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[LB] Since the beginning of the day, there have been 107 clashes at the front.
by Ivanna Kapustyanskas
The defense forces of Ukraine continue to hold back the offensive of the Russian invaders. Terrorists destroy Ukrainian cities and villages with rocket, air and artillery strikes.
At this time, the number of combat clashes has increased to 107, - according to the summary of the General Staff.
It is the hottest now in the Kurakhiv and Pokrovsky directions. The defense forces are taking all necessary measures to prevent the enemy from advancing deep into Ukrainian territory.
Today, the occupier carried out airstrikes and artillery fire on the border areas of Sumy and Chernihiv regions. Currently, 5 air strikes using 11 guided air bombs are known. In particular, areas of settlements such as Sumy, Tokari, Nova Sloboda, Yampil and Yunakivka were hit by the enemy. Settlements such as Sydorivka, Novovasylivka, Slavgorod, Popivka, Vysoke, Pokrovka, Boyaro-Lezhachi, Zarechche, Dmytrivka, Mykhalchyna Sloboda and Chuykivka were subjected to artillery shelling.
On the Kharkiv direction, since the beginning of the day, there has been one skirmish near Vovchansk, which is currently ongoing.
In the Kupyansk direction, Russian troops tried 14 times to storm our positions near Sinkivka, Hlushkivka, Lozova, Berestovo and Myasozharivka, the fighting continues.
In the Lymansky direction, the enemy attacked in the areas of Druzhelyubivka, Grekivka, Makiivka, Novosadovo, Nevsky, and Torsky. Since the beginning of the day, there have already been 11 clashes in this direction, four are still ongoing.
The enemy does not stop trying to break through the defense of our troops in the Siversk direction, but receives a decent rebuff from the Ukrainian defenders. So, near Ivano-Daryivka, the occupiers once tried to suppress our units.
In the Kramatorsk direction, since the beginning of the day, Russian troops once tried to knock out our units from their occupied positions. The enemy also attacked Chasovoy Yar with unguided air missiles.
In the Toretsk direction, the enemy, with the support of attack and bomber aircraft, attacked the positions of our troops eight times. At the moment, fighting is going on near New York.
The situation in the Pokrovsky direction remains tense. Fierce battles are taking place in the districts of Vozdvizheneka, Zeleny Polya, Novogrodivka, Grodivka, Selidovoy, Mykolaivka, and Myrolyubivka. So far, the enemy has carried out 31 assaults on our positions. Battles are ongoing in eight locations. Enemy aircraft also struck near the settlements of Oleksandropol and Selidove, using anti-aircraft missiles and unguided air missiles.
A difficult situation is observed in the Kurakhiv direction, where the enemy has attacked our units 32 times since the beginning of the day. Tried to advance near Krasnohorivka, Georgiivka and Kostyantynivka.
Two enemy assaults in the direction of Vodyanyi and Kostyantynivka were repulsed in the Vremivsk direction.
The occupiers once tried to advance in the Robotyny area in the Orihiv direction, but were strongly repulsed.
In the Dnieper direction, five enemy attacks were repulsed, the enemy had no success.
Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 19:33 Zelensky reported following Syrsky's report that all defined tasks of the Kursk operation are being implemented: "And at the moment, this operation of ours continues to be the largest replenishment of the exchange fund thanks to one direction."
18:35 Germany has ordered 17 IRIS-T air defense systems for Ukraine, Scholz said. He specified that this concerns eight medium-range systems and another nine short-range systems. Four of them will be sent by the end of the year, the rest next year.
18:31 Russian sabotage and reconnaissance groups are entering Toretsk in Donetsk Oblast, but the Defense Forces are driving them out of the city, said OVA head Vadim Filashkin. According to him, there are about 1,700 residents left in Toretsk, and it is very difficult to bring in humanitarian aid due to constant shelling.
17:59 Russians dropped an aerial bomb on civilian infrastructure in the urban settlement of Yampil in the Shostka district of the Sumy region, four people were injured, the regional prosecutor's office reported. The head of the OVA, Vladimir Artyukh, in turn, announced the decision of local authorities to evacuate five more settlements in the Shostka and Konotop districts.
17:13 Russians attacked Shiroka Balka of the Stanislav community of the Kherson region with drones, two people were injured, OVA reported. Another person was injured in Kindiyka.
16:27 In Krivoy Rog, the number of victims as a result of today's strike has increased to six, said the head of the Dnipropetrovsk OVA, Serhiy Lysak. More than 50 multi-story buildings, five educational institutions, eight stores, and a business center were damaged in the city.
15:40 Poland is ready to help restore historic buildings damaged in the Russian missile attack on Lviv, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said.
14:36 Ukraine and Ireland have signed a bilateral security agreement. According to the agreement, Ireland will provide Ukraine with another 128 million euros in non-lethal military support and at least 40 million in humanitarian aid in 2024. The country will also provide demining systems and explosive disposal equipment, join the Mine Action Coalition, and train Ukrainian military personnel.
13:55 The leader of the "DPR" Denis Pushilin announced a Ukrainian attack allegedly on the Sokol market in Donetsk, three people were killed, five were injured.
13:32 Ireland will provide Ukraine with a new aid package worth 36 million euros, which includes humanitarian aid, funds for rehabilitation and recovery, the country's government announced.
13:20 In Lviv, emergency rescue operations to eliminate the consequences of the morning enemy shelling have been completed: seven people were killed, 53 were injured. Among the dead were two children, the State Emergency Service reported.
