Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 22:10 In the evening, Russians attacked the port infrastructure of Odessa with a ballistic missile - a grain truck driver and a port employee were wounded, reported the head of the OVA Oleg Kiper.
22:02 A decision has been made in Kursk Oblast to evacuate the village of Glushkovo, the head of the region, Alexey Smirnov, said. Glushkovo is located 47 km northwest of Sudzha, on the road to Rylsk.
21:36 As a result of a drone strike on a car in the Kharkiv region, one Hospitaller medic was killed and another was injured, said Olga Murka, press secretary of the medical battalion. Earlier, it was reported that two medics were killed.
21:19 Ombudsman Dmitry Lubinets reported that he discussed the issue of prisoners of war in the Kursk region with his Russian colleague Tatyana Moskalkova. "In my opinion, the Ukrainian Armed Forces strictly comply with the norms of international humanitarian law. Based on the Geneva Convention, the Ukrainian Armed Forces take Russian soldiers prisoner without subjecting them to torture or cruel treatment," the human rights ombudsman emphasized.
21:04 Ukraine does not yet plan to use F-16s in "risky ground attacks," Forbes writes. According to the publication, at least at the initial stage, the Ukrainian Air Force plans to use Western fighters for air defense patrols. Meanwhile, Soviet-made aircraft were involved in supporting the Kursk offensive. Thus, a Su-27 struck a Russian command post in Tetkino, located right on the border, the publication notes.
20:15 Ukraine is achieving its strategic goal in the Kursk region, Zelensky said in an evening video address. The president also thanked "the SBU soldiers, as well as the soldiers of the Ukrainian Defense Forces, the Main Intelligence Directorate and all involved structures for precise, timely, effective strikes on Russian airfields." He added that Ukrainian drones work "exactly as they should," but "there are things that drones alone cannot do... we need other weapons - missile weapons." According to Zelensky, at today's meeting with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Defense, the Office of the President, and the National Security and Defense Council, they prepared an algorithm of actions "to achieve strong decisions from our partners."
19:23 The Ministry of Defense has introduced new rules for submitting and reviewing military reports. Among the main innovations: clearly defined forms of reports - oral, written, electronic; the sequence of approving reports by commanders; mandatory justification in case of non-approval of a report; guaranteed review of reports on military discipline, combat missions, health of personnel and vacations no later than 48 hours after submission; reports on other issues must be reviewed within 14 days.
18:41 In Sumy Oblast, 183 settlements are subject to evacuation due to constant shelling, the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported. According to the agency, more than 20 thousand people have already been evacuated, including about 2,500 children.
18:30 There are still 3,000 people left in Toretsk, Donetsk Oblast, and the evacuation from the city is proceeding very slowly, said OVA head Vadim Filashkin. According to him, all of these people are currently hiding in basements from shelling. In addition to adults, there are also 1,993 children remaining in the city. Filashkin also said that there are still about 60,000 people left in the Pokrovsk community.
Filashkin also reported that the curfew has been extended in Novogrodovka: from August 15, restrictions on movement will be in effect from 15:00 to 11:00. According to him, the situation around the city is very difficult, and this decision will contribute to the safety of citizens.
17:49 Russians attacked a vehicle of the Hospitallers medical battalion with an FPV drone in the village of Bely Kolodets near Vovchansk, killing two volunteer medics, reported the head of the Kharkiv regional police investigation department, Sergei Bolvinov. Three civilians who were traveling in another vehicle were also injured.
17:27 Radio Liberty showed the aftermath of Ukrainian drone strikes on the Borisoglebsk military airfield in the Voronezh region. Planet Labs satellite images from August 14 show that the drones hit the northwestern part of the airfield - in particular, several hangars were destroyed. According to aviation expert Anatoly Khrapchinsky, the technical and operational unit, which repairs and maintains aircraft, is located there.
16:38 The Armed Forces of Ukraine may open humanitarian corridors for the evacuation of civilians from the Kursk region towards the Russian Federation and Ukraine, said Minister for Reintegration Irina Vereshchuk. According to her, humanitarian operations are also planned to support civilians within the Kursk operation zone.
16:25 The Russian border in the Kursk region was defended by conscripts, a Ukrainian Armed Forces officer told Bild: "On the first day of the offensive, the Russians had two lines of defense, which were mainly staffed by conscripts and border guards. To my surprise, we broke both the first and second lines on the very first day. Since then, there has been complete chaos among Russian soldiers."
16:18 Zelensky said that he held a meeting on the situation in the Kursk region: "We discussed key issues. Security, humanitarian aid, the creation of military commandant's offices if necessary. Ukraine is defending itself and the lives of its people in border communities and is taking active action on Russian territory. Our forces strictly comply with the requirements of international conventions and international humanitarian law."
14:36 SBU and Defense Forces drones carried out the largest attack on four military airfields in Russia at once, Ukrainian media reported, citing sources. The airfields in question were Voronezh, Kursk, Savasleyka, and Borisoglebsk. Sources confirm that this was a specially planned operation to prevent the enemy from using these airfields to strike the front line and Ukrainian cities with KABs.
13:35 In the Kursk region, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have advanced from one to two kilometers in different areas since the beginning of the day and captured more than 100 Russian soldiers , Zelensky reported. Syrsky said that "the search for and destruction of the enemy has been completed in Sudzha."
