Russia ready To the counterattack in the Zaporozhye region. This was announced on Wednesday, February 22, by Yevgeny Balitsky, the deputy head of the quoted region. DEA News.
“We see this opportunity all the time and we are preparing for it. Thank God, we are not experiencing summer today, and the shelves were 15% complete when we were not on the site. Today it’s all 100% complete. We are ready to face the fully armed enemy and we are ready for a counterattack. “We are waiting for the order of the senior military leadership,” he said.
According to him, Russian troops are ready to defend Energodar “by all possible and available means.” “We have a radiochemical protection regiment ready to go to work in the most unpredictable situations.
Therefore, we do not see a major threat today. But we are preparing as expected, ”Balitsky concluded..
Russian troops before stoped Lieutenant Colonel Andrey Marochko, retired from the LPR People’s Militia, said that there was an attempt by the Ukrainian Armed Forces to counterattack in the Krasnolimansky direction.
According to him, Ukrainian forces “tried to protect our positions, which had previously been taken back from the enemy, by carrying out offensive actions from the settlements of Stelmakhovka, Myasozharovka and Andreevka.”
“Preventive attacks are offensive [ВСУ] interrupted,” says Marochko. He added that “the enemy, with forces up to the battalion-tactical group, tried to create the so-called “fire bag”, but did not allow this, thanks to the preventive work of the Russian troops.
In response, Yan Gagin, deputy chief adviser of the DPR, said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine will likely “soon” surrender Artemovsk (Ukrainian name Bakhmut). This city is located in the Kiev-controlled part of the DPR north of Gorlovka and is an important transport hub for supplying the Ukrainian contingent in Donbass.
“As I understand it, in any case, the time for the surrender of Artemovsk is not just a capture, but a surrender, that is, the enemy will most likely be forced to surrender it – it’s only a matter of time. I think that will happen soon.” aforementioned On the air on Gagin TV channel “Russia 1”.
Against this background, Kirill Budanov, head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine counterHe writes that from mid to late spring “there will be decisive battles that will be a turning point in hostilities.” forbes.
Budanov answered affirmatively to the question whether the fate of the war would be determined during these battles. “Yes [будет] turning point,” he says.
Also, the commander of the combined forces of the Ukrainian troops, Serhiy Naev, said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine being ready attacked, but “when it happened is a mystery.” Commenting on the situation on the Belarusian border, Naev said that Ukrainian troops are ready to “respond to the increase in the number of Russian and Belarusian troops.”
Reported in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
At today’s briefing, the Russian Ministry of Defense specifically spoke about the following:
In the “Kupyansky direction, artillery fire and active actions of units of the “Western” group of forces defeated the enemy’s manpower in the Novoselovskoye LPR and Masyutovka settlements in the Kharkov region. As a result of the defeat, more than 40 Ukrainian soldiers and two pickup trucks were destroyed.
In the Donetsk direction, successful offensive operations of the assault volunteer detachments continue with the support of units of the Tula formation of the Air Force, assault aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces, as well as artillery fire and heavy flamethrower systems of the Southern Group of Forces. .
Daily enemy losses in this direction amounted to 250 Ukrainian soldiers killed and wounded, five armored combat vehicles, six vehicles and one D-20 howitzer.
In the direction of Kherson, two D-30 howitzers were destroyed in a day of counter-battery combat.
During the day, missile forces and artillery of groups of the Russian Armed Forces struck 84 artillery units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces at firing positions, as well as manpower and equipment in 113 districts, ”the report states.