War Reports - 2024-07-06
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▫️State and departmental awards were presented to participants of the special military operation at one of the branches of the Military Clinical Hospital n.a. A.Vishnevsky.
▫️The Zapad Group of Forces' units liberated Stepovaya Novosyolovka (Kharkov region). The AFU losses amounted to up to 3,580 Ukrainian troops, one tank, seven armoured fighting vehicles, 29 motor vehicles, four Grad MLRS combat vehicles, and 27 field artillery guns, including ten Western-made artillery guns.
▫️Air defence units shot down (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/14886) two MiG-29 and one Su-27 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force, five U.S.-made ATACMS operational-tactical missiles, five Neptune-MD long-range guided missiles, 14 UK-made Storm Shadow cruise missiles, seven French-made Hammer guided aerial bombs, one U.S.-made HARM anti-radiation missile, 42 U.S.-made HIMARS and Czech-made Vampire MLRS projectiles, and 451 unmanned aerial vehicles.
▫️Over the past week, 32 Ukrainian servicemen have surrendered (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/14886) on the line of contact.
▫️The Russian Defence Ministry shows artillerymen (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/14881) of the Sever Group of Forces, tank crews (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/14883) of 1st Guards Tank Army, 'Russian Hawks' (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/14889) UAV detachment, Ka-52M (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/14890) helicopters, assault units (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/14892) of the Vostok Group of Forces, 2S23 Nona-SVK (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/14893) self-propelled mortars, and Strela-10 (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/14894) anti-aircraft missile systems, as well as FPV drones (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/14891) of the Airborne Troops eliminating AFU hardware and manpower on the right bank of the Dnepr River within the special miltary operation.
▫️The Yars land-based mobile missile systems carried out (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/14884) manoeuvering actions as part of planned exercises in Teykovo and Irkutsk missile formations of the Strategic Missile Forces.
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🔹 Russian Defence Ministry
💥 Artillerymen of the Sever Group of Forces mercilessly burn out enemy positions using Krasnopol high-precision ammunition
🔹 Russian Defence Ministry
Yars land-based mobile missile systems carry out manoeuvering actions as part of planned exercises in Teykovo and Irkutsk missile formations of the Strategic Missile Forces
The Yars land-based mobile missile systems carry out activities on marching up to 100 kilometres, dispersal of units with change of field positions and their engineering equipment, organisation of camouflage and combat protection. The servicemen also work out issues of countering sabotage and reconnaissance groups.
A similar exercise will soon be carried out in other missile formations.
🔹 Russian Defence Ministry
⚡️ Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation
(29 June–5 July 2024)
Part I
From 29 June to 5 July 2024, the Russian Armed Forces have carried out 23 group strikes by high-precision weapons and strike unmanned aerial vehicles, as a result of which the following were hit: enemy airfields, energy facilities that support the work of Ukraine's military-industrial complex enterprises, fuel depots for military equipment, assembly facilities for strike UAVs and uncrewed surface vehicles, as well as locations for storing and preparing for combat use of missile weapons.
▫️Over the past week, units of the Sever Group of Forces have improved the situation along the front line and inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of three AFU brigades, one marine and two territorial defence brigades.
In addition, five counter-attacks of the AFU assault groups were repelled.
The enemy losses were up to 1,595 troops, four tanks, three armoured fighting vehicles, 30 motor vehicles, three electronic warfare stations, as well as 31 field artillery guns, including 12 large-calibre howitzers of various U.S.-made modifications.
▫️The Zapad Group of Forces' units liberated Stepovaya Novosyolovka (Kharkov region) as a result of successful actions, improved the tactical situation, and hit units of AFU three mechanised, one assault, one airmobile, and two territorial defence brigades.
In addition, 11 counter-attacks of enemy assault groups have been repelled.
The AFU losses amounted to up to 3,580 Ukrainian troops, one tank, seven armoured fighting vehicles, 29 motor vehicles, four Grad MLRS combat vehicles, and 27 field artillery guns, including ten Western-made artillery guns.
In addition, 20 ammunition depots were destroyed.
