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[LB] The next target for the occupiers may be Velyka Novoslika in Zaporozhye.
by Ivanna Kapustyanska
After the capture by the Russian army of the city of Vugledar in the Donetsk region, Velika Novosilka in the Zaporizhia region will be the next target.
This was announced by the British Ministry of Defense with reference to an intelligence report.
Russia has made sporadic attempts to capture Vugledar over the past two years, suffering heavy losses. The complete capture of Vugledar took place after the resumption of the Russian offensive campaign in September 2024.
By the end of the month, Russian occupation forces practically surrounded the city, which led to the retreat of Ukrainian troops.
At the same time, the settlement of Velyka Novosilka in the Zaporizhzhia region may become the next target for capture by the Russian army.
"It is quite likely that in the coming weeks, Russian troops will try to continue advancing beyond Vugledar. In the west, one of the likely targets is the settlement of Velyka Novosilka, Zaporizhzhia region, located on the T0509 highway. eight km to the north is the settlement of Bogoyavlenka," the agency noted. .
Vugledar is a city in the Volnova district of the Donetsk region. The Russians literally erased it, destroying almost all the buildings. Despite constant attacks, the defenders continued to hold some positions in the city.
The heroic defense of the city was led by defenders of the 72nd brigade. Yesterday, Deep State analysts reported that the city was completely captured by the enemy. The brigade denied this: defenders still remained in positions in the city. They added that they were not given an order to leave.
On October 2, units of Ukrainian defenders defending Vugledar were allowed to leave the city in order to preserve personnel and equipment.
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[Korrespondent] 21:36 Russians attacked a regular bus with a drone, which was moving through the territory of the Rechkovskaya community of the Sumy region; three passengers were injured, the prosecutor's office reported.
20:28 Zelensky thanked the military of the Special Operations Center "A" of the Security Service "for the destruction of Russian military logistics, and especially for hitting Russian military airfields" in an evening video address. The president also emphasized that "our task is to guarantee Ukraine reliable peace and long-term security. This is possible only on the basis of international law and without any trade in sovereignty or territory."
19:39 Russians shelled the Bakhmut, Volnovakha and Kramatorsk districts of Donetsk Oblast throughout the day, the prosecutor's office reported. One person was killed in Toretsk, five were wounded in Konstantinovka, and one more person was killed and one wounded in an airstrike on the village of Velyka Novosyolka.
15:45 Russian soldiers executed four Ukrainian servicemen on orders from their command this summer at an aggregate plant in Volchansk, Kharkiv Oblast, the regional prosecutor's office reported. Russian prisoners of war spoke about the execution during interrogations.
14:21 The Defense Forces "recently" hit three Russian command posts, the General Staff reported. We are talking about the command posts of the 35th and 27th separate motorized rifle brigades, as well as one of the command posts of the 2nd combined arms army of the Russian Armed Forces. Storm Shadow missiles and GMLRS rockets were used in the strike, the consequences are being clarified.
11:32 At the next, 25th meeting in the Rammstein format, which will take place in Germany on October 12, Ukraine will present its "victory plan", Zelensky said. He noted that this will be the first meeting in this format at the level of leaders.
10:14 Russians shelled Malaya Tokmachka in Zaporizhia Oblast, killing two people, reported OVA head Ivan Fedorov.
09:28 The "authorities" of occupied Gorlovka in Donetsk Oblast reported nine casualties as a result of a morning UAV attack.
08:57 In the Kharkiv region over the past day, two people were killed as a result of Russian shelling - in the village of Pershotravnevo and in the village of Izyumskoye in the Izyum district, reported the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov. Another person was injured in Kupyansk.
08:35 In the Kherson region over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, two people were killed and six were injured, reported the head of the OVA, Oleksandr Prokudin.
08:16 In Donetsk Oblast, on October 4, as a result of Russian shelling, one person was killed - in Chasovy Yar. Another person was wounded, reported the head of the OVA Vadim Filashkin.
08:04 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of October 5:
personnel - about 659,220 (+1280) people,
tanks - 8916 (+8),
combat armored vehicles - 17,658 (+31),
artillery systems - 19,037 (+72),
MLRS - 1216 (+4),
air defense systems - 970 (+5),
aircraft - 368 (+0),
helicopters - 328 (+0),
Operational-tactical level UAVs - 16,529 (+35),
cruise missiles - 2613 (+0),
ships/boats - 28 (+0),
submarines - 1 (+0),
automotive equipment and tank trucks - 25,905 (+85),
special equipment - 3344 (+11).
