War Reports - 2024-12-31 - Main Report

Dec 30, 2024

"Valuable Intelligence." Russian Experts to Study Captured Abrams Tank (https://t.me/inosmichannel/21715)

Russia has received a rare opportunity to study an American M1A1 Abrams tank captured in Ukraine with almost no damage, MWM writes. Uralvagonzavod specialists will analyze the vehicle's design to collect intelligence. The value of captured Abrams tanks is significant due to their widespread use. The United States alone has more than 4,000 vehicles in service or storage.

Earlier, Russian experts also got their hands on a German Leopard. The 2A6 Leopards will provide even more valuable intelligence. The Abrams tanks sent to Ukraine were built for export with the most classified technologies removed, while the 2A6 Leopards came directly from German army stocks.

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Russia lifts its unilateral moratorium on deployment of intermediate- and shorter-range nuclear-tipped missiles —

Lavrov (https://t.me/belarusian_silovik/47081).

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Zelensky preparing a counter-offensive?

The Ukrainian Armed Forces have pulled back a significant portion of their troops to the main line of defense near the border with the Dnipropetrovsk region, southwest of Krasnoarmeysk.

As TASS was told (https://t.me/tass_agency/294060) by Russian security agencies, this is the vicinity of Novoaleksandrivka, Novosergeevka, and Nadezhdinka.

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Ukrainian drone (https://t.me/smotri_media/99580?single) kills deputy chief physician of one of the hospitals in the city of Oleshky, chief physician himself is wounded — Volodymyr Saldo

"NATO drone operator sent a drone straight to the chief physician's office," — the governor of the Kherson region reported.

He noted that chief physician Volodymyr Kharlan received serious shrapnel wounds. This is already the second attempt on his life. Deputy chief physician for medical work Vasyl Borisov, a native of Oleshky, was killed.

Ukraine will be wiped off the face of the earth.

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#UkraineRussiaWar

🌐 Place: #Udy

🕰 Date: ~29.12.2024

📌 Coordinates: 50.3959872,36.0914551

👩‍🚀 Squad:

📝 Description: Russian FPV drone destroys Ukrainian Armed Forces howitzer in Udy.

🖥 id: 30122024.0837

✉️source: https://t.me/lost_armour/4071

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#UkraineRussiaWar

🌐 Place: #Yantarne

🕰 Date: ~29.12.2024

📌 Coordinates: 00:57(47.946502,37.165915)

👩‍🚀 Squad:

📝 Description: Russian FPV drones bomb Ukrainian Armed Forces evacuation group near Yantarne.

🖥 id: 30122024.0850

✉️source: https://t.me/bezdushnie/338

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#UkraineRussiaWar

🌐 Place: #Andriivka

🕰 Date: ~29.12.2024

📌 Coordinates: 48.016611, 37.106655

👩‍🚀 Squad:

📝 Description: A Ukrainian Leopard 1A5 tank was destroyed as a result of a Russian drone strike near Andriivka.

🖥 id: 30122024.0859

✉️source: https://t.me/sashakots/50965

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#UkraineRussiaWar

🌐 Place: #Pokrovsk

🕰 Date: ~29.12.2024

📌 Coordinates: 48.262000, 37.193100

👩‍🚀 Squad:

📝 Description: Footage of the destruction of a Ukrainian vehicle by a Russian FPV drone strike in Pokrovsk.

🖥 id: 30122024.0914

✉️source: https://t.me/Soldieroffortune777/54523

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#UkraineRussiaWar

🌐 Place: #Yantarne

🕰 Date: ~29.12.2024

📌 Coordinates: 47.938767,37.179600

👩‍🚀 Squad:

📝 Description: Russian artillery and drones strike Ukrainian Armed Forces positions near Yantarne.

🖥 id: 30122024.0922

✉️source: https://t.me/gimbatov34/3996

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#UkraineRussiaWar

🌐 Place: #Zelenivka

🕰 Date: ~05.12.2024

📌 Coordinates: 47.966157 37.092550

👩‍🚀 Squad:

📝 Description: Archival footage of the destruction of a Ukrainian tank by a Russian drone in Zelenivka.

