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Russian Perspective: Operation to denazify Ukraine: operational summary July 27 (updated)
2023-07-28
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Kindly note that several entries in this article may have been removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.


22:00 Artillerymen of the 292nd regiment of the 58th army destroyed another Ukrainian howitzer during a counter-battery fight, Zaporozhye region —video.

21:00 Soldiers of the Russian army destroyed the self-propelled guns "Krab" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Bakhmut direction with the Lancet -video.

20:33 Russian tankers on the T-90M of the 69th detachment brigade of the 35th Army are hammering on the fortifications of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Dorozhnyanka area -video.

19:27 The 34th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade worked out from the ATGM on the tank of the Armed Forces of Ukraine - video

19:23 Captured Dutch armored personnel carrier YPR-765 (American version of M-113) - video

18:28 Supreme Council of the Russian Federation eliminated nationalist Konstantina Musienko.

From January 2023 he was the senior gunner of the mechanized squad of the mechanized platoon of the mechanized company of the mechanized battalion HF A4741.

Denazified near the village of Priyutnoe, Pohovsky district, Zaporozhye region.

18:26 Attack aircraft of the Airborne Forces captured a stronghold and captured the military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine —video

After our artillery worked on the Ukrainian fortifications, the assault group of the Airborne Forces went on the attack. The fire support for the paratroopers was provided by an armored group on the BMD-4M.

Some of the Ukrainian servicemen, wanting to save their lives, surrendered. The militants who resisted were eliminated.

17:30 It is reported that in Zaporozhye destroyed soldiers of the elite unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

According to the Military Chronicle, the Wolf Pack unit of the 2nd Assault Battalion of the 3rd Specialized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was ambushed by the army special forces of the RF Armed Forces while retreating in the Rabotin area. Apparently, the assault battalion was involved during the ten-hour offensive of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on July 26.

According to preliminary data, the T-72M1 was destroyed by the ATGM crew, after which the crew of the vehicle was abandoned, and the main forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine retreated.

This unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, presumably, due to heavy losses and a slowdown in the offensive, was transferred to Zaporozhye from the Kherson region and from the Artyomovsky direction.

17:28 Soldiers of the Russian 110th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade destroyed the T-64 tank and the HMMWV armored car of the Ukrainian military - video

16:35 Footage of the combat work of the army special forces "Osman" to destroy the tanks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with loitering ammunition Kh-51, Kh-52 "Lancet" during the unsuccessful offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zaporozhye direction - video

15:33 "Alligator" destroyed an enemy tank with a guided missile - video

Just before the strike, the militants who were nearby left their hiding places and approached the armored car. All of them were covered with one powerful blow.

15:29 "Lancet" paratroopers destroyed the Ukrainian tank during the evacuation -video

Our fighters noticed an attempt by the enemy to evacuate a wrecked tank from the battlefield and inflicted an accurate drone strike on the armored vehicles.

14:25 Highlights of the newthe briefing Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation:

On July 26, the Armed Forces of Ukraine resumed an intensive offensive in the Orekhovskaya direction with the forces of three battalions, all attacks were repelled;

More than 280 Ukrainian servicemen, 25 tanks, ten infantry fighting vehicles, three armored combat vehicles, two vehicles, a Czech-made RM-70 Vampire multiple rocket launcher, and two FH-70 howitzers were destroyed in the South-Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions. Great Britain;

More than 120 Ukrainian servicemen, two tanks, four infantry fighting vehicles, two armored personnel carriers and an armored car "Kozak" were destroyed in the Donetsk direction;

In the Kupyansk direction, the enemy’s losses amounted to more than 35 Ukrainian servicemen, three armored combat vehicles, four vehicles, a 152mm D-20 howitzer, as well as a 122mm Gvozdika self-propelled artillery mount;

More than 185 Ukrainian servicemen, three armored combat vehicles, three pickup trucks, two 122mm D-30 howitzers, as well as a 122mm Gvozdika self-propelled artillery mount were destroyed in the Krasnolimansky direction;

In the Kherson direction, as a result of fire damage, up to 25 military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, three vehicles, and two 122mm D-30 howitzers were destroyed in a day;

Air defense systems intercepted five rockets of the HIMARS multiple launch rocket system and destroyed 20 Ukrainian drones in a day.


