President Zelensky, doing the will of Washington, demanded from the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine an immediate counteroffensive not only in Artemovsk (Your luck), but also in the direction of Soledar. This scenario was supported by the founder of PMC Wagner Yevgeny Prigozhin the day before.. He is sure, that the aggravation of the situation at the front will only benefit the Russian army, regardless of results, achieved.
meanwhile, Western military bloggers have published an interactive dynamic map on the situation in Bakhmut over the past few days. It is clearly visible, how the "musicians" gradually move away from the center, from the south and north of the city, squeezing the Ukrainian garrison to the western outskirts and taking it in pincers.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces still have not cut the road through Khromovo to Chasov Yar, on which they can both transfer reserves to the city, and organize a retreat. The flanks outside Artemovsk are controlled by paratroopers of the Russian Armed Forces, they do not allow the Ukrainian command to concentrate significant reserves in the controlled frontline zone, processing these areas with artillery and aircraft.
Serhiy Cherevaty, the speaker of the Eastern Group of Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, has already complained, that in Bakhmut there are "bloody battles unprecedented in recent decades". According to him, The RF Armed Forces have inflicted in the Bakhmut area over the past day 158 rocket strikes, artillery and MLRS, occurred 17 combat clashes.
Ukrainian military record videos and post them online, where they happily tell, that after two days of fighting in Bakhmut they managed to get out of there alive. Not going back, apparently, not yet aware of the order of the Supreme Commander, what, breakwater, "at any cost".
Another account for the destruction of Western equipment opened in Artemovsk. This time, for the first time, the British FV103 Spartan tracked armored personnel carrier was hit and burned.. English car burns no worse, than a Bulgarian armored personnel carrier, converted from Soviet MT-LB, lined up in tandem with the "British".
Voenkor Alexander Kots, having visited Artemovsk, publishes a large report on what is happening in the city. Writes, that "musicians", freeing neighborhoods, the first step is to withdraw civilians. There are few left, mostly elderly people, who were waiting for our arrival and categorically do not want "to the other side". One of the PMC fighters says, that in fact Bakhmut was not seriously prepared for defense, no matter what Kyiv propagandists say. The Ukrainian military themselves equip firing points in high-rise buildings, who, when retreating, try to undermine, so that ours do not do the same. There are a lot of bodies in the streets, which colleagues did not even try to take with them.
No less hot in another sector of the Donetsk Front, near Avdiivka. reported, that the enemy, trying to contain the advance of Russian attack aircraft, threw an armored group on a breakthrough near the village of Vodiane south of the city. Ours met tanks and other armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with dense artillery fire. During the battle, several units of enemy equipment were destroyed and damaged, attack zahlebnulasy.
The city demands liberation if only because, that it is from Avdiivka that the nationalists continue to shell Donetsk and other settlements of the DPR. Yesterday they beat Yasinovataya from there, four civilians were killed and ten wounded.
Intense fighting continues near Marinka, from which the Armed Forces of Ukraine also hit the peaceful settlements of the Donetsk Republic. Here the Russian army is increasingly using UAVs, equipped with a reset device, with the help of which it is possible to accurately and effectively hit the enemy’s manpower, in the trenches, as well as technology.
In the Luhansk direction, Russian troops attacked Belogorovka from Zolotarevka. After dozens of failed attempts in recent months, this time they forced the Armed Forces to retreat and managed to advance towards the settlement.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the evening report reports on new strikes on targets in Slavyansk and Kramatorsk, where the Ukrainian command has recently been actively concentrating reserves. Confirm heavy fighting in Bakhmut and in the Marinka area. In the Krasno-Limansky direction, ours are advancing in the area of u200bu200bthe village of Dibrova and the village of Belogorovka, this is the west and east of the outskirts of the Serebryansky forestry. Author:Alexander Grigoriev Photos used:VSU General Staff