07:49 On the evening of October 4, the enemy attacked an infrastructure facility in Nikolaev, using cruise missiles of the Kh-59/Kh-69 type. There were no casualties, reported the head of the OVA Vitaly Kim.
07:41 Air defense destroyed three of 13 attack UAVs (all in Odessa Oblast) at night, another ten were lost in the north and south of the country, the Air Force reported. In addition, Russia attacked at night with three Kh-59/69 guided air missiles, which, thanks to the work of electronic warfare systems, did not reach their targets.
07:32 In the Voronezh Region, UAVs attacked several "enterprises producing civilian products" at night, one person was injured, Governor Alexander Gusev reported. According to him, a fire broke out on the territory of one of the enterprises. Russian publics write that drones attacked two distilleries - in Stary Oskol and Novokhopersky District.
02:15 Russian media write that the "administration" building of occupied Gorlovka in Donetsk Oblast caught fire after an attack by at least three kamikaze drones.
00:23 Russia uses about 3 million artillery shells a year in the war against Ukraine, and half of them come from the DPRK, The Times writes, citing Western intelligence sources. And although many North Korean shells are faulty, it is their quantity that has allowed Russia to achieve stable success on the battlefield, the newspaper notes.
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[EngMilRu] The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
The units of the Sever Group of Forces in Liptsy and Volchansk directions have hit units of the AFU 57th Mechanised Infantry Brigade and the 129th Territorial Defence Brigade close to Bochkovo, Volchanskiye Khutora, and Liptsy (Kharkov region).
The AFU losses were up to 115 Ukrainian troops, two motor vehicles, one 122mm D-30 howitzer, and one U.S.-made AN/TPQ-37 counterbattery station.
The units of the Zapad Group of Forces have taken more advantageous lines and positions. The Russian troops have inflicted damage on 3rd, 4th Tank, 63rd, and 66th Mechanised brigades near Pershetravnyovoye, Izyumskoye, Kupyansk (Kharkov region), Krasny Liman, and Torskoye (Donetsk People's Republic). Two counterattacks launched by AFU assault detachments have been repelled.
The enemy losses were up to 405 troops, three motor vehicles, one Polish-made Krab self-propelled artillery system, one Anklav-N electronic warfare station as well as U.S.-made: one M-113 armoured personnel carrier, one 155mm M-198 howitzer, three 105mm M-119 guns, and one AN/TPQ-50 counter-battery station. Six field ammunition depots have been eliminated.
As a result of active and decisive actions, the units of the Yug Group of Forces have liberated Zhelannoye Vtoroye (Donetsk People's Republic).
The Russian troops have inflicted damage on 23rd, 54th, 93rd Mechanised, 56th Mechanised, 10th Mountain Assault brigades and the 18th National Guard Brigade of the AFU and 18th National Guard Brigades close to Reznikovka, Zvanovka, Belaya Gora, and Maksimillyanovka (Donetsk People's Republic). Three counterattacks by assault detachments of the AFU 59th Motorised Infantry Brigade, the 81st Airmobile Brigade, and the 112th Territorial Defence Brigade have been repelled.
The AFU losses were up to 755 Ukrainian troops, nine motor vehicles, one UK-made 155mm FH70 howitzer, two 122mm D-30 howitzers, and U.S.-made 155mm M-198, 155mm M-777 howitzers, and two 105mm M-119 guns.
The units of the Tsentr Group of Forces continued advancing to the depths of enemy defences. The Russian troops have inflicted damage on manpower and hardware of AFU 101st, 151st Mechanised, 142nd Infantry, 95th Air Assault brigades, the 112th Territorial Defence Brigade, and the 12th National Guard Brigade near Dimitrov, Druzhba, Grodovka, Kleban-Byk, and Gornyak (Donetsk People's Republic). Four counterattacks of AFU 53rd, 154th Mechanised, 68th Jaeger, and 25th Air Assault brigades have been repelled.
The enemy losses were up to 490 troops, one Bradley infantry fighting vehicle, one U.S.-made HMMWV armoured fighting vehicle, three motor vehicles, one 152mm D-20 gun, one 152mm Msta-B howitzer, and two 122mm D-30 howitzers.
The units of the Vostok Group of Forces have captured more advantageous lines and inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of 72nd Mechanised, 58th Motorised Infantry brigades of the AFU, and the 125th Territorial Defence Brigade near Dobrovolye, Zolotaya Niva (Donetsk People's Republic) and Levadnoye (Zaporozhye region).
The enemy losses were up to 110 troops, eight motor vehicles, one U.S.-made 155mm M-777 howitzer, and one French-made 155mm Caesar self-propelled artillery system.