▫️The Yug Group of Forces' units liberated Spornoye and Noviy district of Chasov Yar (Donetsk People's Republic).
Losses were inflicted on manpower and hardware of two AFU mechanised brigades and two air assault brigades. Eighteen attacks launched by the enemy's assault detachments were repelled.
The AFU losses amounted to up to 3,845 Ukrainian troops, four tanks, 19 armoured fighting vehicles, including three U.S.-made M113 armoured personnel carriers, 65 motor vehicles, and 53 field artillery howitzers. Moreover, eight electronic warfare stations and 35 AFU field ammunition depots were destroyed.
▫️As a result of active operations, units of the Tsentr Group of Forces liberated Schumy, Novoaleksandrovka, and Novopokorskoye (Donetsk People's Republic). Losses were inflicted on units of three AFU mechanised brigades and two infantry formations, as well as two territorial defence brigades.
Thirty eight enemy counter-attacks were repelled over the week.
The AFU losses amounted to up to 2,970 Ukrainian troops, five tanks, 12 armoured fighting vehicles, including two U.S.-made Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, 30 motor vehicles, and 32 field artillery howitzers.
▫️Units of the Vostok Group of Forces improved the tactical situation and inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of two AFU brigades, two territorial defence and one national guard brigades.
Eleven AFU counter-attacks were repelled over the week.
The AFU losses amounted to up to 900 Ukrainian troops, four armoured fighting vehicles, 43 motor vehicles, 22 field artillery howitzers, including 14 supplied by NATO countries.
🔹 Russian Defence Ministry
⚡️ Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation
(29 June–5 July 2024)
Part II
▫️Units of the Dnepr Group of Forces inflicted losses on units of one mountain assault and four territorial defence brigades of the AFU.
The AFU losses amounted to up to 635 Ukrainian troops, one armoured fighting vehicle, 36 motor vehicles, 24 field artillery howitzers, including 13 U.S.-made M777 howitzers. Moreover, seven electronic warfare stations and three AFU ammunition depots were destroyed.
▫️Air defence units shot down two MiG-29 and one Su-27 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force, five U.S.-made ATACMS operational-tactical missiles, five Neptune-MD long-range guided missiles, 14 UK-made Storm Shadow cruise missiles, seven French-made Hammer guided aerial bombs, one U.S.-made HARM anti-radiation missile, 42 U.S.-made HIMARS and Czech-made Vampire MLRS projectiles, and 451 unmanned aerial vehicles.
In addition, five Su-27 aircraft and one Mi-24 helicopter were destroyed on the base airfields, as well as two Su-27 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force were damaged.
Units of the Black Sea Fleet destroyed three uncrewed surface vehicles of the Ukrainian Navy over the week.
Over the past week, 32 Ukrainian servicemen have surrendered on the line of contact.
📊 In total, 626 airplanes and 277 helicopters, 27,228 unmanned aerial vehicles, 537 air defence missile systems, 16,506 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,364 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 11,386 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 23,345 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.
🔹 Russian Defence Ministry
'No one has done this before us'
🎮 Specialists of the 'Russian Hawks' UAV detachment as part of the Yug Group of Forces destroyed positions of AFU units using the Scorpion-M1 automated platform.
The UAV detachment of the Russian Hawks as part of the Yug Group of Forces thwarted another attempt to rotate AFU units in Donetsk direction of the special military operation.
Using the Scorpion-M1 mobile remote control platform, the crews covertly delivered a payload to a detected target and remotely destroyed a stronghold and a firing position of the AFU.
The platform can also be customised to fulfil various tasks: demining of terrain, setting up mine barriers, support for motorised rifle units during assault operations.
'Originally, we expected to use it to bring ammunition, foodstuffs, and evacuate wounded from the battlefield by dragging method. But later, through small modifications, we came to use it to eliminate dugouts and enemy manpower,' said instructor of the Russian Hawks UAV detachment Aleksandr.
The robotic complex is wheeled, remotely guided with the help of a joystic system, and the route is adjusted by reconnaissance UAVs, with no additional long-term operator training needed.
