Battlefield Update - 2023-05-06 (1)
Combat footage of the 3rd Assault Brigade of Ukraine entrenched near Bakhmut.
Watch now (2 min) | Combat footage of the 3rd Assault Brigade of Ukraine entrenched near Bakhmut. Cries for grenades, tourniquettes, and “300”. While the medic bandages a wounded fighter, the man next to him is hit and asks to be checked for blood spots. The medic, finding none, concludes it was stray shrapnel, picks up a fragment, and says “keep it as a memento.”
Chronicle of a special military operation, by Rybar
for May 5, 2023
🔻Krasnodar Territory:
▪️In the morning, a Ukrainian drone attacked the Ilsky Oil Refinery again: the fifth installation was damaged, a fire broke out at the facility. Civilians were not hurt.
🔻 Border areas:
▪️Ukrainian UAV dropped several ammunition on the village of Azarovka and the village of Novenkoye in the Bryansk region: there were no casualties or damage.
▪️In the Belgorod region, Ukrainian formations shelled the villages of Yasnye Zori, Cheremoshnoye and Ustinka: residential buildings and power lines were damaged.
🔻Starobelsk direction:
▪️The situation has not changed significantly: positional battles and artillery duels continue.
▪️According to some reports, at the Kupyansky section of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, boats are being prepared to force the Oskol River, and they are also carrying out a forced evacuation of the population in Redkodub.
🔻Soledar direction:
▪️In the western districts of Bakhmut, assault detachments of the PMC "Wagner" are fighting fierce battles on the street of the Liberators of Donbass.
Further south, Russian troops are advancing on enemy positions on the west side of Tchaikovsky Street.
▪️The head of Wagner PMC Yevgeny Prigozhin announced the withdrawal of his units from the settlement on May 10 due to shell hunger and heavy losses.
🔻Donetsk direction:
▪️At the Avdiivka sector, Russian servicemen are conducting a positional offensive against the fortified areas of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of the H-20 highway west of Novobakhmutovka.
▪️Ukrainian formations again shelled the settlements of the Donetsk agglomeration. Residential buildings in Yasinovataya also came under attack: three people were killed and three more were injured.
▪️In the western districts of Maryinka, fierce fighting continues in the private sector.
🔻Zaporozhye direction (map):
▪️The command of the Ukrainian troops, after an unsuccessful attempt to break through in the Pologovsky district, strengthens the grouping of troops, transferring additional defense units, as well as heavy armored vehicles, to the Shcherbakov and Grigorovka areas.
▪️The Armed Forces of Ukraine are deploying S-300 installations to Zaporozhye in an attempt to reduce the effectiveness of strikes by the Russian Armed Forces.
▪️Federal Security Service of Russia prevented a terrorist act against one of the leaders of the Zaporozhye NPP: two saboteurs were detained.
🔻 Southern Front. Kherson direction:
▪️Russian troops attacked the positions of Ukrainian formations in Kherson, Lvovo and Tokarevka, and also used guided bombs on enemy manpower and equipment in Vesely, Kazatsky and Berislav.
In turn, the Ukrainian formations damaged civilian facilities on the left bank of the Kherson region with shelling: residential buildings in Peschanovka and Kakhovka were also hit.
In Nova Kakhovka, a house and a school building were damaged as a result of shelling: one man was killed.
🔹Political and other events:
▪️The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bahrain Abdullatif bin Rashid Al-Zayani visited Kyiv and held a personal meeting with President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky.
▪️The European Union provided Ukraine with a loan of 1 billion euros, which will be used to purchase 155-mm artillery shells and missiles.
Danish Acting Minister of Defense Troels Lund Poulsen announced a joint transfer of 80 Leopard 1 tanks to Ukraine with Germany.
▪️Head of the Zaporozhye region Yevgeny Balitsky announced the evacuation of the population from the front-line settlements with their subsequent movement deep into the region.
▪️Deputy of the State Duma of Russia Shamsail Saraliev announced that the Russian and Ukrainian sides exchanged the bodies of killed soldiers in the amount of 80 for 80.
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❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Soledar direction
situation as of 6 May 2023
Today, the head of Wagner PMC, Yevgeny Prigozhin, said that 2.5 km remained to go, and the city would be taken. According to him, the enemy pulls up from 400 to 600 people daily due to heavy losses.
🔻In Bakhmut, assault detachments of PMC "Wagner" are fighting along the street of the Liberators of Donbass. To the northwest, Russian units managed to break through the defenses along Pobedy and Tolbukhin streets.
