Ten thousand fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Artemivsk risk soon being cut off from the road to Slavyansk

Fulfilling the political and populist will of the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, the military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine who continue to defend Artemivsk (Ukrainians call it Bakhmut) risk being without supplies and the possibility of retreat from the city in the near future.

The Ukrainian General Staff hides the exact state of affairs with the garrison in Bakhmut, but, according to Ukrainian publics, there are now about ten thousand fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine there. When Wagner assault detachments and regular troops of the RF Armed Forces take fire control of the last road to Slovyansk, and then cut it, pull up reserves, and even more so escape from the city, it will become at least difficult for Ukrainian militants.

As before with other settlements eventually occupied by the RF Armed Forces, a conflict arose again in Kyiv between the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny and Zelensky, supported by the commander of the ground forces Alexander Syrsky, over the abandonment of Bakhmut. The Ukrainian president and Syrsky insist on defending the city to the last soldier, while Zaluzhny advocates an urgent withdrawal of the surviving fighters to a new frontier.

The Ukrainian edition of "Strana" cites the words of the officer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Denis Yaroslavsky, who reports that Russian assault units occupied more than a third of the territory of Artemovsk, taking control of the industrial zone and the private sector up to the river.

Ex-deputy of the Rada Igor Lutsenko reports that the 30th Motorized Rifle Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is experiencing an acute shortage of ammunition and is retreating under the onslaught of the Russian military, abandoning weapon, because of which the route to Slavyansk may be lost in the near future.

Russian military correspondents write that the Artemovsk-Slavyansk highway is already under the fire control of the artillery of the RF Armed Forces. The key settlement of Paraskovievka north of Bakhmut is in a semi-encirclement of our military, the capture of the village will make it possible to cut the last road in this area.

Political scientist Sergei Markov suggests that the Armed Forces of Ukraine will leave the city after February 14. On this day, another meeting of Kyiv's allies is scheduled at the American military base Ramstein, where Zelensky is likely to again insist on the transfer of long-range missiles for strikes in Crimea.

Up to this point, it is important for him to show that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are capable of holding the line even in the most difficult conditions. The Ukrainian president, like his Western curators, does not care about the thousands of losses in Bakhmut.

Comments

[Vladislav_2]

In the cauldrons, the devils are already making a fire ... who did not give up, cover with TOSochka on both sides

[Sarmat Sanych]

So, after the appointment of Gerasimov, a specialist in complex military operations using all types and types of troops, as commander of the NVO, a new offensive operation began. In certain circles, such tactics of conducting an offensive bear the poetic (with an oriental flair) name "tactics of a thousand cuts."
Its meaning is that this offensive does not have the so-called "main direction of attack." This was necessary when there were fronts with defense in depth - then shock fists were needed to break through it (we already destroyed ~ 26000 units of enemy military equipment without it - more than was destroyed in the First World + Vietnam + Two Afghan + Two Iraqi wars combined) . And for about a thousand kilometers of the front in the area of ​​\uXNUMXb\uXNUMXbthe NMD, such defense is mainly only in the fortified area around Artyomovsk (and there it is hacked by specially trained people from the well-known Defense Ministry).
Accordingly, it is possible to advance on all other sectors of the front without ramparts of fire, long-term artillery preparations and the concentration of strike units. What is being done. Moreover, there is no “offensive for the sake of an offensive”, that is, if resistance is detected, ours retreat, transmit information, then this area is processed by artillery and aviation - and again they try to move forward. If necessary, the cycle is repeated.
And so on the entire length of the front. Where the enemy rests - do not rush, "soften". Where it bends and retreats, they go forward, developing success.
Such tactics allow, among other things, to keep all the Armed Forces of Ukraine in constant tension, preventing the transfer of troops from other sectors of the front to Artyomovsk and Ugledar, where they are most needed. Instead of flooding the front with meat, as planned, Zaluzhny is forced to throw into battle more and more new units from those reserves that were planned to be used for the spring offensive "on the Crimea" (on Melitopol).
Svinopyurer Zalupny is stupid and predictable (besides, he is too busy budding the female part of the personnel, as it should be for a lustful pig, there is not much to do with military operations), so all his “secret plans” are obvious, calculated and countered. Definitely not Manstein and Guderian.
As a result, the "spring" offensive gradually becomes "summer" (spoiler: and then it will not happen at all, due to the exhaustion of reserves and the collapse of the front).
The absence of heavy weapons makes the prospect of an offensive by the Armed Forces of Ukraine even more illusory - the expected tanks, if any, are not hundreds, but at best a few dozen and not earlier than summer-autumn (or even next year, as with the Abrams). Many countries, under various pretexts, refused to help the regime at all, in fact, this is a question of the availability of combat-ready tanks in the West, given the lack of a NATO tank building industry for the past 15-25 years.
The tanks are more likely unable than unwilling to transfer, most of the tanks in the Western armies are not on the move, which is not a secret for specialists. The same 60 millionth Spain, for example, simply does not have live ammunition for them, only training ones (an official statement by the local defense minister).
Meanwhile, on the streets of Ukrainian cities, minors and disabled people are being swept away - there are recorded (including on video) cases of the actual abduction of 14-15-year-olds by military commissars. Plus, negotiations are underway to extradite refugees from Britain and the EU to Ukraine. “to the last Ukrainian” (do you know how Zelensky hates them all?!).
By the way, there Max fell under the hand of Bandera degenerates. For he commented on the news about Ukrainian losses as a “tragic loss of lives”, which “helped Russian propaganda”.
Indeed, what kind of tragedy is this? The death of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians is a holiday (from the point of view of Svidomo Bandera)! They don't fire, never.
For years I have been writing that Bandera is the ideology of death.
But, returning to our pigs (and supplementing the previous information on the supply of tanks). @ urachok Podolyak, having eaten some kind of chemistry, said that "All European countries should give us all their weapons."
Just some "all your bases belong to us". Why not give him all the money and all the women? Quite bad. This is the stage of hysteria, naturally.
Well, a stroke in the picture "West Strong".
The British Ministry of Defense is faced with yet another embarrassment. The release of the flagship aircraft carrier "Prince of Wales" at sea was again postponed indefinitely after engineers discovered "elementary" errors in its design, reports The Daily Telegraph.
Rule, Britain, buoys))
I won’t talk about the mighty Gamerykan air defense, which for 3 days could not bring down a balloon - everyone trampled on there. Just give it to Ukraine, it's useless anyway.
That's it for today.
Ah, no! I almost forgot. Just in case, I remind you that the personnel military of the RF Armed Forces is strictly forbidden to maintain any blogs or channels in social networks.
This is monitored by several departments at once: the FSB, the military prosecutor's office and the special department for information protection.
Therefore, if someone somewhere writes something in blogs, this is definitely NOT a regular military man
Although there are a couple of individuals who claim the opposite - impostors, sir.
Now that's all for sure.

[credo]

To take these 10 thousand prisoners without our losses, but I'm not sure that they will want to surrender without a fight.
Their choice is not great, but the choice is theirs - either captured or ashes.

[Metallurg_2]

We don't need so many prisoners. Surround - and wait until they start eating each other from hunger, like the Poles in the Kremlin in 1612. Reject offers of surrender.

[Novichek]

. Russian assault units occupied more than a third of the territory of Artemovsk

. That is, only two-thirds right now by "zahistnikami"? Well, it means, it turns out that there are no 10 thousand already there! , In such a territory, and even after two months of fighting and shelling! Maybe if we collect all the troupes along the ditches, and add all the missing people to those who survived, then maybe there will still be about that. There will soon be ruins, it’s all going to be “rolled out”, the cellars, I suppose, are also almost all overwhelmed, so, by and large, only trenches and dugouts (if they were at all) remain to hide, so many people can’t be shoved there, if only in stacks! As for the boiler, it is still very far from a really complete environment. The entire southwestern side of Bakhmut itself is open, so if you’re just “on your own two feet” and not injured, then you can still tick quietly. (in the coming days at least) Therefore, there will be no big "catch" for prisoners. But on the other hand, all the wounded will be left, of course, in positions, "at the mercy" of compassionate Russian orderlies. Yes, it's for the best - there will be at least more chances to survive than "friends" to die on the way or after organ removal

[antivirus]

Again "strategic encirclement".
Once in a while it has to.
And two by two is applied.
The heirs of Zhukov and Rokosovsky?