The units of the Dnepr Group of Forces have defeated units of the 39th Coastal Defence Brigade, the 124th Territorial Defence Brigade close to Sadovoye and Pridneprovskoye (Kherson region).
The enemy losses were up to 50 troops, two motor vehicles, and one 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system. Two Anklav-N electronic warfare stations have been destroyed.
Operational-Tactical Aviation, attack unmanned aerial vehicles, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces have engaged one Israeli-made RADA RPS-42 multi-function radar as well as clusters of enemy manpower and military hardware in 146 areas.
Air defence facilities have shot down eight U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS projectiles, three French-made HAMMER aerial guided bombs, and 55 fixed-wing UAVs.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 646 aircraft, 283 helicopters, 32,871 unmanned aerial vehicles, 580 anti-aircraft missile systems, 18,527 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,469 MLRS combat vehicles, 15,619 field artillery guns and mortars, and 26,942 units of support military vehicles have been neutralised.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the operation to neutralise an enemy group, which broke into the territory of Kursk region.
The units of the Sever Group of Forces continues the offensive operation and engaged formations of 22nd, 41st 115th Mechanised brigades, the 17th Tank Brigade, the 95th Air Assault Brigade of the AFU, the 1st National Guard Brigade, the 36th Naval Infantry Brigade, as well as 103rd and 129th Territorial Defence brigades near Daryino, Lyubimovka, Nikolayevo-Daryino, Novy Put, and Plekhovo.
Over the past 24 hours, the Group's units have repelled two enemy counterattacks in the direction of Lyubimovka and Obukhovka, thwarted enemy attempts to attack in the direction of Kamyshevka and Plekhovo. As a result, the AFU losses were up to 50 troops killed and wounded, four armoured fighting vehicles and one motor vehicle. Five AFU servicemen surrendered.
With the support of Army Aviation and artillery, two AFU attempts to break through the border of the Russian Federation in the direction of Novy Put were foiled. The AFU losses were more than 30 troops killed and wounded, one tank, seven armoured fighting vehicles, one counterobstacle vehicle, and one armoured recovery vehicle. Twelve AFU servicemen surrendered.
Army Aviation and artillery have inflicted losses on manpower and hardware clusters of the 22nd, 41st, 61st, 115th Mechanised brigades, the 17th Tank Brigade, 80th, 95th Air Assault brigades, the 1st National Guard Brigade, the 36th Naval Infantry Brigade, 103rd, 112th, and 129th Territorial Defence brigades of the AFU near Bogdanovka, Guyevo, Daryino, Kolmakov, Kubatkin, Kruglenkoye, Lyubimovka, Martynovka, Melovy, Nikolayevo-Daryino, Novy Put, Orlovka, Plekhovo, Tolsty Lug, and Cherkasskoye Porechnoye.
Operational-Tactical Aviation and Missile Troops have delivered strikes in Sumy region at concentration areas and reserves of the 21st, 41st, 47th, 115th Mechanised brigades, the 36th Naval Infantry Brigade, 80th, 95th Air Assault brigades, the 1st National Guard Brigade, 101st, 103rd Territorial Defence brigades near Belovody, Bondarevshchina, Belaya Beryoza, Belokopytovo, Boyaro-Lezhachi, Vodolagi, Katerinovka, Konotop, Miropolye, Mars, Mirlogi, Pavlovka, Obody, Pavlovka, Rechki, Stepanovka, Sumy, Frunzenka, Khoten, Shpil, and Yampol.
Over the past 24 hours, the AFU losses were more than 400 troops, 16 armoured vehicles including one tank and 15 armoured fighting vehicles as well as five artillery guns including one French-made Caesar self-propelled artillery system, one Bogdana self-propelled artillery system, two motor vehicles, one electronic warfare station, one counterobstacle vehicle, and one armoured recovery vehicle. Seventeen AFU servicemen surrendered.
Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk region, the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost more than 20,650 troops, 136 tanks, 66 infantry fighting vehicles, 98 armoured personnel carriers, 885 armoured fighting vehicles, 582 motor vehicles, 170 artillery guns, 33 MLRS launchers, including eight of HIMARS and six of MLRS made by the U.S., nine SAM launchers, five transport-loading vehicles, 44 electronic warfare stations and nine counter-battery radars, three air defence radars, 22 engineering and other vehicles, including 13 counterobstacle vehicles, one UR-77 mine clearing vehicle, and three armoured recovery vehicles.
The operation to neutralise the AFU units is in progress.