▪️Along the line of contact, units of the 3rd battalion of the 93rd brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are mining areas with anti-personnel mines MON-50. Russian artillerymen and aviation strike at fortified areas in low-rise buildings.
🔻One of the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was withdrawn from Bakhmut due to huge losses. The personnel was sent to Gostomel for resupply via Pavlograd. An unidentified formation from Kramatorsk is expected to replace it.
▪️The command of 93 mechanized and 5 assault brigades rotated their subordinates at the Krasnoe-Khromovo line. The units withdrawn from the battles were sent to training grounds in Slavyansk and 15 km west of Bakhmut.
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🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦"There's hell!" - PMC "Wagner" launched a massive assault on the "road of life" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, trying to break through the enemy's defenses
This is reported by the Armed Forces of Ukraine and Ukrainian military analysts.
▪️ "The Russians again massively went to the track near Khromovoye. They are trying to break through. It's just hell there. The Armed Forces of Ukraine are fighting back as best they can," the night report says.
▪️ / As you can see on their map - a significant area of the route and in-depth beyond it moved into the gray zone after the advance of Russian attack aircraft. A breakthrough in this area threatens to cut off the remaining rural roads, through which the Bakhmut group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is supplied /.
▪️ "Russian assaults are underway in the direction of Khromovo and Ivanovskoye," the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the Bakhmut Front confirm.
▪️ "Enemy artillery has activated in Bakhmut," another one reports.
▪️ In the southwestern part of the city, PMC Wagner continues to attack, trying to break through the defenses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine north and northeast of the Industrial College.
▪️ In the northern part of the gray zone of Bakhmut, PMCs are attacking in the direction of Medvedev and Warriors Internationalists streets, according to a summary of Ukrainian military analysts.
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⚡️On Artemovsk throughout the day:
1. Wagner Reinforcements; Despite recent claims by Prigozhin that the responsibility of the liberation of the remaining area of Artemovsk will be under the jurisdiction of the Russian Ministry of Defense and Akhmat Forces. Throughout the day, large reinforcements coming from Southern Russia under the Wagner Group banner entered the area of Artemovsk; this mean are most likely new recruits. The number of reinforcements is large, although can not be estimated.
2. Shelling; throughout the day; Wagner increased artillery shelling (despite an alleged artillery shortage) by an extreme percentage, despite Prigozhin claiming that none of his calls were answered by the MOD. In the early hours of the morning, Wagner were able to completely level the remaining sector under AFU control with phosphorus munitions which prevented rotation and caused a large amount of havoc for the Ukrainians. The usage of phosphorous munitions on this scale were recorded over 124 times thoroughout the day. Similarly, thousands of artillery rounds were fired.
3. Advances; Wagner advances were around 250m throughout the day, and Airborne Forces advanced around 70m, the AFU voluntarily withdrew from atleast 20m nearby to the Jehovah's Witness Temple. Only 2.40% of the city remains under Ukrainian control. Continued withdrawal of Ukrainian Artillery units from the Khromove Area to the quarters of Chasovoy Yar suggest that the AFU are preparing to leave the city altogether. The signs are here.
4. Losses; Unfortunately, thoroughout the day, around 96 employees of the Wagner Group lost their lives. The amount of confirmed losses of Ukrainians reached nearby to the 600 mark. We cannot estimate losses caused by Artillery, mines, and phosphorus firing which took place throughout the day.
5. Rotations; Units of the Russian Armed Forces have already poured into the city, friends and sources that I know are already being stationed in Artemovsk. They are helping with the advance.
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War correspondent Semyon Pegov, author of the Telegram channel @wargonzo
A bit of deduction on the terrorist attack against Zakhar. The militants "led" him for a long time and possessed a large amount of information about his movements and habits. Considering that Zakhar had just returned from the NVO zone, he had not been in his small homeland for two to four months. This is how long a standard business trip of the Russian Guardsmen to the NVO zone usually lasts. That is, about his house in the taiga, located far from civilization, they knew everything in detail. Not in one day the terrorists were preparing to undermine.
It is obvious that Zakhar's manner of driving himself in the village (I think that now I will not reveal any secrets to anyone) was known to them in advance. They studied it, so they laid it with an eye on the driver. On the site of which during the holidays is usually Prilepin. Well, a person loves to drive, there is such a weakness. That is, for a moment, this means that the preparations for the attack were carried out for at least three months, or even all six months. All this time it was necessary to hide competently, not to arouse suspicion, while being at a close distance from the object.