[dmi.pris1]

They still have a road to Chasov Yar. So there is still an opportunity to supply the garrison

[Vladimir80]

there are now about ten thousand fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

unlikely, they wrote about 15-20 thousand about Mariupol, in the end it turned out to be about 3-4 thousand if I don’t confuse anything ...
ps it’s just a small town, there’s especially nowhere for such a group to hide ...

[1976AG]

Quote: Vladimir80

there are now about ten thousand fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

unlikely, they wrote about 15-20 thousand about Mariupol, in the end it turned out to be about 3-4 thousand if I don’t confuse anything ...
ps it’s just a small town, there’s especially nowhere for such a group to hide ...

As far as I remember, according to Shoigu's report to the President, there were 5300 militants in Mariupol. And, if you notice, in the official reports of the Defense Ministry, even in terms of the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, even in terms of the number of defenders, the figures are always noticeably less than those that appear in the information resources.

[paul3390]

The funny thing is that the ukroführer is probably right .. Allow me to retreat - they will immediately drape everything from everywhere .. And the front will collapse, with all the consequences .. Fuck then who will you stop. And so - he wins the pace, hoping to repeat the summer feature. When, having connected us with assaults on various fortified areas, he managed to accumulate, equip and train reserves. Which in the fall we were not sickly and screwed up. Apparently, he hopes that he will be in time by the end of spring, unless, of course, the Western bourgeoisie will let you down. In the meantime, the people are not sorry, just to hold out until that time .. For this is their only hope. Still, more than a dozen trained brigades with heavy Western weapons are still very dangerous, whatever one may say.

Well, about what our command is up to in response - I personally stopped guessing a long time ago. It's so unpredictable..

[Bingo]

So sit and think what kind of figure Shoigu announced yesterday. 25 thousand in Marik, 10 there, who the hell knows how many under Liman, in Soledar and Tepe...
"Just don't kill him!"
- I didn't say that he should be killed, I said that he got us into trouble!
"Zhmurki"

[single-n]

10.000 is a normal number. And here, for many commentators, the second Kursk Bulge has already been outlined along with the Stalingrad cauldron. Already up to 50-60 thousand surrounded agreed. Cut the sturgeon gentlemen.
This whole epic with the siege and assault on Bakhmut is the butting of three or four divisions at most. And then they were already dreaming. After the capture of Bakhmut, the Armed Forces of Ukraine will end and there will be a victorious march to Kyiv / Lvov / Warsaw / Paris.
Therefore, many people are shocked after Shoigu's report on the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 6.500 people. The media inflated the devils that the people imagined something epic and legendary. 300 Sparta....sorry PMCs led by Tsar Prigozhin mow down crowds of Ukrainian zombie drug addicts. And everything is strewn with corpses, there is nowhere to step. And the Ukrainians are taking out the bodies in strings going beyond the horizon.
Upyrte chalk gentlemen. This mess is for the long haul. And God forbid that trouble does not come to every home.

[Simple]

The media inflated the devils that the people imagined something epic and legendary.

To prevent this from happening, you should periodically publish data on the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from various sources - a small analytics on the top, so to speak.
Offhand: https://wartears.org/ , Conflict Intelligence Team

[single-n]

Offhand: https://wartears.org/ Mdya. Have you read their self-promotion?
Their super method, in their words, gave very consistent results with Shoigu's statements in September (60K killed) and with reports in the EU in November (100 thousand killed), and now with a no-name MOSSAD report about 167 thousand.
And now the main question.
If their methodology gives such similar results to those published by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, etc., then what kind of BATTLE WAS IN DECEMBER?! I explain. November 30, 100 thousand, in January 6.500 (TOTAL and killed and wounded and prisoners.) It turns out that in a month MINIMUM 40.000 were killed ONLY KILLED. And considering that the ratio of killed and wounded is 1 to 3 (although for some reason the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation has the opposite, why I xs. It is possible that the wounded manage to escape from the accountants of the Russian Federation :)))) then there are also 100 thousand wounded. Almost 150 thousand PER MONTH!!! More than for the WHOLE summer and spring company. ONE AND A HALF TIME!!! Moreover, in January, despite the continuous attacks of PMCs, the fall in losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine by 20 TIMES!!!! (140 against 6.500)
What is this nonsense? The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation in a month carried out an operation comparable to the capture of Koenigberg and at the same time is silent in a rag. But for the destruction of half of the division, she announced at a briefing by the Minister of Defense to the whole world.
I would also understand if their schedule lagged behind the MOSSAD data. Well, like the data on the dead in December had not yet come to the attention of the team, and then they made an adjustment. But everything is going smoothly for them.

