Commentary by Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets
Russian troops occupied Volcheyarovka. Lisichansk is now almost completely blocked
. The road through Seversk remains. Physically, it was not cut, but it was covered with artillery in the Seversk region before. After reaching Volcheyarovka, it became possible to directly shoot through the road to Lisichansk, as a result of which both main supply routes for the Severodonetsk grouping were no longer safe.
The grouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the new boiler has a strength of 5,000 to 7,000 people.
Ukrainian TG channels report that Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Zaluzhny urgently requested the evacuation of the entire grouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the Severodonetsk Loop.
On Zelensky, he ordered Zaluzhny to transfer the reserves of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the Belarusian border to the eastern front. The General Staff was told that it should prevent the encirclement of Lisichansk and should organize a breakthrough for the APU grouping in Zolote. That is, in Kyiv they persist. The better, the more it will grind.
Meanwhile, the RF Armed Forces are storming the dominant heights in Berestovoye, which allows them to control the route from Lisichansk to Bakhmut (Artemovsk).
In the Gorskoye-Zolotoye area, separate detachments of the Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to resist. Presumably, about a thousand more VSUs remain to be boiled in the boiler. It includes units of the 24th, 57th mechanized brigades. All Ukrainian prisoners of war who were taken in this area say that they were forcibly transferred to the front, no one wanted to take part in hostilities.
Data from the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on Ukrainian losses:
- In the 34th battalion of the 57th Motorized Infantry Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which was defeated near Mirna Dolina (LPR), more than 150 people were killed and about 450 were wounded in 2 days, the junior command staff abandoned their subordinates and deserted;
- In the units of the 30th Mechanized Brigade near Klinovoye (DPR), as a result of fire damage by Russian troops, less than 50 percent of the personnel remained, more than 170 soldiers and officers of the command were evacuated with severe injuries.