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Donetsk region under fire.
The General Staff confirmed the Ukrainian strike on the enemy airfield in Lipetsk, where Su-34, Su-35 and MiG-3 aircraft were based. The results of the strike are still being confirmed, but it is known about the impression of a train with guided aerial bombs.
The General Staff reported on its Facebook page that a number of objects near the airfield were also hit. Several ignition sources were recorded, a strong fire broke out and multiple detonations were observed.
In addition, our units struck Russian anti-aircraft missile divisions in the temporarily occupied territory of Donetsk Oblast. In particular, combat operations were carried out against three enemy radars: two from S-350 systems and one S-300. At the same time, the cessation of operation of all three enemy radars after the strikes was recorded,” the report says.
Units of the missile forces, Special Operations Forces, forces and assets of the Security Service of Ukraine and the Unmanned Systems Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were involved in the combat operations.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine also reports that 101 combat clashes occurred over the past 24 hours. Russia carried out 73 air strikes (89 KABs), carried out 4,747 shellings, more than 180 from multiple launch rocket systems.
In the Liman direction the defenders repelled 24 assaults near Makeyevka, Terny and Nevsky.
In Pokrovskoe the defenders repelled 29 attacks by the occupiers. The enemy concentrated its main efforts in the areas of Panteleimonovka, Vozdvizhenka, Ivanovka, Novoaleksandrovka, Zhelannoye, Novoselovka Pervaya and Yasnobrodovka.
More details about the operational situation are in the news. MsoNormal”>The General Staff also reports that over the past 24 hours, the Defense Forces have eliminated another 1,030 soldiers of the Russian army. In total, since the beginning of the invasion, the enemy's losses have amounted to about 588,540 people.
Other enemy losses are in the news.
On Friday night, the Russian army attacked Ukraine with attack drones. The enemy launched Shahed from the Primorsko-Akhtarsk area.
Radiotechnical troops detected 27 drones. All of them were destroyed in seven regions, Air Force Commander Nikolai Oleshchuk reported on Telegram.
At night and at dawn on August 9, the occupiers shelled three districts of the Kharkiv region. Due to Russian attacks in the region, people were injured, houses and gas networks were damaged.
On the first day of fighting in the Kursk region, Russia lost control over several villages, the Deep State project claims. We are talking about Sverdlikov, Darino and Oleshnya.
According to analysts, the Defense Forces struck near Sverdlikov and Oleshnya. The first village was taken with a fight, the second – “without a fight or with minimal effort.” “At the Sudzha checkpoint, about two platoons of the enemy were cordoned off. Gornal was also cordoned off. The Katsaps hid in a local monastery out of fear. Advance groups went to Goncharovka and the outskirts of Sudzha. Fighting in the Green Path area, intensity unknown. In Nikolaevo-Daryino, the enemy opornik managed contain the first surge, but not for long,” the message says.
The total territory from which the Russians retreated at the time of the events in question was about 142 kilometers.
Analysts warned that there would be delays in updating information.
< p class ="MsoNormal">More information about the events in the Kursk region is in the news.
It was an alarming night in the occupied Crimea: explosions were heard in several settlements of the peninsula.
< p class="MsoNormal">The illegal “governor” of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhaev, reported that the Neptune missile had allegedly been shot down. According to him, the anti-ship missile was allegedly destroyed in the waters far from the city itself.
Local Telegram channels also wrote about shooting in Chernomorskoye on the western coast of Crimea. A loud explosion was heard there.
Other regions of Russia were also subjected to massive drone shelling. An evacuation was even announced from a number of settlements near the Lipetsk airfield, the ASTRA Telegram channel reported. According to the governor of the Belgorod region, 26 drones were allegedly shot down over it. Another 19 were shot down over Lipetsk, and seven were shot down over Kursk. Drones were also shot down over the Bryansk, Voronezh, Oryol regions, over the waters of the Sea of Azov and occupied Crimea.
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