12:54 The Russian Defense Ministry stated that Russian troops launched a strike with "precision weapons" this morning, allegedly on "Ukrainian defense industry enterprises" in Lviv. According to Moscow, the "facilities" that were the target of the strike allegedly produced and repaired electronic components for aircraft and missile weapons of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
As for yesterday's strike on Poltava, the Russian Ministry of Defense claims that the strike was allegedly carried out on the 179th joint training center of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, where "under the guidance of foreign instructors" communications and electronic warfare specialists, as well as drone operators, were trained.
12:16 In Lviv, the number of victims as a result of the morning strike has increased to 47, the State Emergency Service reported.
11:59 In the Kamensky district of the Rostov region, a fire at a fuel depot, which began on August 28 after a drone attack, was only localized today, Governor Vasily Golubev reported.
11:23 Irish Prime Minister Simon Harris has arrived in Kyiv, where he will hold a bilateral meeting with Zelensky, Irish broadcaster RTE reports.
11:12 In Poltava, the number of victims as a result of the Russian strike on September 3 has increased to 298 people, 53 people have died, the State Emergency Service reported. Up to five more people may be under the rubble, rescue operations are ongoing. As a result of the attack, a six-story educational building was partially destroyed, three apartment buildings, five private houses, and an office building were damaged.
10:57 The EU has issued a statement expressing condolences over the tragedy in Poltava and declaring its intention to increase military aid to Ukraine.
10:40 As of 9:30, seven people were killed in Lviv, including two children, and 42 were injured, including one child, the State Emergency Service reported. The search and rescue operation continues. The department also reported that rocket debris fell on the territory of the Lviv International Airport, according to preliminary information, the airport infrastructure was not damaged.
10:33 In Lviv, as a result of the night attack, at least seven architectural monuments of local significance were damaged, in particular on Konovaltsia and Kokorudza streets, said the head of the OVA Maksym Kozytskyi. He noted that all the houses are located in the historical area and in the UNESCO buffer zone, they are included in the state register of immovable monuments of Ukraine. Thus, on Konovaltsia street, the regional Center for Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation was damaged. The center is located in the villa of Jozefa Franz, which dates back to 1893 and is an architectural monument of local significance.
09:58 During the night and morning Russian attack, air defense shot down 22 attack UAVs and seven cruise missiles, the Air Force reported. In total, Russia used 42 air targets:
two aeroballistic missiles Kh-47 M2 Kinzhal;
two X-22 cruise missiles;
six X-101 cruise missiles;
three Iskander-K cruise missiles;
29 Shahed-131/136 attack UAVs.
The air defense forces destroyed 29 air targets: four Kh-101 cruise missiles, three Iskander-K cruise missiles and 22 drones. Another six attack drones were lost (probably suppressed by electronic warfare), one flew to Belarus. Air defense operated in the Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Chernihiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Volyn, Ternopil, Kyiv, Zhytomyr, Poltava and Sumy regions.
09:46 In the Kherson region, over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, three people were killed and five were wounded, reported the head of the OVA, Oleksandr Prokudin.
09:39 In Donetsk Oblast, on September 3, as a result of Russian shelling, one person was killed - in Vesyoly Gai. Three more people in the region were injured in the past 24 hours, reported the head of the OVA Vadim Filashkin.
09:34 On Tuesday, September 3, Russians launched a KAB attack on the village of Makarovo in the Bogodukhov district of the Kharkiv region - one person was killed, three were injured, reported the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov.
09:32 Seven people have already died in Lviv, including three children. There may be people under the rubble, said the city's mayor Andriy Sadovyi. According to him, Russia attacked two districts - Frankivskyi and Zheleznodorozhny, both in the historical part of the city. In Zheleznodorozhny district, 50 houses were damaged, in Frankivskyi - 25 houses.
09:25 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reports, citing geolocation footage, that Russian troops have probably captured the village of Galitsynovka in the Pokrovsk district of the Donetsk region and are already approximately 8 km from Pokrovsk. The enemy has also made minor advances near Toretsk and Donetsk.
09:02 The death toll from the Russian strike on Lviv has risen to five, including a 14-year-old child, and more than 30 people have been injured. Residential buildings, schools, and medical facilities have been damaged, Zelensky said.
08:37 At night, Russia launched a combined drone and missile strike on Lviv. Two hits were recorded, residential buildings were damaged, said OVA head Maksym Kozitsky. According to preliminary data, three people were killed and 26 were injured. Kozitsky emphasized that the enemy hit only residential areas where there is no critical or military infrastructure.
Mayor Andriy Sadovy said that more than 50 houses were damaged as a result of the strikes, most of them in the city center, including near the railway station. People will be relocated from six houses due to serious damage. Two hospitals were also damaged.
07:45 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of September 4. At the same time, the total number of cruise missiles was adjusted, and the losses per day are presented in the usual mode:
personnel - about 620,350 (+1,390) people,
tanks - 8618 (+7),
combat armored vehicles - 16,848 (+27),
artillery systems - 17,694 (+30),
MLRS - 1177 (+0),
air defense systems - 940 (+0),
aircraft - 368 (+0),
helicopters - 328 (+0),
Operational-tactical level UAVs - 14,616 (+43),
cruise missiles - 2580 (+0),
ships/boats - 28 (+0),
submarines - 1 (+0),
automotive equipment and tank trucks - 24,007 (+35),
special equipment - 3014 (+12).
07:38 In the morning, Russians attacked a hotel in Krivoy Rog, five people were injured, including a ten-year-old child, said the head of the Dnipropetrovsk OVA, Serhiy Lysak.
