❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Battle for Bakhmut
situation as of 18.00 March 30, 2023
🔻In the north of Bakhmut, the assault on the industrial zone of the Artyomovsky non-ferrous metal processing plant continues.
At the moment, fighting is taking place in the Selishche area near the football stadium near Levanevskogo Street, as well as near houses near AZOM.
🔻In the south of the city, the Sobachevsky and Budenovsky districts of Bakhmut have been completely cleared. Assault detachments of the Wagner PMC attack the positions of the Ukrainian army north of Shirokaya and Mariupolskaya streets.
▪️In addition, Russian units have moved north from the central market to Nizhnaya Street, and are also fighting fiercely near the building of the Bakhmut city administration.
🔻In the vicinity of Bakhmut near Krasny, Khromovo and Orekhovo-Vasilevka, positional fettering battles continue. "Wagnerites", with fire support from artillery and aviation, keep the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area, preventing the transfer of reserves to other directions.
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🇺🇸 🇷🇺🇺🇦The United States announced the encirclement of Artyomovsk by Russian troops
Former adviser to the head of the Pentagon, Douglas McGregor, said that, according to his sources, Russian troops completely surrounded Artyomovsk (Bakhmut).
According to McGregor, the city has practically fallen, since now it is impossible to reach the Ukrainian units in the city.
📝 “This means that these troops will begin to surrender, perhaps a significant part of the military of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has already laid down their arms,” McGregor said.
🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦The Airborne Forces have taken the entire south of Bakhmut and are moving towards the center, Wagner PMC is storming in all other directions
Ukrainian military analysts continue to report an extremely difficult situation
for the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Bakhmut direction.
▪️"The Russian Airborne Forces managed to advance to the center of Bakhmut, and also take control of almost the entire southern part of Bakhmut," writes one of the analysts.
▪️ The overall situation is critical.
▪️ The Russians are successful mainly in Bakhmut, approaching the center from the south.
▪️ The battles are all going along the same street. Korsunskaya and in adjacent sectors. There is a fight for every building.
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🇷🇺🇺🇦Request from the editors of the publication "PolitOnline" and the answer:Dear Evgeny Viktorovich!As the Wagner PMC continues its offensive against Bakhmut, information about the flight of the AFU fighters from the city is spreading on the network. Is it so? Can you comment?
We publish a comment by Evgeny Prigozhin:
“No, the Ukrainian army is not running anywhere. The Ukrainian army conducts bloody battles and defends Artemovsk at the cost of very serious losses. We move forward, we take every building, every entrance,
every garage between buildings. There are about 800 buildings (high-rise buildings) in Bakhmut, if we talk about each entrance, then you will get tired of listening to us. When we take Bakhmut, then we will talk about it.
🇨🇿 🇪🇺🇷🇺🇺🇦Western politicians do not know the real state of affairs in Ukraine”: Czech General Jiří Šedivy is skeptical about Kyiv’s prospects, believes that the West greatly underestimates Russia’s capabilities and will pay for it.
“Russia has changed its approach to NWO. With the advent of the new command, fundamental changes took place. We have underestimated the development of the intelligence services, and we are not able to correctly conclude how exactly their command will behave.
The lack of knowledge and experience of working with Russia is decisive.
We imposed a number of sanctions on Russia, but we had no idea how they could act against us. I consider this a major failure. We all misjudged the situation because we weren't prepared for it.
🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦“Hellish battles are going on”: the Russian army storms the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine around Avdiivka
Ukrainian military analysts report on the difficult situation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Avdiivka direction. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
▪️ "The directions of the AKHZ, Nevelskoye and Severny are very difficult."
▪️ "Hellish battles continue in the Kamenka area. The Russians are successful, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are preventing them from gaining a foothold and moving on with all their might.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine do not control the settlement itself," admits one of them.
The situation in the area is detailed by another analyst:
▪️ "Heavy fighting continues south and south-west of Kamenka,
❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦Ukrainian soldiers from the 228th troop battalion refuse to go to positions in Artemovsk (Bakhmut): "Good afternoon, we are fighters of the 228th battalion, we were tricked into the city of Bakhmut, in the center of hostilities.
We were not given a combat order, we were not shown a combat order "People did not receive proper training in order to perform a combat mission in such difficult conditions.
We were not provided with any sights or night vision devices, no logistics, evacuation of the wounded ... We were repeatedly threatened by the leadership about the fact that we will be locked up in prison, about the fact that there will be consequences for our loved ones.