Russian special military operation in Ukraine #51

Gerassimov is in a good mood.

2 km left to Chasov Yar.

Summary of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation (for the period from December 23 to December 29, 2023)

In the period from December 23rd to December 29th this year, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation carried out 50 group and one massive strike with precision weapons and unmanned aerial vehicles on objects of the military-industrial complex, military airfield infrastructure, arsenals, as well as storage sites: artillery ammunition, unmanned boats, weapons and fuel for military equipment.

In addition, the locations of units of the armed forces of Ukraine, formations of nationalists and foreign mercenaries were affected. All assigned objects are hit.

In the Kupyansk direction, units of the "Western" grouping of troops improved the position along the front edge in some areas during the week and repelled 27 enemy attacks.

Air strikes and artillery fire defeated the manpower and equipment of the 10th mountain assault, 25th Airborne, 95th airborne, 30th, 43rd, 60th and 115th mechanized brigades in the areas of the settlements of Novoselovskoye of the Luhansk People's Republic, Sinkovka, Ivanovka, Petropavlovsk and Kupyansk of the Kharkiv region.

The enemy's losses during the week amounted to over 265 soldiers, a tank, an armored combat vehicle, 18 vehicles, as well as five field artillery guns.

In the Krasnolimansk direction, units of the Center group of forces, with the support of aviation and artillery fire, improved the position along the front edge and repelled 13 enemy attacks.

They defeated the concentrations of manpower of the 24th, 63rd, 67th mechanized brigades, the 100th, 125th air defense brigades, the 12th special forces Brigade and the 5th brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Chervonaya Dibrova of the Luhansk People's Republic, Torskoye, Grigorovka of the Donetsk People's Republic and Serebryansky forestry.

The enemy's losses in this direction amounted to up to 1205 soldiers, six tanks, 12 armored combat vehicles, 12 vehicles and 13 field artillery guns.

In the Donetsk direction, units of the "Southern" group of troops, with the support of aviation and artillery fire, liberated the settlement of Maryinka in the Donetsk People's Republic.

The most significant contribution to the liberation of the city was made by the assault detachments of the 150th Motorized Rifle Division of the 8th Army and the 5th separate motorized rifle brigade of the 1st Army Corps of the Southern Military District.

Over the past week, Russian units in this direction repelled 34 enemy attacks and inflicted fire damage on AFU units in the areas of the settlements of Kurdyumovka, Kleshcheyevka, Krasnoe, Andreevka and Georgievka of the Donetsk People's Republic.

The total enemy losses amounted to more than 1,675 military personnel, seven tanks, 13 armored combat vehicles, 29 vehicles, a Czech-made RM-70 Vampire MLRS combat vehicle, as well as 49 field artillery guns.

In the South Donetsk direction, units of the Vostok group of forces repelled three enemy attacks.

Air strikes and artillery fire inflicted fire damage on units of the 79th airborne assault, 72nd mechanized brigades and 128th Air Defense Brigade in the areas of the settlements of Novomikhailovka, Vodiane, Paraskovievka and Makarovka of the Donetsk People's Republic.

The losses of the Armed Forces amounted to over 675 servicemen, two tanks, four armored combat vehicles, 19 vehicles, as well as 15 field artillery guns.

In the Zaporozhye direction, units of Russian troops conducted an active defense during which they repelled two enemy attacks near the village of Verbovoye in the Zaporozhye region.

They inflicted fire damage on the manpower and equipment of the 128th mountain assault, 33rd, 65th and 118th mechanized brigades in the areas of the settlements of Orekhov, Malaya Tokmachka, Belogorye, Novodanilovka and Rabodino in the Zaporozhye region.

The enemy's losses amounted to up to 475 soldiers, a tank, six armored combat vehicles, 20 vehicles and 12 field artillery guns.

In the Kherson direction, attempts to transfer sabotage groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to the islands and the left bank of the Dnieper were thwarted by complex fire damage and preemptive actions of Russian troops.

Air strikes and artillery fire defeated the manpower and equipment of the 35th, 36th and 38th Marine brigades, 124th, 126th air defense brigades in the areas of the settlements of Berislav, Tyaginka, Tokarevka, Nikolskoye, Zmievka and Chernobaevka of the Kherson region.

As a result of the actions of the Russian troops, the total losses of the Armed Forces amounted to 390 servicemen, 25 vehicles, 17 boats, as well as 22 field artillery guns.

During the week, 43 Ukrainian servicemen surrendered, 22 of them in the Kupyansk direction.

