Russian troops are already almost in the center of Ugledar in the Donetsk region. Fighting continues. The monitoring project DeepState reported on the morning of October 1 that the Russians entered Ugledar from the west and south.
Russian “military correspondents” publish footage of the Russian army in the center of Ugledar. The city is completely destroyed
Several videos appeared on Russian pro-war telegram channels showing Russian Nazi soldiers with flags on the roofs of several buildings in the center of a strategically important city in the Donetsk region.
Confirmed. Russia has fully occupied Vuhledar. Russian units from the 36th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade raised their flag over the Vuhledar City Council. Ukrainian forces should be drawn to Epiphany, in the north of Vuhledar. pic.twitter.com/q2OZueh9Gc
— NOELREPORTS �� �� (@NOELreports) October 1, 2024
The head of the Donetsk regional administration, Vadim Filashkin, said on Tuesday that fighting continued in the center of Ugledar.
Already, the enemy is almost in the center of the city, and therefore it is very difficult for both the authorities and police units to get to these people who remained in the city,” Filashkin said on Ukrainian television (quoted from the publication “Ukrainian Pravda”).
Judging by data from the Ukrainian OSINT project Depp State, the city is cordoned off on three sides by Russian troops who have entered its western and southern outskirts.
Z-channels publish footage in which, according to the authors, the Russian military is visible in several areas of the center of Ugledar. Reuters journalists found that at least one such video matches what the city streets look like.
Meanwhile, the American company Planet Labs, which deals with satellite imaging of the Earth, published photographs of Ugledar taken in different years, demonstrating the scale of destruction in the city.
If the 2019 image in Ugledar shows houses and city blocks, then in the photographs taken on September 29, 2024, only the skeletons of houses and scorched earth can be distinguished.
Ugledar is a very small city, in which, according to the 2001 census, about 17 thousand people lived. Its dimensions are just over a kilometer from west to east and just over one and a half kilometers “obliquely”, along the route along the southern edge.
The city is of strategic importance because it is located on a hill and at the junction of two fronts – Eastern in the Donetsk region and Southern in Zaporozhye.
18 km east of the city there are railway tracks along which the Russian army can throw troops and equipment along the Donetsk-Volnovakha line and further to the south.
All children were evacuated from Vugledar: 107 people still remain there, said the head of the Donetsk OVA. According to Filashkin, the fighting is taking place within the city, so it is almost impossible to deliver humanitarian aid.
Source: Racurs
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