🖥 id: 30122024.0940

✉️source: https://t.me/creamy_caprice/7961

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#UkraineRussiaWar

🌐 Place: #Kurakhove

🕰 Date: ~30.12.2024

📌 Coordinates: 47.97814483143842, 37.279256024949326

👩‍🚀 Squad: #110Brigade

📝 Description: A Russian soldier from the 110th Brigade raises a flag in Kurakhove.

🖥 id: 30122024.1510

✉️source: https://t.me/genshtab24/78712

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⚡️ Russian Defence Ministry reports on the progress of the special military operation (30 December 2024)

Part I (see Part II (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/18644))

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.

▫️In Kharkov direction, units of the Sever Group of Forces inflicted losses on formations of two territorial defence brigades near Kazachaya Lopan, Velikiye Prokhody, and Liptsy (Kharkov region).

The AFU losses amounted to up to 65 troops, one armoured fighting vehicle, one motor vehicle, one 152-mm D-20 gun, two 122-mm D-30 howitzers, and one electronic warfare station.

▫️Units of the Zapad Group of Forces improved the tactical situation along the front line and inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of two mechanised brigades, one assault brigade of the AFU, two territorial defence brigades, and one national guard brigade near Dvurechnaya, Zapadnoye, Glushkovka (Kharkov region), Ivanovka, Shadrigolovo, Torskoye, Terni (Donetsk People's Republic), and Serebryansky forestry. Eight counter-attacks launched by AFU armed formations were repelled.

The AFU losses amounted to more than 530 troops, one tank, one infantry fighting vehicle, four armoured personnel carriers, including three U.S.-made M113 armoured personnel carriers, one armoured fighting vehicle, eight motor vehicles, one German-made 155-mm Panzerhaubitze 2000 self-propelled artillery system, one 152-mm Giatsint-B gun, one 122-mm Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system, three 122-mm D-30 howitzers, and one U.S.-made 105-mm M119 gun.

▫️Units of the Yug Group of Forces took more advantageous lines and inflicted losses on formations of two mechanised brigades, one motorised infantry brigade, and one airmobile brigade of the AFU near Dalneye, Chasov Yar, Kurakhovo, and Razliv (Donetsk People's Republic).

The AFU losses amounted to more than 295 troops, one tank, two infantry fighting vehicles, one U.S.-made M113 armoured personnel carrier, one Kozak armoured fighting vehicle, and two pickup trucks. Two electronic warfare stations and two field ammunition depots were destroyed.

🔹 Russian Defence Ministry (https://t.me/mod_russia_en)

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⚡️ Russian Defence Ministry reports on the progress of the special military operation (30 December 2024)

Part II (see Part I (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/18643))

▫️As a result of decisive actions, units of the Tsentr Group of Forces liberated Novoolenovka (Donetsk People's Republic).

Losses were inflicted on manpower and hardware of three mechanised brigades, one motorised infantry brigade, one mountain assault brigade, two assault battalions of the AFU, one marine brigade, and one assault brigade of the National Police of Ukraine near Dzerzhinsk, Vozdvizhenka, Dachenskoye, and Peschanoye (Donetsk People's Republic). Eleven counter-attacks launched by the AFU armed formations were repelled.

The AFU losses amounted to up to 420 troops, two tanks, including one German-made Leopard tank, two infantry fighting vehicles, one armoured personnel carrier, one UK-made Snatch armoured fighting vehicle, five pickup trucks, one 155-mm Bogdana self-propelled artillery system, two 152-mm D-20 guns, one 122-mm Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system, three 122-mm D-30 howitzers, and one electronic warfare station.

▫️Units of the Vostok Group of Forces continued advancing to the depth of the enemy's defences and inflicted losses on formations of three mechanised brigades of the AFU and one territorial defence brigade near Dneproenergiya, Bogatyr, Zelenoye Pole, and Neskuchnoye (Donetsk People's Republic). Two counter-attacks launched by the enemy's assault detachments were repelled.

The AFU losses amounted to more than 175 troops, three motor vehicles, one 152-mm D-20 gun, one U.S.-made 155-mm Paladin self-propelled artillery system, and one U.S.-made 105-mm M119 gun. One electronic warfare station and one field ammunition depot were destroyed.

▫️Units of the Dnepr Group of Forces inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of three territorial defence brigades near Antonovka, Mikhaylovka, and Yantarnoye (Kherson region).

The AFU losses amounted to up to 75 troops, one armoured fighting vehicle, four motor vehicles, and two field ammunition depots.

