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Russia continues its assault on Bakhmut - General Staff
2023-03-03
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[LB] But at the same time, the Russians are installing anti-tank barriers in their Belgorod region.

by Iryna Lysohor


372 days of large-scale Russian invasion began. The main efforts of the enemy are concentrated on conducting offensive operations in the Kupyan, Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiiv and Shakhtar directions.

Last day, our defenders repelled more than 170 enemy attacks on them. This is stated in the message of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Facebook.

In total, the Russian occupiers launched 14 rocket attacks on civilian objects in the Kharkiv, Poltava and Donetsk regions. There are wounded civilians, high-rise apartment buildings and private houses are damaged. The invaders also carried out 21 airstrikes, including two Shahed-136 UAVs. Strike drones shot down. The enemy carried out 58 attacks from rocket salvo systems.

The level of the threat of missile strikes by the Russian occupiers is very high throughout the territory of Ukraine.

In the Volyn, Poliske, Siversk and Slobozhansk directions, the formation of offensive groups of the enemy was not detected . During the day, the enemy shelled the settlements of Yeline and Baranivka of the Chernihiv region; Rozhkovichi, Starykove, Girky, Atynske, Stukalyvka, Budky, Volfine, Turya, Grabovske of Sumy region and Chervona Zorya, Veterinarne, Strelecha, Krasne, Ternova, Okhrimivka, Potikhonove, Dvorichna, and Kindrasivka of Kharkiv region. It used an unmanned aerial vehicle with a combat load near Budarok, Kharkiv region.

In the border areas of the Belgorod region, the enemy continues engineering equipment of the area, installs anti-tank barricades.

On the Kupyan and Lyman directions, the enemy carried out offensive actions in the areas of Kreminna and Bilogorivka settlements in the Luhansk region and Spirne in the Donetsk region . There was no success. He carried out artillery shelling of the areas of settlements of Masyutivka, Lyman Pershiy, Kupyansk, Kislivka of the Kharkiv region; Kuzemivka, Makiivka, Kreminna, Bilogorivka, Dibrova in the Luhansk region and Zvanivka in the Donetsk region.

The enemy continues to advance in the direction of Bakhmut. Storms the city of Bakhmut. Our defenders repelled attacks in the areas of Orikhovo-Vasylivka, Dubovo-Vasylivka, Bakhmut and Ivanivske settlements. Bondarne, Zaliznyanske, Orikhovo-Vasylivka, Dubovo-Vasylivka, Bakhmut, Ivanovske, Klishchiivka, Chasiv Yar and New York of the Donetsk region came under enemy fire.

In the Avdiyiv and Shakhtar directions, the enemy carried out unsuccessful offensive actions in the direction of the settlements of Kamianka, Severne, Vodyane, Nevelske and Maryinka. The areas of Avdiivka, Lastochkine, Berdychi, Vodyane, Krasnohorivka, Maryinka, Georgiivka, Bogoyavlenka, Velyka Novosilka and Neskuchne in Donetsk region were shelled.

In the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson directions, the enemy is defending itself, in some areas it is trying to create conditions for the transition to the offensive. He carried out artillery shelling of more than 45 districts of populated areas. Among them are Mala Tokmachka and Novoandriivka of the Zaporizhzhia region, as well as Dobra Nadiya, Nikopol, Zmiivka, Kozatske, Novosilka, Inzhenerne, Bilozerka, Dniprovske and the city of Kherson.

Over the past 24 hours, our aviation has carried out 16 strikes on the areas of concentration of personnel and military equipment of the occupiers. Also, our defenders shot down an enemy unmanned aerial vehicle of the "Orlan-10" type. Units of rocket forces and artillery hit one enemy concentration area, two ammunition depots and three other important enemy objects.

We will remind you that the high threat of a missile attack was emphasized in the operational command "South" yesterday. The Russians kept a large naval group with missile carriers in the Black Sea.

Posted by:badanov

#3  So, where are the headlines of Zellllennnnnsssskkkkyyyyiii "abandoning his people?"
Posted by: M. Murcek   2023-03-03 08:15  

#2  Wagner chief says his mercenaries have 'practically encircled' the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut with 'just one road remaining' as Putin closes in on first major success in six months
Posted by: Varmint Angeresh1640   2023-03-03 08:14  

#1  North #Bakhmut - The situation is still tense, although the advance has so far stalled just south of Stupky.
East #Bakhmut the situation has worsened. Wagner forces have taken control of the area around the art winery containing taller buildings
South #Bakhmut, the AFU has launched a local counter-attack around Ivanivske, footage surfaced of the Aidar battalion attacking under cover of APCs.
Posted by: Spaish Platypus1029   2023-03-03 06:35  

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