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Current information on the situation on the front line: December 27 (updated)
2023-12-28
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[NewsFront] 23:29 Background bird reports: South of Ukraine and Kirovograd region. Geraniums work. 27.12 23:07

Information is being received about the work of our “Geraniums” against enemy positions.

The work of enemy air defense is reported.

22:26 Background bird broadcasts: Dnepropetrovsk region. The sound of an explosion. 27.12 22:15

The sound of an explosion was reported in the southern part of the area.

Local public accounts report two loud bangs and air defense activity.

Information on the target hit is being clarified.

21:07 Personnel objective control from UAV operators on the adjustment and destruction of Ukrainian Armed Forces positions in the Zaporozhye direction

19:27 Soldiers of the assault units of the Vostok group of troops sharpen shooting skills from the Fagot ATGM at one of the training grounds in the Northern Military District zone.

Personnel, under the guidance of experienced instructors, launched combat missiles from the Fagot portable anti-tank missile system at targets simulating armored vehicles of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

18:50 In the village. Kovsharovka (Kupyanskoe direction) The Armed Forces of Ukraine are dismantling the railway track and the structures of the track machine station.

Fortifications along the left bank of Oskol are being constructed using building materials.

17:45 Ukrainian military analysts are almost admit the upcoming loss of Avdievka and Chasov Yar. However, it is worth noting that the offensive actions of our troops in these directions are complicated by a number of factors:

From the east, Chasov Yar is covered by a chain of fortifications located along the coastline of the Seversky Donets - Donbass canal. The city itself is located at heights, and in the northeast, incl. "Zelenka", the approaches to it are blocked by four supports.

From the south, the operational space for developing an offensive in the direction of the settlement of Stupochka ( south of Chasov Yar ) and the route from Ivanovsky to Konstantinovka ( which is 12 km away ) opens from the side of Andreevka, where the situation is partially leveled out in our favor. The only large support here is located to the left of the Seversky Donets - Donbass canal, where the position is held by the 2nd mechanized battalion of the 42nd Separate Mechanized Brigade.

There, at the moment, there is a dense accumulation of equipment in caponiers. It covers the canal line and a chain of fortifications along the right bank, which are occupied by the 128th separate battalion of the 112th Terrestrial Defense Brigade. The situation here is difficult for the enemy, and he is constantly suffering medical losses.

Over the past few days, a large number of servicemen with frostbite have been delivered to Slavyansk and Kramatorsk, including 200. The nearest evacuation point of the Ukrainian Armed Forces is located in Stupochki, since from there it is about 6 km to Konstantinovka and 25 km to Kramatorsk. However, in order to push through the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ defense here, we first have to regain control of Andreevka.

16:30 “Kalmius”sweeps awayarmored vehicles of the Ukrainian Armed Forces:

The 14th Guards Artillery Brigade “Kalmius” effectively uses 152mm guided ammunition against Ukrainian armored vehicles. It doesn’t matter whether the tanks or armored vehicle is at full speed, or is standing in cover, the ammunition will reach the target and destroy it.

15:50 Near Kupyansk, another Ukrainian Armed Forces ammunition depot (and quite a large one) blew up -video.

15:15 Explosions occurred in the Dnipropetrovsk region. Earlier, an air raid alert was announced in the region.

14:29 Summary of the Ministry of Defense on the progress of the SVO as of December 27, 2023. Main:

In the Kupyansk direction, the Russian Armed Forces repelled six attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Sin'kovka area of ??the Kharkov region. Enemy losses amounted to up to 45 military personnel, two vehicles, a 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery mount and a 122mm D-30 howitzer.

In the Krasnolimansk direction, two attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces were repelled in the Chervonaya Dibrova area of ??the LPR. The losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces amounted to up to 190 military personnel, a tank, two infantry fighting vehicles and a 122mm D-30 howitzer.

In the Donetsk direction, they repelled two attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Novgorod DPR region. In addition, enemy manpower and equipment were defeated in the areas of Vesely, Krasny, Kleshcheevka, Vasyukovka, Bogdanovka and Andreevka of the DPR. The total enemy losses in this direction amounted to up to 280 military personnel, two armored personnel carriers and three vehicles.

In the South Donetsk direction, the Russian Armed Forces inflicted fire on the personnel of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Novomikhailovka region of the DPR. Enemy losses amounted to up to 90 troops and three pickup trucks.

