The situation in the Ukrainian SMO on August 27 2024

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In the Kursk region, Russian troops have recaptured some of the previously lost positions in the area of ​​Kremyanoye and Olgovka. In the latter, intense clashes are underway and some of the positions are being taken over by the Ukrainian Armed Forces and then by the Russians. Ukrainian troops are trying to advance in small groups. Meanwhile, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have realized that a further breakthrough through Korenevo to Rylsk is a very costly operation and without serious reinforcements it will be difficult to achieve a result. Therefore, as we wrote earlier , Ukrainian forces are planning an operation on Rylsk from Glukhov, where Ukrainian reserves are concentrated. According to the plans of Commander-in-Chief Syrsky, a new strike by the Ukrainian Armed Forces will allow cutting off Rylsk along the Seim River.

Ukrainian troops took Cherkassk Porechny and also carried out an attack in the direction of Cherkasskaya Konopelka and Komarovka. However, the offensive towards Komarovka took place under conditions of active shelling of Ukrainian forces by Russian aviation and artillery. In the Glushkovsky district, the Ukrainian Armed Forces continue to strike the Russian Armed Forces using UAVs.

In the Sudzhansky area, the Ukrainian Armed Forces continue to concentrate their efforts on pushing the Russian Armed Forces out of Martynovka; clashes are also taking place in the area of ​​Malaya Loknya and Pogrebki.

There are also battles in Borki and Spalne. Despite ongoing attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, no progress has been recorded here. Another attack by Ukrainian forces was in the Nechayev area, where the Ukrainian Armed Forces maintain a presence southwest of the settlement and have entrenched themselves in the nearby forest.

In the Kursk region, the overall trend is toward a gradual transition to positional forms of warfare. Ukrainian and Russian forces are conducting intensive mining of the combat contact line. At the same time, the reduction of maneuver space has become the main problem for the Ukrainian Armed Forces in recent days.

Our source in the OP said that Zelensky gave instructions at a meeting with security forces to strictly squash any criticism of the government, which is growing against the backdrop of failures in Donbass and the halt in the offensive in the Kursk region. The President’s Office demands that the SBU act preemptively against critics of the government and prevent them from leaving the country, as well as deal with LOMs who express their position on the peaceful track.

Zelensky’s Kursk adventure will cost Ukraine the entire Donbass, but no one is talking about this now, that we are losing entire cities in 2-3 days, and no one prepared Pokrovsk for defense, but in Volyn they spent billions on the construction of the Timoshenko Line.

Syrsky, in order to satisfy the political ambitions of the Presidential Office, has better sold out the reserves of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk region, which are being destroyed in open terrain, and the losses of equipment amount to hundreds of units.

The enemy is capturing new territories in Donbass, creating a bridgehead to encircle the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces both to the south and to the north, which creates a cranial threat to the entire group of the Ukrainian army on the Eastern Front.

Our source reported that the Ukrainian Armed Forces will leave Novogrodovka, since there are no reserves to hold the cities in the Pokrovsk direction.

Zelensky’s Kursk adventure could lead to the collapse of the entire Eastern Front.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces retreated from Novogrodovka in the Pokrovsk direction, writes a fighter from the 3rd separate assault brigade, Vladislav “Datsik”.

Thus, it took the Russians only a few days to capture a settlement with a pre-war population of 14 thousand people.

Our source in the General Staff said that the Ukrainian Armed Forces have no reserves to defend Pokrovsk, since all equipment continues to be transferred to the Sumy region to continue the Kursk operation. Zaluzhny was fundamentally against such plans, which is why he was fired, and Syrsky was pushed through and even given a new rank so that he would follow all the instructions of politicians.

Our source in the OP said that Zelensky believes in the Kursk operation despite Putin’s refusal to transfer forces from Donbass and the lack of further advancement into Russia. Bankova is not afraid of losing Pokrovsk and some of the cities of Donbass, since the goal is large-scale – to draw NATO into a direct clash with Russia.

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Zelensky’s Kursk adventure will lead to the loss of the entire Donbass this fall, but no one is talking about it yet. The enemy is creating a bridgehead, which British intelligence warned about, and Syrsky and the OP functionaries have not built a line of defense around Pokrovsk, and now the loss of the city will be a death sentence for the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the Eastern Front.

