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Current information on the situation on the front line: July 31 (updated)
2024-08-01
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[NewsFront] 21:04 Broken during an attempt to force the Volchya River, a Stryker armored personnel carrier of the Ukrainian army was destroyed along with the crossing.

21:01 Wreckage of HIMARS missiles in the Proletarsky district of Donetsk.

19:50 Tankers of the Southern Group of Forces provide fire support for motorized rifle and assault units, ensuring the advancement of Russian troops in the Donetsk direction of the special military operation.

Using coordinates obtained using drones, tank crews destroy artillery and combat armored vehicles, including foreign-made ones, observation posts, and ammunition depots of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

18:49 Soldiers from the Russian 18th Army in the Kherson direction destroy personnel of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, positions of units, as well as military equipment of the enemy.

18:20 Calculation of the 122mm BM-21 MLRS "Grad" struck enemy manpower near the settlement of Pereyezdnoye, DPR. Destroyed up to a detachment of Ukrainian servicemen, the surviving militants fled their positions.

17:56 Signalmen provide uninterrupted exchange of information with forward units in the Avdeevka direction

Organizing wired and coded radio communications, repairing cable breaks, maintaining equipment in good working order - this is only a small part of the daily tasks performed by specialists of the communications troops of the Center group.

The fighters are the first to move into liberated areas to organize the operation of data transmission channels and unit control systems.

17:40 An explosion has occurred in the Nikolaev area. According to preliminary information, a missile strike is being carried out on a military airfield in the Voznesensk area.

16:50 UAV operators from the 60th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade “work” on enemy manpower –video.

16:20 Explosions have thundered in the city of Dnepr in eastern Ukraine, the Ukrainian publication "Obshchestvennoye" reported.

15:50 A Ukrainian army Stryker armored personnel carrier destroyed during an attempt to cross the Volcha River –photo.

15:47 FPV drone operators of the Zapad group of forces destroy camouflaged strongholds, dugouts, firing points and manpower of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

15:29 Destruction of the Ukrainian Armed Forces observation post, which was located on the second floor of the building –video.

14:47 Another massive "raid" by drones - kamikazes of the "Valkyrie" group in the Zaporizhzhya direction on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the SNT "Severny" in the area of ??the settlement of Kamenskoye -video.

14:25 The Russian army advanced in Druzhba to Stepnaya Street.

14:04 Soldiers from the Storm Ossetia battalion are destroying enemy positions and manpower in the Zaporizhzhya direction –video.

13:44 Artillery crew of the 122mm 2S5 self-propelled gun "Msta-S" of the Group of Forces "Center" destroyed American M1 Abrams tank of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Avdeevka direction.

13:37 Destroyed Ukrainian armored vehicle HMMWV with a homemade roof in Donetsk region.

13:20 The main points from the new briefing of the Russian Ministry of Defense:

Units of the Russian Armed Forces group "West" continued to occupy more advantageous positions, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 470 soldiers;

The losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of responsibility of the “Center” group in one day amounted to 350 soldiers;

The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost a Leopard tank and up to 710 soldiers in one day in the Donetsk People's Republic as a result of the actions of the Russian group "South";

Units of the Central Group of the Russian Armed Forces repelled three counterattacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in one day;

Over the course of a day, Russian air defense systems shot down two HIMARS projectiles, a Neptune missile, and 42 UAVs;

The North group defeated 5 enemy brigades in the Khar'kov region, repelled two counterattacks, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 350 soldiers;

The "East" group of forces improved its position along the front line, while the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 150 soldiers;

The Russian Armed Forces destroyed the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ manpower and equipment in 143 districts.


12:56 Assault on another fortified area of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Terny-Nevskoye area, from scouts of the Guards 144th Motorized Rifle Division –video.

12:40 Calculation of the anti-aircraft missile system (SAM) "Tor-M2" of the 1st Guards Tank Army of the "West" group of forces destroyed reconnaissance drones and combat UAVs of the Ukrainian Armed Forces of foreign manufacture in the area of the SVO.

11:49 Su-25 attack aircraft struck with unguided aircraft missiles, destroying special equipment and enemy manpower in the area of responsibility of the East group of forces.

11:07 Situation in the South Donetsk direction:

In the Ugledar direction, Russian units are "pressing" from several areas at once in the direction of the Ugledar-Konstantinovka highway, access to which will allow disrupting the logistics of Ukrainian formations. Aviation of the "Vostok" group "worked" on the "Yuzhnodonbasskaya" mine, artillery - on concentrations of manpower of the 120th Troops Brigade in Vodyanoye.

In the Vremevsky direction, units from Buryatia are expanding the control zone in the Urozhayny area, completing the clearing of the salient to the east of the settlement. To the north, the enemy is actively mining the area and gradually bringing up reserves from the direction of Storozhyevoy and Makarovka.


10:57 Aerospace Forces Aviation struck enemy manpower concentrations on the approaches to the settlement of Glubokoe. One of the rounds hit the Ukrainian Armed Forces' ammunition depot, causing a powerful detonation and fire.

10:27 Ukrainian Telegram channels reported on the artillery attack of the Khar'kov region by KABs.

10:19 A Ukrainian Armed Forces officer reported that the Russian army has advanced towards Konstantinovka in the Kurakhovsky direction.

10:04 Destruction of the enemy by artillery units of the 98th Guards Airborne Division in the village of Chasov Yar –video.

09:52 Soldiers of the Pacific Fleet naval infantry Heavy Mobile Sniper Group attacked a rotation of Ukrainian troops in the area of the village of Novomayorske, said the commander of the mobile sniper group.

09:35 Defeat of 155mm self-propelled guns of the Western model by the Russian military on the line of combat contact.

09:15 Destruction of an enemy firing point in the Belogorovka area –video.

09:02 Footage from Krasnogorovka (DPR): this is how the Ukrainian Armed Forces fled from the settlement along the western road, trying to evacuate the wounded.

08:50 Russian drone operators successfully are fighting with the Ukrainian Armed Forces' surveillance systems, said military expert, retired LPR NM Lieutenant Colonel Andrey Marochko.

“Ukrainian militants regularly install high-resolution surveillance cameras supplied by the West on the LBS, which allow them to relatively safely monitor vast areas of the LBS,” Marochko wrote on his Telegram channel.

He noted that the most effective and justified method of destruction was attack drones, which are an order of magnitude cheaper than expensive equipment.

08:18 Operators from the Fagot ATGM “covered” a mortar crew of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, ours –video.

08:15 Statement of Head of the press center of the Dnepr group:

Units of the Dnepr group of forces inflicted losses on formations of the 141st Infantry Brigade, 128th Mountain Assault Brigade and 35th Naval Infantry Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of Novodanilovka, Lobkovoe, Kamenskoye and Tyaginka.

The enemy's losses amounted to 90 servicemen, three vehicles, a 122mm D-30 howitzer, an Anklav-N electronic warfare station, and four field ammunition depots.


08:07 Russian military personnel have improved their tactical position in the Kupyansk direction, reported military expert, retired LPR People's Militia Lieutenant Colonel Marochko.

During active military operations in the area of the settlement of Novoosinovo, the advance detachments of the Russian Armed Forces managed to dislodge the Ukrainian militants from their positions and take more advantageous positions. They also managed to advance in the area of Peschanoye and Stelmakhovka

08:00 Scouts of the "West" group of troops using FPV drones struck identified dugouts, strongholds and equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the special operation zone.

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