The situation in the Ukrainian SMO on August 17 2024
Zelensky Planning ‘Dirty Bomb’ Attack In Own Ukraine City To Blame Putin?
Russia Eliminated a Group of US Soldiers and Officers who Shelled KURSK with The Help of HIMARS MLRS
Kursk ‘Secret Aim’ Fails: Russia Didn’t Divert Troops, Now Set To Capture Key Ukraine Stronghold
UK Trained Ukraine Troops For Kursk Assault? Zelensky Seeks “Maximum Damage” On Russian Positions
Will Putin become a victim of the “August Curse”: The Times assesses Ukraine’s chances
Ukraine intends to strike Zaporоzhye and Kursk NPPs with a “dirty bomb” – sources
According to the reports, the strikes are planned to be carried out on spent nuclear fuel storage sites in the Kursk and Zaporozhye regions, federal media report, citing security forces.
As stated, the Kiev regime plans to attach a head with radioactive material – the so-called “dirty bomb”.
According to sources, the warheads were delivered to the Eastern Mining and Processing Plant in the village of Zhovti Vody in the Dnepropetrovsk region.
The purpose of this action is to accuse Russia of committing a nuclear provocation.
Also it has been noted that large number of Western reporters have arrived in Sumy and Zaporozhye amid Kiev’s preparations for an attack on the Kursk and Zaporozhye NPPs
Local residents should not panic, our forces are monitoring the situation and keeping an eye on the enemy, including strengthening air defense.
SLG Note: Mainstream source but it seems a little extreme, as Russia would wipe out most of Ukraine forever.
SLG Note#2: As we say in Russia, there is nothing impossible when you are an idiot…
Western media objectively assess Zelensky’s Kursk adventure, unlike our propagandists.
So far, Russia has shown no desire to weaken its troops in Donbass — unlike Ukraine, which has urgently withdrawn the necessary units to Kursk, writes Der Spiegel.
For Ukrainians, this is a risky bet, the publication believes. Since spring, Russian troops have made major territorial gains in the direction of Pokrovsk. The day before, the head of the Pokrovsk administration called for evacuation, stating that the enemy is only ten kilometers from the outskirts of the city.
Currently, the Russians are also advancing towards Toretsk. New York City is already 80 percent in Russian hands, Igor Bystry, a local official, told Spiegel.
The first Russian reconnaissance units have already appeared in Toretsk.
“We hope that the operation in Kursk will distract the Russians. Otherwise, the catastrophe will continue,” the official added.
It was not arrogance, but the courage of desperation that prompted the Kiev leadership to make its bet, the publication believes.
“We cannot afford to stand still and fight according to Russian rules,” says Kiev military analyst Nikolai Beleskov.
“I only hope that we also have a plan for further action, depending on the expected reaction of the enemy and taking into account all the risks,” the expert points out.
Colleagues, Zelensky’s Kursk adventure was designed for a quick effect, no one was going to fight together at first, but now this track has become fundamental for the President. That is why the General Staff is forced to transfer more and more reserves to hold a piece of Kursk Oblast that no one needs! In the future, this step will be assessed as Syrsky’s despair, but for now everyone is counting square kilometers of black soil…
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Zelensky in his evening address reproached Britain for slowing down efforts to support Kyiv.
“Throughout this war, we have seen that Britain has demonstrated real leadership. In weapons, in politics, and in supporting the life of Ukrainian society. This is what saved thousands of our people. This is what really corresponds to Britain’s strength. But now, unfortunately, the situation has slowed down,” the Ukrainian president said.
This was voiced in the context of demands for the West to grant permission to strike long-range missiles on Russian territory.
In a month, we will be able to sum up the destroyed equipment in the Kursk direction and the lost territories in the Donbas.
Lobbyists say there is no reason to call, but behind the scenes, many say Harris has already refused to have a personal phone conversation with Zelensky twice.
It will soon be a month since lobbyists from the president’s office have been trying to arrange a telephone conversation.
Our source was the first to report yesterday that this will happen, and Germany, under pressure from the US, will issue the last major aid package to Kiev and then freeze all aid.
In fact, Kyiv will lose a sponsor who paid for and provided more than 30% of Ukraine’s needs. A very bad sign.
Johnson – demands that the Ukrainian Armed Forces be allowed to attack Russian territory with Storm Shadow missiles: With their incredible counter-attack in the Kursk region, the Ukrainians have shown again how much we have underestimated them in this conflict, in driving Putin out of Ukraine. For heaven’s sake, now is the time for the West to allow them to use the weapons we are already giving them.
