Update 🧵September 23rd.
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Todays presentation is brought to you by Gustav Fridolins handhjärtan. I do think a smile would not have hurt him.
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Yesterdays thread
Ukrainian general staff reported 92 shelling locations.
Kharkiv
RuAF are still trying to force the AFU to abandon their bridge head in Kup'yans'k. They had no success. It's important for Ukraine to keep this to be able to apply pressure on the Russian flank while attacking from the south. They might also want to use it offensively.
Lyman
The AFU liberated Yats'kivka according to Brigadier General Gromov (lost the link)
Lyman is very close to being enveloped.
RU unit BARS-13 possibly surrounded in Drobysheve, see more here:
If you look at the magenta circle (20km) in the previous tweet, it looks like the Russian artillery are located in Lyman or just north of it.
Unless RU sends reinforcement, I don't see Lyman holding on much longer. Despite handhjärtan from Gustav Fridolin.
Bakhmut
The AFU repulsed an attack around Spirne, that is about all that was reported on the Bakhmut sector today. I heard the Russians had to move units from south of Bakhmut to stop AFU from pushing back north of Bakhmut.
Horlivka-Donetsk
RuAF attacked in the area of Kam'yanka, Opytne, Zaitseve, Mayorsk and Novomykhailivka. Their attacks were repulsed by the AFU.
@naalsio26 Showed me two images of sleeve patches found in Izium.
This first one belongs to 183 training center of the Strategic Missile Forces of Russia, military unit 22994
The second one belongs to
Plesetsk Cosmodrome (separate engineering and testing unit)
What are the strategic missile forces and a testing unit from Plesetsk Cosmodrome doing at the front lines you might ask? The answer is simple, cannon fodder.
I posted a story told by a POW a while back, this just shows how bad the situation is for Russia
I can recommend this post by @NLwartracker, that post will be updated, so keep an eye on it.
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