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Current information on the situation on the front line on March 7 (updated)
2025-03-08
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[NewsFront] 20:57 Fighters of the assault units of the 114th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade releaseded liberation footage of the Andreevka settlement

The reconnaissance drone crews destroyed the enemy's main firing points, temporary deployment points and UAV crews. Then the attack aircraft in small groups cleared the firing positions, buildings and courtyard development.

19:23 Servicemen of the reconnaissance battalion of the "Southern" group of troops discover and destroy ammunition depots and camouflaged Ukrainian Armed Forces equipment.

19:06 Footage released destruction on M-777 155mm howitzers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces using an FPV drone in the Rubtsovsk direction.

18:44 Advance of the Russian Armed Forces in Sumy Oblast –MAP

18:27 Another target identified by our drone operators in the Khar'kov region This time, FPV drone crews on fiber optics of the "North" group of forces identified and destroyed a combat armored vehicle of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

18:01 Footage released on destruction Leopard tank using Lancet UAV in the area of ​​Shevchenko settlement in the Vremyevsk direction.

17:57 Drone drivers burned self-propelled gun of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Khar'kov region.

Servicemen of the reconnaissance unit of the 20th Guards Combined Arms Army of the "West" group of forces identified a 122mm 2S1 self-propelled artillery unit "Gvozdika" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at a firing position in a forest belt. The detected target was quickly destroyed by the crew of the FPV drone of the group.

16:52 Soldiers of the 16th Special Forces Brigade destroyed a camouflaged Ukrainian Armed Forces SPG (Rubtsovsk direction). –MAP

16:04 122mm BM-21 Grad MLRS crews covered designated squares with rockets and destroyed enemy infantry and ammunition depot (Orekhovskoye direction, Zaporizhia region)

15:41 The enemy transferred reinforcements to the Zagryzovo area (Kupyansk direction) – the 8th separate battalion of the 78th Airborne Assault Regiment “Gertz”, due to which it was able to advance in the southern part of the village –MAP

15:32 Russian army liberated Viktorovka in Kursk region –MAP

15:07 Unmanned aerial vehicle crews have detected and accurately hit and destroyed an armored personnel carrier with personnel and an enemy passenger car in the Aleksandro-Kalinovsky direction.

14:19 Russian Army erected a flag over the village of Nikolaevka in the Kursk region

13:46 Machine gun crew of Ukrainian military took off into the air

In the border area of ​​the Khar'kov region, the FPV operator of the 44th Army Corps discovered a machine gun crew of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The kamikaze drone immediately headed towards the target and successfully hit it.

13:37 Servicemen of the "East" military group continue strike the enemy in the South Donetsk direction

Having detected a tank, self-propelled artillery gun or armored combat vehicle, the ATGM operator launches a wire-guided missile, which hits targets at a distance of up to five kilometers with high accuracy. In addition to combat equipment, our servicemen have repeatedly destroyed equipped command posts, fire nests or long-term structures of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

12:19 Tonight the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation inflicted a group strike with high-precision long-range air, sea and land-based weapons, as well as unmanned aerial vehicles, against gas and energy infrastructure facilities that support the operation of Ukraine's military-industrial complex. The strike's objective has been achieved. All facilities have been hit.

11:48 Russian army liberated Staraya Sorochina in Kursk region –MAP

11:03 Paratroopers from the Tiger UAV detachment of the North Guard continues destruction of manpower and equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Kamikaze drones on fiber optics successively destroyed an enemy minivan and a Humvee armored fighting vehicle that were trying to deliver supplies to the Kursk region.

09:38 Russian Army broke through in the Kursk Front

Kursk direction. The situation for the Ukrainian Armed Forces is rapidly deteriorating: the Russian Armed Forces are launching a counterattack at the border, threatening to encircle the Sudzhan group of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, closing the head of the cauldron.

Russian troops broke through the Ukrainian Armed Forces' defenses in the Guevoye area and advanced more than five kilometers in a few days.

09:30 In the Kupyansk direction of the Russian Armed Forces forced Oskol River in another place in the Kruglyakovka area and landed in Senkovo

09:17 Sumy direction

Russian naval infantrymen have broken through the front between Guevo and Kurilovka, advancing toward the state border and one of the supply roads of the enemy group in the Sudzha area. Our units are occupying the area on the approaches to Basovka. There are about 12 km left between our units at the base of the bottleneck.

08:42 On the border of Kursk and Sumy regions destroyed a rare Finnish-made APC

The operator of the FPV drone "VT-40" of the center "Rubicon" GV "Sever" destroys the Finnish armored personnel carrier "XA-180" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine while crossing the state border on the highway "Sudzha-Yunakovka".

The total number of armored personnel carriers of this type delivered to Ukraine is classified by the government of Finland. However, it is known that about 1,000 units were produced in total, and the first deliveries to the Armed Forces of Ukraine began in 2022 and are carried out on a regular basis.

07:32 Changes on the map for the past 24 hours:

Advance in the Kurilovka area;

Control zone in the Razliv area has been expanded;

Positions in the Belogorovka area have been improved;

Advance in the village of Zaporozhye;

Control zone in Chasov Yar has been expanded.

07:11 During the past night, air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed 39 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles:

  • 14 UAVs over the territory of the Republic of Crimea,

  • 12 UAVs over the Black Sea,

  • Seven UAVs over the territory of the Kursk region,

  • Three UAVs over the waters of the Sea of ​​Azov, and

  • One UAV each over the territories of the Rostov, Belgorod, and Oryol regions
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Posted by:badanov

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