The so-called “Luhansk People’s Republic” military command released a video recently, stating that claims about the forced mobilisation in the Donbass fake republics are “staged” and “falsified”. The “deputy commissar” explains that all servicemen are provided with...
...everything necessary, including monetary allowance of 176,000 rubles ($3000) for privates, and more for higher ranks.
In a convenient manner, the “LPR” volunteer Murz released a message in his LiveJournal account dismissing this claim as false, saying that privates are...
getting one hundred thousand rubles less than promised, and all the money goes to pay off debs to shops, car services, and to purchase essential combat equipment that is not provided by the state.
Oleg Zhdanov, the Ukrainian military expert, with his battlefield and military-political situation update on 23 August 2022. The update took place at 16:00 Kyiv time (2PM BST).
In the border areas with Ukraine, the enemy actively uses EW tools attempting to suppress Ukrainian communications, and interfere and listen for communications. The threat of rocket and aviation strikes from Belarus remains.
🔥 Northern direction
Artillery strikes of the Ukrainian territory, both Sumy and Chernihiv Oblasts suffered from shelling.
🔥 Slobozhanshina direction
The adversary is attempting to hold on to captured territories and improving their tactical position.
No significant changes, everything is the same in all locations except Kherson
🔥 Kherson:
🇷🇺 relocated few fresh BTGs to west bank, they are attacking on line Oleksandrivka / Posad-Pokrovske / Blahodatne, trying to push 🇺🇦 back, but no success.
🇺🇦 destroying at least 3-4 warehouses and command posts every day, sometimes 7-8. Interesting, how long 🇷🇺 can sustain this.
🔥 Bridges:
Today was a strike on Antonivskyi bridge, several armored vehicles managed to cross it slowly. There have been near to 100 hits, throughput has decreased significantly, yet it is still passable. Destroying bridges is not easy task.
❗️ Russian ex-MP Ilya Ponomaryov in his interview to Ukrainian channel "Utro Fevralya" said Darya Dugina was killed by Russian partisans from the National Republican Army. He says both Dugin and his daughter were targets. Full video in two tweets:
According to Ponomaryov, the Army was involved in a number of other operations with some members killed in recent days as the FSB opened a hunt for them. The groups is still active and notified Ponomaryoev about success shortly after the action took palce.
🇷🇺 suddenly activated, started attacks near Korobochkyne and Stara Hnylytsia with a couple of BTGs, got repelled. Now 🇺🇦 trying to figure out meaning of this weird manoeuvre.
🔥 Sloviansk:
Local battles with small groups of infantry near Dovhenke-Mazanivka
🔥 Siversk:
Quiet, practically no attacks. 🇷🇺 wanted to breakthrough more on south, unsuccessfully.
🔥 Bakhmut:
🇷🇺 still attempting same directions north at Krasna Hora, and south at Opytne. 🇷🇺 eager to encircle Kodema, but not having any success.
The border with Belarus is being reinforced as Ukraine controls the situation. No accumulation of Belarusian forces can be observed. Missile attack threat remains.
🔥 Northern direction
Sumy Oblast suffered from artillery and missile strikes.
In Zlobozhanskiy region, the adversary battles to hold on to their positions and occasionally tries to improve their tactical position. All attempts to assault Ukrainian position failed.
🔥 Kharkiv direction
Artillery and aviation strikes with positional fights.