Bakhmut critical: The situation in Bakhmut remains difficult and worsens for UA due RU advance from S of the city. There are battles in the forest plantations east of Khromovo and in the forest plantations on the approaches to the Chasiv Yar-Bakhmut highway.
At the moment the RU is taking advantage of the situation with weather conditions and accelerated the storming of the city. UA cannot launch a counter, and attempts to push back RU troops in S Bakhmut ended in failure.
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Fighting near Bakhmut Industrial College
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Zelenskyy noted that the defeat in the battle for Bakhmut would be more of a costly political defeat than a tactical one and could lead to pressure from the international community and Ukrainian society
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If Bakhmut falls to Russia, Putin will "sell this victory to the West, his society, China, Iran" and try to get international support to force Ukraine to make unacceptable compromises
Bakhmut .The main UA problem is that RU is attacking from all sides, and UA columns with reserves are covered with artillery. The next week will be decisive for UA, after UA lost control over the industrial zone, UA is forced to retreat to the west of Bakhmut .
RU troops began to squeeze pincers in several directions in order to cut the Ukrainian group in the city, as was the case in Mariupol, in order to create several boilers in Bakhmut.
Bakhmut critical. Ru is using operational encirclement and squeezing the pincers inside the city, trying to surround UA in the center. After Syrsky postponed the UA counteroffensive a special military unit was transferred to Bakhmut, tasked with holding the city for two weeks.
The city is in operational encirclement, and the upcoming rains will make it difficult to supply Bakhmut
Wagner took most of the Sobachevka district and completely captured school No. 5 in the southern part of the city.
Fighting continues in Bakhmut. In the city itself, RU troops continue attacks from the northern, eastern and southern parts of the city in order to destroy units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the other side of the railway dividing the city in two.
There was a lot of shelling today. The center, the Tchaikovsky and Korsunsky districts were badly affected. According to local residents, only in the area of ul. Tchaikovsky counted more than 30 arrivals. The shelling did not stop all day
Zelensky warned Syrsky that the defeat near Bakhmut would be the end of his career, this prevents him from adequately assessing the situation and forcing him to spend large reserves on holding the city.
The situation around Bakhmut and Avdiivka is becoming more complicated every day, UA losses are growing, but there is no result. Instead of one operational environment, UA can get three, and in Bakhmut itself UA losing several blocks every day.
The diversion of resources calls into question the defense of Seversk and Avdeevka, the Svatovo-Kremennaya line has been weakened. Due to the thaw, the provision of the Bakhmut UA units was almost completely disrupted.
N a slight RU advance near Bohdanivka
SW RU captured part of high-rise buildings
In the ravines near and in the direction of Khromovo UA repelled RU attacks .The flanks look extremely threatening.
W of Bakhmut, the main RU offensive actions are carried out in the direction of the settlements of Bohdanivka, Hryhorivka and Orihovo-Vasylivka.