The Russian Ministry of Defense said that the day after the special operation of the Russian army in Ukraine, the Ukrainian Armed Forces suffered heavy losses in the DPR in the direction of Avdiivka and near Kharkov. Three brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near Donetsk abandoned their positions.
“As a result of the offensive actions of the Russian troops and the DPR and LPR people’s militia in the settlements of the DPR in the settlements of Soledar, Artemovsk and Avdeevka, units of the 54th mechanized, 56th and 58th motorized infantry brigades. The Ukrainian Armed Forces, which lost their combat capability due to heavy losses, abandoned their occupied positions.
In addition, the Russian Aerospace Forces eliminated up to 400 military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with high-precision strikes, which hit the temporary deployment point of the 95th air assault brigade in the Konstantinovka region and up to 130 people when hitting positions. From the 92nd mechanized brigade on Russkaya Lozovaya, near Kharkov. During the day, the air defense forces shot down four Ukrainian aircraft in the air, and also intercepted five MLRS shells.
On July 30, the artillery of the Donbass, together with the Russian army, destroyed a group of Spanish-speaking mercenaries near Kharkov in the village of Russkaya Lozova, there is no exact data about their citizenship yet. “On July 30, about five mercenaries were destroyed on Russkaya Lozovaya and about ten were injured, according to our information, the Spaniards. They detected speaking Spanish through radio interference, a source told RIA Novosti.
In early March, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that 16,000 foreign mercenaries had arrived in the country to fight. In contrast, in mid-July, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that a total of about 7.1 thousand people from 60 countries arrived in the conflict zone, but their number has already fallen to about 2.7 thousand.
Hacking Avdiivka
Ilya Yemelyanov, deputy commander of the 11th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment of the DPR, announced on Channel 1 that 70% of the village of Peski (northwestern suburb of Donetsk) was taken under control.
70 percent of the Peski point is under our control,” he said.
Five people, including a woman with a child, were killed in the bombardment of the Donetsk center by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on 4 August. Six people were injured. At least two shells hit the building of the drama theater, saying goodbye to the deceased commander of the DPR rocket artillery division, Olga Kachura. A penal colony in Donetsk was also bombed, where an employee was killed and two prisoners were injured.
In the Avdeevka direction, the Armed Forces of Ukraine created an artillery bridge with kilometers of fortifications. Most of the bombing of Donetsk by the Ukrainian Armed Forces is carried out from Avdiivka and Pesok.
The day before, Daniil Bezsonov, Deputy Head of the Ministry of Information of the DPR, said that on the front of the Donbass front there were progress in various directions. Therefore, according to him, the army knocked out units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the southern outskirts of the city of Maryinka (in the southwest of Donetsk).
Achievements of the fifth month of special operations
At the end of July, Dmitry Polyansky, Russia’s First Deputy Representative to the UN, announced that Russia had made significant progress in fulfilling the tasks of a special military operation (SVO). Noting that the systematic offensive in the DPR continues, the diplomat added, adding that the capture of Lisichansk and Severodonetsk allowed the Russian army and the forces of the Donbass republics to completely liberate the territory of the LPR.
The last major operational success of the joint grouping of the Russian army and the DPR and LPR forces was the capture of the Uglegorsk thermal power plant in Svetlodarsk on July 26. Then Vitaly Kiselev, deputy head of the LPR Ministry of Internal Affairs, said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine were dismissed from the initiative. Also on July 26, Kiselev reported that DPR and LPR forces had taken control of the Novoluganskoye settlement. According to him, “two or three days” remained for the forces of the republics of the Donbass and the Russian Federation to unite and completely align the line of contact with the enemy.
On July 3, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced the seizure of the settlements Verkhnekamenka, Zolotarevka and Belogorovka. On the same day, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced the establishment of control over Lisichansk and nearby Novodruzhesk, Maloryazantsevo and Belaya Gora. In fact, July 3 was the LPR’s entry into constitutional boundaries. On July 16, Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu instructed to increase the intensity of actions of Russian troops in all operational areas.