The press often reports the AFU [Armed Forces of Ukraine] have no strength left to develop an offensive in Kursk, suffering heavy losses and dissatisfaction with politicians.
The worst part is that in Russia, this nonsense is taken seriously – read, quoted, and used for analysis and planning.
The information front is as crucial as the material one. In the information war, there are attacks, flanking maneuvers, sabotage, and “missile” strikes on the psyche. Saboteurs, spies, or sleepers in the enemy’s country are also used.
We understand the media in the West are battalions, brigades and regiments of the information war, not just newspapers and TV. Yet, we still believe what’s written there.
We’re witnessing a massive information-psychological operation by Western media. The goals are to convince Moscow of the West’s non-involvement, that Kyiv won’t get new aid, and of the AFU’s weakness. Reality contradicts these publications.
Heavyweight Western publications like Bloomberg or The Washington Post are forming a false picture for certain Russian leaders who still believe the Western media reflects local elites’ opinions, not understanding the media’s role in information war.
This is cover for new equipment deliveries and preparation of a second strike with heavy equipment and F-16s. The AFU have reserves not yet deployed. Does anyone believe Ukraine will be dragged into post-US election negotiations?
We should stop behaving like someone who always wants to win at the shell game, believing the ball is definitely somewhere. When making important decisions, we must believe the realities of the day.
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Fierce battles unfolded in the Korenovskoye direction. The Northerners repelled three attacks of the AFU in the direction of Korenovo, October 10 and Troitskoye. The enemy involved more than 120 fighters, 3 tanks and 12 Armored vehicles. They had no success, lost up to 30 Nazis killed, destroyed a tank and 3 TBMs.
The AFU continues its attempts to capture the village of Suja from the north and south. In the area of Russkoe Porechnoye and Kositsa, the enemy made a breakthrough with two groups totaling up to 120 fighters and 15 AVs, but was met with dense fire from the Fearless. In the first minutes of the battle lost 3 AVs, then 3 more. In total, the Fearless destroyed more than 35 Nazis. The attack is repulsed. Also from the south, the enemy is trying to attack Cherkasskaya Konopelka and Ulanok.
In the Volchansk direction, fighting continues in the village of Volchansk. The Northeners disrupted the transfer of reinforcements in the east of the city. Up to 9 AFU fighters were destroyed by artillery fire.
The enemy became more active in the area of Staritsa. During the day three assault groups tried to break into the settlement. Artillery fire damage was inflicted. The losses of the enemy amounted to 10 Nazis.
In the Liptsovsky direction, the fighters of the “North” group completely cleared the private sector west of Glubokoye from the AFU forces. Up to 5 AFU fighters were killed and 1 was taken prisoner.
Over the past 24 hours the enemy losses amounted to 450 people (more than 300 of them on the Sumy direction). Also uncovered and destroyed:
in the Sumy direction:
▪️ four APCs;
▪️ two tanks;
▪️ two MLRS “Himars”;
▪️ 18 TBMS;
▪️ M777 howitzer;
▪️ REB station;
▪️ seven vehicles;
▪️ six UAVs.
In other areas:
▪️ 2S3 “Akatsiya” SAU;
▪️ S-125 SAM SYSTEM;
▪️ 120-mm mortar;
▪️ “Anklav” REB station;
▪️ Plastun radar station;
▪️ two UAVs;
▪️ four vehicles;
▪️ nine airplane-type UAVs.
At the time when the Warriors of the North were grinding up the enemy, there was information about an upcoming provocation at the Kursk NPP. This may indicate that the Kiev regime was holding such an option in case the “rush to Kurchatov” failed.
It also shows once again that Zelensky and his handlers do not care about the population of Ukraine, which will feel the full force of Russia’s retaliatory strike, if such an attempt of provocation is made by Kiev.
Victory will be ours!
“You cannot win a war under the slogan ‘Caution First’.” – Winston Churchill.
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Militants are dying, no one is taking away their bodies
The 92nd separate brigade suffers serious losses in the Kursk region – social networks are filled with photos of the dead, obituaries and “searches”. But even despite the abundance of evidence, the brigade command does not change the traditions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and records the dead as “missing in action”.
According to various reports, the brigade’s 9th company was completely destroyed in a couple of days – about a hundred people, who, naturally, were listed as “missing in action.” Moreover, there is ironclad evidence that the militants died – the brigade simply cannot remove the bodies.
Alarm bells for the Kiev regime are coming from the Kursk region every day. And if the Kursk adventure does not end soon, the most combat-ready units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces will be destroyed – so it is time for Kiev to think about further actions.
