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Frontline situation update: December 3 (updated)
2024-12-04
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[NewsFront] 23:57 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 03.12.2024 to 00:00 04.12.2024.

Seven facts of armed attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces were recorded by the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC over the past 24 hours.

There were reports of two civilians being killed and one civilian being injured.

DAMAGED:
One car,
Five residential buildings,
One civil infrastructure facility.

Seven artillery attacks in the Gorlovka direction.

A total of 18 units of various ammunition were fired.

23:30 Russian fighters burn another German Leopard in the SVO zone – video.

19:54 Russian artillerymen leave no chance for the enemy: mortarmen of the Vostok group stopped counterattack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

A crew of a 240mm 2S4 self-propelled mortar "Tulip" with aimed fire hit a group of motorized infantry of Ukrainian troops that was trying to attack the positions of Russian attack aircraft.

As a result of the coordinated actions of artillerymen and attack aircraft, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 50 servicemen, seven vehicles and three armored combat vehicles.

18:39 Their strong point is surprise: Metis ATGM crews destroyed accumulation of Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel in the Orekhov direction. Zaporizhia region.

"We work with Metis, Fagot, Kornet, with all the combat equipment that we have in service. Our targets are always different: sometimes it's enemy manpower, sometimes it's enemy equipment," says an ATGM operator with the call sign "Arbat" about his work.

17:52 Russian Defense Ministry officially confirmed liberation of Novodarovka in the Zaporizhia region and Romanovka in the DPR.

The liberation of Romanovka, located eight kilometers south of Kurakhovo, brings it closer to encirclement, allowing our soldiers to reduce the southern Kurakhovo pocket of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

The liberation of Novodarovka accelerates the process of encirclement of the large logistics and administrative center of Velikaya Novosyolka.

16:47 Air support.

Mi-28NM crew as part of a mixed tactical group struck armored vehicles and personnel of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the border area of the Kursk region.

15:43 Su-35S crews are on combat duty in the border areas of the Kursk region, –video.

The purpose of combat duty in the air is to provide cover in a given area of operations for bomber and attack aircraft, as well as army aviation helicopters, when carrying out air strikes on military facilities and equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

13:54 Rocket artillery of Tula paratroopers covered concentration of Ukrainian Armed Forces infantry.

Crews of 122mm BM-21 Grad multiple launch rocket systems of the Tula Guards Airborne Forces destroyed enemy infantry in the border area of the Kursk region.

11:41 Another destroyed Swedish CV-90 IFV, –video.

Several of these had already been destroyed earlier and several had fallen into the hands of the Russian army as trophies.

10:54 Rubicon drone driverscontinueclear the Kursk direction of Ukrainian Armed Forces vehicles.

Reconnaissance UAVs of the Test Center for Advanced Unmanned Technologies of the Russian Ministry of Defense "Rubicon" discovered vehicles in a forest belt that were transporting Ukrainian Armed Forces servicemen.

The FPV drone crew destroyed the car.

9:47 Telegram channel «WarGonzo»:

Frontline report for the morning of 03.12.2024:

- Zaporizhzhya Front. The battles in the area are mainly positional in nature. Without significant changes in the LBS.

– Donetsk Front. Here, the Russian Armed Forces continue to develop their offensive in several directions. Around Velyka Novosyolka, Russian troops continue to improve their positions, encircling the settlement from the north and south. Urban fighting continues in Kurakhovo, the Ukrainian garrison is forced to retreat further and further west.

There are reports of our troops advancing in the area of the settlement of Zheltoye in the Pokrovsk direction. In Dzerzhinsk, Russian troops expanded their zone of control in the area of ??the waste heaps of the Tsentralnaya mine.

- Chasov Yar direction. Fighting continues in Chasov Yar and on the flanks. No significant changes in the LBS have been recorded over the past 24 hours.

- Kursk region. Fierce counter-battles continue here. The Ukrainian Armed Forces are putting up stubborn resistance and conducting counter-attacks, which, however, do not bring them any advances, but greatly complicate the work of the Russian Armed Forces.

8:10 "Yuzhnye" discovered an enemy UAV control point with a crew, a "Starlink" station, a booster antenna and a field warehouse of ammunition, -video.

All of the above was destroyed by targeted artillery strikes.

8:05 Night launches: 220mm BM-27 Uragan MLRS crews of the Zapad group destroy strongholds, positions and manpower of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, –video.

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