilovka, Malaya Tokmachka, Charovny, Gulyaipolsky, Krasny and Malinovka. Ukrainian - according to the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in Zherebyanki, Nesteryanka, Kopany, Novoprokopovka, Pshenichny, Verbovoy and Novopokrovka.In the Ugledar sector, Russian troops counterattacked from the side of Priyutnoye. No success. Under fire from Ukrainian Armed Forces units in Levadny, Blagodatny, Yrozhaynoye, Zolotoy Niva, Prechistovka, Vugledar and Vodyany (not to be confused with the settlement of the same name northwest of Donetsk). Russian - in Priyutnoye, Volodin, Zabetnoye Zhelanie, Staromlynovka, Kermenchik, Novodonetsk and Novomayorsk.
On the Donetsk front - the next assault actions of the RF Armed Forces after artillery preparation in Mar'yinka. LBS hasn't changed. Russian troops attacked Ukrainian positions in Novomikhailovka, Yekaterinovka, Pobeda, Georgievka, the city of Krasnogorovka, Nevelsky, Pervomaisky, Karlovka, Severny (a settlement west of Avdievka), Avdievka, Thin, Novokalinovo, New York, Toretsk and Severny (a settlement point northwest of Gorlovka). They themselves found themselves under artillery attack in Donetsk and Gorlovka.
In the Bakhmut direction, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, with the support of artillery, managed to advance in the western part of Kleshcheevka and take control of a section of the road going through the village. Russian troops hit Ukrainian units in Belaya Gora, Ivanovsky, Chasovoy Yar, Bogdanovka, Tikhonovka, Razdolovka, Vesyolo (a settlement northeast of Soledar), Sporny and Verkhnekamensky. Artillery of the Armed Forces of Ukraine worked for the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in Ozaryanovka, Kurdyumovka, Andreevka, Bakhmut and Yagodny.
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[REGNUM] Strategic mistake. This is how Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan called the country's desire to rely exclusively on Russia in the field of security.
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[REGNUM] After a short pause on the fronts, the Armed Forces of Ukraine again made an attempt to go on the offensive in a number of areas. Reports of hostilities come from the DPR and the Zaporozhye region, where Ukrainian troops are trying to advance towards the city of Tokmak from the village of Rabotino.
In the second half of August, part of the units that were involved in this direction suffered heavy losses and temporarily suspended their attempts to move forward. In early September (the date is not known), President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky arrived at the Zaporozhye sector of the front . It is known that he met with the command of the 82nd Airborne, 71st Jaeger and 148th Artillery Brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Immediately after Zelensky’s visit, the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zaporozhye direction again attempted an offensive - and again suffered losses. Moreover, enemy units operating in the Rabotino area got "into a fire bag," Vladimir Rogov, head of the Zaporozhye movement "We are together with Russia," said on September 5 .
The situation at the site near Rabotino is similar to the development of fighting 45 km to the west, in the area of the village of Pyatikhatki, where the Armed Forces of Ukraine have similarly driven themselves into a "bag", Rogov told RIA Novosti . The enemy forces have been grinding for a long time by our units, the public figure emphasized.
The concept of "fire bag", which Rogov used, implies that individual units are under dense artillery fire from several sides at once.
Although they are not formally surrounded, artillery deprives them of supplies. Units caught in the "bag" are deprived of the opportunity to move forward. It remains for them to either retreat, or be destroyed, left without supplies.
As an informed source of IA Regnum explained , the formations of the 82nd Airborne Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which operate south of Rabotino, fell into the "bag". It is noteworthy that in addition to artillery, FPV kamikaze drones are actively attacking the enemy.
“Separate units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine moved from Rabotino to the south in the direction of Novoprokopovka,” the source said. - Somewhere they hastily dug up dugouts, somewhere they settled in our former trenches. Further, these units began to have big problems. Probably, this is just what they call the "fire bag" in the media .
Russian FPV drones work closely and massively against enemy clusters and individual forces. “In the “fire bag”, because any transport that tries to get to them is destroyed. You don't carry much on your own either. In addition, these formations operate without the support of armored vehicles, for all the same reasons - because of the high risk of losses, ” said the source of IA Regnum .
"THERE ARE RUMORS ABOUT THE FIRST CHALLENGER 2 SHOT DOWN"
On September 4, Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu announced the heavy losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine operating in the direction of Rabotino . According to the head of the military department, a cluster of enemy armored vehicles was destroyed in this direction in a day. “Yesterday, as a result of a serious attack in the Rabota direction, they lost six tanks,” the minister informed.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine are indeed making attempts to use heavy armored vehicles, including those of NATO production, a source told IA Regnum . But lately, the enemy has been using light wheeled armored vehicles more often.
This is explained by the fact that in the event of the defeat of a single unit of armored vehicles, the crew's chances of escaping and surviving increase. In addition, wheeled armored vehicles move much faster than tanks, and their losses are easier to replace.
“I won’t say specific figures on armored vehicles, but the other day, indeed, there was a cover. Rumor has it that the British Challenger 2 tank was destroyed for the first time, ” the source said.
According to him, “in principle, this is possible,” because the enemy’s 82nd Airborne Brigade is currently operating in the Rabota direction, they are just armed with Stryker armored personnel carriers, Marder infantry fighting vehicles and Challengers.
“Techniques try to keep their distance, to fire from relatively safe positions. But the artillery works, and they also try to stop such sorties. The Armed Forces operate more in groups of infantry, who arrive on wheeled armored vehicles and jump off. Then the car leaves so as not to fall under our drones or artillery fire , ”the source told IA Regnum .
