Morning briefing of the Ministry of Defense of Russia (August 30, 2023) ❗Text only❗
⚡️Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation

(30 August 2023)

▫️On 30 August, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have launched a group strike with long-range air- and sea-based precision weapons against enemy command and reconnaissance posts. The goals of the strike have been reached. All the assigned targets have been neutralised.

▫️ In Donetsk direction, units of the Yug Group of Forces, supported by aviation and artillery, have repelled five enemy attacks close to Belogorovka, Zaitsevo, and Krasnogorovka (Donetsk People's Republic).

▫️The enemy losses were up to 380 Ukrainian servicemen killed and wounded, four armoured fighting vehicles, seven motor vehicles, two D-20 howitzers, one Msta-B gun, and one Rapira anti-tank gun.

▫️In addition, ammunition and fuel depots of the AFU 35th Marine Brigade have been hit near Prechistovka (Donetsk People's Republic).

▫️In Zaporozhye direction, as a result of active actions by units of the Russian grouping of troops, aviation, artillery, and heavy flamethrower systems, nine attacks by assault units of 46th airmobile and 82nd airborne assault brigades of the AFU have been repelled close to Rabotino and Verbovoye (Zaporozhye region).

▫️The enemy losses were up to 85 Ukrainian servicemen, one tank, three armoured fighting vehicles, two pickup trucks, three M777 artillery systems, and three U.S.-manufactured M119 howitzers, Gvozdika, Bogdana, as well as UK-manufactured AS-90 self-propelled artillery systems.

▫️In Kupyansk direction, as a result of actions by units of the Zapad Group of Forces, artillery and heavy flamethrower systems, three attacks by 43rd, 115th mechanised and 68th jaeger brigades of the AFU have been repelled close to Sinkovka (Kharkov region), Sergeevka and Novoyeogorovka (Lugansk People's Republic).

▫️The enemy losses were up to 100 Ukrainian servicemen, three armoured fighting vehicles, three motor vehicles, two U.S.-manufactured M109 guns, one D-30 howitzer, Gvozdika self-propelled artillery systems, and one Polish-manufactured Krab artillery system.

▫️In Krasny Liman direction, units of the Tsentr Group of Forces, in cooperation with aviation and artillery, have repelled one attack by an assault group of the 42nd Mechanised Brigade of the AFU near Serebryansky forestry.

▫️The enemy losses were up to 60 Ukrainian servicemen, two armoured fighting vehicles, and two motor vehicles.

▫️In South Donetsk direction, units of the Vostok Group of Forces have inflicted a comprehensive fire attack on an AFU manpower and hardware concentration area near Novodarovka (Zaporozhye region).

▫️The enemy losses were up to 120 Ukrainian servicemen, two armoured fighting vehicles, four motor vehicles, as well as D-20 and D-30 howitzers.

▫️In Kherson direction, the enemy losses were up to 15 Ukrainian servicemen, two motor vehicles, and one D-30 howitzer.

▫️Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have neutralised manpower and military hardware in 138 areas.

▫️In addition, the headquarters of the Donetsk Operational-Tactical Group and a signal node of the 24th Mechanised Brigade of the AFU have been destroyed near Rovnoye (Donetsk People's Republic).

▫️One aircraft of the Black Sea Fleet naval aviation destroyed four high-speed military boats with landing groups of up to 50 servicemen of the Ukrainian Special Purpose Forces in the waters of the Black Sea.

▫️Air defence facilities have destroyed one HIMARS multiple-launch rocket system projectile.

▫️In addition, 28 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles have been shot down close to Shipilovka (Lugansk People's Republic), Spornoye, Zeleny Gai, Verkhnetoretskoye, Vodyanoye (Donetsk People's Republic), Ocheretovatoye, Pyatikhatki, Tarasovka, and Berdyansk (Zaporozhye region).

📊 In total, 466 airplanes, 247 helicopters, 6,234 unmanned aerial vehicles, 433 air defence missile systems, 11,570 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,146 fighting vehicles equipped with MLRS, 6,128 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 12,528 special military motor vehicles have been destroyed during the special military operation.

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Robotyne is still not yet conquered after 3 months of intense fighting. Since "The Fourth of June" Führer Zelenskyy's Waffen-SS has only lost 45,000 soldiers & a couple of thousands of armored vehicles & tanks. They have conquered an impressive 53 square miles of very rich fertile farmland & 10 settlements of varied size...excellent performance!!

drone strike

The work of 🇺🇦Ukrainian artillerymen in the Andriyivka area. First, the UAV operator conducts aerial reconnaissance and finds the 🇷🇺Russian BMP. Then, along with the crew, she is destroyed by artillery.

https://twitter.com/front_ukrainian/status/...1679395060?s=20

there is some new reports of 2nd day new wave of drone attacks and the military/civilian shared airfield Peskov is targeted 2nd time.

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A new wave of Ukrainian drone and missile strikes on targets in Russia. You know what’s amazing? The fact that Russia, pretending that all is going to plan, still refuses to warn its citizens (and soldiers) with air-raid sirens. Drones and missiles strike without warning.

🇨🇭Switzerland delivered one DIGGER D-250 demining system with remote control to 🇺🇦Ukraine

https://twitter.com/front_ukrainian/status/...0692715623?s=20

🇺🇦Ukrainian FPV kamikaze drone attacks a 🇷🇺Russian tank. The tank was probably damaged

https://twitter.com/front_ukrainian/status/...6145451078?s=20

Not reported by Ukro propagandist. Everything is fine.
The nefarious corrupt regime lead by the clown Zelensky is indifferent to the Ukrainian MIAs and POWs. They want more cannon fodder to be sent into the meat grinder at the frontlines.