07:09 In the Zaporizhia region, one person was wounded as a result of Russian attacks on the Polohovsky district, reported the head of the OVA Ivan Fedorov.
00:13 The United States is preparing a new package of military aid for Ukraine in the coming weeks, White House spokesman John Kirby said. He stressed that the United States' support for Ukraine remains unwavering, especially in strengthening the Armed Forces and air defense, particularly given Russia's attack on Poltava.
Text taken from the V Kontakte page of Tatyana Vasilyeva Syrsky is forced to transfer part of the reserves from the Kursk direction to the Pokrovsk direction
‼Syrsky is forced to transfer part of the reserves from the Kursk direction to the Pokrovsk direction in order to stop the collapse of the front.
Bankovaya demands that the Commander-in-Chief continue the offensive deep into Russia and send trained units from the front there, replacing them with new brigades.
More from the V Kontakte page of Sladkov+ The official statistics of enemy losses are staggering.
The official statistics of enemy losses are staggering. More than 8,000 Ukrainian servicemen and Western specialists have been destroyed (most likely they are not mercenaries, but military personnel of NATO countries). That's two and a half brigades of dead. This is only in the Kursk region, in a month.
Plus the confirmed losses of the enemy (the Ukrainians themselves have the exact figuresprobably don't know) in Kharkov and other regions of Ukraine. I mean the results of the rout of foreigners and officers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with our bombs and PVD missiles. Here we should not forget that we also take Ukrainian prisoners.
And we also beat the enemy in other parts of the front. And we take prisoners there too. And here is one detail that is incomprehensible to me: the information about the replenishment of combat units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with foreigners is true. Nevertheless, we have not been presented with a single captured foreign fighter. The fact that they are shot on the spot... Maybe. But it is high time to show at least one.
And one more important feature. Previously, we did not talk about our losses at all. At the very least, it was annoying: a worthy soldier or commander dies, and we could not even officially say a few words to him, who had gone on his last journey. Now - no. Even in the official reports of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation they talk about deaths, and, saying goodbye, we pay tribute in words.
The Defense Ministry's reports are becoming more complete and weighty, and that's great. We have something to tell people about, the military, employees of other services and ministries are doing a gigantic job. And in the rear, everything is boiling. There is, however, a "black cohort of quiet traitors." Never mind, their time will come. Those who are not with us are against us.
More from the V Kontakte page of Ministry of Defense of Russia A captured Ukrainian serviceman told how his unit was abandoned by his command
"We asked on the radio what we should do. The senior officer replied, stay where you are, we are watching you from above, you are safe," recalls captured serviceman Andrey Kisly.
However, after some time, Russian stormtroopers approached the Ukrainian unit.
The prisoner noted that his health problems were ignored at the military registration and enlistment office. According to him, a visual inspection was conducted according to the principle: "You have arms and legs - go."
Related from the V Kontakte page of Reports from the Novorossiya militia
04.09.24. Note from the channel "Military Chronicle".
"Polish mercenaries and a number of their sympathizers are starting to howl on the Internet that the 47th Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine "Magura" will soon be left alone near Pokrovsk. There are no reserves to cover it at the moment.
The reason is the tactical and operational throwing of Syrsky, who, it seems, after the brilliant (no) decision to enter the Kursk region does not know which section of the front to plug first.
Part of the 47th Brigade, as it turned out earlier, was destroyed near Sumy. Another part was knocked out/wounded and only a third is now in combat readiness.
Judging by the tone of some messages, New York and Toretsk were flowers for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. But in Pokrovsk there may be berries that the Ukrainian army has never seen before.
In addition to Pokrovsk, Syrsky’s frontline dilemma also includes the Nevelsk cauldron and Ugledar, which perhaps only Syrsky and his superiors want to turn into another fortress, but the 72nd Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces REALLY does not want to.”
Text taken from a V Kontakte post in Reports from the Novorossiya militia Notes from the channel "Rybar".
Recently, more details came to light about the participation in crimes in Ukraine of members of the US Democratic Party, and in particular -the current President of the country, Joe Biden.
Documents from the trials in Vienna have leaked onto the Internet that indicate the involvement of American officials in establishing external control over Ukraine and developing schemes to seize resources.
▪The reason for collecting this data was the trial at the request of the United States to extradite Ukrainian businessman Dmitry Firtash from Austria. He was detained in Vienna on March 12, 2014, when the Americans demanded that he be expelled. However, several more hearings were held in Austria on this issue, the last of which took place on June 14, 2023 and ended not in Washington's favor.
▪As part of this investigation, more and more evidence is emerging that the United States participated in organizing a coup d'état in Ukraine in 2013 in order to replace power with loyal supporters. These people were subsequently supposed to cover up the Democrats' corruption schemes, mainly those that went through Biden.
In addition, by transferring control of Ukraine in a completely manual mode, the Americans were able to persecute businessmen and politicians who, for one reason or another, refused to cooperate. One of them, allegedly, was Firtash.
▪At the moment, the Austrian court found out that Biden and Victoria Nuland brought Turchynov and Yatsenyuk to power in Ukraine in order to "implement the interests of the United States, up to the physical elimination of dissenters."
Biden also threatened to stop providing Kiev with a billion-dollar subsidy for refusing to dismiss the country's Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin, who was inconvenient for the United States and refused to initiate cases on "American orders." Firtash's case was one of them.
▪Moreover, Nuland blackmailed Ukrainian politicians with their foreign assets, and demanded that the former head of the SBU "eliminate or limit Firtash's influence." At the same time, Turchynov demanded that a case be fabricated against the businessman and that he be banned from entering the country.
