Don's Weekly, 30 September 2024: Part 1
by Donald Hill
Hello everybody!
That was quick! So much was going on in the month of September this year and the month was so long but still passed by very quickly, that here we are: the 5th of Don’s Weekly reviews.
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Kursk
As mentioned in one of ‘daily’ updates, not much was going on in this sector the last week. Except for Russian glide-bombs: reportedly, the VKS is meanwhile spending up to 60% of all of its UMPKs deployed every single day to hit the ZSU inside the Kursk Oblast.
A Ukrainian soldier that spent eight years under Russian occupation talks about standing on Russian soil.
More than 60 km from the front lines an S-400 was destroyed. Is a particularly interesting piece of news, which Tom intends to discuss in the coming days.
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Kursk- Western Sector
There has been some change in territory but this sector wasn’t as active as the week before. The most notable change was a Russian advance south of Vnezapnoe.
The original road bridges at Karyzh and Zvannoye were destroyed, but the Russians are placing pontoon bridges over the gaps. They also placed new pontoon bridges at previously used locations.
Russian infantry moving in the open were killed west of Lyubimovka. Two Russian BMDs were destroyed south of Obukhovka. Earlier last week, a squad of Ukrainian Marines captured two Russians in Apanasovka.
A Russian airstrike hits Novoivanovko. The text of the Russian post calls the Ukrainian occupiers.
A Russian tank drove to a cemetery on the edge of Glushkovo and died. A couple weeks ago, Russian truck activity led Ukraine to discover a small depot 3 km north of Veseloe.
An obstacle is not an obstacle unless it is covered by fire. After crossing the border at Novi Put a couple weeks ago, Ukraine also breached it at a second location at Medvezhe. Any Russian troops at this border location were quickly suppressed and the engineers of the 95th Brigade created a pathway through the minefields free from enemy gunfire. First, a plow created a path through a field, then an MUR-77 fired a line charge that was detonated to create a path in a different field.
A Ukrainian Leopard 2 is hit by a drone while towing a T-72 back to Ukraine. The Leopard’s fire suppression system chokes the air from the flames and the Leopard keeps on driving home.
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Kursk- Northern Sector
Territory was more or less static this week, but it is still a very dynamic sector. Vehicles and personnel of both sides move back and forth across the front in a series of small unit actions. The Russian units holed up along a street in Sheptukhovka were bombed by drones and Russian attacks continue to try and reach them and the Russians isolated in Kremyanoe.
After their BMP was burnt, two Ukrainian soldiers sit in a bus stop and are hit by an FPV. A Khorne Group video shows the aftermath.
Malaya Loknya sits on a paved road that supplies the northern edge of Ukraine’s bulge in Kursk. Every now and then, Russia launches a lot of bombs towards it.
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Kursk- Eastern Sector
The biggest movement in this sector is the slow Russian movement west of Borki and Spalnoe. The 129th Territorial Defense Brigade has been rotated into Kursk after seeing action in the Mokri Yalu valley and Stepove and they are now working along the Russian-Ukrainian border. They destroyed a turtle tank stuck in an anti-tank ditch. They also destroyed multiple vehicles and personnel when the Russians attacked. The full video is here.
These Russian reconnaissance drones and this Lancet drone were all destroyed within 5 km of Sudzha.
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(….to be continued…)
Thank you 🙏🏾
Thanks as always. That article about the Ukrainian soldier now in Russia was very interesting indeed 👍. Complete information vacuum. As he says, he could tell them anything!