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Actual information about the situation on the front line: July 23 (updated)
2023-07-24
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[NewsFrontInfo] 23:51 The defense line of the Armed Forces of Ukraine along the Zherebets River (Svatov direction) has been completely broken through

The Russian army is moving towards the Oskol River.

Reports Telegram-channel “Ukraine.ru”

21:40 Ukrainian formations fired upon border Suzemsky district of the Bryansk region.

In the village of Polevye Novoselki, one residential building and a power line were damaged. Local residents were not hurt.

The village of Pavlovichi also remained without electricity. Operational and emergency services are already eliminating the consequences of the Ukrainian attack.

21:20 Zaporozhye direction at 21:00:

n.p. Rabotino - Enemy pickups and M113s drive with personnel, they try to rotate, they do everything at a run, our FPV operators catch up and stop the equipment.

They also took off their shoes and destroyed Bradley with the personnel (video later).

To the north of the settlement Rabotino "Lancet of the Airborne Forces" destroyed the Leopard tank.

n.p. Pyatikhatki - Everything is calm.

The enemy runs from point to point, trying to hide from the tank and artillery. Attempts to hide are unsuccessful.


20:20 Destroying enemy armored vehicles:

Army aviation pilots, performing the tasks of a special military operation, are on duty around the clock in the sky. If a target is detected, they inflict a crushing air strike on the enemy, dissect and destroy his armored columns.

“I set fire to the front car. The follower set fire to the last car in the convoy. They retreated, approached from a more convenient angle - at an angle so that the column could be seen - and began to click them out one by one, ”says the commander of the Ka-52 helicopter with the call sign“ Tramp ”.

During that night air raid, the Tramp, along with the slave Master, destroyed two Leopard tanks and three Bradley infantry fighting vehicles. “Further on, the column was finished off by the next group, which came up to change us,” says Tramp.

19:40 In the Svatovsky direction, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are completely sick - even Ukrainian resources already report that the Russian Army has broken through the defenses and marched five kilometers forward, creating a foothold for further offensive.

19:20 Video- statement by the head of the press center of the Vostok group:

In the South-Donetsk direction, the advanced units of the Vostok group of troops, supported by artillery, thwarted an enemy attack in the area northeast of Urozhaynoye. Having suffered losses, the enemy retreated.

During the counterbattery fight, a mortar crew was destroyed in the Prechistovka area. The forces of the army aviation inflicted fire damage on the manpower of the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Staromaiyorsky and Urozhayny.

In the Zaporizhzhia direction, aerial reconnaissance was opened and artillery fire destroyed an enemy reconnaissance group in the Lugovskoye area. as well as the 152mm Msta-B towed howitzer in the Temirovka area.

Three enemy attacks were repelled in the direction of Rabotino. Tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and manpower of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed, including with the use of heavy flamethrower systems "Solntsepek".

Crews of anti-tank missile systems destroyed a tank, several Bradley infantry fighting vehicles and a pickup truck with nationalists in the area of Malaya Tokmachka.

In the area of Novodanilovka, army air strikes destroyed a tank and armored combat vehicles, and also hit places where militants gathered in areas north of Priyutnoye. The crew of the Osa anti-aircraft missile system shot down the Furiya unmanned aerial vehicle.


18:40 In the Kupyansky direction next week, the rotation of the 87th Troop Battalion is being prepared, which will be replaced by another battalion of the 106th Brigade of the territorial defense (Khmelnytsky region).

There is information that the Khmelnytsky Teroboronovites sent for rotation were planned to be transferred to Kherson at the beginning of the month. The trip to Kupyansk turned out to be forced, because the 87th battalion suffered heavy losses and was unscheduled being withdrawn for recovery.

In order not to demoralize the personnel ahead of time, the Teroboronists arriving the other day were initially promised to be placed on the second line. And then, how will it go.

18:20 The offensive of the Russian Armed Forces continues on the bridgehead behind the Stallion:

After lunch, they report about the occupation of two heights with a view of the western part of Novoegorovka (the old name is Sverdlovo, on Google Tverdokhlebovo). Svatovskoe direction, LPR, border with Kharkiv region.

17:40 Courageous advancing at Svatovo-Kremennaya, breaking through the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine for several kilometers:

Assault detachments of the 21st Brigade and other units of the "Center" grouping of troops are conducting a successful offensive in the Karmazinovka area, inflicting defeat on the enemy and taking by storm the heights and strongholds of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the forest belts.

