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@MalcontentmentT
Aug 20, 2024 • 11 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X
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Kursk Counter-invasion Day 14 Update
19 AUG 2024 18:30 PDT

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Total area: 1,564² km
Breach: 86.6 km
Depth: up to 36 km
🟧Ukraine control: 1,148² km
🟦Russian claimed/gray area: 416² km
🏁Ukrainian presence
💥Reported fighting
🔴Russian presence

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Did you miss our last update on 18 AUG 2024?


The Russian Ukraine War Report Podcast for 16 AUG 2024

You can use our interactive war map

15 AUG 2024 SITREP

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link.chtbl.com/rusukrwar
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Kursk Counter-invasion analysis

Ukraine appears to have entered another operational pause, and it's a good time to revisit this thread from August 15

Ukrainian forces have paused for 24-36 hours every 4-5 days since 6 AUG, operationally sound

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Glushkovsky AO

The last bridge over the Seym River at Karyzh into the Glushkovsky salient is confirmed destroyed

2nd Russian-engineered bridge SW of Rzhava, built on 18 AUG, is already gone, likely removed vs destroyed, fires to the east



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Korenevo AO

Ukrainian advance west of Vishnevka visually confirmed, NASA FIRMS shows combat-related fires on approach to Komarovka

More reports that Ukraine captured Troitskoe, left in gray area

Assessment: Russian troops in Komarovka better know how to swim

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Korenevo AO

No changes; Ukrainian forces visually confirmed at Nikipelovka (happened on 15 AUG)

Ukrainian forces east of Krepna River, Russian forces west

Ukrainian advances from Snagost will add pressure on the remaining Russian garrison to withdraw from Korenevo

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Bolshoe Soldatskoe OD

Clear combat-related fires from the R-200 Highway, east through the gully that leads to Biriukovka and into the settlement east of the farm

Who is advancing on who?

Moved to the gray area

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Sudzha AO

Multiple pro-Ukrainian reports that Russkaya Konopekla captured

NASA FIRMS shows fires in the settlement, and its capture is critical to support the advance past Ulanok

Moved to the gray area

Reports of Agronom and Komakov under Ukraine control, no change

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Kursk Counter-invasion

Ukraine reportedly controls 84 critical points of infrastructure, hamlets, villages & settlements

Of those, 29 are under administrative control of the commandant office, all in Sudzha District

Most of the 84 settlements are specks on the map

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That's all

Our resources and channels:
19 AUG 2024 Russia-Ukraine War Report Podcast, produced in Kyiv

16-18 AUG 2024 Situation Report

Russia-Ukraine War Map

Retweets appreciated

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I also want to give a shout-out to @bradyafr, who gave us the thumbs up to use his defensive structure data with attribution last year

We hadn't updated the fortification data in months and pulled the new info

You should follow; he does amazing work

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