Ukrainian Armed Forces units are being withdrawn from the Donetsk region, leaving entire strips of the front to the mercy of fate.

This statement was made by MP Maryana Bezugla.

“Our units are being withdrawn from there, leaving entire strips of the front to the mercy of fate, ammunition is not being added, the Russians are passing through empty fortifications. In such circumstances, the occupation of Pokrovsk is a matter of the near future, and Toretsk is ending its last days. It looks as if we are giving up Donetsk region,” she wrote.

“But beyond Pokrovsk there is a direct route to Pavlograd, where there are no fortifications at all, and then there is the Dnieper. Beyond Toretsk there is the Kramatorsk agglomeration, and then there is the Kharkiv region… No equipment has been made for the administrative border of the Donetsk region,” Bezuglaya added.

In her opinion, “Syrsky is taking the war to a new level of maneuvers from the time of World War II, where the stakes are on the loss or gain of entire regions.”

“But what is the price and what are the prospects? I am sure that he has no clear answers either. It is a do-or-die game. The surprises are not over. The maneuvers of the Ukrainian Zhukov continue,” the MP said.

In Britain, they have already realized that the Kremlin has staged a Russian gambit for the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk region, but Zelensky and Syrsky will continue to drain their reserves into the meat grinder until the very end, as was the case in Bakhmut.

 ”Russia may be deliberately in no hurry to push Ukrainian troops out of the Kursk region in order to weaken Ukrainian resistance in other parts of the front,”

- former Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the British Defence Force Simon Mayall in a commentary to Sky News.

All our sources predict that a “domino principle” may begin in the defense of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Donbass, when the fall of one defensive line pulls the next one along with it, etc. Of course, this will increase panic and undermine the morale of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

The Kursk adventure will be Zelensky’s biggest miscalculation.

Zelensky and Syrsky are now sending infantry to Donbass, trying to put out the fire. So far, things are going badly, the number of losses is growing exponentially.

Our source once said one phrase about the Ukrainian crisis, which we remembered and now believe that there is some truth in it:

“It all started with Donbass, and it all will end with Donbass.”

The essence of the phrase is that the actual split of Ukraine by the authorities in 2014 was launched precisely from Donbass, when they sent the army to “stifle” popular protests, and not to negotiate. Then there was Odessa on May 2 and the war in Donbass intensified. As we can see, the final stage is now beginning in Donbass. Perhaps this is not it yet, since in 2019-2020 we thought that this phrase symbolized the acquisition of autonomy by Donbass, as was written in the Minsk agreements that Zelensky promised the Ukrainian people to fulfill. But then Zelensky deceived the people’s expectations and intensified the war.

We are watching…

Across the Kursk region.

The main events will most likely begin to unfold at the beginning or end of next week. The accumulation of Russian forces deployed for the counterattack is gradually reaching the point after which the continued combat capability of the Ukrainian Armed Forces will be called into question.

As some experts rightly note, the initial excitement of the attack on Kursk Oblast has passed for the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and the Ukrainian army is gradually realizing what kind of story it has gotten itself into. The increase in average daily losses, which the Russian Defense Ministry reported today, is only the first alarm bell for the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

This does not mean that the units that entered the area will throw up their paws, lie down face down and die without resistance, but the negative trend for those sitting in the landings is quite clear.

The new Ukrainian Armed Forces command, including Syrsky, cannot do anything radical about this. 

On August 26, the “North” troop grouping continued to carry out tasks to protect the border regions

In the south of Suja district, the North troops went on the offensive and destroyed the AFU. The enemy tried to counterattack, had no success, lost up to 20 fighters killed and 1 AV.

To the north of Suja the Fearless liberated Nizhnyaya Parovaya settlement and repulsed the AFU attack on Kamyshevka settlement with up to 45 militants on 6 AVs, up to 20 Nazis were killed and 2 AVs were burned.

The enemy is concentrating its main efforts in the direction of Korenevo. During the day, the Warriors of the North repelled attacks on the villages of Korenevo, Kulbaki and Kremianoye with a total of up to 120 militants, 15 AVs and APCs. The enemy’s losses amounted to up to 60 Nazis, 8 AVs and APCs.

