An attack by Ukrainian troops in Kharkiv resulted in the destruction of a Russian self-propelled cannon and its crew as Kyiv keeps up its resistance against Putin.
The 2S3 Akatsiya self-propelled gun is shown in aerial video erupting into a massive blaze after being struck by Ukrainian artillery.
In further drone video, the 93rd Brigade of the Ukrainian Ground Forces can be seen attacking a patrolling squad of Russian troops in eastern Ukraine.
It occurs when Volodymyr Zelensky’s forces launch a coordinated counteroffensive to drive back Russian soldiers in southern Ukraine’s seized region.
The Russian 2S3 Acacia self-propelled gun, together with the crew and ammo, was destroyed in the Kharkiv area, according to a statement from the Ukrainian Armed Forces that was published with the footage of the Akatsiya self-propelled gun bursting yesterday.
As part of counter-battery operations, the National Guard used air reconnaissance to locate the target, modify the artillerymen’s fire, and report the outcome of their masterful job.
You may remember that the 152 mm calibre 2C3 Akatia self-propelled cannons had a four-person crew. It has a 20 kilometre effective firing range.
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Early in the 1970s, the 2S3 Akatsiya, a light tank-like weapon from the Soviet period, entered service.
In addition to 48,350 personnel, 1,997 tanks, 4,345 armoured combat vehicles, 1,115 artillery units, 287 multiple launch rocket systems, 153 air defence systems, 234 warplanes, 205 helicopters, 851 drones, 196 cruise missiles, 15 warships, 3,239 motor vehicles and fuel tankers, and 104 units of special equipment, according to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Russia claims that their fatalities are far fewer but only seldom updates its numbers.
Oleksiy Arestovych, a counsellor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, said that the nation’s counteroffensive to recover Kherson has neither failed nor paused.
The fact that we haven’t yet captured Kherson, according to Arestovych, “does not imply that the operation in the south has halted or failed.”
It is carried out in a planned way, Arestovych said. We eliminate adversary fuel and ammunition depots, air defence systems, and logistics. There won’t be any rapid victories, he said, urging Ukrainians to have patience.
Arestovych said that the Ukrainian military had destroyed important bridges to cut off Russian soldiers on the Dnieper River’s right bank.
According to the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, the Kakhovsky and Daryiv bridges, which Russia had previously used to deliver supplies and munitions to the area, have now been “damaged.”
According to a US source who declined to be identified, the Russian military is apparently looking to hire soldiers from private security firms in Ukraine due to a serious manpower shortage.
According to the unidentified US source, Russia is also apparently recruiting prisoners to make up the numbers in return for pardons and monetary rewards.
The general staff of Ukraine’s armed forces said that the country successfully resisted Russian advances today in the towns of Bakhmut and Avdiivka, which are located north of the Russian-occupied city of Donetsk.
The general staff noted on Wednesday that pro-Russian forces had concentrated on Bakhmut in their effort to expand their grip over the Donbas area, which is the country’s industrial centre in the east.
In response to reports of Ukrainian advancement, Russia claimed that its soldiers had routed Ukrainian forces.
Separatists said today that in the Russian-controlled portion of the Donetsk area in eastern Ukraine, 13 emergency service employees were killed and nine were injured after coming under artillery fire from the Ukrainian army.
According to representatives of the self-declared Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), “On September 1, at about 4 am, a group of emergency services employees from the DPR carrying out their duties in the hamlet of Rubtsi… came under artillery fire from Ukrainian army forces.”
The story could not be independently verified by Reuters.
As a team of UN inspectors were on their way to see Europe’s biggest nuclear power facility despite the fighting, Russia and Ukraine accused one another of launching assaults today nearby.
The International Atomic Energy Agency sent a team of inspectors to the Russia-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station despite the severe bombardment that caused an emergency mechanism to shut down one of its reactors.
The team was headed by Rafael Grossi, the agency’s director.
After being informed by the Ukrainian military, Grossi said, he chose to go on despite the obvious hazards. “There has been heightened military activity, especially this morning till quite late.”
We are not stopping, despite assessing the advantages and disadvantages and having gone thus far.
In the’so-called grey zone’ between Ukrainian and Russian lines, the dangers are’very, very high,’ he said, but ‘we think that we have the minimal prerequisites to move.’
Since the beginning of the six-month-old conflict, Russian soldiers have been occupying Zaporizhzhia, the biggest nuclear power facility in Europe, which is nevertheless managed by Ukrainian engineers.
Moscow accuses Ukraine of shooting carelessly on the region, increasing the risk of a nuclear accident that might impact the whole continent. Ukraine claims Russia is using the facility as a shield, storing weapons there and launching strikes from surrounding it.
Early in March, fighting resulted in a minor fire within its training facility, and in recent days, damage prompted the plant to be temporarily shut down, raising concerns of a radiation leak or a nuclear meltdown.
Residents in the area are now receiving anti-radiation iodine pills from officials.
According to Grossi, “we are going to start immediately an evaluation of the security and the safety situation at the facility” since “we have a very important task to perform.”
“I am going to look into the possibilities of keeping the IAEA at the facility,” he added. “We feel that this is essential to stabilise the situation and to have frequent, trustworthy, unbiased reports on what the situation is there.”
According to the Russian Defense Ministry, Ukrainian soldiers launched an artillery bombardment before sending up to 60 scouts to attempt to take over the nuclear facility.
According to the report, the Ukrainian soldiers attempted to take the facility after arriving on boats and landing three kilometres northeast of it on the Dnieper River’s left bank.
According to the ministry, Russian soldiers “took efforts to annihilate the adversary” by shooting down jets.
The ministry issued a statement saying, “The provocation by the Kyiv government is designed to disrupt the arrival of the IAEA’s crew to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.”
The early Thursday morning Ukrainian bombardment claimed at least three local lives and wounded one, according to the Enerhodar administration, which was erected by Russia close outside the facility.
In a false flag strike meant to thwart the arrival of the IAEA team, Russian forces are suspected by Ukrainian authorities of bombarding Enerhodar and the area around the nuclear power station.
Oleksandr Starukh, the governor of Zaporizhzhia, stated, “We are requesting that Russia halt provocations and grant the IAEA unrestricted access to the Ukrainian nuclear site.”
Neither side’s account of what happened could be independently confirmed right away.
In addition, a backup power supply line for internal usage was destroyed by the shelling, and a reactor inside the facility that wasn’t in operation was transferred to running on diesel generators.