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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Chronicles of the Special Military Operation
for March 19, 2024

Fighting continues in the border zone of the Belgorod region and, along with this, shelling of Belgorod and the surrounding area. The enemy has not abandoned its offensive plans, although it has somewhat reduced its activity.

In the Avdiivka sector, the Russian Armed Forces have completed clearing Orlovka and are currently engaged in battles in Berdychi and Tonenkoye. Air strikes are being carried out on the adjacent territory under enemy control.

In the Bakhmut sector, the enemy conducted reconnaissance along the Razdolovka - Orikhove- Vasylivka line but was repelled. Fighting is ongoing in the areas of ​Bogdanovka and Ivanovsky.

In the Donetsk direction, the AFU have almost completely driven the Russian Armed Forces out of Krasnohorivka; a focal presence of Russian forces remains on the southern outskirts of the city.

In other sectors of the front, the situation remains stable. Both parties are conducting mutual reconnaissance and counter-battery warfare, occasionally testing the strength of the defense with small assault groups.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Special Military Operation Chronicles
for March 20, 2024

In the Slobozhansky direction, the intensity of clashes has notably decreased. After a week of fighting and significant losses in manpower and equipment, the enemy partially withdrew units from the border while continuing to shell the Belgorod region.

In the Avdeevsky direction, Russian troops are striving to reach the left bank of the Durnaya River, opening up the possibility of an offensive towards Semenovka and Umansky. In the Donetsk direction, Russian troops are engaged in combat on the southern outskirts of Krasnohorivka.

In the Zaporozhye direction, Ukrainian formations are concentrating on reinforcing the second line of defense in the Orekhov area. In Robotyne, Russian troops' attempts to advance west of the village have not yet succeeded, and the enemy is rotating.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Updates on the special military operation
March 21, 2024

Russian troops conducted a large-scale raid on enemy targets in Kyiv and the surrounding region for the first time since winter. This operation involved the use of cruise and hypersonic missiles, specifically targeting industrial and warehouse facilities. Additionally, the Russian Armed Forces launched an attack on a facility in Nikolaev.

In the Slobozhansky region, the enemy is continuing to retreat from the border following the unsuccessful offensive towards the Belgorod region. Meanwhile, Ukrainian forces persist in shelling settlements in the area.

Moving on to the Bakhmut area, Russian troops successfully seized the territory of the former railway station on the right bank of the Alabaster headquarters located south of Kleshcheevka. However, securing their position in the rest of the region near the reservoir presents a challenge due to the lack of visible progress.

In the Avdeevsky sector, the enemy forces were ousted from Tonenkoye, and the village is now under full control of the Russian military. Currently, there are ongoing battles for forested areas to the north and south of the village. Capturing these locations will pave the way for the Russian Armed Forces to advance towards the Umanskoye-Semyonovka line.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Special Military Operation Chronicles
for April 1, 2024

Russian troops continue striking enemy targets in the border zone. A series of precise hits target the bases of AFU personnel in Lyubotin and Kharkov.

In the Lyman region, the Ukrainian command has deployed units of the 3rd Azov Brigade and the Kraken Special Forces to Borova to prevent Ukrainian formations from retreating from the bridgehead on the left bank of the Zherebets River. Similar troop movements are also observed in the Seversk sector.

In the Avdeevsky area, Russian troops are engaged in fierce battles for control of Semenovka. To the west of Orlovka and Tonenke, Russian Armed Forces units are attempting to advance towards Umanskoye, where Ukrainian formations are hastily constructing a defense line.

In the Zaporozhye sector, positional battles persist along the Kopani-Robotyne and Verbove-Novopokrovka lines. While the frontline AFU units buy time, defensive positions are being constructed in the rear around Orekhov.

In the Kherson region, Ukrainian formations maintain their positions in the village of Krynki. Over the past 24 hours, the enemy has made unsuccessful attempts to counterattack and evacuate the wounded. The AFU's transfer of forces to the left bank is further complicated by the flooding of the Dnieper River and the shrinking of the island zone.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Massive Nighttime UAV Attack on Russian Territory

Last night, Ukrainian forces carried out a massive attack on various regions of Russia. The Russian Ministry of Defense reported the destruction of 50 drones shot down and intercepted by electronic warfare and air defense systems.

