The war in Ukraine 29.06.2023 the situation at the front today

20.11.2024 Heavy positional battles are taking place on the entire line of contact with varying success for each side. The APU continues to increase pressure on the Zaporozhye, Kherson and Artemivsk directions. At the same time, the Russian army continues to advance in the Kupyansk direction. Russian units, mainly implementing defensive tactics, continue to destroy in large numbers the incessant advancing waves of armored vehicles and personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. We tell you everything we know about the situation in Ukraine on June 29.

Chronicle of strikes and shelling on June 29

Another high-profile sabotage was committed by Ukrainian agents on the territory of the Crimean Peninsula. As a result of the detonation of an explosive device, railway tracks in the Kirovsky district were damaged.

In the Starobilsk direction, Russian troops continue to push the APU near Kremennaya. Several more AFU strongholds on the territory of the Serebryansky forestry are occupied.

Near Bakhmut, the AFU launched several attacks on Russian positions near Kleshcheyevka. While the defending units manage to hold off the onslaught of Ukrainian formations, but the situation in the area remains quite tense.

Near Maryinka, the most intense fighting is going south-east, where Russian units are trying to occupy the dominant heights. Success in this sector of the front will open up opportunities for an offensive against the settlements of Pobeda and Novomikhailovka.

At the Vremyevsky section of the AFU, after the capture of Rovnopol, concentrates forces southwest and leads an offensive on Priyutnoye. The activity of sabotage groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the direction of Staromayorsky is also noted.

There are no intense hostilities in the Zaporozhye direction due to heavy precipitation. Timely artillery strikes are being carried out on the Ukrainian reinforcements being transferred at Workino and Pyatikhatok.

Heavy fighting continues in the area of the Antonovsky Bridge in the Kherson direction. The AFU actively uses air defense and electronic warfare, hindering the actions of Russian aviation.

Summary of the Russian Defense Ministry by June 28

The Vostok Grouping
In the South Donetsk direction, the AFU attempted to carry out a covert regrouping and deliver artillery strikes on the positions of Russian troops.

Artillery return fire destroyed a mortar crew of the Armed Forces of Ukraine south of Konstantinovka, as well as a mortar crew and a pickup truck with militants north of Shevchenko.

The manpower of nationalists who tried to advance in the direction of Neskuchny and Storozhevoye was destroyed.

The forces of assault and army aviation inflicted fire damage on clusters of militants in the areas of Makarovka, Harvest, October State Farm, Novodonetsky.

In the Zaporozhye direction, the advanced units of the Vostok group of troops, with the support of artillery, repelled the attack of the APU in the area of Malaya Tokmachka. BMP, armored fighting vehicle and manpower were destroyed.

Howitzer artillery fire destroyed the manpower and vehicles of the nationalists who tried to attack with forces up to a platoon in the direction of Novodanilovka and Pubkovoye.

An unmanned aerial vehicle "Fury" was shot down by means of air defense.

The military personnel of the Vostok group of forces show courage and heroism in carrying out combat missions.

The mechanic-driver of the self-propelled artillery platoon of the motorized rifle brigade of the group, Corporal Tamerlan Abdulganiev, as part of the calculation of a self-propelled artillery installation, performed the task of inflicting fire damage to the APU at one of the sections of the South Donetsk direction.

The AFU militants opened artillery fire. The personnel of the calculation was not injured, but the engine of the artillery installation was damaged by shrapnel.

Showing courage, composure and professionalism, under the fire of the AFU, Corporal Tamerlan Abdulganiev quickly identified the malfunction and repaired the damaged car with standard tools.

After that, he brought the equipment entrusted to him with the crew out of the AFU fire. Having promptly changed the position, the calculation of the self-propelled artillery installation continued firing at the APU.

The West Group

During the fighting in the Kupyansk direction, the crew of the Su-34 fighter-bomber of the aviation group of troops "West" launched a missile and bomb attack on the temporary deployment point of units of the 103 obr TerO in the area of the locality of Kovsharovka.

In addition, the crews of the Ka-52, Mi-28 attack helicopters and Su-25 attack aircraft carried out eleven air strikes on the accumulation of manpower, weapons, military and special equipment from the 14 ombr and territorial defense units.

The group's artillery thwarted three attempts to rotate the AFU units at the front positions in the area of the localities of Kislovka, Olshana and Novoselovskoye. The losses of the APU amounted to more than a platoon of manpower and one pickup truck.

In the defense zone of the 1st TA, during the counter-battery struggle, the artillery fire of the Hyacinth-S self-propelled gun under the command of Sergeant Artem Rodionov destroyed a foreign-made self-propelled artillery installation in the area of the village of Peschanoe, and the calculation of the ACS "Acacia" destroyed the mortar calculation of the APU in the area of the village of Berestovoye.

The "Center" grouping

In the Krasnolimansky direction, Su-34 fighter-bombers of the Center group of troops carried out an air strike, as a result of which the control point, a strong point and a temporary deployment point of the AFU were destroyed. In addition, the crews of the assault and army aviation groups of troops launched missile strikes on more than 10 areas of concentration of manpower and firepower of the Ukrainian troops.

