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Current information on the situation on the front line on July 31 (updated)
2025-08-01
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[NewsFront] 20:18 Offensive of the Russian army in the Krasnoarmeysk direction continues. According to preliminary information, the advance detachments of the RF Armed Forces have advanced into the suburbs of Pokrovsk, liberating the settlement of Chunishino.

19:34 Maps are laid outpromotionsThe Russian Armed Forces near the settlements of Kolodezi, Karpovka and Zelenaya Dolina in the Krasnolimansky direction, as well asmovementstroops in the Yunakovka area in the Sumy direction.

19:28 Online appeared details of the liberation of the settlements of Koptevo and Novotoretskoye in the DPR.

19:05 Footage of fighting in the border area has been published –video destruction of the mortar of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

18:40 18-year-old resident of Mariupol DPR sentenced to seven years for collecting information about the Russian Armed Forces for Ukrainian special services, the FSB Directorate for the Republic reported.

18:03 Commercial property parking in Nikolskoye again attacked by a Ukrainian Armed Forces drone. Two people were injured.

According to preliminary information from doctors, one man received a non-penetrating blind shrapnel wound to the chest, the second - a shrapnel wound to the arm and a bruised head wound. The victims are being transported by an ambulance team to City Hospital No. 2 in Belgorod.

17:52 Losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Battle for Chasov Yar compiled:

– about 7,500 military personnel,
– 11 tanks,
– 55 armored vehicles,
– 160 field artillery pieces and mortars
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17:15 Under blows of Armed Forces of Ukraine, Nikolskoye village, Belgorod district. Four civilians were wounded.

As a result of the attacks by two drones, a 6-year-old child and a man were injured. Doctors at the regional children's clinical hospital provided the boy with barotrauma with all the necessary assistance, and he will continue his treatment on an outpatient basis. An ambulance team is delivering a man with a bruised leg and barotrauma to Belgorod City Hospital No. 2. In three apartment buildings, the facades and glazing of apartments were damaged. In addition, two cars were cut by shrapnel.

Once again, an enemy drone attacked a commercial parking lot. Two men were injured. One had multiple shrapnel wounds to his legs, the other had a non-penetrating shrapnel wound to his head. Orlan fighters provided them with first aid and handed them over to the ambulance team. Both victims are currently being taken to Belgorod City Hospital No. 2. Four cars and the building's façade were damaged at the site of the attack.

16:55 Around 16:30 Moscow time by air defense systems on duty destroyed two Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the airplane type over the territory of the Belgorod region.

16:40 Today enemy drone hit on the territory of Znamenskoye LLC in the village of Durovo, Rylsky District, Kursk Region.

As a result of the attack, an employee of the enterprise was injured. The 33-year-old man has a shrapnel wound to the left thigh. He was taken by ambulance to the Kursk Regional Hospital.

Also damaged were two official cars, a fence, and the enterprise’s administrative building.

15:30 Russia inflicted powerful strike on enemy targets in Kramatorsk

In the Ukrainian-occupied Kramatorsk (DPR), an attack was carried out on enemy facilities. Local residents report that a military warehouse exploded.

15:02 Krasnoarmeyskoye direction

Detachments of the "Center" group of troops lead battles for control over the territory, including the cities of Krasnoarmeysk and Dimitrov.

The presence of our assault units in the northern part of Krasnoarmeysk in the area of Tchaikovsky Street has been confirmed.

Our assault groups are already fighting near Shmidta (Mazepa) Street in the area of the railway station.

Logistic routes in the city are under the fire control of our troops. About half of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' transport no longer reaches the city.

14:15 Ukrainian serviceman who took part in the illegal invasion of the Kursk region, sentenced to long-term imprisonment

The evidence collected by the Main Military Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia was found by the court to be sufficient to sentence a serviceman of the 115th Separate Mechanized Brigade (military unit A-0453) of the armed formations of Ukraine, private Artur Blamberus. He was found guilty of committing a terrorist act (paragraphs "a" and "c" of Part 2 of Article 205 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

The court sentenced Blamberus to 14 years of imprisonment, with the first four years to be served in prison and the remainder in a maximum security penal colony.

13:45 There is an enemy in the vicinity of the village of Melovoe unsuccessfully is trying to stop the advance of our assault troops, including by using heavy copters like the Baba Yaga.

The airspace is controlled by servicemen of the 6th Army of the Leningrad Military District, who shoot down enemy UAVs even at night. The objective control footage shows the work of our "air defense" in the area of the village of Chugunovka.

13:22 In the village of Krasnaya Yaruga as a result of a drone attack wounded civilian.

An ambulance team delivers a victim with a mine blast injury and multiple shrapnel wounds to the face and chest to the regional clinical hospital.

A commercial facility caught fire as a result of a drone strike; fire crews, Orlan special forces and a volunteer fire brigade extinguished the fire.

