Don's Weekly, 1 July 2024: Part 2

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Eastern Luhansk

There is widespread and intense Russian bombardment throughout this sector. They pushed hard near Kyslivka and Kolomyichykha but only advanced across one set of fields near the latter village. In the meantime, Russian forces were so thin near Terny that Ukraine advanced about a kilometer against little resistance.

After multiple drone attacks on a Ukrainian trench 4 km southeast of Synkivka, the soldiers abandon it. Afterwards, a turtle discharges Russian infantry to occupy it…https://x.com/EjShahid/status/1805694645717864856

In the forests near Kreminna, not many trees have their branches left. Russian drone and artillery attacks on Ukrainian positions continue…https://x.com/EjShahid/status/1806643044264837484

Ukraine has conducted a limited counter attack in the forest, sometimes with the support of tanks…https://x.com/foosint/status/1806762335891013682

A Russian airstrike near the front line 17 km east of Kupiansk, followed by an MRL strike 7 km east of Kupiansk…https://t.me/northernwarriors/158

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Bilohorivka

Ukraine is attacking Russian forces in the forest north of Bilohorivka and have pushed them back almost a thousand meters in two places. No other territory changed hands in this sector.

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Bakhmut

The yellow areas north and south of the canal district are very fluid and thinly manned. Vehicles and personnel of both sides regularly move through these areas. As indicated by Russian artillery and Ukrainian drones, Ukraine seems to have secured the southern part of the canal district while Russia remains in the northern half. Russian airstrikes concentrated on one spot in Chasiv Yar west of the canal.

Many of the larger buildings are still standing but the hallways have collapsed or the doorways are destroyed. It’s much safer to be indoors than outside, so Ukrainian infantry have been observed entering the door at one end of an apartment building, jumping out a window and walking alongside the building for a while before jumping back through a window into the building.

A Ukrainian Maxxpro drives through accurate indirect fire. The reason it’s accurate is because the Russians constantly fire on this road. In order to hit a moving target, the observer has to anticipate the direction and speed of the target and allow for the 30-60 seconds of flight time that a mortar might take, and longer if it’s an artillery shell being fired from further away. The shells land pretty close to the vehicle. After the vehicle turns into the apartment complex, two more shells land pretty close to where the vehicle would be if it continued straight…https://x.com/small10space/status/1806590030015553668

500 meters north of where the Maxxpro dropped of its infantry, Russian infantry makes its way through the woods while a drone drops grenades on them…https://x.com/EjShahid/status/1806720946385916016

A Russian artillery strike in the eastern half of the canal district. The Russian post said, “Artillery paratroopers continue to level Chasov Yar. The battles are very heavy, the enemy bites into every meter of land, every building. If, of course, after our artillery it can be called that.”

Thermobaric attacks on the canal district viewed through thermal optics…https://x.com/IAPonomarenko/status/1806435531091222920

Russian Lancets attack Ukrainian positions in the forest south of the canal district…https://x.com/EjShahid/status/1807138489399411117

20 kilometers south of Bakhmut, Russia was able to create a break in the lines at Maiorsk by pounding the Ukrainian rear areas with artillery and airstrikes 3-10 km from the front lines. This interdicts the flow of Ukrainian troops and supplies, isolating the front line. Russian infantry was then able to push forward by more than two kilometers in 12 days.

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Avdiivka

North of Umanske, Russia was able to advance a kilometer but was held in place everywhere else. Ukraine had about six vehicles damaged and one T-64 destroyed. Russia had 16 armored vehicles damaged or destroyed and two MRL’s destroyed.

Drones damaged or destroyed quite a few Bradleys. Here’s a recorded instance of a Bradley shooting down a drone…https://x.com/NOELreports/status/1806227427774898584

A Pantsir-S1 was destroyed…https://x.com/NOELreports/status/1806673013082878163

There is a claim that a Russian Su-25 was shot down…https://x.com/NOELreports/status/1806629267968557484

Four Russian armored vehicles are destroyed by ATGMs east of Sokil…https://x.com/GermanObserver1/status/1806791978052415883

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Mariinka

Russia took a 600 meter by 300 meter section of Krasnohorivka but surprisingly hasn’t advanced much in the last couple of weeks. Russia lost a tank, BTR and MT-LB, and another tank was damaged near Heorhiivka but failed to advance. They also lost three vehicles not advancing west of Novomykhailivka. In the south, though, they’ve been able to advance 1-2 km on a 10 km wide front.

At the 0:03 second mark, the Strela missile is fired at the drone and only a faint white dot is seen in the upper left corner of the video. The dot widens a little as the missile strays just a little from a straight path. But it’s not until the missile misses that it’s clearly visible…https://x.com/PStyle0ne1/status/1806783672286408885

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Zaporizhzhia

Near Robotyne, a Russian soldier survives an airburst anti-personnel drone with minor injuries…https://x.com/moklasen/status/1807332966042935490

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Kherson

After the Russians shelled Kherson three fires broke out. When the first responders arrived to extinguish the flames the Russians tried to kill them with drones. Fortunately, they saw the bomb dropping drones first…https://x.com/AndrewPerpetua/status/1805986799145132392

A Ukrainian boat is destroyed by a Lancet drone…https://x.com/EjShahid/status/1806782309674156488

(….to be continued…)