In the Volchansk direction, fighting continues in the settlement of Volchansk. The AFU at any cost are trying to stop the advance of the Northern assault groups in the area of high-rise buildings and made 2 attempts to bring reinforcements to the area. Aerial reconnaissance of Besstraashnykh revealed, 16 out of 20 fighters involved in the transfer were destroyed.

On the Liptsovsky direction the fighters of the group “North” are advancing in the dacha settlement. The enemy attempted 1 counterattack from the side of the reservoir. As a result of the battle, 5 AFU fighters were killed and 1 was taken prisoner.

Over the past 24 hours the enemy’s losses amounted to more than 500 people (up to 430 of them in Sumy direction). Also uncovered and destroyed:

in the Sumy direction:

▪️ APCS;

▪️ 20 AVs;

▪️ Grad MLRS;

▪️ five artillery pieces;

▪️ three mortars;

▪️ 11 units of automotive equipment.

In other directions:

▪️ 120-mm mortar;

▪️ “Anklav” REB station;

▪️ UAVs;

▪️ three units of automotive equipment;

▪️ 11 aircraft-type UAVs.

It was a very productive day for the aviation and artillery of the “North” group, as we have seen such a large number of losses in manpower only in the first days of the AFU invasion. But we should not relax, the enemy still has a lot of reserves, which he can use at any moment.

Today the population of Ukraine has felt the consequences of the AFU invasion of Kursk region. The euphoria of the first half of August has passed, fall is on its way, and winter is near. Residents of Ukrainian cities should seriously think about what they will use to heat their homes: electricity or empty promises about the imminent “victory” of Zelensky and his gang. 

Victory will be for us!

“War is not just about who shoots whom. War is who will change who’s mind.” Boris Lvovich Vasilyev. And the dawns are quiet here…

The North Wind

Kursk Direction: Situation in Korenevo and Sudzha Districts

What is known as of 7:00 PM on August 27, 2024

By evening, the situation in Kursk Region has somewhat stabilized, but remains quite tense. Russian forces are actively using drones and artillery to strike detected enemy groups.

▪️In Glushkovo District, Russian troops are preparing to repel a possible Ukrainian offensive along the border. Due to the enemy’s strikes on crossings over the Seym River, Russian engineering units are deploying new pontoons in Zvannoe.

▪️In Korenevo District, fighting continues west of Vishnevka in the area of the railway track. Northeast of the occupied Snagost, the Russian Aerospace Forces conducted an air strike on enemy positions in the forest belt, and in Kremyanoye, Russian artillery shelled a Ukrainian armored group of several vehicles. A Ukrainian command and staff vehicle based on an M113 armored personnel carrier was also hit.

▪️In Sudzha District, west of Kruglik, drone operators destroyed enemy equipment parked along the road leading towards Bolshoye Soldatskoye.

▪️Strikes by the Russian Armed Forces continue on identified AFU positions deeper into Sumy Region as well. Thus, in the area of Sumy, a precise strike with an Iskander OTRK destroyed a Ukrainian HIMARS MLRS, from which the enemy had previously shelled the territory of Kursk Region.

Kursk Direction: AFU Advance in Korenevo District

What is known as of 11:00 on August 27, 2024

In Kursk Region, Ukrainian formations have launched a series of attacks in Korenevo District since yesterday and managed to expand their control zone in several areas.

🔻In Glushkovo District, enemy drone strikes continue – the power substation on the outskirts of Glushkovo and Russian military vehicles in the village of Rzhava were attacked by drones. At the same time, the AFU are still trying to disrupt supplies in the area.

🔻The situation remains most tense in Korenevo District. The enemy recently tried to advance along the Blyakhovets River, occupying Gordeevka and Vnezapnoye. Now, Byakhovo and Viktorovka have come under AFU control. The village of Uspenovka, which remained deep in the rear of the AFU and whose status was unclear, has now apparently been captured by the enemy.

▪️Between Vnezapnoye and Kulbaki, based on objective control footage, several AFU armored vehicles were destroyed some time ago, although there were no previous reports of fighting in this area.

▪️Now it appears that the enemy has taken control of another road to Snagost and can increase pressure on Korenevo, as well as advance westward deeper into Glushkovo District along the border.

