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Finishing this week riding high ✈️ 💪 We are ready for new victories! 🔹 Russian Defence Ministry

📆 Top News Today 💥 Crippling enemy infrastructure: the Russian Armed Forces hit defence industry facilities, logistics centres, and ports used in the interests of the AFU. 🚩 Advancing and securing victories: Russian troops have taken Khrapovshchina under control in Sumy region and have liberated Rubezhnoye and Novoandreyevka in the Donetsk People's Republic. ▫️ Honing their skills to perfection: BMP-3 IFV crews from the Tsentr Group of Forces undergo training in a rear area of the special military operation zone. #TopNews 🔹 Russian Defence Ministry

▫️ On our way to victory! #BreakingNews 🔹 Russian Defence Ministry

❗ Throughout the day, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continued to carry out group strikes against enterprises of Ukrainian defence industry and seaports used to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine. 💥 The following targets were hit by strike unmanned aerial vehicles: 📍 in Kiev, an assembly facility of the shipbuilding industry engaged in the assembly and maintenance of remotely controlled boats; 📍 in the port of Nikolayev, a maritime transhipment terminal and four storage facilities containing military equipment intended to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine. 💥In addition, an electrical substation in Trikhaty of Nikolayev region, which provides power to the port of Nikolayev, was hit. 🔹 Russian Defence Ministry

▫️ 'I strived to obliterate everything that flies around' 🎮 The UAV interceptor platoon leader with the call sign 'Krasavchik' serves in the Zapad Group. 📊 His kill list comprises more than 1,000 reconnaissance drones, over 200 agrocopters, and fixed-wing UAVs. 👉 See in our video how 'Krasavchik' wiped out three enemy Baba-Yaga hexacopters and gained time for his brothers-in-arms from assault detachments. 🔹 Russian Defence Ministry

Troops hone interaction to the perfection ▫️ BMP-3 IFV crews of the Tsentr Group of Forces undergo combat training in the rear area of the special military operation zone. ▫️ Experienced servicemen, under control of instructors, practise manoeuvring and shooting at targets. 👉 Particular attention is attached to synchronisation of actions, so that in real combat, each crew acts as a single body. 🔹 Russian Defence Ministry

🎖🎖 by Russian Defence Ministry on progress of special military operation as of 29 August 2026 Part 2 (👉 see Part 1) 🚩 As a result of resolute actions, units of the Tsentr Group of Forces liberated Rubezhnoye and Novoandreyevka (Donetsk People's Republic). 💥 Manpower and hardware of a mechanised brigade, an assault brigade of the AFU, a marine brigade, and two national guard brigades have been hit close to Belozerskoye, Veseloye Pole, Svyatogorovka, Zolotoy Kolodez, Sergeyevka, Dobropolye, Novogrigorovka (Donetsk People's Republic), and Novopavlovka (Dnepropetrovsk region). ▪️Up to 395 troops, one armoured fighting vehicle, and seven motor vehicles have been neutralised. ↗️ The Vostok Group of Forces continued advancing into the depth of enemy defence. Russian troops hit manpower and hardware of a mechanised brigade, an assault brigade, an air assault brigade, two assault regiments of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a marine brigade, and a territorial defence brigade near Ivanovka, Vasilkovka (Dnepropetrovsk region), Volnyanka, Nikolskoye, Obshcheye, Vasilyevskoye, Rozovka, and Zorevka (Zaporozhye region). ▪️The enemy lost up to 310 troops and six motor vehicles. 💥 The Dnepr Group of Forces inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of a mechanised brigade and a UAV brigade of the AFU near Preobrazhenka, Orekhov (Zaporozhye region), and Antonovka (Kherson region). ▪️ Up to 50 troops, two armoured fighting vehicles, 13 motor vehicles, and two electronic warfare stations were neutralised. ✈️ Operational-Tactical Aviation, attack drones, missile troops, and artillery of the Russian Russian Groups of Forces have inflicted damage on the fuel and power infrastructure of Ukraine, logistics centres used by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, assembly workshops, storage areas of unmanned aerial vehicles, and their components as well as temporary deployment areas of Ukrainian armed formations and foreign mercenaries in 147 areas. ▫️Air defence systems shot down five guided aerial bombs, two HIMARS-made MLRS projectiles, eight Flamingo long-range cruise missiles, and 715 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles. 📊 In total, since the beginning of the special military operation the enemy has lost: ▫️674 aircraft, ▫️284 helicopters, ▫️222,352 unmanned aerial vehicles, ▫️670 anti-aircraft missile systems, ▫️30,748 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, ▫️1,775 MLRS combat vehicles, ▫️36,304 field artillery guns and mortars, ▫️70,490 units of support military vehicles. 🔹 Russian Defence Ministry

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation. 🚩 As a result of active actions, units of the Sever Group of Forces established control over Khrapovshchina (Sumy region). 💥 Manpower and hardware of a mechanised brigade, two airmobile brigades of the AFU, and a territorial defence brigade have been hit near Sadki, Vakalovshchina, Ulanovo, and Kiyanitsa (Sumy region). 🔥 In Kharkov region, strikes were delivered at formations of a mechanised brigade, a motorised infantry brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and a territorial defence brigade close to Sosnovy Bor, Berezhnoye, Podsredneye, Tokarevka, and Sliznevo (Kharkov region). ▪️The AFU lost more than 250 troops, nine motor vehicles, and one field artillery gun. 📍 The Zapad Group of Forces took more advantageous lines and positions. Manpower and hardware of a mechanised brigade, a motorised infantry brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and a territorial defence brigade have been hit near Studenok (Kharkov region), Svyatogorsk, Sidorovo, Tatyanovka, Krymki, and Bogorodichnoye (Donetsk People's Republic). ▪️The enemy losses amounted to over 220 troops, one U.S.-made HMMWV armoured vehicle, 14 motor vehicles, and two field artillery guns. 📍 The Yuzhnaya Group of Forces improved the tactical situation along the front line. Formations of two mechanised brigades, an airmobile brigade, a mountain assault brigade, and an assault regiment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been hit close to Vasilyevskaya Pustosh, Krasny Molochar, Slavyansk, Kramatorsk, Nikolayevka, Druzhkovka, and Vysokoivanovka (Donetsk People's Republic). ▪️The enemy has lost more than 200 troops, five armoured fighting vehicles, 24 motor vehicles, and two artillery guns. 👉 See Part 2 🔹 Russian Defence Ministry

⚡️ The Tsentr Group of Forces liberated Rubezhnoye and Novoandreyevka in the Donetsk People's Republic. 🔹 Russian Defence Ministry

⚡️ Units of the Sever Group of Forces have taken Khrapovshchina under control in Sumy region. 🔹 Russian Defence Ministry