“Over the past two days, Russian troops have carried out a series of successful attacks in the area with. Karmazinovka, as a result of which they managed to significantly (almost four sq. km) advance towards the boundary of the village of Novoegorovka - the village of. Ostrovskoye,” enemy military analysts report.

“Southwest of the village of Karmazinovka, the Russians are successful in advancing along the forest belts and planting forests,” another report says.

Yesterday in the reports of the enemy it was reported that “in the Kremenskoye forestry, the RF Armed Forces captured a number of forest plantations to the west near the settlement. Kovalevka and Karmazinovka. Their goal is to move to key heights and capture them.”

As a result, ours continue the offensive, capturing new strongholds of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a considerable number of militants surrendered these days. As a result of the advance, the fighters of the “Center” group managed to occupy the heights and take control of the village of Novoegorovka, which in the near future may also come under our control.

According to the Ministry of Defense, over the past day, the enemy tried six times to counterattack our troops in the areas of the settlement. Novovodyanoe and Karmazinovka LPR. All attacks were repulsed by the active actions of units, air strikes, artillery fire and heavy flamethrower systems of the Central Military District.


17:20 Video- statement by the head of the press center of the group "South":

The units of the Southern Group of Forces successfully repulsed the attacks of the assault groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Lisichansk, Soledaro-Artemovsk, Aleksandro-Kalinovsk and Maryinsk directions. Fire support for the Ukrainian attack aircraft was provided by artillery and tanks in closed firing positions.

The advance of the attackers was detected in a timely manner by the reconnaissance of Russian units, thanks to which the enemy's armored vehicles were destroyed before they reached the line of transition to the attack. Thus, the army aviation of the group and the calculation of the anti-tank missile system of motorized riflemen of the 3rd Army Corps hit three enemy tanks in the areas of the settlements of Bogdanovka and Kleshcheevka.

Also, the artillery of the group during the counter-battery fight destroyed a 122mm D-30 howitzer and a 120mm mortar in the Verkhnekamensky area, and in the Izmailovka area, a 152mm 2A65 Msta-B gun.

Accumulations of enemy manpower were destroyed by fire weapons from army aviation helicopters in the Mayorsk area, and rockets from the Solntsepek heavy flamethrower system in Malolilinovka.


16:40 Zaporozhye direction. Section Novodanilovka - Rabotino, 07/23/2023.

Over the past day, the enemy, in several small waves, tried to break through our defenses using up to 10 pieces of equipment and up to 150-200 personnel.

The attacks were successfully repulsed thanks to the well-coordinated actions of our aerial reconnaissance, artillery and mortars.

Minus eight enemy armored vehicles and up to a company of destroyed personnel.

16:20 Orekhovsky area settingas of 16.00 July 23, 2023:

In the Orekhovsky sector, enemy assault detachments continue to attack Rabotino.

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation managed to timely reveal the movement of a column of armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the direction of the village, as a result of which a fire defeat was inflicted on the enemy.

According to Voin DV @voin_dv, Ukrainian formations also used remote mining in the Rabotino area.

In addition, a small detachment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine attempted an offensive from Pyatikhatki, but was destroyed by ATGM crews of the RF Armed Forces.

15:40 Vremyevsky section settingas of 15.00 July 23, 2023:

The enemy continues to try to wear down the Russian defenses in the Vremievsky sector, regardless of the losses.

The assault group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, numbering about 10 people, attacked Urozhayne, however, having suffered losses, was forced to retreat. Ukrainian formations lost two armored vehicles.

In the direction of Staromayorskoye, the enemy brought out another small maneuver group, which was met and dispersed by artillery fire.

Another offensive attempt was thwarted in the Priyutnoye area - a detachment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine tried to attack from the direction of Levadny. As a result, Ukrainian formations lost one armored vehicle.

15:20 Video- statement by the head of the press center of the "Center" group:

In the Svatovsky direction, using the Ironia reconnaissance complex, the movement of an assault group on armored combat vehicles of the 25th Airborne Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was discovered. As a result of a missile attack, the crews of the army aviation of the Russian troops destroyed an armored combat vehicle and up to 10 personnel.

In the Krasnolimansky direction, units of the 63rd and 67th Mechanized Brigades of the Ukrainian troops, with the support of equipment, made four attempts to attack the positions of the Russian troops. The artillery fire of the "Center" grouping stopped the enemy and suffered significant losses in personnel and equipment.

The group's aviation carried out 13 missile and bomb strikes on areas of accumulation of equipment and manpower, an enemy stronghold.