The President said that he had heard Syrsky's report on the situation in all main areas, especially Toretsk and Pokrovsky, as well as on the operation in Kursk Oblast. "We have not forgotten about our east for a second. I have instructed the commander-in-chief to strengthen the area from the packages currently being supplied by partners," Zelensky emphasized.
13:14 Russians struck a humanitarian aid point in Kupyansk, Kharkiv region, with a drone; one person was injured, the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported.
13:08 At night, in the Kursk region, the Ukrainian Armed Forces destroyed a Russian Su-34 fighter-bomber , the General Staff reported.
13:01 Finnish President Alexander Stubb stated that Kiev has the right to defend itself from Russian aggression, including in the Kursk region: "The fact that Ukraine is ultimately defending itself in the Kursk direction, having penetrated with certain forces approximately 30-40 km into the country, they have every right to do so. We see no reason to limit the activities of the Ukrainians." He also added that Ukraine can use weapons provided by Finland on Russian territory.
12:57 Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi plans to visit Poland and Ukraine from August 21 to 23. This will be the first visit by an Indian prime minister to Poland in 40 years, The Economic Times reports.
12:42 The Russian government has extended the temporary ban on gasoline exports until the end of 2024. The decision was allegedly made "to maintain a stable situation during the period of seasonal demand and scheduled repairs at oil refineries."
12:35 The Russian Foreign Ministry announced a "long-term pause" in the topic of negotiations on Ukraine due to the offensive of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk region.
12:29 The Russians did not allow the IAEA to inspect the cooling tower of the Zaporizhzhya NPP from the inside, the Ministry of Energy reported. Experts twice asked for access to the facility after the fire, as well as to another cooling tower for comparative analysis. But they were never granted access.
12:03 A TSN correspondent got to Kursk Oblast and reported live on the results of the work of the Ukrainian Armed Forces:
11:45 After the drone attack at night, NASA satellites recorded a fire at the Savasleyka airbase in the Nizhny Novgorod region at 3:30 a.m., OSINT analyst Neonhandrail reported. According to preliminary information, warehouses of fuel and lubricants were burning there.
11:22 In the morning, Russians fired at a Ukrenergo power facility in the southern region, there was no power outage for consumers. In addition, at night, Russian UAVs attacked a power facility of the regional power company in the northern region, consumers in certain areas of the Chernihiv region were de-energized. In the morning, power supply to all consumers was restored, Ukrenergo reported.
11:13 At night, Ukrainian drones hit three Russian airfields at once, "on some of them - effectively," Z-publics write. Thus, one of the bloggers is indignant that strategically important objects are covered by "one or two Pantsirs."
10:26 The German prosecutor's office has issued an arrest warrant for a Ukrainian in the case of the Nord Stream bombing, ARD reports. According to the German publication, the suspect is Vladimir Z. Two more Ukrainian citizens are also involved in the case.
09:38 In Donetsk Oblast, on August 13, one person was killed as a result of Russian shelling - in Zhuravka. Two more people in the region were injured in the past 24 hours, reported OVA head Vadim Filashkin.
09:30 Since early morning, Russian troops have been shelling Kherson and its suburbs, said OVA head Oleksandr Prokudin. Three people were wounded in Kherson, including a 15-year-old teenager. Three people were injured in Kindeyka, and another in Antonovka. Over the previous day, six people were wounded as a result of Russian shelling in the region.
09:13 Drones attacked one of the infrastructure facilities in Zhytomyr region tonight, OVA reported.
08:58 Air defense destroyed 17 of 23 Shahed-type attack UAVs in Mykolaiv, Cherkasy, Kirovohrad, Kyiv, Zaporizhia, Sumy, Kharkiv and Zhytomyr regions at night, the Air Force reported. In addition, Russia attacked with two Kh-59/69 guided air missiles at night.
08:35 Russian publics write that there were about ten strikes on the Savasleyka military airbase in the Nizhny Novgorod region at night. In the Voronezh region, the Borisoglebsk airfield was on fire after a UAV attack, and explosions were also heard near the Baltimore airfield. The Russian Defense Ministry stated that air defense forces allegedly destroyed 117 drones and four Tochka-U missiles overnight. In particular, 37 drones and all missiles were destroyed over the Kursk region, another 37 drones - over the Voronezh region, 17 - over the Belgorod region, 11 - over the Nizhny Novgorod region, nine - over the Volgograd region, three - over the Bryansk region, two - over the Oryol region and one - over the Rostov region.
08:19 At night, Russians again attacked the Chernihiv region with drones - in the Nizhyn district, a hit on an infrastructure facility was recorded, no one was hurt, said the head of the OVA Vyacheslav Chaus.
07:51 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of August 14:
personnel - about 594,400 (+1240) people,
tanks - 8476 (+21),
combat armored vehicles - 16,402 (+17),
artillery systems - 16,821 (+57),
MLRS - 1151 (+5),
air defense systems - 921 (+1),
aircraft - 366 (+0),
helicopters - 328 (+0),
Operational-tactical level UAVs - 13,548 (+57),
cruise missiles - 2426 (+0),
ships/boats - 28 (+0),
submarines - 1 (+0),
automotive equipment and tank trucks - 22,710 (+61),
special equipment - 2813 (+7).
06:28 Belgorod Region Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said that a regional state of emergency had been declared "to strengthen the protection of the population and provide additional support measures to victims." He added that he plans to ask the government commission to declare a state of emergency at the federal level.
02:35 Biden commented for the first time on the Ukrainian Armed Forces operation in the Kursk region: "This creates a real dilemma for Putin. We are in direct, constant contact with the Ukrainians. That's all I'm going to say about this while this is all in the active phase."
