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⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦⚔️ Situation in the #Soledar Direction until 14:00 on 19 Jan 2023⚡️
♦️#Soledar Area:
▪️ PMC Wagner assault units, having gained control of the 7th mine and #Sol station, are advancing towards #Blagodatnoye, as well as towards the AFU stronghold on the #Krasnopolye - #Razdolovka - #Veseloye line.
♦️Northeast of #Bakhmut:
▪️ Fierce fighting for Krasnaya Gora and #Paraskovievka continues. Tomorrow, the 218th and 219th Battalions of 125th Territorial Defence Brigades from the #Sumy region are expected to arrive in this area to replace the 166th Battalion of 119th Territorial Defence Brigade, 74% of which have refused to fight.
▪️ The Ukrainian command plans to attack the positions of Russian paratroopers on the #Shevchenko - #Podgorodnoye line to hold the main roads north of #Bakhmut by the 4th Battalion of the AFU's 77th Separate Airmobile Brigade.
♦️#Bakhmut Area:
▪️ An unidentified unit from the #Chernigov region has arrived to reinforce the grouping. The 93rd Mechanized Brigade of the AFU has been reinforced with 60 mobilised men.
▪️ Due to heayy losses, the command of the AFU's 61st Mechanized Brigade is withdrawing its personnel from #Bakhmut and the surrounding area to #Cherkasy . Between 19 and 23 January, the remaining four formations of the 61st Mechanized Brigade, together with their equipment, are sent for resupply from #Druzhkovka station.
♦️Southwest of #Bakhmut:
▪️ "Wagnerians" have completely liberated the village of #Kleshchiyevka, and pushed the combined units of the 3rd Assault Brigade and the AFU Territorial Defence out of the settlement. Fighting is currently continuing around the settlement.
▪️ The loss of #Kleshchiyevka poses a major threat to the AFU garrisons in #Bakhmut and Chasov Yar. Ukrainian formations are attempting to counterattack with the support of barrel and self-propelled artillery (eight M777 howitzers and one M109 SAU) deployed on the western outskirts of #Krasnoye.
▪️ Meanwhile, in Chasov Yar itself, fortifications are being actively prepared and reinforcements continue to be moved in. The presence of the Azov nationalist formation members was noted in Alekseevo-Druzhkovka.
❗️Also from #Kovel in #Volyn region to #Kramatorsk the transfer of personnel and equipment of the 67th Mechanized Brigade (over 2 thousand people) from the AFU 9th Army Corps being formed has begun.
The AFU continues to send additional formations to deter the Russian advance, while gradually preparing the second line of defence #Slavyansk - #Kramatorsk - #Konstantinovka for defence in case of withdrawel from #Bakhmut and #Seversk.
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♦️#Soledar Area:
▪️ PMC Wagner assault units, having gained control of the 7th mine and #Sol station, are advancing towards #Blagodatnoye, as well as towards the AFU stronghold on the #Krasnopolye - #Razdolovka - #Veseloye line.
♦️Northeast of #Bakhmut:
▪️ Fierce fighting for Krasnaya Gora and #Paraskovievka continues. Tomorrow, the 218th and 219th Battalions of 125th Territorial Defence Brigades from the #Sumy region are expected to arrive in this area to replace the 166th Battalion of 119th Territorial Defence Brigade, 74% of which have refused to fight.
▪️ The Ukrainian command plans to attack the positions of Russian paratroopers on the #Shevchenko - #Podgorodnoye line to hold the main roads north of #Bakhmut by the 4th Battalion of the AFU's 77th Separate Airmobile Brigade.
♦️#Bakhmut Area:
▪️ An unidentified unit from the #Chernigov region has arrived to reinforce the grouping. The 93rd Mechanized Brigade of the AFU has been reinforced with 60 mobilised men.
▪️ Due to heayy losses, the command of the AFU's 61st Mechanized Brigade is withdrawing its personnel from #Bakhmut and the surrounding area to #Cherkasy . Between 19 and 23 January, the remaining four formations of the 61st Mechanized Brigade, together with their equipment, are sent for resupply from #Druzhkovka station.
♦️Southwest of #Bakhmut:
▪️ "Wagnerians" have completely liberated the village of #Kleshchiyevka, and pushed the combined units of the 3rd Assault Brigade and the AFU Territorial Defence out of the settlement. Fighting is currently continuing around the settlement.
▪️ The loss of #Kleshchiyevka poses a major threat to the AFU garrisons in #Bakhmut and Chasov Yar. Ukrainian formations are attempting to counterattack with the support of barrel and self-propelled artillery (eight M777 howitzers and one M109 SAU) deployed on the western outskirts of #Krasnoye.
▪️ Meanwhile, in Chasov Yar itself, fortifications are being actively prepared and reinforcements continue to be moved in. The presence of the Azov nationalist formation members was noted in Alekseevo-Druzhkovka.
❗️Also from #Kovel in #Volyn region to #Kramatorsk the transfer of personnel and equipment of the 67th Mechanized Brigade (over 2 thousand people) from the AFU 9th Army Corps being formed has begun.
The AFU continues to send additional formations to deter the Russian advance, while gradually preparing the second line of defence #Slavyansk - #Kramatorsk - #Konstantinovka for defence in case of withdrawel from #Bakhmut and #Seversk.
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⚔️ Soledar Direction at 14:00 on 19 Jan 2023