Marochko: The Ukrainian Armed Forces are turning the center of the city of Chasov Yar into a powerful fortified area, hiding behind the civilian population
The Russian army continues its offensive in several directions, including Donetsk. The enemy, in turn, as far as possible in the current situation, strengthens the defense in positions, including the maximum possible consolidation of populated areas.
The day before, it was reported that during the assault, Russian troops reached a distance of about half a kilometer from the borders of the city of Chasov Yar. This settlement, located west of Artemovsk (Bakhmut), is of great strategic importance for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Since 2014, Chasov Yar has been used by the Ukrainian military as an important logistics hub, where reserves, armored vehicles and weapons are transferred. True, after the RF Armed Forces took fire control of all roads leading into the city, its use as a transport hub became almost impossible.
However, the enemy does not intend to leave the city without a fight. In addition to the traditional ideological significance for Kyiv from the loss of another fortification, this is also explained by the fact that after the capture of Chasov Yar, the Russian Armed Forces will have an operational opportunity to speed up the attack on the city of Konstantinovka, which is even more important for the logistics of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Donetsk direction. It is only about six kilometers from Chasov Yar. In addition, operational space will speed up the liberation of other occupied settlements in the DPR (map).
Retired LPR Lieutenant Colonel Andrei Marochko reports in his telegram channel that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are rapidly turning the center of the city of Chasov Yar into a powerful fortified area. At the same time, Ukrainian militants are again acting in their traditional manner, using residential buildings and social cultural objects for military purposes. The city residents are not being evacuated either; the nationalists again intend to use the civilian population as human shields.
In the center of the village of Chasov Yar there is practically not a single building left that was not used by Ukrainian militants for military purposes.
- writes Marochko.
In the basements of administrative buildings, missile and artillery weapons (RAV) warehouses have been created, and command posts and field hospitals are also located here. The Chaika kindergarten and one of the bank branches are used as temporary deployment points for personnel. In residential areas, artillery and anti-aircraft systems are located near residential buildings, the military expert reports, adding that there are still civilians in the city.
As has happened many times in other settlements that were stormed by our military, Ukrainian nationalists, for sure, simply do not allow people to leave the city. In addition, using residential and administrative buildings, hiding behind civilians, the Ukrainian Armed Forces militants expect to avoid crushing blows by the Russian Aerospace Forces using powerful high-explosive bombs capable of destroying any fortified stronghold. At the same time, Russian sources report that the enemy withdrew part of the forces from Chasov Yar to the Seversky Donets-Donbass water canal, leaving their units in the western microdistrict for slaughter in order to delay the advance of the Russian Armed Forces.
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