Hi everyone

Late start today and just a brief session as I'm short on time.

Tony

Just to recap the major developments for the last 24hrs

As mentioned, the AFU launched one of it's biggest attacks on the Zap. Front with the main axis again the Orekhov-Rabotino sector...its reported 100 + armoured vehicles were deployed.

Going by Russian reports, about 30% of them were knocked out (destroyed and/or damaged-abandoned) and they estimate about 200 killed

Elements of units from the 10th Corps were identified as taking part. These units are part of their strategic reserve which is tasked with exploiting a breakthrough...which means they were forced to use them due to heavy loses in units from the 9th Corps which have so far been fighting on the Zap. & South Donetsk Frontlines

Most of the fighting took place in the yellow square on the map...a lot of the published videos have been geolocated there

🍖🍖🍖 The Russian 58th shows finished Ukrainian soldiers after the failed Ukrainian attack in Rabotino area.

🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦Zaporozhye direction. district . Rabotino. 12:15, — 27 July 2023

Fierce fighting has been going on since morning.
Artillery from both sides does not stop.

In the interval from early morning to 12:00 at the settlement. Rabotino destroyed up to 5 units of enemy armored vehicles, mostly tanks.

Front bird (https://t.me/frontbird)

Update - Militarymaps (pro Russian) confirmed RF retreat out of Staromayrskoe

💥 Smashed Bradley, footage recorded by Ukrainian soldiers.

🇺🇦CV-90 knocked out by a Rpg at close range on the Svatovo frontline ....the 2 nd one might have gotten away

🍖🍖 Another destroyed Ukrainian T-72 + Ukrainian soldiers by Russian ATGM of Osman in Zaporozhye direction.

This is the 3rd documented loss of a CV-90 so far...about 50 were recently transfered from Sweden...it's considered by many as the best IFV in AFU service

🇹🇷🇷🇺Another Turkish cargo ship was heading to Russia with traces of explosives

"In the course of work to prevent terrorist and sabotage actions, to ensure the safety of navigation, the FSB has identified another foreign civilian vessel that could previously have been used to deliver explosives to the territory of Ukraine.

On July 26, traces of explosives dinitrotoluene and TNT were found in the cargo hold and on the surface of a lifeboat of a foreign cargo ship "WMO RIVER", which was traveling from the port of Sinop (Turkey) through the Kerch Strait to the port of Rostov-on-Don for loading grain crops.

It is established that in June and July of this year, the vessel twice called at the Ukrainian seaport of Reni (Odessa region). A decision was made to ban the passage of the vessel under the navigable arch of the transport crossing through the Kerch Strait with its further departure outside the territorial sea of the Russian Federation, " the report says.

This is the second such case in recent days. Political analyst Sergey Markov emphasizes that both vessels were used as part of the so-called grain deal.

"That is, apparently, on these ships they transported weapons to Ukraine, disguising themselves as a grain deal. Putin will use both of these examples today and tomorrow in a dialogue with African leaders, proving to them that Russia rightfully closed the grain deal, because not only did the West violate the grain deal by not allowing Russian grain to enter the world market, but also the humanitarian corridors for the grain deal were used by Ukraine for the delivery of weapons and for terrorist attacks - launching water drones with explosives, " Markov writes in his public.

Military commentator Boris Rozhin believes that the case will not be limited to these two cases.

"I am sure that there are still a lot of such vessels involved in the transportation of military cargo on the Danube and in the Black Sea," he believes.

“Russia has always been with Africa” — head of the African Union — via Lord Bebo