Over the past week, tactical aviation and missile forces of the armed forces have destroyed anti-aircraft missile launchers: NASAMS of Norwegian production, IRIS-T of German production and Crotale-NG of French production, the radar of the S-300 anti-aircraft missile system, as well as three radar stations of counter-battery warfare produced by the United States AN/TPQ-50.

Aviation and air defense systems shot down 10 enemy planes and two helicopters in a week. Including: one MiG-29, three Su-27, three Su-24 and three Su-25, as well as two Mi-8 helicopters of the Ukrainian Air Force.

In addition, 33 HIMARS and Uragan multiple launch rocket systems, four HARM anti-radar missiles, a JDAM guided aerial bomb, a Neptune anti-ship missile and 251 unmanned aerial vehicles were intercepted.

In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 564 aircraft, 263 helicopters, 10206 unmanned aerial vehicles, 445 anti-aircraft missile systems, 14383 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1190 multiple rocket launchers, 7564 field artillery and mortars, as well as 16,833 units of special military vehicles have been destroyed.

https://function.mil.ru/news_page/country/more.htm?id=12493574@egNews

I'm sure they didn't want to encourage the Russians to disrupt their main logistics routes but that may be the unintended consequence.


GEROMAN -- time will tell - --
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"Our source in the General Staff said that mobile air defense tactics have shown their effectiveness, thanks to the use of a limited number of Patriot batteries and trains, it was possible to increase mobility and conceal movement. Now the General Staff is planning an operation to transfer a mobile Patriot battery to the area of Avdeevka and Kramatorsk in order to reduce the intensity of enemy air strikes."

https://t.me/rezident_ua/20

Isos wrote:Explosions everywhere this night in Ukraine. Ecerything was used zxcept kalibr accirding to ukro air force.

Plenty of video on Ayden twitter. Huge fireballs in every city and ukro air defence intercepting buildings.

Ukraine Battle Map
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Full breakdown of missiles and drones shot down by Ukraine on Dec 29th

87/90 or (96.6%) of X-101 Missiles
0/5 or (0%) of Kinzhal Missiles
0/14 or (0%) of Ballistic Missiles
0/8 or (0%) of Kh-22 Missiles
0/5 or (0%) of Kh-31P/Kh-59 Missiles

27/36 or (75%) of Shahed Drones


Russia is hunting for the defense industry of Ukraine.

Electronic warfare and drone expert Sergei Beskrestnov said before today’s attack that “Russia is actively tracking down our defense enterprises,” and among their employees there are many Russian informants.
"Unfortunately, we have a lot of traitors, pensioners (factory workers) are leaking where, what, where they are going... At one production enterprise, a hangar with finished products was destroyed, they suffered a lot of damage. When the counters began to sort it out, it turned out “that the grandfather, who was the chief engineer there, told me for ten dollars (10,000) when it was necessary to do it (strike),” Beskrestnov said.
Previously, Commander-in-Chief Zaluzhny stated that during today’s strike industrial and military facilities were attacked .
http://t.me/RVvoenkor


GEROMAN -- time will tell - --
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Adviser to the Air Force Command of the Ukrainian Armed Forces: Ukrainian troops were unable to shoot down any of the 300 Russian X-22 missiles fired since the beginning of the Northern Military District

Meanwhile, next wave on the way, Tu-22s

DD Geopolitics
@DD_Geopolitics

Explosions in Sumy and Cherkassy regions. Tu-22's fired X-22 missiles from the Kursk region.


The FOURTH wave of missile attacks on the Ukrainian territory today. Was the ship worth it?

Gerasimov scary.

When someone annoys you, just drop the pic.

said that mobile air defense tactics have shown their effectiveness

Sure. In propaganda land. In reality all units were located and destroyed in a matter of hours.

87/90 or (96.6%) of X-101 Missiles

They can´t stop lying.

Unfortunately, we have a lot of traitors

Otherwise called the "government in Kiev".

Was the ship worth it?

Has nothing to do with the ship. Such larce scale attacks are planned days in advance.
The revenge will come later.

Walther von Oldenburg wrote:Tymoshenko

Very very ambition Nazi making her move

The Ukies certainly seem to have licked the ants nest.

I counted 8 Kalibr in this salvo. Somehow they seem to have left them off last night's 'we shot 'em down' list  

Would the apartments at the top of that block been expensive?

Mr Peacock
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Some observations: 1) whatever that was, it was very large 2) it was carrying a significant amount of fuel, as the explosion was one of fuel 3) no sign of a large HE warhead in the explosion 4) it appeared to be falling from an altitude above that at which cruise missiles fly.