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[NewsFront] 21:35 Servicemen of the motorized rifle units of the "West" group of troops are actively apply motor transport.
The fighters use motorized transport to carry out assault operations and deliver ammunition and food to the strongholds they hold.
The servicemen note that the use of motorized equipment significantly reduces the time they spent moving to combat mission areas. In addition, the motorized riflemen are constantly improving their means of transportation.
20:12 Telegram channel «Fisherman»:
Kursk direction: fighting in the Vesyoloye area and attacks on the rear infrastructure of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
In the Kursk direction, Ukrainian formations do not abandon their attempts to expand the zone of control at several borders at once. At the same time, Russian troops are systematically working to search for and destroy enemy equipment and positions in both the Kursk and Sumy regions.
– In the Glushkovsky district, clashes were noted in the area of Vesyoloye. Judging by the footage that appeared on the Internet, the enemy managed to advance in the forest belts to the southeast of the village and bring up UAV units.
- One of them was "covered" by Russian artillery fire. Probably, soon the Ukrainian Armed Forces will also launch attacks along the railway to secure the right flank of their group, which is gradually enveloping Veseloye.
– At the same time, Russian air raids continue. Thus, Russian Aerospace Forces crews destroyed another M-777 howitzer, which was firing from a position in a forested area near Dibrova, and also carried out a series of strikes on places where Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel were concentrated in Volfino, Bondarevshchina and Katerinovka.
– In the Korenevsky district, the Russian Armed Forces repelled enemy attacks in the Lyubimovka area and on the eastern approaches to Obukhovka. To the west of Kremyanoye, Russian UAV operators hit an armored vehicle of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and after it overturned due to loss of control, they finished off the surviving crew members.
- In the Sudzhansky district, Ukrainian formations attempted to break through Russian defenses in the area of Kamyshevka and Plekhovo. Russian Armed Forces units repelled all attacks. At the same time, Russian aviation struck the enemy's rear infrastructure in Guevo, Melovy and Kolmakovo.
19:55 Advances of the Russian Armed Forces –map.
- Kurakhovsky direction. After liberating Ugledar, our troops continued to press in the direction of Bogoyavlenka, and also clung to the outskirts of Katerinovka. These are the next targets.
- Red Army direction. To the north of Selidovo, our troops advanced near Novogrodovka, continuing the process of encircling Selidovo.
– To the south of Selidovo, the Russian Armed Forces have practically liberated Tsukurino, are fighting for the northern outskirts of Gornyak, have cleared the area of Vtoroy Zhelanny and are close to liberating Ostrovsky not far from the outskirts of Kurakhovo.
18:48 Volchansk direction: "Solntsepeki" of the "Sever" group burn out the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in a forest plantation near the settlement of Tykhoye -video.
18:12 Special military operation. Situation as of October 5 –map.
17:37 Sumy region.
A powerful explosion at a military facility in Sumy Oblast.We've done the workThe Russian Aerospace Forces used KABs and FABs with UMPKs.
17:07 Ka-52M crews destroyed personnel and armored vehicles of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the border area of the Kursk region –video.
16:44 Statements by representatives of the North, West, South, Center, East and Dnepr groups on the progress of the special military operation (as of October 5, 2024) –video.
16:01 Destruction of a stronghold of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Sumy region –video.
A reconnaissance UAV of the Sever group discovered the movement of a group of Ukrainian fascists to a stronghold in the village of Mezenovka in the Sumy region.
15:52 Defeat by aerial bombs of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Khar'kov region –video.
Aerial reconnaissance in private buildings in the village of Kucherovka revealed a deployment point of the Ukrainian Armed Forces (presumably the 14th separate mechanized brigade). The Aerospace Forces sent a pair of FAB-500s to the specified coordinates.
15:24 An army aviation crew on a Mi-28NM helicopter struck a concentration of manpower and armored vehicles of the Ukrainian Armed Forces units –video.
Targets destroyed.
14:44 Liman direction: Advance of the 144th Guards Motor Rifle Division near Nevsky –map.
14:12 They report about the downing of a Ukrainian aircraft in the Konstantinovka area. The aircraft fell west of Chasov Yar.
13:49 Dzerzhinsk – Nakhalovka.
Positional military actions in the Gorlovka area. The position of the Russian Armed Forces in the Dzerzhinsk development came under fire from a Ukrainian drone. The Russian Armed Forces were able to advance 200 meters in the direction of the Central mine along Dzerzhinsky Street.
13:05 Situation in the SVO zone –map:
– The situation in the Prioskol direction: the Russian Armed Forces have advanced in the Kolesnikovka area, expanding the salient in the area of ??the village of Peschanoye.