00:16 The advance of the Defense Forces in the Kursk region is complicated by resistance in the direction of the regional center, on some lines the Ukrainian Armed Forces will dig in, writes Suspilne, citing sources among the military participating in the operation. The sources confirmed the capture of the city of Sudzha, but the industrial area has not yet been checked. An official statement should be made soon that the regional center is under the control of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the publication notes.
Ukrainian soldiers also passed through the settlements of Kolmakov, Martynovka, Russkoye Porechnoye, Pogrebki. There are few local residents of the region, they are "a little indignant" at the actions of the Ukrainian army, the source said. "In the villages they are trying to fight as guerrillas using hunting weapons. There is currently strong resistance in the direction of Kursk. Accordingly, advancement is already difficult," the soldiers told Suspilnoye.
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[Korrespondent] 22:02 A decision has been made in Kursk Oblast to evacuate the village of Glushkovo, the head of the region, Alexey Smirnov, said. Glushkovo is located 47 km northwest of Sudzha, on the road to Rylsk.
21:59 Ombudsman Dmitry Lubinets reported that he discussed the issue of prisoners of war in the Kursk region with his Russian colleague Tatyana Moskalkova. "In my opinion, the Ukrainian Armed Forces strictly comply with the norms of international humanitarian law. Based on the Geneva Convention, the Ukrainian Armed Forces take Russian soldiers prisoner without subjecting them to torture or cruel treatment," the human rights ombudsman emphasized.
21:37 Publics write about the transition of the settlements of Vnezapnoe, Viktorovka, Gordeyevka, Lyubimovka, Novoivanovka, Zaoleshenka in the Kursk region under the control of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
20:15 Ukraine is achieving its strategic goal in the Kursk region, Zelensky said in an evening video address.
19:32 A video is being circulated on social networks showing Russian conscripts captured from the Kursk region who are asking to be exchanged for Azov fighters:
16:38 The Armed Forces of Ukraine may open humanitarian corridors for the evacuation of civilians from the Kursk region towards the Russian Federation and Ukraine, said Minister for Reintegration Irina Vereshchuk. According to her, humanitarian operations are also planned to support civilians within the Kursk operation zone.
16:25 The Russian border in the Kursk region was defended by conscripts, a Ukrainian Armed Forces officer told Bild: "On the first day of the offensive, the Russians had two lines of defense, which were mainly staffed by conscripts and border guards. To my surprise, we broke both the first and second lines on the very first day. Since then, there has been complete chaos among Russian soldiers."
16:18 Zelensky said that he held a meeting on the situation in the Kursk region: "We discussed key issues. Security, humanitarian aid, the creation of military commandant's offices if necessary. Ukraine is defending itself and the lives of its people in border communities and is taking active action on Russian territory. Our forces strictly comply with the requirements of international conventions and international humanitarian law."
14:53 The Russian Defense Ministry stated that Russian military in the Kursk region allegedly prevented attempts by mobile groups of the Ukrainian Armed Forces to break through in the areas of Skrylevka, Levshinka, Semenovka, Alekseevsky, and Kamyshny.
14:11 Russian troops have begun digging trenches in the Lgov area of the Kursk region, located almost 50 km from the border, OSINTtechnical reports, citing satellite images. Fresh trenches are visible in images from several areas of the Kursk region at once. They appeared 1.5 km south of Lgov (near the Lgov-Sudzha highway), along the railway near the village of Viktorovka (4 km southwest of Lgov), at the crossroads of the Selikhovy Dory-Ivanino and Dyakonovo-Sudzha roads, and near the village of Druzhnaya (25 km east of Lgov). The farthest point is near Kursk, 75 km from the border.
13:35 In the Kursk region, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have advanced from one to two kilometers in different areas since the beginning of the day and captured more than 100 Russian soldiers, Zelensky reported. Syrsky said that "the search for and destruction of the enemy has been completed in Sudzha."
The President said that he had heard Syrsky's report on the situation in all main areas, especially Toretsk and Pokrovsky, as well as on the operation in Kursk Oblast. "We have not forgotten about our east for a second. I have instructed the commander-in-chief to strengthen the area from the packages currently being supplied by partners," Zelensky emphasized.
13:24 Bild writes that the Ukrainian Armed Forces also took control of the villages of Borki and Spalnoye in the Kursk region.
13:08 At night, in the Kursk region, the Ukrainian Armed Forces destroyed a Russian Su-34 fighter-bomber, the General Staff reported.
12:50 Social networks are publishing new videos of Russian prisoners from Samara, Dagestan and Yaroslavl in the Kursk region. As one of the captured conscripts said, at the moment the Ukrainian offensive began, about half of the fighters from Akhmat's unit, with whom he was on the border, deserted, leaving their positions.
12:03 A TSN correspondent got to Kursk Oblast and reported live on the results of the work of the Ukrainian Armed Forces:
11:09 Ukrainian military showed a video from the village of Plekhovo in the Kursk region, which, according to them, came under the control of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
10:31 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) writes that Russia has withdrawn several units from the Kharkov direction and sent them to the Kursk region. In particular, these are Akhmat fighters, several marine brigades and two airborne battalions located near Vovchansk. Such actions indicate that the Ukrainian Armed Forces' raid into the Kursk region has provoked a forced regrouping of Russian forces, analysts state.
09:42 Russian publics write that three more villages in the Kursk region have come under the control of the Ukrainian Armed Forces: Ukrainian troops have entered Olgovka, Malaya Loknya and Kruglenke.
