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Russian Perspective: Operation to Denazify Ukraine: Operational Brief July 17th (updated)
Direct Translation via Google Translate.

Kindly note that several entries in this article were removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.

[NewsFrontInfo] 21:13 Available Izvestia received a letter, in which the soldiers of the 34th battalion of the 57th Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine turn to Vladimir Zelensky.

They detail why they can no longer be in the war zone. The fighters note that most of the personnel of the companies do not have a military service department and combat experience. According to the Ukrainian military, under psychological pressure, they got into the first wave of mobilization in early March 2022. The servicemen also specified that the training they received was ineffective. In addition, the soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were not issued military tickets and tokens:

"In the period of March-April, we underwent ineffective training. In the period of April 20-25, 2022, we lived in school buses, moved in an unknown direction from a training camp in Transcarpathia without proper rest, ate at our own expense ... "

20:14 "Courageous" beat out militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the fortified areas around Seversk. The Armed Forces of Ukraine prepared for the defense of the city for a long time and stubbornly, tearing up all the surroundings with trenches, but this did not help them stop the offensive of the “O” group

19:02 Serviceman from the 25th Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukrainetoldthe whole truth about their command, which was engaged in looting, selling equipment and weapons, and those who wanted to tell about it brutally killed them.

18:06 In Zaporozhye region change signs at the entrances to the settlements

17:05 The main thing from the new briefing of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation:

▪️Long-range air-launched missiles in one of the buildings of an industrial enterprise in Odessa destroyed a storage warehouse for Harpoon missiles;
▪️High-precision ground-based weapons of the Russian Federation destroyed a US-made launcher and MLRS HIMARS of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the DPR;
▪️Fighter aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down a Ukrainian Mi-17 helicopter in the Donetsk People's Republic;
▪️The armed forces of the Russian Federation destroyed a platoon of multiple launch rocket systems and nine artillery platoons of howitzers "Gyatsint-B" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine;
▪️The Russian Armed Forces destroyed a Su-25 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force in the Kharkiv region;
▪️Against the background of significant losses in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, desertion is on the rise;
▪️Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed up to 200 military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and more than ten units of armored vehicles near Chuguev, Kharkiv region;
▪️The RF Armed Forces attacked the deployment point of the 97th battalion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zaporozhye region, destroying up to 65 people and ten pieces of equipment;
▪️The Russian Aerospace Forces with high-precision weapons destroyed four command posts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as foreign mercenaries in the Kharkiv region and the DPR;
▪️The RF Armed Forces intercepted eight Uragan and Himars MLRS shells, as well as a Tochka-U ballistic missile over Ukraine and Donbass in a day.

16:03 Medvedev named a special operation in Ukraine by preventive self-defense to eliminate the military threat.

15:04 In Chuguev, Kharkiv region, 200 Ukrainian soldiers were destroyed by Russian air strikes, the Russian Defense Ministry told reporters.

"As a result of high-precision strikes by the Russian Aerospace Forces on the temporary deployment point of the 92nd mechanized brigade in the city of Chuguev, Kharkiv region, up to 200 personnel of the 2nd and 3rd battalions of the formation, as well as more than ten units of armored vehicles, were destroyed," the ministry said.

14:06 Air-launched high-precision long-range missiles in one of the buildings of an industrial enterprise in the city of Odessa destroyed the storage warehouse for Harpoon anti-ship missiles transferred to Ukraine by NATO countries - Russian Defense Ministry.

13:32 Details of the bill on administrative responsibility for violating the curfew have appeared. If caught for the first time - a warning or a fine from 510 UAH to 850 UAH. For repeated - a fine from UAH 1,700 to UAH 3,400.

13:31 AFU fired at the village of Zernovo in the Bryansk region, no one was injured - the governor. Alexander Bogomaz said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired 29 shells at the village of Zernovo in the Suzemsky district.

"There are no casualties or injured among the residents, civilian objects are not damaged. Operational services are working on the spot," the governor said.

12:49 As a result of the strike on Chasov Yar, there were destroyed over 25 Ukrainian military. There are more and more new details of the Russian missile attack on the location of the Ukrainian military in the city of Chasov Yar. Then 25 Ukrainian soldiers from the Ternopil region were destroyed or went missing.

We emphasize that we are talking only about military personnel from one region, whose death is confirmed in open sources. In reality, the number of those liquidated as a result of the strike is even greater. All those killed served in the 2nd Rifle Battalion of the 24th Mechanized Brigade, formed from the mobilized servicemen of the territorial defense forces guard companies after the start of the special military operation in Ukraine.

11:47 An improvised explosive device was found in Energodar in the Zaporozhye region at a bus stop where employees of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant regularly leave, Vladimir Rogov, a member of the main council of the military-civilian administration (CAA), told TASS on Sunday.

"We found an improvised explosive device, I can confirm. It was at a stop in the city center. People immediately reported to law enforcement agencies <…>. They try to inflict all blows on civilians, and this stop <...> is regularly used <...> by the employees of the Zaporizhzhya NPP," he said.

11:05 Military commandant's offices began to work in the Kharkiv region, the administration reported.

10:49 Results of today's strike on Nikolaev. The missile attack was carried out on the defense facilities of Ukraine.

09:44 In Ukraine, the order has been canceled, according to which the permission of the military commissar is required to leave the regions liable for military service. This is stated in the response of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, which was published by People's Deputy Oleksandr Fediyenko, UNIAN reports.

04:59 The strongest explosions in Nikolaev. Residents report massive strikes in the area of ​​Salt, Kazarsky and Ternovka. According to preliminary data, one of the goals was a social facility in which the fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are located.

04:33 Ukraine will receive two NASAMS SAM batteries. This was stated by the representative of the command of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Yuri Ignat. According to him, we are not talking about two installations, but about two batteries. The battery includes three fire platoons armed with 54 missiles.


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