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Briefly about Ukraine. 05/25/2022
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin [ColonelCassad] Briefly about Ukraine. 05/25/2022 1. Svetlodarsk. Officially liberated Luhansk. There are fights for Novoluganskoe. The enemy is gradually drawn back to Artemovsk (Bakhmut). The surrender of the Svetlodar Bulge is justified by a "tactical maneuver". 2. Avdievka. Fighting in the area of Novoselki-2, New York and Krasnogorovka. There is no significant progress today. The enemy puts up stubborn resistance. 3. Artemovsk (Bakhmut). Battles at Pilipchatino. There is an increasing processing of the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Artemovsk. The enemy is concentrating equipment to the west of Artemovsk. An attempt to counterattack to unblock the Artemovsk-Lysichansk route is not ruled out. 4. Soledar. There is no assault on the city yet. To the north of Soledar, the troops reached the Artemovsk-Lysichansk highway in the area of Belogorovka and Nagorny. The key communications of the Severodonetsk grouping have been cut. There was a supply line through Seversk. 5. Zolotoye. Fighting on the southern outskirts of the village continued, as well as in Kamyshevakh. Vrubovka is still under the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Fighting continues in the Toshkovka area. The grouping in Gorskoye and Zolotoye is in a difficult situation. It will be difficult for her to leave. 6. Severodonetsk. Fighting continued on the outskirts of Severodonetsk. It is also stated that the troops approached Lisichansk. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will have to make a difficult decision - either play out the Mariupol scenario, with the encirclement and subsequent complete destruction of the entire Severodonetsk group, or retreat with losses in the direction of Slavyansk and Artemovsk. If the resolution of the issue is delayed, already in the next week the problem of supply will confront the Severodonetsk grouping to its full height, not to mention the fact that the issue of withdrawing troops from the encirclement may disappear by itself. 7. Krasniy Limon. Most of the city has already been liberated by the RF Armed Forces and the National Guard. The enemy is resisting in the southeastern part of the city. There are reports of the withdrawal of part of the forces to the Seversky Donets (River). Information about a large number of prisoners has been confirmed. 8. Izyum. Positional battles in the area of Kamyshevakhi and Dolgenko. The enemy expects the activation of the Izyum grouping of the RF Armed Forces after the completion of the encirclement of the Severodonetsk grouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. 9. Kharkov. The enemy continued to try to recapture the lost positions in the area of Ternovoye and Rubezhnoye. Didn't have any major success. At the same time, there is a strengthening of the grouping of the RF Armed Forces in the Kharkiv direction, and there is also talk of strengthening the grouping of the RF Armed Forces on the border of the Sumy and Chernihiv regions. 10. Nikolaev, Odessa, Zaporizhia, Marinka, Ugledar - no changes. From Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets: About the situation in the area of Severodonetsk Regarding the earlier information about the withdrawal of heavy Ukrainian artillery from the borders of Severodonetsk, an interesting quote from the chat of the TG channel "Lysichansk. Severodonetsk. Rubizhne." 1. No such command was received by radio intercepts. 2. At the moment, especially after tonight, they have practically nothing to take away. 3. The Ukrainian troops left in the triangle, especially in Severodonetsk, are useless meat, Kyiv may not withdraw them, since a riot in the rear of previously abandoned warriors, with their successful evacuation, is not needed by their commanders. Therefore, they are likely to deliberately try to leave to die. Ukrainians have done this before -- in Debalstevo in 2015 4. After breaking through the defenses in Liman and Svetlodarsk, the next settlement is Artemovsk, in which they can no longer build an echeloned defense. They may try, urgently, to equip positions between Dnepropetrovsk and the Kramatorsk-Slavyansk direction, but this will take at least three weeks. Therefore, the troops of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Triangle are walking corpses, they are still breathing, talking, but in fact they are already dead, no one will take them in an organized manner, only if they run away on their own, in small groups, or surrender, Additionally from the Lisichansk chat. In forest plantations near the old cemetery of Novodruzhesk, the Ukrainians, who moved away from Privolye and left Severodonetsk, have been building fortifications for the last couple of days, but after a powerful arrival at night, the Ukrainians are very sad, it seems that no one left. A lot of equipment, all the built objects are "tired". In many places, piles of broken equipment cannot be bypassed, they are still burning, peaceful quarters were not damaged, there were no arrivals to the residential area. In the PDR area, simply unmeasuredly beaten equipment. They were beaten with something high-precision. Meanwhile, Russian forces broke into the defenses on the Bakhmut-Lysichansk highway and took Belogorovka, Nagornoye and Vasilyevka. Units of the Ukrainian 14th Independent Rifle Brigade suffered heavy losses and retreated. Thus, the main supply route for the Severodonetsk grouping has been physically cut off. The road through Seversk remained at the disposal of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. When moving towards Seversk from Yampol or when moving from Belogorovka to the Artemovsk-Seversk highway, the boiler from the operational will become full and about 4,000 VSUshnikov (Ukrainians) will be surrounded. Roughly the same number of the units captured during Debaltseveo. Posted by: badanov 2022-05-26 |
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