02:35 Biden commented for the first time on the Ukrainian Armed Forces operation in the Kursk region: "This creates a real dilemma for Putin. We are in direct, constant contact with the Ukrainians. That's all I'm going to say about this while this is all in the active phase."
00:16 The advance of the Defense Forces in the Kursk region is complicated by resistance in the direction of the regional center, on some lines the Ukrainian Armed Forces will dig in, writes Suspilne, citing sources among the military participating in the operation. The sources confirmed the capture of the city of Sudzha, but the industrial area has not yet been checked. An official statement should be made soon that the regional center is under the control of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the publication notes.
Ukrainian soldiers also passed through the settlements of Kolmakov, Martynovka, Russkoye Porechnoye, Pogrebki. There are few local residents of the region, they are "a little indignant" at the actions of the Ukrainian army, the source said. "In the villages they are trying to fight as guerrillas using hunting weapons. There is currently strong resistance in the direction of Kursk. Accordingly, advancement is already difficult," the soldiers told Suspilnoye.
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[KavkazUzel Memorial stones to prisoners of the Solovetsky special purpose camp, including repressed Chechens and Ingush, were damaged.
Activists who brought flowers to the Alley of Memory on Solovki, a park with memorial stones to prisoners of the Solovetsky Special Purpose Camp, discovered destroyed and damaged monuments - a monument to Chechens and Ingush was smashed, a plaque was removed from a monument to Ukrainians, the Memorial Society (recognized as a foreign agent) reported today on its page on the social network VKontakte.
As follows from the photos attached to the publication, the plaque is broken. "To the innocently killed Vainakhs, Chechens and Ingush," is written on it. The plaque lies on one of the stones.
In his book "Hellish Islands", Ingush activist Sozerko Malsagov mentioned elderly Chechens exiled to Solovki.
"Shortly before my arrival in Solovki, the GPU of the Transcaucasian Soviet Republic sent forty very old Chechens there. One of them looked out of the window, which was forbidden by some Chekists. This was the basis for this entire group to be sent to Sekirnaya Mountain, known in Solovki as a place of torture, put in a "stone bag" and flogged with "Smolensk sticks" until they lost consciousness. One of the old men was 110 years old. The old Chechens were sent as hostages because of their sons, grandsons and great-grandsons, who joined the partisan detachments and waged an incessant war against the Bolsheviks.
The hostages themselves had not committed any crime. The practice of taking hostages and carrying out cruel repressions against relatives and even against familiar rebels and emigrants was developed by the Soviet authorities into a complex system of terror, which does not disdain anything to achieve its goal - "absolute submission of the entire Russian people to the will of the leaders of the Communist Party," says the book, published on the website "Memories of the Gulag and Their Authors." Reference is to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, not the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, a subtle but clear difference.
As the "Caucasian Knot" reported, in 2006 the authorities reported that there were officially more than 173 thousand victims of political repression in Chechnya, including victims of deportation and repression in the 1940s and 1950s. The deportation of Chechens and Ingush people led to territorial conflicts, wars and broken families, the Norwegian Helsinki Committee noted in an article dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the deportation.
This year marks 80 years since Operation Lentil, during which nearly 500,000 Chechens and Ingush were deported en masse from the territory of the Chechen-Ingush ASSR to Kazakhstan and Central Asia. More details about these events and their consequences can be found in the "Caucasian Knot" reference material "Deportation of Chechens and Ingush".
The reasons for the deportation were given as mass desertion and preparation of an armed uprising in the Soviet rear, although the territory of the Chechen-Ingush ASSR was practically not under occupation, and by February 1944 the Wehrmacht had already been thrown back hundreds of kilometers from the Caucasus. According to historians, mass arrests, deportations and executions based on nationality were widely practiced under Stalin, which is confirmed by numerous documentary evidence, as stated in the "Caucasian Knot" reference " 10 myths about Stalin's role in the Great Patriotic War".
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[KavkazUzel] The combined battalion "Akhmat", commanded by Apti Alaudinov, is staffed with fighters from different regions, including volunteers and former "Wagnerites", military experts noted. The "Akhmat-Chechnya" unit, from which Alaudinov reported the capture of five fighters, is staffed by Chechens who were not prepared to participate in battles and are engaged in maintaining order, the Caucasus expert emphasized.
As reported by the "Caucasian Knot", three signalmen and two riflemen of the "Akhmat-Chechnya" unit were captured in the Kursk region, the commander of the "Akhmat" special forces, Apti Alaudinov, said on August 13. He emphasized that the fighters captured were from the "Akhmat-Chechnya" unit, not the "Akhmat" special forces, and added that for a Chechen there is nothing more shameful than captivity. The day before, he called the reports of mass surrender of Chechen fighters "enemy propaganda".
Military expert Alexander Khramchikhin reported that different units with the name "Akhmat" may differ in their level of training. "It is difficult to say who reports to whom and how. But it is obvious that they differ in their level of military training. Since 2022, "Akhmat" units have been formed from representatives of all regions of Russia," Khramchikhin told a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
Military expert Vasily Dandykin emphasized that various units under the name "Akhmat" are staffed, in particular, by volunteers. "Volunteers from all regions of Russia serve in some units. But it was stated that not all those who wanted to could be provided with proper military training," he noted.
Political scientist Ruslan Kutayev specified that the Akhmat water battalion, which Alaudinov commands, the so-called "Isa Army", is made up of Chechens to a lesser extent. This battalion belongs to the Russian Defense Ministry.