▪At the same time, after Firtash won the first extradition case and was going to return to Ukraine, they tried to stop him - it was announced that three criminal cases would be opened and the businessman would be immediately arrested if he returned to his homeland, although Kiev had no grounds for arrest.
🔻It is unlikely that today there are any doubters that the US, one way or another, made significant efforts to create and aggravate the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, thereby organizing multiple and not always cunning and complex schemes for managing both Ukraine and its resources.
Another question is why the Austrians suddenly decided to expose this scheme or why they were allowed to expose it. Obviously, this is happening as part of corporate showdowns.
In addition, this also concerns the increasing pressure on American Democrats and the direct campaign against them by Republicans, which is more relevant than ever before in the run-up to the elections. At the same time, this is also a blow to the apparent legitimacy of the Kiev regime, the campaign to discredit them is also not standing still.
Probably, in the future we will see even more revelations about the participation in various criminal schemes of the highest-ranking members of the Democratic Party and the Ukrainian government. However, this will not change anything in the fate of the so-called Ukraine."
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[EngMilRu] On 3 September 2024, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation delivered a precise strike at the AFU 179th Joint Training Centre in Poltava, where under supervision of foreign instructors signal and electronic warfare specialists from all formations and military units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were trained as well as UAV operators, which deliver strikes at civilian objects on the territory of the Russian Federation.
Today in the morning, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation delivered a group strike by long-range precision weaponry including Kinzhal hypersonic air-launched ballistic missiles and attack UAVs to hit Ukrainian defence industry facilities based in Lvov, which manufactured and repaired electronic components of AFU aircraft and missile weaponry.
The goal of the strike was achieved. All the assigned targets were engaged.
In Volchansk and Liptsy directions, units of the Sever Group of Forces inflicted losses on formations of the 23rd, 25th Mechanised brigades, 82nd Air Assault Brigade of the AFU, and the 3rd National Guard Brigade near Zolochev, Goptovka, Aleksandrovka, and Velikiye Prokhody (Kharkov region).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 75 troops, one armoured personnel carrier, two motor vehicles, and one 122mm D-30 howitzer. One ammunition depot was destroyed.
Units of the Zapad Group of Forces improved the tactical situation and inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of the 44th, 66th Mechanised brigades, 63rd Motorised Infantry Brigade of the AFU, and the 1st National Guard Brigade near Petropavlovka, Kolesnikovka (Kharkov region), Makeyevka and Chervonaya Dibrova (Lugansk People's Republic). One counter-attack launched by formations of the AFU 3rd Assault Brigade was repelled.
The AFU losses amounted to up to 480 troops, one infantry fighting vehicle, three motor vehicles, one U.S.-made 155mm M198 howitzer, one 152mm Msta-B howitzer, one 122mm D-30 howitzer, two UK-made 105mm L-119 howitzers, one U.S.-made 105mm M-101 howitzer, and one U.S.-made AN/TPQ-50 counter-battery radar. Five AFU field ammunition depots were destroyed.
Units of the Yug Group of Forces improved the tactical situation along the front lines and inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of the 23rd, 24th, 30th Mechanised brigades, 46th Airmobile Brigade, 143rd Infantry Brigade of the AFU, and 101st Territorial Defence Brigade near Zaliznyanskoye, Georgiyevka, Chasov Yar, and Konstantinovka (Donetsk People's Republic). Two counter-attacks launched by assault detachments of the 116th Territorial Defence Brigade were repelled.
The AFU losses amounted to up to 670 troops, three motor vehicles, two U.S.-made 155mm M-777 howitzers, two 152mm D-20 guns, one 122mm D-30 howitzer, and one U.S.-made AN/TPQ-37 counter-battery radar. One ammunition depot was destroyed.
As a result of active actions, units of the Tsentr Group of Forces fully liberated Karlovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
Losses were inflicted on manpower and hardware of the AFU 32nd, 100th Mechanised brigades, 119th Territorial Defence Brigade, and 15th National Guard Brigade near Shcherbinovka, Dzerzhinsk, Ukrainsk, Dimitrov, and Selidovo (Donetsk People's Republic). Seven counter-attacks launched by assault detachments of the 53rd Mechanised Brigade, 71st Jaeger Brigade, 25th Airborne Brigade of the AFU, 37th Naval Infantry Brigade, 14th National Guard Brigade, and the Lyut Assault Brigade of the National Police of Ukraine were repelled.
The AFU losses amounted to more than 480 troops, one U.S.-made MaxxPro armoured fighting vehicle, two motor vehicles, one 152mm Msta-B howitzer, one 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system, and one 100mm Rapira anti-tank gun.
As a result of active actions, units of the Vostok Group of Forces liberated Prechistovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
Losses were inflicted on formations of the 58th Motorised Infantry Brigade of the AFU and 117th Territorial Defence Brigade near Shakhtyorskoye, Dobrovolye (Donetsk People's Republic), and Priyutnoye (Zaporozhye region).
One counterattack launched by an assault detachment of the AFU 72nd Mechanised Brigade was repelled.
The AFU losses amounted to up to 150 troops and five motor vehicles.
Units of the Dnepr Group of Forces inflicted losses on formations of the 37th Naval Infantry Brigade and 39th Coastal Defence Brigade near Berislav, Tokarevka, Verovka (Kherson region), and Tamarino (Nikolayev region).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 80 troops and three motor vehicles. Two ammunition depots and one electronic warfare station were destroyed.
