Battlefield Update - 2023-04-23 (1)
‼️🇺🇦🏴☠️About the "bridgehead of the Armed Forces of Ukraine" on the left bank of the Dnieper
▪️For a week now, there have been panicky rumors that the Armed Forces of Ukraine have occupied a piece of land in the Dacha district on the banks of the Dnieper and allegedly it can become a springboard for their counteroffensive.
What the fighters from the place say:
▪️The Dach area is a small piece of land, separated by a vast swampy area, without normal roads leading into the depths of Russian territory.
▪️Reconnaissance of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in small groups has been landing on boats on this section of the left bank for several months now and ours are hitting it. The militants are trying to sit in country houses, but our drones see them and correct artillery fire.
As a result, there are fewer and fewer whole houses in Dacha, the Armed Forces of Ukraine take away the wounded and the dead, then new ones arrive.
▪️Western military analysts have already studied the map and came to the simplest conclusions:
▪️"These are swampy areas without trails and roads, not suitable for military occupation. There is absolutely no evidence that Kiev controls a viable foothold across the Dnieper or even maintains its presence," writes Australian Nathan Ruser, who regularly analyzes the situation on the fronts.
▪️"There is no forcing of the Dnieper. There is no main bridge. There are scattered reports that Ukrainian forces are occupying positions on the left bank... This is a swamp without roads," an analyst from the United States, DefMon, responded to rumors about the UAF foothold on April 20.
▪️Today he repeated that this is a swampy area and the Ukrainian military have been here periodically since the moment he occupied Kherson, they did not go out on the road to Aleshki and did not enter settlements, but appear on this piece of land in Dacha.
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❗️Due to a serious shortage of anti-aircraft missiles, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are forced to use outdated and ineffective Jordanian 9M33M2 missiles on their Osa-AKM air defense systems, instead of the more advanced 9M33M3.
On April 18, a video of the destruction of the Ukrainian Osa-AKM air defense missile system with missiles, characteristic of the Jordanian army, was published . Exactly the same 9M33M2 missiles were previously used by the Jordanian army on their Osa-AK systems. Then the missiles were decommissioned along with the air defense systems, after which they ended up in Armenia, where they performed extremely unsuccessfully during the Second Karabakh War, both due to the low serviceability of the air defense systems themselves and the outdated 9M33M2 missiles.
On April 1, one of the Ukrainian TV channels aired an interview with the operator of the Ukrainian Osa-AKM air defense system, who , standing against the backdrop of Jordanian 9M33M2 missiles, said that the missiles supplied have a probability of hitting UAVs of only 50-60%, in contrast to Soviet missiles with a chance of about 80%.
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❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Soledar direction
Situation as of April 22, 2023
🔻 Fierce fighting continues in Bakhmut. Assault detachments of the Wagner PMC are pushing through the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the city, Ukrainian formations are trying to counterattack, holding back the onslaught of Russian units.
▪️The main clashes at the moment are taking place near the highway from Khromovo to Chasy Yar, where the Wagnerites managed to gain a foothold on a section of the road and physically cut off the supply. Russian aviation destroyed the crossing in the vicinity of Khromovo, but the enemy forces of the 93rd brigade and 5th brigade are trying to recapture their positions.
🔻At the same time, the Armed Forces of Ukraine expect the intensification of intense fighting near Bogdanovka and Grigorovka. The 153rd battalion of the 117th TD.
▪️There are detachments of Polish mercenaries operating in Chasov Yar. In the event of a breakthrough in the defenses in Bakhmut and Chasov Yar, Ukrainian formations mined the viaduct in Konstantinovka.
🔻To the north, a battalion of an unidentified unit from Liman was transferred to Zvanovka. South of Slavyansk, two battalion tactical groups of the 4th detachment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are concentrated in the amount of more than 900 people, but the shortage of these units is about 30%.
▪️In order to possibly strengthen the grouping both in the Limansky and Bakhmut sectors, units of the 63rd Smbre arrived in Slavyansk after the restoration of combat capability, as well as the 15th battalion of the 58th Smbr brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
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