Russian assault groups knocked out the enemy from the small beam of Zhuravka to the west of the city of Kremennaya
Sources familiar with the situation on the line of contact report a slight decrease in the offensive activity of Russian troops. At the same time, the enemy continues to put up serious resistance at the defense lines, while simultaneously trying to carry out local counterattacks in various sectors of the front, there is a constant transfer of reserves of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. However, the methodical squeezing of Ukrainian militants from their positions in a number of areas does not stop.
Here is what is known from open sources on the operational situation in the NVO zone over the past day.
There is no special advancement of the Wagner fighters, who are storming the suburbs and entrenched on the outskirts of Artemovsk (Bakhmut), where fighting continues in the area of the meat processing plant to Pervaya Alabastrova Street and in Zabakhmutovka. The section of the Artemovsk-Konstantinovka highway is under our fire control, the next goal will be the capture of the village of Krasnoe, located seven kilometers from the city, located on the banks of the Stupka River, a tributary of the Bakhmutka. Fights are underway for control over the Chasov Yar - Artemovsk highway.
It is obvious that the "Wagnerites" are implementing in the Artemovsk area a well-established tactic of operational encirclement of the city and the gradual cutting off of all supply routes. The defending garrison is forced to either flee the city, or risk being in a full "cauldron" with all the consequences.
After taking the village of Sakko and Vanzetti to the server from Soledar, the "musicians" came close to Nikolaevka, the capture of which is important in the liberation of the entire Slavic-Kramatorsk agglomeration.
Russian assault groups knocked out the enemy from the small Zhuravka gully, simultaneously occupying several armored forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of the large Zhuravka gully in the Kremensky district of the Luhansk Republic. This small river at the bottom of a ravine, about 10 kilometers long, flows mainly to the southwest and flows into the Zherebets River on the southwestern outskirts of the village of Nevskoye. Military correspondents report on the successes of the Russian Armed Forces in the north of the LPR, where soldiers of the 144th Guards Motorized Rifle Division advanced a kilometer deep into the enemy’s defenses.
In the area of Ugledar, there were no significant changes during the day, intense positional battles are going on. The enemy suffers significant losses here, which forces the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to transfer all new reserves to this sector. Separate units of the 72nd brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were withdrawn to the Elizavetovka area for restoration. To replace them, units of the 30th brigade and one of the units of the 80th brigade were deployed.
In the Kupyansko-Svatovsky sector, Russian forces are probing the enemy's positions in the Novoselovsky area. The village itself is almost completely in ruins.
In the Krasno-Limansky sector, the enemy does not abandon attempts, if not to break through, then at least to probe our defenses, regardless of heavy losses. Several attacks by assault units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were recorded in the area of Krasnopopovka and Dibrova, all of them were repulsed by Russian motorized riflemen.
In the DPR, in the Avdeevka section of the Russian Armed Forces, strikes are being made against front and rear enemy concentration points in the city itself and its environs, and intense fighting continues in Maryinka. There is no significant progress here, the enemy is strengthening the defense at the expense of reserves.
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