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[LB] Chernihiv, Sumy, Luhansk, Kherson, Mykolaiv, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk and Donetsk regions were also affected.
The Russians fired 10 times (199 explosions) in the Chernihiv region during the day. The enemy shelled the Novgorod-Siversky district with artillery and mortars. During the shelling of the village of Gremyach, one person was injured. A house and an outbuilding were damaged, according to the report from OVA as of this morning.
In Sumy at night and in the morning, the enemy carried out 11 shellings of the border territories and settlements of the region. 67 explosions were recorded. Seredyno-Budsk, Znob-Novgorodsk, Khotynsk, Yunakivsk, Velikopysarivsk communities came under fire. No consequences.
Yesterday, during the day, the Russians carried out 31 shelling of settlements in the Sumy region. 120 explosions were recorded. Znob-Novgorodsk, Novoslobidsk, Velikopysarivsk, Romensk, Svesk, Krasnopilsk, Bilopolsk, Khotynsk, Seredino-Budsk, Putivlsk communities came under fire.
Romny community: "Shahid"-type BpLa attack on the premises of an educational institution in Romny. The premises of the educational institution were completely destroyed, four civilians were killed and four were wounded.
In Dnipropetrovsk at night, the enemy hit the Dnieper with rockets. One of them was shot down by defenders from the Eastern Air Command. There are hits from other missiles. The transport object was destroyed. Seven people were injured, six of them were hospitalized in a moderate condition. A dozen objects are also damaged. Among them are a bank, a gas station, a hotel, an agricultural company, furniture production, and an administrative building.
A total of 15 kiosks, two residential buildings, three buses and several cars, contact trolleybus network, water and gas pipelines were mutilated. Information about the destruction is still being clarified. Also yesterday afternoon, the Marganets community shuddered from enemy shelling. The Rashists hit it twice a day with heavy artillery. There are no dead or injured. The consequences are clarified.
In Mykolaivska at night, as a result of shelling of the Kutsurub community, residential buildings and farm buildings were damaged. Currently, three victims are known. Out of them, two were treated on an outpatient basis, one more person receives medical care in a hospital. During the day yesterday, the enemy shelled the water area of Ochakivska hromada from artillery installations and salvo rocket systems. There are no casualties. Yesterday afternoon and tonight - enemy shelling of the town of Ochakiv. The residential infrastructure and the Internet line were damaged. Detailed information is being clarified.
In Luhansk, the enemy launched an air strike on Tverdokhlibovo, artillery strikes on Nevsky and Bilogorivka. During the day, the enemy fired 151 shots (546 shells). The next wave of forced mobilization is being prepared in the occupied part.
In Kharkivskaat night, the enemy shelled Vovchansk. The building of the Vovchansky anti-tuberculosis dispensary was damaged, and there was a fire. The enterprise was also damaged, there was a fire, an MTZ tractor and a car were destroyed. At night, the enemy fired artillery at Vilcha. The fence was damaged, dry grass took over.
In the Slobozhansk direction, the enemy launched airstrikes in the areas of Dovzhyk and Chugunivka. He carried out mortar and artillery shelling of the settlements of Ohirtseve, Gatishche, Krasny Yar. In the direction of Kupyansk, the enemy launched airstrikes in the area of Shyykivka. The settlements of Dvorichna, Kislivka, Kotlyarivka, Tabaivka, Krokhmalne, Pischane were subjected to enemy artillery and mortar attacks. Yesterday, a private house, a car, a trailer, and a power line were damaged as a result of enemy shelling from Kupyansk artillery. There are no casualties.
As a result of a rocket attack (X-35) on Mykhailivka, the buildings of Agroservice LTD LLC were damaged. There was a fire. A metal warehouse with fertilizer was destroyed. The workshop, six cars, a tractor, and a gas station were damaged. There are no casualties. As a result of the shelling of Vovchansk, a residential building and commercial buildings were on fire. In Yavirske, on the territory of the enterprise "Yavirske" in the field during earthworks, an unknown explosive device detonated a remote-controlled T-150 minitractor. There are no victims.
In Yavirske, on the territory of the enterprise "Yavirske" in the field during earthworks, an unknown explosive device detonated a remote-controlled T-150 minitractor. There are no victims. In Yavirske, on the territory of the enterprise "Yavirske" in the field during earthworks, an unknown explosive device detonated a remote-controlled T-150 minitractor. There are no victims.
In Zaporizhzhia, the enemy launched 90 shellings on 26 towns and villages. Fortunately, there were no civilian casualties during the past day.
A total of 71 artillery strikes hit Gulyaipol, Zaliznychny, Malynyvka, Levadny, Novodarivka, Kamiansky, Stepovo and other front-line settlements. Chervone, Robotine, Stepnohirsk, Lukyanivske and Novodarivka were hit by 10 rounds of anti-aircraft fire, Malynivka and Pyatikhatka were attacked three times by UAVs, and Orihiv was hit by six airstrikes.
In Donetsk region, one person was killed and four others were injured during the day. The enemy shelled the settlements: Avdiivka, Chasiv Yar, Zoryanye, Bogoyavlenka, Novoukrainka, Klishchiivka, Maksimivka, Iskra, Prelesne. 11 private residential buildings, the building of the village council, a cafe, five civilian cars, a truck, a secondary school, a poultry house were damaged.
In Khersonska region, the enemy fired 99 rounds (497 shells) during the day, of which eight rounds (32 shells) were fired at Kherson. The occupiers targeted the districts of 29 settlements of the region; the territory and building of a kindergarten, the territory of a factory and an enterprise in Kherson; administration building and a shop in Beryslav district. Due to Russian aggression, seven people were injured.
We will remind you that during the past day, the enemy launched 10 missile and 57 air strikes , fired 70 rocket salvo missiles at the positions of our troops and populated areas. Also, the occupiers once again attacked the territory of Ukraine, using "Shahed-136/131" UAVs.
Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title
22:12 Pentagon Speaker Patrick Ryder confirmed that the United States will soon join the training program for Ukrainian pilots on the F-16. According to him, the exact number of Ukrainians who will be trained in the United States is still unknown, but it is expected that there will be several pilots and dozens of service personnel. Ryder noted that American training will complement similar efforts by European countries.
20:45 The Pentagon plans to start training Ukrainian pilots on the F-16 in the United States in September, writes The New York Times, citing sources. According to the newspaper, Washington changed its approach and decided to join the training of Ukrainian pilots as soon as Kyiv selects them, although it was previously planned that training would take place only in Europe. Pilots will first take an English course in Texas and then begin flight training in Arizona.
19:44 Social networks report a strike on a Russian command post in the occupied Tokmak, Zaporozhye region.
19:09 Putin expressed condolences to the families of those who died in the crash of Prigozhin's plane and said that Prigozhin himself was "a talented man of difficult fate", and, in particular, his PMC Wagner "made a significant contribution to the fight against Nazism in Ukraine, we will never forget" . Putin promised that the investigation of the plane crash "will be brought to an end."
18:37 The US Treasury announced that the new sanctions lists included 11 individuals and two legal entities from Russia . In particular, the mother of the head of Chechnya Aimani Kadyrova and his public foundation, the children's center Artek in Crimea and its director Konstantin Fedorenko, children's rights ombudsmen in a number of regions of the Russian Federation, the head of the Chechen government and others were subject to restrictions.
18:13 Zelensky confirmed that Norway will hand over the F-16 to Ukraine: "We have three countries that agreed to hand over to Ukraine after training on the F-16: Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway. We are very grateful to these three states."
17:48 Germany announced that it will transfer 40 RQ-35 Heidrun reconnaissance drones, 16 Zetros trucks, 90 drone detection systems and 510,000 cartridges for firearms to Ukraine. In addition, Berlin will send missiles for the American Patriot air defense systems to Kyiv for the first time.
17:15 The war in Ukraine is moving into a "war of survival", said Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko. According to him, the situation with the financing of the budget for the next year is still uncertain, but defense spending will not be lower than this year - 1.6 trillion hryvnias.
"This is more than the collected taxes, so we are constantly in a rather difficult situation, we are looking for additional sources to finance these additional costs," the minister said. He added that the military is asking for a fivefold increase in spending, but there is no way to increase taxes by the same amount.
17:01 Biden announced new sanctions against Ukrainians involved in the deportation, including children. However, he did not name the names of those who fell under the restrictions.
16:46 The Wagner PMC camp in the village of Celje near Osipovichi in Belarus is being dismantled, Radio Liberty reports with reference to a satellite image . According to the publication's estimates, as of August 23, out of 273 tents, 101, or a third of the field camp, had already been dismantled. This means that the camp could have been reduced by almost 2,000 people. At the same time, the dismantling of tents began at the end of July.
At the same time, Belaruski Gayun reports that he does not record special export flights with Wagner PMC mercenaries from Belarus to Africa, and there is also no information about the transfer of Wagner soldiers with aircraft from Russia.
15:21 During a special operation in Crimea, scouts damaged four speedboats and killed at least 30 Russians, Babel reports, citing intelligence sources.
15:13 The Russians attacked the center of Kurakhovo in the Donetsk region from cannon artillery, the Office of the Prosecutor General said. The shells hit one of the local supermarkets, where people were at that time. Three local residents were injured. Another ammunition hit the administrative building, near which two cars caught fire. A critical infrastructure facility, windows and facade of an apartment building were also damaged.
