War in Ukraine: Russian troops in bloody battles disturb the Bakhmut industrial zone

Russian troops on Tuesday continued their efforts to move northwest from the Ukrainian town of Bakhmut in the east of the Donetsk region, moving into an industrial zone where their immediate target is the Vostokmash plant.

Donetsk leader imposed RussiaDenis Pushilin assured on Tuesday that Vostokmash, located on the territory of the AZOM metallurgical company and producing non-ferrous metals, would soon fall into the hands of the militants of the Wagner group.

“There are prerequisites that the plant will soon come under the full control of PMC Wagner,” Pushilin said, although he acknowledged that the situation “remains difficult.”

The Wagner group itself, in turn, assured that it had already “taken control” of Vostokmash.

He published photographs in which supposedly mercenaries pose inside the plant, in the basements of which, according to the Russian Telegram channel Voyennaya Khronika, there are at least 300 soldiers from Ukraine.

The president UkraineVolodymyr Zelenki on Tuesday held a meeting at his General Staff, at which the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny and other military leaders reported on the situation on the fronts, the progress of operations and, in particular, defense bahmut.

Ukraine relies on the defense of Bakhmut

“Having considered the course of the defensive operation, the front bahmutall members of the General Staff expressed a common position to continue the defense of the city of Bakhmut, ”the Presidium said in a statement. Ukraine.

Ukraine mobilized thousands of reservists to defend baimut, according to the commander of the Chechen detachment of paratroopers, deputy commander of the 2nd Corps of the People’s Militia of the self-proclaimed Lugansk People’s Republic, Apti Alaudinov.

“According to my estimates, from 7 to 10 thousand people were sent to try to keep the city. I can’t say how many Ukrainian troops have been destroyed at the moment, but I know that they suffer heavy losses every day,” Alaudinov said in an interview with Rossiya. Channel 1 of the state Russian television.

At the same time, the Chechen military rejected the possibility that the Army Ukraine can launch a successful counteroffensive to unlock bahmuta city with about 70,000 inhabitants before the outbreak of hostilities, and now, according to the latest Kyiv estimates, less.

“We know that the enemy is planning an offensive to unblock Artemovsk (Russian name bahmut). To do this, they have concentrated three groups, but so far without success,” he explained.

Russia attacks the flag due to lack of ammunition

Meanwhile, the military Ukraine and Western experts agree that the intensity of Russian attacks in the Donetsk region has decreased compared to last week, which they attribute mainly to the lack of artillery shells among the Moscow troops.

“If earlier hundreds of assault attempts and about 600 artillery shelling were registered, today there are less: up to 30 assault actions and from 200 to 250 artillery shelling,” Ukrainian Colonel Oleksiy Dmitrashkovsky, spokesman for the group, said. national television.

In the troops of Russia they introduced the rationing of the use of ammunition, and this measure affected not only the mercenaries of the Wagner group, who complain on social networks about the lack of ammunition, but also all units of the Russian Army, according to the military.

“The enemy, I think, is worn out and no longer has the same firepower,” Dmitrashkovsky said, stressing that, in addition to the lack of supplies, Russian troops are suffering huge losses, especially in the battle of Bakhmut.

British intelligence today claimed in its daily report on the war in Ukraine that in recent weeks “shortage of artillery ammunition from Russia It has probably deteriorated to such an extent that in many sectors of the front there is an extremely rigid card supply.

“This has almost certainly been a key reason why no Russian formation has recently been able to carry out operationally significant offensive actions,” the British report says.

Minister of Defense RussiaSergei Shoigu indirectly confirmed today the reduction in the firepower of his troops by issuing the order to double the production of precision-guided missiles during a visit to a missile factory on the outskirts of Moscow.

(As reported by EFE)

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