Unconfirmed reports of dozens of Ukrainian armoured vehicles and over a hundred civilian vehicles with Ukrainian terrorist personnel retreating from Artyomovsk (Bakhmut) to Konstantinovka.

The headquarters of the territorial defense announce that the Allied forces liberated Novodonetskoye, Neskuchnoye, Oktyabr, Mironovka, Red Plowman, Companies, Vidrodzhennya, Copper Ore, Kamenka.
Judging by everything, further actions of the troops of Russia and Donbass in this direction will be focused on creating a bridgehead north of Avdiivka.


Some of these village names translated into English so they don’t make sense.

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The Ukr General Staff reports that Russian troops are conducting assault operations to capture Kurulka and Ivanovka in the #Slavyansk direction

First line of Ukrainian defenses of Avdeyevka is broken, Mash Donbass telegram announced, DPR troops are occupying the trenches and fortifications. Avdeeyevka is a the industrial suburb of Donetsk that was being prepared by Ukrainian army to withstand frontal attacks during 8 years. From there, Donetsk residential quarters are shelled regularly causing heavy civilian death toll and property damage in Donetsk.

Avdeyevka is extremely hard to take, if assaulted frontally. Some experts consider that bombardment of Avdeyevka could trigger an ecologic disaster, since Avdeyevka coke and chemical plant is located there. From the other hand, frontal assault may be very costly in terms of potential losses the attacking side may sustain, breaking deeply layered defense lines.

Until now it was expected that Avdeyevka, despite heavy civilian life losses in Donetsk, would be taken after the fall of Kramatorsk and Slaviansk, from the rear. Apparently, the sustained savagery of the Ukrainian shelling, made the the command change that sad, but militarily explainable decision.

Please pray for the men who stood up to deliver Donetsk from suffering, daring to go against impenetrable defenses the cold-blooded killers of the AFU made with only one objective - keep killing with impunity. #whywefight #breaking

There are war correspondents already present in Seversk. I assume that they have not been given the go ahead to share anything yet. It’s smart to be cautious. Seversk is very difficult to defend, and the worst PR nightmare would be of the Ukrainians try a counterattack after the city is declared liberated.

Multiple sources now reporting the news that DNR and Russian forces had conducted strikes against field ammunition dumps in Konstantinovka and Kramatorsk, costing the Ukrainian army over 1,000 casualties and over 100 lost military equipment and vehicles in the course of the past 24-hour period.

Ukraine attempted to hit Russia back after vinitisa. A makeshift drone attempted to blow up a library in Belgorod area. That tiny hole is the aftermath

Fake news:
The Russian Armed Forces have hit a maternity hospital and a medical center in Vinnytsia. Volodymyr Zelensky and the Ukrainian media claim this.

The fact:
The missiles struck the Officers' Club, converted into a temporary military accommodation facility under martial law. The missiles struck two wings of the building and the landing points are clearly visible in the pictures from different angles. The central part of the building, where the hall for entertainment events is located, was not damaged.

Damage to the medical center, which the Ukrainian side has positioned as one of the targets of the attack, was caused by the spread of the blast wave and flying shrapnel. The building contained MRI and X-ray equipment. Combined with disinfectants, they caused a major fire. A direct hit would have left the medical center with no walls. Photos show bent metal structures and pieces of mineral wool, that most certainly were a factor in the fire, can be seen in the car park next to the building.

The first videos and photos clearly show a big crowd of people in military uniforms, including men armed with automatic rifles. This serves evidence that refutes the Ukrainian side's claim about the Officers' Club being used solely as a civilian facility.

The building housed the barracks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the Air Force command. Foreign mercenaries were also trained there. Journalist Oleksandr Stolyarov from Vinnytsia wrote about it. On his page in social networks, he asks a direct question - why the Ukrainian media and Telegram channels write about the strikes in the medical center and consumer services center "Jubilee", but overlook the information about the direct hit in two wings of the House of Officers. And he wonders why the military infrastructure is located directly in the center of the city, populated by civilians.

No movement appropriate for reporting in the Artyomovsk (Bakhmut) zone. No change reported near Soledar. The status of Seversk remains as before, although as indicated earlier, I expect (hope) it to be formally liberated in the next several days.

Кадры переброски нескольких десятков польских танков PT-92 Twardy (модернизация Т-72), предположительно, на Украину.

Ранее уже были сообщения о передаче Киеву данных машин, взамен которых Варшава получит бывшие в эксплуатации американские Abrams.
#Польша

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