In the Zaporozhye direction, they defeated the manpower and equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Rabotino and Verbovoye areas of the Zaporozhye region. The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 45 servicemen killed and wounded, two armored combat vehicles, two cars, 152mm Msta-B and 122mm D-30 howitzers.

In the Kherson direction, the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine amounted to up to 20 military personnel, three vehicles, an 2S3 152mm Akatsiya self-propelled gun, a 152mm D-20 gun and four 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled guns.

An Mi-8 helicopter of the Ukrainian Air Force was shot down by air defense systems in the Vodyanoye DPR region.

14:05 Our troops have already advanced one km west from Maryinka towards Georgievka.

Meanwhile, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are building a defense line in the Kurakhovo area. The evacuation of civilians began in the city.

13:35 It is reported that Russian military personnel have entered the Popovsky forest in the direction of Chasov Yar, and fighting is taking place.

12:30 Statement of Head of the press center of the Center group:

Units of the “Center” group of troops in the Krasnolimansky direction repelled an attack by the assault group of the 63rd Mechanized Brigade in the Chervonaya Dibrova area.

Air strikes and artillery fire defeated the personnel and equipment of the 5th National Guard Brigade, the 100th and 125th Territorial Defense Brigades in the Torskoye and Serebryansky forestry areas.

Crews of heavy flamethrower systems destroyed three nationalist strongholds in the area of the village of Grigorovka.

During the counterbattery fight, more than 60 artillery units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were exposed and suppressed within the boundaries of the settlements of Dronovka and Yampol.

Air defense systems destroyed two Valkyrie unmanned aerial vehicles near the village of Kremennaya.

Enemy losses amounted to up to 195 military personnel, a tank, three pickup trucks, a 155mm American-made M777 howitzer, a 152mm 2S3 Akatsiya self-propelled artillery mount, and a 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery mount.

11:45 Combat work of the Ivanovo paratroopers unit in the Artemovsk direction

The UAV operator of the “winged infantry” saw a concentration of Ukrainian Armed Forces military personnel in one of the strong points and sent an FPV drone to destroy them.

The enemy noticed the danger and opened fire on the attack drone with small arms, but this did not help. The assistant skillfully corrected the operator’s work on approaching the target and recorded the hit in the accumulation of personnel of the Ukrainian formations. Those who survived and tried to escape were eliminated by a second FPV drone.

10:39 During the past 24 hours, the DPR representative office in the JCCC recorded 51 incidents of firing by the Ukrainian forces, and 199 rounds of ammunition were fired.

In the Donetsk direction, the enemy carried out 12 attacks from 155mm artillery and attack UAVs.

On Gorlovsky - 35 attacks from MLRS and 152mm artillery.

On Yasinovatsky - four artillery attacks from 155mm artillery and attack UAVs.

The enemy fired at Donetsk, Yasinovatsky district and Gorlovka.

As a result of the shelling, two civilians were injured of varying degrees of severity in the Kuibyshevsky and Petrovsky districts of Gorlovka.

Eight residential buildings and three civil infrastructure facilities were damaged in Gorlovka, Yasinovataya and Donetsk.

10:17 The criminal Kiev regime continues to fire at the civilian infrastructure of settlements on the left bank of the Kherson region, yesterday during the day the Ukrainian Armed Forces fired from cannon artillery:

-- n.p. Krynki 32 rounds;

-- village of Kazachi Lagery seven rounds;

-- n.p. Kairo four rounds;

-- n.p. Vasilyevka six rounds;

-- n.p. Alyosha five rounds;

-- n.p. Novaya Zburevka four rounds;

--o n.p. Korsunka four rounds;

-- Sagi settlement three rounds.

During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the village. Krynki, n.p. Novaya Mayachka, n.p. Aleshki, n.p. Dnepryany, n.p. Staraya Zburevka, firing a total of 34 rounds from cannon artillery.

Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure are being determined.

10:00 Statement of Head of the press center of the "West" group

Units of the “West” group of troops in the Kupyansk direction, during the active defense, motorized rifle formations of the combined arms army, supported by artillery fire, repelled three counterattacks by assault groups of the 57th Motorized Infantry and 60th Mechanized brigades in the Sin'kovka area. The enemy was forced to retreat in the southern and southwestern directions.

The crews of operational-tactical aviation carried out six missile and bomb attacks on the temporary deployment points of the 115th Mechanized, 25th Airborne brigades and territorial defense units in the areas of the settlements of Sin'kovka, Peschanoe and Berestovoe.