– The situation in the Northern direction: The Russian army has occupied the heights northwest of Spornoye.
– The situation in the Pokrovsky direction: the Russian Armed Forces have advanced north of Selidovo and liberated most of the settlement of Tsukurino.
– The situation in the Kurakhovsky direction: The Russian army continues to occupy new positions in the former “Nevelsky pocket” to the east of the Volchya River, and has also advanced to the south of Georgievka.
– The situation in the Ugledar direction: The Russian army took control of the farms north of Konstantinovka and advanced west of it. In addition, Russian troops entered Katerynivka from the south. Also, after the liberation of Ugledar, Russian troops increased the zone of control north of the city
. 12:48 Between 11:00 and 11:40 Moscow time stopped another attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist attack using aircraft-type UAVs against targets on the territory of the Russian Federation.
Two Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed over the territory of the Belgorod region by air defense systems on duty.
11:17 Arrival in the industrial zone of Kramatorsk. The area reports that the electricity went out after the explosions.
10:50 Summary visually confirmed and documented losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces from September 2 to September 8, 2024. The losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces are presented in various categories by type of equipment and degree of damage.
10:10 Frontline summary as of the morning of 10/05/2024
- Zaporizhzhya Front. No significant changes. Long-range weapons are actively working on both sides.
- Donetsk Front. Here, Russian troops are developing an offensive north of Ugledar, liberated several days ago, in the direction of Bogoyavlenka. In the same direction, the Russian Armed Forces are trying to advance from Vodyanoye. There is progress in the Ostrovsky area.
Fighting continues around Selidovo, in Tsukurino, the Russian Armed Forces have advanced inside the settlement, the Ukrainian Armed Forces were forced to retreat to the outskirts. Heavy urban fighting continues in Dzerzhinsk.
- Chasov Yar direction. No significant changes in the LBS have been observed over the past 24 hours. Fighting continues in the eastern part of Chasov Yar and on the flanks.
- Khar'kov Front. Here, too, the front line remains virtually static. Long-range weapons of the Russian Armed Forces are actively working on the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Fighting continues in Volchansk and in the area of Glubokoe.
- Kursk region. Counter battles continue in the Sudzhansky district, the Russian Armed Forces are trying to dislodge Ukrainian troops from the occupied territories, but they are putting up serious resistance.
In the area of the border with the Glushkovsky district, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are also continuing their attempts to advance deep into our territory - without result.
09:44 Advance of the Russian Armed Forces in Tsukurino and near Zhelanny Perviy –map.
09:12 Ugledar.
Applied strikes on the Ukrainian Armed Forces already outside of Ugledar in the Bogoyavlenka area. 2 armored fighting vehicles and a Strela-10 air defense missile system of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were destroyed.
08:53 During the past night, during an attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist attack using unmanned aerial vehicles on targets on the territory of the Russian Federation, air defense systems on dutydestroyed and intercepted10 Ukrainian aircraft-type UAVs.
Seven UAVs were intercepted and destroyed over the territory of the Belgorod region, one UAV was destroyed over the territory of the Voronezh region, and two UAVs were destroyed over the territory of the Kursk region.
08:08 Telegram channel «Fisherman»:
Chronicle of the special military operation for October 4, 2024
– Russian troops attacked the infrastructure of the Ukrainian Armed Forces using Geran-2 UAVs in the Kyiv, Zhytomyr and Kirovohrad regions. The enemy's air defense activity was also recorded in the Sumy and Cherkasy regions.– Ukrainian formations have once again carried out a drone raid on the territory of several regions of Russia. Air defense systems intercepted targets over the waters of the Rostov and Oryol regions, as well as the Sea of ??Azov. In the Voronezh region, a UAV hit caused a minor fire at an oil industry facility.
- In the Kursk direction, battles are underway in the Glushkovsky, Korenevsky and Sudzhansky districts, Russian units are successfully repelling attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. At the same time, the Russian Armed Forces have successfully struck at the location of the enemy's personnel and equipment in the Sumy region.
– In the Donetsk direction, Russian troops liberated most of Tsukurino and pushed the Ukrainian Armed Forces back to the western outskirts of the settlement. Unconfirmed information about the beginning of battles for Izmailovka is also coming to light.
– In the South Donetsk direction, the Russian Armed Forces have completed the cleanup of Ugledar and are preparing to begin an offensive on Bogoyavlenka. There are also reports of fighting beginning on the southeastern outskirts of Katerynivka and significant advances by Russian troops in this area.