Operational-Tactical Aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces engaged AFU manpower and hardware clusters in 129 areas during the day.
Over the past 24 hours, air defence units have shot down 11 U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS projectiles and 30 unmanned aerial vehicles.
In total, 642 airplanes and 283 helicopters, 31,017 unmanned aerial vehicles, 575 air defence missile systems, 17,814 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,435 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 14,039 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 25,556 units of support motor vehicles have been destroyed during the special military operation.
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[NewsFront] 23:59 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 09/04/2024 to 00:00 09/05/2024.
A total of 17 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 three civilians killed and 11 injured.
DAMAGED:
Two cars,
Two buses,
One1 civil infrastructure facility.
Ten artillery attacks in Gorlovka and seven artillery attacks in the Donetsk direction.
21:02 Airborne artillery crews destroyed the command post of one of the Ukrainian Armed Forces units with personnel.
19:44 Ukrainian Armed Forces militants in Krasnogorovka (DPR) tried to escape from drones by hiding behind civilians, but did not have time to run inside the house.
19:24 The Russian army launched a missile strike on targets in the Odessa region.
19:07 Explosions in the city of Novomoskovsk (Dnipropetrovsk region). Preliminary, the strikes were carried out on targets on the territory of the Novomoskovsk Pipe Plant.
18:49 Servicemen from the 18th Army uncovered and destroyed an enemy UAV control point, as well as a gathering place of Ukrainian militants in the village of Sadovoe.
18:37 Explosions in Pavlograd (Dnipropetrovsk region)
18:34 Explosions in Dnepropetrovsk. Before this, there were reports of rockets in the direction of the city.
18:05 Advancement of the Russian Armed Forces. 04.09.2024:
– The Rabotin salient has been practically eliminated after the recent offensive actions of the Russian Armed Forces.
- In the Ugledar direction, Prechistovka has been liberated, battles are underway in the direction of Zolotaya Niva. Battles for Vodyanoye and the Yuzhnodonbasskaya mine complex are also continuing.
– In the Dzerzhinsk area, there is an advance near the liberated village of Druzhba.
– In the Nevelskoye area, the enemy continues to retreat to the west due to the threat of operational encirclement that arose due to the difficult situation for the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of Ukrainsk and Pervye Zhelanny.
17:50 "Rooks" continue to "knock out" the enemy from the border areas of the Kursk region. Rook is the informal name for the Russian Su-25 ground interdiction fighter
The Su-25 crews launched air-launched missiles at the Ukrainian Armed Forces' personnel and military equipment. After using air-launched weapons, the crews performed an anti-missile maneuver, released heat traps, and returned to their departure airfield. Intelligence reported that all specified targets had been destroyed.
17:20 The situation in the Krasnoarmeysky (Pokrovsky) direction is reported by "Whisper of the Front"
The Ukrainian Armed Forces are trying to counterattack and gain a foothold in the village of Galitsynovka. Russian fighters are holding their positions.
The Russian Armed Forces have taken up several positions north of the Novogrodovskaya No. 1 mine.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces have a very difficult situation in the area of ??the city of Ukrainsk. Russian troops are constantly storming it.
16:46 UAV units of the Dnipro group of forces daily destroy objects and personnel of the Ukrainian Armed Forces with FPV drones in the Kakhovka direction – video.
16:34 Destruction of positions and soldiers of the 5th assault brigade by fighters of the 4th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade and the AKHMAT special forces in Chasov Yar.
16:10 Crews of 152mm Giatsint-B towed guns are conducting counterbattery fire, destroying armored vehicles, fire weapons and manpower of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the border areas of the Kursk region.
15:37 The Russian Armed Forces, using the Lancet munition, destroyed the Malakhit-M radar station of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Sumy Oblast.
15:16 The 11th Air Force and Air Defense Army struck a temporary deployment point of one of the units of the 58th Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the settlement of Shakhtarskoye with a half-ton aerial bomb. The enemy's losses amounted to 15 militants killed and wounded.
14:40 Units of the 58th Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces fled chaotically during the liberation of Prechistovka in the DPR by Russian troops – video.
14:24 Destruction of two armored vehicles of the Ukrainian Armed Forces by FPV drone crews of the Sever group in the Kursk border area. One armored vehicle was destroyed on the approaches to the settlement of Olgovka, the second in the area of the settlement of Slavgorod in the Sumy region.
13:47 Destruction of another pickup truck and Ukrainian Armed Forces militants holed up in houses in the Pokrovsk direction – video.
12:50 Russian tricolor over Konstantinovka - footage of the liberation of the settlement.
For courage and heroism in carrying out combat missions in Konstantinovka, the personnel of the 57th Motorized Rifle Regiment were awarded state awards.
12:11 Summary of the Russian Ministry of Defense on the progress of the special military operation (as of September 4, 2024):
On the morning of September 4, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation carried out a group strike with long-range precision weapons, including the Kinzhal hypersonic aeroballistic systems and attack unmanned aerial vehicles, against enterprises of the Ukrainian defense industry located in the city of Lviv, where the production and repair of electronic components of aircraft and missile weapons of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was carried out. The strike targets were achieved, all designated objects were hit.
Units of the North group of forces in the Vovchansk and Liptsov directions inflicted losses on formations of the 23rd and 25th Mechanized, 82nd Airborne Assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the 3rd National Guard brigade in the areas of the settlements of Zolochiv, Goptovka, Aleksandrovka and Velyki Prokhody in the Khar'kov region.