”According to our data from Ukrainian sources, the Ukrainian Armed Forces spent more air defense ammunition today than in all of the previous 28 days of December

The shortage of air defense ammunition is increasing. Stocks are decreasing.

The source indicates that preliminary costs for the number of air defense missiles launched amount to about $70 million.This figure is not yet final. It also does not take into account the damage from the arrivals.”

- il Russo reports

The result of a massive attack by Russian aerospace forces on Ukraine's infrastructure on the morning of Dec. 29 .At least 44 objects were reportedly hit.

In total, about 160 missiles were launched as a result of the attack. The launch was carried out by the Russian Navy, from the Black Sea.

Due to the improper operation of Ukrainian air defense, missiles flew on residential buildings, shopping centers, maternity hospitals and hospitals in Dnepropetrovsk, Kharkov, Lvov, Kiev and Odessa

Over the course of a week, 50 group attacks and one massive attack with precision weapons and drones were carried out on the territory of Ukraine, the Russian Defense Ministry reports.

The targets were complex military-industrial facilities, military airports, arsenals and military posts. All designated targets were hit, the ministry said

- il Russo reports

Dont think this was a Geranium

The Russian army launched a massive pre-New Year strike across the entire territory of Ukraine - more than 100 arrivals in various cities of the Independent

The last such large-scale cheerful morning in Ukraine was still in the spring, but today our VKS still decided to say “Happy New Year” to Kyiv! and launch a massive missile attack on military and critical infrastructure. The attack began with attacks on Kharkov, where after this there were problems with the power supply, and then our fighters moved on to the Migorod airfield in the Poltava region.

In addition, a number of cities and regions came under attack from the Russian army:

— Kyiv, where the Russian army hit the warehouses, which was confirmed by Mayor Klitschko;
— Starokonstantinov, Khmelnitsky region, where the military airfield is located;
- Odessa region;
- Lviv region;
- Zaporozhye region;
— Ternopil region;
— Dnepropetrovsk region.

Despite the air raid warning throughout the country, Russian missiles targeted the necessary objects - in addition to warehouses, strikes hit port enterprises, fuel depots, and military bases. Our army carried out local attacks, destroying the enemy’s critical and military infrastructure. - NeoficialniyBeZsonoV reports

Zlatti71
@djuric_zlatko
It has been reported that an attack on the barracks of the Land Forces Academy of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is underway in Lviv.

It was once completed by the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Zaluzhny - il Russo reports

Ukrainian Air Force spokesman Yuriy Ignat said that we have never seen so many targets at once on our monitor."

Well, the raid was indeed unprecedented.

And this is not the end

It was reported that the position area of the Western-made air defense system was destroyed in Kiev.

The detonation of munitions and random dispersal of missiles were recorded

Explosions occurred in the area of the Artem military plant in Kiev - TASS

Lviv is a NATO mercenary base, energy and warehouses.
Khmelnitsky - airfield, airplanes, warehouses
Kyiv - factories, energy infrastructure
Kharkov - airfield, warehouses, energy infrastructure
Odessa - terminals, warehouses, ports
Nikolaev - airfield, port, fuel terminals, control headquarters
Kherson - air defense missile systems sites, warehouses, equipment, personnel and pantone equipment
Dnepropetrovsk - Yuzhmash, airfield
Kanatop (Sumskaya) - enemy air defense, equipment warehouses, energy.
Zaporozhye - enemy air defense systems, terminals, air defense and air defense systems - ISZ reports

Whatever was at the site got seriously modified. Kill the audio!

UK Defence Secretary Grant Shapps said: 'Putin's latest wave of murderous airstrikes are a desperate and futile attempt to regain momentum after the catastrophic loss of hundreds of thousands of conscripts and ahead of the humiliation of his three-day war entering a third calendar year.

'We continue to stand by Ukraine's defence, which is why today we are sending hundreds of air defence missiles to restock British gifted air defence systems capable of striking down Russian drones and missiles with incredible accuracy.

'Putin is testing Ukraine's defences and the West's resolve, hoping that he can clutch victory from the jaws of defeat. But he is wrong. Ukraine's degradation of the Russian Black Sea fleet has proven it is still in this fight to win. And today's air defence package sends an undeniable message, in the face of Russian barbarity that the UK remains absolutely committed to supporting Ukraine.

'Now is the time for the free world to come together and redouble our efforts to get Ukraine what they need to win.'

https://t.me/Slavyangrad/81849

Reportedly a Kh-101 dropping flares??