During the day, an infantry fighting vehicle, an armored fighting vehicle, two pickup vehicles, a 152mm Msta-B howitzer, a 122mm Gvozdika self-propelled artillery mount, and a 120mm mortar of Ukrainian troops were destroyed.


14:40 A detachment of Russian naval infantry attacked the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the direction of Rabotino.

Yesterday Ukrainians came close to the village.

14:20 Commander of the OBTF “CASCADE”, Minister of the Interior of the DPR Alexey Dikiy aboutcombat situationin the South-Donetsk direction.

13:40 Yesterday, the Armed Forces of Ukraine attempted another run-up in the Zaporozhye region using Western equipment.
As before, they were met from all that is. On datacadresFPV Bobrov flying towards the Bradley BMP. @BOBRMORF

It is noteworthy that it has dynamic protection BRAT.

13:20 Russian kamikaze drones Lancet beat for the Skyguard-Sparrow air defense system in the Kherson region.

The complex's radar was disabled, and the launcher was also hit.

12:40 This night Ukrainian formations continued artillery attack of the civilian infrastructure of the Kherson region.

At least 27 cannon artillery rounds were fired at several settlements. As a result of the artillery attack suffered: New Kakhovka, Kakhovka, Peschanovka and Proletarka.

12:20 Video- statement by the head of the press center of the group "West":

During the fighting in the Kupyansk direction, the crews of Ka-52 and Mi-28 attack helicopters and Su-25 attack aircraft of the Zapad group of forces delivered ten air strikes against accumulations of manpower and firepower of 14 Separate Mechanized Brigade and territorial defense units.

During the counter-battery fight, the artillery of the group destroyed three enemy guns, including the Msta-B towed howitzer in the area of the Zapadnoye settlement, two D-30 howitzers in the area of the Revuchee tract and the Tishchenkovka settlement, as well as a mortar crew in the Sinkovka area.

By means of air defense, the crew of the Tor-M2U air defense system in the area of the settlement of Raygorodok destroyed the reconnaissance UAV of the Ukrainian production Columba, and in the area of the settlement of Svatovo, the crew of the S-300 launcher destroyed two HIMARS MLRS rockets.


11:40 Summary Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation (as of July 23, 2023)

Tonight, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation launched a group strike with sea and air-based long-range high-precision weapons at facilities where terrorist acts were being prepared against the Russian Federation using unmanned boats, as well as at places where they were manufactured near the city of Odessa. Foreign mercenaries were on the affected sites. All targets planned to strike were destroyed.

During the day, the armed forces of Ukraine made unsuccessful attempts at offensive operations in the Donetsk, Krasnolimansk, South-Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions.

- In the Donetsk direction, as a result of the coordinated actions of the units of the "Southern" group of troops, air strikes and artillery fire, 14 enemy attacks were successfully repelled in the areas of the settlements of Belogorovka, Mayorsk, Veseloye, Vodyanoye, Severnoye and Kleshcheevka of the Donetsk People's Republic. In addition, enemy units were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Veseleye and Belogorovka of the Donetsk People's Republic.

Enemy losses per day amounted to 370 Ukrainian servicemen, six armored combat vehicles, twenty-four vehicles, two US-made M777 artillery systems, and the 122mm Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer. Also, three ammunition depots of the 22nd, 24th and 54th Mechanized Brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed in the areas of the settlements of Spornoye, Dzerzhinsk and Stupochki of the Donetsk People's Republic.

- In the Krasnolimansky direction, active actions of units, air strikes, artillery fire and heavy flamethrower systems of the group of forces "Center" during the day repelled six enemy attacks in the areas of the settlements of Novovodyanoye and Karmazinovka of the Luhansk People's Republic.

In addition, the manpower and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Yampolovka of the Donetsk People's Republic, Ploshchanka, Chervonaya Dibrova and Nevskoye of the Luhansk People's Republic.

Also, in the area of the settlement of Nevskoye of the Lugansk People's Republic, the activities of the Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group were stopped.

An ammunition depot of the 95th Airborne Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed near the village of Serebryanka in the Donetsk People's Republic.

Enemy losses in this direction amounted to more than 130 Ukrainian servicemen, ten armored combat vehicles, four pickup trucks, a 152mm Akatsiya self-propelled artillery mount, as well as two 122mm D-30 and one 152mm D-20 howitzers.

