Russian special military operation in Ukraine #60

The Russian MoD reporting 2365 Ukrainian casualties over the past 24 hours including...

Summary of the Russian Ministry of Defense on the progress of repelling the attempted invasion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine into the territory of the Russian Federation (as of August 28, 2024)

The Armed Forces continue to repel the attempted invasion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine into the territory of the Russian Federation.

Units of the North group of forces, with the support of army aviation and artillery fire, repelled eight attacks by enemy assault groups in the direction of the settlements of Borki, Korenevo, Kremyanoye, Malaya Loknya during the day.

In addition, the active actions of the troops thwarted attempts of enemy attacks in the direction of the settlements of Spalnoye, Olgovka and Russian Konopelka. As a result, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 75 people killed and wounded, destroyed a tank and eight armored combat vehicles. Five servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine surrendered.

Reconnaissance and search operations are continuing to identify and destroy enemy sabotage groups in the forests that tried to penetrate deep into Russian territory.

Air strikes, artillery fire and active actions of Russian troops defeated concentrations of manpower and equipment of the 22nd, 61st and 115th mechanized, 82nd and 92nd airborne assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Apanasovka, Borki, Viktorovka, Kruglenke, Krasnoktyabrsky, Lyubimovka, Malaya Loknya, Mirny, Novaya Sorochina, Obukhovka, Plekhovo, Sverdlikovo, Sudzha, Snagost and Yuzhny.

Tactical air strikes were carried out on the areas of concentration in the Sumy region of personnel and military equipment of the reserves of the 41st and 54th mechanized, 80th airborne assault brigades and the 69th separate infantry battalion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the 1st brigade of the National Guard, as well as the 101st, 103rd and 107-th air defense brigades in the areas of the settlements of Atinskoye, Belopolye, Boyar-Lezhichi, Glukhov, Iskriskovshchina, Masenzovka, Mikhaylovskoye, Pervomayskoye, Pustogorod, Solyaniki, Shalygino, Pogroedy and Esman.

During the day, the losses of the Armed Forces amounted to 380 servicemen and 30 armored vehicles, including a tank, an infantry fighting vehicle and 28 armored combat vehicles, as well as six artillery pieces, three mortars and nine vehicles.

In total, during the fighting in the Kursk direction, the enemy lost up to 7,000 troops, 74 tanks, 35 infantry fighting vehicles, 62 armored personnel carriers, 460 armored combat vehicles, 210 vehicles, 51 artillery pieces, 13 multiple launch rocket launchers, including four HIMARS MLRS and one MLRS, five anti-aircraft missile systems, 10 electronic warfare stations, two counter-battery radars, one air defense radar, five units of engineering equipment, including two engineering barrier vehicles and one UR-77 mine clearance unit.

The operation to destroy the AFU formations continues.

https://function.mil.ru/news_page/country/more.htm?id=12527063@egNews

There are rumors about the first F-16 shot down? It is not yet known in what situation. They write that a colonel, probably an F-16 pilot, was killed.

https://t.me/ZOV_Voevoda/19397

The five most massive missile attacks on Ukraine during the SMO, according to Ukrainian data:

26 August 2024: 127 missiles and 109 Geraniums;

22 March 2024: 88 missiles and 109 Geraniums;

29 December 2023: 108 missiles;

9 March 2023: 81 missiles;

15 November 2022: 96 missiles.

https://x.com/Zlatti_71/status/1828821274476384751

Russia will destroy all dogs of war, by Victoria Nikiforova for RiaNovosti. 08.28.2024.

Last year, men in military uniform knocked on the door of John and Heather Peters' home in Marshfield, Wisconsin, and handed them an urn containing the ashes of their son: 28-year-old retired military man Andrew Peters, who died in Ukraine, where he served as a mercenary in the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Less fortunate was the mother of 26-year-old paratrooper Cooper Andrews, whose body was lost near Artemovsk (former Bakhmut) during the assault by the Russian army. She had nothing to bury.