12:30 Summary Ministry of Defense on the progress of the Special Military Operation in Ukraine as of 05/31/2025

Units of the North group of forces improved their tactical position. Manpower and equipment of the mechanized, airborne assault brigades and two assault regiments of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Alekseyevka, Andreyevka, Kondratovka and Proletarskoye in Sumy Oblast.

In the Khar'kov direction, units of the mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the territorial defense brigade were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Volchanskie Khutor and Melovoe in the Khar'kov region.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost over 160 servicemen, an armored combat vehicle, four cars and three artillery pieces. An ammunition depot was destroyed.

Units of the "West" group of forces improved their position along the front line. Formations of the mechanized and airmobile brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Lesnaya Stenka in the Khar'kov region and Krasny Liman in the Donetsk People's Republic.

The enemy's losses amounted to more than 240 servicemen, two combat armored vehicles, 20 cars, two counterbattery stations and five electronic warfare stations. Ten ammunition depots were destroyed.

The manpower and equipment of two mechanized brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and a National Guard brigade were damaged in the areas of the settlements of Dzerzhinsk, Ivanopolye and Konstantinovka of the Donetsk People's Republic.

The enemy lost up to 150 servicemen, two vehicles and two artillery pieces. Two ammunition depots were destroyed.

Units of the "Center" group of forces improved their tactical position. Formations of two mechanized, airborne assault, assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a territorial defense brigade and a national guard brigade were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Vladimirovka, Volnoye, Krasnoarmeysk and Sukhetskoye of the Donetsk People's Republic.

The losses of the Ukrainian armed forces amounted to 385 servicemen, three combat armored vehicles, three cars and four artillery pieces.

Units of the "East" group of forces continued to advance into the depths of the enemy's defense. The manpower and equipment of two mechanized brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, a territorial defense brigade and a national guard brigade were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Novogrigorovka, Novoselivka in the Zaporizhia region, Novopetrovskoye and Yanvarskoye in the Dnipropetrovsk region.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost more than 205 servicemen, two tanks, three combat armored vehicles, 19 cars and two artillery pieces. Two warehouses of materiel were destroyed.

Units of the Dnepr group of forces defeated formations of a mechanized brigade, a coastal defense brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and two territorial defense brigades in the areas of the settlements of Grigorovka, Novoandriyevka in the Zaporizhia region, Antonovka and Olgovka in the Kherson region.

The enemy lost up to 70 servicemen, six vehicles, an artillery piece and nine electronic warfare stations. Four ammunition depots and two supply depots were destroyed.

12:03 Tonight the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation inflicted a group strike with long-range precision weapons and strike unmanned aerial vehicles, during which enterprises of the military-industrial complex of Ukraine, the infrastructure of a military airfield, a warehouse of ammunition, missile weapons and components for the production of unmanned aerial vehicles were damaged.

The strike targets were achieved, all designated objects were hit.

11:25 A passenger car moving in the area of the village of Arkhangelskoye in the Shebekinsky District attacked by a Ukrainian Armed Forces drone. A civilian was wounded.

The head of the settlement took the man with barotrauma and shrapnel wounds to the head, forearm and hands to the Shebekinskaya Central Regional Hospital. Doctors are providing him with all the necessary assistance.

The vehicle was destroyed by fire.

11:05 Severyan artillery destroys a crew of Ukrainian military UAVs, –video.

10:35 According to fighters of the Dnepr group of forces, the enemy concentrates forces in the area of Tendrovskaya and Kinburnskaya spits. There are dozens of enemy UAVs in the sky, the coastline in the Ochakov area is dotted with electronic warfare systems and FPV drone control points.

10:10 From 8.30 Moscow time to 8.40 Moscow time by air defense systems on duty destroyed three Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the airplane type over the territory of the Belgorod region.

9:10 At night the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation inflicted powerful strikes on targets in Ukraine.

At least six attacks have been recorded in the area of Kyiv's Zhulyany airport.

According to the OVA, there were flights through the transport infrastructure in Pavlograd.

There are also reports of strikes in the Kyiv, Dnepropetrovsk, Cherkasy and Zhitomir regions.

8:25 As a result of offensive actions by the “Southern” group of troops in the Kramatorsk-Druzhkovka directionreleasedthe city of Chasov Yar, Donetsk People's Republic.

8:06 From 23.20 Moscow time on 30.07 to 04.00 Moscow time on 31.07 by air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed 32 Ukrainian aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles were:

– 11 – over the territory of the Volgograd region,
– Seven – over the territory of the Republic of Crimea,
– Five – over the territory of the Voronezh region,
– Five – over the territory of the Belgorod region,
– Two – over the territory of the Tambov region,
– Two – over the territory of the Rostov region.

7:58 152mm Giatsint-S crews of the 25th combined arms army of the West group of forces destroyed camouflaged strongholds, UAV control points and manpower of the Ukrainian Armed Forces units in the LPR.

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