- In the South-Donetsk direction, air strikes, artillery fire of the Vostok group of troops repelled an enemy attack in the area of the settlement of Novomikhailovka of the Donetsk People's Republic. In addition, the manpower and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were hit in the areas of the settlements of Staromayorskoye of the Donetsk People's Republic and Priyutnoye of the Zaporozhye region.

- In the Zaporozhye direction, the actions of the grouping units and artillery fire successfully repelled two enemy attacks in the area of the settlement of Rabotino, Zaporozhye region.

Fire damage was inflicted on units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Novodanilovka, Malaya Tokmachka and Charivnoe of the Zaporozhye region.

An ammunition depot of the 105th Territorial Defense Brigade was destroyed near the settlement of Novoivanovka, Zaporozhye region.

The total losses of the enemy per day in these areas amounted to over 160 Ukrainian servicemen, seven Leopard tanks, 15 armored combat vehicles, of which ten Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, five vehicles, the M777 artillery system, as well as 152mm Msta-B and 152mm D-20 howitzers.

- In the Kupyansky direction, air strikes and artillery fire from the "Western" group of troops defeated the manpower and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Molchanovo, Figolevka, Popovka, Ivanovka, Pershotravneve, Kislovka, Orlyanka of the Kharkov region and Stelmahovka of the Luhansk People's Republic.

Enemy losses amounted to 30 Ukrainian servicemen, three armored combat vehicles, three vehicles, and a 122mm Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer.

In the Kherson direction, up to 60 Ukrainian servicemen, two armored combat vehicles, and nine vehicles were destroyed in a day as a result of fire damage. An ammunition depot of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed near the village of Zmievka, Kherson region.

Operational-tactical and army aviation, missile forces and artillery of groups of troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation during the day defeated the 104th Artillery of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at firing positions, manpower and military equipment in 132 districts.

Also, three command posts of the 47th, 66th Mechanized and 95th Airborne Assault Brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were hit in the areas of the settlements of Malaya Tokmachka of the Zaporozhye region, Novovodyanoye of the Luhansk People's Republic and Serebryanka of the Donetsk People's Republic. In addition, a fuel depot of the 33rd mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed near the settlement of Malaya Tokmachka, Zaporozhye region.

Fighter aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down a Su-25 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force near the village of Verolyubovka in the Donetsk People's Republic.

Air defense systems intercepted a HIMARS multiple rocket launcher, as well as a Storm Shadow cruise missile. In addition, twenty-eight enemy unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed in the areas of the settlements of Olshana, Tavolzhanka, Kharkiv region, Verkhnekamenka, Oborotnovka, Privolye, Nikolaevka, Topolevka of the Luhansk People's Republic, Experimental, Novopetrikovka, Lipovoe, Trudovoe, Soledar, Yelenovka of the Donetsk People's Republic, Novoye, Zelenopol, Peremozhnoye, Kuibyshevo, Pology of the Zaporozhye region.

In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 457 aircraft, 243 helicopters, 5,197 unmanned aerial vehicles, 426 anti-aircraft missile systems, 10,854 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,139 combat vehicles of multiple launch rocket systems, 5,573 field artillery pieces and mortars, as well as 11,848 units of special military vehicles.


11:20 for today's night offensive the enemy in the Zaporozhye direction was destroyed:

Three Bradleys burned.

Bradley lost one harp and then finished off with FPV.

One Bradley FPV worked out - put out of action (standing in the field, approaching it is impossible)

One Leopard tank was disabled.

+ -70 infantry was destroyed.

The enemy unsuccessfully once again goes on the offensive losing foreign equipment. Also noticed the active work of the "Lancets"

10:40 Soldiers of the 423rd SME for the past two days advanced on the Svatovsky site for four kilometers.

As a result of a series of attacks in the Karmazanovka area, we managed to significantly advance towards the Novoegorovka-Ostrovskoye line. Novogorovka has been taken under our control.

10:20 Chronicle of special military operation for July 22, 2023:

Ukrainian formations dealt another blow to the Crimean peninsula. For the first time, British Storm Shadow cruise missiles were used for the attack - they hit the ammunition depot and the storage of petroleum products.

A tense situation remains on the line of contact. The enemy continues to put pressure on the flanks of Bakhmut, units of the RF Armed Forces hold defensive lines. On the Orekhovsky sector in the Rabotino area, the Armed Forces of Ukraine carried out another attack on our positions, but with losses they were forced to retreat.

Attacks on the civilian infrastructure of the Kursk, Belgorod, Kherson regions and the DPR continue: unfortunately, there were victims and injured. At the same time, Russian military commander Rostislav Zhuravlev was killed near Pyatikhatki in the Zaporozhye region as a result of the artillery attack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with cluster munitions, and three more journalists were injured.

