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Current information on the situation on the front line: October 20 (updated)
2024-10-21
Direct Translation via Google Translate.

Sorry it's so late edition.

[NewsFront] 19:42 Russian military from the first shot of a howitzer destroyed a moving enemy vehicle in one of the directions of the SVO zone.

18:40 Russian drone "VT-40" direct hit destroyed American armored personnel carrier M1117 Ukrainian Armed Forces.

17:48 Servicemen of the North group of troops destroyed Two heavy hexacopters "Baba Yaga" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Khar'kov region.

16:25 Ka-52M helicopter crews torn off rotation of units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the border area of the Kursk region.

15:01 In the footage –arrivals Russian aerial bombs with the UMPK system, which flew at enemy targets in the city of Zaporozhye.

14:30 Direct hit: servicemen of the North group of forces destroyed armored personnel carrier "Stryker" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Khar'kov region

The reconnaissance unit detected the movement of a Ukrainian Armed Forces Stryker armored personnel carrier along a road along a forest belt in the Khar'kov region. After analyzing the intelligence data received, a decision was made to fire on the enemy armored personnel carrier.

As a result of a direct hit by an FPV drone, the US-made Stryker armored personnel carrier was destroyed. Objective control of the destruction of the Ukrainian Armed Forces militants' armored personnel carrier was carried out by means of aerial reconnaissance in real time.

13:25 Russian Defense Ministry report on the progress of repelling the attempted invasion of the Ukrainian Armed Forces into the territory of the Russian Federation in the Kursk region (as of October 20, 2024)

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue operations to defeat the enemy group that has penetrated into the territory of the Kursk region.

– Units of the North group of forces continued to conduct offensive operations, during which they defeated formations of the 22nd, 47th and 115th Mechanized, 82nd and 95th Airborne Assault brigades, the 36th Naval Infantry brigade, as well as the 103rd and 129th Territorial Defense brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of the settlements of Kolmakov, Kruglenkoye, Lyubimovka, Nizhny Klin, Novoivanovka, Novy Put, Plekhovo, Tolsty Lug, Cherkasskaya Konopelka and Cherkasskoye Porechnoye.

– Army aviation strikes and artillery fire damaged concentrations of manpower and equipment of the 17th Tank, 41st and 61st Mechanized, 80th Airborne Assault brigades, as well as the 101st Territorial Defense Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of the populated areas of Alexandria, Viktorovka, Wolfino, Guevo, Dar'ino, Zeleny Shlyakh, Ivashkovsky, Kazachya Loknya, Kamyshevka, 2nd Knyazhiy, Kurilovka, Makeyevka, Maryevka, Oleshnya and Pogrebki.

- Operational-tactical aviation and missile forces carried out strikes on the areas of concentration in the Sumy region and reserves of the 22nd, 41st mechanized brigades, as well as the 101st, 103rd, 112th and 129th territorial Defense brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Bublikovo, Zhuravka, Iskriskovshchina and Pavlovka.

– Over the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have lost more than 310 people, nine armored vehicles have been destroyed, including an infantry fighting vehicle, an M-113 armored personnel carrier, seven armored combat vehicles, as well as six guns and six vehicles, two Anklav electronic warfare stations and a counter-battery radar station.

– In total, during the military operations in the Kursk direction, the enemy lost more than 25,050 servicemen, 167 tanks, 83 infantry fighting vehicles, 103 armored personnel carriers, 964 armored combat vehicles, 660 vehicles, 210 artillery pieces, 38 multiple launch rocket system launchers, including nine HIMARS and six MLRS made in the USA, nine anti-aircraft missile system launchers, five transport and loading vehicles, 50 electronic warfare stations, 11 counterbattery radars, three air defense radars, 22 units of engineering and other equipment, including 13 engineering obstacle clearing vehicles, one UR-77 mine clearing unit, as well as three armored repair and recovery vehicles.

– The operation to destroy the Ukrainian Armed Forces formations continues.

12:49 The main points from the new briefing of the Russian Ministry of Defense:

– The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 90 soldiers in the area of ??responsibility of the Northern Group of Forces;

– The daily losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of responsibility of the Western Group of Forces amounted to more than 450 soldiers;

– The “Center” group defeated five enemy brigades in the DPR, repelled 9 counterattacks, the losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in one day amounted to 460 soldiers;

– The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 50 soldiers and two ammunition depots in the area of responsibility of the Dnepr group;

– The Vostok group defeated a brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Dobrovolye area in the DPR, repelled a counterattack, the enemy lost up to 110 soldiers;

– Aviation, artillery, missile troops and drones of the Russian Armed Forces struck the locations of mercenaries and UAV production workshops within 24 hours;

– Russian air defense shot down five HIMARS projectiles and 142 Ukrainian UAVs in one day.

11:23 "Lancet" of the 17th Artillery Brigade of the Russian Armed Forces deprived another self-propelled gun for the Ukrainian Armed Forces militants

In the area o the settlement of Kurdyumovka in the Dzerzhinsky direction, the 17th high-power Artillery Brigade of the 3rd Army Corps of the Southern Group of Forces successfully destroyed a 12mm 2S1 self-propelled artillery unit used by Ukrainian nationalists. The fire damage was inflicted using the Lancet UAV.

10:33 Footage of the destruction of the Ukrainian armored vehicle Kirpi, made in Turkey, by our soldiers from an ambush in the Kursk direction.

09:12 The enemy pickup truck was spotted and immediatelystruck by FPV drone! The blow hit the hood of the car.

09:11 The location of foreign mercenaries of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was hit in Kyiv-controlled Zaporizhia.

09:00 Signal warriors on duty 24/7provide stable command of troops in all directions of the SVO. They celebrate their professional holiday at their combat post.

08:10 Servicemen of the "North" group destroyed in the Khar'kov region, two heavy hexacopters "Baba Yaga".

Posted by:badanov

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