15:07 Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki believes that after the death of Prigozhin, control over PMC Wagner will go directly to the Kremlin, which will potentially make it even more dangerous.
15:04 The Lithuanian Ministry of Defense announced the provision of another batch of military assistance to Ukraine for 41 million euros. The package will include, in particular, Carl Gustaf ammunition, rifles, maritime surveillance radar systems and anti-drone systems.
14:48 Zelensky said that Ukraine had nothing to do with the death of Prigozhin, and added that "we all understand who is involved."
14:42 The Russians fired at the Wide Beam of the Kherson region - a tractor driver who worked in the field died, said the head of the OVA Alexander Prokudin.
14:31 Portugal will join the training of Ukrainian pilots and engineers on F-16 aircraft, Zelensky said.
14:26 The situation in the east remains difficult, Anna Malyar said. In the Kupyansk direction, the enemy does not leave attempts to attack, battles are going on. In the Liman direction, the enemy is unsuccessfully storming in order to oust the Ukrainian troops in the areas of Serebryansky forestry, Kremennaya, Belogorovka, Lugansk region. In addition, now the Russian army plans to regroup and replace troops in this direction.
Active battles are also taking place in the Bakhmut direction, the enemy is constantly attacking in order to stop the advance of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at any cost. At the same time, the Defense Forces are gradually advancing. In general, the situation in all eastern directions is tense and very dynamic, so the commanders are working directly on the spot, calculating all possible scenarios for the development of events and promptly planning further steps.
14:15 In the morning, Russian public began to declare that at 3:50 at night, at Cape Tarkhankut, unknown people on boats opened fire, previously from RPGs. The sounds of shots were heard by the guests of the campsite in the village of Olenevka. They went to the beach and saw two rubber boats not far from the shore, in which there were ten people. After that, the group boarded boats and disappeared in an unknown direction. Details of today's GUR operation are in the material Flag of Ukraine in Crimea .
13:49 Norway will transfer anti-aircraft missiles for IRIS-T systems to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and will also allocate about $140 million to provide Ukraine with gas and electricity, the country's government said. In addition, Norway will provide portable kits to create corridors through minefields and equipment to repair critical electrical infrastructure.
13:08 The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense officially announced that special forces on watercraft landed on the Crimean coast near the settlements of Olenevka and Mayak, and showed a video of the events. Ukrainian defenders entered into a clash with the units of the occupier. As a result, the enemy suffered losses among the personnel, enemy equipment was destroyed. "Also, in the Ukrainian Crimea, the state flag again hoisted," the intelligence service said. All goals and objectives were fulfilled, after the completion of the special operation, the Ukrainian defenders left the scene without loss.
13:06 On the evening of August 23, the Russians fired from a mortar from the territory of the Russian Federation on the Krasnopol community of the Sumy region - two people were injured, the Prosecutor General's Office said.
13:01 Norway has decided to transfer F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine, the Norwegian channel TV2 reports, citing sources. Thus, Norway may become the third NATO country after the Netherlands and Denmark, which has expressed its readiness to transfer modern aircraft to Ukraine.
12:55 The accident with Prigozhin's plane happened exactly two months after the attempted Wagner rebellion. About the versions of what happened - in the material Putin's order or the struggle for Africa .
12:19 The number of victims as a result of a nighttime missile strike on the Dnieper has increased to ten, said the head of the OVA Serhiy Lysak.
12:14 On Independence Day, Baykar Makina presented Ukrainian intelligence officers with a Bayraktar TV2 strike UAV, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense reported.
12:11 The BRICS countries in the declaration following the summit mentioned the "conflict" in Ukraine and advocated its peaceful resolution through dialogue and diplomacy, including the "peace initiative" of African countries.
12:08 Russians shelled Kherson in the morning. One of the shells hit the roof of a private house in the city center, three victims are known, including a small child, the Office of the Prosecutor General said.
12:03 Russia destroys about 60-70% of kamikaze sea drones that Ukraine uses to destroy objects in Crimea, but they still remain an effective weapon, Budanov said in an interview with Radio Liberty. According to him, there are cases when a drone is destroyed next to a Russian ship, and then the ship goes "for a long repair."
The head of the GUR clarified that sea drones are an effective weapon for deterrence, it is impossible to attack with them. "But to paralyze the activity of the fleet, which, in principle, happened - this has already been achieved. Ships do not go further than the raid of Sevastopol in the northern direction," he added. Budanov did not name the number of drones that Ukraine has, but assured that their "normal serial production" had been established.
11:45 Macron expressed the hope that the counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine "will return everyone to the negotiating table." At the same time, the French president added that "good negotiations will be what the Ukrainians want." Macron also criticized Putin for "fueling global unrest by choosing to no longer respect international agreements."
11:17 The representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, Andrei Yusov, specified that the Ukrainian military had landed at Cape Tarkhankut as part of a special operation carried out in cooperation with the Naval Forces. According to him, all tasks have been completed, there are no casualties among the personnel. The special operation continues, therefore the GUR does not disclose all the details. Yusov noted that the enemy has losses among personnel, forces and means, information on the number of losses is being specified.
10:56 In the morning, a battle took place in Crimea involving watercraft and aircraft, Radio Liberty reports, citing intelligence sources. Local residents reported that explosions were heard near the Mayak settlement on Cape Tarkhankut from about 5:00 am. The details of the battle are unknown, there is no official information yet. In the village of Mayak there is a base of the 3rd radio engineering regiment as part of the radio engineering troops of the Aerospace Forces of the Russian Federation. Also on the Tarkhankut peninsula is the radar node of the Nebo-M radar and the Kasta-2E2 radar. Positions for air defense were prepared along the perimeter.
10:49 US Senator Lindsey Graham at a press conference in Kiev called aid to Ukraine "the best investment" for American security: "The United States spent billions during the Cold War to prevent Russian aggression. Now we have spent less than 3% of our defense budget on helping Ukrainian military, and they destroyed half the Russian army. This is the best investment for American security ever. Ukraine is an excellent partner. We have not seen such a partner since Churchill."
The senator also admitted that American intelligence was mistaken before the Russian invasion, greatly overestimating the power of the Russian army: “We were told, when the Russian invasion began, that Kiev would fall in four days, and the country in three weeks. army with our intelligence. I myself thought that the Russian army was better than they are."
10:40 Commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrsky said that he visited the main areas of action of Ukrainian troops in the Liman and Soledar operational-tactical groups: "The main goal is to study the operational situation directly in the areas of hostilities, study problematic issues in order to take appropriate measures to We worked out urgent tasks with the commanders of brigades, operational-tactical groups, adjusted the timing and procedure for their implementation. "
09:58 On August 23, Ukrainian defenders not only destroyed the Russian S-400 Triumph anti-aircraft missile system in Crimea, but also destroyed or damaged three enemy S-300 launchers in the Kherson region, said Natalya Gumenyuk, spokeswoman for the Southern Defense Forces. At the same time, she added that the Russians still have a lot of weapons, "therefore, the bavovna season continues."
09:15 In the Donetsk region over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, one person was killed (in Chasovoy Yar), four more were injured. In the Kherson region, seven were injured, according to the IVA.
09:04 At night, the Russians fired on the city of Volchansk, Chuguevsky district, Kharkiv region. A medical facility was damaged, a fire broke out. A civilian industry facility was also damaged, people were not injured, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said.
08:42 In the Nikolaev area three people are wounded as a result of the Russian attacks for the past days. The enemy shelled the city of Ochakov - the housing infrastructure was damaged, as well as the Kutsurub community, where residential houses and outbuildings were damaged, said the head of the OVA, Vitaly Kim.
08:36 The Ukrainian military are advancing south of Bakhmut, securing themselves at the achieved lines, and also had success in the direction of Novoprokopovka in the Melitopol direction, said Andriy Kovalev, the speaker of the General Staff.
08:25 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of August 24:
personnel - about 259,160 (+340) people,
tanks - 4375 (+2),
armored combat vehicles - 8511 (+23),
artillery systems - 5333 (+15),
MLRS - 723 (+1),
air defense systems - 494 (+3),
aircraft - 315 (+0),
helicopters - 316 (+0),
UAV operational-tactical level - 4344 (+20),
cruise missiles - 1406 (+0),
ships/boats - 18 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 7773 (+28),
special equipment - 801 (+1).
07:52 During the day, 23 combat clashes occurred at the front, the General Staff reported in the morning report . In particular, the enemy carried out unsuccessful offensive operations in the areas of Novoegorovka, Luhansk region, Vesele, Donetsk region, Malaya Tokmakchka, Zaporozhye region. Also, the Defense Forces continue to repel attacks and hold back the advance of Russian troops near Avdiivka, Maryinka and Novomikhailovka, Donetsk region.
07:39 At night, the Russians fired missiles at the Dnieper. One of them was shot down by air defense forces, but there was also a hit on a transport facility, said the head of the OVA, Sergei Lysak. Seven people were injured, six were hospitalized in a state of moderate severity. About ten objects were also damaged, including a bank, a gas station, a hotel, an agricultural firm, furniture production, an administrative building, and two residential buildings.
06:34 Since the beginning of a large-scale war, Russia has lost more than 20% of its aircraft and helicopters due to system failures, pilot errors, friendly fire and other incidents not directly related to hostilities, writes Newsweek.
