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Russo-Ukraine War - 30 December 2024 - Day 1041

A number of claims and counterclaims are being made on the Ukraine-Russia conflict on the ground and online. While GlobalSecurity.org takes utmost care to accurately report this news story, we cannot independently verify the authenticity of all statements, photos and videos.

On 24 February 2022, Ukraine was suddenly and deliberately attacked by land, naval and air forces of Russia, igniting the largest European war since the Great Patriotic War. Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a "special military operation" (SVO - spetsialnaya voennaya operatsiya) in Ukraine in response to the appeal of the leaders of the "Donbass republics" for help. That attack is a blatant violation of the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine. Putin stressed that Moscow's goal is the demilitarization and denazification of the country. The military buildup in preceeding months makes it obvious that the unprovoked and dastardly Russian attack was deliberately planned long in advance. During the intervening time, the Russian government had deliberately sought to deceive the world by false statements and expressions of hope for continued peace.

"To initiate a war of aggression... is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole." [Judgment of the International Military Tribunal]

The UK Ministry of Defence reported that in late November 2024, Russia passed a law that would allow military personnel who signed up after 01 December 2024 to have their loan debt written off. The write-off would cover loans of up to 10 million rubles (approximately USD $94,400) and would also apply to spouses. This is in addition to the loan repayment holidays for Russian servicemen programme. The independent Russian media organisation Mediazona reports that 411,000 repayment holidays for mortgages and personal loans have been taken up since October 2022.

Russia's financial incentives to military recruits are almost certainly intended to secure sufficient replacements for their steadily increasing casualties, now totalling over 760,000 killed and injured, and averaging 1,523 a day in November 2024. The incentives are also almost certainly intended to reduce the potential for Russia to have to enact further mobilisations, which are seen by Russian leadership as both damaging to public support for the war, and raising the risk of further detrimental large-scale emigration.

Writing off loan repayments will highly likely increase financial pressures on Russian banks into 2025, in addition to pressures from high interest rates and sanctions. This will almost certainly reduce the resilience of the banking sector to respond to a potential economic shock.

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that so far, there have been 153 combat clashes. The hottest today is the situation on Pokrovskkomu, Kurakhivskkomu, Lymans .komu and Vremívs сьkomu directions.

For today, the Russian opponent has launched a rocket strike on the territory of Ukraine (fire one rocket), used 674 kamikaze drones for an impact. Made more than 3,200 shelling of the positions of Ukrainian troops and settlements.

In the Kharkiv direction, Russian forces twice attacked the vicinity of vovchans Наka and lipcív.
Today in this direction, according to preliminary calculations, Ukrainian soldiers damaged 43 Russian occupiers, destroyed a tank, an artillery system, an anti-tank device, three vehicles, 18 BPLAs and two means of communication of the enemy, also significantly damaged the artsystem and two cars.
In the kupâns Наkomu direction Russian forces during the day 16 times tried to advance to Ukrainian positions near golubívka, stepovoí̈ novoselívka, kruglyakívka and zagrizovogo. There are currently six boêzítknen час.
In the Lyman direction the Russian zagarbnic манka army attacked 19 times in the areas of kopanok, hope, novoêgorivka, makíivka, ivanívka and terniv. Six battles are still being sharpened, the rest - Ukrainian warriors have stopped.
In the Sívers Наkomu direction, Russian forces once during the day tried to break through Ukrainian defense in the area of the settlement of Bílogorivka, received a cut off.
In the Kramators ьkomu direction, the activity of the Russian enemy spilled into ten combat clashes near the Time Yar and Stupok.
In the Toretsky direction, the Russians tried to push Ukrainian units out of occupied positions near Scherbinivka and into Toretsky, where the Defense Forces repelled three attacks. The eight clashes are still ongoing.
Russian forces tried to infiltrate Ukrainian defense 39 times in the Pokrovsky direction. Since the beginning of the day, the Russian occupiers in the settlements of Vozdvizhenko, Mirolyubivka, Beam, Zelene, Dachenske, New Labor, Shevchenko, Vovkove, Novoolenivka and Novoelizavetívka have received a hard cut off from Ukrainian defenders 31 times. Eight attacks are ongoing so far.
The Russian enemy suffers significant losses - according to preliminary information, today Ukrainian warriors damaged 452 Russian invaders in this direction, 190 of them - irrevocably. A combat armored car, two units of automobile equipment, an automatic occupant grenade, five means of communication and two REB vehicles were destroyed, and also an automobile equipment unit was damaged.
In the kurakhívs мкуkomu direction the Russian enemy attacked Ukrainian positions near petropavlívka, slovâanka, shevchenko and kurakhovogo. So far, Ukrainian soldiers have repelled 13 attacks, five militants are still ongoing.
In the Vremívs поkomu direction, Ukrainian troops repelled Russian attacks near Amber, Uspenívka, Vremívka and in the direction of Konstantinopol and Novosilka-11 attacks repelled, five in progress.
In the Orihiv direction, Russian forces twice tried to break through in the direction of Novoandriivka, suffered losses and retreated.
The Defense Forces of Ukraine continue their operation in the Kursk region, so far Ukrainian defenders have repelled 17 Russian attacks.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported that in Kharkov direction, units of the Sever Group of Forces inflicted losses on formations of two territorial defence brigades near Kazachaya Lopan, Velikiye Prokhody, and Liptsy (Kharkov region).

The AFU losses amounted to up to 65 troops, one armoured fighting vehicle, one motor vehicle, one 152-mm D-20 gun, two 122-mm D-30 howitzers, and one electronic warfare station.