"Along with this, there is the Akhmat unit. Only Chechens serve there. And they are not intended to participate in combat operations with regular troops. The guys who were captured are from it. In the Kursk region, they performed functions close to the police. Unlike the police, they do not have the right to investigative activities. Their task is to monitor order, so that there are no rallies or riots," Kutayev explained.
Kutayev indicated that according to the information he has, "the combined battalion "Akhmat" is directly involved in military operations, on the front line. They have both assault aircraft and special forces. There are also former fighters of the PMC "Wagner". According to my information, there are 1% Chechens in this battalion," Kutayev said.
Kutayev added that it is difficult to predict the logic of the Chechen authorities’ behavior towards prisoners after their release.
"Caucasian Knot" wrote that on April 15, 2023, the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov reported that five Chechen fighters had returned to Grozny from Ukrainian captivity. He did not meet with them and criticized them. Human rights activists and orientalists interviewed by "Caucasian Knot" noted that captivity was not considered something shameful or unacceptable in the Caucasus, and that adats do not regulate behavior in a war zone, since they apply only to people's everyday lives.
On June 15 of the same year, it became known that five fighters of the Sever-Akhmat regiment, who had been previously released from Ukrainian captivity, were returned to the zone of the special military operation. They stated that they were ready to carry out any order.
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[EngMilRu] The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
In Volchansk and Liptsy directions, units of the Sever Group of Forces inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of the AFU 82nd Air Assault Brigade and 92nd Assault Brigade near Liptsy and Tikhoye (Kharkov region).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 165 Ukrainian troops, five motor vehicles, one 152mm D-20 howitzer, and one 122mm D-30 howitzer.
Units of the Zapad Group of Forces took more advantageous lines and positions as well as inflicted losses on formations of the AFU 116th Mechanised Brigade, 77th Airmobile Brigade, 3rd Assault Brigade, 120th Territorial Defence Brigade, and 183rd Reserve Brigade near Petropavlovka (Kharkov region), Stelmakhovka, Novovodyanoye (Lugansk People's Republic), and Torskoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
Two counterattacks launched by units of the AFU 117th Territorial Defence Brigade were repelled.
The AFU losses amounted to up to 475 Ukrainian troops, one tank, three U.S.-made M113 armoured personnel carriers, three armoured fighting vehicles, and two pickup trucks.
In the course of counter-battery warfare, three Polish-made 155mm Krab self-propelled artillery systems, two U.S.-made 155mm M198 howitzers, two UK-made 155mm FH-70 howitzers, and one 122mm D-30 howitzer.
Six AFU ammunition depots were destroyed.
Units of the Yug Group of Forces improved the tactical situation and inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of the AFU 54th Mechanised Brigade, 1st National Guard Brigade, and 114th Territorial Defence Brigade near Verkhnekamenskoye and Krasnogorovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 690 Ukrainian troops and one armoured fighting vehicle.
In the course of counter-battery warfare, one U.S.-made 155mm M777 howitzer, one Polish-made 155mm Krab self-propelled artillery system, one 152mm D-20 howitzer, one 152mm Msta-B howitzer, one 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system, two 122mm D-30 howitzers, and two U.S.-made 105mm M119 howitzers.
One AFU ammunition depot was destroyed.
Units of the Tsentr Group of Forces continued to engage in active warfare and inflicted losses on formations of the AFU 32nd, 100th Mechanised brigades, 142nd Infantry Brigade, 68th Jaeger Brigade, and 14th National Guard Brigade near Kirovo, Toretsk, Zhelannoye, Rozovka, and Grodovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
Three counter-attacks launched by assault detachments of the AFU 53rd Mechanised Brigade and 15th National Guard Brigade were repelled.
The AFU losses amounted to up to 395 Ukrainian troops, one tank, two armoured fighting vehicles, two motor vehicles, one 152mm D-20 howitzer, two 122mm D-30 howitzers, and one 100mm Rapira anti-tank gun.
Units of the Vostok Group of Forces improved the tactical situation along the front lines and inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of the AFU 58th and 72nd Mechanised brigades near Vodyanoye and Novoukrainka (Donetsk People's Republic). Two counterattacks launched by assault detachments of the AFU 125th Territorial Defence Brigade were repelled.
The AFU losses amounted to up to 120 Ukrainian troops, nine motor vehicles, two Polish-made 155mm Krab self-propelled artillery systems, two U.S.-made 155mm M198 howitzers, one 152mm Msta-B howitzer, and one U.S.-made AN/TPQ-36 counter-battery warfare station.
Units of the Dnepr Group of Forces inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of the AFU 65th Mechanised Brigade and 128th Mountain Assault Brigade near Novodanilovka and Pavlovka (Zaporozhye region).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 80 Ukrainian troops, 11 motor vehicles, one 152mm D-20 howitzer, two 122mm D-30 howitzers, and one Anklav-N electronic warfare station. Two AFU ammunition depots have been destroyed.
Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, and Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces destroyed one POL base of AFU military hardware, as well as engaged enemy manpower and hardware clusters in 149 areas during the day.
Air defence units shot down four Tochka-U tactical missiles, two French-made Hammer guided aerial bombs, three U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS projectiles, 147 unmanned aerial vehicles, 119 of them outside the special military operation zone.
