Battlefield Update - 2023-04-10 (1)
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❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Highlights of Russian Military Operation in Ukraine on April 8-9
▪️Ukrainian units made another attempt to strike the Crimean peninsula from the Hrim-2 operational-tactical missile system.
The missile, fired from the Alibey firing range, was shot down by an S-300 SAM system near Feodosiya.
▪️Ukrainian units continue shelling the border areas of Belgorod Region.
The villages Arkhangel'skoe and Voznesenovka of the Shebekinsky city district, as well as Tishanka of the Volokonovsky district, came under AFU's shelling.
▪️In Bakhmut, Wagner PMC's assault groups continue to push the enemy in the northern quarters.
Russian forces almost completely control the Internat area and are fighting at the railway tracks fork.
▪️In the city center, the Wagner PMC advanced in the direction of the Saltovsʹkyy M'yasokombinat and the Avtostantsiya.
Fierce fighting continues at the train station and the Church of All Saints, which are under the AFU control.
▪️In the south of Bakhmut, Russian units are fighting for control of the territory of School №2 and School №40 on Chajkovskogo St.
The liberation of this section will allow to cut off the city from the AFU grouping in Ivanivske and block one of the supply routes.
▪️Ukrainian units continue to conduct artillery shelling of Donetsk agglomeration cities.
Apartment buildings and a daycare center in Yasinovataya were hit. Two people were killed and 14 people were wounded.
▪️Russian troops hit hangars with HIMARS MLRS and NATO barrel artillery on the elevator territory in Orikhiv.
With a high degree of probability, military equipment was redeployed for use in the upcoming counteroffensive.
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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Chronicle of a special military operation
for April 8-9, 2023
🔻Republic of Crimea:
▪️Russian air defense systems intercepted a missile fired from the Grom-2 OTRS in the vicinity of Feodosia: there are no victims or injured.
🔻Belgorod region:
▪️Ukrainian formations shelled Shebekinsky urban district and Volokonovsky district: residential buildings and infrastructure facilities in the villages of Arkhangelskoye, Voznesenovka and Tishanka were hit.
🔻Starobelsk direction:
▪️The situation has not changed significantly: artillery duels and positional battles continue along the line of contact.
🔻Soledar direction:
▪️In the north of Bakhmut, the assault detachments of the PMC "Wagner" almost completely liberated the Internat area, and also advanced in the direction of the Elevator area.
▪️In the city center, Russian units are advancing on enemy positions in the vicinity of the Saltovsky meat processing plant and the Bakhmutskaya bus station.
▪️To the south, the Wagnerites liberated the Avangard stadium, as well as the adjacent pedagogical school and the agricultural lyceum on Kovalskaya and Blagoveshchenskaya streets.
Ukrainian formations are attempting counterattacks, trying to regain the lost territories.
▪️In the south of Bakhmut, Wagner PMC fighters are fighting in the area of schools No. 2 and No. 40 on Tchaikovsky Street.
▪️To the south-west, Russian troops continue to storm the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the outskirts of Krasnoe, as well as in the area of the highway to Konstantinovka.
🔻 Donetsk direction:
▪️Units of the Russian Armed Forces continue the operation to cover the AFU grouping in Avdiivka. Russian aviation inflicts massive strikes with guided bombs on enemy positions in the city.
▪️In Maryinka, after leveling the front line along Druzhby Avenue, Russian troops are fighting in the area of a tire repair plant.
▪️Ukrainian formations continue to randomly shell the Donetsk agglomeration. In Yasinovataya, more than ten residential buildings and a kindergarten building were hit: two people were killed, 14 were injured.
🔻Zaporozhye direction:
▪️In the Gulyaipol area, the Russian Aerospace Forces hit the building of the ZapAgroTekh agricultural machinery production enterprise with precision-guided munitions. With a high degree of probability, a warehouse of weapons or equipment was located on the territory of the enterprise.
▪️Russian troops delivered precise strikes on hangars with HIMARS MLRS and cannon artillery on the territory of the elevator in Orekhovo. Previously, the equipment was transferred to the city for use in the upcoming counteroffensive.
🔻Southern Front: Kherson direction:
▪️In the southern sector of the front, artillery duels continue along the line of contact: the Russian Armed Forces attacked Kherson and its environs, and also used guided bombs on enemy targets in Berislav.
Ukrainian formations, in turn, fired at settlements on the left bank of the Dnieper: Novaya Kakhovka, Vasilyevka and Pokrovskoe were also under attack.
🔹Political events:
The Ukrainian authorities continue the policy of ousting the canonical UOC-MP from public life.
▪️In the Khmelnitsky region, the St. Michael's Cathedral in Shepetovka was captured, and the assault on the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Kamenetz-Podolsky continues.
▪️In the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, on the occasion of Palm Sunday, two services were held simultaneously: schismatics held a service in the Refectory Church, parishioners of the UOC-MP - in the courtyard.
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US asks Turkey to stop trade with Russia
Turkey has agreed to stop the transit of sanctioned western goods to Russia (https://english.alarabiya.net/News/world/2023/02/10/US-Treasury-to-crack-down-on-Russian-sanctions-evasion-Adeyemo) after pressure from the G7, a senior US official said, cautioning that Washington will monitor Ankara’s trade data with Moscow in anticipation of a drop.
James O’Brien, head of the US State Department’s Office of Sanctions Coordination, told Reuters that Turkish officials have been “very clear” with various governments and agencies that they have put in place a ban on the re-export of sanctioned goods to Russia.
But Washington was yet to see the impact of the change, he said.
“It will take us some time to see it, but we will see trade data from March and April and we will expect to see this trade dropping dramatically,” O’Brien said.
“It’s the numbers. That’s all I care about.”
The United States and its allies imposed extensive sanctions on Russia following its invasion of Ukraine, but supply channels have remained open from Black Sea neighbor Turkey and other trading hubs, including Hong Kong.
The Turkish government handed companies a list of banned foreign goods and instructed them not to transship those to Russia from March 1, the Istanbul Ferrous and Nonferrous Metals Exporters Association said last month.
The policy comes after Washington and other members of the G7 bloc of wealthy nations have worked to persuade third countries to restrict sales of items that Russia can reuse on the battlefield.
Kazakhstan, UAE also eyed
NATO alliance member Ankara has sought to maintain good relations with both Moscow and Kyiv amid the war.
It opposes the sanctions on principle but has said they will not be circumvented in Turkey and that no shipped products can be used by Russia’s military.
Several senior US officials, including US Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo, have traveled to Turkey since the invasion and have issued warnings to Turkish businesses and banks to enforce US curbs on Russia.
O’Brien said Kazakhstan has also announced a policy to review and identify trade that might violate sanctions, adding Washington expects to see improvements there.
The United Arab Emirates, too, said it will look at its trade with Russia but has not committed to taking action, O’Brien said. Washington has previously said there is “poor sanctions compliance” in the United Arab Emirates.
“We’re making clear this is a very high priority for the G7 - Russia is using these goods to make weapons,” said O’Brien.
He added that because items are ultimately bound for the Russian military, anyone associated with the transactions in the UAE could be violating sanctions.
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