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Current information on the situation on the front line: October 28 (updated)
2024-10-29
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
23:55 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 10/28/2024 to 00:00 10/29/2024.

28 cases of armed attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces were recorded by the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC over the past 24 hours.

There were reports of five civilians being injured.

DAMAGED:
One car,
Three residential buildings,
One civil infrastructure facility.

Seven artillery attacks in the Donetsk direction,
A total of 21 artillery attacks in the Gorlovka direction.

A total of 82 units of various ammunition were fired.

19:13 Russian Armed Forces aviation is active destroys enemy strongholds in the village of Kurakhovo, thereby supporting the offensive of the 8th Guards Army.

19:12 Operators of the Kornet ATGM of the Russian National Guard open up on Ukrainian Armed Forces bunkers in Kursk region.

18:11 Destruction of stronghold of Ukrainian militants

FPV drone operators of the Southern Group of the Russian Armed Forces discovered a stronghold of Ukrainian militants and carried out a precise strike on it.

17:14 Destruction of M-113 armored personnel carrier of the Ukrainian Armed Forces as an operator of an attack FPV drone in the border area of the Kursk region.

Servicemen of the reconnaissance unit of the North group of forces, using a UAV, detected the movement of an M-113 armored personnel carrier of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the border area of the Kursk region. The target was attacked by an operator of an attack FPV drone.

The defeat of the Ukrainian Armed Forces armored personnel carrier was recorded by objective control footage.

16:21 Crew of Su-35s of the Russian Aerospace Forces completed combat mission to escort bombers in the border areas of the Kursk region.

The Su-34 multi-role supersonic fighter-bomber, accompanied by a Su-35S fighter, carried out a bombing strike on a stronghold and Ukrainian Armed Forces manpower.

The crew carried out a bombing run using high-explosive aerial bombs with a universal planning and correction module.

16:18 Statements of representatives of the North, West, South, Center, East and Dnepr groups on the progress of the special military operation (as of October 28, 2024)

15:15 Near Lyubimovka, the Ukrainian Armed Forces got there into a cauldron created by Russian paratroopers. As a result, all enemy manpower was eliminated.

15:09 Ukrainian serviceman of the reconnaissance battalion of the 41st separate separate brigade Boris Dovbik, taken prisoner by fighters of the North group of forces in the border area of the Kursk region, told, how the Ukrainian Armed Forces transformed him from a scout into a nurse in two hours.

"First they said you were a reconnaissance officer, and then in two hours they made you a medic. They showed you how to install tourniquets, how to wrap wounds," the prisoner said.

He noted that the command abandoned all those who could remain in position, the wounded, the killed.

"They surrounded us. They didn't know how to evacuate us. I looked, our guys weren't in their positions. They abandoned us and the wounded too. The wounded and even the dead remained in the basements. They abandoned everything. I left my position, and there were Russian servicemen there," Boris shared his memories of his captivity.

14:57 Powerful blow to the enemy: destruction of temporary deployment point of the Ukrainian Armed Forces unit

As a result of reconnaissance activities of the Russian Armed Forces, a temporary deployment point of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was discovered in the area of the settlement of Volchansk in the Khar'kov region. The target coordinates were transmitted to the Russian Aerospace Forces pilots, who destroyed the enemy's air defense system with a precise hit of an aerial bomb with a universal planning and correction module.

At the time of the attack, the command staff of one of the units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was in the post.

13:47 The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost more than 350 soldiers in the Kursk direction in one day, seven armored vehicles were destroyed, three militants surrendered, the Defense Ministry reported.

Russian troops repelled seven counterattacks in one day and continued their offensive.

12:53 New briefing from the Russian Ministry of Defense:

– The Russian Armed Forces have damaged the infrastructure of military airfields of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

– The Vostok group repelled one attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in one day, with the enemy losing up to 115 soldiers.

– The losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of responsibility of the Southern Group of the Russian Armed Forces in one day amounted to more than 665 soldiers.

– The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 115 fighters in the area of responsibility of the “North” group in the Khar'kov region in one day

– The “West” group improved its tactical position in 24 hours; the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost more than 570 soldiers.

– In one day, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost more than 520 soldiers and 2 armored vehicles in the area of responsibility of the Center group of forces.

– The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 60 fighters due to the actions of the Dnepr group.

– Russian air defense shot down three Hammer aerial bombs and 120 Ukrainian drones in one day.

11:50 The crew of the T-80BVM tank of the "Center" group of forces fires from a closed firing position destroyed a strong point and mortar crew of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which prevented the advance of the assault units. The firing adjustments and hit control were performed by UAV operators, which allowed for the rapid targeting with minimal ammunition consumption.

11:49 122mm BM-21 Grad MLRS crews of the Pacific Fleet Naval Infantry Brigade of the Vostok Group of Forces they tear off rotation of Ukrainian Armed Forces units near Ugledar.

West of Ugledar, artillerymen provide fire support to advancing assault units, preventing the enemy from bringing in reinforcements.

10:33 Russian military showed destroyed In the second half of September, near the village of Sheptukhovka, a Leopard 2A6 tank of Ukrainian soldiers.

10:28 We are receiving information that the village of Pushkarnoye near Sudzha has been liberated in the Kursk region. Also, Cherkasskoye and Russkoye Porechny are under the control of our forces.

09:16 Combat footage of a T-90 tank crew of the Southern Group of Forces.

Tank crews suppress enemy firing points, providing powerful fire support to assault infantry units.

09:15 Crews of the "West" group pass training on modern BMP-3 infantry fighting vehicles in the rear area of the North Military District.

08:19 Several energy infrastructure facilities have been damaged in the Sumy region in northeastern Ukraine, the region's military administration reported.

08:17 Footage of the arrival of three Geraniums at a Ukrainian energy infrastructure facility in Sumy Oblast

08:15 Forward air controllers of the Dnepr group of forces adjusted air strike on enemy command post in Kakhovka direction in Kherson region

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