06:06 Ukraine can strike the enemy anywhere in the occupied Crimea, head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense Kirill Budanov said in an interview with Radio Liberty: "We have the ability to hit any part of the temporarily occupied ARC at the moment. Absolutely anywhere we can reach adversary."
Budanov also advised everyone "who has done stupid things" to leave: "And those who are waiting should prepare and do everything to help, first of all, the intelligence agencies, and then further, when the troops go into the open. For support, to create favorable conditions "To make it happen just faster. And as bloodlessly as possible."
05:58 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced the destruction of two "Ukrainian drones" in the Bryansk region, one - in the Kaluga region.
Text taken from Russian ministry of defense website (available only through a VPN).
[EngMilRu] Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation (24 August 2023)
Last night, the Russian Armed Forces have launched a long-range sea- and ground-based high-precision group strike against a decision-making centres of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The goal of the attack has been reached. The facility has been neutralised.
In Kupyansk direction, assault detachments of the Zapad Group of Forces continued successful offensive operations in the assigned areas of responsibility.
As a result of courageous actions by units, Army Aviation and artillery, five enemy attacks have been repelled close to Novosyolovskoye, Novoegorovka (Lugansk People's Republic) and Sin'kovka (Khar'kov region).
The enemy losses were up to 50 Ukrainian servicemen, two infantry fighting vehicles, three pickup trucks, and three U.S.-manufactured M777 artillery systems.
In Zaporozhye direction, as a result of active and well-coordinated actions by units of the Russian grouping of troops, supported by artillery, five enemy attacks have been repelled near Rabotino and Uspenovka (Zaporozhye region).
The enemy losses were up to 110 Ukrainian servicemen, four tanks, three armoured fighting vehicles, four motor vehicles, one Polish-manufactured Krab self-propelled artillery system, and four U.S.-manufactured M777 artillery systems.
In Donetsk direction, units of the Yug Group of Forces, supported by Ground-Attack and Army aviation, six attacks by the AFU have been successfully repelled close to Severnoye, Berestovoye and Nevelskoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
The enemy losses were up to 125 Ukrainian servicemen, one tank, four infantry fighting vehicles, four motor vehicles, and one 152mm Msta-B howitzer.
In addition, one ammunition depot has been destroyed near Verkhnekamenskoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
In South Donetsk direction, as a result of actions by units of the Vostok Group of Forces, Operational-Tactical and artillery, one enemy attack has been repelled near Priyutnoye (Zaporozhye region).
In addition, units of 37th and 38th Brigades of the AFU Naval Infantry have been eliminated close to Urozhaynoye and Oktyabr state farm (Donetsk People's Republic).
The enemy losses were up to 230 Ukrainian servicemen, two armoured personnel carriers, three motor vehicles, as well as two 122mm Gvozdika self-propelled artillery systems.
In Krasny Liman direction, as a result of active actions by units of the Tsentr Group of Forces, Army Aviation and artillery, three enemy attacks have been successfully repelled near Grigorovka, Torskoye (Donetsk People's Republic) and Chervonaya Dibrova (Lugansk People's Republic).
The enemy losses were up to 80 Ukrainian servicemen, three armoured fighting vehicles, and two pickup trucks.
In Kherson direction, the enemy losses were up to 30 Ukrainian servicemen, two motor vehicles, as well as Msta-B and D-30 howitzers.
In addition, the actions of one Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group have been suppressed.
Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have neutralised manpower and military hardware in 153 areas.
One control point, one radar station, and two launchers of the S-300PS SAM system have been destroyed near Zeleny Gai (Nikolayev region).
Four enemy ammunition depots have been also destroyed near Lvov (Kherson region), Mikhailovka (Khar'kov region), Iskra (Dnepropetrovsk region), and Krasnogorovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
Air defence facilities have shot down four projectiles launched by HIMARS MLRS.
In addition, 42 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles have been destroyed close to Kudryashovka, Lisichansk, Shishkovo (Lugansk People's Republic), Gorlovka, Nikol'skoye, Artyomovsk, Berestovoye, Klyuchevoye (Donetsk People's Republic), Pologi, Tokmak (Zaporozhye region), Dobropol'ye (Kherson region), and Tavolzhanka (Khar'kov region).
In total, 462 airplanes, 246 helicopters, 6,012 unmanned aerial vehicles, 433 air defence missile systems, 11,476 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,144 fighting vehicles equipped with MLRS, 6,024 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 12,408 special military motor vehicles have been destroyed during the special military operation.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:59 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 08/24/2023 to 00:00 08/25/2023
Over the past day, the Representation reported 93 facts of firing by the AFU.
Information was received about the death of a civilian - a woman in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk.
Four civilians received injuries of varying severity in the Kievsky district of Donetsk.
A total of 13 residential buildings were damaged in Kievsky, Kirovsky, Petrovsky districts of Donetsk, Oleksandrivka, Staromikhaylovka, as well as six civilian infrastructure facilities.
Under enemy fire were areas of six settlements of the Republic: Gorlovka (Nikitovsky, Kalininsky districts), Yasinovatsky district, the capital city of Donetsk (Voroshilovsky, Kuibyshevsky, Kirovsky, Kievsky, Petrovsky districts), Makeevka (Chervonogvardeysky district), Aleksandrovka, Staromikhaylovka.
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy made 83 artillery attacks from MLRS, 155mm artillery, incl. with a cluster warhead.
On Gorlovsky eight artillery attacks from 152mm artillery.
On Yasinovatsky two artillery attacks from 155mm artillery.
Having fired 337 units of various ammunition.
In the previous day, 74 artillery attacks were recorded from the side of the VFU.
21:50 Statement of officer of the press center of the group "West":
In the Kupyansk direction, the advanced units of the Zapad group of forces repelled six enemy counterattacks. The total losses of units of the 14th, 66th, 115th Brigades, 95th Brigade and territorial defense of the enemy are up to 90 servicemen and six infantry fighting vehicles.
The crews of assault and army aviation delivered 15 strikes on the accumulation of manpower and firepower of the 14th and 66th Separate Mechanized Brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
During the counterbattery fight, the AN/TPQ-50 radar, the mortar crew and the ammunition point of the mortar unit were destroyed.
In addition, with the use of Krasnopol corrected artillery ammunition, three points of temporary deployment of the 14th Brigade in the areas of the settlements of Petropavlovka and Sin'kovka were destroyed.
21:30 Rotary thunder of enemy strongholds and armored vehicles
During the performance of combat sorties, army aviation pilots launched missiles at the fortified points of the Armed Forces of Ukraine units discovered.
As a result of combat use, the control center, tanks and other armored vehicles of the enemy were destroyed.
21:00 AFU are preparing for the decisive blow: accumulation of enemy vehicles near Orekhov.
“North of Orekhovo, we observe a cluster of enemy equipment. At least fifty units. The enemy is concentrating forces for a decisive blow. He needs to go to Verbovoye, then to Tokmak. We hold on. Zaporozhye front. The 58th Army of Russia," D. Rogozin, head of the Tsarskie Wolves group of military advisers, reports.
20:30 In the situation with the morning landing of the Ukrainian DRG near Olenevka in Crimea, new and even very funny details emerge. According to the entry from one from CCTV cameras, the enemy was inadvertently driven away either by a watchman or a tourist with a civilian carbine.
It is unlikely that he could have fought for a long time. But a collision that would immediately attract attention was clearly not part of the plans of the saboteurs. As a result, they limited themselves to recording tiktok in a whisper in the semi-darkness, fired at random from a grenade launcher and retreated, losing some of their equipment along the way.
All this, of course, is not a reason for hatred moods: the problem of the activity of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Cape Tarkhankut in Crimea has not disappeared anywhere and is only becoming more relevant. But a civilian in swimming trunks, scaring off GUR saboteurs is something new.
19:45 The work of tankers of the 64th guards brigade on the accumulation of infantry of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the forest belt in the Ugledar direction -video.
19:20 Zaporozhye Front, NgP reports intelligence:
The enemy does not leave attempts to seize control over the settlement of Rabotino, additional assault groups from the 82nd airborne brigade and 15th detachment of the ON NSU are redeployed to this area, measures are being taken to remove mine-explosive obstacles in the area of the settlement of Verbovoye.
Delivery of an additional BC to the area of Malaya Tokmachka settlement was organized.
In order to support the ground forces, the enemy deployed tactical aircraft from the Dolgintsevo airfield, Dnepropetrovsk region.
Part of the units from the Zaporozhye direction are withdrawn to the rear, to the Kirovograd, Chernigov and Kiev regions, the official reason for the withdrawal is the restoration of combat capability, however, some of the withdrawn units did not participate in the battles at all, apparently, the enemy command fears the threat of an offensive by the Russian Armed Forces from the north.
18:40 Orekhovsky area setting as of 18.00 August 24, 2023
In Rabotino, assault groups of the 82nd Airborne Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have entrenched themselves in its northern part and continue the assault, continuously delivering artillery strikes on units of the RF Armed Forces. The situation there is still difficult.
At the moment, the fighting has already shifted to the southern outskirts of the settlement, which, after three months of clashes, repeated the fate of other villages and almost completely turned into ruins.
At the same time, Ukrainian formations continue to press on Russian positions east of Rabotino. Judging by the scale of the artillery preparation, the enemy will soon try to storm and break through to Verbovoye in order to create a threat from the rear to the forces of the RF Armed Forces in Novopokrovka and Novokarlovka.
