⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Morning Briefing of The Ministry of Defense of Russia (July 27, 2023)

⚡️English Translation⚡️

⚡️Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation

(27 July 2023)

▫️The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation carried out concentrated strikes with long-range air- and sea-based precision weapons against airfields, command and deployment points of the AFU, assembly workshops and storage sites for unmanned boats, as well as missiles, weapons and military hardware from European countries and the USA.

▫️The goal of the attacks has been reached. All the assigned targets have been neutralised.

▫️The AFU continued unsuccessful attempts to conduct offensive actions in Donetsk, Krasny Liman and South Donetsk directions.

▫️In Donetsk direction, as a result of coordinated actions of the defending units in close cooperation with aviation and artillery of the Yug Group of Forces, 9 enemy attacks have been successfully repelled close to Avdeevka, Maryinka and north of Kirovo (Donetsk People's Republic).
AFU units have been also struck near Vesyoloye, Bogdanovka, Predtechino, Dyleevka and Novgorodskoye (Donetsk People's Republic).

▫️1 ammunition depot of the AFU 79th Airborne Assault Brigade has been destroyed near Konstantinovka (Donetsk People's Republic).

▫️The enemy losses were over 210 Ukrainian servicemen, 1 tank, seven infantry fighting vehicles, 3 armoured fighting vehicles, 2 pickup trucks, howitzers: D-20 and Msta-B, as well as 1 U.S.-manufactured AN/TPQ-50 counter-battery radar station.

▫️In addition, over the past two days in this direction, units of the Russian troops foiled 4 attacks by the AFU near Kleshcheevka (Donetsk People's Republic).

▫️During the fighting, as a result of the skilful use of anti-tank weapons with the support of Army Aviation, more than 120 Ukrainian servicemen, 2 tanks, 4 infantry fighting vehicles, 2 armoured personnel carriers and 1 Kozak armoured vehicle have been destroyed.

▫️In Krasny Liman direction, units of the Tsentr Group of Forces, relying on a skilfully organised system of fire combined with engineering obstacle, have repelled 1 enemy attack forward Chervonaya Dibrova (Lugansk People's Republic).

▫️During the battle, more than 15 Ukrainian servicemen, 1 infantry fighting vehicle and 1 motor vehicle have been destroyed.

▫️In addition, as a result of actions by aviation and artillery, AFU manpower and hardware have been hit close to Nevskoye (Lugansk People's Republic), Torskoye and Serebryanka (Donetsk People's Republic).

▫️The enemy losses were up to 185 Ukrainian servicemen, 3 armoured fighting vehicles, 3 pickup trucks, 2 D-30 howitzers, and 1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system.

▫️1 ammunition depot of the AFU 100th Territorial Defence Brigade has been destroyed near Yampol (Donetsk People's Republic).

▫️In total, since 23 July, the advance of the assault groups of the Tsentr Group of Forces near Sergeevka (Lugansk People's Republic) has been up to 12 kilometres along the front and 3 kilometres deep into the enemy defence.

▫️In South Donetsk direction, as a result active actions by aviation, artillery, and units of the Vostok Group of Forces, 1 attack by an assault group of the 35th Marine Brigade has been repelled close to Urozhainoye (Donetsk People's Republic). The enemy losses were up to 16 Ukrainian servicemen, as well as 2 armoured fighting vehicles.

▫️In addition, enemy manpower and hardware have been hit close to Ugledar and Makarovka (Donetsk People's Republic).

▫️The actions of 1 Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group have been suppressed near Staromayorskoye (Donetsk People's Republic).

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