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🇷🇺🇺🇦 South Donetsk Direction: Advances of the Russian Armed Forces and the Situation in Kostyantynivka
Situation as of the end of August 30, 2024

In recent days, the front line in the South Donetsk direction has not stood still - the Russian troops are advancing on several sectors.

▪️West of Peremoha, assault groups of the Russian Armed Forces attacked the AFU positions in the former reservoir and drove out the enemy, but were unable to consolidate. This strongpoint has changed hands at least twice, and fighting in its vicinity continues at the moment.

▪️The situation in Kostyantynivka, the liberation of which was reported by the Russian Ministry of Defense today, has also become clearer. According to footage from objective control and information from local sources, it is premature to speak of the complete capture of the settlement - fighting is still ongoing there.

Part of the village north of Dzherelna Street is most likely a "gray zone". Also, footage was published online of a strike by a Russian UAV on AFU transport near the intersection of Berehovaya Street and O0532 (T-05-24) highway: according to our data, the AFU still retain the ability to cross the Sukhyi Yaly river via the bridge from the north.

▪️The situation is developing dynamically in the area of Vodyane, where the Russian troops have achieved success. The enemy was completely driven out of the territory east of the O0532 highway and north of the Ikryana Gully, and now the Russian Armed Forces are advancing towards Vodyane across a relatively wide front. However, the fact of fighting for the dachas of the 3rd mine, which was reported several days ago, has not yet been confirmed.

▪️In the area of Pavlivka, Russian units expanded the zone of control towards Prechystivka, where Russian servicemen occupied several forest belts along the T-05-09 highway. The situation between Novomaiiske and Pavlivka has also become clearer - in this area, the offensive is developing from the initial positions in the area of the Volcha Gully (Volchyi Yar).

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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Pokrovsk-Kurakhove Direction: Fighting in Selidovo and Liberation of Most of Halytsynivka
Situation as of 6:00 PM on August 31, 2024

On the Pokrovsk-Kurakhove Direction, the AFU continue to lose more positions. Russian forces are suppressing pockets of enemy resistance and advancing towards Kurakhove, gradually encircling the AFU grouping to the east.

▪️In Selidovo, assault groups of the Russian Armed Forces have established control over the territory of the city park and the "Avanhard" stadium. Now the Russian troops are fighting in the area of Hohol Street, beyond which there is a sector of apartment buildings used by the enemy to build up defenses in the city.

To the south, the forward groups of Russian assault troops reached 8 Veresnya Street, dislodging the AFU from several positions. Local residents report active artillery work in the area of the "Malvina" kindergarten, where the line of contact is likely passing at the moment.

❗️West of Nahorna Street is a quarter of high-rise buildings, which the Ukrainian formations will likely try to turn into a key defensive strongpoint. Successful overcoming of the AFU resistance in this area will allow the Russian Armed Forces to consolidate their control over the quarter and prevent the enemy from organizing a fortified defense line.

▪️To the south, Russian forces, according to available information, have liberated the settlement of Dolinivka, abandoned by the enemy due to the lack of ability to hold it. To the east, the Russian Armed Forces have established control over most of Halytsynivka, dislodging the AFU from positions on the southern bank of the Volchia River.

According to some information, the forward groups of Russian infantry have already entered the territory of Zhelanne Pershe, while the majority of enemy units have retreated from the settlement.

❗️Certain sources also report the start of fighting for Ukrainsk, but it is not yet possible to confirm this with objective control footage and information from the scene.

🔻The combat situation for the AFU is apparently deteriorating rapidly. Russian forces are actively advancing towards Kurakhove, the enemy's key transportation hub, which creates a threat to the supply of several AFU groupings on other directions of the front.