In Pyatikhatki, the tactics of the Armed Forces of Ukraine remain the same as two months ago: the enemy is trying to enter with reconnaissance groups and gain a foothold in an abandoned settlement. Soldiers of the RF Armed Forces detect activity and strike at enemy manpower.
According to the Archangel of Spetsnaz, Russian servicemen managed to burn another two American M2A2 ODS Bradley infantry fighting vehicles from anti-tank missile systems.
18:05 Russian troops cut it an attempt by the Ukrainian Armed Forces to land on the left bank of the Dnieper - Acting Governor Saldo
This morning, eight militants on two boats tried to land between Gola Pristan and Kardashinka on the left bank of the Dnieper.
They were immediately recorded by our intelligence. The artillery reacted immediately - one boat was sunk in the middle of the river, the second was allowed closer - and also sunk.
Five militants drowned in the river, three more corpses drifted to our shore.
Judging by the equipment, they were Ukrainian “special operations forces”.
17:35 Destruction of a tank of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with high-precision artillery ammunition -video.
17:05 Battle for Rabotino: Naval Infantry of the 810th Brigade destroyed APU observation post:
Fierce fighting for the village continues. The central part of Rabotin is actually a “grey zone”.
Russian naval infantry from the “Okhotnik” group opened the position of the militants' observer, after which artillery fired at the target.
16:35 Destroyed M2 "Bradley" by our ATGM crews in the Zaporozhye direction.
Meanwhile, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are throwing reserves to storm Rabotino, hitting the settlement with everything they can (art, rocket launcher, tank)
16:00 Statement of head of the press center of the Vostok group:
The advanced subunits of the Vostok grouping of troops, with the support of artillery and aviation, inflicted fire damage on the enemy in the areas of Urozhaynoye.
Two points of temporary deployment of manpower of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and a mortar crew were hit. A Hammer car with militants was destroyed, one tank of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was blown up in a minefield.
In the Staromayorsky area, two points of temporary deployment of militants and a mortar crew were also hit.
Artillery fire from the Vostok group destroyed the Bukovel electronic warfare station north of Malinovka, a stronghold with manpower northeast of Nikol'sky, a dugout with militants west of Makarovka, a pickup truck with nationalists and a mortar crew in Konstantinovka.
The areas of concentration of manpower in Staromayorsky, Konstantinovka and Velikaya Novoselka were also affected.
Bomber, assault and army aviation hit the places of accumulation of manpower and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of Staromayorsky, Harvest and Velikaya Novoselka.
A Valkyrie-type UAV was shot down by means of air defense.
The military personnel of the Vostok group of troops show courage and heroism in the performance of combat missions.
The grenade launcher of a motorized rifle platoon, Corporal Mykhailo Gorodovsky, as part of the unit, performed the tasks of destroying manpower and equipment of Ukrainian troops in one of the sectors of the South-Donetsk direction.
During one of the battles, Corporal Gorodovsky, despite the constant fire impact of the enemy, managed to identify and hit several artillery pieces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with effective fire, as well as destroy up to 10 nationalists.
15:25 A special forces lancet destroyed a tank of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zaporozhye direction:
The enemy tried to hide his combat vehicle in a forest plantation, but was spotted by our drone. After the arrival in the enemy tank, the ammunition caught fire, the car was completely burned down.
14:55 Pilots on the Su-34 again share footage of the use of the FAB-500 equipped with UMPC -video.
14:28 FPV drones of the 7th Brigade of the 2nd AK near Belogorovka are a nightmare for the Armed Forces —video.
13:55 Item destruction management, a radar station and two launchers of the S-300PS anti-aircraft missile system of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near the village of Zeleny Gay, Mykolaiv region.
The air defense position area of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was opened and destroyed by Su-34 fighter-bombers of the Russian Aerospace Forces with precision strikes using guided missiles.
13:00 Statement of officer of the press center of the group "South":
The aviation of the "Southern" group of troops delivered a blow with adjustable bombs at the ammunition depot of the 110th Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Avdievka.
In addition, assault and army aviation forces hit accumulations of manpower and equipment of Ukrainian army units in the areas of the settlements of Belogorovka, Spornoye, Bogdanovka, Andreevka, Mayorsk, Krasnogorovka.
As a result of a fire raid, the group's artillery destroyed two temporary deployment points, two enemy ammunition depots in the Grigorovka and Umansky regions. Also destroyed were pickup trucks with Ukrainian saboteurs in Dzerzhinsk and Avdievka, a watercraft, an armored combat vehicle, and an LNG grenade launcher crew position in Belogorivka.
During the counterbattery fight, the enemy lost four 120mm mortars, three 152mm D-20 howitzers in the areas of Ivanodar'yevka, Serebryanka, Pervomaisky, Dalny and Novgorod. The 122mm Gvozdika self-propelled artillery mount was destroyed in the Belaya Gora area, and the AN/TPQ-36 counter-battery radar station in the Dzerzhinsk area was destroyed.
12:30 Soledarskoye direction situation as of 12.00 24 August 2023
In the vicinity of Bakhmut, the situation has relatively stabilized. After several unsuccessful attempts, the Armed Forces of Ukraine again switched to resupplying units and preparing for new attacks.
A large number of dead and wounded in the assault formations forced the Armed Forces of Ukraine to adjust their plans. Only 28% of combat-ready personnel remained in the 2nd battalion of the 3rd brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and less than half of the regular equipment.
Now, in the area of Konstantinovka and Belaya Gora, active training and coordination of assault detachments of 92 Separate Mechanized Brigade, 57 Mehanized Brigade and 24 Aidar Battalions of 5 Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which are planned to be used on the southern flank of Bakhmut by the second wave, are underway.
In the first echelon, 14 assault groups of the Liut national police brigade are now preparing for an attack. Eight of them intend to storm Hill 195.4 near Kleshcheevka in order to force the Russian troops to retreat from the village.
And the rest are planning to move along the railway tracks in the direction of Andreevka and Kurdyumovka to block the approaches to the Kurdyumovsky triangle.
At the same time, in the north, in the vicinity of Seversk, there is also a concentration of six enemy assault groups, which indicates a possible activation from the direction of Razdolovka. The 10th brigade and 54th Brigade have been intensively preparing reserves for the attack in recent weeks, so a time-synchronous attack from several sides is quite possible.
11:50 Tonight was inflicted rocket attack on Nazi targets in Dnepropetrovsk.
Several important enterprises for the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed at once.
11:25 Su-25SM crews inflicted missile attack on enemy positions:
Krasnoliman direction
Going around the terrain, the pilots entered the combat course to hit the target at an altitude of no more than 50 meters and a speed of 800 km / h. Using a pitch-up technique, the pilots attacked the positions of Ukrainian militants with S-13 unguided missiles.
After hitting the target, the crews performed an anti-missile maneuver and returned to their base airfield.
11:00 Under cover of "Verba": personnel combat work of anti-aircraft gunners near Artemovsk:
After the radar operator sees an enemy air target in the sky, he transmits its coordinates to the command post. Crews of MANPADS "Verba" on command capture targets and work on them with missiles from starting positions. /TK Zvezda/
10:30 Statement of head of the press center of the group "Center":
In the Krasnolimansk direction, in the area of the Torsky ledge, assault groups of the 63rd Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine made two attempts to attack the positions of Russian troops. As a result of a small-arms battle with the support of the artillery fire of the "Center" group of troops, the enemy, having suffered significant losses in personnel and equipment, withdrew.
In the area of Serebryansky forest, assault groups of the 67th, 42nd Mechanized Brigades and the 95th Airborne Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine made five attempts to restore lost positions. The coordinated actions of the advanced units of the "Center" grouping, with the support of artillery fire and air strikes, inflicted a fire defeat on the enemy.
In addition, heavy flamethrower systems struck at the area of accumulation of fire weapons and manpower of Ukrainian troops.
In just a day, the enemy's losses amounted to more than 40 militants, an infantry fighting vehicle and an armored vehicle were destroyed.
Air defense systems shot down two unmanned aerial vehicles and a Haimars MLRS rocket.
The aviation of the "Center" grouping carried out 16 sorties, delivering eight strikes on areas of accumulation of manpower and firepower of Ukrainian troops in the areas of Yampol and Chervonaya Dibrova.
10:00 tonightcrossedan attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out terrorist attacks by aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles.
Two UAVs were destroyed by air defense systems over the territory of the Bryansk region.
Another Ukrainian UAV was detected and destroyed by air defense systems over the territory of the Kaluga region.
09:29 The criminal Kiev regime continues to shell the civilian infrastructure of the settlements on the left bank of the Kherson region, yesterday during the day the Armed Forces of Ukraine were fired from barrel artillery:
During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the settlement of Nova Kakhovka, the settlement of Kakhovka, settlement Korsunka, settlement Golaya Pristan, Staraya Zburyevka firing a total of 35 barreled artillery rounds
Civilian casualties and infrastructure destruction to be confirmed
09:26 Donetsk at night fired upon cluster munitions, said RT special correspondent Alexander Piskunov. There were at least six arrivals in the Kiev region
“A characteristic sound for 155mm cluster munitions. Clap, whistle - and then a crack, like firecrackers explode. This is triggered by submunitions that are inside the container, ”he added.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine hit the sleeping quarters. The buildings of the store and the hospital named after Vishnevsky were damaged.