The latter option raises concerns, as the remaining intact crossings are located north of Tetkinо in the Karyazh area. And now the AFU can advance from east to west south of the Seym River, trapping the Russian Armed Forces in a trap formed by the river and the border configuration.

▪️In addition, east of Korenevo, according to objective control data, a Ukrainian armored vehicle was destroyed. However, it is unclear whether the enemy maintains a presence in the forest belts or if the wreckage appeared in the early days of the AFU’s offensive in this area.

🔻In Sudzha District, strikes continue on identified enemy armor groups – one of them was routed in the vicinity of the village of Cherkasskoye Porechnoye, which was confirmed by objective control footage.

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Our source reports that Zelensky held a meeting with the security forces, since Bankova finally realized that the people have begun to turn away from the government. And in the South-East, the number of those who are again waiting and “helping” the arrival of Russia is growing. Not only among the people, but also among politicians, officials and the business elite.

The office workers noticed what we have been writing about for a long time.

By the way, the movement to ban the UOC, the lawlessness in Zemobilization, mass power outages, increases in tariffs, taxes, and prices only strengthen these trends.

Office repressions will be intensified. Cases will be “forged” against everyone. Zelensky needs to intimidate the people, force them to remain silent and endure.

In fact, Ukraine was united by 75%, really only in 2022, when many were in emotional shock and believed Zelensky. Now the emotions have subsided. Ukrainians began to think and many saw a lot…

Ze didn’t say anything out of the ordinary when he answered the journalist’s question about the damage to the power grid.

 ”I don’t really like energy PR. I don’t support it when the enemy knows what specific damage he has caused with his attack in Ukraine,” the president said at a press conference.

It’s a strategy to keep your people in the dark about what’s going on. A tactic to create the illusion that everything is fine.

He justifies this by saying that you can’t talk so that the enemy doesn’t know. Although in reality this is directed against his own people, so that people don’t realize what the hell they are being dragged into and what the consequences will be.

The winter will be very difficult, but the government does not warn people, which means it exposes the people to disaster.

All the experts are talking about a black winter in cities, when they will turn into “cold, dark jungles.”

Zelensky benefits from such a story, since he will once again be promoting himself on the grief of people, although he himself provoked this process and leads to it.

We advise everyone to prepare for the worst-case scenario. Your life is in your hands. Remember this. For the Zelensky government, you are just a tool to continue the game.

In the last 12 hours, Russian forces have taken the spoilage heap to the east of Selydove, a man made hill made out of mining and industrial waste rock. 

This gives the Russians control of the high ground overlooking much of the city. 

There was little to no fighting. 

Russian forces are very likely to have, or be in the process of entering the Mykhailivka are next to it, which ineffect means Russian forces have begun entering the Selydove city area itself 

Unless there is a sizeable Ukrainian defensive effort in the city, it is likely to fall in days 

As of yesterday evening, chaotic evacuation efforts were ongoing for the local population

Russian forces have taken the village of Memryk and have secured almost the entire Vocha river bank, skirmishes are ongoing in the Karlivka area, it’s fall is inevitable, when it does, Russia will have secure the entire stretch of the Donetsk-Pokrovsk road from Donestk city centre up to Selydove 

On the Pokrovsk facing sector of the front, Russian forces are clearing the final remaining suburbs of Novohrodiva and restarting their push up along the railroad, they are little over 10 kilometres from Pokrovsk, and less than 3 kilometres from entering the urban conglomeration of Mirnograd 

The Russian advance is speeding up

Pokrovsk direction: successes of the Russian Armed Forces in Novohrodivka and south of the city

situation as of 4:00 pm on August 27, 2024

While the enemy command continues to redeploy forces to the Russian border, Ukrainian formations in the Pokrovsk direction are losing territory on a daily basis. Just in the last few days, Russian troops have managed to make significant advances in the previously occupied part of the DPR, capturing most of Novohrodivka and liberating several settlements.

▪️On the northern flank, heavy fighting is underway on the southeastern outskirts of Hrodivka. At the moment, no significant changes in the configuration of the front line in this area have been recorded. At the same time, southwest of the settlement, Russian Armed Forces units are advancing on the AFU positions in Krasny Yar – if the village is liberated and Mykolaivka is occupied, a “semi-encirclement” will be formed around Hrodivka.

