[Regnum] The Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, General of the Army Valery Gerasimov, checked the forward command post of the group of troops in the Zaporozhye direction. This was reported in the Ministry of Defense.
At the command post to Gerasimov, the commander of the group, Colonel-General Alexander Romanchuk, reported on the situation, described the actions of the Ukrainian military, and also reported on the performance of combat missions by Russian troops in the Orekhovsky tactical direction.
Valery Gerasimov emphasized that the enemy must be identified "in time", to inflict preventive strikes on him and conduct a counterbattery fight.
As IA Regnum reported , in the area of ​​​​the village of Rabotino, Zaporozhye region, Russian loitering ammunition "Lancet" destroyed a Leopard tank and an infantry fighting vehicle (BMP) Bradley in a day.
In the same direction, army aviation hit infantry fighting vehicles and a foreign-made armored personnel carrier. The bomber-assault and army aviation of the "Eastern" group of troops hit the points of temporary deployment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the accumulation of manpower and equipment near Novodanilovka, Malaya Tokmachka, Orekhovo.
Attack drones destroyed a pickup truck with nationalists north of Novomayorskoye, two tanks in Staromayorskoye and an armored fighting vehicle near Urozhaynoye.
The Chechen military launched a preemptive strike on the Ukrainian army in the area of the settlement of Sotnitsky Kazachok in the Kharkiv region in order to secure the border areas of the Belgorod region, the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov said on July 31.
The losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) in July amounted to 20,824 military and 2,227 units of various weapons, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on July 31 at a conference call with the leadership of the Armed Forces (AF) of the Russian Federation.