The servicemen of the "West" group of forces improved their tactical position, defeated the manpower and equipment of the 44th, 66th Mechanized, 63rd Motorized Infantry brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the 1st National Guard Brigade in the areas of the settlements of Petrovpavlivka, Kolesnikovka in the Khar'kov Region, Makeyevka and Chervona Dibrova in the Luhansk People's Republic. They repelled the counterattack of the 3rd Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The fighters of the "Southern" group of forces improved their tactical position along the forward edge, defeated the manpower and equipment of the 23rd, 24th, 30th Mechanized, 46th Airmobile, 143rd Infantry brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the 101st territorial defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Zaliznyanske, Georgievka, Chasov Yar and Konstantinovka of the Donetsk People's Republic. Two counterattacks of assault groups of the 116th Territorial Defense Brigade were repelled.
Units of the "Center" group of forces have actively liberated the settlement of Karlovka in the Donetsk People's Republic. The manpower and equipment of the 32nd, 100th Mechanized brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the 119th Territorial Defense brigade, the 15th National Guard brigade were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Shcherbinovka, Dzerzhinsk, Ukrainsk, Dimitrov and Selidovo in the Donetsk People's Republic. Seven counterattacks of assault groups of the 53rd Mechanized, 71st Jaeger, 25th Airborne brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the 37th Naval Infantry brigade, the 14th National Guard brigade and the "Lyut" assault brigade of the national police of Ukraine were repelled.
As a result of successful actions, servicemen of the "East" group of forces liberated the settlement of Prechistovka of the Donetsk People's Republic. The formations of the 58th Motorized Infantry brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the 117th Territorial Defense brigade were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Shakhtarskoye, Dobrovolye of the Donetsk People's Republic and Priyutnoye of the Zaporizhia region. They repelled a counterattack by the assault group of the 72nd Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Units of the Dnepr group of forces inflicted losses on formations of the 37th Naval Infantry Brigade and the 39th Coastal Defense Brigade in the areas of the settlements of Berislav, Tokarevka, Verovka in the Kherson region and Tamarino in the Nikolaev region.
Operational-tactical aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, missile forces and artillery of the Russian Armed Forces groups inflicted damage on concentrations of enemy manpower and military equipment in 129 areas.
Over the course of a day, air defense systems shot down 11 US-made HIMARS rockets and 30 unmanned aerial vehicles.
11:54 Naval infantry of the 810th Naval Infantry Brigade of the Black Sea Fleet destroyed a Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group in the Kursk region, a representative of the Russian security agency reported
11:52 Footage of the destruction of unmanned boats of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the northwestern part of the Black Sea.
10:52 Russian military launched a missile strike on a concentration of Ukrainian equipment near Sumy, destroying seven trucks, four armored combat vehicles, nine cars and up to 80 Ukrainian Armed Forces militants.
10:25 The Russian Armed Forces continue their focused advance on the flanks to create a threat of encirclement of Ugledar.
10:05 The situation on the front line for the Ukrainian Armed Forces is rapidly deteriorating, which is connected to Kiev’s attempts to lift restrictions on strikes on Russian territory, Maria Zakharova reported at a briefing on the sidelines of the EEF.
09:52 Footage of objective control of a missile strike on a HIMARS and M270A1 MLRS position in the area of the settlement of Khrapovshchyna in Sumy Oblast.
As a result of the strike, the following were destroyed:
– PU MLRS MLRS
– HIMARS MLRS launcher
– Two escort vehicles
– up to 20 Ukrainian Armed Forces militants.
08:17 122mm BM-21 Grad MLRS crews of the Zapad group of forces destroyed a concentration of manpower, a takeoff point and a control point for Ukrainian militants' UAVs. Objective control means confirmed the targets were hit.
09:39 Consequences of a “hit” on one of the facilities in Krivoy Rog, the building was used as a location for the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
09:20 Video of one of the explosions in Lviv. It is reported that the railway station, which was a major supply hub for the Ukrainian Armed Forces, was hit.
08:14 Enemy reports:
"The Russian Armed Forces took control of Prechistovka and advanced near Vodyanoye."
08:04 Russian military set fire to and blew up a Humvee armored vehicle of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Khar'kov region – video.
08:00 The Russian Armed Forces are building on their success in the Kupyansk direction, military expert Andrey Marochko reported.
"In the area of the settlements of Sin'kovka, Peschanoye and Stelmakhovka, the Russian Armed Forces are advancing further. Offensive actions are being conducted on a section of more than 30 km. Over the past 24 hours, in some areas, the advance of our troops into the depth of the enemy's defense was about 1.5 km. Due to panic in the ranks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, loss of control, the number of losses among Ukrainian militants has also increased in this area," Marochko wrote on his Telegram channel.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Ilya Knorring
[REGNUM] Along with the murderers and looters of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, propagandists also came to the Russian city of Sudzha - clearly not on their own, but “in a convoy” and with the consent of the command.
In a video released on August 25 on the Ukrainian YouTube channel “Komik Plus Historian,” comedian Felix Redka and history popularizer Yevgeny Murza discuss the “history” of the captured Sudzha while sitting in one of the halls of the city’s local history museum.
In essence, the "easy and casual conversation" boils down to a propaganda emphasis. The hour-long video is intended to prove that since "the city of Sudzha was founded by Cossacks" just like the local "fortress", this part of the Kursk region is supposedly an integral part of Ukraine.