In the area of the settlement of Chervonaya Dibrova, the crew of the heavy flamethrower system "Solntsepek" destroyed the AFU stronghold.

Units of the 63rd and 67th mechanized brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were hit by artillery fire in the area of the Serebryansky forestry, as well as the Torsky section.

Grouping "South"

The units of the Southern group of troops thwarted the attacks of the APU assault groups on the Lisichansk and Soledaro-Artemivsk directions.

Significant losses in manpower and equipment were suffered by battalion tactical groups of the 56th Motorized Infantry Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of Vasilevka, the fourth brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine in the area of Disputed, as well as the fifty-seventh motorized infantry brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the approaches to Berkhovka.

In addition, an attempt by a unit of the special operations forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to conduct reconnaissance by combat in the area of the village of Verkhnekamenskoye was thwarted.

The artillery of the Yug group destroyed an APU pickup truck in the Belogorovka area, an infantry fighting vehicle in the Kurdyumovka area.

Helicopters of the army aviation struck at the accumulation of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of Razdolovka.

The missile unit of the group hit two temporary locations of the seventy-seventh airmobile brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Druzhkovka.

The tank fire from the closed firing positions of the motorized rifle unit of the Southern Military District destroyed the strong point of the unit of the seventy-ninth mountain assault brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near the village of Pobeda.

The General Staff of Ukraine on the situation on June 28

Morning summary of the Ukrainian General Staff.

During the day , the Russian army attacked:

- Belogorovka, Luhansk region

- Orekhovo-Vasilyevka near Bakhmut

- Avdiivka, Maryinka and Victory near Donetsk.

- I tried to recapture Rovnopol on the Vremevsky ledge.

All attacks, according to the General Staff, were repelled.

Our source in the OP said that the General Staff had prepared data on the losses of the Armed Forces in Western equipment for three weeks of the counteroffensive in the south, which amounted to 30% of the total:

- 41 Leopard-2 tanks

- 49 T-72 tanks

- 19 155 mm M-777 HOWITZERS

- 4 self-propelled guns PzH 2000

- 32 M113 APC

- 7 BMP Marder

- 31 BMP M2 Bradley ODS-SA,

- 15 YPR-765,

-40 units of MRAP International MaxxPro

-90 units of various infantry fighting vehicles

- 3 MIG-29 fighters

The situation in the Zaporozhye region by June 29

At night, the APU tried to break through the defense of the Russian army on the Zaporozhye front

"The nighttime attempt of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to break through the defense of the Russian forces in the Zaporozhye direction was repulsed, 3 Ukrainian tanks and 3 infantry fighting vehicles were shot down," Balitsky said.

Recall that at 4 a.m., the 128th Mountain Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine began offensive operations by the forces of a motorized infantry company reinforced by a tank platoon in the direction of the locality of Zherebyanka. During the battle, the APU suffered losses and rolled back. Fighters of 429 SMEs, marines and Sudoplatov's detachment destroyed 3 tanks and 3 infantry fighting vehicles.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces continue to prepare for the resumption of a large-scale offensive on the left flank of the Zaporozhye front.

The settlement of Pyatikhatki. A few hours ago, the 128th brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine went on the offensive, but the attack choked. Tanks and infantry fighting vehicles were left burning in the steppes.

The personnel are abandoned in landings without the possibility of evacuation - at the moment our artillery is finishing them off.

Scouts 429 MSP 19 MSD together with the scouts of the battalion. Sudoplatova and 4 WB opened the APU on the distant approaches.

Three tanks and two BMP vehicles were destroyed.

The situation near Artemovsk by June 28

Near Artemovsk (Bakhmut) The APU continues to attack the positions of the Russian army. Regular sorties continue almost along the entire contact line from Yakovlevka in the north of Soledar and ending with Kurdyumovka south of Artemovsk, Boris Rozhin reports.

On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the start of a special operation in Ukraine, which, according to him, was caused by the need to protect the residents of Donbass. He noted that Russia had no other choice.

The West condemned Moscow's actions, deciding to support Kiev with financial aid and weapons. In this regard, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stressed that the geographical tasks of the special operation in Ukraine have changed, and they will not be completed within the territories of Donbass alone.

Europe is still confident that sanctions can stop the Russians, and therefore suffers losses and a destructive impact from its own decisions on its own economy. Respectable citizens in Europe do not understand why prices are rising in stores, as well as fuel is getting more expensive, and why the Kiev authorities do not compromise in order to sit down at the negotiating table with the Kremlin.

At the moment, Russian fighters have repelled all attacks, but such attacks will continue. The Armed Forces of Ukraine will use small groups to stretch the defense line of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and exhaust personnel on the front line.

The tactics of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are clear – to exert constant pressure until the defense cracks in any area. And already in this case, the militants will concentrate their forces in this area to break through the front.

Given the intensity of the fighting, our troops in this direction expect further strikes at the joints and attempts to break through along the entire front line. While the pressure from the APU does not weaken, despite the losses. автор (author): ARTROSTRA