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While the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) continue their attempts to breck through Russian defence on the southern and eastern frontlines, Russian forces maintain the military initiative and are gaining new strongholds on the battlefields in the northern Donbass.
In the area of Kupyansk, Russian troops continue their offensive operations in order to gain a stronghold on the eastern bank of the Oskol River in the northern part of the Kharkiv region. The battles are ongoing near the village of Pervy Liman, where the Russian military is advancing, repelling Ukrainian counterattacks. Having secured their positions near the Molchanovo railway station, Russian forces have recently expanded the zone of their control to up to 5 km.
In recent days, the AFU were repelled from several strongholds near Masyutovka and Sinkovka. The Ukrainian troops were forced to retreat to reserve positions in the area.
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T-90M Proryv (Breakthrough) in action in the area of Kupyansk:
Russian Lancet struck Polish AHS Krab:
According to the reports from the front, the Ukrainian military command has transferred additional units of the 13th battalion of the 95th separate assault brigade of the Ukrainian Air Assault Forces to the area near Sinkovka, where the 20th rifle battalion has suffered losses. Forces of the 3rd separate tank brigade were recently sent to Dvurechnaya. Two additional artillery batteries were transferred to the Kupyansk region to cover the military operations of the Ukrainian infantry.
On July 24, the head of the press center of the Russian Zapad (West) grouping of forces reported that Russian Iskander-M missiles struck areas of temporary deployment of the units of 1st Tank Brigade of the AFU near Goncharovskoe. Over the past day, Russian Ka-52 and Mi-28 attack helicopters carried out nine air strikes in the areas of the concentrations of manpower and equipment of the 14th Separate Mechanized Brigade and Ukrainian territorial defense units. Ukrainian mortar crew was destroyed by artillery fire near Kislovka.
In its turn, the Russian Ministry of Defence revealed Ukrainian losses in the Kupyansk region:
Up to 95 Ukrainian servicemen, two armored combat vehicles, three pickups, as well as a French-made self-propelled artillery installation “Cezar” were destroyed.
In addition, the ammunition depot of the 103rd Territorial Defense Brigade in the area of the village of Krakhmalnoye, Kharkiv region, was destroyed.
Russian Lancet struck another Swedish CV-90 armored combat vehicle near Novolyubovka:
Ukrainian tank destroyed in the area:
The Russian military is also maintaining the military initiative on the Svatovo-Kremennaya front.
Russian forces have recently crossed the Zherebets River near the village of Karmazinovka located southwest of Svatovo and take control of several Ukrainian strongholds in the area. They have recently advanced up to 7 km deep into Ukrainian defense and took control of the dominant heights. Ukrainian attempts to counterattack failed. The AFU are trying to attack in small groups on light armored vehicles, but Russian servicemen are holding the bridgehead on the ledge.
To the west of Svatovo, Russian forces reportedly entered the village of Sergeevka located on the outskirts of the town of Raygorodok on the western bank of the Zherebets river.
North of Kremennaya, the AFU attempt to counterattack in the fields near Chervonopopovka. Military reinforcements were also sent to the town of Terny to strengthen the positions in the area.
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Russian units are also storming Ukrainian strongholds, expanding their zone of control in the forest area to the south of Kremennaya. Amid Russian successes on the northern Donbass frontlines, Ukrainian servicemen suffer from low morale, launching no offensive operations in the area.
According to the Russian Ministry of Defence:
In the Krasnolimansky direction, five Ukrainian attacks were repelled by forces of the Center group of troops in the area of the Nevskoye in the Luhansk People’s Republic, as well as in the Serebryansky Forestry.
In addition, the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ manpower and equipment were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Karmazinovka in the Luhansk People’s Republic, Yampolovka, Torskoye and Serebryanka in the Donetsk People’s Republic.
In the area of Novolyubovka in the Luhansk People’s Republic, the activities of the Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group were suppressed.
The enemy’s losses amounted to up to 195 Ukrainian servicemen, four infantry fighting vehicles, four armored combat vehicles, three pickups, two self-propelled artillery installations “Gvozdika”, as well as D-20 and D-30 howitzers.
Russian attacks on the northern Donbass frontlines are largely aimed to distract the Ukrainian military from their counteroffensive as well as to repel Ukrainian forces westward and secure the Lisichansk city agglomeration.
bots from the west remember this very well! no weapons and ammunition you surrender! they have low morale, surrender! you are suffering many losses and cannot fight, if surrender! russia is not just any country in this world, okay?
russia for sure isn’t afghanistan or iraq.
that’s the arrogant mistake the scum made thinking it is, many of those foreign mercenary filth are running home to mummy.
well said, cromwell.
if nato joins the side of ukraine the russians will be wiped out in a few months time out of ukraine. the point here is that the america does not want this conflict to end. they make sure that the circle of death continues till the max. the more and longer the circle of death turns… , the more russians die. and there is also economic benefit for the americans. nato countries dump their trash into ukraine and buy new weapons from america.
si la otan se une al lado de ucrania, europa desaparece, no seas anormal, rusia nunca, entiende bien, nunca, va a perder esta guerra y si la escalan, rusia tiene de sobra para responder y convertir en cenizas toda europa, por potencia y por tamaño, se un poco menos corto de mente.
the anglo-american military industrial complex is what benefits from this death and destruction, not the ordinary citizen of the states.
if nato starts a direct shooting war with russia, western countries and that includes the usa will simply make themselves a target for russian strikes at their military infrastructure as well as the civilian elements supporting it.
in few months whole ukro heavy armament stock will be grinded and all european nato stocks empty, while russian stocks are still full with everything and russian military factorys running on high steam round the clock. nato without the us is a joke and even with, as we see in afghanistan.
the pictures of the three pigs before the explosion had me dying