🔹 Russian Defence Ministry
💥 AFU lost another Bradley IFV
In Avdeyevka direction, the 2S23 Nona-SVK self-propelled mortar of the Tsentr Group of Forces destroyed one U.S.-made BMP-M2 Bradley IFVand an AFU evacuation team that arrived to rescue the crew of the hit equipment.
Chief of Staff of the self-propelled battalion with the call sign Grom said about the work of the crew of the Nona-SVK self-propelled mortar:
'We support the infantry, participate in artillery training. We destroy targets: mortars, Bradley IFVs and clusters of enemy manpower.'
🔹 Russian Defence Ministry
⚡️Special Operation, 4 July 2024, Main⚡️
▪️ The option for resolving the crisis in #Ukraine proposed by #Russia, if Kiev and its Western sponsors are ready, will allow an immediate cessation of hostilities and the start of negotiations, Putin said at a SCO meeting;
▪️ It is impossible to cease fire without reaching an agreement on negotiations, so that the enemy does not “rearmament, replenishment,” Putin emphasised;
▪️ No mediator will be empowered to sign final documents between Russia and Ukraine, Putin said;
▪️ The Ministry of Defence (MoD) reported that a MiG-29 combat aircraft of the AFU was destroyed by a missile attack on an aircraft parking lot at the #Dolgintsevo Airfield in the #Dnepropetrovsk region;
▪️ MpD report: Kiev’s losses over the day amounted to more than 2.2 thousand militants;
▪️ Kiev also lost three tanks, a Grad MLRS combat vehicle, Pion, Gvozdika and Akatsiya self-propelled artillery systems, as well as Western-made artillery;
▪️ Russian military expert Karnozov told RIA Novosti that the appearance of the rare self-propelled gun "Pion" at the front indicates that the AFU are running out of high-power artillery;
▪️ Politico published a letter from more than 60 foreign policy experts who called on #NATO countries to avoid moving toward #Ukraine's membership in the alliance at the 9-11 July summit in #Washington because it could lead to conflict with #Russia.
rian_ru
⚡️ According to Tradition, the Situation in Key Settlements in the #Ugledar & #Avdeyevka Directions at the Day on 4 July 2024 was as follows⚡️
🔴#Paraskoviyevka - the enemy is still clinging to the outskirts of the village's western part.
🔴#Georgiyevka - we are fighting, we have moved a little from the outskirts.
🟡An interesting situation is that almost the entire settlement is located in the grey zone according to the enemy's version.
🟡We declare that we partially control it. The truth is that everything is complicated there.
🔴#Krasnogorovka - the enemy has withdrawn the main forces, holds positions in maneuverable groups, ready for tactical withdrawal.
🔴#Nevelskoye - we are crushing the enemy, there are successes, but in general the situation can be called suspended.
🔴#Karlovka - frontal attack, but for this kind of combat, overwhelming forces are needed, which, unfortunately, we do not have in this direction. At the same time, we manage to put pressure, pushing the enemy to the west.
🔴#Yasnobrodovka - the site has been completely occupied, but Ukrainian forces are still seeping into this gap.
🔴#Novosyolovka1st - this fortress will have to be demolished.
🟡They are holding up well, but they are in a semicircle where artillery is shooting through everything.
🔴#Voskhod and #Yevgenovka - divisions of daring people work in this direction.
🟡In a few days, they made another small breakthrough, occupied several settlements, where only the cleanup remained. Well done!
🔴#Novoaleksandrovka - struck in the direction of #Vozdvizhenka. There is a progress.
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⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦⚔️ #Chronicle of the Special Military Operation for 4 July 2024⚡️
🔹Russian Troops launched missile attacks on enemy infrastructure in the #Odessa region. Ukrainian formations attacked with drones an industrial zone in the city of #Kotovsk in the #Tambov region, and facilities in the #Stavropol territory with drones.
🔹In the #Toretsk sector, in the far south of #Bakhmut direction, there are battles in #Druzhba and Kirovo, as well as on the outskirts of #Yuryevka.
🔹In the #Avdeyevka direction, Russian troops expanded the zone of control in the vicinity of #Sokol and #Novoaleksandrovka.
🔹On the #Vremyevka ledge, there are battles north of #Staromayorskoye and in the central part of #Urozhaynoye.