In total, 638 airplanes and 279 helicopters, 29,970 unmanned aerial vehicles, 569 air defence missile systems,
17,057 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,400 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 13,229 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 24,715 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue to repel the AFU attempt to invade the territory of the Russian Federation
Active actions of the Sever Group of Forces, Army Aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, and artillery strikes prevented enemy mobile armoured groups from getting into the depth of the Russian Territory near Skrylevka, Levshinka, Semyonovka, Alekseyevskoye, and Kamishnoye.
Two enemy groups on pickup trucks were located and eliminated near Martynovka.
Six attacks launched by units of the AFU 115th Mechanised Brigade, 80th, and 82nd Air Assault brigades were repelled near Korenevo, Olgovka, Pogrebki, Russkoye Porechnoye, and Cherkesskoye Porechnoye.
Losses were inflicted on the located manpower and hardware clusters of the AFU 22nd, 61st Mechanised brigades, 92nd Assault Brigade, and 1st Presidential Operational Brigade near Loknya, Kremyanoye, Oleshnya, Sverdlikovo, and Daryino
Aviation delivered strikes at the AFU reserves near Yunakovka, Sadki, Miropoliye, Khrapovshchina, Mogritsa, and Krovnoye (Sumy region).
Over the past 24 hours, the AFU losses amounted to up to 270 Ukrainian troops, 16 units of armoured hardware, including two tanks, one Stryker armoured personnel carrier, 13 armoured fighting vehicles, 10 motor vehicles, and one 122mm D-30 howitzer. 18 AFU servicemen were taken prisoner.
Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk region, the enemy lost up to 2,300 Ukrainian troops, 37 tanks, 32 armoured personnel carriers, 18 infantry fighting vehicles, 192 armoured fighting vehicles, 88 motor vehicles, four anti-aircraft missile systems, two MLRS launchers, and 15 field artillery guns.
The operation to neutralise the AFU units is in progress.
This may be faked or it may be the Russki soldier is intimidated, I ain't God, but, it might be valid. I can see an American doing this( some of us would, some wouldn't)
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Hoping this becomes reality, Russia cannot retake this land and "this land" must be incorporated into Ukraine unless Putin exists all of Ukraine without a fight.
Talking about a strategic mistake, NATO will now be right on almost all of Russia's borders and everyone on earth can see how frail Russia is right now, Putin showed the world, why have the siloviki NOT executed him?
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[NewsFront] 21:35 152mm Msta-B crews destroy Ukrainian Armed Forces infantry in the Kursk border area – video.
The interaction of artillerymen with reconnaissance units and UAV crews allows for the destruction of targets in the shortest possible time.
20:33 The Russian army liberated the city of Zheleznoye near Toretsk.
20:10 A powerful missile strike was carried out on the Odessa port, a massive fire started.
19:39 Liptsy – Lukyantsy.
Active military action in the Liptsy area. Attack by the Russian Armed Forces east of the settlement of Lukyantsy. An assault group reaches a strong point deep in the Khar'kov region at a distance of more than 2.5 km from the demarcation line. artillery attack of the assault unit by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
18:07 Advance of the Russian Armed Forces along the railway line bypassing Orlovka. The battle for Nikolaevka has begun – map.
17:54 Russian aviation destroyed hangars with Ukrainian Armed Forces equipment in the village of Kondratovka in Sumy Oblast with a FAB-1500 strike from an UMPK – video.
The enemy intended to use the destroyed reserves to increase efforts to capture Korenevo.
17:11 Statements by representatives of the North, West, South, Center, East and Dnepr groups on the progress of the special military operation (as of August 14, 2024) – video.
16:59 Around 16:10 Moscow time, another attempt by the Kiev regime to carry out a terrorist attack using an aircraft-type UAV against targets on the territory of the Russian Federation was thwarted.
Air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed five Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles over the territory of the Bryansk region.
16:24 Special military operation. Situation on August 14 – map.
15:41 Telegram channel " Rybar ":
Massive raid by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on Russian regions
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Last night, Ukrainian forces carried out one of the largest launches of drones in eight Russian regions: according to the Russian Defense Ministry, a total of 117 drones and four missiles were intercepted.
– The main blow fell on the Voronezh region, where the first UAVs began to be shot down before midnight. Apparently, the enemy’s main target was the military airfields located in the region – Baltimore and Borisoglebsk. There is currently no objective evidence of damage to the facilities; it is only known about damaged residential buildings, outbuildings and transport in Voronezh and Borisoglebsk.
– In the Nizhny Novgorod region, Ukrainian drones, including the kamikaze UAV "Lyuty", attacked the Kulebaki district - there is the Savasleyka airfield, where MiG-31 fighters are based. After the attack, a section of the P72 "Vladimir - Murom - Arzamas" road was temporarily closed.
– In the Volgograd region, air defense systems were activated in the area of Uryupinsk and Novonikolaevskoye; in the latter, according to several media outlets, the Balashovskaya electrical substation was damaged, but local authorities denied this information.
– In the Kursk region, Russian air defense and electronic warfare systems have disabled drones both in Kursk itself and in border areas. At the same time, enemy UAVs continue to attack cars on highways, preventing both the evacuation and the redeployment of units of the Russian Armed Forces.
– In the Belgorod region, Shebekino was hit by Ukrainian drones, where a residential building and the territory of an agricultural enterprise were damaged. One man was injured – he was taken to a hospital in Belgorod in serious condition with a mine and blast injury.
– Several more drones were intercepted in the Bryansk, Oryol and Rostov regions; according to the latest information, no damage was recorded there.
