Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] 1. In the city, PMC "Wagner" continues to storm the block of high-rise buildings on the western outskirts. Today, attacks on the last fortifications of the Armed Forces of Ukraine + intensified by the evening, in addition to Artemovsk, they began to cover Bogdanovka, Orekhovo-Vasilyevka, Chasov Yar and other villages to the west of the city.
Also during the day there were strikes against the Slavic-Kramatorsk agglomeration. Fights in the city are in the nature of squeezing the enemy out of the city house by house. According to Prigogine, no prisoners are taken. The shells for the Wagner seem to have been allocated, which the enemy also notes, complaining about the increased fire damage of the APU grouping in the city and west of Artemovsk.
2. From the point of view of logistics, the situation of the operational encirclement of the AFU grouping in the city remains. All roads to the city are shot through, which leads to regular losses in vehicles to the west of the city. Nevertheless, the enemy, despite the losses, is trying to hold on to supplies and even drives additional equipment into the city to replace the destroyed one.
Rumors that the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Artemovsk have run out of equipment do not correspond to reality. There are also tanks and AFVs.
3. Khromovo, Bogdanovka, Orekhovo-Vasilyevka, Krasnoye, Novomarkovo - under the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Our attack aircraft have not yet entered these villages.
Syrsky said today that the task is to keep Artemovsk at least until May 9th. In fact, they repeat the situation with the agony of the remnants of the Mariupol grouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at Azovstal, which was also given the task last year not to capitulate until May 9, after which it capitulated shortly after the holidays.
However, Prigozhin has already reported that there is no task to take the city by the date. The primary task is to grind as many forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as possible while the Battle of Artyomovsk is going on.
PS. At night, Hours Yar and Artemovsk are equalized with cast iron.
Also, arrivals in the region of Konstantinovka and Kramatorsk
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