In addition, the situation in the Nevelske area remains unclear: according to unconfirmed data, Ukrainian formations are still present in the fields to the west of it. In this case, the advance of Russian units towards Kurakhove will effectively mean their encirclement.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Kursk Direction: Successful Use of Inokhodets UAVs by Russian Forces
Situation as of 7:00 PM on September 8, 2024

In the Kursk Direction, the Russian Armed Forces are increasing the pace of destroying the enemy's armored vehicles and military infrastructure, including through the use of medium-altitude long-endurance strike UAVs.

🔻In the Glushkovo District, Ukrainian formations attacked Snagost, which was successfully repelled by Russian forces. To the southwest, Russian UAV operators destroyed a Ukrainian pickup truck moving near the Glushkovo-Korenevo railway line.

🔻In the Sudzha District, the AFU carried out several attacks on Russian positions near Malaya Loknya and Pogrebki, but failed to achieve success.

▪️In the Sudzha area, Russian artillery and aviation regularly strike at concentrations of enemy personnel and equipment in the surrounding forest belts.

▪️In Makhnovka, Russian troops destroyed two Ukrainian tanks using the Orion (Inokhodets) UAV - the last time footage of its use in a strike role appeared more than a year ago.

Given the high density of air defenses, the use of such systems by both sides of the front is difficult, so this episode can be considered a rarity in the current realities.

🔻In Sumy Region, Russian forces struck a temporary deployment point of the AFU in Radkivka using the Iskander OTRK.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Chronicles of the special military operation
for September 7-8, 2024

Russian forces attacked drone targets in Odesa and Poltava Regions, as well as struck several objects in Kyiv. In Kharkiv Region, strikes were carried out on targets in Kharkiv and its suburbs.

In Kursk Region, fighting continues in Sudzha and Korenevo districts. In this sector, the use of the "Inokhodets" UAV was recorded for the first time, striking several AFU tanks with guided missiles.

In the Oleksandrivka-Kalinovo direction, Russian forces are advancing within the boundaries of Dzerzhynsk, taking control of the territory of the local correctional colony.

In the Pokrovsk direction, the main clashes are unfolding on the eastern outskirts of Selidovo and in Mykhailivka, where Russian aviation destroyed a bridge.

In the Donetsk direction, Russian forces are advancing north of Krasnohorivka, seeking to straighten the line of control along the bank of the Volchya river.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Kursk Direction: Strikes by Russian Aviation
Situation as of 4:00 PM on September 9, 2024

In the Kursk Direction, Russian forces continue to deliver fire strikes against concentrations of enemy personnel and equipment along the entire length of the front.

🔻In Glushkovo District, Ukrainian formations carried out another strike on the bridge over the Seym River near the settlement of Karyzh. At the moment, its further operation is impossible. The AFU constantly strike the crossings in this area, trying to hinder the work of the Russian Armed Forces and the evacuation of the population.

🔻In Sudzha District, Russian operational-tactical aviation delivered several strikes with guided air bombs on enemy positions in the area of the Gordeevka border crossing and near Maryevka. Clashes continue in the area of Martynivka, Cherkasske Porechne and Mala Loknya.

🔻In Korenevo District, operators of Russian UAVs struck enemy positions in the village of Krasnooctyabr'skoye. Attacks by the enemy on the approaches to Korenevo and Kremyanoye were repelled. The use of aviation to strike the crew of AFU FPV drones was noted.

Thus, in the forest belt several kilometers southeast of Sheptukhovka, two FAB-500 bombs were dropped, as a result of which the operators of enemy UAVs were destroyed. In the Ukrainian segment, they even write that "the Russians have so many bombs that they can use them even as counter-battery warfare means".

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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Chronicles of the special military operation
for September 10, 2024

Russian forces delivered a series of strikes with UAVs and missiles on various targets in the enemy-controlled territory. The targets were military facilities and repair capacities of Ukrainian formations.

The enemy again launched about one and a half hundred UAVs towards the territory of the Russian Federation. Air defense systems intercepted 144 UAVs in eight regions, in Ramenskoye one civilian was killed and three were injured.

