UKRainian Infantry Advances Beyond Anti-Tank Ditches and Obstacles in Zaporizhzhia; Drone Shot Down Near Putin’s Swanky Country Residence Outside Moscow; UKR’s Secret Boat Raids Are Exposing Cracks in RUssia’s Southern Front; UKR Keeps Pushing RU Back in Bakhmut, Melitopol Directions, LIVE UPDATES and MORE

Ukrainian infantry advances beyond anti-tank ditches and obstacles in Zaporizhzhia – ISW

Ukrainian light infantry has pushed forward to positions behind anti-tank ditches and “dragon’s teeth” anti-tank obstacles that are part of the Russian defences in the occupied western part of Zaporizhzhia Oblast.

Source: Institute for the Study of War (ISW)

Details: Military experts indicate that Ukrainian forces will likely hold these positions.

The ISW is uncertain whether Ukrainian forces have broken through this Russian defensive line, as there are no Ukrainian heavy vehicles in these areas. Geolocation video footage posted on 4 September suggested that Ukrainian troops had advanced to positions in the tree line east of Russian anti-tank ditches and dragon’s teeth barriers, part of a three-layer defence immediately west of the settlement of Verbove.

Geolocation data indicates that Ukrainian light infantry also advanced further into a series of prepared Russian defensive positions along the road leading northwest to Verbove.

Furthermore, the Ukrainian army pushed forward to Russian defensive positions between the settlements of Robotyne and Novoprokopivka.

The Ukrainian forces are expanding the breach they have made in one of Russia’s defensive lines and are reportedly moving more vehicles and troops to the tactical rear of the line.

The Ukrainian military appears to be making progress in the immediate vicinity of the as yet unbreached Russian defensive line running northwest from Verbove to the north of the village of Solodka Balka, launching infantry attacks and firing heavy artillery on Russian positions deeper and south of this line. Ukrainian deployment of heavy vehicles and significant forces in these areas may indicate both a breakthrough of this Russian defensive line and an attempt to expand this breakthrough. —>READ MORE HERE

NY POST: Drone shot down near Putin’s swanky country residence outside Moscow:

A kamikaze drone was shot down Tuesday near President Vladimir Putin’s lavish country residence outside Moscow — the same region where Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin’s private jet crashed last month.

Dramatic footage published by the Telegram news channel Mash captured the moment the unmanned aircraft was destroyed by Russian air defenses, lighting up the sky over the Tver region.

It was one of three suspected Ukrainian drones targeting Moscow that were neutralized Tuesday, with a fourth destroyed over Russian-annexed Crimea, the defense ministry said.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said that drone debris in the Tver region fell in the Zavidovo village, which is home to Putin’s official residence called “Rus.” During Soviet times, it was known as a Politburo hunting lodge.

Notably, the drone was downed in the same region where Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin’s private jet crashed last month, killing all 10 people on board, exactly two months after the rogue mercenary’s short-lived mutiny.

There was no indication that Putin was at his “Rus” palace Tuesday.

Putin’s main residences are the Novo-Ogaryovo complex in the Moscow region and the Grand Kremlin Palace — where official events are held. —>READ MORE HERE

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