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A Russian elderly lady thanks a Ukrainian Warrior in Russia's Kursk region. The woman says she was abandoned in the village and had nothing to eat, but the Ukrainian military provided her with food.

After the events in Kursk region, it turned out that some locals understand and speak Ukrainian well.

For 2.5 years, Russia has been demanding that Ukraine recognise the “new territorial realities.” For some reason, they suddenly stopped saying this last week 🤷‍♂️

⚔️ Operational information as of 08.00 on 15.08.2024 regarding the Russian invasion

❗️ The main summary:

🔵 In total, 165 combat clashes were recorded during the past day.

🔵 According to detailed information, yesterday the enemy launched five missile strikes against the positions of Ukrainian units and populated areas using five missiles, as well as 58 airstrikes, in particular, dropping 71 anti-aircraft missiles. In addition, he carried out 4365 attacks, of which 135 were from rocket salvo systems.

🔥 Yesterday, the aviation and missile forces and artillery of the Defense Forces carried out nine strikes on the areas of concentration of personnel and anti-aircraft defense of the enemy and the command post, and also hit four artillery systems, an air defense vehicle, an ammunition warehouse and another important object of the occupiers.

🔵 In the Kharkiv direction, four combat clashes took place in the areas of the settlements of Vovchansk and Sotnytskyi Kozachok.

🔵 Nine enemy attacks took place in the Kupyan direction during the day. The defense forces repelled enemy assaults near Synkivka, Petropavlivka, and Berestovo.

🔵 The enemy attacked 15 times in the Lyman direction. He tried to advance near Nevsky, Terni and Makiivka.

🔵 In the Siverskyi direction, Ukrainian defenders repelled 25 assaults by Russian invaders near Beilohorivka, Verkhnyokamyansky, Pereizny, Spirny, and Vyimka.

🔵 In the Kramatorsk direction, the occupiers attacked five times near Chasovoy Yar and Andriivka.

🔵 In the Toretsk direction, the enemy, with the support of aviation, carried out 24 attacks in the areas of Severnoy, Nelipivka, Zalizny, New York and Toretsk.

🔵 In the Pokrovsky direction, our defenders stopped 58 assault and offensive actions of the aggressor towards the settlements of Vozdvizhenka, Elizavetivka, Grodivka, Orlivka, Mykolaivka, Zhelanne, Skuchne, Yasnobrodivka and Ptyche. The greatest concentration of enemy attacks was near Vozdvizhenka and Grodivka, the enemy actively used assault and bombing aircraft.

🔵 In the Kurakhiv direction, the Defense Forces repelled eight attacks near Krasnohorivka, Kostyantynivka, and Georgiivka.

🔵 In the Vremivsk direction, according to detailed information, the enemy carried out seven assaults on our positions near Vodyanyi and Vugledar.

🔵 In the Orihiv direction, the occupiers tried to knock out units of the Defense Forces from their positions in the areas of Mala Tokmachka and Novodanilivka - in total, they conducted three assaults.

🔵 In the Dnieper direction, Russian invaders attacked our positions seven times. They were repulsed and suffered losses.

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On the eve of the Polish Armed Forces Day, President Andrzej Duda honored 14,000 Ukrainian People’s Republic soldiers who fought alongside Poland against the Soviet Red Army in 1920.

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Ukrainian soldiers from the 3rd Assault Brigade saved a 900-year-old Polovtsian statue near the frontlines in Donetsk.

Amid artillery fire and under the watchful eyes of Russian drones, they managed to evacuate the statue to the Dnipro Historical Museum.

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🇩🇪German general says he "fully understands" why Ukraine started advancing in Kursk Oblast

German Major General Christian Freuding, head of the Bundeswehr's Situation Center Ukraine at the German Ministry of Defence, has praised the decision of Ukrainian forces to launch an offensive on the Russian border.

"Wherever a military leader has the opportunity to take the initiative, he should use it. According to my impressions and conversations, the Ukrainians are well aware of the risk they are taking, but if this operation is successful, there could be a significant impetus," he added.

The Bundeswehr major general said that Ukraine has deployed four brigades (4,000 to 6,000 troops) for the offensive, with 2,000 to 4,000 soldiers supporting them from Ukrainian territory through logistics and air defence.

"The depth of the occupied territory is about 30 kilometres, and the width is about 65 kilometres. We estimate the total area where Ukrainian forces are operating - not controlling but operating - at about 1,000 square kilometres. This is interesting because it is approximately the territory that Ukrainian forces have lost to Russian forces since the beginning of the year," Freuding said.

He added that Russia has tried to counter the Ukrainian attack with infantry, armoured vehicles and special forces, as well as massive artillery shelling and airstrikes, "but it has not been successful so far".

The general estimates that Ukraine has captured "a large three-digit, if not four-digit, number of prisoners of war" of the Russians.
Freuding says that the goals of the operation in Kursk may include easing Russian pressure on the front lines in Ukraine, a psychological effect "if the war is moved deeper into Russia", and the possible use of the captured territory for negotiations.

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