📝 Voenkor Marat Khairullin on the situation on the fronts:
▪️The Armed Forces of Ukraine blew up the dam at the Severny Stavok reservoir.
The water went towards the village of Stupki on the road to Paraskovievka, as well as into the fields between Yagodnoye and Khromovo. It was the last open part of the ring.
Ukrainians have harmed themselves. All the fields are swamped, and it is no longer possible to drive through them.
▪️AFU act like fascists in the Great Patriotic War. The basements are flooded, the locals have nowhere else to hide. The intensity of the battles is high, the spirit of the enemy is broken. The supply of ammunition has been stopped.
▪️We are making good progress and taking new fortified areas. The route Konstantinovka - Artyomovsk is cut.
Only the flooded dirt road remained, which is under our shelling. Clock Yar is 1.5 km away. Blowing the dam is a gesture of desperation. Now the fighting is already going on almost in the center of Artyomovsk, on Nekrasov Street.
New heavy armored personnel carriers "Boomerang" were seen on railway platforms moving to the front line. It should be noted that the vehicles captured in the frames are equipped with a combat module with a machine gun of
12.7 mm caliber and have multilayer armor containing ceramics that meets modern and future requirements for combat operations.
🇷🇺🇺🇦🇺🇸The American mercenary defected to the side of Russia after a year of service in the "Foreign Legion" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the national battalion "Carpathian Sich", reports RT.
John McIntyre said that he provided the Russian military with papers, files, intelligence and maps that he collected in Ukraine.
It turned out that the man originally planned this operation: “I am a communist, an anti-fascist. I decided to collect as much useful information as possible and run across the front line”.
🇷🇺🇺🇦Battle for Artemovsk (28.02.23) - APU reserves are depleted
Yesterday, in view of the obvious threat of the collapse of the front near Artemovsk, the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was forced to throw into battle one of the so-called.
"shock" new battalions that NATO instructors were preparing for the spring "counteroffensive".
A little earlier, in order to hold the northern front of the defense, the enemy switched to the tactic of creating combined battalions, which are assembled from broken fragments of other units.
🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦According to the Ukrainian side, Russian troops are conducting a major offensive operation in Avdiivka
Its purpose is to encircle the city. This looks the most logical, given that there is an industrial zone in Avdiivka,
the storming of which could be an extremely difficult process. The positions of the militants are subjected to shelling from all available weapons for days on end, as well as bombardments and rocket attacks.
Assault operations are carried out in the areas of the settlement. Kamenka, Vodyanoye, Nevelskoye and Krasnogorovka. It would be most logical to surround Avdiivka just from the side of the last settlement,
Over the past week, Russian forces have driven out militants from Krasnaya Gora, Berkhovka, Yagodnoye, and the Stupka microdistrict has been cleared.
Currently, the RF Armed Forces are attacking Orekhovo-Vasilyevka, Bogdanovka, Khromovo and Ivanovskoye.
In addition, there are fights in the area of the meat processing plant, as well as in the private sector in the east of the city, there is an advance to the Bakhmutka River.
To reinforce the thinned ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the 14th MBR, the 57th and 56th MBR, the 4th NG Brigade, the Spartan and Donetsk NG brigades, the Aidar battalion of the 53rd MBR were transferred to Artemovsk and its environs.
🇷🇺🇺🇦 After the liberation of the village of Berkhovka, the fighters of the "Orchestra" expanded their control to the south-west, gaining a foothold near the Berkhovsky reservoir. Promotion to the village of Bogdanovka.
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"Musicians" put pressure on the north-eastern outskirts of the village of Dubovo-Vasilyevka from the side of the M03 highway. As a result of clashes from N. p. 46 ODSHBR were withdrawn due to the loss of combat capability.
In the north of Bakhmut, the situation for the enemy remains critical - on the eve of the "Wagner" completely took control of the Stupka area and entered the Ilyinovka area: neither the dam explosion nor the enemy's working artillery stopped the advance.