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Lysichansk Is Under Control Of The Russian Side
Lysichansk is now under control of the Russian side of the war.
This was reported by a Russian speaking journalist from the Lysichansk City Park (map) which is at the center of the city. There are a few locals around him who seem to be happy. There is no background noise of shooting or artillery fire or impacts in his report.
The Lugansk People’s Republic now has the entire territory of the Lugansk oblast under its control.
This comes only a week after the cauldron around Lysichansk began to close. Until a few hours ago there was still a chance to flee from Lysichansk but the only passable road was under Russian fire. It is not know yet how many made it out or how many gave up and were taken prisoners.
Some of those who retreated went to Siversk some 20 kilometer west of Lysichansk. That city will be the next bigger target in that campaign sector.
The speed of this operation was much faster than the one in Mariupol. That points to diminished capabilities and soldier motivation of the Ukrainian forces.
The now much shortened frontline frees up several battalion tactical groups on the Russian side which can now be refitted and rested to then move elsewhere.
Summary of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of a special military operation on the territory of Ukraine as of 12.00 on July 3, 2022
As a result of successful offensive actions, the troops of the Center group under the command of Colonel-General Alexander Lapin captured the settlements of VERKHNEKAMENKA, ZOLOTAREVKA, BELOGOROVKA, reached the Seversky Donets River and, together with the Southern Group of troops under the command of Army General Sergei Surovikin, closed the encirclement ring around LISICHANSK.
The Ukrainian group of troops is completely blocked in the next “cauldron”.
In the last two days alone, 38 Ukrainian servicemen have surrendered in this area, most of whom are local residents who were forcibly mobilized into the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The Russian troops and units of the Luhansk People’s Republic are fighting inside Lisichansk, completing the defeat of the encircled enemy. During yesterday, the settlements of NOVODRUZHESK, MALORYAZANTSEVO and BELAYA GORA were liberated in the vicinity of Lisichansk.
The enemy is suffering significant losses in all directions.
In the area of the settlement of MARYINKA of the Donetsk People’s Republic, the 54th mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost more than 60 percent of its personnel and equipment in a few days of fighting. The remaining personnel are demoralized and refuse to perform combat missions.
In the eastern part of the city of Kharkiv, a high-precision weapon strike of the Aerospace Forces eliminated the temporary deployment point of the 127th separate Territorial Defense Brigade. As a result of the strike, more than 100 Ukrainian servicemen and 15 pieces of military equipment were destroyed.
The strike of the Russian Aerospace Forces on the base of foreign mercenaries on the northern outskirts of the city of NIKOLAEV destroyed up to 120 “soldiers of fortune”.
In the area of the DISPUTED settlement of the Donetsk People’s Republic, a unit of the 5th separate assault regiment of the 1st separate brigade of the President of Ukraine named after Hetman B. Khmelnitsky was destroyed. As a result of the fire defeat, 18 Ukrainian militants were destroyed, two surrendered, the rest fled.
High-precision weapons of the Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed ten control points in the DISPUTED areas of the Donetsk People’s Republic, Lepetikha of the Mykolaiv region, Zelenodolsk of the Dnipropetrovsk region, seven ammunition depots in the areas of the settlements of Konstantinovka, BAKHMUT of the Donetsk People’s Republic, SMALL GEAR of the Kherson region, VISUNSK, NIKOLAEVKA and POLYANA of the Mykolaiv region, manpower and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 15 districts.
As part of the counter-battery struggle, three artillery and five mortar platoons were hit by high-precision weapons of the Russian Aerospace Forces in the areas of the settlements of VERKHNEKAMENSKOYE of the Donetsk People’s Republic, BELOGOROVKA, MALORYAZANTSEVO, ZOLOTAREVKA of the Luhansk People’s Republic.
Operational-tactical and army aviation, missile troops and artillery hit: 32 control points of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, ammunition depot, as well as manpower and military equipment in 287 districts.
Two Su-25s of the Ukrainian Air Force were shot down by Russian air defense means in the areas of the settlements of DIBROVNOYE, Kharkiv region and KVITNEVO, Mykolaiv region.
Ten Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were also shot down in the districts of NOVOE, Zaporizhia region, VOLNOVAKHA, DONETSK, Donetsk People’s Republic, DMITROVKA, IZIUM, Berezovka and KUPYANSK, Kharkiv region.
Eight MLRS shells were intercepted, including four HIMARS multiple rocket launchers in the Stakhanov area of the Luhansk People’s Republic and four Hurricane rockets in the areas of POPASNAYA settlements of the Luhansk People’s Republic and Kamenka of the Kharkiv region and the city of DONETSK.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 229 aircraft, 134 helicopters, 1,440 unmanned aerial vehicles, 353 anti-aircraft missile systems, 3,893 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 704 multiple rocket launcher combat vehicles, 3,078 field artillery and mortar guns, as well as 3,979 units of special military vehicles have been destroyed.
Tonight, from three o’clock to three thirty Moscow time, the Kiev regime carried out a deliberate attack with Tochka-U ballistic missiles with cluster munitions and Tu-143 “Flight” drones on residential areas of Belgorod and Kursk, where there are no military facilities.
I want to emphasize that this missile strike was purposefully planned and carried out against the peaceful civilian population of Russian cities.
Russian air defense systems destroyed all three Tochka-U ballistic missiles with cluster warheads launched by Ukrainian nationalists in Belgorod in the air. As a result of the defeat of Ukrainian missiles, the wreckage of one of them fell on a residential building in the city.
Also, two Ukrainian Tu-143 “Flight” jet unmanned aerial vehicles packed with explosives were destroyed by Russian air defense systems on the approach to Kursk.
Posted by: nona | Jul 3 2022 11:10 utc | 290
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