Arrivals continued in the morning, but already in the Voroshilovsky district.
08:27 Professionals in their field -video
Naval infantry continue to work in the South-Donetsk direction. Our fighters, breaking through the battle formations of the enemy, destroy the enemy in his own trenches.
Recently, naval infantry destroyed the fortified positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and captured a lot of trophies. A serviceman with the call sign “Athlete” spoke about the battle: “We went out with an armored group, supported the infantry with fire. Destroyed two bunkers. Upon contact, the enemy leaves his positions, abandons his equipment.
The secret of the success of the naval infantry is in the quality training and high motivation of the personnel. This allows our fighters to achieve success on the front lines and push the enemy.
08:07 Frontline summary on the morning of 24.08.2023
In the Zaporozhye direction, after massive shelling, the Armed Forces of Ukraine established control over most of the village of Rabotino and advanced in the Novoprokopovka area. Russian troops attacked Ukrainian units in Novodanilovka, Malaya Tokmachka, Yegorovka, Belogorye, Charovny, Gulyaipol'sky, Gulyaipole, Zatish'e,, Krasny and Poltavka. The Armed Forces of Ukraine hit on Nesternyak, Kopany, Verbovoy and Novopokrovka.In the Ugledar sector, Ukrainian troops, supported by artillery, tried to advance in the area of Priyutnoye and Staromlynovka. Without success. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation fired on the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Makarovka, Vremivka, Harvest, Zolotoy Niva, Prechistovka, Vugledar and Vodyany (not to be confused with the settlement of the same name northeast of Donetsk). The Ukrainian army carried out strikes against Russian units in Cherished Desire, Kermenchik and Novodonetsk.
On the Donetsk front, the RF Armed Forces, with the support of artillery, conducted assault operations in Mar'yinka. They also attacked Ukrainian positions south of Avdievka. No advance.
Under fire from units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Novomikhailovka, Konstantinovka (not to be confused with the settlement of the same name southwest of Bakhmut), Yekaterinovka, Elizavetovka, Antonovka, Pobeda, the city of Krasnogorovka and N'yu-York. Ukrainian artillery worked in Donetsk and Gorlovka.
In the Bakhmut direction, the Armed Forces of Ukraine advanced slightly in the area of Kleshcheevka, taking the advanced positions of the RF Armed Forces to the west of the village. Russian troops fired on the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Ivanovsky, Bogdanovka, Orekhovo-Vasilyevka, Minkovka, Fedorovka, Zvanovka, Seversk and Vesyoloy (a settlement northeast of Soledar). They themselves were under attack in Kurdyumovka, Andreevka and Bakhmut.
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[REGNUM] Commander of the US Space Forces Chance Saltzman accused Russia of trying to disrupt the US Starlink satellite communications system in Ukraine. He stated this in an interview with The Washington Post, assuring that such attempts were allegedly unsuccessful.
The American general also said that the United States intends to launch up to a thousand satellites into low Earth orbit for the needs of the Pentagon, and a large number of these devices will make it much more difficult to counter them.
At the same time, the commander of the US Space Forces complained about the lack of personnel in his subordinate troops.
DEPRIVE THE ENEMY OF NAVIGATION
Sergey Denisentsev, an expert at the Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies, points out that the struggle of Russian troops with the navigation capabilities of the enemy, who receives the support of the US satellite constellation, is taking place in extremely harsh conditions. “You can interfere with ground-based receivers operating in the GPS system, ” says the interlocutor of IA Regnum . - But with satellites it is more difficult. For example, it is useless to interfere with the Starlink system, because there are already thousands of satellites operating in it.
Countering the satellite navigation of the American space group is not an easy task, military expert Ilya Kramnik agrees . Theoretically, it is possible to shoot down satellites with which navigation is carried out. “But now we are not doing this, because we are not at war with the United States ,” the expert ironically.
“We have means of combat capable of “jamming ”satellite navigation,” he clarifies. “We can see everything perfectly, for example, by the way navigation problems sometimes arise in the center of Moscow.” However, “jamming” navigation to intercept Ukrainian drones, whether for other purposes, is the result of the work, first of all, of stationary installations of rather high power, Kramnik clarifies.
“It is far from always possible to deploy them at the forefront, since these installations betray themselves by their very presence, by their work ,” says the interlocutor of IA Regnum . - They can be localized and, accordingly, destroyed. So they always become a point of attraction, an object of shelling from the enemy.
“The peculiarity of electronic, electronic intelligence is that if a jamming station is used, then it is a source of radiation, it will be visible ,” the expert clarifies. “It is enough to have special means that will fix it, after which it is physically possible to detect it on the ground and hit it - this is a matter of technology.”
However, the skillful actions of the Russian military, even with the available capabilities, often do not leave the enemy a chance. So, on August 13, the Russian Ministry of Defense published footage of the destruction of the Starlink kit by a drone, which was used by the Ukrainian military for their own purposes, which indicates the accumulation and use of certain experience in identifying ground communication and navigation stations.
DEVELOP YOUR SPACE GROUP
At the same time, Russian satellites, as Kramnik notes, pose big problems for Ukraine due to the efficient operation of the domestic Glonass system.
The expert notes that Russia needs to increase its satellite constellation. “This requires a sharp increase in the production of satellites themselves and related electronics,” he states. “And success will depend on how we can establish channels for delivering electronics from abroad.”
“It is necessary to develop our own space program,” Denisentsev agrees. - Launch satellites - reconnaissance, optical. Deploy your Starlink counterpart in collaboration with external partners. Let's say China. In India, astronautics is developing quite cheerfully.
However, it will not be possible to solve the problem with the help of separate programs, the interlocutor of IA Regnum emphasizes . A systematic approach is needed, including agreements at the highest political level. And this need also implies certain difficulties.
“Partnership in this area with India is obviously a difficult issue ,” says Denisentsev. “The space programs that it is developing now, the same lunar program, are developing due to the ability to interact with Western countries, to receive electronic components from them.”
At the same time, the prospects for cooperation between Russia and India in the field of developing a satellite constellation, given the sanctions policy of the West, are vague, the expert emphasizes. “We need electronics ,” notes the interlocutor of IA Regnum . “It was not easy to buy it before, but after the sanctions it is very difficult.”
And the Soviet Union, which was the leader in the space race for many years, whose heir is Russia, ceased to exist more than 30 years ago, recalls Denisentsev. “In the segment of electronics for space, we are far behind, since Russian technologies in this area have not developed ,” he says. “Including because in the 2000s they relied heavily on imported component base.”
However, there are still reasons for optimism. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, during the BRICS summit in South Africa, invited the member countries to create a space research consortium to deepen cooperation in space. It is noteworthy that such a statement was made after the successful landing of the Indian station. For the first time in history, the device landed on the south pole of the Earth's satellite.
Earlier, military political scientist Vladimir Kornilov emphasized in a commentary to IA Regnum that the interview of the commander of the US Space Force Saltzman should be taken very seriously, as they mean the US is preparing for fierce competition for outer space.
Thus, Russia has the ability to counter the US space constellation, but success in the future will largely depend on the availability of a large-scale development program for its own constellation. The solution to this problem is complicated by the difficult international situation and the dependence of some of Russia's potential partners in the space sector on Western countries.
At the same time, in the realities of the military special operation in Ukraine, the most effective way to counter the enemy’s navigational capabilities is the physical destruction of ground elements with high-precision artillery and drone strikes. There are also prospects for electronic warfare, but the corresponding devices are relatively vulnerable to strikes. This problem obviously also requires careful study at a high expert level.
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[REGNUM] What did the inspection of the director of the kindergarten, whose sons turned out to be the National Guardsmen of Ukraine, show?
A scandal broke out last week in the small village of Donskaya Balka in the Stavropol Territory. One of the employees of the local kindergarten "Lastochka" said that her husband died in the NVO zone. For this reason, she took three days off work from the head of the kindergarten, Svetlana Shelar . The manager released her subordinate, but added that her husband himself was to blame for his death. According to the employee, Svetlana literally said that the Russian who died in the NVO zone came to her land to kill her relatives, so he got what he deserved.
What did the inspection of the director of the kindergarten, whose sons turned out to be the National Guardsmen of Ukraine, show?
A scandal arose, to which the rest of the villagers and social activists joined. Together they wrote group statements to law enforcement agencies with a request to dismiss the head of the kindergarten, and along the way to check her for possible support for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to social activists, there have long been rumors in the village that both sons of 53-year-old Svetlana Shelar, Andrei and Nikolai, are fighting on the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and the head herself constantly threatens parents that she will do something terrible to their children, if anything happens to her sons, something will happen in the NWO zone.
The villagers' demands to "fire" and "punish for complicity with the Armed Forces of Ukraine" were only half fulfilled. Svetlana was nevertheless fired from the kindergarten, this was reported to IA Regnum by the administration of the Petrovsky urban district of the Stavropol Territory. But to convict a woman of supporting the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the fact that both of her sons serve in the army of Ukraine did not work. Law enforcement officers did not find any evidence of threats from Svetlana against residents, nor evidence that her children really fight in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The point in this scandal has not yet been set. Svetlana Shelar filed a lawsuit against social activists, accusing them of unsubstantiated slander. The woman wrote a statement to the police, where she indicated that local residents and public figures were spreading false information about her and her children.
