Thread by @applepie110101

#Ukraine June 19, updates from @escortert.
usually in two parts
-> PdS1, Dniepr-Donetsk offensive
-> PdS2, Louhansk-Siversk-Avdiivka areas & Background
Here is the PdS1 for today 👇

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#WarInUklraine D+482 (20/06) PdS1 - Dniepr-Donetsk offensive

The offensive was not a failure, as it improved les🇺🇦 positions on the entire southern front, but it was placed under tactical inventory.

Hail Caesar! 🇩🇰🇺🇦 8x8 155 mm👇

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Time machine,
If you've lost the thread, go back to #WarInUklraine chronicle N°CDLXXXI 👇

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in blue, change to 🇺🇦
in red, change to 🇷🇺
for details, see development by sector below

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Material losses are balanced between the two armies👇with an upward trend for 🇺🇦, normal and logical for an offensive army

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🇺🇦 is no longer advancing on any of the axes of the Dniepr-Donetsk👇 offensive.

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A military review of the 4 major problems/solutions posed to 🇺🇦 by 🇷🇺 is summarized in PdS2

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sector 1/in the #Bakhmut direction, 🇺🇦 no tactical gains

(i) #Bakhmut northern salient,

In #OrikhovoVasylivka axis, at top of northern salient, 🇷🇺 assault repulsed

🇷🇺 prisoners👇 certainly, but without collapse of the 1st defense line

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(ii) #Bakhmut city, NTR👇

(iii) #Bakhmut southern salient, NTR

NTR = no offensive, but artillery exchanges, recce, special operations (in short, a war of positions).

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sector 2/ in #VelykaNovosilka direction, 🇺🇦 no tactical gains👇

(i) on the left flank in #Pryyutne axis,
#Riznopil, on a high, resists

(ii) on the central axis towards #Staromlynivka,
#Urozhaine concentrates fighting

The 🇷🇺 37th motorized rifle brigade takes on...

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... 🇺🇦 marines of the 35th & 37th brig.👇

(iii) on the right flank, in line with #Novodonetske, the settlement is still being fought over.

Here, the 🇷🇺 40th marine brigade is responsible for holding the defensive line.

The 🇺🇦 35th at #storozheve

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sector 3/ in the #Orikhiv direction, 🇺🇦 no tactical gains👇since the capture of #Pyatikhatki

(i) In the #Robotyne & #Verbove axes, NTR

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(ii) In the #Vassylivka axis,

It is confirmed that the "South Ossetia" battalion 👇surrounded at #Pyatikhatki, has been put to the sword.

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Thanks to @escortert for this update
Source PdS1 June 20