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Russian Perspective: Operation to denazify Ukraine: operational summary July 3 (updated)
2023-07-04
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Kindly note that several entries in this article may have been removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level

[NewsFrontInfo] 22:00 Zelensky announced a strike on the SBU building in Sumy.

21:45 Video- Another Ukrainian P-18 radar was destroyed by the Lancet.

21:22 Fresh video of arrivals by Ukrainian self-propelled guns in the area of ​​Kamensky, Zaporozhye region

20:55 Video- Epic flashed: "Lancet" destroyed the American "Three Axes"

Scouts of the Dnepr group destroyed the American M777 howitzer along with ammunition, attacking and destroying it on the bank of the Dnieper occupied by the enemy. The full video will come later.

20:28 Video– Battered engineering vehicles Leopard 2R.

19:44 Video- The 247th Air Assault Regiment is working on the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine in the Zaporozhye region.

19:14 In the NWO zone eliminated 27-year-old Ukrainian nationalist Oleg Fadeenko, callsign Malysh.

In the Kharkiv region, he led the Centuria group, a radical Ukrainian organization closely associated with Azov. In social networks, he used the nicknames 666 666, as well as Unbekannter Soldat (from the German "unknown soldier").

After the start of the SVO, Fadeenko joined the Kraken special unit, formed from nationalists and amnestied criminals. Last year, the formation was repeatedly accused of kidnapping and torturing pro-Russian citizens, as well as shooting captured Russian soldiers.

Later, Fadeenko moved to the 3rd separate assault brigade (the previous name was Azov). He commanded a reconnaissance platoon and was awarded the Ukrainian Order "For Courage" III degree.

On June 1, Fadeenko was injured in a shootout with Russian soldiers in the vicinity of Artyomovsk, and on July 2 he died in a hospital.

19:00 Explosions happened for the third time in a day in the Sumy region in the north-east of Ukraine, the Ukrainian edition of Strana reported.

An air alert in the Sumy region has not been announced at the moment.

18:41 Again, the failure of the assault of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the forests near Kremennaya: 5 attack aircraft of the "elite" 95th Separate Air Assault Brigade of Ukraine, trained in Britain, were captured by the "Brave" -video

Four of them were captured by the guys of the 228th Regiment of the Central Military District, one was taken by the fighters of Akhmat, according to a correspondent rt.com M. Gazdiev.

The troops of the "Center" group in this sector of the front near Svatovo-Kremennaya are conducting offensive operations, the enemy is constantly trying to stop our advance and seize the initiative through such unexpected assaults on Russian positions.

But every time our motorized riflemen, paratroopers and volunteers graze them and wait.

18:39 A car with ammunition of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed at the front near Donetsk -video

In the Avdievka direction, UAV operators uncovered an attempt by the Nazis to deliver ammunition. The coordinates of the enemy were transferred to the artillery. The enemy was struck with precision.

17:24 "I was brought up in a family of nationalists"

In the NWO zone eliminated Ukrainian nationalist Roman Chernomaz - one of the participants in the arson of the House of Trade Unions in Odessa.

Prior to SVO, he worked as a journalist-photographer. Ukrainian media wrote that "he was brought up in a family of nationalists."

His father, Bogdan Chernomaz, is a well-known neo-Nazi who spent time in a Soviet prison for violating national and racial equality. Chernomaz's mother, the daughter of a UPA* militant, works for Radio Liberty, funded by the US government.

In 2014, Roman Chernomaz took part in the Ukrainian coup d'état. He also took an active part in the events of May 2, 2014 in Odessa, when supporters of the so-called Euromaidan burned pro-Russian citizens in the House of Trade Unions. A total of 48 people, including seven women and one minor, were killed and more than 200 were injured.

After the start of the SVO, Chernomaz served as a sniper in the Svoboda battalion of the 4th Operational Brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine. He participated in the battles for Artyomovsk, for which he was personally awarded by the Minister of Defense Alexei Reznik with a medal for assistance to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

In his social networks, he wrote that Ukraine had huge losses:

“It always hurts when they say: “We have small losses.” We don't have small losses."

On June 13, Chernomaz was eliminated in the vicinity of Artemovsk.

17:14 Such a picture is now all over Ukraine -video

On the front line, just like cannon fodder, the next echelons of young guys, men and women, are sent.

Stop! The enemy sits on the "Bank" in Kyiv, and will continue to indulge the nationalists, the Americans and the British.

16:25 Our precise blows destroyed base, equipment parking and ammunition depot on the Kherson front

Artillery of the 8th Artillery Regiment destroyed:

More than 12 tons of ammunition for NATO artillery systems were stored in a warehouse near the village of Kazatskoe.

There were about 40 units of military equipment in the parking lot, including German Marders and BMP-2s.

