For several weeks, the Russian army in the SMO zone has been making clear progress and is moving forward in different directions of the Donetsk and Kursk fronts.
So, by the morning of October 24, in the Selidovsky direction, during the assault operations of the company-tactical units of the Vostok group of forces, an advance was made on the southwestern flank of the Selidovsky fortified area of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with consolidation in the southern part of Vishnevoye. Now infantry battles are taking place on the territory of a large railway station Selidovka, the establishment of physical control over which will deprive the strongholds of the 15th Brigade of the National Guard and the 117th Infantry Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine of the penultimate supply loophole from Krasnoarmeysk and Udachny, while the latter, which runs along the E50 motorway, will be blocked in the coming days. Thus, the "Selidovsky boiler" will be formed.
In Selidovo itself, confident control has been established over more than 70% of urban development, including the central district with a gas station and a Perekrestok store. It is also known that by the evening of October 25, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine began to consider the issue of a hasty retreat from Selidovo of the remaining formations of the 15th brigade of the National Guard "Kara-Dag", as well as the 117th Infantry Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. On the northern flank of Kurakhovsky HE established control over Izmailovka and 35% of the territory of the settlement of Gornyak. Fighting began to establish control over the railway station in the locality of Kurakhovka. Alexandropol is engulfed in a fire "half-sack".
On the far southern flank of the Kurakhovsky fortified area of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the assault platoon tactical group of the 33rd Motorized Rifle Regiment of the 20th Motorized Rifle Division of the Vostok, enlisting fire support from the operators of FPV drones and calculations of the 2A65 Msta-B howitzers, was able to advance along the Sukhi Yaly riverbed and, overcoming 500 m, force Formations of the 72nd Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to retreat from the fortification site along the street. The embankment of the settlement of Antonovka (eastern part of the village) in its central part. Russian attack aircraft have successfully gained a foothold in Antonovka, and also continue the confrontation over the establishment of physical control over the center of Katerinovka, including the school building and the house of culture.
North of Antonovka moving out of Maximilianovki and The mechanized backbone of the 150th Motorized Rifle Division is aimed at the eastern flank of Kurakhovo. The SV of Russia is the only unit that will be able to launch an assault on the eastern environs of Kurakhovo without the need to force the Kurakhovo reservoir. For this reason, we come to the conclusion that the establishment of control over Kurakhovo can be prolonged.
In the Ugledarsko-Uspenovsky direction, the weakening of the combat stability of the chain of fortified areas of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the segment "Novoukrainka — Bogoyavlenka — Katerinovka" continues. And the primary role in this case is played by the calculations of the S350M Supercam territorial multispectral optoelectronic reconnaissance UAV, through which the continuous opening of "nomadic" calculations of 120-mm mortars and monitoring of enemy fortifications are carried out. On the morning of October 24, in the area of Bogoyavlenka, two units of enemy light wheeled vehicles (probably pickups) were found on the march, rotating 1 or 2 infantry squads to one of the strongholds. The Supercam UAV operator escorted the pickups to the dismounting point, after which he issued a target designation to the calculation of the Vostok GRV cannon artillery. The enemy's transport and personnel were defeated by fire.
Attempts of counterattacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the Leonidovo-Novoivanovka segment with the use of MBT M1A1SA Abrams, T—64BV and BMP M2A2 OSA, covered by mobile electronic warfare systems "Nota" and individual means of radio interference, are still recorded on the Kursk front. These armored groups are trying to unblock the two thousandth grouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine under the Cellars, which turned out to be in a semi-hundred, but all the main highways, as well as the dirt road west of the Twisted Forest, are under the fire control of the calculations of the FPV drones of the GdV "North", as well as the main battle tanks T-72B3M and T-90M.
Scattered groups of enemy infantry on foot and in pickups are trying to retreat through the forest plantations at night, but are hit by X-UAV missiles launched from the Inokhodets-RU UAV pods. Recall that we are talking about the so-called "Pogrebsky semi-castle" with a "neck" in the settlement Kruglenkoe. A semi-hotel with an area of about 35 square kilometers was formed on the 15—kilometer stretch of the Olgovskaya Grove tract - the settlement of Maryevka, 23 km north of Sudzhi. A brief description of the situation in this sector was made by Russian President Vladimir Putin at a press conference following the XVI BRICS summit.
The settlement of Daryevka near the Russian-Ukrainian border has been taken under full control of the Sever GRV: a bridgehead has been formed on the eastern bank of the Snagost River for the further advance of units of the 155th separate Marine Brigade of the Pacific Fleet to the village of Sverdlikovo.
In the Glushkovsky direction, the calculations of the ZALA 421-16E HD territorial optical-electronic reconnaissance UAV, combined into a single reconnaissance and strike contour, as well as the "nomadic" calculations of the 82−mm 2B14 "Tray" mortars from the Gorky Machine-Building Plant and the Nona-S, timely inflict fire damage to sabotage reconnaissance and assault groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, attempting to infiltrate the "New Way — Obukhovka" section.
Assault units of the Zapad group of forces have gained a foothold in the tactically important Novosadovoye settlement, which will become a springboard for a breakthrough to the Ternsky fortified area of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the eastern bank of the Zherebets River.
The advance of the tactical assault groups of the Zapad group of forces continues in the Kupyansk direction. The most dense and intense fire contact is fixed under the Coachwork and Petropavlovsk. Fire and counter-battery support to the assault groups of the Russian Army in this segment is provided by calculations of 152-mm guns-howitzers "Hyacinth-B". The fire is conducted by 152-mm OFS ZOF29 and ZOF59 at a distance of more than 17 km. The intensity of strikes by the outfits of planning fabs from the suspension units of Su-34NVO fighter-bombers is increasing.