The Russians began to attack Ugledar and the battle for this settlement could “determine the further course of the war in the south.”
In addition to Bakhmut, where some of the bloodiest fighting took place for several months, the Russians, with new forces, began to try to break the defenses of Vugledar.
The previous day, Russian military correspondents boasted that the invaders allegedly had some kind of “advance” in the direction of the city, and the head of the “DNR” Denis Pushilin said that the Russian army is said to have “taken new positions” outside. of Vuhledar.
The Ukrainian military and British intelligence say that the Russians, as usual, are exaggerating their achievements, but remember that the enemy is really trying to break through the defenses of Vuhledar and capture it.
Marines attack
Units of Russian motorized rifle troops and marines are trying to advance in the Ugledar area. The invaders are trying to achieve an intermediate victory here and capture the city in order to break the defenses of the Ukrainian troops and move on, the spokesman of the Eastern Group of Forces Serhiy Cherevaty said on January 27 on the air of the national telethon.
“There are fierce battles going on there… Our task is to prevent them from making a breakthrough, to inflict maximum defeat on them,” Cherevaty said.
According to him, in the past 24 hours alone, the enemy carried out 322 shellings and 58 clashes. The loss of the occupiers’ personnel amounted to 109 people killed and 188 wounded. Four tanks, three infantry fighting vehicles, three cannons and three Orlan-10 drones were also destroyed.
“Therefore, the information published on pro-Russian Telegram channels is significantly exaggerated and does not correspond to the truth,” Cherevaty stressed.
His words are supported by the British Ministry of Defense. Foreign intelligence acknowledges the possibility that Russian sources are deliberately spreading disinformation in an attempt to show that the Russian operation is “gaining momentum.”
“The course of the war is determined”
The first to announce a new attack on Ugledar was journalist Yuri Butusov. According to him, the city is of great importance for the Russian army, because its capture will significantly improve the strategic position of Russian soldiers in Donbass and provide an opportunity to deepen the defense.
According to Butusov, Ugledar is considered a convenient border due to its geographical features. The settlement was located at a height, while the invaders attacked from the low ground, which allowed them to inflict regular defeats.
“The battle for Vuhledar will determine the entire course of the further war in southern Ukraine in 2023,” the journalist wrote on Facebook.
Butusov said that the Russian command set the goal of its campaign for this year to capture the entire territory of Donbass or push our forces away from the Crimean corridor.
“To capture Vuhledar, the Russians concentrated their best troops – brigades of marines and airborne troops, ammunition stocks,” the journalist said.
“Meat grinder for sailors”
“It has never been easy in Vuhledar, as in any other sector in the line of contact. And in the context of describing the current situation, we must remember what many have forgotten, and therefore spread widespread panic among network when they should keep their An attempt to get Vuhledar has already happened,” said Alexander Kovalenko, coordinator of the Information Combat team.
The expert recalled that in the first days of November 2022, Russian troops, having collected more or less completed five armored personnel carriers, were already advancing on the storm Ugledar, which they quickly called an “epic battle.” But this “epic battle” was limited to the village of Pavlovka.
“After sending five armored personnel carriers that were difficult to gather in a meat grinder and cut their combat capability by half or more, the invaders reached the outskirts of Pavlovka, while on November 11, and then on November 20 they loudly announced that the village was completely under their control. Twice. But where twice, there and three times? And now, from December 2 to 3, the artillery of the Russian Federation began the Pavlovka. Strange, why shoot a village under your control? And twice. In general, this is a small deviation from the recent past, to understand what is happening now under Vuhledar,” he wrote.
According to Kovalenko, it took the Russian army almost two months to restore the November losses of its units, so that “fresh forces” could be sent back to Ugledar. But this time, as the expert said, Russian troops are also trying to bypass the city from the western direction, and the current composition is different from last year’s throw by the Russian military. According to him, the infantry component is dominant, the regular equipment of the units is not there, according to the standards, but there is artillery.
“It seems that 40 and 155 are used by the ROV command (Russian occupation troops – ed.) in a slightly mobilized format, and this is how they will try to capture Ugledar,” Kovalenko believes.
In this context, the decisive factor, according to the expert, can be: first, the enemy has enough ammo for artillery to support the attack operations, and second, the availability of a sufficient amount of artillery and ammo for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
“It won’t be easy, but Vuhledar will grind the sailors again. Believe in the Armed Forces of Ukraine,” the expert summed up.
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Source: korrespondent
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