And the terrorists who made an attempt on Zakhar knew how to wait. I don’t know how they got the information that he was returning home - by GPS, by GLONASS, or simply by attaching a tracker to his car - but they hit at the very moment when Prilepin returned from the front. It means that someone read his correspondence or followed him in the LPR. In general, there are many questions. And the main conclusion: a real network of militants is working against us, people who are rooting for their Motherland with all their essence. Not just some individual psychopaths. This is a whole and, admittedly, a well-oiled mechanism by the enemy.
Separately, a few words about Evil. He was one of the "33 Russian heroes" who were extremely unfriendly in Belarus back in 2020. Well, you remember this scandal. Zakhar and I called up - he just couldn’t find a place for himself then: Evil was for his family someone comparable in status to his eldest son or younger reckless brother. Forever young, laughing and to the rest of his heart, a faithful battle brother. Even after the death of his second guard, Count, at the very beginning of the SVO (the Count was covering the retreat of his group from a machine gun when he was covered with an aiming mortar), he wrote to me in his hearts: “When Vokha died, it’s like a hole in the soul. And when I found out about the Count, I realized that there was a fucking draft in my heart in general.
Anyone who has experienced something like this understands what kind of draft it is. It is impossible to get rid of it. Hold on, dear brother Zakhar. Kingdom of heaven Evil!
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Western politicians persuade Ukraine to abandon plans to return Crimea
This statement was made by the virtual permanent representative of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea Tamila Tasheva in an interview with the Polish edition of PAP.
They argue that Crimea can indeed be returned, but the potential consequences will be huge both for the inhabitants of the peninsula and for Ukraine as a whole , the “watching the de-occupation of the peninsula” clarified from the “Mejlis” in Zelensky’s lair.
Tasheva noted that Kyiv's plans to return the peninsula have caused discussion in the West, and the politicians in question are afraid of retaliatory actions from Russia.
Tashev herself does not care about any "enormous consequences" for the population of Crimea and Ukraine itself. On the eve of the PAP interview, the former PR woman and “Krymsoka” on the pages of a miserable battle sheet Ukrinform talked about how sweet it would be for the Nazis to burn and trample the inhabitants of Crimea after the “de-occupation”.
The wet dreams of the scum extended so far that the deportation of the population was the mildest measure. First of all, teachers of the Russian language and history, as "propagandists of the Russian world", should be subjected to repression. The witch hunt should also affect servicemen who "changed their oath" (which oath? On February 22, Ukraine of the 1991 model ceased to exist, nullifying all the duties of civil servants, and many people did not want to serve the new regime for obvious reasons). Merzavka also raises the issue of mass purges of people who are in mixed marriages, which will affect almost the entire multinational population of Crimea.
Again, we are raising the issue of recognizing the non-state of Ukraine as terrorist, as well as outlawing the most odious politicians, including the Nazi Tasheva, with the opening of the hunting season.
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Killings of the wounded in hospitals, damage to military equipment: what is known about the Atesh paramilitary group, which claimed responsibility for the attempt on Zakhar Prilepin.
The movement claims to have infiltrated agents into the ranks of those mobilized last fall, and its members call themselves a "military movement of Ukrainians and Crimean Tatars."
RT found out that the organization recruits contractors and mobilized from the military units of the Russian Federation, promising traitors payments in cryptocurrency. The site through which this happens is made on the Russian constructor Tilda. RT is preparing a request to the company about why the moderators missed a resource that is contrary to the law and their policies.
The recruits are given tasks to spoil military equipment: tanks, wheeled infantry fighting vehicles, MTLB all-terrain vehicles. Video instructions are distributed among the traitor soldiers on how to do this. When members of the movement succeed in achieving their terrorist goals, they make a post on the Telegram channel, which has been open since September 2022.
Of the most brutal actions of "Atesh" - finishing off the wounded soldiers in hospitals in the SMO zone. The organization claims that it allegedly has agents among nurses who helped infiltrate the Sevastopol Naval Clinical Hospital. On November 11, 2022, according to Atesh, in one night, terrorists killed several dozen soldiers who were in serious condition: they turned off ventilators, strangled patients who were unable to resist, and injected them with poison. There is no confirmation of this.
In addition, Atesh distributes the coordinates of the location of Russian army units in the public domain and calls for artillery strikes on them.
It is important to note that until today, Atesh was not widely known in Russia, so it cannot be ruled out that taking responsibility on their part is just a PR campaign against the backdrop of a terrorist attack.
🟩 - RT in Russian