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[REGNUM] After the fall of the "Ugledar fortress", a wave of "heartbreaking footage" of the soldiers of the 72nd Separate Mechanized Brigade named after the Black Zaporozhians is spreading across the Ukrainian Internet. "On Instagram*, the brigade noted that the last days of heavy fighting were extremely exhausting for the soldiers. As a result of clashes with the occupiers, the soldiers were wounded. The footage in the brigade was captioned laconically: "These are very difficult days. Very!" - one of the leading news agencies reports.
Before this, there was a wave of reports from the field, when the "black Zaporozhians" told how they were criminally not given the order to retreat, how they suffered under the blows in the encirclement and went away across the bare steppe away from the terrible place. And all this together does not fit at all into the heroic image of the 72nd Mechanized Brigade, which since 2014 has been diligently forged for the average person.
"As part of the revival of the traditions of the national army," in September 2017, the fact of the Bila Tserkva brigade's origin from the 72nd Guards Motorized Rifle Division, a participant in the Battle of Stalingrad, was cancelled. By decree of President Petro Poroshenko, it was named in honor of the "Black Zaporozhians," a cavalry regiment of the UPR army, and then the image of the military unit was carefully squeezed into analogies with the "Black Hats." The most important part of the legend, of course, was that they fought "to the last Muscovite" and did not surrender.
"Let the memory of our glorious great-grandfathers, who defeated the Moscow regiments a hundred years ago, inspire the Cossacks and officers of the 72nd Brigade and other units to victories," says the appeal of the historical club "Kholodny Yar", which published a book of memoirs of former commanders and fighters of the Unified National Guard regiment especially for the education of military personnel.
The symbols were also similar - a human skull (albeit of a different style) and the slogan "Ukraine or death".
And karma did not fail to play its usual joke: having found themselves, in essence, in battles "honestly" for the first time, the standard heroes, "heirs to the traditions of the most combat-ready part of the UPR", immediately fell to pieces, because in fact their "glorious ancestors" also ended their combat path completely ingloriously. Having made a very specific choice, they received both Ukraine in all its current splendor, and death.
So, from now on, judging by everything, the fate of the 72nd will continue to roll along the narrow corridor of this choice.
"STEPPE FILIBUSTERS"
The unique style that distinguished the "Black Zaporozhians" in 1918-1920 arose entirely in the spirit of the times. In December 1918, at the Lozovaya station (present-day Kharkiv Oblast), the Zaporozhian regiment of the UPR army captured two carriages with light-grey and black cloth from the Makhnovists. In Poltava's Reshetilovka, in exchange for sugar, local tailors and shoemakers quickly made a uniform, in which the Black Hats paraded in Kremenchug on January 28, 1919, during an inspection by their superiors.
They rode around in this uniform for the next year and a half, turning it into rags. In August 1920, the regiment commander Pyotr Dyachenko, a former lieutenant in the Russian Imperial Army, awarded three St. George Crosses and a St. George Medal, tried to squeeze a similar set out of the new Polish owners, compiling a full description of it, but the Poles didn't really care about originality.
So, having joined the Polish army, the "blacks" along with the entire division changed into American-made uniforms, given to them by the quartermaster's office. The connection of times is much clearer here than in other cases. And modern pictures with dashing and stylish swordsmen are very conventional - in life they did not look like that.
As for the skulls on the banner and on the sleeves, Dyachenko, a participant in the Brusilov breakthrough, copied them from the shock battalions of the Russian army, since he himself commanded first a company in one, and then the entire unit in the fall of 1917.
He described his adventures on the fronts of the Civil War in a romantic style - like modern authors who romanticize the regiment, which "the Muscovites feared like fire." One of these "historians," Roman Koval, sows the story everywhere about how the commander, who was lying in typhus fever, rose by force of will, mounted his horse and led his lads in a furious attack with an outstretched bare hand - he did not have the strength to hold a sabre. And, of course, he defeated everyone.
And he had to get up, as Koval claims, because Dyachenko's deputy Karlis Brože was a good officer, " but he had one problem: he did not speak Ukrainian. And the Cossacks who came to fight for Ukraine could not accept the fact that they were commanded by a Russian-speaking person. Therefore, they were not very willing to go into battle under the leadership of Karlis Brože."
Thus, it turns out that it was very easy to deprive a unit of combat capability by commanding in Russian: “Attack!”
