Highlights of Russian Special Military Operation in Ukraine on September 5, 2022

🔻Kharkiv Region

▪️In the southern Kharkiv Region, Ukrainian units are actively shelling Izyum and Balakliya. As reported, positional fighting are taking place near Velyka Komyshuvakha.

🔻Pisky

▪️DPR People’s Militia's 11th Regiment assault groups managed to enter Pervomais'ke. The enemy lost two tanks, two armored personnel carriers and up to 50 servicemen in fighting for the outskirts of the settlement.

▪️To the north, unable to withstand the density of artillery fire and suffering losses in manpower, AFU units abandoned their strongholds near the western part of Donetsk Airport Runway.

🔻Zaporizhzhya NPP

▪️As soon as several more IAEA mission members left Zaporizhzhya NPP, Ukrainian formations once again shelled the plant from their positions in Nikopol' and Marhanets' on the northern bank of Dnipro River.

🔻Battle of Kherson: Posad-Pokrovs'ke

▪️AFU, using a battalion tactical group formed from the 24th, 28th and 59th brigades, made another attempt to attack Ternovi Pody-Zelenyi Hai-Blahodatne Line.

▪️Russian Armed Forces' 108th Air Assault Regiment units hit two Ukrainian Su-25.

🔻Battle of Kherson: Andriivka

▪️AFU plan to expand the bridgehead in Andriivka Sector once again. At least 30 units of engineering equipment were deployed to restore crossings over Inhulets' River.

▪️Ukrainian infantry continues to arrive at Bereznehuvate Station. Armored vehicles are scarce. AFU concentrate 3-5 units per 1 km of the front in the forest areas along the river banks.

🔻Battle of Kherson: Ol'hyne

▪️By the end of the seventh day of the offensive against Kherson, the situation near Ol'hyne remains tense. Russian units have not yet managed to regain control of the center of Vysokopillya.