“Hottest Frontline”
Aleksey Arestovich, Advisor to the Head of the Presidential Office of Ukraine, on the YouTube channel of Mark Feigin (known as a foreign agent in the Russian Federation) notedThat the region with the cities of Artemovsk (Ukrainian name Bakhmut) and Soledar is the “hottest front line”.
According to him, Russian troops in the region “desperately carry out attacks”, supported by “tanks, planes and guns” several times a day. Such tactics “have a certain effect,” Arestovich added.
“Anyway… We are experiencing very serious losses. This is a tough fight,” Erdogan said, noting that the RF Armed Forces also suffered losses.
Arestovich recalled that the Ukrainian General Staff announced that the Ukrainian Armed Forces “advanced two kilometers towards Kremennaya this week.” According to him, Ukrainian troops are “five kilometers away” from the city.
“It’s optimistic news for us. But let’s see. There the ground is very wet, it is very difficult to attack … quite good defense of the enemy, they turned Kremennaya into a fortified area. It won’t be there soon. There is no need to expect great successes in the near future – in two or three days. Well, then we will see, ”the adviser said to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine.
Andriy Marochko, an officer of the People’s Militia of the Luhansk People’s Republic, told RIA Novosti that, according to him, the command of the Ukrainian army sent foreign mercenaries to the Artemovsk (Bakhmut) and Soledar region to stop the offensive. Russian Armed Forces.
“Contrary to our advancing order, the Ukrainian command also sent foreign-only rapid response units to the Artemovsk and Soledar region,” he said.
According to an officer of the LPR people’s militia, the detachments are mobile groups with weapons from NATO countries, acting on Hummer armored vehicles.
“Each group has an interpreter, as the militants do not speak Russian and mostly communicate with each other in English,” Marochko added.
Battles for Artemovsk
On December 3, the leader of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, on his Telegram channel, referring to his deputy, Akhmat special forces commander, deputy commander of the 2nd Corps of the LPR People’s Militia, Apta Alaudinov, wrote: from “gradually clearing.”
“Our units are not withdrawing in the area of the LPR cities of Svatovo and Kremennaya. A strong defensive line was built there, from which continuous offensive operations were carried out. All counter-attacks by the Ukrainian gangs are being blocked and they are inflicting heavy losses,” he said.
On December 23, Alaudinov announced that, according to his information, Kiev was preparing to surrender Artemovsk. “The hottest spot on our front is Bakhmut, where our units are in very good shape,” TASS reported.
According to him, the Ukrainian authorities understand that “they are squeezed from there and will certainly be expelled”.
On December 25, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said at a briefing that Russian troops destroyed a temporary base for foreign mercenaries in the Artemovsk region.
“The missile forces and artillery of the troop group struck 58 artillery units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine per day at 86 sites in firing positions, manpower and military equipment. “In the area of the city of Artemovsk in the Donetsk People’s Republic, the temporary deployment point of a foreign mercenary unit was hit,” he said.
On December 26, Marochko wrote on his Telegram channel that Ukrainian troops suffered “disastrous” losses in Artemivsk.
“We estimate that around 500 people go to bed every day in the Artemovsk settlement. And that’s just Artemovsk! And the Svatovsk-Soledar direction is already catching up – the losses of the enemy there are also disastrous, ”he believes.
On December 27, Colonel Douglas McGregor, former adviser to the Pentagon chief, said on the Redacted YouTube channel that the Ukrainian Armed Forces suffered heavy losses and were defeated near Artemovsk.
“They are trying to hold a place called Bakhmut. It was built as a logistics center connecting railways and transport hubs. The Ukrainian Armed Forces is losing, losing thousands of soldiers in battles, ”the officer said.
According to him, due to the loss of more experienced fighters, the Ukrainian command is forced to throw into positions insufficiently trained soldiers, for which they did not allocate more than two to three weeks for their training.
Artemovsk is under the control of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. It is located in the north of the great city of Gorlovka. Artyomovsk is an important transport hub for supplying the Ukrainian contingent in Donbass, as a network of roads and railways runs through it.
Source: Gazeta
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