Russia-Ukraine Reports - 2023-07-21
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Discarding Illusions, Ending Wars
By Colonel (ret.) Douglas Macgregor, US Army
Result of the counteroffensive … the graveyards are expanding … even in Lviv, western Ukraine.
We continue our ongoing coverage of lancet strikes.
The Ministry of Defence of Ukraine warns (https://t.me/Politnavigator/129756) that from 00:00 on 21 July 2023, all vessels sailing in the waters of the Black Sea in the direction of seaports of Russia or Ukrainian seaports located on the territory of Ukraine occupied by Russia may be considered by Ukraine as such that carry military cargoes with all relevant risks,"
Clearly, Ukranians threat to sink civilian ships sailing to/from Russian Black Sea ports is disproportionate especially after the massive "calibration" of the last three nights of the infrastructure on the Nikolaev-Odessa-Ilyichevsk line. However, it would be unwise to completely ignore this statement.
The Ukranians, especially with Western assistance, are very capable of doing mischief. However, the very fact that the Ukrainians are making a scandal of themselves by threatening international shipping off Russia's Black Sea coasts is astonishing.
We will find methods against Zelensky, but how will the progressive international community respond to this demarche?
Slavyangrad
The first footage of the use of cluster munitions by the Armed Forces of Ukraine was published by The Telegraph.
It is reported that militants of the 14th Specialized Rifle Brigade named after Prince Roman the Great are using cluster munitions in the Kupyansk direction, where Russian troops are pressing the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
⚡️ Disruption of the militant attack in the Staromayorsky area and the feat of Lieutenant Andropov: the situation in the zone of responsibility of the Vostok group
▪️In the South-Donetsk direction, the Vostok group hit an enemy convoy advancing in the direction of Novomikhailovka, destroyed manpower and combat armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine;
▪️Motorized riflemen destroyed three groups of militants in the Ravnopol area;
▪️The attack of the enemy by an enemy infantry group in the Staromayorsky area was repelled, the surviving militants retreated;
▪️During the counter-battery fight, a towed MSTA-B howitzer was destroyed in the Dobrovolye area, two mortar crews in the area of Priyutnoye and Neskuchny, a pickup truck with nationalists in the Shevchenko area;
▪️Air defense systems shot down two Fury UAVs and two Valkyries;
▪️In the Zaporozhye direction, a reconnaissance group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was opened and destroyed in the area of Charivne, an enemy tank in the area of Malaya Tokmachka;
▪️UAV strikes destroyed two groups of militants in the Priyutnoye area;
▪️Attack and army aviation hit over a dozen places of accumulation of manpower of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of Novodanilovka, Priyutnoye, Zherebyanka and Pyatikhatka;
▪️Combat command and control officer of the army of the Air Force and Air Defense of the group, Senior Lieutenant Roman Andropov, in a few days in a difficult situation, carried out 18 assault aircraft guidance on ground targets of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The crews of combat helicopters and attack aircraft pilots destroyed several combat armored vehicles, two pickup trucks with militants and more than 40 nationalists.
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(Rough Translation)
Russian military intelligence officers correct the fire on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
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Correspondents @anna_news (https://t.me/anna_news/53012) visited the positions of Russian intelligence officers performing tasks in the Svatov direction.
Servicemen of the reconnaissance unit of the 1st Guards Tank Army of the Western Military District of the RF Armed Forces showed how they correct the fire of an 82-mm mortar on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
About the work of scouts in the Svatovsky direction - in our report
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‼️🇬🇧"There are no results of the Ukrainian counter-offensive" - Putin spoke sharply about the situation at the front
▪️Kiev is not helped by the supply of weapons and foreign mercenaries and advisers to break through the front of the Russian army.
▪️In Europe, public opinion is changing, they understand that supporting Ukraine is a dead end.
▪️Obviously, the Western curators of Kyiv are disappointed with the results of the counteroffensive.
The SMO command acts professionally, performs its duty steadfastly, and the vaunted and invulnerable equipment burns and is sometimes inferior to Soviet weapons.
▪️Formations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine suffered huge losses, tens of thousands of people.
#source (https://t.me/RVvoenkor/49676)
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Russian Defence Ministry report (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/8517) on the progress of the special military operation (21 July 2023)
▫️Last night the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation carried out another strike with long-range sea-based precision weapons against sites where terrorist acts against the Russian Federation were being prepared using strike drones.
▫️The goal of the attack has been reached. All the assigned targets have been neutralised.
▫️The AFU continued unsuccessful attempts to conduct offensive actions in Donetsk, Krasny Liman and South Donetsk directions.
▫️In Donetsk direction, as a result of actions by the Yug Group of Forces, 9 enemy attacks have been successfully repelled near Zolotaryovka LPR, Mayorsk, Vesyoloye, Maryinka, Vodyanoye and north of Kleshcheevka DPR.
▫️As a result of actions by Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, AFU manpower and hardware have been hit close to Novomikhailovka, Dyleevka, Belaya Gora and Aleksandro-Shultino DPR.