▫️Operational-Tactical Aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, and Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces struck power infrastructure that ensured operation of Ukrainian defence industry enterprises, infrastructure of military airfields, ammunition depots, attack UAV command posts and launch sites, as well as engaged AFU manpower and hardware clusters in 143 areas.

▫️Air defence systems shot down four U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS projectiles and 65 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.

▫️In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 650 aircraft, 283 helicopters, 38,878 unmanned aerial vehicles, 590 anti-aircraft missile systems, 20,103 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,504 MLRS combat vehicles, 20,093 field artillery guns and mortars, and 29,644 units of support military vehicles have been neutralised.

🔹 Russian Defence Ministry (https://t.me/mod_russia_en)

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⚡️Russian Defence Ministry reports on repelling AFU attempt to invade Russian territory in Kursk region (30 December 2024)

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the operation to neutralise an enemy group, which broke into the territory of Kursk region.

▫️In the course of offensive operations, units of the Sever Group of Forces inflicted losses on formations of one heavy mechanised brigade, five mechanised brigades, three air assault brigades, one marine brigade, two territorial defence brigades, and one assault battalion of the AFU near Daryino, Kurilovka, Leonidovo, Loknya, Maryevka, Makhnovka, Nizhny Klin, Nikolayevo-Daryino, Novaya Sorochina, Cherkasskaya Konopelka, and Cherkasskoye Porechnoye. Five counter-attacks launched by AFU assault detachments were repelled.

▫️Operational-Tactical and Army aviation and artillery inflicted losses on AFU manpower and hardware near Aleksandriya, Viktorovka, Guyevo, Kazachaya Loknya, Kruglenkoye, Lebedevka, Nikolsky, Rubanshchina, Russkoye Porechnoye, Sverdlikovo as well as Basovka, Belovody, and Zhuravka in Sumy region.

▫️Over the past 24 hours, the AFU losses amounted to more than 310 troops, one infantry fighting vehicle, ten armoured fighting vehicles, six motor vehicles, and one artillery gun.

▫️Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk region, the AFU losses amounted to more than 45,530 troops, 262 tanks, 204 infantry fighting vehicles, 142 armoured personnel carriers, 1,359 armoured fighting vehicles, 1,237 motor vehicles, 337 artillery guns, 42 MLRS launchers, including 11 of HIMARS and six of MLRS made by the USA, 13 anti-aircraft missile launchers, seven transport-loading vehicles, 83 EW stations, 13 counter-battery warfare radars, four air defence radars, 28 units of engineering and other materiel, including 13 counterobstacle vehicles, one UR-77 mine clearing vehicle, seven armoured recovery vehicles, and one command post vehicle.

The operation to neutralise the AFU units is in progress.

🔹 Russian Defence Ministry (https://t.me/mod_russia_en)

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⚡️ On 30 December, 150 Russian servicemen were returned from territory controlled by the Kiev regime as a result of the negotiation process.

In return, 150 AFU POW were handed over.

At present, all Russian servicemen are on the territory of the Republic of Belarus, where they are provided with the necessary psychological and medical assistance, as well as an opportunity to contact their relatives.

All released servicemen will be taken to the Russian Federation for treatment and rehabilitation in medical institutions of the Russian Defence Ministry.

During the return of the Russian servicemen from captivity, humanitarian mediation efforts were provided by the United Arab Emirates.

🔹 Russian Defence Ministry (https://t.me/mod_russia_en)

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🗓 Top News Today

▫️150 Russian servicemen were returned (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/18649) from territory controlled by the Kiev regime as a result of the negotiation process.

▫️As a result of decisive actions, (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/18645) units of the Tsentr Group of Forces liberated (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/18644) Novoolenovka (Donetsk People's Republic).

▫️The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/18646) the operation to neutralise an enemy group, which broke into the territory of Kursk region. Over the past 24 hours, the AFU losses amounted to more than 310 troops.

#TopNews

🔹 Russian Defence Ministry (https://t.me/mod_russia_en)

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❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Highlights of Russian Military Operation in Ukraine: highlights of the week December 23-29, 2024

▪️Over the past week, Russian troops launched a series of missile strikes on Ukrainian energy facilities. Several strikes hit the areas near Dnipro and Kryvyi Rih, causing power supply problems in the region.

