⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦⚔️ Battle for #Bakhmut - Situation at the End of 12 May 2023⚡️

▪️ Units of the Wagner PMC continue to dig into enemy defences in the western neighbourhoods of #Bakhmut: overnight, the stormtroopers managed to occupy several houses in the "Gnezdo" fortified area. Exactly two square kilometres of territory remain under the control of the enemy.
➖ All three strongholds - Nest, Constructor and Domino - are relatively small blocks of flats. The Ukrainian formations have equipped firing points in them, and when the PMC approach, they mine entrances and undermine the approaches.

▪️ In the afternoon, footage appeared confirming the retreat of the RF Armed Forces to the south of the #Berkhovskoye Reservoir. The fire control from the heights north of the Chasov Yar - #Khromovo road was lost, and the RF Armed Forces were taking up defences along the eastern bank of the reservoir.

▪️ In the evening, Ukrainian resources posted video of the counterattack by the 56th AFU Mechanized Brigade vs. the positions of the RF Armed Forces to the west of Dubovo-Vasilyevka. The footage depicts the fight and the retreat of a part of the Russian unit from the abandoned positions. The withdrawal of Russian units reported by PMC Wagner's military correspondents takes place south of this point (we have marked it on the map), but there is no video confirmation yet.

📌 While Wagner PMC assault squads are digging into the western neighbourhoods of #Bakhmut, the RF Armed Forces units arriving on rotation are retreating to the 2nd and 3rd lines of defence. Ukrainian formations do not stop pressing on the flanks.

So far, the retreats have been in relatively small areas, which nevertheless came at a heavy price for the "Bandwagon". But if the regular units do not consolidate and the configuration of forces on the front (as well as the approaches) does not change, the outcome of such regroupings could become even more deplorable.

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⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦⚔️ #Chronicle of the Special Military Operation for 12 May 2023⚡️

🔹 One of the Main Events in the SMO Zone was the missile strike on #Lugansk on Republic Day. To be honest, we are not sure that the strike was carried out by the Thunder-2 missile defense System. In the Ukrainian theater of operations, the United States and Great Britain are working on promising ways to break through the enemy's air defence and defences in the face of the RF Armed Forces as part of a massive missile and artillery strike. And the use of air-based deception missiles is poorly connected with the use of OTRC (operational-tactical missile complex).

🔹 As for the fighting, in #Bakhmut, the PMC units continued to bite into the defence, while to the north, the units of the RF Armed Forces performed a "maneuver" and left the occupied lines.

🔹 And the Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed one bridge.

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◾ Ukrainian report from the Bakhmut meat grinder. A Ukrainian soldier explains what happens when you encounter a Russian tank.

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❗️ Officially: During three days of counteroffensive actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 17.3 km² were liberated, — the speaker of the Eastern Group of Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

👉👉👉 Ukrainian post. Listen clearly what he said: "counteroffensive".

There are details on the impact in Lugansk.

Why was it concluded that this is a British storm? Not many options. Either the OTRK Thunder, or the Storm cruise missile, those are the missiles with sufficient range.

But Thunder, by virtue of its trajectory, rises high, and from this it is clearly visible for air defenses; Storm, on the contrary, goes low. Video with traces, apparently after being dropped from an airplane, the flight is still at an altitude, and a trace remains from the marching turbojet engine. After the rocket reached its standard low flight altitude, no traces were visible.

Well, plus the discovery in Lugansk of a decoy for cruise missiles, a regular decoy.

Based on this, we can conclude that training for these missiles has been ongoing for a long time, the delivery was also a long time ago, and yesterday's mention of them was only a signal of readiness to use them. Therefore, the blow took place the next day, and again, the media component was also taken into account, a holiday in the LPR.

And accordingly, for sure, these missiles are part of the plan for the expected offensive. If yesterday, in fact, the softening of our positions and the search for weaknesses began, then at the decisive moment, we must be ready for mass launches of Storms. Including with decoys, for overloading air defense.

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TWO DIMENSIONS OF WAR IN UKRAINE: BATTLEFIELD AND ZELENSKY'S TALES

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Wagner PMCs advanced 400 meters in Bakhmut, territories lost from the right flank
E. Prigozhin: "The divisions of PMC" Wagner "moved up to 400 m. The area of advancement was 132,000 sq. m.
Under the control of the enemy - exactly 2 square kilometers of Bakhmut.
On the right flank, units of the Russian Defense Ministry have lost more territories, the number of square kilometers is being specified.

🇷🇺Yevgeny Prigozhin described in more detail the situation in Bakhmut May 12.
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According to him, the retreat of the Russians to the Berkhovsky reservoir again opened the way for the Armed Forces of Ukraine to Bakhmut from Chasy Yar.

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❗️Las declaraciones más destacadas del comandante de la Flota del Mar Negro de Rusia, Víktor Sokolov:

◾️Las Fuerzas Armadas de Ucrania se enfocaron en realizar ataques de sabotaje contra instalaciones de la Flota del Mar Negro y la infraestructura crítica de Crimea;

◾️La flota reforzó la protección de su base principal de buques contra los ataques de vehículos aéreos no tripulados de superficie y aumentó la zona de control por radar para detectar drones;

◾️Buques de la Flota del Mar Negro, armados con misiles Kalibr, atacaron más de 180 objetivos importantes de las FF.AA. ucranianas durante la operación militar especial, mientras que unidades de las tropas costeras de misiles y artillería atacaron 70 instalaciones de Ucrania;

◾️Se completó el desminado del mar de Azov, lo que permite a los puertos de las nuevas regiones rusas participar en diversos tipos de tráfico marítimo.
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❗️Las key statements by the commander of Russia's Black Sea Fleet, Viktor Sokolov:

◾️Las Ukrainian Armed Forces focused on carrying out sabotage attacks against Black Sea Fleet facilities and critical infrastructure in Crimea;

◾️La fleet strengthened protection of its main ship base against surface UAV attacks and increased the radar control zone to detect drones;

◾️Buques of the Black Sea Fleet, armed with Kalibr missiles, attacked more than 180 major Ukrainian Armed Forces targets during the special military operation, while units of the coastal missile and artillery troops attacked 70 Ukrainian installations;

◾️Se completed the demining of the Sea of Azov, enabling ports in the new Russian regions to engage in various types of maritime traffic.