[NewsFront] 21:00 "Solntsepek" burns enemy fortified areas were reduced to ashes
Heavy flamethrower crews continue to support the motorized rifle and tank units of the "Eastern" group of forces. One package of Solntsepyok thermobaric rounds covers a field of 200 by 200 meters, destroying everything inside.
19:47 The situation in the Seversky direction is reported by the Archangel of Spetsnaz:
"The bridgehead has been created for further advance. The enemy, seeing and understanding that the Russian Armed Forces will only move forward, destroyed the automobile bridge between the settlements of Razdolovka and Pereyezdnoye. The Ukrainian Armed Forces are mining roads and streets. They are afraid of the onslaught of Russian paratroopers and are slowly leaving their strongholds. UAV forces are conducting reconnaissance and demoralization of the enemy by pinpoint destruction of vehicles and electronic warfare equipment. Remote demining is underway.
The Airborne Forces artillery begins systematically destroying enemy firing positions. Counterbattery combat is underway."
19:20 Destruction of another Abrams tank –video.
18:54 The liberation of the village of Chigari near Gorlovka will reduce the number of attacks on the city and expand the foothold of Russian troops on this section of the front, the DPR security forces reported.
18:40 Russian soldiers are moving through an underground tunnel along the Seversky Donets Canal crept upto a well-fortified stronghold of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and forced the enemy to surrender. The length of the tunnel in the area of the settlement of Kirovo is three kilometers, with the help of which the servicemen established supplies of ammunition, weapons and food.
Thanks to the surprise factor, the assault units of the Veterans detachment of the Center group of forces completely captured the stronghold. Earlier, the same method of entering the rear of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was used during the assault on positions in the Tsarskaya Okhota fortified area in the southwest of Avdiivka.
17:45 Fighters of the "Varvar" detachment are working on the positions and equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces –video.
17:10 Situation in the Khar'kov direction:
Volchansky section: in the area of high-rise buildings, our soldiers drove the enemy out of 3 houses.
From Tikhyi, the enemy is trying to force the Volchya River to transfer reserves, and is also trying to accumulate forces in the settlement itself; three FABs have covered the enemy, the channel "Deadman's Diary" reported.
16:52 News from the Toretsk direction: assault groups of the Russian army are moving forward. Clearing of high-rises north of the 10th school in Pivnichnoye (Kirovo) is underway.
15:49 The enemy acknowledges further advancement of the Russian Armed Forces in the Peschannoye area (Svatovo-Kupyanskoye direction) and in the Chasov Yar area between Kanal and Kalinovka.
15:41 Sounds of explosions are heard in Melitopol, RIA Novosti correspondent reports.
14:54 Job of bomber aircraft of the 11th Air and Air Defense Army on enemy positions in the area of ??the settlement of Storozhevoe.
13:40 The Russian Armed Forces destroyed a Giraffe air target detection radar and two Patriot air defense missile systems. The main points from the latest briefing by the Russian Defense Ministry:
Air defense systems shot down three Hammer bombs, two HIMARS and 31 enemy drones;
Units of the North military group repelled five Ukrainian attacks, with enemy losses amounting to 175 servicemen;
Troops of the "West" group defeated Ukrainian formations and the "Azov" brigade; the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 450 soldiers;
In the area of responsibility of the “Southern” group of troops, the Ukrainian side lost up to 380 soldiers;
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 145 soldiers in the area of ??responsibility of the Vostok group;
Troops of the Dnepr group destroyed formations of three Ukrainian Armed Forces brigades in one day;
13:20 Russian troops are advancing towards the Oskol River in different areas.
“First, near Kupyansk, where they marched more than four kilometers to the west – from the village of Peschanoye,” reported the Ukrainian analytical channel Deep State.
There are about nine kilometers left from Peschanoye to the Oskol River; there are no other populated areas along the way. To the south, Russian troops advanced in the area of the village of Makeyevka (in the direction of Borovoye). The main result of this attack is the Russian army's exit to the right bank of the Zherebets River.