IA Regnum journalists tried to figure out which part of the accusations against the disgraced head is true, and which does not find evidence either after a journalistic investigation or after a thorough check carried out by employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. We talked to all sides of the conflict in order to draw up a chronology of the scandal, as well as to understand how the mother of the “AFU militants” works with the children of the Russian military in the Stavropol Territory.
Accusation 1. The manager mocked the dead in the SVO
A high-pitched conversation between Tatyana Skripkina , an employee of the Lastochka kindergarten, and head Svetlana Shelar took place. This is confirmed not only by the testimony of witnesses, but also by Svetlana herself.
Larisa Skripkina, sister of Artem Skripkin , who died in the NVO zone, told IA Regnum that on the day when the news of Artem's death came, her daughter-in-law Tatyana went to ask Shelar for three days to recover. The manager let the girl go for three days, but, according to Larisa, she did not show proper sympathy, but, on the contrary, condemned the deceased for participating in the SVO.
“I remember that Tanya told me immediately after that conversation and quoted Shelar. Shelar said verbatim: “Tanya, don’t be offended, but why did your husband go there, this is not your territory. My family and friends are there, so he went to kill my family and friends?” Then, of course, she apologized to Tanya for her words and persuaded her not to quit,” recalls Larisa.
IA Regnum also has an audio recording of the conversation between Tatyana Skripkina and Svetlana Shelar a day after the quarrel. From it it becomes clear that the manager does not deny that she has said too much in her hearts, and admits that she said the above phrase to the widow in vain.
Excerpts from the conversation:
Tatyana : Svetlana Nikolaevna, I cannot accept your words. This is the father of my children. If you had told me them at another time, but not on the same day. Is that how you sympathized with me? You said OH. Did he go personally to your relatives, to kill them? He was called by Russia, he did not run there of his own free will. And he died there, protecting us, so that you and we could sleep peacefully.
Svetlana : And my children do not sleep peacefully, and my parents do not sleep. And my soul hurts too, because they are simple people. My children don't fight, they work. And my grandchildren are sitting in bomb shelters. My soul also hurts, like my mother, like my grandmother, like a simple woman. That night I could not wait for a call from them, I did not sleep.
Therefore, there was such a reaction. You know that I usually remain silent, although my heart is torn to pieces. I have no opportunity to leave, I would have left for them long ago. I'm sorry for what I said, I sympathize with you. I know what it is to bury, I buried my son. I don't wish harm on anyone. And now I'm being trampled into the dirt. In vain I said too much, it would be better if I was silent.
From the conversation it becomes clear that Svetlana really said on a tragic day for Tatyana that the deceased was to blame for the death, because he went to kill her relatives. But the fact of mockery of the deceased in the spirit of “It’s good that they killed him”, “He shot at my relatives, so he got it,” which many Telegram channels wrote about, no one in the village could confirm to us. Personally, no one in the village heard such phrases from Svetlana Shelar.
Charge 2. “Both sons are fighting in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. And if something happens to them, don't forget that your children are with me."
Many Telegram channels wrote about this, but there was no documentary evidence of this fact. The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Stavropol Territory also conducted a check on the statements of public figures, but they failed to establish that both sons of Svetlana Shelar were fighting against Russian soldiers. It was not possible to establish the fact of threats from Shelar to the parents of the pupils of the kindergarten.
All the residents of the village interviewed by law enforcement officers said that they simply heard this phrase from someone, but they do not remember from whom. The police could not find to whom Svetlana Shelar threatened personally.
The head of the Petrovsky urban district of the Stavropol Territory, Natalya Konkina, told IA Regnum that none of the charges brought against Svetlana Shelar was confirmed.
“We have no evidence that the sons of Shelar are fighting on the side of Ukraine. We received a refusal from the police to initiate a case for lack of grounds, that is, her guilt was not proven after the audit. They wrote a statement to her, there was a check. But there is no evidence , ”said Konkina.
The Shelar family has Ukrainian National Guardsmen and servicemen of the RF Armed Forces
In 2014, immediately after the Maidan, Svetlana moved to Russia. In Ukraine, she left her parents and sons. Shelar moved to the Stavropol Territory to take care of her elderly grandmother. According to a police source, during the interview, the manager said that her children remained in Ukraine to look after Svetlana's parents.
In Russia, Svetlana met 58-year-old Yuri Bogdanov, whom she married. Yuri also had two sons - Roman and Alexey, the latter served in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. Svetlana, along with Yuri, often visited Alexei when he was serving in the Russian army.
The Ukrainian family Shelar and her Russian new family were friends until 2021, joint vacation pictures on social networks testify to this. In numerous photographs, former serviceman of the RF Armed Forces Alexei Bogdanov hugs former National Guard of Ukraine Nikolai Shelar. While in Russia, Svetlana did not speak out against the annexation of Crimea, on the contrary, she often rested there with her husband. But Shelar never forgot about the Ukrainian family, and in 2021, together with her new husband Yuri, she visited the family of her son Nikolai in Kharkov for the last time.
IA Regnum managed to find out where the information came from that both sons of Svetlana Shelar were fighting on the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine against Russia. Svetlana has two sons: the eldest Nikolai - he is 32 years old and the youngest Andrey - 29 years old. Both were members of the National Guard of Ukraine in the past, but, according to Shelar herself, they now work in regular jobs.
Former cook of the kindergarten "Swallow" Natalya Medvedeva told reporters that she remembers the day when everyone found out that Svetlana's eldest son Nikolai was a military man.
“It was 2019. We celebrated someone's birthday, there was a tea party, everyone was sitting at the table. The manager was in high spirits, showed photos of her sons, was glad that her son had received some kind of rank or position, I don’t remember exactly. She said that he was a military man, he was in uniform. I don’t remember anything else, I then quit because of the low salary. Svetlana and I constantly fought about this, so I quit because they didn’t even pay me the minimum wage, and now everyone is paid 18,000,” Medvedev said.
We found the social networks of Nikolai, he really is in many photographs in the form of the National Guard of Ukraine. According to our information, during the survey, Svetlana Shelar said that her son graduated from the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, from where he graduated with the rank of lieutenant in 2014, hence the pictures (from graduation).
In social networks, the last pictures in the form are dated just 2014. The younger son Andrei also served in the National Guard of Ukraine, but, as Shelar says, he has not been an employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for a long time.
We tried to personally ask Svetlana about her sons, but the former manager does not pick up the phone, and reads the messages, but does not answer. We managed to get through to her husband Yuri Bogdanov. He stated that the situation was exaggerated, but because of it and the persecution, he and Svetlana had to leave the village for a while. When asked by a journalist whether Svetlana's children serve in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Yuriy hung up.
We also tried to get through to Svetlana's sons who live in Ukraine. It turned out to contact only with Nikolay. He answered a regular mobile phone, but when asked about his mother and his service in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, he abruptly said no and, sending the journalist to a piquant place, hung up.
Local residents believe that even if the sons of Svetlana Shelar do not fight in the Armed Forces of Ukraine against Russia, but were once employees of the National Guard of Ukraine, she still did not have the right to hold the position of head of a kindergarten.
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[Regnum] U.S. and Ukrainian military leaders have been arguing for weeks about how to change strategy and tactics to revitalize the counteroffensive. This was reported on August 24 by The Wall Street Journal (WSJ).
U.S. and Ukrainian officials have been engaged in intense behind-the-scenes arguments for weeks over strategy and tactics to revive Kiev's slow counteroffensive.
According to the publication, US military officials are in favor of resuming attacks using combined arms tactics of concentrated strikes to break through Russian defenses. Kyiv is making its own changes, both sides continue to argue about how to change the situation in the short time left before winter.
The journalists also reported that the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian troops, Valery Zaluzhny, expressed his disagreement with the opinion of the American side. He believes that Washington does not understand the essence of the conflict.
As IA Regnum reported, on July 30, 2023, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that the Armed Forces of Ukraine had changed tactics in an attempt to launch a counteroffensive. Ukrainian units began to use mainly infantry, trying not to bring equipment to the front line. The Russian leader suggested that this was due to the heavy losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, now they are trying to save armored vehicles from destruction.
Earlier, the WSJ reported that US intelligence had prepared a report stating the superiority of the Russian army in defense, which is why the counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine cannot be successful . The publication noted that this situation will lead to the search for those responsible for the failure.
Politico reported that U.S. officials are already trying to shift full responsibility for the failure of the counteroffensive to Kiev . This is evidenced by the frequent leaks of information in the media, which say that the Ukrainian command did not comply with the recommendations of the American side.
The leadership of the Armed Forces of Ukraine threw great forces to seize Rabotino in the Zaporozhye region for the national holidays as a "gift" to the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky , but could not achieve this, said Jan Gagin , adviser to the acting head of the DPR, on the Rossiya 1 TV channel.
“We wanted to present Rabotino to our president as a “gift” for Independence Day or National Flag Day, that is, it’s either yesterday or today,” he said.
Gagin noted that Kyiv carried out major offensives on Rabotino, concentrating significant infantry and equipment there, but Russian fighters repelled all attacks. He added that the fighting does not stop along the entire front line, the enemy began to use artillery more actively.