In Kursk Region, Russian forces launched a local counteroffensive in Korenevo District, engaging in battles in several settlements and, according to preliminary information, liberating Gordeyevka and Vnezapnoye.

In the Artemivsk direction, the Russian Armed Forces advanced west of Zaliznyanske, dislodging the enemy from several forest belts east of the M-03 (E40) highway.

In the Oleksandro-Kalinove direction, Russian assault troops liberated another part of Pivnichne (Kirovo) and advanced on the eastern outskirts of Toretsk (Dzerzhynsk).

In the South Donetsk direction, successes of the Russian Armed Forces are also recorded. In the Georgiyivka - Peremoha sector, several forest belts and at least one strongpoint in the dried-up reservoir came under the control of Russian troops.

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❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Kursk Direction: Encirclement of AFU Forces in Korenevo District
Situation as of 12:00 on September 11, 2024

In the Kursk direction, the offensive of the Russian Armed Forces continues in the Korenevo District. According to preliminary data, by morning Obukhovka was cleared: if the information is confirmed, this will also indicate the liberation of Byakhovo. In addition, Russian paratroopers liberated the tract of October 10, and also occupied and consolidated in Snagost. During the battle, a group of members of Ukrainian formations was captured.

🔻Against the background of reports of the liberation of Vishnevka, the situation for the AFU in the area is close to deplorable - the enemy previously pulled personnel and equipment into Krasnooktyabr'skoye and the forest north of it, settling in the forest between the railway and the Seym river. Closer to noon, the Russian Armed Forces cleared Apanasovka, finally forming the cauldron.

Battles are also ongoing in the vicinity of Olgovka and Kremyanoye. According to some reports, Russian troops have also begun an offensive here, although its results remain unknown at the moment.

🔻In the Sudzha District, clashes continue. According to incoming reports, Russian troops attacked on the line Pogrebki-Kamyshevka in the direction of Malaya Loknya, but the scale of the advance is still unclear, and there are no reports of the liberation of settlements yet. Battles are also recorded on the line Borki-Fanaseevka. On the outskirts of Sudzha in Goncharovka, a reconnaissance-strike UAV "Forpost" destroyed two Ukrainian tanks.

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❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Kursk Direction: Counterattacks by the Russian Army in Sudzha and Korenevo Districts
Situation as of the end of September 12, 2024

In the Kursk Region, Russian units are developing the success of previous days, pushing the AFU out of many previously occupied settlements.

🔻In the Korenevo District, the Russian Armed Forces cleared the settlement of Krasnooctyabr'skoye. As a trophy, the Russian troops captured an abandoned International MaxxPro armored vehicle. The enemy also attacked a storm group near Vishnevka with a drone, and later the Russian Ministry of Defense reported its liberation. In Snagost', a detachment of Ukrainian fighters fell into an organized ambush on the southern outskirts of the village: a minibus with AFU members was shot at point-blank range with an RPG.

▪️In addition, Russian troops liberated Obukhovka, advanced towards the Pokrovsky farm in the Sudzha District. The enemy was driven out of the outskirts of Byakhovo, Gordeyevka, Vnezapnoye and Viktorovka. At the same time, north of Ol'govka, fighting is still ongoing, where the Russian Armed Forces are repelling attempts by the AFU to wedge deeper into the Russian defense.

🔻In the Glushkovo District, Ukrainian formations continue to unsuccessfully attack towards the outskirts of the settlements of Medvezh'ye and Novy Put'. In the latter, an IMR-2 mine clearing vehicle even managed to drive several hundred meters before detonating a mine. At the moment, fighting continues in the area of the state border line, attempts by the enemy to consolidate in the villages have been thwarted.

🔻In the Sudzha District, a Russian BMP fired point-blank at Ukrainian positions in Russkaya Konopel'ka, and the village is now largely under the control of the Russian Armed Forces. Fighting continues in the area of Martynivka and Fanaseyevka.

