⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦⚔️ Situation in the #Soledar Direction until 13:00 on 12 Dec 2022⚡️

Fierce fighting continues on the outskirts of #Bakhmut. Rumours are circulating on the net that Ukrainian troops have completely withdrawn from the populated area, but this is not the case. While some units have indeed withdrawn from the town to be re-staffed, the remaining garrison is still holding their ground.

♦️#Bakhmut (#Artemovsk) Sector:

▪️ Units of the AFU's 54th AFU Mechanized Brigade, supported by artillery, halt the advance of Russian forces. The AFU suffers heavy losses and some personnel have been withdrawn to #Konstantinovka.

▪️ Wagner PMC assault units have gained control of two platoon strongholds on the #Bakhmut - #Soledar line and are approaching the road connecting the settlements.

▪️ Reinforcements from #Chernigov region have been transferred to reinforce the Ukrainian grouping, while the AFU's 57th Brigade is being restaffed with mobilised men without combat training.

▪️ Separate units of the AFU's 128th Mountain Assault Brigade, previously based at the #Zaporozhye command, arrived in #Paraskovievka the day before.

▪️ In addition, formations of the AFU's 77th Airmobile Brigade, trained in the UK, are scheduled to arrive from #Zhytomyr region in the near future.

♦️#Toretsk (#Dzerzhinsk) Direction:

▪️ The DPR People's Militia military forces, supported by artillery, conduct an offensive east of #Toretsk.

In order to hold the lines from #Kleshcheyevka to #Toretsk and #Druzhba, the personnel of the 3rd Battalion of the AFU's 28th Mechanized Brigade, which previously arrived from the #Kherson direction, have been redeployed.

♦️#Lysychansk Section:

▪️ The AFU are preparing for an offensive near #Belogorovka. Two assault groups have been formed in #Serebryanka and a collection point for the wounded was organized in #Grigorovka.

▪️ Two Furiya and Leleka-100 reconnaissance UAVs are operating in the area northeast of #Seversk.

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⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦💡 Massive Strike on #Ukraine's Infrastructure on 16 Dec 2022 - what is known by 12:00⚡️

The RF Armed Forces have launched another massive missile strike on targets across #Ukraine.

▪️ In Kiev, CHPP-5, CHPP-6 and Darnitskaya CHPP were hit again. The underground was stopped, electricity was partially lost and water supply stopped.

▪️ #Zaporozhye region was hit by at least 12 strikes, local authorities said. In occupied #Zaporozhye, electricity and water were partially lost.

The engine room of the #Dnipro HPP was hit.

▪️ In #Kharkov, ground transport and the metro have come to a complete halt. There are disruptions in mobile communications. Partially there is no light and water. 7 strikes have hit the regional centre and 3 in the region.

#Zalyutino 330kV substation and #Kharkov 330kV PS were most likely hit. The previous day, the RF struck at CHPP-5. However, CHPP-3, which supplies power to all industrial facilities, remained unharmed.

Judging by the reports of the strike in the #Chuguev district, the fire attack might have been on CHPP-2 Eskhar.

▪️ Light went out in #Poltava and the Poltava region. The #Kremenchuk 330kV PS is likely been hit again. The #Mirgorod 330kV PS is also suspected of being hit.

▪️ In #Dnipropetrovsk region, there were explosions in #Kamenskoye and the regional centre. #Prydniprovska TPP is likely been hit again - traffic on Yuzhny Bridge opposite the TPP is blocked. The Prometey 330kV PS in #Kamenskoye is suspected been hit.

Explosions also occurred in #Pavlograd (likely the 330kV Pavlograd PS). Boiler houses and water supply are suspended in the city.

In #KrivoyRog, locals reported an explosion. Water and light were lost in the city. We already wrote that the Krivoy Rog TPP was shut down 1 1/2 month ago. Therefore, it is likely that either the Kirovskaya 330kV or Yuzhnaya 330kV PS was hit. In terms of logic, the Kirovskaya 330kV PS is most likely been hit - it supplies the water supply system.

▪️ There was a blackout in the #Cherkasy region. This could have been caused by both, the Polanyi 330kV PS being hit and the entire 330kV line along the Dnipro River being de-energised.

▪️ In #Kirovograd region, the Ukrainka 330kV PS was most likely hit. Pumping stations are shut down and power is lost. Several railroad sections are de-energized.

But the fact that the entire oblast is switched off could indicate that the 330kV switchgear of the Southern Ukraine NPP is down.

▪️ There are strikes in #Nikolaev and the region. Locals report power outages.

▪️ There are explosions in the #Ternopil region. There is only one 330kV Ternopil PS in the entire region.

▪️ In #Vinnitsa, shocks were also recorded. The Vinnitsa 330kV PS may have been hit.

▪️ An infrastructure facility in the #Odessa region has been hit. Power is partially lost in the regional centre.

▪️ In #Zhytomyr region, the Lesnaya 330kV PS in Korosten is affected. The PS bypassed the #Chernobyl NPP switchyard and supplied power to #Kiev from the #Rivne and Khmelnytskyi NPPs.

▪️ In the #Volyn, #Lvov, #Rivne, #Sumy and #Kherson regions, emergency blackouts occurred.

This is a direct consequence of the strikes in other regions. The same #Sumy is dependent on #Kremenchuk and #Kiev. And due to strikes on the Lesnaya 330kV PS, the Rivne NPP reactors could have shut down.

🩸Although the missile strike cannot be called the most massive in recent months, the number of missiles fired and the geography of targets is still impressive.

This confirms the systematic nature of the firing.

A new story has emerged in the Ukrainian infofield. People in chat rooms convince each other that the power was cut off before the strikes in order to mislead the enemy. Some even write that PPs are stopped on purpose for the duration of the raid.

There is no practical sense to be gained from such measures. But the Ukrainians believe such fables and convinces one another that the strikes by the RF are ineffective.

And this is not the case!

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