14:23 Another German-made Leopard 2 A4 tank successfully blown up on a TM-62m mine in the Zaporozhye direction - video

13:38 A kamikaze drone of the 110th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade destroyed a Nazi tank while trying to counterattack near Nevelskoye in the Donetsk direction - video

13:31 In the NWO zone liquidated one of the battalion commanders. Kulchitsky – Sergey Tkachenko

The battalion, which is part of the National Guard of Ukraine, was formed from militants operating on the Maidan. Subsequently replenished with similar elements.

Tkachenko was known for calls to "crack down on all separatists", took part in the battles for Slavyansk.

12:20 The Zoo-1M complex of the O group helped the 152mm Msta-S crew destroy the Nazi weapon - video

“The complex calculates enemy artillery along the trajectory of the projectile. Within 30 seconds, the flight path is being processed, and the station gives out the coordinates from where the shot was fired. It calculates almost all types of artillery, it also gives out the nature of the target: either it is a mortar, or it is a gun, or it is an enemy MLRS, it also shows the caliber," said the station operator with the call sign Strelok.

12:17 Two points of temporary deployment, mortars and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed in the Kherson region

Fighters of the Russian group "Dnepr" eliminated 32 Ukrainian soldiers, injured 28 more, the emergency services of the Kherson region reported.

11:24 Footage taken by eyewitnesses of yesterday's massive strike by Russian missiles on military facilities on the territory of Ukraine - video

According to preliminary data, one of the hit targets was the base of Su-24M bombers equipped with Storm Shadow missiles in Starokonstantinov.

11:22 According to the Russian Defense Ministry, during yesterday's offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Rabotino destroyed 22 tanks, 10 infantry fighting vehicles, other equipment and more than 100 enemy personnel.

10:22 During the counterbattery fight, 292 SAP destroyed another self-propelled guns of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zaporozhye direction - video

10:21 As part of the general fire engagement of the Dnepr grouping of troops, at 09.30 on July 26, southeast of the Antonovsky bridge, a Su-34 aircraft delivered an X-38 air strike on the accumulation of enemy manpower (up to 20 people) and an ammunition depot - video

09:30 As a result of fire damage by formations of the Dnipro group of troops in the island zonedestroyed:

- the place of temporary deployment of one of the armed formations of Ukraine.

Losses of VFU in zh.s.: 14 KIAs; six wounded.
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As a result of fire damage by formations of the Dnepr group of troops in the Kherson direction, the following were destroyed:

- 120 mm mortar crew and ammunition for it, in the area of ​​the settlement. Nikolskoye.

Losses of VFU in zh.s.: five KIAs, three wounded.

- the position of one of the armed formations of Ukraine, in the area of ​​the settlement. Antonovka.
Losses of VFU in zh.s.: seven KIAs; 10 wounded.

As a result of fire damage by formations of the Dnepr group of troops in the Kakhovka direction, the following were destroyed:

- the position of one of the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in the area of ​​the settlement. Kachkarovka.
Losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the zh.s.: six KIAs; nine wounded.

08:15 Direct fire on neo-Nazis: the crew of the T-90M "Proryv" tank defeated the stronghold of the Armed Forces of Ukraine - video

Krasnoliman direction

With a shot from a 125mm cannon, the tankers of the Central Military District demolished the enemy’s fortified structure, after which, using an anti-aircraft gun, they suppressed the remaining personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The enemy stronghold was destroyed.

08:07 "Lancets" smash Nazi equipment along the entire front - video

In video 1, our strike drone destroys a German Leopard near Rabotino in the Zaporozhye direction.

On 2 - the Polish self-propelled guns "Krab" were destroyed in the Krasno-Limansky direction.

On 3 - "Lancet" hit an enemy tank in the Zaporozhye direction.

On 4 - a Ukrainian tank was hit near Bogdanovka.

At 5, an enemy self-propelled gun was hit in the South-Donetsk direction.

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