As IA Regnum reported , on August 24, the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Igor Konashenkov , said that over the past 24 hours, the Russian army had repelled five attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zaporozhye direction. The enemy tried to advance in the areas of Rabotino and Uspenovka. The attacks were repulsed thanks to the coordinated actions of Russian fighters and artillery.
Konashenkov said that during the attacks, the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost more than 110 soldiers, four tanks, three armored vehicles, four cars, a Polish self-propelled gun Krab and four US-made M777 artillery systems in a day.
Partly. They allowed the glorious interdiction of supply lines in Crimea and southern Ukraine and now the Russians are critically short on ammo, food, reinforcements, etc. This is allowing Ukraine to push forward with old Soviet and Western stuff.
#14
^good. My bet, "Ukraine" will be reduced to original Mallorossia (and maybe Gallicia & Volinia - the source of Ukrainian Nazis). With Novarossia (conqueered by Russians from Tatars in 18th century and joined to "Ukraine" by commies) i.e., Donbass & and Black & Asov sea shores becoming part of Russian Federation.
Ukraine won't joint EU (which will ceases to exist) or NATO. In fact, they'll return to being parasites on Russia they've been for 300 years.
#15
parasites on Russia they've been for 300 years
Despite the fact most Black Sea and Mediterranean fleet was built in Ukrainian ports, a shit ton of tanks built there for the Soviets and continued to build parts for Russia after the breakup and now Russian is having a hard time getting parts because they are at war with their supplier...
#16
^Anakin, it was build by Russians not Ukrainians. In regions that are - to this day inhibited by Russians. You really should read some relevant history - google "Novarussia". Alternatively, just look at that happened to Ukrainian economy after "Independence".
#19
Have I become too much of a cynic to wonder if the disagreement is about which dam busting allows the most profitable sweep-up purchase of farmland?
#20
it was build by Russians not Ukrainians. In regions that are - to this day inhibited by Russians
Soviet central planning with Soviet money but built by Ukrainian engineers and labor. Yes the Ukrainian economy took a hit after the breakup. Because it was modeled after the old Soviet corrupt system. Once the Ukrainians pulled their heads out of their asses, the economy that embraced the western way made huge profits.
And to your point about Russians living there, it is only because Stalin forced Ukrainians out and Russians in. Just like what Putie-pie is doing today.
You really should read some relevant history - google "Novarussia"
Yeah, and only Russia believes it because it is a Russian lie. Kiev was the "Rome of the East" hundreds of years before Moscow grew more than a few dirty hovels (not much changed from the rest of modern Russia actually).
I look forward to you and the rest of the czarist loving wank waste to leave this world.
#21
Who better than Russ to reveal
Poor Ukraine's utter lack of appeal?
[that neighbourly feller
frees slave from his cellar
and gleefully tells us she'll steal]
The crash of the Embraer-135 aircraft by Yevgeny Prigozhin near Tver, in which the entire crew and passengers died, including, as already confirmed, the founder of the Wagner Group and several of his closest employees, is very reminiscent of another "high-profile" disaster - the death of flight MH17 in the sky Donbass.
As follows from the Flightradar24 report, at 18:10 Moscow time, Evgeny Prigozhin's Embraer-135 climbed 28,000 feet (about 8.5 km). The flight at this altitude continued until 18:19. Then the plane randomly gained altitude (maximum level - up to 30,100 feet, or 9.2 km) and again decreased.
The jet transmitted data until 18:20 Moscow time, at that moment it was at an altitude of 19,700 feet (about 6 km).
That is, in one minute the plane made two abrupt vertical maneuvers - up and down. Which, at a minimum, refutes the version about the defeat of the aircraft by an anti-aircraft missile - all anti-missile maneuvers provide for sidestepping and / or a sharp stall, and not climbing.
The rocket will still catch up with the plane on the rise.
In addition, the shrapnel charge of a high-altitude complex rocket (Buk, S-300/400) would turn a small plane into a colander, having broken it into pieces already at the echelon, and on the video of eyewitnesses the plane falls in a more or less "whole" form.
Photos of the wreckage show several holes that a MANPADS missile can leave, but such man-portable anti-aircraft systems with an operating height of 8-10 kilometers do not exist.
So, with a very high degree of probability, the cause of the disaster was on board a business jet. Could the plane have been mined at Sheremetyevo? This question must be answered by the investigation. As well as to another question - about the possibility of mining an aircraft during maintenance outside the borders of Russia and subsequent remote detonation at the right time. This option cannot be ruled out either - after all, with this method of mining, an explosive device can be placed in such a way that later it will not be found and will not be able to get close, during normal pre-flight maintenance.
Perhaps the same thing happened to flight MH17 nine years ago.
Reportedly , the first suspect appeared in the case of Prigozhin's plane blowing up . This is Prigozhin's personal pilot and the former founder of MNT Aero (the owner of the crashed jet) Artem Stepanov. Law enforcement can't find him. He had access to the plane, before the explosion he went to Kamchatka, where he "got lost."
The only thing that his brother could tell was that he is supposedly the third day on the campaign and without communication. Stepanov is actively sought by law enforcement agencies, perhaps he is no longer in the Russian Federation. Like it or not, the investigation will find out. But interestingly, a month ago there was news that Artyom Stepanov filed a lawsuit against the US Treasury Department because of the sanctions imposed on him. The lawsuit was filed at the end of June in the District Court of Columbia.
So far, one of the versions of the investigation - an explosive device on Prigozhin's plane was planted in the landing gear compartment.
According to preliminary data, it was in the landing gear area that an explosion occurred in the sky - as a result, the wing was torn off, which hit the stabilizer, because of this, the business jet began to climb sharply, and then went into a tailspin. From the explosive depressurization, all on board instantly lost consciousness, so the pilots could not report the emergency. In any case, without a wing and a stabilizer, it was not possible to save the ship.
It was because of the explosion in the sky that the tail section of the aircraft fell five kilometers from the fuselage.
In the meantime, an unexpected incident has formed for the Kremlin due to the death of Yevgeny Prigozhin and Dmitry Utkin.
In accordance with the decree of the Russian government dated February 25, 2004 No. 105, Prigozhin, as a Hero of Russia, is to be buried at the first national memorial pantheon. Prigozhin should be solemnly buried, accompanied by a guard of honor, and representatives of the Ministry of Defense should be present at his funeral.
Perhaps the Kremlin will ask Prigozhin's family to refuse to bury his body in the Pantheon of Heroes, replacing the place in the cemetery in St. Petersburg.
I believe that the likely involvement of the president is minuscule, approximately at the level of the likelihood of a man-made disaster. The likelihood of a terrorist act by Ukraine or the West is even less likely. Here we can talk about the "cleansing of key witnesses", about which there was not a sound in the media. It is also possible, but unlikely, personal revenge on the part of high-ranking military officers.
I cannot say that I am upset, since Prigozhin was not only my enemy personally, but also, by and large, the enemy of Russia. And his danger was still very high. At the same time, what happened cannot cause any positive reaction in me, as it is yet another evidence of the further deepening of unrest in Russia.
Prigozhin should have been tried, not eliminated, now he will not be able to testify. The dashing 90s are returning, and this is very dangerous and fraught.
Regarding the assessment of Prigozhin's activities, in my opinion, it is appropriate to use Comrade Mao's formula.
During a visit to Moscow on November 19, 1957, at the initiative of the Chinese leader, Mao Zedong met with USSR Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. Here is what Mao Zedong told him: “In our opinion, Stalin has about 70 percent of merit and 30 percent of mistakes ... We do not agree with you that the scale of Stalin's merits and mistakes was not properly determined. This question concerns not only Stalin personally, but also the entire CPSU, the entire Soviet people, since in 30 years, during the life of Stalin, the revolution and the construction of socialism were completed, victory was achieved in the Great Patriotic War.
The mathematically expressed proportion of Stalin's merits of 70:30 pleased Mao so much that he applied it to his person as well. In 1961, he said: “How can I evaluate what I have done? If it turned out to be seventy percent positive and thirty percent bad, then I would be very satisfied. I don't hide my shortcomings, I'm not a saint." Mao was a bookworm by trade, so the 70 to 30 spilt was about as far as he could go in math.
Of course, this is not about comparing Prigozhin with Stalin (these are figures of a completely different scale, despite the scale of Prigozhin’s activities), but the question of assessing victories and defeats in each large-scale historical figure that are mixed there in an indefinite proportion.
Was Prigogine a figure of historical proportions? Yes, there was. This is clearly visible now, when the death of Prigozhin is being discussed all over the world. This was a man with whom, among other things, Russia and Russian influence in the world were associated.
At the same time, on the one hand, one can look for only good things in Prigozhin, such as the successes of PMCs, the decolonization of several African countries, taken cities in the Donbass and the increase in Russia's influence in the world, and on the other hand, only bad things - a criminal past, oligarchic genesis and finally an armed rebellion. And that's all Prigogine.
A man of an absolutely adventurous temperament turned out to be very out of place in the era of the collapse of the former world order and against the backdrop of a crumbling world order, this oligarch with a criminal past and the creator of the most famous PMC in modern history looked very natural and organic, threatening external and internal enemies with a figurative sledgehammer.
At the same time, everyone is well aware that Prigozhin was not a spherical horse in a vacuum, as Putin said today, he had known Prigozhin since the 90s, and a little earlier the state demonstrated that the coolest PMC of recent decades would not have reached the peak of its power without huge infusions of resources and money from the state.