– Recently, Ukrainian formations have concentrated on strikes against military airfields – a few days ago, an ammunition depot in Lipetsk-2 was hit, and last night three more facilities were attacked, where, according to some reports, there were also consequences.
15:19 Selidovo – Zhelannoe.
Active military operations in the Krasnoarmeysk direction. An armored personnel carrier of the Russian Armed Forces, while retreating from a firing position in the northern part of the village of Zhelannoye, comes under fire from FPV drones from the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The Russian Armed Forces advance about 3 km along the railway to Krasnoarmeysk.
14:36 The footage shows the capture of servicemen from the 80th and 82nd Airborne Assault brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the settlements of Malaya Loknya, Martynovka and Ulanok in the Kursk region.
13:55 Russian Armed Forces advance near Kleshcheyevka – map.
12:02 Liptsy – Deep.
Khar'kov direction. Combat operations in the Liptsi area. Attack of the Russian Armed Forces by an armored column consisting of several armored vehicles and motorized rifle units. Assault groups reach the northern edge of the "Glubokoe" gardening community. Landing of troops. Advance of the Russian Armed Forces up to 1 km along the Travyanskoye Reservoir in the direction of Liptsi.
11:53 Russian soldiers destroyed an enemy artillery installation using the Krasnopol guided munition – video.
11:11 Ocheretino – Novoselovka 1st.
Active combat operations on the northern flank of Avdiivka. Tank attack of the Russian Armed Forces north of Novosyolovka 1st. Successful destruction of a tank when reaching a firing position. Advancement of the Russian Armed Forces in the western direction more than 1.5 km.
10:49 Su-34 crews destroy enemy personnel and military equipment in the border area of the Kursk region – video.
The attack was carried out on reconnoitered targets using aerial bombs with a universal planning and correction module.
09:54 Telegram channel “ WarGonzo ”:
Frontline report for the morning of 13.08.2024
- Zaporizhzhya Front. No significant changes. Positional battles continue in the Rabotino area and northwest of Verbovoye. There are reports of reserves being moved to this section of the front.
- Donetsk Front. Fighting continues in Konstantinovka, there are advances of the Russian Armed Forces.
In Krasnogorovka, Russian troops are also advancing from the northern side of the settlement, driving the remnants of the Ukrainian Armed Forces out of the city.
In Karlovka, there are no significant changes on the ground, but the fighting is very active. The Ukrainian Armed Forces are holding the line in almost every house, so our troops are having a very difficult time advancing.
In Grodovka, the Russian Armed Forces are also advancing in the settlement. In New York and Dzerzhinsk, there are also more tactical successes of the Russian Armed Forces.
- Khar'kov Front. No major changes in the LBS. Fighting continues in Volchansk and Glubokoe. The Ukrainian Armed Forces have significantly reduced the number of counterattacks they undertake in recent days, but the sector remains active.
- Kursk region. The Armed Forces of Ukraine do not abandon attempts to expand the zone of their control, but in all directions they encounter the defense of our troops, which have deployed along the entire LBS line.
Mobile groups of Ukrainian troops from five to 20 people are still active. There are battles in the Korenev area, where the Ukrainians are trying to bypass the settlement.
Counter battles are also taking place in the Kauchuk area. In general, the LBS in the direction is beginning to stabilize and take shape, therefore, in the near future we should expect the Russian Armed Forces to switch from active defense to an offensive.
09:15 Kursk region, Russian X-wingers destroyed a Ukrainian Stryker armored personnel carrier, while the target itself was identified by Severyan reconnaissance personnel — video.
08:42 Telegram channel " Rybar ":
Kursk direction: clearing of Snagosti and attacks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Korenevo area, which is known by the end of August 13, 2024
– The Ukrainian Armed Forces units are carrying out attacks on several sections of the Kursk direction at once with the support of armored vehicles, trying to dislodge the Russian Armed Forces from their positions. Russian troops are pinning down the Ukrainian Armed Forces and striking at enemy armored concentrations, while reinforcements are arriving in the Kursk region.
– In the Korenevsky district, fighting is underway in the Snagost area, which was previously cleared by units of the Russian Armed Forces. The situation in the Korenevo-Tolpinsky area remains stably tense: artillery strikes enemy positions, trying to ease the pressure on Russian units. According to some information, by evening the Ukrainian Armed Forces began another attack on Russian positions on the approaches to Korenevo.
– The situation in the area of the settlements of Obshchy Kolodez and Kauchuk is currently hidden by the "fog of war". There were no reports of the entry of units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine into these settlements, which allows us to speak of their control by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
– In the Sudzhansky district, Ukrainian formations are also attempting to expand the penetration, as before, using mobile armored groups. In Sudzha, as a result of a fire, the building of the Sudzhansky Agricultural College was seriously damaged. There have been no reports at this time that would allow one of the parties to clearly assert control over Martynovka.
– By the evening, footage appeared that allows us to speak about the confident control of Ukrainian formations over Plekhovo – if earlier only enemy armored vehicles were recorded in this area, then the video that surfaced on the Internet demonstrates the presence of its infantry units on the central street of the settlement.
- In the Belovsky district, the outskirts of Gir'ya and Ozerki are being cleared, where an armored group of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was routed yesterday. The confident control over the outskirts of the populated areas is confirmed by a report from one of the Russian media, filmed at the site of yesterday's battle.