But as mounted pirates, the subordinates of the former Russian lieutenant really showed themselves to be quite good where it came to quick raids, surprise attacks and large-scale robbery. They suppressed the uprisings that broke out here and there, executing the Bolshevik activists, attacked small garrisons, and on June 2, 1919, as part of the 7th (Zaporozhian) Division, during the offensive on Proskurov (now Khmelnitsky), they broke through the front of the Nikolai Shchors Division, occupying the city.
On August 31, the Black Zaporozhian Cossacks cavalry regiment entered Kyiv, and the capital was lost to Petliura's UPR precisely because of them: on the orders of Colonel Vladimir Salsky (also a former Russian intelligence officer assigned to the General Staff), they tore down the tricolor on the city council building that had just been raised by the White Volunteer Army and threw it under the horses' hooves.
After this, a shootout began, during which ten Cossacks were killed, and all the Petliurites were caught and driven out of the city.
The last heroic act of the "blacks", who found themselves in the "death triangle" between the Polish troops, the Red Army and Denikin's forces at the end of 1919, was the First Winter Campaign of the Active Army of the UPR. For five months, 417 Dyachenko fighters raided Central and Southern Ukraine, constantly decreasing in size, in order to eventually break out of encirclement and join Petliura's army, which was operating as part of the Polish Army.
Their subsequent fate also gives all sorts of allusions to the future of today's fighters for Ukraine. Having encountered Grigory Kotovsky's cavalry brigade near Birzula (now Podolsk) in a full-fledged combined arms battle, they were unable to do anything. And after the end of the Soviet-Polish war, all the Ukrainian Revolutionary troops were placed in internment camps, behind barbed wire, as no longer needed.
Specifically, Dyachenko found a place for himself in the Polish army, from there he easily transferred to serve the Germans, served in the SD, collaborated with the OUN* and ended his career as part of the SS Galicia division, as part of which he surrendered to the Americans.
Once you betray, it doesn’t matter who you serve, as long as they give you a nice uniform.
"HEIRS OF GLORIOUS GREAT-GRANDFATHERS"
Since 2014, the 72nd separate mechanized brigade has been visible everywhere, having already begun combat operations against its own citizens in Donbass in mid-April. The famous footage of an infantry fighting vehicle ramming a street barricade in Mariupol at full speed shows the equipment of the Belotserkovsky motorized riflemen.
In that lead vehicle was the current Brigadier General of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Mykhailo Drapatiy, who was then a major and commanded the 2nd Mechanized Battalion. He led the killing of the Mariupol residents who had risen up against the coup in Kiev, and then the 72nd visited Saur-Mogila, the Donetsk airport, and Avdiivka. Incidentally, it was there that the brigade accepted its new black banner, which members of the public organization "Regiment of Black Zaporozhians" - descendants of the Cossacks of the 1st Cavalry Regiment, interned in Poland and remaining there - came to present to them.
Its path through Donbass can well be called bloody and in the spirit of the "Black Zaporozhians", whose name they did not yet bear at that time - like cavalry, it rushed around cities and towns on vehicles, sowing death and destruction. But this is what the creators of the new ideology oriented them towards, declaring that "it is the Army of the UPR that should become a model and a guide for the modern Ukrainian army... The domestic armed forces must acquire a Ukrainian meaning and a primordially Ukrainian appearance."
In keeping with this image, in late February and March 2022, it was the "blacks" who blew up the dam on the Irpen River, flooding the coastal villages and taking up defensive positions on the eastern bank. They probably also destroyed the bridge linking the cities of Irpen, Bucha, and Gostomel with Kiev, blocking the evacuation route for civilians.
So that later the whole world would publish heartbreaking photos of courageous Ukrainian soldiers carrying children and cats through the concrete ruins they themselves created.
Later, the brigade rushed in all directions, from Kherson to Bakhmut, as if spiritually inheriting the "great-grandfathers" - plugging holes. The "black Zaporozhians" stood up for a full-fledged defense only in Ugledar. And now, two years later, it has finally become clear what they really are.
Soldiers from the 72nd Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces tell of a chaotic retreat, without orders to withdraw. They walked for several days, exposed to Russian drones and artillery, many were killed or wounded, many more are missing.
As the scandalous journalist Vladimir Boyko, who serves in the territorial defense, told the world, out of fifty reinforcements sent to strengthen the defense of Ugledar, only four made it to their positions, but they also deserted during the first rotation.
"50 recruits arrived in the brigade, mostly aged 52-56. 30 of them were immediately sent to rear units and hospitals, since they were unfit for service on the front lines due to health reasons (because the TCC was fulfilling the conscription plan and mobilizing the sick). Of the remaining 20, 16 servicemen deserted on the second day. Thus, out of a reinforcement of 50 people, four were sent to the positions, and after the first rotation, these four also deserted," writes Boyko.
