Commentary by Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets/
[CHERVONEC-001] On March 12, units of the people's republics continued their offensive on the front line in the Donbass, and Russian troops advanced in the Zaporozhye region
The forward detachments of the LPR army reached the outskirts of the city of Severodonetsk, which is blocked from the northern, northeastern and northwestern directions. Violent clashes continue in Rubizhne and on the outskirts of Severodonetsk.
The People's Militia of the LPR took control of the villages of Molodezhnoye and Vozgorie. Clashes continue in the city of Popasna.
The city of Volnovakha was taken by the DPR on March 11, so the DPR troops pass through the city, heading towards the city of Ugledar.
Meanwhile, the RF Armed Forces are also advancing towards the village of Velikaya Novoselka and the town of Vugledar to link up with the DPR forces there. Here, Russian troops advanced another 12 km along a wide front and took control of the villages of Novoandreevka, Kirilovka and reached the front line of Novomayorskoye - Pavlovka - Nikolskoye - Vladimirovka - Blagodatnoye.
Izyum - (counterattack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine - repulsed);
Severodonetsk - advanced detachments of the LPR went to the north. and northwestern outskirts of the city;
Popasnaya - earlier it was reported about the control of the NM of the LPR over the settlement, but today the situation has cleared up - the Armed Forces of Ukraine are counterattacking, units of the NM of the LPR are fighting to hold the center and southern outskirts of the settlement.
North-west of the city of Volnovakha - the offensive of the NM DPR and the RF Armed Forces continues in the north direction.
Mariupol - active fighting in the city.
Intensive shelling of the cities of Gorlovka, Donetsk and other settlements of the republics by the Armed Forces of Ukraine continues.
Today, in the region of the city of Avdeevka, a missile of the Tochka-U complex of the Armed Forces of Ukraine fell due to an engine failure (without detonation of the warhead).
Russian bloggers are crowing that the missile attack on Yavorovskiy military training ground is payback for the 2018 attack on Wagner mercenaries in Syria.
On Sunday morning, the Russian Armed Forces attacked the training centers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the village of Starichi and at the Yavorovskiy military training ground with high-precision long-range weapons, killing up to 180 foreign mercenaries and a large batch of foreign weapons, said the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Major General Igor Konashenkov.
The destruction of the mercenaries at the military training ground Yavorovsky made those mercenaries who are already on the front line think. Of the two hundred of them, most decided to win positions.
The "volunteers" realized that sooner or later they themselves would be destroyed. They are running out of food. The mood is lousy. The base has been destroyed. Help didn't come. They began to guess that they did not come to Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq or Libya, that there were no tribes here with bows and arrows.
I wonder if NATO mercenaries have ever encountered cruise missiles flying towards them before?
More on the missile attack:
Konashenkov: we will destroy mercenaries in the future
[REGNUM] The strike of the RF Armed Forces led to the destruction of a large group of mercenaries. This was announced on March 13 by the official representative of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Major General Igor Konashenkov .
According to Konashenkov, a group of foreign mercenaries numbering 180 people was destroyed by a strike of high-precision weapons on training centers in the village of Starichi and on the territory of the Yavoriv military training ground.
Also, according to the major general, a large batch of foreign weapons supplied to Ukraine by Western powers was destroyed.
The officer assured that the destruction of mercenaries and weapons transferred to Ukraine would continue. Recall that on February 24, a special military operation of the RF Armed Forces began to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine.