Not-So-Brief report from the front, August 29, 2024

By Marat Khairullin with illustrations by Mikhail Popov

Kupyansk direction:

Good news is coming from the Kupyansk direction. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the "West" group has liberated the settlement of Stelmakhovka.
There are also reports of the partial capture of the settlement of Sinkovka by the Russian Armed Forces. In the video confirming this, a soldier of our army is installing a flag on one of the houses in the settlement.

Our soldiers also advanced in the southern section of the Kupyansk direction, south of Nevsky and north of Terny.

Donetsk direction:

On the Toretsk section of the Donetsk direction, the Russian Armed Forces advanced into the settlement of Druzhba on the section between the railway and school No. 7. The assault on the city of Toretsk continues. We have advanced along Central (Dzerzhinsky) Street to the Novaya Pochta area. At the same time, the Ukrainian Armed Forces fortified area located to the south (a penal colony + the Novaya mine and its waste heap) is gradually beginning to be half-encircled, as our forces are advancing in the cemetery area to the southeast of the mine.

In the forest area southwest of the Novaya mine, attacks are being carried out on the enemy located there.

To the west of the settlement of Novgorodskoye (formerly New York), our armed forces expanded the zone of control in the area of ​​the settlement of Panteleimonovka.

In the Pokrovsky section of the Donetsk direction, units of the "Center" group of forces actively liberated the settlement of Nikolaevka and continue to advance into the depths of the enemy's defense, the Russian Ministry of Defense reports.

The control zone in the area of ​​the settlement Nikolaevka was also expanded - a stronghold of the Ukrainian Armed Forces northwest of it was taken. Separate groups of our fighters are working in Mirnograd. There are reports from the enemy that our reconnaissance and sabotage groups entered the city of Zapadny. A total evacuation has been declared in the city.

In the settlement of Novogrodovka, the western and northern outskirts are being cleared of the enemy. In the area of ​​the northern part of the settlement, mine No. 1 "Novogrodovskaya" with the nearby waste heap was taken. Our fighters have also advanced into the settlement of Mikhailovka, most of which is already under our control.

In the village of Selidovo, our army units are now advancing not only from the east, but have also entered the city from the north in the area of ​​the stadium. The Korotchenko mine located in the northeast of Selidovo has come under the control of the Russian Armed Forces. The Russian flag flies on its waste heaps. Thus, all the commanding heights in the Selidovo area are now ours.

The advance to the south towards Kurakhovo does not stop: in the area of ​​the settlement Memrik, control has been extended to the settlement Ukrainsk, and some of our assault units are working in the settlement Lesovka located next to it.

As the units of the Russian Armed Forces advance and tighten the noose around the salient between Karlovka and Krasnogorovka, which is still occupied by the enemy, the AFU position in the latter is deteriorating. There are reports that they have begun to withdraw some of the units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces from the area of ​​the settlement of Nevelskoye.

South Donbass direction:

In the South Donbass direction, our armed forces advanced to the settlement of Vodyanoye from highway 0532 north of the stronghold that recently came under our control.

They also advanced in the direction of the Yuzhnodonbasskaya mine, driving the enemy out of the forest belts north of the village of Nikolskoye.

West of Ugledar, the Russian Armed Forces advanced north of the settlement of Shevchenko to the Pavlovka - Velakaya Novoselka highway.