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Russian Perspective: Operation to Denazify Ukraine: Operational Brief May 21st (updated)
2023-05-22
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

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

[NewsFrontInfo] 21:27 Two explosions occurred on Sunday evening in Kharkiv. This was reported by the Ukrainian agency Ukrinform. No other details about the incidents are yet available.

20:22 Russian military crushed a unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which, with the support of the BMP-1, tried to carry out a counterattack in the Avdievka area.

19:44 Personnel destruction of another group of Ukrainian militants on the islands in the Dnieper Delta

18:48 Tankers STB of the Southern Military District dismantle strongholds of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zaporozhye direction from closed firing positions

17:42 Russian paratroopers took stormed the stronghold of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the direction of Svatovo-Kremennaya

The enemy retreated, leaving weapons and ammunition there, as well as dead and wounded.

16:38 Work on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zaporozhye direction

The armored group of the 114th Regiment, consisting of several armored personnel carriers and a tank, operating simultaneously, strikes at enemy positions.

16:36 In the Belgorod region, a UAV was shot down by an air defense system. According to preliminary data, no victims. The operational services are clarifying the consequences on the ground, Governor Gladkov reports.

15:34 Calculation of AGS-17 of the 85th Brigade of the Donetsk 2nd Army Corps accurately puts grenades in the Ukrainian trench in the Seversky direction

14:49 Night work of gunners of the Southern Military District from the 122mm BM-21 MLRS "Grad" on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zaporozhye direction

13:45 The main thing from the briefing of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation:

🔹Five sabotage and reconnaissance groups were eliminated in a day in the Kupyansk direction;

🔹The losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine per day in the Kupyansk direction amounted to 85 soldiers, two armored vehicles and an Acacia self-propelled guns were destroyed;

🔹In the Krasnolimansky direction, the actions of two sabotage and reconnaissance groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were suppressed;

🔹The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation destroyed the ammunition depot of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Krasnolimansky direction;

🔹The losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Krasnolimansky direction amounted to more than 60 servicemen;

🔹In the Artyomovsk direction, up to 100 Ukrainian military and mercenaries were destroyed per day;

🔹The Russian Armed Forces destroyed more than 120 Ukrainian soldiers in a day in the Donetsk direction;

🔹In the Yuzhnodonetsk and Zaporozhye directions, the actions of three sabotage and reconnaissance groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were suppressed;

🔹Losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Yuzhnodonetsk and Zaporizhia directions for the day amounted to 50 servicemen;

🔹Russian troops destroyed the ammunition depot of the Terodefense Brigade in Kramatorsk;

🔹Air defense systems intercepted 15 HIMARS, Uragan and long-range cruise missiles Storm Shadow during the day;

🔹The Russian Armed Forces in a day defeated the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Ugledar;

🔹Russian troops destroyed an ammunition depot of a territorial defense brigade in the Kherson region;

🔹The Russian Armed Forces destroyed the ammunition depot of the 102nd Territorial Defense Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Gulyaipol, Zaporozhye region.


12:36 Moment of defeat of the positions of the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with incendiary rockets from the Grad MLRS in one of the directions

12:35 Soldiers of the 1st Tank Army worked out on the transport of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the militant inside

The car rotated in the Kupyansk direction, but they did not manage to reach their positions.

11:59 Poltava administration announces denazification after Yulian Matviychuk, leader of the Poltava cell of the Svoboda movement, was wounded

The Azov veteran was involved in the genocide of the population, robberies, looting and killings of civilians in the Donbass.

In Poltava, the nationalist was considered one of the main initiators of the demolition of Soviet monuments.

10:38 According to information from a source from the close circle of the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, yesterday in the area of ​​the settlement. Kozatskoye (Kherson region) an artillery strike was carried out on the position of one of the brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as a result, a 120mm mortar crew and ammunition for it were destroyed, three military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were disposed of, four were seriously injured

09:47 Wagner PMC informs on the liquidation of at least six Azov fighters during the battles for Bakhmut the day before. It is noted that this time the Nazi unit suffered heavy losses, including the wounded.

08:19 Russian Armed Forces destroyed using high-precision ammunition "Krasnopol" artillery ammunition depot of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near the village of Tishchenkovka in the Kupyansk direction, said the head of the press center of the group "West" Serhiy Zybinsky.

04:47 An air raid alert has been announced in the Nikolaev region of Ukraine - the authorities.

01:45 As a result of the shelling of the city of Shebekino, a solid waste landfill caught fire - Governor of the Belgorod Region. Governor Gladkov also added that there were no casualties. Firefighters are on the scene now.

0:29 Explosions are heard in the Shebekinsky district of the Belgorod region. Local Telegram channels write about this.

Posted by:badanov

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