WHERE THE ARMED FORCES OF UKRAINE ARE TRYING TO CONTINUE THE "OFFENSIVE"
At the same time, the enemy does not abandon attempts to expand the area he occupied in the vicinity of Rabotino, not only in the direction of the south, but also to the east. Here, the Armed Forces of Ukraine also involve mobile infantry groups and are especially active in using artillery to shell the defensive lines of Russian troops.
“They are trying to move east from Rabotino near the village of Verbovoye,” a source told IA Regnum . - Artillery is used very actively in this area by both sides. They seek to destroy our defensive lines wherever they can. That is, they are trying to break the "dragon's teeth", if possible, remotely neutralize minefields.
In response, a counterbattery fight is being waged. “In general, we can say that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are using their small territorial acquisitions, trying to expand the bridgehead both in depth and in width,” the interlocutor explained.
There is also information that the Armed Forces of Ukraine made another attempt to attack, but not in the Zaporozhye region, but in the DPR - on the front between the settlements of Novodonetskoye and Novomayorskoye in the south-west of the republic. Alexander Khodakovsky, deputy head of the National Guard for the DPR, announced an attempt to break through the enemy . According to him, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are actively using artillery, as a result of which they managed to neutralize part of the minefields on the outskirts of the defense line of Russian troops.
Sources of IA Regnum also confirm that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are trying to advance in this area with the naval infantry forces.
“As for the Novodonetskoye-Novomayorskoye sector of the front, various reports come from there. The 40th Naval Infantry Brigade of the enemy is involved there, which has been replenished since July, because in the first weeks of the “offensive” it suffered heavy losses.,” the interlocutor specified.
Apparently, the situation there is also developing without success for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Tellingly, the Ukrainian military is once again trying to advance in several places at once, which looks, to put it mildly, strange. “ They are again spraying their small forces instead of concentrating on any one area and trying to break through ,” summed up the source of IA Regnum.
The Lostarmour portal, which analyzes data from the combat zone, notes: following the results of three months of the “counterattack”, the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zaporozhye direction were able to achieve only minimal success. The area occupied by the enemy is 200 square kilometers, or 0.4% of the almost 50 thousand square kilometers of the territories of the Kherson, Zaporozhye regions and the southern part of the DPR.
The portal also published an analytical material based on photos and videos that appeared in open sources. According to Lostarmour, 120 armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed in only one sector of the Ukrainian offensive in the area of the settlements of Malaya Tokmchak and Rabotino. The authors of the study emphasize that this is only the minimum figure that can be confirmed.
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, during the unsuccessful counteroffensive, the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost more than 66,000 people and 7,600 weapons.
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[REGNUM] The filing of charges and subsequent arrest of oligarch Igor Kolomoisky is an event in the long-awaited category. “I had forty names, I had seven passports,” as in Vysotsky’s song, this is about him, and almost literally. He has at least three passports (he is a citizen of Ukraine, Cyprus and Israel, plus a residence permit in Switzerland). Arrest warrants for Kolomoisky issued by the United States (2020) and Russia (2022). Since 2021, he and his family have been under US sanctions.
Text taken from the dzen.ru account of Russian military correspondent Aleksandr Kots
UPDATED: The British ministry of defense says the Challenger was hit by artillery, while some Russian sources say it was destroyed by the Kornet ATGM.
A story will appear here tomorrow about the newest Russian 125mm APFSDS round being introduced in the field.
⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️The first British main battle tank Challenger 2 was destroyed in the NMD zone. This vehicle weighs 62.5 tons, which makes it one of the heaviest in its class. The lion's share of the combat mass falls on booking. The tank is protected by Dorchester multi-layered combined armor, information about which is classified. However, she obviously did not help the Challenger burning on the frames in social networks.
The reputation of this tank, as invulnerable, is thoroughly tarnished. They were actively used by the British contingent in Iraq and did not suffer any losses from enemy anti-tank weapons at all. The only burnt "Challenger" was destroyed by "friendly fire".
But in the NVO zone, the intensity of hostilities is an order of magnitude higher. The British tanks that the APU kept in reserve began to burn in the most logical way. Such an "advertising" of its products is unlikely to please the manufacturer - the giant concern BAE Systems.
Most likely, Kyiv hoped to use the 14 Challengers received from London as sniper tanks. To do this, they have all the introductory - a powerful rifled gun L30A1, excellent optics and suitable ammunition. In addition to BOPS, including those with a depleted uranium core, British tanks use devastating high-explosive armor-piercing HESH shells with a firing range of up to eight kilometers. Their damaging effect practically does not depend on the distance.
Now, apparently, the Ukrainians threw these tanks into frontal assaults, which may indicate a shortage of heavy armored vehicles in the direction of the main attack. The destroyed Challenger is further proof that superweapons do not exist. And a naive belief in an overseas wunderwaffe is capable of playing a cruel joke on military leaders.
More from the Twitter account of Kots:
Translation:
The first burning "Challenger 2" - the main battle tank of the British ground forces. Also did not become a wunderwaffe for Ukraine. There are no invulnerable machines. This is for those who rely on the American Abrams, the first batch of which is promised in September.
Well, those who burned - with an initiative!
The first burning "Challenger 2" - the main battle tank of the British ground forces. Also did not become a wunderwaffe for Ukraine. There are no invulnerable machines. This is for those who rely on the American Abrams, the first batch of which is promised in September.
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[Aljazeera] A Russian pilot who defected to Ukraine with a Mi-8 helicopter will receive a substantial reward of half a million dollars for changing sides and taking Russia’s military equipment with him.