Units of the Zapad Group of Forces improved the tactical situation along the front line and inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of two mechanised brigades, one assault brigade of the AFU, two territorial defence brigades, and one national guard brigade near Dvurechnaya, Zapadnoye, Glushkovka (Kharkov region), Ivanovka, Shadrigolovo, Torskoye, Terni (Donetsk People's Republic), and Serebryansky forestry. Eight counter-attacks launched by AFU armed formations were repelled.

The AFU losses amounted to more than 530 troops, one tank, one infantry fighting vehicle, four armoured personnel carriers, including three U.S.-made M113 armoured personnel carriers, one armoured fighting vehicle, eight motor vehicles, one German-made 155-mm Panzerhaubitze 2000 self-propelled artillery system, one 152-mm Giatsint-B gun, one 122-mm Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system, three 122-mm D-30 howitzers, and one U.S.-made 105-mm M119 gun.

Units of the Yug Group of Forces took more advantageous lines and inflicted losses on formations of two mechanised brigades, one motorised infantry brigade, and one airmobile brigade of the AFU near Dalneye, Chasov Yar, Kurakhovo, and Razliv (Donetsk People's Republic).

The AFU losses amounted to more than 295 troops, one tank, two infantry fighting vehicles, one U.S.-made M113 armoured personnel carrier, one Kozak armoured fighting vehicle, and two pickup trucks. Two electronic warfare stations and two field ammunition depots were destroyed.

As a result of decisive actions, units of the Tsentr Group of Forces liberated Novoolenovka (Donetsk People's Republic).

Losses were inflicted on manpower and hardware of three mechanised brigades, one motorised infantry brigade, one mountain assault brigade, two assault battalions of the AFU, one marine brigade, and one assault brigade of the National Police of Ukraine near Dzerzhinsk, Vozdvizhenka, Dachenskoye, and Peschanoye (Donetsk People's Republic). Eleven counter-attacks launched by the AFU armed formations were repelled.

The AFU losses amounted to up to 420 troops, two tanks, including one German-made Leopard tank, two infantry fighting vehicles, one armoured personnel carrier, one UK-made Snatch armoured fighting vehicle, five pickup trucks, one 155-mm Bogdana self-propelled artillery system, two 152-mm D-20 guns, one 122-mm Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system, three 122-mm D-30 howitzers, and one electronic warfare station.

Units of the Vostok Group of Forces continued advancing to the depth of the enemy's defences and inflicted losses on formations of three mechanised brigades of the AFU and one territorial defence brigade near Dneproenergiya, Bogatyr, Zelenoye Pole, and Neskuchnoye (Donetsk People's Republic). Two counter-attacks launched by the enemy's assault detachments were repelled.

The AFU losses amounted to more than 175 troops, three motor vehicles, one 152-mm D-20 gun, one U.S.-made 155-mm Paladin self-propelled artillery system, and one U.S.-made 105-mm M119 gun. One electronic warfare station and one field ammunition depot were destroyed.

Units of the Dnepr Group of Forces inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of three territorial defence brigades near Antonovka, Mikhaylovka, and Yantarnoye (Kherson region).

The AFU losses amounted to up to 75 troops, one armoured fighting vehicle, four motor vehicles, and two field ammunition depots.

Operational-Tactical Aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, and Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces struck power infrastructure that ensured operation of Ukrainian defence industry enterprises, infrastructure of military airfields, ammunition depots, attack UAV command posts and launch sites, as well as engaged AFU manpower and hardware clusters in 143 areas.

Air defence systems shot down four U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS projectiles and 65 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.

In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 650 aircraft, 283 helicopters, 38,878 unmanned aerial vehicles, 590 anti-aircraft missile systems, 20,103 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,504 MLRS combat vehicles, 20,093 field artillery guns and mortars, and 29,644 units of support military vehicles have been neutralised.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation also reported that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the operation to neutralise an enemy group, which broke into the territory of Kursk region.

In the course of offensive operations, units of the Sever Group of Forces inflicted losses on formations of one heavy mechanised brigade, five mechanised brigades, three air assault brigades, one marine brigade, two territorial defence brigades, and one assault battalion of the AFU near Daryino, Kurilovka, Leonidovo, Loknya, Maryevka, Makhnovka, Nizhny Klin, Nikolayevo-Daryino, Novaya Sorochina, Cherkasskaya Konopelka, and Cherkasskoye Porechnoye. Five counter-attacks launched by AFU assault detachments were repelled.

Operational-Tactical and Army aviation and artillery inflicted losses on AFU manpower and hardware near Aleksandriya, Viktorovka, Guyevo, Kazachaya Loknya, Kruglenkoye, Lebedevka, Nikolsky, Rubanshchina, Russkoye Porechnoye, Sverdlikovo as well as Basovka, Belovody, and Zhuravka in Sumy region.

Over the past 24 hours, the AFU losses amounted to more than 310 troops, one infantry fighting vehicle, ten armoured fighting vehicles, six motor vehicles, and one artillery gun.

Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk region, the AFU losses amounted to more than 45,530 troops, 262 tanks, 204 infantry fighting vehicles, 142 armoured personnel carriers, 1,359 armoured fighting vehicles, 1,237 motor vehicles, 337 artillery guns, 42 MLRS launchers, including 11 of HIMARS and six of MLRS made by the USA, 13 anti-aircraft missile launchers, seven transport-loading vehicles, 83 EW stations, 13 counter-battery warfare radars, four air defence radars, 28 units of engineering and other materiel, including 13 counterobstacle vehicles, one UR-77 mine clearing vehicle, seven armoured recovery vehicles, and one command post vehicle.

The operation to neutralise the AFU units is in progress.