Combat on two fronts continue…..
Russian advancing in the Donetsk and Ukraine around Kursk…..
Russian launched a HUGE drone and missile strike yesterday….
It appears Ukraine F016’s where used to take down some of the Russian drones/missiles….
ISW points out that hundreds or Russia military target could be hit by US supplied supplied missile if the Biden admin would allow their usage….
If you look at a map?
U CAN see how if Ukraine forces continue their push?
They COULD turn and drive to come in behind Russian forces opposite Kharkiv?
Maybe that’s why Russia has sent more troops up to Kursk….
Ukraine’s top general Oleksandr Syrskyi…..
He said that one of the objectives of the Kursk operation was to divert Russian forces from other areas, primarily away from Pokrovsk and Kurakhove. “The Kursk operation diverted a significant number of its forces,” he said, noting that Russian troops had been drawn from Ukraine’s south. “As of now, we can say that around 30,000 servicemen have been sent to the Kursk front and this figure is growing.”
On Pokrovsk, a coal mining city that has strategic military value as a transport hub that Russia has been advancing on recently, Syrskyi said Russia was trying to disrupt Ukraine’s supply lines to the front. “The situation on the Pokrovsk front is fairly difficult … the enemy is using its advantage in personnel, weapons and military equipment, it is actively using artillery and aviation,” he said….
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Ukraine’s top general Oleksandr Syrskyi said that Ukraine had captured 594 Russian servicemen during its operation in the Kursk region. Ukraine has also captured 100 settlements during its three-week long incursion, he said. Moscow’s troops were trying to counterattack in the area and encircle Kyiv’s forces, but those attempts were being repelled, he added.
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A fifth person has died following Russia’s overnight strikes on Ukraine.
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According to the regional head of administration for Zaporizhzhia, Ivan Fedorov, an elderly woman has since died in hospital after suffering “severe burns”. Along with the three people that died in Zaporizhzhia, another two people were killed after strikes in the central city of Kryvyi Rih, officials said.
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Rafael Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, has said after visiting Russia’s Kursk nuclear power plant today that there was a risk of a “nuclear incident,” Reuters reported. Grossi said the situation was serious.
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In a press conference today, Volodymyr Zelenskiy revealed that Ukraine had tested its first domestically-produced ballistic missile. He also said that Ukraine had the ability to produce 1.5-2m drones this year, but currently lacks the funding to do so.
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Zelenskiy said that his military deployed western-supplied F-16 fighter jets to down Russian drones and missiles fired in recent attacks, AFP reports…..
Hundreds of known Russian military and paramilitary objects in Russia are in range of Ukrainian ATACMS. ISW presents the following list and interactive map of known military and paramilitary objects to illustrate the extent to which US restrictions on Ukraine’s use of ATACMS constrain Ukraine’s ability to strike important military infrastructure in Russia.
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, August 27, 2024
Aug 27, 2024 – ISW Press
Russian forces have made significant tactical advances in the Pokrovsk direction amid reports that Ukrainian forces have withdrawn from select areas southeast of Pokrovsk. Geolocated footage published on August 27 confirms that Russian forces have advanced over two kilometers from their last confirmed position into northwestern Novohrodivka (southeast of Pokrovsk) along Dubinina Street, suggesting that Russian forces additionally hold positions within the central part of the town. A Ukrainian soldier reported in a now-deleted Telegram post that Ukrainian forces withdrew from Novohrodivka, which Russian state media and several Russian milbloggers amplified and used to claim that Russian forces control the majority of the settlement.