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#UkraineRussiaWar
🌐 Place: #Sadove
🕰 Date: ~04.07.2024
📌 Coordinates: 46.7090292, 32.8437972
👩🚀 Squad: #76AirAssaultDivision
📝 Description: Russian UMPB-d30 strike on the Ukrainian Armed Forces' temporary deployment point near Sadove.
🖥 id: 05072024.0627
✉️source: https://t.me/grey_zone/23437
Map: Military Summary Map (https://dev.militarysummary.com/#/login)
#UkraineRussiaWar
🌐 Place: #Novoselivka
🕰 Date: ~04.07.2024
📌 Coordinates: 47.610877,36.011585
👩🚀 Squad: #38OMSBr
📝 Description: Russian Krasnopol hit the Howitzer of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Novoselivka.
🖥 id: 05072024.0537
✉️source: https://t.me/voin_dv/9553
Map: Military Summary Map (https://dev.militarysummary.com/#/login)
#UkraineRussiaWar
🌐 Place: #Zhelanne
🕰 Date: ~04.07.2024
📌 Coordinates: 48.215341,37.434200
👩🚀 Squad: #Sudoplatov
📝 Description: A Russian FPV drone destroyed a T-64 tank of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Zhelanne.
🖥 id: 05072024.0628
✉️source: https://t.me/sudoplatov_official/2100
Map: Military Summary Map (https://dev.militarysummary.com/#/login)
#UkraineRussiaWar
🌐 Place: #Urozhaine
🕰 Date: ~04.07.2024
📌 Coordinates: 47.758033,36.822325
👩🚀 Squad:
📝 Description: Russian Su-34 bombers hit troops and equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Urozhaine.
🖥 id: 05072024.0541
✉️source: https://t.me/mod_russia/40677
Map: Military Summary Map (https://dev.militarysummary.com/#/login)
The Ukrainian Armed Forces made a video about whose interests they are fighting for. It is clearly visible that they themselves sold out to the United States and Ukraine also sold out to the United States. That's why they fight. They hope that the United States will enter into a direct war with Russia and destroy Russia. We'll take a look.
dva_majors
Military expert Alexander Zimovsky : “As of today, the Russian army has liberated the Kanal microdistrict in Chasov Yar.
Bandera's supporters left randomly for the main residential areas of Chasov Yar.
The city itself is very well fortified. Each intersection is equipped with pillboxes, machine gun nests and anti-tank defense units. At the top sit gunners-spotters and sniper squads, along with drone operators and MANPADS operators.
All this, according to the bestial custom of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, is located in residential and civil buildings.
Russian heavy artillery and aviation, using high- and ultra-high-power bombs, are splitting another Bandera lair right down to the tailbone - clearing the way for assault units and units of the Russian Armed Forces."
The main thing for the Russian Armed Forces is to reduce losses personnel. Therefore, what was Ukraine is first wiped off the face of the earth, and then Russian soldiers move forward.
zimovskyAL
⚡️🇮🇱🇵🇸⚔️ Escalation in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Zone until the End of 4 July 2024⚡️
🔹In the north of the #GazaStrip, fighting is taking place in Al-Judaida. Israeli artillery struck several areas of Gaza. Meanwhile, the humanitarian situation continues to deteriorate for civilians.
🔹In the central part of the Enclave, with the exception of several air raids, the situation remains relatively calm, and in the south fighting continues in Rafah in the border zone with #Egypt.
🔹In the West Bank, raids by Israeli security forces do not stop. Collisions took place in Tulkarm and Nablus. In several other settlements, clashes occurred between Jewish settlers and local Arabs.
🔹On the border with #Lebanon, Hezbollah carried out one of the most massive attacks since the escalation of the Arab-Israeli conflict. 17 IDF targets have been hit, and 9 more border bases and settlements were attacked during the day.
📜 RYBAR
⚡️ Battle for #Toretsk - Situation around the Town by the End of 4 July 2024⚡️
🔴The RFAF hit the flank of AFU militants who did not expect this in Nyu-York:
🔵To Russian Troops in the area of #Toretsk managed to impose battles on the enemy, for which the AFU were not ready.