08:05 Telegram channel "Rybar":
Chronicle of the special military operation for August 13, 2024
– Russian troops hit targets in the Sumy and Chernihiv regions on the territory controlled by the Kyiv regime. In turn, Ukrainian formations launched drones in the direction of the Voronezh region.- In the Kursk direction, Ukrainian formations are attempting to expand the zone of penetration in the Kursk region at several sections of the front at once. At the same time, units of the Russian Armed Forces are striking concentrations of personnel and armored vehicles of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and are also holding down enemy mobile groups in battle.
– In the Slobozhansky direction, the Ukrainian Armed Forces launched an unsuccessful attack in the area of the Kolotilovka checkpoint. The parties are exchanging artillery and UAV strikes; no significant changes in the front line have been recorded over the past day.
– In the Artemovsk direction, Russian units established control over height 215 southwest of Kleshcheyevka, the fighting for which continued throughout the year.
– In the Pokrovsk direction, Russian troops have liberated the settlements of Ivanovka and Sviridonovka and advanced to the southern outskirts of Novotoretskoye. Fighting is underway on the approaches to Grodovka, where the Russian Armed Forces are expanding their zone of control in the area of the ruins of a brick factory.
– In the South Donetsk direction, the Russian Armed Forces are fighting in Konstantinovka and on the approaches to the T-05-24 highway, which is used by the Ukrainian Armed Forces to supply the Ugledar garrison.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] The militants of the Ukrainian Armed Forces captured in the Kursk region admit that they received orders to shoot civilians in the region in case of resistance, said the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, on August 14.
“The criminal regime of the expired Zelensky” continues to demonstrate its true – neo-Nazi – essence, Zakharova noted in a commentary published on the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
"Ukrobandera's armed formations are indiscriminately firing at civilians trying to evacuate dangerous areas, shelling residential buildings and civilian infrastructure, and engaging in outright looting. The captured Ukrainian Armed Forces militants admit that they were ordered to mercilessly shoot everyone on the spot in the event of resistance from civilians," the official representative of the Foreign Ministry said.
Zakharova also noted that Kiev's attacks on the Kursk region did not achieve its goal of distracting Russian forces from the liberation of Donbass and Slobozhanshchina. The collapse of the thoroughly rotten regime in Kiev, which is supported by money from the West, is only a matter of time, she added.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have been attacking the Kursk region since August 6. Russian Armed Forces units stopped Ukrainian troops in border areas, preventing them from entering the region. According to data as of August 14, the enemy lost up to 2,300 people, the Defense Ministry reported.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces were tasked with reaching Kursk and Belgorod and shooting civilians in case of resistance; the units were engaged in looting, a previously captured Ukrainian army soldier said.
During the attacks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the region, 12 civilians were killed and 121 people were wounded, the acting governor of the Kursk region Alexey Smirnov said earlier. The Investigative Committee reported that the Ukrainian Armed Forces are actively using NATO weapons in the Kursk region. The West supports Kiev's attack on the region, noted FSB Director Alexander Bortnikov.
During a meeting on August 12, President Vladimir Putin demanded that the border with Ukraine be reliably covered after the enemy is driven out of Russian territory. There can be no negotiations with those who attack civilians and nuclear power facilities, the head of state said.
[BBC] German state prosecutors trying to solve the mystery of who blew up the Nord Stream gas pipelines under the Baltic Sea in 2022 have issued an arrest warrant for a Ukrainian diving instructor.
The suspect has been named as Volodymyr Z by German media, who have treated the sabotage like a sensational true crime drama.
Ines Peterson, a spokeswoman for Germany’s prosecutor general, declined to confirm the arrest warrant, telling the BBC that her office never commented so as not to jeopardise the investigation by giving the suspect a chance to escape.
But the Polish prosecutor general's spokeswoman, Anna Adamiak, in Warsaw told the BBC's Adam Easton that a European Arrest Warrant had indeed been passed to them by German prosecutors.
When Polish officers went to Volodymyr Z’s home in early July, he had already left the country for Ukraine, she said.
He had until then been living in a quiet residential area of Pruszków, a town near Warsaw, German media say.
According to an investigation by three German media outlets, including public broadcaster ARD, Volodymyr Z was part of a team of experienced Ukrainian divers who in September 2022 hired a German yacht, sailed out into the Baltic Sea and planted the explosives, blowing up three of the four Nord Stream pipelines.
A Ukrainian man and a Ukrainian woman are also suspected of involvement.
If the latest media reports are true, that a group of Ukrainian divers blew up the pipelines, it still doesn’t answer the broader question of who ordered the attack.
There is so far no public evidence linking it to the Ukrainian or Russian state or for that matter any other country or individual group.
For years there have been conspiracy theories around the attack, with unconfirmed rumours that governments in Kyiv, Moscow or Washington were behind the attack.
There has also been speculation that Ukrainian or Russian military groups, acting without the knowledge of the Ukrainian government, might have been responsible.
Underwater drone footage of the damage to the Nord Stream pipeline
The Nord Stream pipelines carried gas from Russia to Germany under the Baltic Sea and were a controversial and unpopular symbol of European energy dependence on Moscow. In other words it’s easy to imagine motives for such an attack.
For years Eastern Europeans warned Berlin that this dependence on Russian gas made Europe vulnerable.
But successive German governments, from Gerhard Schröder’s left-wing coalition to Angela Merkel’s conservative-led administrations, argued that binding Russia to Europe with energy and trade links would help both countries economically and ensure peace.
Russia’s full invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 destroyed that hope and mainstream politicians across the political spectrum in Germany have now admitted they were wrong.
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