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95 Ukrainian soldiers brought back from Russian captivity, 13 of them are defenders of Azovstal steel plant – photos. We keep bringing our people back home. 95 more defenders were liberated from the Russian captivity. These are the soldiers from the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Guard of Ukraine and the State Border Guard of Ukraine. Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine, on social media.

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Ukrainian Air & Sea Drones Blast Russian Coast Guard Base in Crimea – The combined drone attack hit command center & ammo/equipment depot of a military base while the Russians were training, a Kyiv Post source said. in an overnight drone attack July 17-18, a Kyiv Post source said.
Russian T-90M tank losses hit 100 – and it only had 67 to begin with T-90M recently hit a milestone that raises a few questions about the Russian president's appraisal

Russian T-90M tank losses hit 100 – and it only had 67 to begin with. Russian T-90M and T-14 Armata tanks parade through Red Square during the general rehearsal of the Victory Day military parade in central Moscow on May 7, 2022. (Photo by Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP via Getty Images)
WAR ANALYSIS, TANKS, WEAPONS, WAR, RUSSIA, UKRAINE, RUSSIAN LOSSES, T-90M

According to the open-source investigative project Oryx, 100 of them have either been destroyed, damaged and abandoned, or captured on the battlefields of Ukraine. With Russia's total tank losses last month surpassing 8,000, and only an estimated 67 T-90Ms in active service when Moscow launched its full-scale invasion, what does this say about the state of the Kremlin's armed forces?
https://kyivindependent.com/russian-t-90...egin-with/

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Super-Powerful’ Russian Tyulpan Mortar Taken Out by Ukrainian Drone. Fighters from Ukraine’s Third Assault Brigade hit a mortar system capable of destroying the most fortified defenses and entire buildings with an FPV drone.
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/36077

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Ukrainian Ultranationalist Iryna Farion Assassinated. Farion, who was known for her controversial remarks on the Ukrainian language issue, was shot in the head on Friday evening, but the motive of the murder remains unclear.

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Ukrainian Ultranationalist Iryna Farion Assassinated. Farion, who was known for her controversial remarks on the Ukrainian language issue, was shot in the head on Friday evening, but the motive of the murder remains unclear.

Who was Iryna Farion, a nationalist prof-politician assassinated in Lviv. A linguist and former right-wing lawmaker Iryna Farion on July 19 came as a shock to Ukrainians. Sixty-year-old Farion was shot in the head by unknown assailant outside her home in western city of Lviv in what many believe to be a politically-motivated killing. While commenting on incident President Volodymyr Zelensky said on July 20 that all potential motivations behind murder are currently being investigated & that includes “the one leading to Russia. ”Farion’s “public & political activities” are believed to have been a driving force behind the assassination.

The Interior Minister Ihor Klimenko added. Farion strongly advocated for use of the Ukrainian language in Ukraine during her lifetime. Many Ukrainians praised her for encouraging Ukrainian society to sever all ties to Russian language to counter Russian influence, while others viewed her methods as polarizing. Her comments late last year that Russian-speaking Ukrainian soldiers were not “real Ukrainians” caused a huge uproar in Ukraine.
https://kyivindependent.com/who-was-iryn...d-in-lviv/

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Baba Vanga's Prophecies: In November Election 2024. Trump will be 1st to Surprised!, that is over.and here another Surprised!, again for him!. Big Grin Tongue
https://youtu.be/cCR_Hon-SwI?si=-hbgiUEMkHBx_SZe

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Ukraine's top diplomat to visit China this week to talk peace, Kyiv says. Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba. KVIV/BEIJING — Ukraine's top diplomat will visit China on Tuesday at the invitation of Beijing for talks that Kyiv said would focus on how to end Russia's war in Ukraine and on a possible Chinese role in reaching a settlement.

Nearly 29 months since Russia's full-scale invasion, Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba will discuss bilateral ties at talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi during a trip to China from July 23 to 25, the Ukrainian foreign ministry said.

"The main topic of discussion will be the search for ways to stop Russia's aggression and China's possible role in achieving a stable and just peace," the Ukrainian ministry said in a statement on its website. The Chinese statement said Kuleba's visit would run from July 23 to 26 and provided less detail. The trip is unusual as China is widely seen as close to the Kremlin, with which Beijing declared a "no limits" partnership in 2022 just days before Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
https://www.voanews.com/a/ukraine-s-top-...07791.html

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Georgia puts 300 members of it Georgian Legion on wanted list. -- Europe Ukraine Volunteers World -- The special services of Georgia, following the Russian authorities, put Georgian volunteers who fought on the side of Ukraine. Mamuka Mamulashvili, a commander of Georgian National Legion fighting for Ukraine. The
Insider said, according to him, about 300 people from combat unit he led were put on wanted list in Georgia. Most of them are now in Ukraine.
https://mil.in.ua/en/news/georgia-puts-3...e_vignette
Europe Ukraine Volunteers World
The special services of Georgia, following the Russian authorities, put Georgian volunteers who fought on the side of Ukraine on the wanted list.
Mamuka Mamulashvili, a commander of the Georgian National Legion fighting for Ukraine, told The Insider.
According to him, about 300 people from the combat unit he led were put on the wanted list in Georgia. Most of them are now in Ukraine

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Ukraine war latest: Russia gathering forces in Kharkiv Oblast for fresh attacks, military says.
Ukraine hits Russia's Tuapse oil refinery. While  Russia gathering forces in Kharkiv Oblast for fresh attacks. Despite heavy losses, Syrskyi says
Ukraine: Kuleba to visit China on July 23-25 in first visit since February War 2022.

Russia has deployed additional assault units near the village of Hlyboke in Kharkiv Oblast to prepare for offensive ops, Nazar Voloshyn, spokesperson of group of forces, told Interfax Ukraine on July 21, village of Hlyboke is located in the northern part of Kharkiv Oblast, 7 k/m south of the border of Russia and 39 kilometers north of Kharkiv.
Russia launched its offensive in Kharkiv Oblast on May 10, but the assault quickly stalled. Around 20,000 Russian troops were killed during failed push in the northeastern region, according to President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Russia is currently massing new troops near the village of Hlyboke, including assault groups of the 155th Separate Marine Brigade of the Russian Pacific Fleet and the 18th Motorized Rifle Division of the 11th Army Corps, according to Voloshyn.
https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-...tary-says/

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Ukrainian forces are “total shortage” of hand-held anti-aircraft missiles & must find “new ways” to attack Russian reconnaissance aircraft armed with advanced sensors & muti-spectral cameras. As AFU General Staff (AGS) reported Russian Air Force on Monday set new numerical record with 132 glider bomb strikes against Ukrainian forces, most in support of the main Russian offensive effort toward Pokrovsk.

Camera-toting Russian drones have in past two weeks flown as much as 50 k/m into Ukrainian territory & recorded Russian long-range missile strikes in Kharkiv, Donetsk, Mykolaiv, Zaporizhzhia, Odesa regions. Ukrainian training bases, airfields, rail hubs, anti-aircraft systems, ammunition storage sites, & equipment warehouses were among the targets, Kyiv Post review of 15 videos published since July 10 showed.

Starting in Spring some Ukrainian air defenders have taken to the skies themselves aboard single-engine training planes, with the passenger armed with an automatic rifle or a shotgun, to hunt down free-flying Russian drones.
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/36257

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Ukraine’s mobilization effort gets boost as millions update draft data
https://kyivindependent.com/digitalizati...it-enough/

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Ukraine’s mobilization effort gets boost as millions update'. 40yr-old Pavlo Kovtoniuk had begun to understand after two-year-long full-scale war against his country would require him to serve in army soon...took him 10min to fulfill his constitutional duty online instead of mths, he has feared> “classic process” would take with queues & bureaucracy >@.

"App really helped, be'cos it simplified everything significantly,” Kovtoniuk told Kyiv Independent, referring to Reserv+, which allows a user to check whether their info is up-to-date – and updating at least some of it online if it's not.

“Making process of joining the reserve simple convenient will make (more) people do it willingly,” he added. Big Grin
https://kyivindependent.com/digitalizati...it-enough/

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Probable ATACMS Missile Strikes Hammer Russian Air Bases in Crimea. A Russian milblogger had predicted the punishing attacks were inevitable, be'cos of a cheeky Royal Air Force recon patrol over Black Sea near where the missiles hit. Powerful explosions followed the reported impacts of Ukraine-launched ATAMCS ballistic missiles striking a pair of Russian air bases in Crimea peninsula early Friday morning, causing casualties, sparking fires & damaging military infrastructure, news reports and social media said.

@Saki military air base near Novofedorivka, on the Crimean west seacoast, local media reported at least two heavy blasts occurring around 3 a.m. Video geo-located to area showed fires reaching more than 100 meters (330 feet) into the sky, billowing smoke & more than a dozen secondary explosions. Pro-Ukraine military info platform Krymsky Veter said an aircraft ammunition depot was destroyed, & once the blaze got going, Russian Air Force air-to-air missiles in bunkers caught fire and flew randomly into the sky.
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/36433

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Ukraine Hacks ATMs Across Russia in Ongoing Massive Cyberattack. The cyberattack, started July 23, is “gaining momentum” a Ukrainian. ATM services were knocked out @top Russian banks on Saturday, July 27, day five of a large-scale Ukrainian cyberattack, a source working in Ukrainian intelligence told Kyiv Post.

Several Russian banks couldn’t withdraw cash, b'cos attempting to use ATMs, their debit & credit cards were immediately blocked, source said in written comments. source intelligence said. “An unprecedented attack by cyber specialists of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine [HUR] on the russian banking sector, involved financing armed aggression by russian federation, has been going on for several days in a row".  Ukrainian cyberattack began on morning of July 23. So far the hacker have continue has gain momentum.
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/36471

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Ukraine's military intelligence agency attacked three airfields deep inside Russia overnight, damaing a Russian supersonic bomber plane, a source in the agency told the Kyiv Independent on July 27.. On the morning of July 27, Ukrainian drones arrived at airfields in three regions: Saratov, Murmansk, and Ryazan. The kamikaze drones also hit an oil refinery in Ryazan region.
Ukraine attacks 3 Russian airfields, bomber damaged, source says
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/36479

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Monday. 29/07/2024 Update. Russian Bridgehead Finally Happened Has Collapsed in Their Attack on Vonchansk that the russians try to win over against the Ukraine.
https://youtu.be/afi5IsRO6oA?si=VMX5oOMHvRev9o3o

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Russia claims to capture two village in donetsk.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/articl...in-donetsk

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Wagner mercenary force have various commercial military ties to Sudan, they denies involvement in conflict in the country, founder, Yevgeny Prighozin - has close links to Putin - "not a single Wagner PMC [private military company] fighter has been present in Sudan" for over 2-years. Putin say no evidence of Russian mercenaries inside the country has evidence of Wagner's previous activities in Sudan, the late Mr Prighozin's ops in the country have been targeted by both US/EU sanctions. Gold-mining deals In 2017, Sudan's then President Omar al-Bashir signed a series of deals with Russian govt during a visit to Moscow.
Included an agreement for Russia to set up a naval base at Port Sudan on the Red Sea.

Today. A group of Wagner militants & junta troops on a Chinese armored vehicle and automotive equipment defeated in Mali using Chinese armored vehicles in Africa Wagner/Liga PMC World. “The Azawad separatists (armed groups fighting autonomy/independence is consist of Arabs, Taureg, & Fulani tribes) fought off attacks by Malian army (mostly Bambara), supported by Wagner mercenaries, for several villages near Algerian border,” Fighting has been taking place in northern Mali in the self-proclaimed Azawad between the group and the CSP-DPA group for several days. One of the biggest battles took place today in In Azzraf, near the Algerian city of Tin Zawatin.

Wagner militants & junta troops moved in Chinese armored vehicles off-roaders with support of attack helicopters refers to Chinese-made VP11 mine-resistant armored vehicle, the transfer of which to Mali we reported in June 2023. CSP-DPA captured it in good condition. The losses of Malian army group & Wagner mercenaries are high, in addition to personnel, a number of military vehicles and weapons were destroyed or captured.

Former politician, human rights activist, and diplomat Mohamedi Zitout said CSP-DPA group’s success is possible recently received much-needed anti-aircraft weapons, light artillery & ammunition< source of weapons is unknown, but Malian media have accused neighboring Algeria.
https://mil.in.ua/en/news/a-group-of-wag...d-in-mali/

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Today. A group of Wagner militants & junta troops on a Chinese armored vehicle and automotive equipment defeated in Mali using Chinese armored vehicles in Africa Wagner/Liga PMC World. “The Azawad separatists (armed groups fighting autonomy/independence is consist of Arabs, Taureg, & Fulani tribes) fought off attacks by Malian army (mostly Bambara), supported by Wagner mercenaries, for several villages near Algerian border,” Fighting has been taking place in northern Mali in the self-proclaimed Azawad between the group and the CSP-DPA group for several days. One of the biggest battles took place today in In Azzraf, near the Algerian city of Tin Zawatin.

Wagner militants & junta troops moved in Chinese armored vehicles off-roaders with support of attack helicopters refers to Chinese-made VP11 mine-resistant armored vehicle, the transfer of which to Mali we reported in June 2023. CSP-DPA captured it in good condition. The losses of Malian army group & Wagner mercenaries are high, in addition to personnel, a number of military vehicles and weapons were destroyed or captured.

Former politician, human rights activist, and diplomat Mohamedi Zitout said CSP-DPA group’s success is possible recently received much-needed anti-aircraft weapons, light artillery & ammunition< source of weapons is unknown, but Malian media have accused neighboring Algeria.
https://mil.in.ua/en/news/a-group-of-wag...d-in-mali/

FPV kamikaze drone of the mercenary in Mali. Freeze frame from X/Walid_Leberbere video
(Photo), A new coup d’état took place in the Republic of Mali in Africa, when the military arrested interim President Ba N’Dau and Prime Minister Moktar Wan and transported them to the Katia army military base near the capital Bamako.

Since then, the country’s foreign policy has changed, and instead of international assistance led by France, they rely on Russia. In particular, in the same year, Russia recognized Mali’s request to send Russian mercenaries.

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FPV kamikaze drone of the mercenary in Mali. Freeze frame from X/Walid_Leberbere video
(Photo), A new coup d’état took place in the Republic of Mali in Africa, when the military arrested interim President Ba N’Dau and Prime Minister Moktar Wan and transported them to the Katia army military base near the capital Bamako.

Since then, the country’s foreign policy has changed, and instead of international assistance led by France, they rely on Russia. In particular, in the same year, Russia recognized Mali’s request to send Russian mercenaries.

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Ukraine war latest: Ukraine damages Russian bomber 1,800 km away from border. Ukraine damaged Russia's Tu-22M3 bomber 1,800 k/m away from border, HUR confirms...Ukrainian forces hit the Olenya military airfield in Russia's 

Murmansk Oblast, damaging a Tu-22M3 bomber, Ukraine's military intelligence (HUR) spokesperson, Andrii Yusov, confirmed on July 29, national tv.
https://kyivindependent.com/uwl-ukraine-...n-tu-22m3/

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30th July 2024. INSANE ATTACKS: Russians Throw 70 Tanks and Bmps into the Minefield.
https://youtu.be/7vgP_G-Qo2g?si=SdX8noRclnJb9YVq

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For 2-Days In A Row, Russians Hurled Tanks at Ukrainian 79th Air Assault Brigade. For Two Days, Paratroopers Held. Russians are hoping to break through to Kurakhivka. One day after sending 57 armored vehicles and a dozen bike troops on a doomed mission to break through the Ukrainian line east of the Ukrainian stronghold in Kurakhivka, in eastern Ukraine, the Russian army tried again—and with similar results. First assault, on Wed, met a synchronized defense by mines, artillery, missiles & drones belonging to elite Ukrainian 79th Air Assault Brigade. The Russians retreated, leaving behind 6-wrecked tanks, seven wrecked infantry fighting vehicles & all 12 bikes. The 79th Air Assault Brigade counted 40 dead Russians and 37 wounded ones.

A smaller assault on Thurs, involving 16 vehicles, met same layered defense, the same fate. The attackers turned around, abandoning a destroyed tank and two destroyed fighting vehicles. Twenty-three Russians finished their SVO ahead of schedule,” 79th Air Assault Brigade quipped, using Russian acronym for “special military operation”—a euphemism for Russia’s wider war on Ukraine. “Another 29 received injuries of varying severity,” Ukrainian brigade added.

In stark contrast to Avdiivka sector 20 miles to north, Russian forces are slowly pushing back disorganized Ukrainian forces, the Kurakhivka sector is becoming an attrition trap for Russians. They keep attacking, keep encountering stiff Ukrainian defenses, keep retreating—only to repeat the bloody exercise a few days later.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/20...pers-held/

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Kyiv was one of the war's largest attacks of its kind targeting, the military admin of the city said on Wednesday, keeping Ukrainian capital under air raid alerts nearly all night.. Ukraine's air defence systems destroyed more than 30 drones by 6:30 a.m. (0330 GMT). "One of the most massive attacks on Ukraine with drones during the entire war," Popko said Telegram messaging app.
"At the operational report at this moment, there are no casualties or damage in Kyiv.

The full scale of the attack was not immediately clear. Russian state news agencies reported, citing Russian fighters in Ukraine, that the attacks targeted several military airports and military warehouses across Ukraine. Air defence systems were engaged on approaches to Kyiv in the region surrounding the capital several times during the night, Popko said. Kyiv's Mayor said on Telegram the attack on city came from several directions.
Reuters witnesses reported hearing blasts several times in the night in what sounded like air defence systems engaged repelling an air attack.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/rus...024-07-31/

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Ukraine has received the first batch of fourth-generation U.S.-made F-16 jets. News comes a year after allied "fighter jet coalition" took shape at Vilnius NATO summit under Danish and Dutch leadership. The deadline for the transfer of F-16s was late July, sources told Bloomberg. Ukraine received "a small number" of the planes.

Bloomberg reported on July 31, citing unnamed people familiar with the matter. Ukraine is expected to receive at least 79 F-16s from the Netherlands, Denmark, Belgium, and Norway, with the deliveries to continue in the coming years. The fighter jet coalition also pledged to help train Ukrainian pilots & technical staff to operate jets.

Its unclear whether trained Ukrainian pilots will be able to use combat aircraft immediately or will take longer, unnamed people told Bloomberg.
https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-...g-reports/

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Romanian 7 pilots who started training in Nov at Fetești Training Centre have completed their courses & received their "mission-ready" designation. They are first F-16 pilots trained in the nation since centre was operationalised
"The transition to F-16, as my instructors have said, is quite difficult, but coped with it brilliantly, at least in our opinion," he told Euronews.

"The Mig-21, you know, is aircraft of Eastern origin the flight philosophy of aircraft of Western origin is a little different. However, on Mig-21 have always flown to NATO standards. Thus, for us the transition probably much easier than it is probably going to be for pilots of other nations". Being designated "mission-ready" means pilots can now operate aircraft in their assigned squadrons. They took theory classes, trained in simulator & began flying with instructors in January. Solo flights followed, during which they simulated all kinds of combat operations...

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Ukrainian forces deploy more than 100,000 explosive first-person-view drones a month all along the 700-mile front line of Russia’s 28-month wider war on Ukraine. The drones smash into armored vehicles, chase down exposed infantry and follow artillery fire back to its origin in order to target Russian howitzers.And today one of the small quadcopter drones—remotely steered by an operator wearing a virtual-reality headset—shot down a Russian helicopter, apparently for the first time.

Photos and videos that circulated on social media depict the Mil Mi-8 transport helicopter burning near Donetsk in Russian-occupied eastern Ukraine. “A speedy recovery to the survivors,” one Russian blogger wrote. This new use of explosive drones has been a long time coming. As long ago as September, Ukrainian operators first tried ramming their flying robots into Russian helicopters mid-flight. The drone threat got so serious that the Russian air force began assigning some helicopters to escort other helicopters.

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Ukraine has been able to strike unusually deep inside Russia because Russian air defenses have been stretched, a warfare expert told Business Insider. George Barros, a Russia expert for the Institute for the Study of War in the US, said many of Ukraine's drones were able to penetrate past the point where Russian air defenses should be able to stop them.

"We've seen numerous times where the Ukrainians have penetrated Russian air defenses and then flown aircraft that the Ukrainians really have no right to fly as deep as they have into Russia," he said. "Russian air defenses should have very easily taken them out." Russia's air defenses have been formidable opponents for Ukraine as it fights back against invasion. They've downed Ukrainian jets and missiles, largely denying Ukraine access to Russia's airspace.

Ukraine's defenses have proved their worth too, holding back Russia's much larger air force — something air-warfare experts praise as a remarkable achievement given Ukraine's disadvantage in the air. That created a situation of mutual air denial, which both sides are mostly limited to using their own aircraft in their own territory. Barros said Russia's defenses had been "stretched," giving Ukraine new opportunities
https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-...ert-2024-7

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Ukraine's Now Fitting Guided Weapons to its Heavy Bomber Drones. Pro-Kremlin milbloggers have posted images of a captured Ukrainian “Baba Yaga” drone fitted with electronics, antennas and what appears to be a laser guided munition. A report from the military issues website The War Zone (TWZ) discusses what appears to be the latest Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) development centered on its Baba Yaga heavy bomber drone. The repurposed heavy industrial quadcopters that have been used to drop mortars and mines, act as relay stations for swarms of first-person view (FPV) drones now appear to have been modified to carry and fire guided projectiles
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/36830

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Ukrainian forces report that Russia is engaging foreign volunteers, in particular Egyptian citizens, in combat operations on the Kharkiv front. The enemy is engaging foreign volunteers, particular, Egyptian citizens, in to combat operations."

The transfer of [command over] certain enemy positions from the assault units of the 4th Volunteer Assault Brigade to the units of the 153rd Tank Regiment of the 47th Tank Division in the northern part of the town has been observed.

Details: Russians moved their personnel near the village of Hlyboke in Kharkiv Oblast evacuated the bodies of their troops near Russian village of Lozovaya Rudka in Belgorod Oblast.
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/08/4/7468884/