🇷🇺🇺🇦Chronicles of the Special Military Operation
December 12, 2022
In the Kupiansk-Svatove sector, AFU units of the 14th Brigade carry out a positional defense. The 14th Brigade's tank battalion has one T-64B1V and four T-72s in working order.
A recon group of the AFU 80th Brigade is searching for Russian firing positions near Stelmakhivka. Ukrainian artillery and tactical aviation will be used to destroy any identified targets.
In the Lyman sector, combined assault groups of the 80th and 25th AFU brigades continue attempting to storm Russian positions toward Chervonopopivka. Positional fighting continues at the Medvezhye waypoint and Zhuravka ravine.
In the Bakhmut sector, armed clashes continue. Wagner assault units took over two enemy outposts on the Bakhmut-Soledar line.
Russian units supported by artillery are attacking east of Toretsk.
AFU command are preparing to assault Russian positions near Bilohorivka.
Lugansk People's Republic:
Ukrainian formations used barrel and rocket artilley to shell Svatove and Kreminna. Residences and a gas pipeline were damaged. Civilians were killed.
Russian motor rifles are fighting in central Marinka. Russian artillery are hitting enemy positions in the west of the town.
In the Vuhledar sector, Russian forces are conducting a localized offensive near Velyka Novoselka. There is no significant advance.
Ukrainian formations shelled residences and civilian infrastructure in Donetsk, Horlivka, Yakovlivka, Yasynuvata, Kashtanove and other settlements of the metro area. At least three civilians were killed.
In Kostiantynivka, Zaporizhia Region, enemy saboteurs detonated an explosive device on the pylons of a bridge on the Melitopol-Berdyansk highway.
Artillery duels continue. Russian forces hit AFU targets in Dorozhnianka, Huliaipolske, Orikhiv and Malynivka.
In Skadovsk, there was an attempt on the deputy head of Kherson Region: a mine was placed under his car. The driver was killed, the official was taken to Simferopol hospital in critical condition.
Russian artillery struck enemy targets in Chornobaivka, Chervonne, Mayak and Lvive.
Ukrainian formations used mortars to strike residential buildings in Oleshki and Hola Prystan.
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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Zaporizhia direction
Situation as of 11:00 Kyiv Time, December 13, 2022
In the Zaporizhia direction, Ukrainian command has switched to active counter-battery warfare and the destruction of objects in the rear, in order to cut off the Russian Armed Forces grouping's supply.
In the Orikhiv sector, units of the 3rd Battalion 65th Brigade are being reinforced with mobilized men. A staging area for the newly arrived men was organized in the Zaporizhia Aluminum Plant.
❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Starobilsk direction
Situation as of 12:00 Kyiv Time, December 13, 2022
In the Kupiansk-Svatove sector, AFU are awaiting a localized Russian offensive. To strengthen the 114th territorial defense brigade in Monachynivka and Mitrofanivka, units of the 192nd Bn 124th Terr. Def. Bde were brought in, and mines were deployed.
Reinforcements are planned to be brought to the Synkivka-Petropavlivka line to strengthen positions of the AFU 14th Brigade and 32 Terr. Def. Brigade. Mobile air defense equipment was brought into full battle readiness.
❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Soledar direction
Situation as of 15:00 Kyiv Time, December 13, 2022
Wagner PMC assault units have broken through defenses in eastern Bakhmut.
In the Bakhmut direction, Russian units established full control over the champagne factory and Siniat plant. To the southeast, there is fighting near the garbage processing plant and Fedor Maksymenko Street.
Wagner assault groups also advancing in the northeast. Near Pidhirne, several enemy outposts were taken. AFU command are carrying out an emergency personnel rotation to support combat ability. Assault groups were formed in central and northern Bakhmut for a counterattack.
🇺🇸🇺🇦💀 US mercenaries' participation in combat operations on the side of the AFU usually ends with inglorious obituaries. Last week it was reported that an American, Clayton Hightower, was eliminated.
The former U.S. Army soldier had arrived in Ukraine in the spring, having joined the Normandy Brigade.
According to his commander, Hightower had already taken part in the fighting for Velyka Novoselka in the DNR in May.
The American did not have social media, but often appeared on his compatriot Lee Johnson's profile.
On Dec 4, Clayton Hightower, along with Polish mercenaries Janusz Szeremeta and Krzysztof Tyfel, was killed at a lookout point east of Kupiansk by a Russian recon group.
❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Soledar direction
Situation as of 13:00 Kyiv Time, December 12, 2022
Heavy fighting continues in the Bakhmut area. There are rumors online that Ukrainian forces have fully left the city, but this is false. Some units really were withdrawn for recovery, but the remaining garrison is continuing to hold the defense.
In the Bakhmut sector, AFU 54th Brigade units supported by artillery are holding back Russian advancement. AFU are taking huge losses, part of the personnel were withdrawn to Kostyantynivka.