All were shot down:
▪️26 UAVs in the Belgorod Region;
▪️10 UAVs in the Bryansk Region;
▪️eight UAVs in the Kursk Region;
▪️two in the Tula Region;
▪️one each in the Smolensk, Ryazan, Kaluga and Moscow Regions.

Additionally, the AFU attacked several facilities in the border zone of the Belgorod Region with drones. In the village of Istobnoye, a UAV crashed at night with no casualties. In Poroza, a private house caught fire as a result of a drone drop, killing two civilians.

Moreover, in Kadymovo, Smolensk Region, there was reportedly a fire in the area of an oil depot, and in Vygonichi, Bryansk Region, drone debris fell on a substation, also leading to a fire.

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❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 On the strike on a residential building in Belgorod - Rybar's analysis

🔻This morning, the AFU struck Belgorod again. One of the shells hit a 10-story building on Shchors Street, as a result of which one of the entrances completely collapsed. Later, the roof also collapsed, but there were no casualties.

At the moment, 20 injured residents of the house are known, and according to some reports, the number of dead has reached seven people. Doctors from federal centers and Moscow will be sent to Belgorod to provide assistance to the wounded.

❗️Various versions are circulating on the Internet about what was used to deliver the strike. The Russian Ministry of Defense reports that the residential building was damaged by shrapnel from one of the Tochka-U missiles shot down in the sky.

The version of the Russian Ministry of Defense about the Tochka-U strike would seem logical, if it were not for the moment of the explosion: the explosion occurred from below, and not from above. Therefore, we insist on the version that the fire strike was carried out by aviation (any departmental analysts can check these data, simply by comparing it with the awareness of flights of the Ukrainian Air Force through the Akhtyrka region and the time of the strike).

🔻Most likely, the strike was delivered by the French-made AASM HAMMER guided air-to-surface bomb from the airspace of the Akhtyrka region of the Sumy region. Enemy aircraft were observed during the approach to the strike, as well as on the way back, apparently to the Myrhorod airfield.

At the same time, these bombs are limited in range to 70 km, so the aircraft had to approach the front line quite closely to carry out the strike, the target of which could have been the Luch CHP plant, located on the same Shchors Street, three hundred meters from the damaged house.

The strike hit the third entrance of the 10-story building No. 55A on Shchors Street from the inner side of the courtyard. The launch was carried out from the southwest side, and not from the southeast, as other resources are trying to convince everyone. And from this we can draw several conclusions.

🔻We are not accidentally insisting on the version with aviation and a strike from the direction of Akhtyrka: what happened clearly demonstrates that it is impossible to be limited to creating a buffer zone in the section from Lipetsk to Old Saltov with Volchansk. Belgorod is shelled not only from the south, but also from the west. The same can be said about Bryansk and Kursk.

It is impossible to plan the conduct of a "limited" operation in the border area and hope that this will reduce the ardor of the enemy. This does not work that way.

This tragedy once again confirms the need to create a buffer zone not along the border. Otherwise, such shelling of Russian territory with a fatal outcome for civilians will continue.

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❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Slobozhansky direction: battles for Vovchansk and breaching the AFU defense
situation as of 7:00 pm on May 12, 2024

By the third day of the Russian offensive operation in the north of the Kharkiv region, it became clear that the Ukrainian formations had regained their composure and are trying to build up a defense and repel the onslaught of Russian units.

▪️Near Lyptsi, fighting continues in the Lira-1 gardening association. Active fire impact with FAB bombs on UPMK, as well as strikes with field and rocket artillery, is being carried out on the settlement.

▪️From the direction of Zelene, it has not yet been possible to advance towards Neskuchne: battles are ongoing at the junction of the two settlements.