🇺🇦Ukrainian Strela-10 air defense system shoots down a 🇷🇺Russian UAV/drone in the Eastern direction

https://twitter.com/front_ukrainian/status/...1276335607?s=20

oh what a coincidence...
and i recently found a post by russia military blogger about russian military command saying everything is alright despite what is happening at the frontlines.

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Russian military blogger in Donbas, Murz describes Ukrainian vs Russian junior and mid-level officer losses and how Ukraine is far better at preventing them by keeping them away from the frontline. This isn't being resolved and the effect is accumulating.

"An officer of one of the DPR brigades last summer briefly described to me the structure of the losses of their infantry approximately as follows.

The officers who had officer ranks on February 24, 22 in platoons and companies basically finished Volnovakha, so it was mostly sergeants who were leading in Mariupol. In Mariupol, the sergeants ran out; in the summer, most often the most experienced fighter was the squad lead. When in Mariupol the heavily battered infantry began to be "diluted" with mobilised, the "diluted" groups on the battlefield became unproductive - due to the high percentage of "mobilised" in the group, more or less experienced fighters spent all the time and energy to prevent panic / not allow these mobilised ones to wander around.

[…]

Since then, the losses in our junior command staff have not greatly decreased, and for some reason there is simply no time for many to train people at the required level.

So now I will once again say a compliment to our enemy (for which fragile minds regularly try to criticise me), but, alas, the fact is that the enemy managed to adapt to the fact that he would have to suffer heavy losses in the infantry.

And he keeps company commanders as far as possible from the epicenter of the battle, and even tries not to exchange platoon commanders unless absolutely necessary. Battalion commanders and brigade commanders generally sit in the rear, look at the screens of cameras, drones and ground reporters, listen to radio broadcasts, and command based on the information received in this way. Company and platoon officers, in fact, also monitor the adventures of their troops remotely, from shelters, they see the situation, they listen to the broadcast.

As a result, it seems that both sides are doing the same thing - they are bringing infantry under enemy artillery fire, which is being adjusted from a UAV, infantry fights for treeliness, strongholds and the ruins of populated areas, with the support of a small amount of vehicles. Accordingly, suffering the most losses is someone who is:

A. advancing (in the phase of “investment in victory in the operation”)

b. has fewer drones with shorter range

V. has (including as a consequence of paragraph
b.) less effective artillery and MLRS

d. has less experience in such actions

Accordingly, these losses are all the more sensitive the greater the percentage of junior command personnel who were knocked out during battles. And the survival or non-survival of junior command personnel directly affects point “d”.

The result on all points - despite point “a”, which favors greater losses for the enemy, the presence of a larger number of UAVs with a longer range of action and guided weapons with a longer range of action, as well as his ability to remove junior command personnel from attack...

Firstly, it makes the infantry losses of the sides numerically comparable, secondly, it allows the enemy to inflict damage in the depths of our battle formations more often and more accurately than we inflict on him, knocking out our equipment, artillery and military specialists.

Thirdly, it makes our losses in the infantry more sensitive to us than the enemy’s losses in the infantry are sensitive to the enemy.

It is not just easier for the enemy to replenish numerically due to the fact that he is undergoing total mobilization and to replenish himself qualitatively due to an extensive training system, but it is also easier to replenish structurally, because he is losing mainly those who can be trained very quickly and en masse. Accordingly, he at least does not reduce the quality of his management system, and even increases it. A characteristic, so to speak, trace of the work of foreign instructors, which only a very lazy military propagandist on our part did not laugh at during the “Minsk” period and even during the SMO.

How do we, not only not accumulating, but losing experience and quality of infantry control due to the constant removal of junior command personnel by the enemy, manage to incur unnecessary losses is also no secret. Right while writing this text, a person laid out perhaps the most common basic scenario for wasting personnel:

...And it just so happens that when something is lost somewhere on the site, pride does not allow report it, foreseeing the upcoming humiliation. And in order to smooth out the picture, they try to take back the lost territory. Since there is little time for adjustment, preparations for the event are chaotic. Loss of personnel is not as bad as loss of piece of land, so scout team go ahead. In the Laotian army, it is a national custom to send scouts (and who else?) to recapture the positions. In addition, people who died simultaneously can be stretched out over time, as if these were average losses.

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https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/16...7635820840?s=20

The 40th artillery brigade destroyed a Russian BMP-2.

https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1696...4563185114?s=20

🇺🇦Ukrainian border guards destroyed a 🇷🇺Russian truck using an FPV kamikaze drone

https://twitter.com/front_ukrainian/status/...7520469171?s=20

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The puppet corrupted regime lead by the 🤡 Zelensky has failed his master's bidding. 😆 Losing men and materiel worth billions.

Fighters of the special purpose battalion of the National Guard of 🇺🇦Ukraine "Donbas" fire at 🇷🇺Russian positions from the trophy BTR-82A.

https://twitter.com/front_ukrainian/status/...2529278462?s=20

Another 🇷🇺Russian field ammunition depot was discovered and destroyed in the temporarily occupied part of the Kherson region.

https://twitter.com/front_ukrainian/status/...2551830882?s=20

The 🇺🇸American Mk-19 belt-fed automatic grenade launcher in service with the Armed Forces of 🇺🇦Ukraine operates on 🇷🇺Russian positions

https://twitter.com/front_ukrainian/status/...0643168664?s=20

2 Mil Mi-8 Transport/Attack Helicopters with the 18th Army Aviation Brigade of the Ukrainian Ground Forces are reported to have Crashed earlier today along the Frontline near Bakhmut while conducting a Combat Mission, resulting in the complete Destruction of the Helicopters and Death of all 6 Pilots.

https://twitter.com/sentdefender/status/169...9658918129?s=20

https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1...8424368201?s=20

https://twitter.com/UKikaski/status/1697163337480507393?s=20