Russia-Ukraine SITREP for 28 AUG 2023 23:59* - Blood Runs When the Time Comes
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This is Report 480, which is 45 pages and combat only.
What's the big story? Ukraine has said out loud the main offensives are at Bakhmut and in the Melitopol-Berdyansk direction.
What's the second story? Things have taken a very dark turn for the remaining members and leaders of PMC Wagner Group. Only a fool accepts a promise from the Putin Regime.
Summary
- Positional fighting continues in the Kharkiv and Luhansk regions
- Ukrainian forces destroyed three high-value radar, detection, and electronic warfare stations in the last 24 hours
- Ukrainian leaders have explicitly stated their main offensives are in the direction of Melitopol-Berdyansk and at Bakhmut
- A drone video captured a Ukrainian ambush of a Russian squad who were less than 20 meters apart
- Ukrainian forces made incremental gains in Klishchiivka
- Ukrainian forces pushed Russian troops from the railroad grade south of Andriivka but couldn’t hold the positions
- Positional fighting and skirmishes continued in the Avdiivka, Marinka, and Lyubymivka-Staromlynivka areas of operation (AO)
- Ukrainian forces are trying to push through Russian defenses on the northern edge of Novoprokopivka and the antitank defenses near Verbove
- Russian sources claim Ukrainian is firing “thousands of shells a day” near Robotyne
- In occupied Enerhodar, a kamikaze drone struck a building being used by the Chechen Akhmat-Grozny Special Police Unit (OMON) Akhmat-1
- Four people were wounded in Nikopol due to a Russian drone attack
- Three people were wounded in Seredyno-Budsk due to a Russian artillery strike
- Russian sources claim two drones were shot down over the Tula region
- Ukrainian Lieutenant General Serhiy Naev said that there were no Russian troops left in Belarus
- Poland, Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia released a joint statement demanding that Belarus expel all remaining PMC Wagner mercenaries and that they would collectively close their borders in response to a “critical incident”
- Lithuanian officials announced they would be closing the border crossing into Belarus at Lavoriškės and Raigardas
- Minister of Defense of Ukraine, Oleksii Reznikov, said that he does not believe Ukraine will need to increase the mobilization number
- The scandal caused by defective tourniquets distributed to Ukrainian troops has not been resolved, and there are growing calls for a more extensive criminal investigation
- The Kremlin has forbidden mass funerals and memorial services for the PMC Wagner leaders and employees killed last week
- Deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant General Viktor Sobolev, said that PMC Wagner “will soon cease to exist”
- General of the Army Sergey Surovikin has not talked to his wife or children since June 26
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Comments
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2023/08/30/a-special-funeral-operation It looks like they went to GREAT lengths to avoid crowds for the funerals. That alone tells you something, right?
AnaR737
2023-08-30 01:54:21 +0000 UTCI really appreciate the unvarnished reality that you see in those videos of the Russian and Ukrainian units crossing paths in the forest. What I do not appreciate is when they try to spice it up with a soundtrack. I wish they would just show us or use something more unobtrusive. War is not a videogame. In the end it looks like it was too dangerous to hold public services for Prigozhin, former hero of Russia, now disgraced leader of an illegal entity and traitor. The billionaire turned mercenary is VERY different from someone like Che Guevara, Camilo Cienfuegos and other renowned figures of the Cuban Revolution. But they have in common that they became problematic for the regime once their stature rose to the point where people would take their position into account when judging a situation. Camilo Cienfuegos died like Prigozhin, in a plane "accident". Che Guevara was shipped to Africa and then died pursuing a hopeless attempt to create an insurrection in Bolivia but the conventional wisdom is Castro wanted him as far from Cuba as possible. I would venture it is possible that the legend will soon forget Prigozhin's billions, his money laundering, his bloodthirstiness, and turn him into the unsung hero of the Ukrainian war. At least for some people. Of course the Kremlin will try its darnedest to prevent that. But these things have a life of their own. History is full of them.
AnaR737
2023-08-29 18:39:25 +0000 UTC