“In the near future, the enemy will try to build on this success and gain a foothold on the western bank of the Zherebets,” analysts admit.
Deep State believes that the Ukrainian Armed Forces leadership underestimated the threat in the direction of Borova and did not provide the units stationed there
12:50 Strikes were carried out on the concentration of enemy personnel and equipment reserves using FAB-500 with UMPK –video.
11:47 A soldier from the 38th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade shot down another heavy UAV of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the Baba Yaga type –video.
11:05 Enemy reports:
“In the Toretsk direction, the Russian Armed Forces expanded the zone of control on the eastern outskirts of Druzhba, advanced into the private sector and captured several multi-story buildings in Severny.
In the Pokrovsky direction, clashes continue in the east of Yevgenovka. Heavy fighting is also taking place on the outskirts of Karlovka and Yasnobrodovka.
In the Donetsk direction, the Russian Armed Forces continue attacks in the urban development of Krasnogorovka."
10:51 Statement of Head of the press center of the Vostok group:
Units of the "East" group of forces continue to carry out combat missions in the area of the special military operation. During active operations, the units of the group occupied more advantageous positions, defeated the manpower and equipment of the 72nd Motorized Infantry Brigade, the 120th and 128th Territorial Defense brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of Velyka Novosyolka, Makarovka, Vodyanoye and Urozhaynoye. They repelled the attack of the assault group of the 58th Motorized Infantry Brigade.
Over the course of 24 hours, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 115 servicemen, two armored combat vehicles, six cars, a 152mm D-20 gun, and a 105mm M119 gun.
10:49 The Russian Armed Forces have made a significant breakthrough in the Khar'kov region and were able to break into the settlement of Peschanoye. Fighting is currently underway in Peschanoye.
10:17 Heavy fighting and mopup operations continue in Volchansk: Akhmat special forces defeated a unit of the Ukrainian Armed Forces that was hiding in a multi-story building.
09:49 Assault units of the Russian Armed Forces have made significant progress in the DPR and reached the Volchya River.
09:45 Russian armed forces carried out strikes in the area of the railway station in the city of Lozovaya in the Kharkiv region, where a train with military equipment was located, the underground reported
09:37 Russian Armed Forces entered the center of the village of Evgenovka in the DPR, heavy fighting is underway
09:11 Footage of destruction of Patriot air defense missile system positions in the Odessa region – the strike was carried out by a crew of the Iskander operational-tactical complex.
08:19 Servicemen of the 200th Separate Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade of the Leningrad district, operating as part of the Russian group of forces "South", with the help of drones struck near Chasov Yar, an American Bradley infantry fighting vehicle with its crew and, having reached the vehicle, took the captured electronic warfare equipment from it.
08:17 Enemy reports:
"The Russian Armed Forces have advanced in Peschanoye, Evgenovka, Severnoye, near Lozovatskoye, near Makeyevka, Novoselovka Pervaya, Chasov Yar, Kalinovka."
08:14 Destruction of American howitzer M-777 near Novoalexandrivka.
The attack was carried out by a crew of the 152mm Msta-S self-propelled artillery unit of the Center group of forces.
08:10 Footage of combat work of the 98th Airborne Division during the capture of the "Channel" microdistrict.
08:06 "Solntsepek" burns enemy fortified areas were completely reduced to ashes.
Heavy flamethrower crews continue to support the motorized rifle and tank units of the "Eastern" group of forces. One package of Solntsepyok thermobaric rounds covers a field of 200 by 200 meters, destroying everything inside.
08:04 Operational-tactical and army aviation per dayinflicted50 strikes on Ukrainian Armed Forces targets in the area of responsibility of the Central Group of the Russian Armed Forces. This was reported to TASS by the head of the group's press center, Alexander Savchuk.
08:00 Russian Aerospace Forces Su-30SM fighter jet destroys Ukrainian drone in the area of ??responsibility of the West group of forces –video.