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Russian Perspective: Operation to denazify Ukraine: operational summary August 3 (updated)
2023-08-04
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] 22:23 Explosions in the Sumy region, according to the military chronicle. Presumably, warehouses with ammunition of the Armed Forces of Ukraine explode near the Shostka airfield. It is also reported that explosions in Kharkov continue.

21:50 Polish reminder for Ukrainian emigrants that the country is not happy with the portraits of Bandera and the symbols of the OUN-UPA (recognized as extremist in Russia and banned).

The photo is not super-relevant, the very desire of the Poles to limit the visual propaganda of Ukrainian neo-Nazism is important here.

21:18 In the area of ​​the settlement Stelmakhovka in the Kupyansky direction, as a result of an air strike by the Russian Aerospace Forces,destroyed chief sergeant of the 68th Separate Jaeger Brigade of Ukrainian formations, “master sergeant” Anton Usovsky, call sign “Shaman”.

21:14 Kharkiv direction: there are a lot of dead Nazis in the Sinkovka area. It's five km. north of Kupyansk.

The “Solntsepyok” hits the enemy, the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine die in “packs”, but they immediately bring in new ones, a natural “conveyor of death”.

They are driven into the attack without artillery preparation and practically without the support of equipment, no one takes into account losses. Ours are moving forward about a kilometer a day.

21:00 Calculation of a formidable weapon with the affectionate name "Asterisk" destroys fortified positions of the enemy in the Soledaro-Artemovsky direction.

Artillerymen of the Tula formation of the Airborne Forces fire from 152mm D-20 howitzers at a distance of more than 17 kilometers. The rate of fire is up to five shots per minute.

“The gun works great. He even has a name - Asterisk. She never let us down, ”said the loader.

20:46 Kharkiv direction (n.p. Kupyansk area) 07/03/2023 20:20, says the front bird:

“The unthinkable is happening. In the course of the play, the command of the airmen is in such a hurry that they send the mobilized (personnel) to deliberately losing assaults on our positions without proper overlap, let alone artillery preparation. Today, an armored personnel carrier of the Vsushnikov was noticed, which (ATTENTION!) was already without one wheel before the battle. And laughter, as they say, and ...

Naturally, after our work, the armored personnel carrier was completely destroyed. As a result of today, they state the heavy losses of the enemy in this operational direction and the heavy but confident advance of our guys.

20:30 Statement of head of the press center of the group "Center":

In the Svatov direction, the strikes of the army aviation of the "Center" group of troops inflicted a defeat on the assault groups of the 66th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In addition, the Storm detachment captured three enemy strongholds.

In the Krasnolimansky direction in the area of ​​​​Serebryansky forestry, artillery fire and attacks by attack aircraft of the "Center" group repelled and thwarted six attempts to attack assault groups of 67 and 42 Mechanized Brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

During the day, the enemy's losses amounted to more than 70 militants, an infantry fighting vehicle, two armored vehicles and a pickup were destroyed. As part of the counter-battery fight, a 122mm D-30 gun, two 152mm Msta-B howitzers and four mortars were hit.

The crews of Su-34 fighter-bombers delivered four strikes at three points of temporary deployment and an enemy stronghold in the areas of the settlements of Druzhelyubovka, Torskoye, Serebryanka.


19:28 The German tank "Leopard 2A4" was blown up by a mine in the Zaporozhye direction - video

19:27 Air alarm in a number of regions of Ukraine:
Dnepropetrovsk region
Kirovohrad region
Mykolaiv region
Poltava region

18:28 The mortar crew of the [V] group destroys Ukrainian militants who have carefully dug into the ground - video

Correction of fire on the identified enemy is carried out from the copter.

18:27 Combat footage: how the Russian army hunts enemy artillery at the front -video

Aerial reconnaissance discovered a vehicle of the Armed Forces of Ukraine that drove into a forest belt to deploy a mortar point. The mortar and crew were destroyed by artillery strike.

17:28 The fortified area of ​​the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed on the move - video

Serebryanskoye forest

The armored group of the Russian unit on the move fires cannons at the camouflaged positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, destroying the firing points and manpower of the enemy.

17:26 Details about liquidated in the winter of 2023, 25-year-old Ukrainian nationalist Dmitry Tserakhto.

He was born in the village of Sartana, five km from Mariupol. He studied in Kharkov as an engineer. According to acquaintances, Tserakhto "was interested in history, the idea of ​​Ukrainian nationalism, and read many books on this subject."

After the start of the SVO, he voluntarily joined the "Azov", fought near Kiev.

After the renaming of "Azov" into the 3rd Separate Assault Brigade, the nationalist received the rank of sergeant and became the commander of the department.

In the winter of 2022, he was sent to Artyomovsk. On January 16, 2023, Tserakhto was liquidated by Wagner attack aircraft.

16:29 "Lancets" continue to destroy enemy equipment on the Zaporozhye Front - video

In video 1, the UAV of the special forces “Osman” destroyed the German tank “Leopard 2A6”.

On 2 - loitering ammunition carries the wrecked and abandoned T-72M1 tank and the IMR-2 engineering vehicle.

On 3rd, a Polish RT-91 Twardy tank was destroyed.

16:27 "Sunshine" "Brave" burn the Nazis, supporting the offensive at Kremennaya - video

Aerial reconnaissance revealed the enemy's concentration areas. According to the received coordinates, TOS-1A “Solntsepek” worked out.