▪️On the line Izbytske - Starytsia - Buhrovatka, the Russian troops put to flight part of the Ukrainian formations: they managed to break through the defense near Starytsia and engage in combat for Buhrovatka. Judging by the footage published by Ukrainian resources, the Russian troops are freely moving through the clearing between the forests north of Starytsia and Buhrovatka, so we can conclude that they have full control over the forest areas.

▪️The offensive on Vovchansk continues from three directions: from the side of Hatiishche, Pleteniivka and Tykhy. But so far, combat operations are being conducted only on the outskirts, there is no talk of advancement and expansion of the control zone towards the high-rise buildings.

▪️The offensive of the Russian army is developing along the river arteries with the consistent severing of communications in the north of the Kharkiv region: this allows dividing the operational area in the border region into small pieces, consistently "chewing" them up.

🔻The strikes by Ukrainian formations on Belgorod, as well as the ongoing indiscriminate shelling of civilian development on Russian lands, once again confirm that the creation of a "buffer zone" is a necessary measure.

Without taking control of large agglomerations on the other side of the border, it will not be possible to reduce the number of shellings and neutralize the threat from Ukrainian formations.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Chronicles of the special military operation
for May 13, 2024

Over the past day, Russian forces struck several targets in the front-line and rear areas on the territory controlled by the Kyiv regime. In turn, the AFU struck the ATACMS MLRS on Krasnodoн in the LPR, and continue to strike civilian infrastructure in the border areas of Belgorod and Kursk Regions.

In the Slobozhansky direction, Russian forces are advancing in several sectors and fighting in the industrial zone of Volchansk, as well as in the multi-story buildings on the eastern outskirts of the city. In the area of Hlyboke, heavy fighting continues on the approaches to Lyptsi.

In the Bakhmut direction, Russian Armed Forces units are storming enemy positions in the Canal neighborhood in Chasiv Yar, and also striking positions in the city and its environs.

In the Avdiivka direction, there are battles in the forest belts along the railway to the west of Ocheretyne, as well as on the approaches to Novoaleksandrivka and Kalynove.

In the Kherson direction, there are ongoing clashes in the island zone north of Kozachi Lahery and in Krynky. Russian forces struck a UAV crew and several dozen drones north of Mylove on the right bank of the Dnipro.

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❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Slobozhansky direction: Russian Armed Forces control the northern part of Volchansk, fighting near Liptsy and Lukiiantsi
situation as of 4:00 pm on May 14, 2024

🔻In the Slobozhansky direction, Russian troops are advancing towards Liptsy through the dachas. For now, the fighting is more like a reconnaissance in force. Artillery and air strikes are being carried out on the concentrated enemy forces in the village.

▪️In the area of Lukiiantsi, Russian assault teams reached the outskirts of the village and entered the settlement. It is unclear whether the village has been completely liberated or not. On the eastern flank, the Russian Armed Forces established control over Buhrovat, while fighting continues in the neighboring Staritsa.

▪️Information is circulating on the Internet about the attacking groups linking up through Zelene, but in reality this is most likely not the case, since the gap between Lukiiantsi and Zelene is an open field, and between Zelene and Ternova-Izbytske - fields and forest.

▪️In Volchansk, the enemy was pushed out of the northern part of the city, and clearing operations are underway. According to preliminary data, the territory of Lyceum No. 1 and Kindergarten No. 6 has been taken. The status of the Volchansk Aggregate Plant, where the presence of Ukrainian formations may remain, is still unclear.

▪️By mid-day, only one heavily damaged road bridge and one pedestrian bridge remained in Volchansk, so communication with the southern part of the city is still maintained.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Ukrainian formations shelled the central market in Shebekino. As a result of the impact, six people were injured, five of them received shrapnel wounds to their arms and legs of varying severity, all the wounded were taken to City Hospital No. 2 in Belgorod.

In the Korochansky district, as a result, presumably, of the detonation of an unexploded shell, Igor Viktorovich Nechiporenko, the deputy head of the administration, was killed. In addition, the head of the district, as well as the heads of the Melikhovsky and Shlyakhovsky rural settlements, were injured and received the necessary medical assistance.
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