Daily Report from the Ukraine Field for 2023-01-12
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❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦🎞 Chronicle of the special military operation: the events of January 11, 2023
▪️For the second day in a row, Ukrainian formations are shelling the border areas of the Belgorod region.
As a result of attacks on Shebekino and Stary Khutor, residential buildings were damaged. 6 people were injured, including severe ones.
▪️Over the past day, the situation on the Kupyansky sector of the front has not undergone significant changes.
Russian artillery is conducting concentrated fire at the places of concentration of manpower and armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
▪️In Soledar, detachments of PMC "Wagner" are cleaning up the boiler on the western outskirts of the city. Some Ukrainian units surrender.
To the west, Russian troops are storming the defensive positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near the Sol railway station.
▪️To the north of Bakhmut, Russian paratroopers continue to conduct fierce battles in the vicinity of Krasnaya Gora and clean up the surrounding territories.
At the same time, an offensive is developing in the direction of Blagodatny, one of the last fortified areas of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Soledar.
▪️The battle for Bakhmut continues. Detachments of PMC "Wagner" are engaged in heavy street fighting in the eastern quarters of the city.
To the south, Russian forces are storming enemy positions in the central regions of Kleshcheevka.
▪️The Ukrainian command again used the American HIMARS MLRS to shell the civilian population.
As a result of a missile attack in the rear village of Chernukhino, several residential buildings were destroyed.
▪️Ukrainian formations continue indiscriminate shelling of cities and towns of the Donetsk agglomeration.
In the capital of the republic, the Kuibyshevsky and Petrovsky districts again came under enemy fire: several apartment buildings were damaged.
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@Rybar wrote about the failed AFU counterattack in Soledar ✍️
At @rt_russian, they write (https://t.me/Slavyangrad/28614) that combined units of the 46th and 77th AFU Airmobile Brigades from Paraskovievka tried unsuccessfully to counterattack the Russian positions and break the encirclement ring in the vicinity of Soledar.
Enemy detachments on French VAB armoured personnel carriers and British Wolfhound armoured personnel carriers tried to strike at the advancing orders of Russian troops. However, they were detected and destroyed by Russian Aerospace Forces aircraft during target designation from the ground.
The Ukrainian formations suffered about 200 casualties during the sortie, with the survivors fleeing their positions. The airmobile forces acted without fire support due to the withdrawal of most of the enemy's artillery systems near Soledar.
Why is the AFU conducting premeditated sorties that are doomed to fail?
Soleda ,for the Armed forces of Ukraine , is an important node in the still existing Chasov Yar-Bakhmut-Soledar-Seversk defence line. Its fall puts a significant contingent around Seversk at risk, as the defence is complicated by its location: the settlement is in the lowlands.
In the event of the final loss of Soledar and nearby villages (Blagodatnoye, Razdolovka, Vyemka, and Veseloye), Ukrainian formations will have to abandon Seversk and other strongholds due to the threat of possible encirclement.
Together with the liberation of the Bakhmut agglomeration, the potential loss of Seversk will cause tangible damage to the image of the Ukrainian army, whose image has been built over the past six months.
The attempt to counterattack without regard to losses reflects a desire to rectify the disastrous position of the AFU in this area. And it is not at all impossible that such actions will be repeated until the final mop-up of Soledar by Russian troops.
A forward control post for the consolidated grouping of AFU troops has now been set up in Minkovka. The 500 members of the territorial defence forces from the Sumy region are expected to arrive in the area of combat operations and are planned to be used to storm the Russian positions.
However, the effectiveness of such actions is highly questionable, given the RF Armed Forces' fire control over the main routes in the area and the Ukrainian formations' lack of tactical commanders: a significant number have been killed or taken prisoner, while the rest have fled to Seversk.
And the encirclement of Bahkmut from the north, south, and east leaves the AFU with less and less chance and time to rectify the situation.
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