Battlefield Update - 2023-04-29 (2)

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📌 The situation in Bakhmut on the morning of April 29, 2023

Less than a day later, the assault detachments of the Wagner PMC have achieved new significant successes in the western districts of the city:

▪️The military unit in the western districts of Bakhmut completely passed under the control of the musicians, for which there were fierce battles;

▪️there is a promotion of our attack aircraft along Pobeda and Levanevskogo streets;

▪️The orchestra knocked out the enemy from Polevaya street and took up a number of positions on Tchaikovsky street

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🪖 Three reasons for the possible failure of the UAF counter-offensive - CNN

Abroad, they analyzed the widely announced offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the east of the country and came to the conclusion that Ukraine would not be able to achieve its goals.

1️⃣ The main reason is the Russian line of defense.

📝 “The Russians had almost six months to build a complex defense complex. Breaking through will be a huge test, ” the author of the article writes.

The Russian defense consists of "layers of anti-tank ditches, barriers, minefields and trenches stretching hundreds of miles along the winding southern front."

Satellite images confirm the fears of Western journalists. The footage shows "thousands of defensive positions on a vast territory" in the southeastern part of the Zaporozhye region.

2️⃣ The second reason is the lack of element of surprise.

📝 “Ukrainian officials have acknowledged that, unlike last September’s surprise takeover of part of the Kharkiv region, they may lack the element of surprise in any larger counteroffensive,” the article says.

3️⃣ The third reason for the failure of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is the advantage of the Russian army in the air.

In fact, Kyiv is deprived of any air force, while the Russian army has a wide arsenal of its own weapons in the air force.

📝 " This could be critical to slowing Ukraine's advance ," the CNN story concluded.

🤯 The West did not begin to name no less important reasons for the future failure of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, let's name them ourselves - corruption in the army, low morale of the mobilized masses, the ideological and religious split of society, and many other things that prevented and prevent Ukraine from becoming a "healthy" state.

#source (https://t.me/OstashkoNews/68166)

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