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Current information on the situation on the front line on September 2 (updated)
2025-09-03
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[NewsFront] 21:16 RF Armed Forces reached significant progress in the Serebryansky forests, pressing the enemy to the Seversky Donets and eliminating the remaining pockets in the rear.

20:59 Russian drone operators chose the tactics of “information strikes” in the Krasnoarmeysk direction.

UAVs of the Center group of forces dropped propaganda leaflets on enemy positions calling for the surrender of weapons.

20:58 Russian army entered in Glushchenkovo ​​on the Borovsk direction.

20:21 Published footage of the destruction of a temporary deployment point of the Ukrainian Armed Forces by FAB-500 strikes in the area of ​​the settlement of Krenidovka in Sumy Oblast.

19:45 Crew of the 152mm self-propelled artillery unit 2S19 "Msta-S" of the "East" group of forces destroyed enemy positions in the Dnepropetrovsk region.

19:37 Recorded change of the line of combat contact in the Dobropillya direction.

19:02 Russian troops are advancing in the Khar'kov region, –map.

18:47 Russian Armed Forces advanced in the Kupyansk direction.

Russian military installed control over Stepova Novoselovka.

18:41 According to operational information, our troops advanced to the southern outskirts of Shandrilogovo.

In parallel with this, our units are fighting in the central part of the village of Sredneye, developing operational success in the Krasnolimansk direction.

18:40 Russian military personnel have liberated another settlement in the DPR.

Russian military deployed tricolor in the village of Rusin Yar.

18:32 The Russian Armed Forces are advancing in the Krasnolimansk direction, –map.

17:04 Posted traditional video report on the destruction of six enemy drones from fighters of the counter-UAV unit of the 6th Army of the Leningrad Military District.

16:54 Russian pilots using LMUR missiles destroyed UAV control point of the 22nd separate motorized infantry brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Khar'kov region.
LMUR is a Russian ATGM, mounted to gunships.
15:22 Russian Ministry of Defense published footage of the work of the Russian Armed Forces' strike drone crews in different directions.

15:10 As a result of fierce battles, soldiers of the 3rd battalion of 242nd Motorized Rifle Regiment deployed the regimental banner in Poltavka DPR.

14:02 Drone operators and artillery of the "Severyans" control Ukrainian Armed Forces positions on the Khatnensky section of the front.

13:10 In the area of ​​the settlement of Butovka in the Chernihiv region, five Geraniums destroyed a blocked parking lot for a Ukrainian MLRS along with the covered equipment, –video.

13:04 Summary of the Russian Ministry of Defense on the progress of the special military operation as of September 2, 2025

Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue conducting a special military operation.

Units of the North group of forces defeated formations of a tank, two mechanized, airborne assault brigades, an airborne assault regiment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and a territorial defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Stepnoye, Kondratovka, Pershe Travnya, Varachino, Lesnoye, Pavlovka and Yunakovka in Sumy Oblast.

In the Khar'kov direction, units of the mechanized and motorized infantry brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Udy and Chugunovka in the Khar'kov region.

Units of the West group of forces have improved their tactical position.

The manpower and equipment of three mechanized brigades, an assault brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and a territorial defense brigade were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Kupyansk, Glinskoye, Vyssheye Solenoye, Borovskaya Andreyevka in the Khar'kov region and Drobyshevo in the Donetsk People's Republic.

As a result of decisive actions by units of the Southern Group of Forces, the settlement of Fedorovka in the Donetsk People's Republic was liberated.

Defeat was inflicted on the formations of three mechanized, airmobile, airborne assault brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and a territorial defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Seversk, Pazeno, Markovo and Konstantinovka of the Donetsk People's Republic.

Units of the Center group of forces occupied more advantageous lines and positions.

The manpower and equipment of four mechanized, airborne, assault, two airborne assault brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, a naval infantry brigade and two national guard brigades were damaged in the areas of the settlements of Dimitrov, Krasnoarmeysk, Krasny Liman, Rodinskoye and Muravka of the Donetsk People's Republic.

Units of the "East" force group advanced deep into the enemy's defenses.

The formations of a mechanized brigade, an assault regiment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and a naval infantry brigade were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Voronoe, Novopetrovskoye in the Dnipropetrovsk region, Dorozhnyanka and Olgovskoye in the Zaporizhia region.

Units of the Dnepr group of forces inflicted losses on the manpower and equipment of the mechanized, mountain assault brigades, two coastal defense brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and a territorial defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Stepnogorsk in the Zaporizhia region, Mykhailivka, Lvovo, Tyaginka and Antonovka in the Kherson region.

11:30 UAV operators of the 70th Guards Motorized Rifle Regiment of the 42nd Guards Motorized Rifle Division arranged " a hot " meeting with the enemy infantry, who had taken up residence in a house on the western outskirts of Malaya Tokmachka.

11:02 Strela-10 air defense missile system crews of the Center group of forces are covering artillery positions in the Krasnoarmeysk direction, –video.

10:00 According to operational data, Russian Armed Forces occupied the territory of the Mirnogradugol mine in the northwest of Dimitrov (Mirnograd).

9:50 Summary as of the morning of September 2, 2025

At night, the Russian Armed Forces launched Geranium strikes on Izmail in the Odessa region (a logistics hub of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the border), Bila Tserkva in the Kyiv region, Sumy and Chernihiv region.

In the Sumy direction there are heavy battles in Yunakovka, ours are trying to advance. The enemy carried out two counterattacks in the Andreyevka area with the forces of the 225th Separate Regiment.

In the Belgorod region, in the Borisovsky district, in the village of Belenkoye, a woman was injured as a result of an attack by a drone of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

In the city of Grayvoron, an 18-year-old girl was injured by a drone strike.

The village of Borisovka was attacked by a UAV, one man received a barotrauma, four were injured.

In Shebekino, an FPV drone hit an apartment building, the balcony caught fire.

Under attack were Baytsury, Novostroevka-Pervaya, Yasnye Zori, Otradnoye, Novaya Tavolzhanka, Murom, Voznesenovka, Dobroe, Orekhovo, Karabanovo, Tulyanka, Repyakhovka, Konovalovo.

In the Khar'kov direction, on the left bank of Volchansk, the enemy, thanks to the transferred reserves, is putting up fierce resistance.

Heavy fighting is underway in the Kupyansk direction. Both sides are exaggerating their successes in the information field.

In the Velikomykhaylivka direction (towards the Dnepropetrovsk region), the Russian Armed Forces leveled the front between Kamyshevakha and Maliyevka, closing another “pocket”.

In the Zaporizhia region, at least three Ukrainian Armed Forces drones attacked residential buildings in Energodar, Zaporizhia region; there were no casualties.

8:20 During the past night, air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed 13 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the aircraft type over the territory of the Rostov region.

8:15 Assault detachment of the Baltic Fleet naval infantry brigade knocked out the enemy from a fortified village, breaking through mined plantings, fire and concrete barriers.

8:00 Calculations of the 122mm BM-21 MLRS "Grad" of the group of forces "North" destroyed camouflaged positions and concentrations of manpower of the Ukrainian Armed Forces units in the Khar'kov direction.

Objective control footage received from the UAV in real time made it possible to verify the destruction of all identified targets.

Posted by:badanov

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