Commentary by uUssian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
[ColonelCassad] Across Artemovsk, mid-afternoon, March 13
Over the past day, our assault groups have made some progress in the industrial sector and in the area of ​​the AZOM plant. The enemy confirms the gradual advance of our assault groups in the city blocks, despite attempts to organize a tough defense and stop the advance of the Wagner.
Fierce fighting continues in the Krasnoye area. The enemy confidently controls the settlement and tries to push the Wagner off the Chasov-Yar-Krasnoye-Artemovsk road by means of counterattacks in order to use it in the future if the situation with Khromovo worsens.
Khromovo is also under the enemy - the battles are going to the north. Since the loss of Khromovo means the automatic formation of a cauldron, they will hold on to it to the last.
Bogdanovka is also under the Armed Forces of Ukraine. There are battles at Orekhovo-Vasilyevka and at Zaliznyansky.
Meanwhile, due to the shelling of roads from Artemovsk, on the roads and fields to the west of the city, the number of destroyed wheeled and tracked vehicles continues to increase. This is a good process.
The enemy is concentrating additional forces in Chasov Yar (as well as in the Rai-Aleksandrovka area) and is expected to try this week to push the Wagner back at least in one of the directions from Artemovsk. There is a transfer of reserves taken from the border with Belarus and from the Chernihiv region.
The strikes of the RF Armed Forces in the area of ​​Chasov Yar and Konstantinovka are primarily aimed at the enemy's redeployed reserves, which are deployed in industrial zones and the private sector. In general, the battle for Artyomovsk continues to put serious pressure on the operational plans of the Ukrainian command, which affects the situation in other areas as well.