15:25 Zaporozhye direction — video

Our UAV operators again show the highest level of their training.

With quick detection and target designation, the scouts helped the Xovods to hit enemy targets.

Result: 2 lancets - 2 destroyed enemy combat vehicles.

15:21 More footage of the wrecked Leopard 2R HMBV demining vehicle of the army of Ukrainian militants - video

14:23 The main thing from the new briefing Ministry of Defense:

Air defense systems of the Russian Federation intercepted 11 Himars MLRS shells and two Harm missiles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine per day;

The RF Armed Forces carried out offensive operations on a broad front and took up more advantageous positions in the Kupyansk direction;

The RF Armed Forces repulsed the attack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of ​​​​harvest in the DPR;

The Russian Armed Forces destroyed the launcher of the Buk anti-aircraft missile system in the DPR;

The RF Armed Forces successfully repelled an attack by units of the 25th Airborne Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Novoselovsky area;

The Russian Armed Forces destroyed up to 150 Ukrainian military personnel in the Kupyansk direction in a day;

The Armed Forces of Ukraine lost up to 175 military personnel, a tank, two M777 artillery systems and a 122mm D-30 howitzer in the Yuzhnodonets direction;

The losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donetsk direction amounted to 380 fighters;

The RF Armed Forces repulsed eight attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donetsk direction, counterattacked and improved the position along the front line near Berestovoye, Krasnogorovka and Maryinka;

The RF Armed Forces repulsed two attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Krasnoliman direction and inflicted a comprehensive defeat on the enemy near Grigorovka, Torskoy and Makeevka.


14:21 Meanwhile, in Ukraine, burials of soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are in full swing - video

The policy of the West to “fight to the last Ukrainian” is being steadily implemented

Unfortunately, the realization of the “stupefaction” of the population by the leadership of Ukraine comes to the Ukrainian resident only with the loss of his loved ones

13:27 Video: Russian artillerymen destroyed the calculation of the towed mortar of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The UAV operators uncovered the advancing of an enemy vehicle, which drove into a forest belt for a covert deployment of a firing position. After an accurate artillery strike, the mortar and crew were destroyed.

13:00 Cemetery destroyed armored vehicles of Ukrainian formations of Western production in the Zaporozhye direction.

12:21 I was in Ukraine destroyed another Colombian mercenary

Colombian fighter Edison Alberto Vinasco Giraldo was killed by the Russian military on July 19. He has been fighting on the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine since February 2022.

During the period of the NWO, at least nine Colombian mercenaries were eliminated.

12:17 On the Artyomovsky direction eliminated Ukrainian nationalist, member of the so-called ATO Sergei Komarenko.

11:17 Soldiers of the Dnipro group of troops destroyed equipment and manpower of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kherson region

As a result of fire damage by formations of the Dnepr group of troops in the island zone:

- a 120mm mortar crew and ammunition for it were destroyed, four AFU militants were destroyed, three were injured of varying severity;

- the 152mm MSTA-B howitzer with ammunition was eliminated, three fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed, four were injured of varying severity.

As a result of fire damage by formations of the Dnepr grouping of troops in the Kherson direction:

- in the Nadezhdovka area, the enemy IRIS-T air defense system was eliminated;

- the position of one of the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed, six militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were killed, four were injured of varying severity.

As a result of fire damage by the formations of the Dnepr group of troops in the Kakhovka direction:

- in the Zmiyivka area, the position of one of the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was liquidated, five Ukrainians were destroyed, four were injured of varying severity.

11:16 Interesting, Ukrainian public posted information about the arrival, they say, a certain admin building was damaged, besides, it’s under repair, and in general, it’s nonsense ..
Meanwhile, it turns out that this is not just like that:

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In Kiev tonight, kamikaze drones “Geran” flew right into the building of “Ukrgospetssvyaz”, in this building there is equipment for wiretapping phones and intercepting information on the network.

That is, we began to hit important targets in the information technology infrastructure. This cannot but rejoice, because the entire stability of the Kyiv regime largely depends on the reliability of the “info dome”. Especially from the ability to punish dissent, which provided this object.
So this is great news.

10:20 Tankers of the 1st Slavic Brigade destroy the enemy in the Avdievka direction - video

The crews of T-80 tanks, in cooperation with aerial reconnaissance in the Avdeevsky direction, keep the enemy in suspense every day. Combat vehicles suppress the firing points and positions of the Ukrainian Nazis.

10:18 Tired armored tractor “Oshkosh FMTV M1083F1P2” of the Ukrotroop — video

Demilitarization in action

09:32 Soldiers of the 6th Army of the Western Military District fired an ATGM in the Kupyansk area - video

09:31 Footage of the combat work of the 122mm D-30 crew of the 177th Naval Infantry Regiment on the destruction of personnel and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zaporozhye direction - video

08:25 Exclusive footage of finishing off abandoned Ukrainian armored vehicles with Lancet kamikaze drones in the Pyatikhatki area of ​​the Zaporozhye region. The T-72M1 tank and the IMR-2 engineering vehicle were destroyed - video

08:06 In the NWO zone eliminated Ukrainian nationalist Dmitry Khlyshtov.

In 2014, he participated in the so-called ATO. After the start of a special military operation, he voluntarily joined the Armed Forces of Ukraine and went to the front.

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