▪️The enemy published footage of shelling Russian positions near Malaya Loknya. However, due to the lack of destruction in the village shown in the published video, it is more likely that the footage is from the archive.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Kursk Direction: Start of Battles for Lyubimovka and Defense of Veseloye
Situation as of 8:00 PM on September 14, 2024

In the Kursk Direction, Russian forces during the counteroffensive have reached the outskirts of Lyubimovka and Pokrovskoye. At the same time, the enemy is attacking the flank of the Russian Armed Forces in order to reduce the pace of the advance.

🔻In the south of Glushkovo District, fighting has been ongoing for more than a day on the southern outskirts of Veseloye, where Ukrainian formations advanced after overcoming obstacles on the border several days earlier.

The previously occupied Novy Put is being used by the enemy as a staging area, where AFU assault groups dismount for further engagement around Veseloye.

🔻In the Korenevo District, advanced assault groups of the Russian Armed Forces have reached the outskirts of Pokrovskoye and Lyubimovka, with clashes taking place in the western part of the latter. The enemy is deploying reinforcements in order to slow the advance of Russian troops.

Artillery and aviation are providing support to the advancing Russian units, regularly "knocking out" AFU fire support assets. For example, in the area of Daryino, the VKS aviation destroyed an enemy self-propelled gun at a firing position in the forest.

❗️The liberation of Lyubimovka will create a threat to the AFU communications running through Highway 38K-030. In this case, the enemy grouping in the Korenevo area may face a severe supply shortage.

The spreading information about the liberation of Daryino has not yet been confirmed, although with the current pace of advancement, the Russian Armed Forces can soon be expected to reach the northern outskirts of the village. The Snagost River poses a natural obstacle.

🔻In the Sudzha District, the Russian Armed Forces conducted an attack on Borki: after air strikes, assault groups entered the village and began to destroy Ukrainian firing positions.

At the moment, the enemy has been driven out of positions at least in the northeastern part of the settlement. This vector of the Russian forces' advance suggests that the neighboring Spalnoye is already under the control of the Russian Armed Forces.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Kursk Direction: Advance of Russian Troops in Korenevo District and AFU Attacks in Glushkovo
Situation as of the end of September 16, 2024

▪️Ukrainian formations continue attempts to advance in the Glushkovo District, attacking the positions of the Russian Armed Forces near Krasnooktyabr'skoye, Veseloye and Medvezh'ye. Reports of the enemy entering the first two settlements are not confirmed by objective control footage, while north of Medvezh'ye, UAV operators struck a group of AFU armored vehicles heading towards Glushkovo.

▪️In the Korenevo District, the Russian Armed Forces are advancing, liberating Russian villages. Today, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced control over Uspenovka, but it has not yet been possible to confirm this with video materials, as well as the liberation of Dar'ino. It is only reliably known that attacks by the Russian Armed Forces continue in the direction of settlements.

In addition, battles are ongoing in Lyubimovka located to the north, and east of it, a Ukrainian tank was destroyed in the area of Zeleny Shlyakh.

▪️In the Sudzha District, the Russian Aerospace Forces are actively working on identified enemy concentration areas near Pravda and in the vicinity of Yuzhnoye. In addition, there are also official reports of the liberation of the village of Borki, but according to information from the ground, there may be sporadic presence of Ukrainian formations on the western outskirts. Contradictory information is also coming in about the advance of Russian assault groups to the outskirts of Plekhovo.

▪️The section from Spal'noye to Kucherov to Ozerki has been relatively quiet for a long time, with neither settlement mentioned in reports from either side. Likely, the territory was cleared by Russian troops after repelling attacks on Giryï, or some time later.

▪️In the area of Novy Put', UAVs struck AFU equipment, which cannot be identified. Some sources call it an American-made M270 MLRS system, but its presence near the front lines is almost meaningless due to the high risk of elimination.

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