In addition, crews of heavy flamethrower systems struck concentrations of manpower and military equipment in the shelters of the 67th Territorial Defense Battalion in the Kotlyarka area.

The crew of the Tor anti-aircraft missile system under the command of Senior Lieutenant Evgeniy Bychkov destroyed two Furiya reconnaissance UAVs in the Tokarevka area.

The total losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces amounted to up to 25 military personnel, a T-64 tank, a 152mm 2S3 Akatsiya self-propelled gun and three vehicles.

09:25 The heavy Ukrainian drone “Baba Yaga” was filmed onvideothe moment of his neutralization - at the hands of our fighter. The drone was shot down by Kostroma paratroopers in the sky near Artemovsk. Militants use such drones to drop mines.

Footage from the downed Ukrainian Armed Forces quadcopter shows it hovering over Russian positions to drop mines. But at that moment he was blocked from the side with an anti-drone gun, and an anti-aircraft gunner with a machine gun finished the job.

09:00 Since two o’clock in the morning, the whole of Donetsk has been hearing the powerful sounds of our artillery, which are making houses in the area tremble, reports the Telegram channel Donbass Decides.

Russian artillerymen and VKS are tirelessly striking at Avdeevka. Cannonade can also be heard south of Donetsk - in the direction of Marinka, where our troops are now actively advancing.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces are striking civilians - from five o'clock in the morning they fly into the Kuibyshevsky, Kievsky and Kirovsky districts of the capital of the DPR.

08:21 Summary on the morning of December 27, 2023:

At night, the Russian Armed Forces attacked targets in Pavlograd, Dnepropetrovsk, Nikolaev, Odessa regions, and the airfield in Starokonstantinov, Khmelnytsky region.

The offensive of the Russian Armed Forces in Serebryansky forestry continues for the second day, the advance of our troops in some places amounted to three km, strong points are occupied. The enemy is putting up fierce resistance.

There were battles in Krynki in the Kherson direction, the Ukrainian Armed Forces again transferred landing groups under the attacks of our UAV operators, several boats were destroyed. In enemy radio networks, enemy soldiers can hear decadent sentiments, but this only applies to those who have already found themselves on our shores. Mutual artillery strikes are underway.

Yesterday, the enemy announced that the Russian Armed Forces fired at the railway station in Kherson. At the same time, local residents report that civilian trains do not go all the way to the city - they stop in Nikolaev. Probably the military train was covered. In addition, missile attacks were reported on the Chernobaevka airfield, Berislav and critical infrastructure in Kherson.

Fierce fighting continues on the Zaporozhye front. The Russian Armed Forces have achieved tactical successes near Rabotino and have occupied several enemy strongholds. Mutual artillery strikes are being carried out, our aviation is working with the FAB.

Zaluzhny yesterday allowed the Ukrainian Armed Forces to abandon the Avdeevsky fortified area. The Russian Armed Forces are conducting an offensive in the direction of the Russian Armed Forces. Bloody battles are taking place on the northern ledge of the front near Novokalinovo and the south of Avdeevka.

In the Maryinsky direction there are battles in the south near the settlement. Novomikhailovka and Pobeda. The enemy’s unsuccessful attempt to counterattack near Novomikhailovka was accompanied by statements from Ukrainian channels that the abandonment of this village by the Ukrainian Armed Forces was a matter of time.

An enemy UAV was shot down over the Rostov region at night. The main attacks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Belgorod region fell on the Grayvoronsky urban district. In the Bryansk region, the village of Kurkovichi, Starodub municipal district, was shelled.

In the evening they reported on the work of air defense in Yeisk, Krasnodar Territory, the local operational headquarters reported that these were exercises. The enemy fired 199 rounds of ammunition at the civilian population of the DPR in 24 hours; two civilians were wounded in Donetsk.

08:00 Soldiers of the motorized rifle unit of the combined arms army of the West group of forces reflected several counterattacks by Ukrainian Armed Forces assault groups in the Kupyansk direction.

“Militaries of the reconnaissance unit discovered the movement of several armed groups of the Ukrainian Armed Forces towards our positions. Using communications, the intelligence officers promptly transmitted information and coordinates of the militants to our command post. After which, the personnel of the motorized rifle unit repelled the attack of the enemy assault group approaching us with small arms, and the militants located at a distance were destroyed by cannon artillery crews,” said the commander of the motorized rifle battalion with the call sign “Batu.”

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