⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Morning Briefing of The Ministry of Defense of Russia (July 28, 2023)

⚡️English Translation⚡️

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

(28 July 2023)

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

▫️In South Donetsk direction, the enemy continued attempts to break through the defence of Russian troops using armoured and other heavy vehicles.

▫️The AFU with the 47th Mechanised Brigade reinforced with foreign-manufactured tanks have attacked the positions of the 71st Motorised Rifle Regiment of the 42nd Motorised Rifle Division of the 58th Army of the Southern Military District and the 810th Marine Brigade of the Black Sea Fleet close to the Rabotino and Uspenovka settlements of the Zaporozhye region. The military personnel, showing endurance, perseverance and courage, successfully repelled all the attacks of superior enemy forces.

▫️The enemy losses were up to 180 Ukrainian servicemen, 5 tanks, including 3 German-manufactured Leopard and 2 French-manufactured AMX wheeled tanks, 17 infantry fighting vehicles, 2 armoured fighting vehicles, 1 U.S.-manufactured M777 artillery system, and 1 Strela-10 surface-to-air missile system.

▫️Close to Vremevka salient near Staromayorskoye (Donetsk People's Republic), as a result of active action by units of the Vostok Group of Forces, an attack by an assault detachment of the AFU 35th Marine Brigade has been repelled. 1 Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group has been destroyed.

▫️The enemy losses were up to 110 Ukrainian servicemen, 2 infantry fighting vehicles, 3 armoured fighting vehicles, 2 motor vehicles, as well as howitzers: D-20, D-30 and Msta-B.

▫️In Krasny Liman direction, 4 attacks by assault groups of the AFU 67th Mechanised Brigade against the positions of the 228th Motorised Rifle Regiment of the 90th Armoured Division have been repelled close to Chervonaya Dibrova (Luhansk People's Republic).

▫️Assault detachments of the 15th Motorised Rifle Brigade of the 2nd Army continued to develop their success in Svatovo direction and captured a number of AFU strongholds near Sergeevka (Lugansk People's Republic). The advance into the depth of the enemy defence was 1.5 kilometres.

▫️In addition, to the west of Zhitlovka (Lugansk People's Republic), detachments of Shtorm 252nd and 752nd motorised rifle regiments of the 20th Army, using the results of a fire attack, have attacked the enemy and advanced 3 kilometres deep into the defence.

▫️As a result of skillful use of modern means of destruction by units of the 21st and 35th motorised rifle brigades of 2nd and 41st armies have suppressed enemy manpower and hardware of 25th airborne, 21st and 67th mechanised brigades, the 100th Territorial Defence Brigade and the 5th Operational Brigade of the Ukrainian National Guard close to Torskoye and Yampolovka (Donetsk People's Republic), Novovodyanoye, Chervonaya Dibrova and Kremennaya (Lugansk People's Republic).

▫️The enemy losses were up to 90 Ukrainian servicemen, 2 infantry fighting vehicles, 3 armoured fighting vehicles, 3 motor vehicles, 1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system and 1 D-30 howitzer.

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