He calls the loss of the city a "local collapse of the front" and writes that a similar situation with the replenishment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces is observed along the entire line of conflict. And it will only get worse.
The menacing skulls on the chevrons and the "connection of generations", characteristically, do not work: no one is going to fight "to the last Muscovite" and is in no hurry to sacrifice themselves. All the talk about the "competent actions of the 72nd separate mechanized brigade, which held the defense near Ugledar since August 2022" is meaningless for the simple reason that all this time the city was inside the general defense system of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The front collapsed - and the "legendary warriors" immediately found themselves in operational encirclement and whined that the command does not protect them.
Like the army of the Ukrainian People's Republic once upon a time, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, reformed in a racially correct ideological spirit, have neither their own resources, nor the support of the population, nor a single clear goal of their struggle. It is clear who to fight against, but no one knows what for. And just like in the Civil War, the village uncles who were forcibly put into service run away at the first opportunity.
In full accordance with the scenario of more than a century ago, the current "black Zaporozhians", who refused the honor of being the successors of the heroes of Stalingrad, will face the same path as Dyachenko's comrades. Defeat, retreat to the West, and then service in foreign armies, as long as they are fed. And the chroniclers, who will certainly tell about the exploits of the "glorious knights", will also focus on the chevron skulls and fantastic stories about how the commander in a feverish delirium stretched out his hand: "A horse for me, a horse!"
After all, they perfectly disguise the shameful emptiness in the place where honor, conscience and common sense should have been.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] Former Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) Valeriy Zaluzhny received a penetrating wound last year while in office. This was stated on October 4 by former Ukrainian General Serhiy Krivonos.
According to him, the shell hit the command post in the Zaporizhzhya direction, where Zaluzhny was located, immediately after a call from an unnamed official from the office of the President of Ukraine.
"Zaluzhny picked up the phone, revealed his location via radio signal, and a minute and a half later a guided missile flew there. And Zaluzhny got a hole in his body," the publication "Strana.ua" quoted Krivonos as saying.
He noted that the commander-in-chief's life was saved by the good fortification of the premises.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, Zaluzhny has stopped appearing in public since early May 2023, which has triggered a series of rumors about his death. They began with the general's suspicious refusal to meet with the chiefs of the general staff of NATO member countries.
The Ukrainian Defense Ministry then stated that Zaluzhny continued to perform his duties. Later, the hacker group "Joker DNR" reported that the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was seriously wounded in a missile strike on the Ukrainian Armed Forces headquarters in early May.
The media published information about Zaluzhny’s possible retirement due to a head injury and shrapnel wound.
Only on June 6, the head of the Kiev regime, Volodymyr Zelensky, published a photo with the commander-in-chief from a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine.
On February 8 of this year, Zaluzhny was dismissed by Zelensky from the post of commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Oleksandr Syrsky was appointed to his post. Then, on May 9, Zelensky dismissed the former commander-in-chief from military service due to health reasons and appointed him ambassador to the UK.
Zaluzhny miraculously did not die - former commander of the Special Operations Forces Krivonos
▪Valeriy Zaluzhny was seriously wounded on the Zaporizhzhya front last year, said General of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Krivonos and the former MP Borislav Bereza.
➖"Zaluzhny picked up the phone, revealed his location via radio signal, and 1.5 minutes later a guided Russian missile flew there. And Zaluzhny got a hole in his body. The only thing that saved him was that the room was well fortified," Krivonos says.
▪In May 2023, rumors really were circulating online about Zaluzhny being wounded and disappearing from the media, the Ukrainians did not deny them.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] For a fake about Bucha, they gave 8 years in prison.
A Moscow court has sentenced Ol'ga Menshikh, a nurse at the Pirogov National Medical and Surgical Center, to eight years in prison for spreading fake news about the Russian army.
"The court found Menshikh guilty of committing a crime under paragraph "d" of Part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (Public dissemination of knowingly false information about the use of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation). The court sentenced her to eight years in prison."
According to investigators, Menshikh posted false information about the actions of Russian troops in Bucha on her VKontakte page.
The woman will serve her sentence in a general regime penal colony. In addition, she was banned from engaging in activities related to the administration of websites of electronic or information and telecommunications networks, including the Internet, for three years.
The court clarified that the defendant spread false information on the VKontakte social network.
She threw it on social networks for 8 years.
Bucha is the same cheap falsification as "NKVD shot Polish officers in Katyn". It's just that now the template Goebbels scheme has been applied to the Russian Federation,
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