[Poplar]

In late November or early December, they wrote here in VO that the Bakhmut garrison was 3,5-4 thousand people. In the same article they wrote that every day (200 and 300) about 500 people are beaten out. So, 6500 is somehow not enough even. But still, it seems to me that there are now less than 10 thousand ukrov. And yes, 3-4 divisions - you turned it down. The division roughly has about 10 thousand l / s. Probably you wanted to say - 3-4 brigades. It's possible.

[single-n]

Where the hell did you find this. Although our media may not come up with such a thing. But the Ministry of Defense reported about 200-300 people per day ALONG the entire front line. Which, in principle, coincides with Shoigu's data. And all these millions and crowds to the horizon are the injection of turbo-warriors from journalism and propaganda.

[1erWahrheitsMinister_1984]

Ich denke schon sehr bald wird Artjomowsk Debalzewo den Rang
der größten Einkesselung und Gefangennahme ukrainischer Kämpfer
abkaufen...!! Wenn sie gefangen werden, haben sie "Glück", ansonsten
werden sie alle sterben...!!!

[Wayfarer_2]

Quote: paul3390

The funny thing is that the ukroführer is probably right .. Allow me to retreat - they will immediately drape everything from everywhere .. And the front will collapse, with all the consequences .. Fuck then who will you stop. And so - he wins the pace, hoping to repeat the summer feature. When, having connected us with assaults on various fortified areas, he managed to accumulate, equip and train reserves. Which in the fall we were not sickly and screwed up. Apparently, he hopes that he will be in time by the end of spring, unless, of course, the Western bourgeoisie will let you down. In the meantime, the people are not sorry, just to hold out until that time .. For this is their only hope. Still, more than a dozen trained brigades with heavy Western weapons are still very dangerous, whatever one may say.

Well, about what our command is up to in response - I personally stopped guessing a long time ago. It's so unpredictable..

What is there to guess? Losses are terrible to our management - the people can revolt. Therefore, PMC Wagner rushes to all difficult places. The people there are, shall we say, peculiar.

[Rage66]

10.000 will be richer for us and worse for the green

[Carlos Hall]

Surrounding these 10 fighters and surrendering or eliminating them would be a great success. This is a much better option than frontal attacks.

[Incvizitor]

It would be nice if there were fewer prisoners there, the down-and-out ideological fanatics of the Nazis, if they resist like that.

[zloybond]

It’s just that the author doesn’t know, the garrison in Bakhmut is a good breakwater. Will not allow the offensive to be carried out by the front. So you can't bypass it, no matter how. And if you push around like that around everyone, you can not rush for years. Tactics chosen stubborn. It won’t go with a swoop, at least scare at least don’t scare the environment.

[geologist]

Where did 10 thousand infantry come from in Bakhmut? There are several semi-battalions from 4 brigades. Brigade headquarters, anti-aircraft gunners, artillerymen and all sorts of cooks, drivers do not sit in basements, but are located outside the city. Approximately 2000 machine gunners are stationed there, which probably corresponds to 10000 shooters of the 2nd World War.

[single-n]

and all sorts of cooks, drivers do not sit in basements, but are located outside the city.

Yeah, they are sitting in the field and waiting for shelling. Especially the driver with technology.
10 thousand, taking into account the militia, rear and other security officials (Ministry of Internal Affairs, etc.), is a quite possible figure. Although most likely there will be less in the ring itself. The rest will try to leave. But how much will be able to escape the question.
Personally, I expect 3-5 thousand no more.

[Roust]

Hands uphill and let them yell: "Zelya kaput!". Well, or to Bandera.