▪️The situation is developing most actively in Novohrodivka, where Russian assault troops have taken control of most of the city’s territory, advancing along Parkova Street. Ukrainian media report the beginning of the withdrawal of the AFU from the settlement, however, the enemy’s sporadic presence remains in the northern outskirts and in the southwest, in the area of the machine-building plant.

The Novohrodivska mine dumps #1-3 also remain under the control of Ukrainian formations – they are located on high ground, and their assault may require significant efforts. However, against the background of the general disorganization of the enemy, this task can be accomplished in a relatively short time.

▪️Today, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported the liberation of the village of Orlivka, which is located east of Novohrodivka. At the same time, according to our data, the settlement was liberated (https://t.me/rybar/62816) almost two weeks ago, when Russian troops were able to advance along the entire line of contact.

▪️On the southern flank, Russian troops are confidently advancing both towards Selidovo and the Karlovo Reservoir. Russian servicemen are fighting in the area of the Kotlyarevska mine – at the moment, at least the production facilities are under the control of Russian units, the situation on the dump is shrouded in the “fog of war”.

Assault troops have also entrenched themselves on the outskirts of the neighboring Mykhailivka, but with the loss of the dump, it will be meaningless for the AFU to hold the village. Southeast, Russian troops liberated the settlement of Memrik, as well as the neighboring village of Kalinovo, from where a video (https://t.me/RtrDonetsk/26664) appeared with the raising of the flag of the 114th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade on one of the buildings.

🔻Ukrainian media almost daily lament the difficult situation of the enemy in the Pokrovsk direction. And today, the Commander-in-Chief of the AFU, Syrsky, made a similar statement, admitting that the attempt to divert part of the Russian Armed Forces units from this sector by an offensive in the Kursk region failed.

It is noteworthy how quickly the enemy’s hope to make Novohrodivka another media “fortress” was not justified. As a new fortress, designed to contain the onslaught of Russian troops, Ukrainian speakers are now considering not Selidovo, but Myrnohrad

An arrival of a Russian ballistic missile is reported in the Krivoy Rog direction

According to reports from Ukrainian chats, the attack in Krivoy Rog was carried out on the Aurora Hotel, preliminarily – the Iskander OTRK was used.

Fire brigades and ambulances are currently being deployed to the location. Apparently, another temporary deployment point of the Ukrainian Armed Forces has been destroyed.

Overnight combined attack on enemy targets – information as of 8:45 a.m.

Combined strikes on enemy facilities continue. Explosions were heard in Sumy, Dnepropetrovsk, Kharkov, Rovno, Khmelnitsky and Zhitomir regions. Ballistic missiles of the Iskander surface-to-air missile defense system, cruise missiles such as the Kh-101/555 and hypersonic Kinzhal missiles were used, while a raid by Geran-2 strike UAVs is still ongoing.

🔻One of the targets hit was the military airfield “Dubno”, located in the village of Privolnoye (Rivne region).

Coordinates: 50.4447425, 25.8411976

Noteworthy is the fact that the facility has not been previously struck during the time of the SMO. According to preliminary data, the enemy’s weapons and military equipment were not damaged. There is also information about wounding of several servicemen.

🔻 The military airfield “Ozernoye” in Zhitomir region was also hit by missiles and attack drones. 

Coordinates: 50.1636272, 28.7400458

Fire was recorded, which was accompanied by sounds of secondary detonation. Ambulances and firefighters were actively working all night.

🔻 Another object of impact was the eponymous military airfield “Starokonstantinov”. According to preliminary data, a fire was recorded in the vicinity of the airbase.

📌The strikes were probably carried out in the context of the possible possible deployment of US F-16 fighters at the airfields. However, damage assessments from the potential attacks remain ambiguous, as long as there is no reliable data on the accuracy of the hits. Hasty conclusions about damage are inappropriate without objective information.

🔻 Several strikes were also made on the territory of the “Molniya” plant in Andreevka ( Kharkov region) where the repair base of the 50 separate repair and recovery regiment of the AFU was located.

According to available data, as a result of the defeat several units of heavy armored vehicles of the enemy were destroyed.