Proving the alleged Ukrainian origin of Sudzha, they "forgot" that the city itself, together with the district (uyezd) as part of the Kursk region (province), and the city of Sumy, where the comedian and historian come from, are originally Russian land, since 1503 continuously. And the fact that Little Russians settled there among other settlers and service people, this happened by the grace of the first Romanovs. So we will conduct our own excursion, but to the neighboring region. And fill the voids of the Sumy Regional Museum of Local History.
Sumy Oblast is the most problematic region on the borders of Russia. Initially, when this administrative unit was created in 1939, it was historically and mentally mined. During its stay first as part of the Ukrainian SSR, and especially as part of independent Ukraine, the explosiveness of "Sumyshchyna" only increased.
It was from there - from the territory where the abatis once stood, protecting the Russian kingdom - that the attack on the current Russian borderland, the Kursk region, took place.
"YAROSLAVNA CRIES EARLY IN PUTIVL..."
Actually, "Sumyshchyna", which is periodically mentioned in the Ukrainian media, is a colloquial neologism that appeared in the "mova" by historical standards yesterday. Before the Great Patriotic War, there was no Sumy region on the map of the Ukrainian SSR, and there was no province of the same name in the Russian Empire.
If we were to look for a toponym ending in "-shchyna" in local history, it would be "Severshchina" or Severskaya Land, named after the ancient Slavic tribe of the northerners. They lived on the territory of today's Bryansk, Sumy, Kursk, Belgorod and Kharkov regions, "not suspecting" that in a thousand years their homeland would be divided by state borders.
In 1097, the Lyubech congress of princes recognized Romen (now Romny) as belonging to the Pereyaslavl principality of Vladimir Monomakh, and Putivl as belonging to the Chernigov prince Oleg Svyatoslavich. His descendants owned the entire territory of the modern Sumy, Kursk, Chernigov and Bryansk regions.
According to The Tale of Igor's Campaign, in 1185 Oleg's grandson, Prince Igor, ruled in Putivl (now a "foreign" city in the Sumy region), and Yaroslavna's lamentations were heard from the wall there.
"Yaroslavna cries early in Putivl on the rampart, saying: "Bright and thrice bright sun! You are warm and beautiful to everyone: why, lord, have you spread your hot rays on the warriors of my lad?" - says "The Tale of Igor's Campaign" (translated from ancient into modern Russian by Dmitry Likhachev ). And here:
“God shows Prince Igor the way from the Polovtsian land to the Russian land, to the paternal golden throne.”
Igor's brother, "buoy-tur" Vsevolod, owned Kursk and Trubchevsky (a city in today's Bryansk region), and their nephew Vsevolod Olgovich owned Rylsk (in today's Kursk region).
Rylsk retained its inheritance and already under Vasily the Dark swore allegiance to Moscow, and the descendants of the Rylsk princes, the Patrikeevichs, took seats in the Boyar Duma. Since 1503, all the lands of today's Sumy, Bryansk, Chernigov, Kursk, Kharkov and Belgorod regions (excluding Romeny and Konotop) went to Ivan III, but Chernigov was lost during the period from the Time of Troubles to the Pereyaslav Rada.
RUSSIANS, CIRCASSIANS AND SOLDIERS
These lands were repopulated later. Kursk, destroyed by raids of the Crimean Tatars and Nogais, was rebuilt under Ivan the Terrible's son, Feodor Ioannovich. Belgorod was founded as a border fortress in those same years. The territory of today's Sumy Oblast and Sudzha began to be developed later, under the second tsar of the Romanov dynasty, Alexei Mikhailovich.
Two categories of settlers came to live in the borderlands: the Circassian Cossacks, who came from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth “under the hand” of the Moscow sovereign, and settlers from the central Russian lands.
Putivl at the beginning of the 20th century. Annunciation Church
This is where the peculiarities of local toponyms come from: nearby villages whose names differ only in clarification - Cherkasskoye or Russkoye.
For example, Russkoe Porechnoe and Cherkasskoe Porechnoe in the present-day Sudzhansky district (Kursk region), Russkaya Lozovaya and Cherkasskaya Lozovaya near Kharkov, etc.
Since the times when the fortified borders of the Russian state passed here, there have been villages with “military names” here - Pushkarnye in the Kursk and Belgorod regions and Pushkarovka in Sumy, the villages of Bolshoe Soldatskoe and several “simply” Soldatskie in the Kursk region, etc.
Under Alexei Mikhailovich, the osadchiy - that is, the founder of the settlements - named Gerasim Kondratyev "came from beyond the Dnieper cities under the High-Sovereign hand" of the Tsar of "all great and small Russia," as stated in the petition of the Sumy Cossacks to the highest name from 1731.
“He Gerasim Kondratyev called upon our grandfathers and fathers and relatives and many other people from the Dnieper and from the hetman cities, residents of the faithfulness to the Russian state, and first populated the city of Sumy, and then many towns and villages and villages near the city of Sumy, and set up regiments and monasteries and churches of God,” the Cossacks recalled.
Sumy and Akhtyrka were called regimental cities, founded with the highest permission of the Russian Tsar.
Lebedin, Nedrigailov, Belopolye and other strongholds of the Sloboda border of the Russian state joined them.
"FROM THE CRESTS TO THE PRINCES"
After the Pereyaslav Rada, the Little Russian lands, now part of the Sumy region, also found themselves under the tsar's scepter. Glukhov was the center of the hetman's power and the Little Russian Collegium. There was a launching pad there, from where, according to Pushkin, "the Ukrainians jumped into princes."
Chancellor Alexander Bezborodko and the outstanding diplomat Andrei Razumovsky, one of the sons of the last hetman, were born in Glukhov.
