Combat Briefing 3108 – Sumy Advances, Deep Strike, and the Attrition Campaign

In this episode of Frontline Updates, host interviews Colonel A.C. Oguntoye for a detailed walk-through of Combat Briefing 3108, dated 31 August 2026. The briefing reports six active operational axes, Russian control over Velikiy Prikol and Sadki in Sumy region, and Ukrainian losses across all sectors exceeding 1,375 troops, 12 armoured fighting vehicles, 84 motor vehicles, and nine artillery guns, including one U.S.-made 155-mm M777 howitzer. The conversation moves sector by sector through North, West, South, Center, East, and Dnipro, then examines operational-tactical aviation as a campaign-shaping domain. Colonel Oguntoye explains how strikes against fuel and power infrastructure, transport infrastructure, logistics centres, UAV assembly and storage sites, ammunition depots, and temporary deployment areas connect to a broader attrition and sustainment strategy. The episode closes with tactical and strategic implications, including electronic warfare degradation, Western equipment attrition, defence industry targeting, and the interception of Ukrainian guided bombs, HIMARS projectiles, and fixed-wing drones.