🔻 In addition, late in the evening, a late night strike of the Iskander-M missile defense system hit the deployment point of foreign mercenaries in Krivoy Rog, which was located in the hotel “Aurora”. At the moment it is known that the losses amounted to 12 people killed and 8 wounded (all citizens of foreign countries).

📌Information about the results of the strikes continues to come in. Strike UAV raids on enemy targets continue.

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Our source reports that after today’s night missile strike by the Russian Armed Forces on the Ukrainian Armed Forces airfield in Starokostiantyniv, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, two Ukrainian Armed Forces aircraft were damaged, one of them an F-16.

As the source explains, the Russians used a protracted combined attack over 6-8 hours. The Ukrainian Armed Forces raised aircraft, including F-16s, to repel the attack and “save the birds”, since they are an easy target at airfields. But as soon as the aircraft partially repelled the threat and landed back at the airfield after three hours in the air, “daggers” were launched at it.

The information is being verified.

Morning Summary on August 27, 2024

▪️ The past day was spent observing the results of an extremely massive strike by UAVs and missile weapons on critical energy infrastructure facilities that supported the military-industrial complex of Ukraine, the opponent’s gas compressor stations, and storage sites for aviation weapons. Kyiv has introduced emergency power supply restrictions and is taking information measures to exaggerate the damage received.

▪️ This night, strikes on the enemy’s rear areas continued. Explosions were heard until morning in Kryvyi Rih, Zaporizhzhia, Chuhuiv, the city of Bershad in Vinnytsia Region, Starokostiantyniv and Shepetivka in Khmilnytskyi Region, Kyiv (Vyshhorod), Mykolaiv, Cherkasy, Sumy, Rivne, and Zhytomyr Regions. The use of hypersonic “Kinzhals” was reported.

▪️ In Kursk Region, the “North” group of Russian troops reported our counterattacks in Sudzha District, the liberation of the settlement of Nizhnyaya Parovaya, and battles near the settlement of Kamyshevka. The enemy is concentrating its main efforts in the Korenevo direction. Over the past day, our troops repelled attacks on the settlements of Korenevo, Kulbaki, and Kremyanoye. However, by the end of the day, the advance of the AFU was noted in the Snahost area and in Sudzha District. The Russian Armed Forces are actively using aviation (https://t.me/dva_majors/50788) to destroy the enemy in Kursk and Sumy Regions. At night, our air defense repelled attacks by Ukrainian drones in Kursk, with some damage. There were no casualties, reported Kursk Mayor Igor Katsuk. In the evening, four Ukrainian missiles were destroyed by air defense forces in the sky over Kursk Region.

▪️ In the Pokrovsk direction, by evening, information began to arrive about the start of the assault by the Russian Armed Forces on the village of Mykolaivka in the Pokrovsk direction, the last village before the city of Myrnograd. North of Mykhailivka, Russian troops have entrenched themselves in the production facilities of the “Kotlyarevska” mine. Battles continue for the spoil heap.

▪️ In Belgorod Region, over the past day, as a result of strikes by the AFU, 9 civilians were injured in Shebekino, Repyakhivka of Krasnoyaruzhsky District, and Kosilovo of Graivoro City District.

▪️ In the DPR, in Horlivka, as a result of a strike by the AFU using barrel artillery, a woman born in 1954 and a boy born in 2005 were injured.

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Chronicles of the special military operation

for August 27, 2024

The Russian forces have carried out a series of strikes on AFU facilities across the so-called Ukraine, including airfields in several regions and a hotel in Kryvyi Rih, which was allegedly housing officers of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine and citizens of English-speaking countries.

In Kursk Region, Ukrainian formations have occupied several villages in Korenevo District, which has created a threat of an AFU offensive along the border in Glushkovo District. The situation in Sudzha District remains unchanged.

In the Pokrovsk direction, the Russian forces have almost completely captured Novohrodivka, while Memryk and Kalinovo have also come under the control of the Russian troops. At the same time, an offensive towards Selidovo is developing.

In the South Donetsk direction, the Russian forces have liberated Kostyantynivka and raised Russian flags on the southern and western outskirts of the settlement. Clearing of the territory is underway.

In the Kherson direction, another attempt by Ukrainian formations to land a sabotage and reconnaissance group on the Kinburn Spit has been thwarted. During the battle, two landing boats were destroyed, and at least ten enemy fighters were eliminated.

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