Battlefield Update - 2023-04-15 (1)
❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Highlights of Russian Military Operation in Ukraine on April 14
▪️Russian troops launched missile strikes on the AFU rear positions in Slavyansk, Kramatorsk, and Kostayntynivka.
The Ukrainian command deliberately deploys military objects within the city limits, using civilians as a "human shield."
▪️Heavy positional battles continue on the Bilohorivka-Spyrne line.
TheAFU have deployed additional reserves to the combat zone, which allowed them to stabilize the front line.
▪️The storming of Bakhmut is coming to a climax: the AFU are suffering heavy losses and losing positions in the western part of the city.
The redeploying of reserves is blocked by the fire of Russian artillery acting on the flanks.
▪️In the northern quarters, the Wagner PMC assault groups established full control over the area near the Rose Alley.
In the center, the AFU are trying to hold the railway station, where heavy fighting has been going on for several days.
▪️Active fighting is taking place along Korsunskiy Street in the southern part of the city.
The AFU are building defenses, relying on high-rise buildings that are used as strongpoints
▪️Russian troops continue to expand the zone of control west of Novobakhmutivka on the Avdiivka sector.
As a result of successful combat operations, several enemy defensive positions near the road to Kostyantynivka have been destroyed.
▪️Ukrainian forces continue to inflict artillery strikes on the civilian infrastructure of the Donetsk People's Republic.
In Horlivka, Kindergarten No. 15, residential buildings, and a heat pipeline were damaged, and part of the city was left without electricity.
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❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Destruction of the hangar in Orekhovo
This afternoon, the aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces dealt another blow to the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Orekhov in the Zaporozhye region. This time, warehouses on the territory of the Stroykamen stone-cutting shop were hit.
Coordinates: 47.557720, 35.777395
An extensive industrial area with several covered hangars, as well as the presence of a railway line adjacent to the enterprise, makes the facility a convenient shelter for personnel and equipment.
Next to Stroykamen there is another large enterprise - the manufacturer of agricultural machinery Orekhov-Selmash, as well as an electrical substation. And not far from the target are a bakery and the Petrov machine-building plant, which were destroyed a few days earlier.
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Chinese firm imported copper from Russian-controlled Donetsk Region ( Donetsk people's Republic , DPR)
A Chinese company bought at least $7.4 million worth of copper alloy ingots from a plant in a Russian-annexed region of Ukraine that is subject to Western sanctions, according to Russian customs data reviewed by Reuters.
China has not imposed any restrictions on trade with Russia, but the United States has threatened (https://www.reuters.com/markets/asia/shipping-russia-banned-goods-may-lead-blacklisting-us-warns-companies-2022-03-07/) to blacklist companies round the world for violating its sanctions and warned (https://www.reuters.com/business/chinese-firms-that-aid-russia-may-be-cut-off-us-equipment-commerce-secretary-2022-03-09/) Beijing against supplying Moscow with goods banned by U.S. export rules.
The customs information, drawn from one commercial trade data provider and cross-checked with two others, show some of the first evidence of Chinese trades with Russian-annexed regions of Ukraine since the war began on Feb. 24, 2022.
The Chinese firm, Quzhou Nova, bought at least 3,220 tons of copper alloy in ingots worth a total of $7.4 million from the Debaltsevsky Plant of Metallurgical Engineering between Oct. 8, 2022 and March 24, 2023, according to the data.
The plant is located in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, close to the border with Luhansk. Both Donetsk and Luhansk were among four Ukrainian regions that President Vladimir Putin claimed last September as part of Russia.
Quzhou Nova, a trading and manufacturing company based in the city of Quzhou in the eastern province of Zhejiang, told Reuters it does not have any import and export business related to the trade of copper alloy in ingots.
When Reuters showed details of the exports in the customs data to Quzhou Nova, the company said on March 23 that it "finds hard to understand the document, because this document is not stamped and signed", and suggested contacting customs about the issue.
The database, which collects information on all shipments worldwide, does not display stamps or signatures on its information.
The Chinese customs service did not provide detailed information on imports. It said that "company trade data are not disclosed in our public information".
China imported copper and copper alloys worth $852 million from Russia between October and February, according to public customs statistics.
A source at the Debaltsevsky plant, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said there was a non-ferrous metallurgy workshop on the territory of the factory. The source declined to comment on the issue of copper alloy shipments to China, saying the information was a "trade secret".
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