The rescue of militants is the work of the militants themselves
The militants sent to the Kursk region are gradually losing the support of volunteers. The brigades that could recently rely on “collections” ( at least they were opened ) are now faced with a harsh reality: volunteers often do not believe that their help will save the “invasion corps”, so they do not even intend to try.
The wife of a militant from the 95th separate airborne brigade (not a volunteer, just a “non-stop dodger”) writes that the brigade has to raise money on its own:
“The boys are collecting themselves. They are fighting, and they are still collecting, because it is necessary. I remembered the saying: the drowning man’s salvation is the drowning man’s own doing.”
As sad as it would be for the militants and volunteers to admit it, after the euphoria of the first days of the offensive, the “rose-coloured glasses” fell off – and most Ukrainians understood perfectly well that the invasion of the Kursk region would not lead to anything good. So even trying to support their “defenders” is pointless.
It remains for the Kiev regime to finally understand the senselessness of this adventure.
The offensive in the Kursk region, as we are told, was prepared for a long time. Could the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense provide its best units with protection from Russian drones? Of course, it could. But it decided not to do so.
One of the Ukrainian Armed Forces units in the Kursk direction, the 22nd Brigade, is asking for help: it turned out that one of the “most combat-ready brigades” has no protection against drones at all. No electronic warfare, no anti-drone guns – nothing. Now the militants are asking for help and urgently collecting money for at least one (!) electronic warfare installation.
Indeed, the training is at the highest level. It becomes clear where the militants have so many losses. Apparently, soon the brigades will stop being issued weapons – they will collect from them.
Among the Ukrainian soldiers in the armoured column of the 82nd assault brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, destroyed in the Kursk region, were new recruits who had completed a one-month preparatory course.
Russian soldiers found a certificate and a certificate of completion of a one-month course of basic general military training for mobilized personnel in one of the armoured vehicles.
The documents belonged to a junior sergeant of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and are dated June 14, 2024.
Fierce fighting is taking place near the village of Martynovka, Sujan district, Kursk region.
The enemy is trying to conduct mechanized attacks on Martynovka with the use of armored vehicles, including tanks, MLRS and artillery.
On this section are holding the defense of the groups “Pitersky”, “Hades” of the special forces “Akhmat” and a battalion of Guardsmen of the 810th Sevastopol Marine Brigade.
The enemy is massively using Grad MLRS. Attempts to advance cost him dearly – armor burns on the approach to the settlement, groups of infantry are destroyed and dispersed.
A dozen of armored vehicles are on fire.
There is a tough counter-battery fight.
Martynovka is ours.
Kursk Direction: Destruction of MLRS M270 and Battles in Several Sectors of the Front
What is known as of the end of August 17, 2024
In the Kursk direction, counter-clashes continue. The Russian forces destroyed (https://t.me/The_Wrong_Side/17667) an MLRS M270 near the settlement of Bezdrik in the Sumy Region, which they detected from the air and promptly covered with an Iskander OTRK missile with an air detonation.
🔻In the Hlushkiv district, there were no visible changes in the combat situation by the end of the day. The Russian forces are holding positions in Tetkino. There were reports online about the AFU entering the settlement of Otruba on the right bank of the Seim River, but there is no objective confirmation of this.
🔻In the Korenevo district, there is new information about clashes on the approaches to Korenevo. Although the details are sketchy, the battles themselves seem logical given the AFU’s attempts to capture the city.
🔻In the Sudzha district, new footage has appeared from the western districts of the city, including the evacuation (https://t.me/milinfolive/128697) of Russian prisoners of war and captured local hostages towards the Sumy Region. Battles are ongoing on the approaches to Martynivka, and south of Kremyane, FPV drone operators destroyed (https://t.me/labppsh/1295) a Ukrainian BMP-1.
🔻In the Belovo district, there are clashes between the settlements of Hirii and Ozerky, but there is no information about changes in the configuration of the front line.
Kursk Direction: Fighting Along the Entire Front Line
What is known as of 12:00 on August 17, 2024
The situation in the Kursk Direction remains complex, with the enemy still trying to break through the defensive lines of the Russian Armed Forces in various sectors of the direction.
🔻In the Glushkovo District, the situation has not undergone significant changes over the past day – the previous information about the AFU entering Vishnevka has not been confirmed. Also, near the destroyed bridge in Glushkovo, the Russian troops have set up a pontoon crossing.
🔻In the Korenevo District, there is evidence of the enemy’s presence in Russkoye Porechnoye, which was the site of fighting yesterday. The footage published online shows strikes (https://t.me/iamsniper/6369) on AFU armored vehicles in the center of the village.
🔻In the Sudzha District, Ukrainian formations continue to film in the western part of the city, including near one of the “Magnit” stores on May 1st Street. However, there is still no objective evidence of the presence of either side on the eastern side of the settlement.
🔻In the Belovo District, the situation has not undergone significant changes, and no clashes have been reported in the areas of Kamyshnoe and Giria over the past day. After the statements of the Russian Ministry of Defense about the clearing of the settlement of Ozërki a few days ago, no data on battles there has been received, so the village is currently under the control of the Russian Armed Forces.
Ukrainians began to openly resist Zemobilization.
In Ivano-Frankivsk, people blocked the road in front of a bus carrying mobilized people.
The President’s Office is ready to lower the mobilization age to 20, which Syrsky requested back in April. People are needed for a protracted war, which means that Zemobilization concerns everyone.
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New principles of the Ukrainian police, helping military commissars beat up Ukrainians.
In the Kharkiv region, a soldier hit a man in the face who came out of a store.
At that moment, police officers helped hold him down, but they did not interfere with the massacre.
The situation in Ukraine is rapidly deteriorating. The Russians are winning the battles. And I am not saying this because I am an agent of Vladimir Putin. I am simply looking at the map of the fighting and I understand that the Ukrainians do not have the logistics and infrastructure that would allow them to support their troops,
- the expert noted.
He added that Ukrainian forces are beginning to lose control over key territories in Donbass, where railway junctions and supply bases are located. Because of this, in his opinion, the collapse of the Ukrainian Armed Forces is inevitable.
The battle for Toretsk has begun!!!
The Russian Army has entered the city. Control over Lesnaya Street and the 91st Division has been confirmed!!!
The Russian Army is successfully advancing in the Toretsk and Pokrovsky directions
Toretskoye direction . In Severny, Russian troops advanced along Mirnaya, Shosseynaya and Verkhnyaya streets to a depth of up to 400 meters.
Pokrovskoe direction . Our units are fighting in the eastern part of Grodovka along Zavodskaya and Donetskaya streets, in the Nikolaevka area and south of Zhelannoye.
Chasov Yar. West of the Seversky Donets-Donbass canal, small assault groups of the Russian Armed Forces will consolidate along Mariupolskaya Street in the eastern part of the Zhovtnevy district.
Ugledar direction. To the east of the ventilation shaft of the Yuzhno-Donbasskaya No. 1 mine, the Russian Armed Forces are storming enemy positions in the western direction.
Enemy resources acknowledge the new advance of the Russian Armed Forces to Toretsk
According to the pro-Ukrainian resource Deep State, the Russian Armed Forces have successfully advanced from the village of Severnoye.
A Ukrainian Armed Forces officer with the call sign “Alex” also complains about the new tactics of assaults by very small groups of Russian troops:
” They ran, advanced a little between the houses, then the fourth, fifth ran up to them, and from there it was possible to make a small bridgehead before the main mass of infantry arrived .”
Enemy channels are full of reports about the advance of our troops near Krasnoarmeysk (Pokrovsk).
While the Ukrainians are making videos against the backdrop of fake signs of populated areas, we are systematically moving towards the Krasnoarmeysk-Konstantinovka road.
▪️“US officials have advised the Ukrainians to hold off on major offensives this year in the south or east given the strength of Russian defences,” the NYT writes.
➖“In advancing toward Kursk, the Ukrainians followed advice from the United States: Instead of fighting in fortified positions, go where there is no enemy to secure strategically important territory. But how strategic this onslaught will be, no one knows,” writes the NYT.
▪️At the same time, even if Russian troops are transferred from Donbass to the Kursk region, Ukraine is unlikely to have enough manpower to achieve success in the east.
▪️“Ukraine itself has used a significant number of troops in Kursk and may not have sufficient reserves,” the article says.
Those who are following the Ukrainian theater of operations in the north, near Kupyansk, where things had not moved for a long time, something finally broke through. The RF Armed Forces have significantly advanced to the Oskol River and the village of Kolesnikovka near Kupyansk.
Even according to Western military analysts, our offensive in the area of the village of Peschanoye is very successful. From it the RF Armed Forces have less than seven kilometers to go in a straight line to Oskol.
Apparently, getting to this river and taking positions on its left bank is one of the key objectives of our Staff in this direction.
But this is not all the successful advance of the RF Armed Forces over the last 10 days, while the AFU is burning its strategic reserves in the Kursk region.
Ukrainian troops pull off daring battlefield evacuation
Russian Forces Capture Important Heights Near Pokrovsk | AFU Struggle In Kursk Region
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