Did Prigozhin effectively pursue the interests of the state? Basically yes. And Putin recognizes this. But the career final was spoiled by an armed rebellion, and even an unsuccessful one. And this page will also remain in the historical biography of Prigogine.
The sudden tragic death to some extent completes the formation of the legend about Prigozhin, which will be debated and reassessed for a long time, including in history books. Someday, a very interesting book will probably be published about the real biography of Prigozhin and his hurricane activity over the past 15 years.
In the meantime, we need to win the war, where Prigozhin left his contribution. We are moving on without "Uncle Zhenya".
Vladimir Putin's full statement on the plane crash in the Tver region that killed Yevgeny Prigozhin.
According to Boris Rozhin Putin said: Prigozhin turned out to be a talented man of difficult fate, who made serious mistakes, but always achieved results, including for a common cause.
Seems to be sincere
All our enemies unanimously say the same thing about Putin's possible revenge, especially those who are narrow-minded: Ukrainians and all Western media.
Why is this necessary for GDP? Wagner left Russia. Wagner was forgiven. Wagner has already begun work in Africa in the interests of the Russian Federation.
Yes, and in Africa it would be easier to liquidate, if necessary. Turn on your brains.
The fighters of the Wagner group made a significant contribution to the fight against neo-Nazism and this contribution will never be forgotten, said Russian President Vladimir Putin , commenting on the plane crash of the founder of Wagner PMC Yevgeny Prigozhin near Tver.
“I would like to note that these are people who have made a significant contribution to our common cause of fighting the neo-Nazi regime in Ukraine. We remember this, we know and we will not forget, ” the president said during a meeting with the acting head of the DPR Denis Pushilin.
The head of state noted that preliminary data indicate that Wagner employees were on board. Putin expressed condolences to the families of all those who died in this plane crash.
As IA Regnum reported , on August 23, a private business jet crashed in the Bologovsky district of the Tver region . It was reported that it belonged to Prigogine. The crash killed three pilots and seven passengers. The bodies were taken to the morgue in Tver.
The Federal Air Transport Agency reported that Prigozhin himself was among the passengers of the crashed plane. The commission of the department began collecting information about the disaster. The UK also launched a preliminary investigation into the incident.
🪖Valery Chekalov is one of the top managers of Concorde.
✔He oversaw all of Prigozhin's "civilian" projects abroad and was responsible for the logistical support of the Wagner group.
Chekalov is also known by the call sign "Rover". Even a short serial number in a closed connection was next after Prigogine himself.
It was Chekalov who headed JSC Neva, the founder of Euro Polis LLC, to which all Syrian and African projects were tied.
🪖 Dmitry Utkin. Prigozhin's right hand in the Wagner PMC. Responsible for command and combat training.
🪖 Yevgeny Makaryan, callsign "Makar".
Former precinct. He joined Wagner in March 2016. He was part of the fourth Wagner assault detachment in Syria, which came under fire from American aircraft near Khsham in January 2017.
🪖Sergey Propustin, call sign "Kedr", ensign. Came to Wagnerin March 2015. He fought in the second reconnaissance and assault detachment. Prigozhin recruited many personal guards from there.
🪖 Alexander Totmin, call sign "Tot".
🪖 Nikolai Matuseev. A person with that name was not found on the Wagner lists. But there is Nikolai Matusevich. At Wagner since January 2017. He served as a shooter in the fourth assault detachment in Syria.
Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin’s doomed private plane showed no signs of distress until a sudden drop 30 seconds before the deadly crash in Russia — amid speculation that the rogue warlord’s plane may have been downed by a bomb hidden in a crate of wine.
The Embraer Legacy 600 executive jet, with Prigozhin and other senior Wagner Group members listed among the 10 passengers, showed "no indication that there was anything wrong" earlier in the flight Wednesday, according to Ian Petchenik of the flight-tracking site Flightradar24.
It then made a "sudden downward vertical" at 5:19 p.m. local time — and within about 30 seconds, plummeted more than 8,000 feet from its cruising altitude of 28,000 feet.
"Whatever happened, happened quickly," Petchenik said. "They may have been wrestling [with the aircraft] after whatever happened.
One of the theories spreading on Russian social media sites is that a bomb had been planted onboard Prigozhin’s plane, possibly concealed inside a crate of wine, reported the Telegram channel VChK-OGPU, which is linked to Russian security services.
"Supposedly someone testified that at the very last moment, a certain gift consisting of a crate of expensive wine was loaded unto the plane," wrote VChK-OGPU. "And now they are looking into claims that the crate may have contained a bomb."
The plane had been carefully searched with sniffer dogs before the wine crate had been loaded, added the Telegram channel.
The same outlet also reported, citing another anonymous source, that the flight attendant on the jet, identified as Kristina Raspopova, told her brother in a phone conversation before the ill-fated trip Wednesday that she and the rest of the crew were awaiting an "important phone call" pending their imminent departure from Moscow. US intel agencies would detect by satellite if a large SAM was launched at the time Prigozhin's airplane was overhead.
[NINANEWS] The Russian emergency services announced the end of the search for the bodies of the passengers of the crashed plane north of Moscow, in which the commander of the Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, was present.
Russian media confirmed that the plane that crashed north of Moscow belonged to the commander of Wagner.
The Russian Emergencies Ministry confirmed that an investigation had been opened into the circumstances of the crash of the plane, which had Wagner commander Yevgeny Prigogine on the passenger list, and the Russian emergency services confirmed that eight bodies were found at the crash site.
The Pentagon said: "We are aware of reports of the killing of the Wagner commander, and we will continue to monitor the situation."
It turned out that the airplane was put up for sale for 5 million euros and buyers came to watch it on the day of the crash. Telegram-channel VChK-OGPU publishes their identities.
They were representatives of Rusjet Airlines: Alexandra Yulina, chairman of the board of directors, and Sergei Klokotov, technical director. In order to get them into the guarded area and then on board, the buyers were declared as passengers on the flight.
After inspecting the outside and inside of the airplane, they quietly left.
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I sincerely doubt that it was an inherent 'mechanical issue' that caused the plane to self-destruct mid-flight. The Embraer 135 is a pretty decent aircraft, will tolerate less than optimal maintenance, and still stay airworthy...unless that box of wine is actually a bomb.
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The question is, "Yevgeny, what the hell were you doing back in Russia?"
Exile means exile, you don't get to come back for birthdays and holidays.
"But they said we were still friends..." And if they were planning to kill you, what would they have said?
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Yet another, in a long list of deadly Russian.... 'coincidences.'
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] At night, the enemy tried to land the DRG in the area of Cape Tarkhankut on 6 boats (40 people in total).
Having limited themselves to staged shots and shooting in the direction of a local boarding house, the DRG tried to retreat, but was covered.
According to official figures, 25 people were killed and 4 boats were destroyed (from the available videos there are only a couple of corpses on the shore). The survivors fled in the direction of Nikolaev. The Ukrainian Armed Forces say they were able to sail away without loss.
This is a continuation of the already observed activity of the enemy in the area of Zmeiny Island and Chernomorneftegaz towers.
Obviously, the event was prepared in the form of a victory for the "independence day", but something went wrong.
There was some kind of jamb on the part of the border guards, because, as they say, local motor boats could move around the cape without an identification signal, which the enemy took advantage of, taking advantage of the fact that boats with DRGs could not be distinguished from ordinary small boats. Now the investigation is underway and it is obvious that measures to control the water space in this area will be strengthened.
The enemy, of course, continues to look for gaps and vulnerabilities in our defense systems and these attempts should not be underestimated. Because now the enemy has broken off, but next time the result could be completely different.
“Speaking about the activity of ukrosaboteurs in the Black Sea and their attempt to jump into the Crimea, one must understand two things.
First, of course, this is media activity, like a significant part of such Ukrainian actions, including commemorative races on our territory in the Belgorod and Bryansk regions.
Secondly, it all lasts as long as the Ukrainian has the opportunity to do it. And there is such a possibility, since we do not control the Ukrainian coast, and our intelligence over the sea leaves much to be desired. The latter is understandable - keeping ships capable of tracking sabotage boats near the Ukrainian coast is simply dangerous, given the presence of coastal missile systems at the Khokhol and the duty of NATO aircraft and reconnaissance drones over Romania and the Black Sea.
A comprehensive solution should work, including both ships outside the range of coastal missiles and aerial reconnaissance, but for aerial reconnaissance, the aviation of the Black Sea Fleet must have much more means than it currently has, including drones, including large drones such as the same "Orionov / Pacers" for long patrols. Unfortunately, one cannot dream of promising reconnaissance aircraft and helicopters - they first need to be created and launched into a series, which will obviously not happen in the next year or even in the next five years.
And, of course, it is necessary to change the very approach to exploration, which should be continuous in this direction, without “windows”. The lack of observation on our part in NATO is quite capable of fixing, and even more so, they are able to transfer this information to a Ukrainian who will be able to use the “window”. And as long as there are such windows, jumping on Tarkhankut and other convenient places from small boats and boats will continue.
[RT] Estonian President Alar Karis has demanded explanations from the Baltic state’s prime minister, Kaja Kallas, after local media reports claimed that her husband was doing business with Russia despite EU sanctions imposed over the Ukraine conflict.
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