Relatives of another paratrooper, Grady Kurpasha, pulled out all the stops to retrieve the remains of their relative who died west of Kherson . In the end, they were sent a handful of earth from the place where he was killed. The Ukrainians promised to donate the boots, backpack, and mercenary's dog tag they found to the military glory museum.

All of these people served in the American army and went to Ukraine shortly after their discharge. They all made exactly one mistake: based on their experience in the occupied territories of Iraq and Afghanistan, they decided that they were going on a safari where they could earn a little money and have a good time. But it turned out to be a safari on them.

For a long time, the West avoided talking about the losses of its military. It was believed that they were like mercenaries, fighting on their own, in a gray zone. At the same time, there were rather clumsy attempts to cover up the deaths of their officers, either in plane crashes or somewhere in the mountains.

But you can't take the words out of a song: foreign invaders meet their end on Russian soil. "At least 400 Americans have died in Ukraine during this time, including mercenaries and soldiers," Douglas MacGregor, a former assistant secretary of defence, revealed the losses in January. "The administration won't tell you that."

According to Russia , out of 13 thousand foreign mercenaries who came to the Ukrainian safari, our army destroyed about six thousand. This is a huge percentage by NATO standards, a hopeless defeat for the hyped military alliance. After all, they are used to fighting where their losses will be from one to two percent.

But all this was before the attack on the Kursk region . There, the mercenaries simply went in droves. Residents of the captured territories say that they heard Polish, English, German speech. It is as if we are living through the worst nightmare since the Great Patriotic War: an insolent foreign rabble tortures, kills and takes our citizens prisoner.

It is impossible to hide the obvious: this is a full-scale Western intervention on our lands. Well, the invaders, as always, will get what they deserve. Yesterday morning, our army dismantled a Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group that tried to get to the Kinburn Spit. Among the dead were many foreign mercenaries.

"There were foreigners, including Polish servicemen," said the ATGM crew commander with the call sign Nastroenie. "They were found to have chevrons on them, they were found to have documents on them, and special signs in the form of tokens."

A little later, the underground in Ukraine reported that after our missile landed on Krivoy Rog, medics evacuated wounded foreign instructors in the following quantity: "Military medics evacuated about 15 wounded. According to our agents, English-speaking."

The mercenaries who have invaded Ukraine think that they will be treated with the same ceremony as the VSSU. In reality, it is the other way around. We are raging a classic civil war with the Ukrainians, and after our victory, many of them will join our army - just like the defeated Whites joined the Red Army. The attitude towards foreigners on our land is radically different: they should not be here, ideally, they should not be here at all.

Mercenaries are the most despised contingent in all wars. They are the dogs of war, the Geneva Convention does not consider them combatants, and even in their own country they are often considered criminals. Even the Western press was forced to write about the abominations that American mercenaries committed on our soil - they shot our prisoners, finished off the wounded.

In the old days, foreign specialists were considered valuable trophies, they could be exchanged for our prisoners. Now there is a demand in society for their elimination. Rewards can be announced for the heads of especially interesting figures, why not?

The "Boys in Kursk" are tired of waiting for their fate - American Chevekashniks who took selfies on a playground in the Kursk region. One, however, has already escaped, now gives frightened interviews, hides his face. He is right to be afraid, in fact, they all should be afraid.

We need to make sure that all these "white gentlemen" understand that the Ukrainian safari will end for them either in death or in a military field court somewhere in Belarus , the DPR or the LPR , where the death penalty still exists. And it is very desirable that they have no hope of an exchange. Otherwise, they come here, full of harmful illusions, and then their relatives cry overseas, trying to return at least their remains.

"He loved animals," complains the mother of 28-year-old Jericho Magallon, a retired American army officer killed near Artemovsk, to Newsweek . "He loved them in his California, why did he forget to live on our land? A logical end for any invader.

https://ria.ru/20240828/rossiya-1968808949.html

So long as they adhere to the laws of war, I have no hate for soldiers of any country. Mercs though? The only good one is a dead one. A soldier, pilot, sailor, marine? He is doing his job, I may dislike the conflict he finds himself in, but I take issue with his government and not him. Mercs? Take a nice long dirt nap, the world is better off without you