While Zelensky travels around Europe, whether in search of additional help in the long-promised counter-offensive, either hiding from possible retribution for the attack on the Kremlin, the situation at the front remains stable and tense.
Immediately on several sectors of the front, the enemy is making attempts to counterattack in small groups. obviously, there is a probing of our defense and a search for vulnerabilities in anticipation of more massive offensive actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
East of Ugledar Ukrainian assault groups, reinforced with armored vehicles, after artillery preparation, they attacked the positions of the RF Armed Forces in the area of the village of Nikolskoye and south-west in the direction of Pavlovka, trying to encircle our fighters. The enemy has been stopped, artillery worked on the retreating group and places of concentration of the enemy. The situation in this area is rather complicated., well-trained and motivated paratroopers from units are fighting on the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, formed in Western Ukraine. From our side - the Marines of the Pacific Fleet, also having considerable combat experience.
Despite the shortage of ammunition and the increased losses due to this, what the curator of PMC "Wagner" Yevgeny Prigozhin said harshly, "musicians" continue to storm the Ukrainian fortifications in the western quarters of Artemivsk (Bakhmut). The lack of shells reduces the fire impact on the supply route, which allows you to more actively pull up reserves for the Bakhmut garrison of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Despite this, shelling of Ukrainian positions in the area of Chasov Yar and Ivanovsky continues (Red).
In the city itself, an assault is being carried out along the street of the Liberators of Donbass, where the surviving militants settled, previously retreated from the territory of the military unit. From the liberated "musicians" Bakhmut Industrial College on Tchaikovsky Street there is an advance to the west and southwest. Ukrainian assault groups tried to counterattack in the area of Bogdanovka and Grigorovka.
Russian troops continue to develop the offensive west of Donetsk in the area of the village of Pervomayskoye and the village of Staromikhaylovka. At the last APU, an attempt was made to counterattack from Krasnogorovka, unsuccessfully.
On the Lugansk front, ours successfully attacked south of Kremennaya, tried to advance towards Belogorovka, near Torskoy and Makiivka. On the outskirts of Belogorovka, fighting is taking place in the industrial zone, the enemy is actively using artillery. Through the efforts of the Akhmat-North detachment, the fire blockade was lifted and rotated.
In the Zaporozhye direction, the enemy attacked in the area of the village of Pavlovka and in Nikolsky. Here, the Marines of the 155th Separate Guards Brigade of the Pacific Fleet confront Ukrainian militants, which quite quickly stopped the activity of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with artillery fire.
To the west of Avdiivka, ours carried out artillery preparation and went on the offensive towards the village of Severnoye. So far without much success. The Russian Aerospace Forces launched an air strike on enemy positions at the dump of the Avdeevsky coke plant. Judging by the frames of the video of the explosion published on the network, our pilots used something very powerful. Most likely, these are FABs, which Russian aviation has recently used quite often.
Author:Alexander Grigoriev Photos used:Defense Ministry
