A Ukrainian attack has been repelled by Russia’s Battlegroup Center in the Krasny Liman area, the battlegroup’s spokesman Alexander Savchuk said on Sunday.
"In the Krasny Liman area, Ukrainian troops attempted an attack on the positions of Russian forces. As a result of the work of artillery units and army aviation crews of the Battlegroup Center, the enemy retreated sustaining heavy losses in combat vehicles and manpower," he said in a video address posted on the Russian defense ministry’s Telegram channel.
According to the spokesman, the attack was staged by Ukraine’s 21st and 63rd mechanized brigades.
Savchuk also said that the battlegroup’s warplanes delivered airstrikes on ten areas of the concentration of Ukrainian troops and hit two enemy strongholds. A Ukrainian Msta-N 152mm howitzer and three mortar positions were wiped out in counterbattery fire.
"A Strela-10 air defense system shot down a Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle near the settlement of Golikovo," he added.
Tank crews of the Central Military District destroyed the stronghold and equipment of the Ukrainian troops in the Krasnolimansk direction, using various types of ammunition as a tactical technique, RIA Novosti was told in the Ministry of Defense
The "Southern" grouping attacked the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Lisichansk, Soledar-Artyomovsk and Aleksandro-Kalinovsk directions, Vadim Astafyev, head of the press center of the Yug grouping of the Russian Armed Forces, told RIA Novosti.
Also, "Tornado-S" struck the command post of the 53rd mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of the settlement Predtechino.
Russian MoD briefing on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine, July 2, 2023:
▪️In the Donetsk direction, Russian forces destroyed over 360 Ukrainian troops, six tanks, eight armored combat vehicles, a US-made M119 towed gun, one Polish Krab self-propelled howitzer, one Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer, as well as several ammunition depots;
▪️In the South Donetsk direction, the actions of two Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups were thwarted;
▪️In the Kupyansk direction, Russian forces destroyed up to 40 Ukrainian troops, one infantry fighting vehicle, one D-20 howitzer, as well as two ammunition deports. The actions of a Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group were thwarted;
▪️In the Krasny Liman direction, the actions of a Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group were thwarted. Russian forces neutralized up to 95 Ukrainian personnel, one tank, two infantry fighting vehicles, an armored combat vehicle, and two D-20 howitzers;
▪️The actions of a Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group were thwarted close to the Vremevsky salient;
▪️In the Zaporozhye direction, a fuel storage was hit. Russian forces neutralized up to 150 Ukrainian personnel, two infantry fighting vehicles, two armored fighting vehiclesm as well as one FH70 howitzer;
▪️In the Kherson direction, Russian troops neutralized up to 20 Ukrainian soldiers and two US-made M777 artillery systems;
▪️In the Kharkov region, military equipment delivered from the central and western regions of Ukraine was hit at unloading points at railway stations as well as control points;
▪️Russian air defenses shot down one Su-27 aircraft, two Storm Shadow cruise missiles, four HIMARS rockets, one HARM anti-radar missile as well as 14 unmanned aerial vehicles in the DPR and LPR.
Ukrainian commander complains about French tanks – AFP
A Ukrainian military commander has reportedly raised concerns that light combat tanks supplied to the former Soviet republic by France aren’t suitable for attacks against Russian defensive lines because their thin armor can easily be pierced by artillery shells and other weapons.
Touted earlier this year by Ukrainian Defense Minister Aleksey Reznikov as a “sniper rifle on fast wheels,” the French AMX-10 RC armored fighting vehicle has proven “impractical” during Kiev’s current counteroffensive against Russian forces, Agence-France Presse (AFP) reported on Sunday. One four-man crew has died because of the tank’s thin armor, which can easily be pierced by Russian weaponry, a Ukrainian battalion commander told the media outlet.
“Unfortunately, there was one case when the crew died in the vehicle,” said the 34-year-old Ukrainian major, whom AFP identified only by his call sign, Spartanets. “There was artillery shelling, and a shell exploded near the vehicle. The fragments pierced the armor, and the ammunition set detonated.”
Reznikov was filmed in April riding in an AMX-10 RC, which was among the Western weaponry rushed to Kiev this spring for a long-awaited counteroffensive that finally began in June. “These fast, modern machines with powerful guns will aid us in liberating our territory,” Reznikov said in a Twitter post thanking French President Emmanuel Macron and Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu. “This is what liberty, equality and brotherhood look like.”
However, Spartanets said the French tanks have proven to be ineffective in front-line assaults. “The guns are good, the observation devices are good, but unfortunately, there is thin armor, and it is impractical to use them in the front line,” he said.
Just sending out the vehicles so they get destroyed, I consider it is impractical and unnecessary because it’s primarily a risk for the crew.”
The Ukrainian commander added that the AMX-10 RCs also has been plagued by breakdowns in their gear boxes, possibly because of their use on dirt roads. Kiev’s troops received one month of training in France, which wasn’t adequate to master operating the vehicle, he said.
The 20-ton AMX-10 RC travels on wheels, rather than tracks. It was developed in the 1970s for armed reconnaissance and attacks on tanks. The French military is in the process of replacing its fleet of AMX-10 RCs with the more modern EBRC Jaguar.
Thousands of Ukrainian troops have been killed in the counteroffensive, which has failed to breach Russia’s defensive lines. Dozens of Western-supplied armored vehicles have been destroyed, including German-made Leopard tanks and AMX-10 RCs, according to the Russian Defense Ministry. The New York Times reported last week that 17 of the 113 Bradley fighting vehicles supplied to Kiev by the US have been damaged or destroyed.
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