▫️2 ammunition depots of the AFU 38th Marine Brigade and the 118th Territorial Defence Brigade have been destroyed near Razliv and Vyemka DPR.
▫️The enemy losses were up to 185 servicemen, 3 AFVs, 4 motor vehicles, as well as D-20 and D-30 howitzers.
▫️In Krasny Liman direction, as a result of actions by the Tsentr Group of Forces, 3 enemy attacks have been repelled forward Chervonaya Dibrova, Kovalyovka, and Karmazinovka LPR.
▫️Enemy units have been hit close to Nevskoye, Makeevka, Novogorovka and Raigorodka LPR, and Yampolovka, Terny DPR.
▫️The actions of 1 SRG have been suppressed near Torskoye DPR.
▫️The enemy losses were up to 100 servicemen, 1 tank, 4 AFVs, 7 pickup trucks, and 2 howitzers: D-20 and D-30.
▫️In South Donetsk direction, as a result of actions by the Vostok Group of Forces, AFU manpower and hardware have been hit close to Makarovka DPR and Levadnoye (Zaporozhye).
▫️1 SRG has been destroyed near Priyutnoye (Zaporozhye).
▫️In Zaporozhye direction, as a result of the actions by units and artillery, an enemy attack has been repelled near Malaya Tokmachka (Zaporozhye).
▫️2 ammunition depots of the 23rd Mechanised Brigade and the 36th Marine Brigade of the AFU have been destroyed close to Uspenovka and Rovnopolye (Zaporozhye).
▫️The enemy losses were up to 175 servicemen, 3 AFVs, 2 motor vehicles, 2 D-20 howitzers, as well as 1 U.S.-manufactured AN/TPQ-36 counter-battery radar station.
▫️In Kupyansk direction, as a result of actions by the Zapad Group of Forces, AFU manpower and hardware have been hit close to Stelmakhovka LPR, Figolyovka, Kalinovo, Zagoruykovka, Timkovka and Krasnoye Pervoye (Kharkov).
▫️The activities of 1 SRG have been suppressed close to Novosyolovskoye LPR.
▫️1 ammunition depot of the 1st Special Forces Brigade of the AFU has been destroyed near Volchansk (Kharkov).
▫️The enemy losses were up to 30 servicemen, 2 AFVs, 3 motor vehicles, Msta-B and D-20 howitzers, 2 D-30 guns, and 1 U.S.-manufactured AN/TPQ-50 counter-battery radar station.
▫️In Kherson direction, the enemy losses were up to 35 servicemen, 4 motor vehicles, and 1 U.S.-manufactured AN/TPQ-36 counter-battery radar station.
▫️1 ammunition depot of the AFU 123th Territorial Defence Brigade has been destroyed near Veletenskoye (Kherson).
▫️Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have neutralised 102 AFU artillery units at their firing positions, manpower and hardware in 123 areas.
▫️A fuel depot of the 36th Brigade of the AFU Marine Corps has been destroyed near Rovnopolye (Zaporozhye).
▫️The command post of the 79th Airborne Assault Brigade of the AFU has been neutralised near Novomikhailovka DPR.
▫️Air defence facilities have shot down 6 projectiles launched by HIMARS MLRS.
▫️14 UAVs have been destroyed close to Zolotaryovka, Krasnorechenskoye, Shipilovka, Svatovo LPR, Artyomovsk, Bakhmutskoye, Mariupol, Klyuchevoye DPR, Gusarka, Chapaevka, Romanovskoye and Malye Shcherbaki (Zaporozhye).
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Missile attack on critical NATO weapons supply facility — details
Details of a daytime missile attack on a target in the Odessa region.
The operational command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine "South" reported that a total of 7 cruise missiles of various classes were fired at an infrastructure facility in the Belgorod-Dniester region. Including, up to 4 Onyx anti-ship missiles were fired, Air Force spokesman Ignat said.
“We already see the third attack of the Onyxes. Previously, from 10 a.m. and as of now, the enemy used up to four P-800 Onyx missiles in the Odessa region somewhere south of the regional center,” Ignat said.
He added that "it is not possible to destroy all air targets" because there is not enough means to detect and destroy them.
The object is damaged. The scale of destruction is being specified.
Odessa governor also announced the defeat of an important infrastructure facility during a daytime missile attack.
The Kiev media remind us that earlier in the Belgorod-Dniester region, the Russian army regularly attacked the bridge in Zatoka, which is important for logistics in the region, across the Dniester estuary.
Odessa groups wrote about strikes on this bridge today.
❗️The bridge runs the railway line to Izmail, where there is a very convenient transshipment along the Danube from the Romanian port of Galati and a short logistic shoulder.
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🇷🇺 Combat footage: Assault detachments of the Airborne Forces captured enemy fortifications in the forest near Kremennaya
After artillery preparation, the paratroopers broke into the Ukrainian trenches, capturing and clearing the stronghold of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
As a result of the battle, the enemy was forced to flee, leaving weapons and ammunition in positions, and also leaving the dead and wounded.
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An American mercenary lost his eyes during the counteroffensive.