And when the borders of the Russian provinces were formed under the emperors Paul and Alexander I, Sumy and Akhtyrka remained Slobozhanshchina and were governed from Kharkov.
Romny became a district town of the Poltava province, Putivl of the Kursk province, and Glukhov and Konotop of the Chernigov province. The Jewish Pale of Settlement also passed along the historical border of Slobozhanshchina and Little Russia.
In 1924, the Soviet government reshuffled the geographical maps, as previously reported in detail by the Regnum news agency.
The Putivl district of the RSFSR was transferred to the Ukrainian SSR as a Russian national region, and the territories of the old provinces were divided into districts.
Then again the Kharkov region, and only in January 1939 the Sumy region appeared.
CHERRY ORCHARDS, HUSSARS AND PILOTS
What outstanding names the big country has not received from this territory! In Akhtyrka he served in the hussar regiment, and then it was commanded by Denis Davydov. It was this military unit that became the basis of the partisan movement in 1812.
One of the founders of the Russian sugar industry, Ivan Kharitonenko, was born in the vicinity of Sumy, and the founder of Russian erotic prose, Mikhail Artsybashev, was born in the Akhtyrsky district.
In Sumy there is the Lintvarev estate, where Chekhov and his family members visited many times. According to some sources, that very cherry orchard is located there. Its last owner, Georgy Lintvarev, was a prominent zemstvo figure and a deputy of the first Duma.
A native of the Belovody estate in Sumy district, Nikanor Savich sat in the third and fourth Dumas, and thanks to him, parliamentarians supported the program for the development of the navy proposed by Admiral Grigorovich. Nikanor Vasilyevich deserves considerable credit for the fact that the Russian Navy was ready for the First World War.
The most successful fighter pilot of the Soviet Air Force, three times Hero of the Soviet Union Ivan Kozhedub, was born in the village of Obrazhievka in the Glukhov district. He shot down 64 enemy aircraft, including two American ones in the skies over Korea.
MEDICAL HISTORY
With the proclamation of Ukraine's independence, the "assembled composition" of the region made itself known. Ukrainization took place there quite easily, and political forces that dominated from a certain time were completely different from, say, in the neighboring Kharkov and even Poltava regions.
At its peak, the Party of Regions showed more than modest results there. What is the reason for such electoral behavior?
Of course, and in the fact that the region was created on the principle of a patchwork quilt. And in the fact that in the village of Khoruzhevka in the Nedrigailovsky district, Viktor Yushchenko was born into a family of descendants of serfs of Count Yuri Golovkin.
But the third and perhaps most significant reason for such sentiments was Volodymyr Shcherban, a native of Donetsk who held the post of head of the regional state administration from 1999 to 2005. His authoritarian and rude leadership style caused rejection among local voters.
Since Yushchenko came to power in 2005, nationalists have been in the clear lead in all elections. Moreover, the mayor of Konotop is Artem Semenikhin, the only one outside Galicia, a representative of the openly Nazi Svoboda party. In 1992, Joseph Brodsky wrote:
"It is not the green-and-white, isotope-scorched one, but the yellow-and-blue one that flies over Konotop." Now the forces that act not under the "yellow-and-blue" but under the red-and-black Bandera flag dictate their rights to "legitimate" power.
In 2022, Russian troops entered the territory of the Sumy region, but did not enter large cities. And they left quickly, as a "gesture of goodwill." So the region managed to avoid mass reprisals by the VSSU against local residents who welcomed the liberators, unlike the Kharkiv and Kherson regions.
But it is in Sumy Oblast that the Ukrainian Armed Forces have come very close to the border of three Russian regions - Bryansk, Kursk and Belgorod Oblasts - and are constantly shelling. The invasion of Kursk Oblast was also organized from there. So the transformation of Sumy Oblast into at least a demilitarized sanitary zone is inevitable. And then most of its residents will probably remember their Russian roots and come out of their state of ideological insanity.
Rossiya Sevodnya being Russia's CNN.
[Regnum] The United States of America has imposed sanctions against the RT TV channel and its editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan, the Rossiya Segodnya media group, RIA Novosti, and Sputnik. This was stated in a statement by the US Treasury Department on September 4.
“Today’s sanctions complement the law enforcement actions taken by the Justice Department and the State Department’s designation of the Rossiya Segodnya media group and five of its subsidiaries — RIA Novosti, RT, TV Novosti, Ruptly, and Sputnik,” the document says.
It is noted that the American authorities are adding these media outlets to the list of foreign missions and will take steps to introduce visa restrictions. In addition, a reward of up to $10 million is announced for information regarding foreign interference in the US elections.
In addition to Simonyan, the new sanctions also affected several top managers of RT, in particular, deputy editors-in-chief Elena Brodskaya and Anton Anisimov. Also blacklisted were deputy head of RT's information broadcasting service Andrei Kiyashko, head of the digital media projects department Konstantin Kalashnikov, and employee of the digital media projects department Elena Afanasyeva.
In addition, the US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has designated 10 individuals and two entities in response to Moscow's "malign efforts" to influence the 2024 US presidential election.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on August 22 it became known that the US authorities are planning to conduct new searches and bring criminal charges against Americans who cooperate with Russian media. The New York Times publication claims that a large-scale investigation has been launched, which should prevent the influence that Russia is allegedly exerting on the US before the upcoming presidential elections.
On June 5, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russia is overcoming the problems that the West is trying to create for it by imposing sanctions. He stressed that there is no other country in the world against which so many sanctions have been imposed, but this has not led to critical consequences.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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