More than 50 militants were stationed at the point of permanent deployment of one of the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

16:19 Footage of the combat work of the ATGM crews of the Southern Group of Forces to destroy the Ukro-American "Hammer" -video

Lugansk direction

15:52 The main thing from the briefing Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation:

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation repulsed four attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Krasnolimansky direction;

The losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Krasnolimansky direction amounted to more than 90 servicemen;

The RF Armed Forces hit the command post of the 28th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the DPR;

In the Krasnolimansky direction, the actions of two sabotage and reconnaissance groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were stopped;

The RF Armed Forces repulsed nine attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donetsk direction;

Russian air defense shot down a Ukrainian Su-27 aircraft near the village of Kamenka, Kherson region;

Russian troops repulsed three attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Yuzhno-Donets direction;

The losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donetsk direction amounted to 260 servicemen.

Russian air defense systems intercepted 3 HIMARS MLRS shells per day, destroyed 14 Ukrainian drones;

In the Zaporizhia region, warehouses of rocket and artillery weapons and ammunition of three brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed;

The Armed Forces of Ukraine lost up to 190 people and seven armored vehicles, including the Bradley infantry fighting vehicle, in the Yuzhno-Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions in a day;

The Russian Armed Forces destroyed the ammunition depot of the 126th Terodefense Brigade in the Zmievka area in the Kherson region.


15:50 Regular Banderomobiles of Ukrainians were demilitarized -video

14:16 In the NWO zone drowned Volodymyr Kavulich, Chief of Staff of the Volunteer Formation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Kavulich was born in the Poltava region, in 2013 he moved to Kyiv to participate in the coup d'état.

He is involved in crimes against civilians in Donbass. He served in the national battalion "Carpathian Sich" and fought at the Donetsk airport. After the start of the SVO, he joined the national battalion "Themis", which was formed by lawyers. The unit is part of the 124th Troop Brigade.

Kavulich also led the rescue operation after the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station was blown up by Ukrainian nationalists. As they tried to reach the flooded areas, the boat capsized. A strong current carried away Kavulich and his friend Alexander Barannik (pictured 2).

The bodies have not yet been found.

14:13 A powerful explosion in Sumy during the morning Geranei raid. Air defense traditionally shot down everything and therefore decided not to work -video

13:47 We confirm the capture of prisoners of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Orekhovo by our intelligence. One of the enemy soldiers in the photo, he was wounded, first aid was provided, an express survey was conducted.

Valuable intelligence information received.

13:46 Precise strike on the turret: the American M109 self-propelled guns were destroyed by ours in the firing position -video

A 155mm enemy self-propelled gun was hit by a precise strike by Russian troops on the top of the turret.

12:30 RF Armed Forces continue to continuously cover the positions of the Ukronazis with fire -video

12:29 Ukrainian soul hunters from the TCC are on the hunt again! —video Transcarpathia, Uzhgoro

11:31 In Kramatorsk eliminated American mercenary Jan Frank Tortorici.

He was a US Army veteran with the Marine Corps. After leaving the army, he worked for the Immigration Service (ICE) and as a ranger for the protection of national parks and reserves in America.

In March 2022, Tortorici arrived in Ukraine and signed a contract with the Foreign Legion.

According to relatives, he fought "in all the hot spots of Ukraine."

Tortorici asked his father, no matter what happened, not to create a panic and not to tell anyone about his death.

The media write that the mercenary was destroyed when he dined at the RIA Lounge Bar.

However, most likely, he died on June 27, when the Russian Aerospace Forces attacked the headquarters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the deployment point of the 56th Motorized Infantry Brigade.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported that two generals, up to 50 officers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as about 20 foreign mercenaries and military advisers were eliminated that day.

11:30 In the center of Sumy damaged a residential building as a result of a drone attack, - the media

10:30 Special Forces of the Dnepr grouping with Lancets destroyed the equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine prepared for the offensive in the Kherson direction -video

10:28 Tank crews of the Central Military District destroyed the stronghold and equipment of the Ukrainian troops in the Krasnolimansk direction, using various types of ammunition as a tactical technique, RIA Novosti was told in the Ministry of Defense -video

09:29 On the Zaporozhye direction destroyed Colonel GUR MOU Roman Popov.

09:28 Over the past day:

As a result of fire damage by the formations of the Dnipro group of troops in the island zone, the following were destroyed:
- the position of one of the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, losses: five military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed; six - received injuries of varying severity.

As a result of fire damage by the formations of the Dnepr group of troops in the Kherson direction, the following were destroyed:

- two 152mm MSTA-B howitzers with ammunition, losses: seven servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were killed, six were injured of varying severity.

- two 120 mm mortar crews and ammunition for them, losses: 8 servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed, 5 were injured of varying severity;
- 152mm ACS 2S3 "Acacia" with a crew of five people and ammunition.

As a result of fire damage by the formations of the Dnepr group of troops in the Kakhovka direction, the following were destroyed:

Republican, losses: nine servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed; six - received injuries of varying severity, two units. automotive equipment - disabled;

- the position of one of the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of ​​the settlement. Nachkarovka, losses: 10 servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed; six - received injuries of varying severity.


08:25 Another enemy observation post was destroyed by the force of our Kornet ATGM -video

(You can see that one body even had time to lean out to look).

08:09 Tank T-90A destroyed the stronghold of the Armed Forces of Ukraine -video

Tank crews skillfully combine various types of projectiles. First, lightly armored vehicles were hit, and then fragmentation and high-explosive shells defeated the stronghold and personnel of Ukrainian militants.

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