🟡Yesterday's assumption about a strike by the RFAF from #Gorlovka on the flank of the Ukrainian group in Nyu-York turned out to be correct.
🟡Our army began to overcome the minefields on the approaches to the outlying streets of Slavyanskaya, Armeyskaya and 8 March, after which the RFAF will be able to flank the Ukrainian defensive formations on the Krivoy Torets River.
🔵With this attack, the Russian Army forces the enemy to scatter the already small garrison to cover the new breakthrough area. And it is extremely doubtful that the "unbeaten fighters" will be able to contain the blow in two directions at once.
🟡However, the RFAF also face a more ambitious task, to prevent the withdrawal of AFU units northwards, to the southern outskirts of #Toretsk.
readovkanews
“We wanted to show in the film that the West, by supplying weapons to Ukraine, is arming international terrorism there.”
Thus, former SBU officer Vasily Prozorov presented his film “Unsaint Javelins (https://t.me/ukr_leaks_eng/9641)” at the documentary film festival “RT.Doc: Time of Our Heroes.”
The film tells how Ukraine became a key player in the black market for weapons. The author finds out how criminal schemes for the supply of NATO weapons work.
by RT DOC
📋 Two Majors #Summary for the Morning of 5 July 2024; pub. 05:45📍
🎯 The RFAF yesterday carried out strikes (https://t.me/two_majors/27191) on enemy depots in #Odessa and #Ilyichevsk. 📸👇An explosion was also heard near the Odessa Airport. Secondary detonations were reported locally.
💥In #Crimea, amid the missile threat, a bridge was closed several times during the night, air targets were reported shot down near #Berdyansk, #Zaporozhye region. At night air defence worked in #Rostov region, 10 UAVs of the AFU were shot down. In the #Krasnodar territory as a result of UAV attack in Primorsko-Akhtarsk there are casualties. 6 people were hospitalised, the work of the power substation supplying a significant part of the town was disrupted.
🔹In the #Kharkov direction, the AFU took separate actions in the area of #Liptsy and #Tikhoye. Radio intercepts of enemy communications indicate a lack of trained personnel in the AFU units on this direction.
🔹From the eastern part of #ChasovYar (the Kanal Microdistrct), the remnants of AFU units were knocked out. The enemy is taking up defence west of the Seversky Donets-Donbass Canal.
🔹In the #Toretsk (#Dzerzhynsk) sector, the RFAF are expanding their zone of control near the villages of #Druzhba and #Kirovo.
🔹West of #Avdeyevka, the RFAF are resolutely developing their success after occupying a stronghold near #Sokol village in the direction of the #Voskhod village. High-intensity fighting is taking place throughout the entire frontline area
🔹In the #SouthDonetsk direction, in #Krasnogorovka, the RFAF are continuing the assault on the northern part of the town. South of #Maryinka our troops reached the outskirts of #Konstantinovka west of #Paraskoviyevka. Fighting for the important logistics hub of the enemy continues.
🔹The #Zaporozhye front reports about the intensification of offensive actions of the RFAF in the #Rabotino and #Nesteryanka areas over the last few days. Enemy drones are a serious factor on this section of the front as well.
🔹In the #Kherson direction, the RFAF are fighting in the island zone. The AFU is setting up ambushes and sending out drones. The enemy confidently controls the area from the air due to the multiple superiority of drones.
💥In #Belgorod region, the AFU shelled many peaceful settlements yesterday. A drone dropped an explosive device on two cars on the #Borisovka - #Baytsury section of the motorway. 4 civilians were injured: 2 men, a woman and a 12-year-old child.
💥In the #Kursk region, the intensity of the enemy's strikes is not decreasing either. In #Tyotkino, Glushkovsky district, a Ukrainian copter dropped an explosive device on a residential house, a local resident was injured by shards of broken glass. The enemy is systematically knocking out electricity infrastructure and agricultural enterprises.
💥In the #DPR, as a result of Nazi strikes on Gorlovka and Donetsk with NATO-made artillery, a civilian was killed and 3 wounded.
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