▪️In Ivano-Frankivsk Region, about ten explosions occurred near the Burshtyn thermal power plant. The nearest settlements were left without water, heat and electricity for some time.

▪️Kharkiv came under concentrated fire, where strikes were reported in several districts of the city. One of them hit the Zmiivska thermal power plant, which led to the introduction of special blackout schedules.

▪️Ukrainian units, in turn, launched drones on Russian rear regions. In Vladikavkaz, an AFU drone landed on the Alania Mall shopping center, causing a fire: one person died and two others were injured.

▪️Enemy UAV raid on Grozny led to the crash of a passenger airplane in western Kazakhstan. The airliner itself was first diverted to Makhachkala and then to Aktau, where the crash occurred.

▪️As for the border regions, the AFU were still actively firing at them. In Kursk region, Lgov came under fire, where four residents were killed as a result of strikes on civilian facilities.

▪️At the same time, the Russian Armed Forces' operation to de-occupy the region is continuing. Russian troops are actively using UAVs and artillery to hit AFU positions in the part of Kursk Region occupied by them.

▪️Units of the Russian Armed Forces are also gradually pushing Ukrainians out of the Sudzhansky district. On the southern flank, Russian assault units crushed the AFU positions in Cherkasskaya Konopel'ka and consolidated their ground in the center of the settlement.

#digest #Russia #Ukraine #video

@rybar

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🇷🇺🇫🇮 "Finnish Scary Stories for Naughty Children" - How to Scare Your Population with the Russian Threat

After the seizure of the Eagle S vessel, it was expected that the NATO countries would not stop there. An Estonian vessel has arrived in the Gulf of Finland, and other NATO countries have supported the initiative and intend to strengthen the naval group in the Baltic Sea.

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🔻But the Finns went further. In the Finnish publication Italehti, citing "a bunch of intelligence sources," they write that Russia may attack Finland in the coming years to annex new territories.

According to the publication, the Russians plan to advance first to the Kymijoki river valley and consolidate there. After that, they will make a dash north to Puumala to "bite off" this section of territory in southern Finland and block Helsinki.

In the north, they believe, the Russian 44th Army Corps will attack the Lapland region and the Norwegian Finnmark to consolidate its presence in the northern regions of Scandinavia and gain advantageous lands in the context of the confrontation in the Arctic.

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🔻Unfortunately, this is the current policy of most of Europe. Previously, such regular statements about a Russian offensive were made only by the "Baltic extinctions," who thus maintained interest in themselves in the world.

In Finland, similar politicians in character and mental abilities are currently in power, who quickly picked up the same theses as in the Baltic States. This is all needed to artificially whip up the threat from Russia and stress the population.

Frightened Finnish citizens are more manageable and will be less resistant to unpopular political decisions. Inflation, declining incomes, deteriorating quality of life, militarization - all this also applies to Finland, so such headlines will be heard more and more often.

High-resolution map (https://rybar.ru/piwigo/upload/2024/12/29/20241229222151-8acbcab7.jpg)

English version (https://rybar.ru/piwigo/upload/2024/12/29/20241229222139-9a595da1.jpg)

#NATO #Russia #Finland

@rybar

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🇬🇧 On British support for the so-called Ukraine in 2024

In 2024, the United Kingdom retained its leading position in supporting the so-called Ukraine. Since the start of the SMO, the British have spent around £7.8 billion on military assistance and £5 billion on other forms of support for the Kyiv regime.

Of course, in addition to the standard military aid packages and accusations against Russia, there were also extraordinary events. The main focus was on two key issues:

▪️ Permission to strike deep into the territory of the Russian Federation with Storm Shadow cruise missiles;

▪️ Deployment of a British military contingent to the so-called Ukraine.

While the first point is clear (https://t.me/rybar/65546), questions remain on the second. Recently, discussions (https://t.me/rybar/59772) about sending a British contingent to Ukrainian territory have subsided. We have no doubt that this is temporary.

📌 After the victory of Donald Trump in the presidential election in November, British politicians had to convince (https://t.me/rybar/65257) the Kyiv regime that the change of power in the US would not affect support for the so-called Ukraine.

🔻 We readily believe this last thesis, as London is extremely interested in the war "to the last Ukrainian", and therefore will do everything necessary for its continuation.

#UnitedKingdom #Ukraine

@rybar together with @oldGBR

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