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How we entered Rabotino
2024-02-25
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin.

Not meaning to dispute the video, but it appears two motorized squads were deposited as their infantry fighting vehicles fired madly into likely positions of their enemy, in two locations in what's left of Robatino, before the BMP-3s bugged out.

Russian artillery fires smoke missions to cover the retreat of the vehicles, as Ukrainian artillery began to grid one of the new outposts. (on the right)

Russian probably discovered a seam in the Ukrainian defense of the village and exploited it.

[ColonelCassad] A video from attack aircraft of the 70th Guards Motorized Rifle Regiment of the Russian Armed Forces demonstrating how two armored assault groups broke through to the center of Rabotino today.



The fighting for the village continues.

More from Boris Rozhin:
The Ukrainians leave Lastochkino

Actually, as mentioned earlier, after leaving the Avdeevsky coking plant, the enemy in Lastochkino will not last long.

After lunch, the enemy reports that the remaining forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces have withdrawn from Lastochkino due to the threat of encirclement. From our side, the release of Lastochkino has not yet been officially announced, but apparently this will be done in the next 24 hours. It can be expected that after the completion of the battles for Severnoye, pressure will begin to build up on the enemy’s main line of defense west of Avdeevka - Berdychi-Orlovka-Tonenkoye. In Petrovskoye the enemy is no longer there; in Severny he still controls part of the village, but this is also not for long.

In the Zaporozhye direction, our troops today occupied the center of Rabotino. The Rabotinsky ledge will apparently also become history in the coming weeks. The enemy's introduction of reserves into battle helped slow down, but not stop, the advance of the Russian Armed Forces.

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Ukrainian Armed Forces abandoned their positions in Lastochkino near Avdiivka, media reported

Ukrainian military units left their positions in the village of Lastochkino, located west of Avdievka, the Strana.ru publication reported on February 24. ua", referring to messages from the soldiers of the 3rd separate assault brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces who were there.

According to the Ukrainian military, Russian troops blocked the village from the flanks, and the attack aircraft decided to leave the village so as not to be surrounded.

“Our units had to leave Lastochkino to avoid blocking logistics routes and to save personnel,” journalists quoted a message from an attack aircraft of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

There is no official information from the Russian Ministry of Defense about the release of Lastochkino yet.

Earlier on February 24, the Telegram channel “Military Correspondents of the Russian Spring” reported that Ukrainian units located in Lastochkino found themselves in a cauldron during simultaneous attacks by the Russian army from three sides. According to military officers, Russian fighters began clearing the village.

The official representative of the Ministry of Defense, Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov, on February 24, during a daily briefing, said that Russian troops continue to advance in the Avdeevsky direction and are fighting near Pervomaisky and Lastochkino. The losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces per day amounted to 425 military personnel.

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