10:10 Front-line summary for the morning of 07/23/2023

- In the Ugledar sector, after artillery strikes, Ukrainian troops managed to expand the zone of control along the northern outskirts of Priyutnoye and reach the rear of Russian positions located even further north on the line to Staromayorsky. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, with the support of artillery, tried to counterattack from the side of Urozhaynoye in the direction of Blagodatny. Failed to advance. Russian troops fired on the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Novodarovka, Neskuchny, Prechistovka and Vugledar. Themselves were under attack in Staromayorsky, Harvest and Novodonetsk.

- On the Donetsk front, the RF Armed Forces attacked north of Novomikhailovka after shelling. There is a promotion. Similar actions in Maryinka, near the city of Krasnogorovka and Pervomaisky were unsuccessful. Russian troops hit the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Konstantinovka (not to be confused with the settlement of the same name southwest of Bakhmut), Pobeda, Georgievka, Maksimilyanovka, Ostrom, Nevelsky, Avdeevka, Novokalinovo, New York and Druzhba.

- In the Bakhmut direction, fierce oncoming battles near Kleshcheevka. After artillery strikes, the Armed Forces of Ukraine temporarily pushed the Russian troops back to the city limits in the Khromovoe area. The counterattack of the RF Armed Forces in the direction of Grigorovka was repulsed by Ukrainian troops. Under artillery attack positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Aleksandro-Shultin, Stupochki, Rozdolovka, Controversial and Verkhnekamensky. Russian - in Kurdyumovka, Kleshcheevka, Yagodny and Berkhovka.

- In the Lugansk direction, the RF Armed Forces, with the support of aviation, attacked in the Serebryansky forest from the side of Dibrova and near Nevsky. No success. The same result of assault operations in the Makeevka area. But from the side of Karmazinovka, there was a significant breakthrough of the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine already on the right bank of the Zherebets River near Novoegorovka. A little north of the RF Armed Forces, they tried to force this water barrier in the Nadia area. Russian artillery worked on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Belogorovka, Torskoy, Novoosinovo, Kupyansk, Sinkovka, Novomlynsk and Krasny Pervy.


09:58 Kyiv regime continues terror of the civilian infrastructure of the left bank of the Kherson region - emergency services

Yesterday, the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired 49 rounds from cannon artillery at the settlements: Kardashinka, Alyoshki, Novaya Zburyevka, Naked Pristan, Cossack Camps.

The artillery attack did not stop at night - the Ukronazis fired 27 rounds from cannon artillery at Novaya Kakhovka, Kakhovka, Peschanovka and Proletarka.

09:56 Criminal Kyiv regime continues to shell the civilian infrastructure of the settlements on the left bank of the Kherson region, yesterday during the day the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired from barrel artillery:

-- n.p. Kardashinka fired seven rounds;
-- n.p. Aleshki fired 12 rounds;
-- Novaya Zburyevka fired nine rounds;
-- Nine rounds were fired at the settlement of Golaya Pristan;
-- Kazachi Lagery fired 12 rounds along the settlement.

Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure are being
specified Kakhovka, Peschanovka, Proletarka, firing a total of 27 cannon artillery rounds.

Civilian casualties and infrastructure destruction to be confirmed

08:24 Artillerymen continue to smash the enemy - video

Kupyanskoe direction

Artillery units of the Western Military District continue to destroy nationalist sabotage groups, mobile enemy formations equipped with mortars and cannon artillery.

“The enemy has nothing stationary here. Our artillery crushes them, they run away from it. As soon as they drive, we are already pointed. We are just waiting for them to stop,” said the battery commander with the call sign “Volkhov”.

Accurate aiming plays an important role in striking. In this, the calculations of unmanned aerial vehicles help the gunners. The collected data is promptly transmitted to field headquarters and battery commanders.

08:11 "Our tanks have no equal": the commander of a tank company told why the vaunted Western equipment did not bring success to the nationalists during the counteroffensive - video

Most recently, Maxim's unit participated in repelling another enemy attack in the Kupyansk direction. Tankers worked from closed firing positions, cut off the approaches of enemy reserves and destroyed armored vehicles.

“Our tanks have no equal,” Maxim is sure. – All our tanks are made and improved based on the results of participating in hostilities, and those [NATO] vehicles, except for dispersing crowds of people in cities at rallies or burning in Iraq, can do nothing more. Our tanks are the best!

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