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Russian Federation is concentrating all power of strike groups to capture Bakhmut and Soledar

16 January, 2023 Monday
20:00

From the entire front line for more than a thousand km, the Russian enemy concentrated the most powerful artillery and infantry units in this direction. Serhiy Zgurets column

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Communication policy of Ukraine regarding Soledar

Ukrainian Armed Forces General Staff’s press service works almost perfectly. It provides necessary basic resources, but it is necessary to note military bloggers, and military personnel, for example, the work of Brovdi (Magyar), that they give dosed, specific information that cannot be distorted by any Russian fakes. 

We have all seen how they "entered mines of Soledar", only the mines are white from salt, not gray from stones, as they took a photo in a cave in Donetsk region. There are a lot of such fakes, they were, and will be. Unfortunately, a large part of Ukrainian society is prone to panic.

There are heavy battles in Bakhmut, Soledar. From the entire front line for more than a thousand km, the Russian enemy concentrated the most powerful artillery and infantry units in this direction. And we should pay tribute to our fighters, in particular the 46th and 77th divisions, who are actively working to keep Soledar from surrendering. 

The situation in Soledar is not like in Lysychansk or Sievierodonetsk. It will probably be more difficult for us. However, how the city holds up and how our soldiers work... No one analyzes the number of Russian losses - both technical and human during this period. According to telegram channels, only Wagner mercenaries lost more than 7 thousand killed. Wagner's resources will no longer be so sustainable. They are already looking for new cannon fodder in prisons of the Russian Federation, the howl is already full, and they will also mobilize women prisoners. We will see many more strange sights. Remember the words of Chiefs of the Ukrainian Armed Forces General Staff and Commander-in-Chief, who said since May that the war would be long and society should be ready. 

Many politicians want to earn dividends and ratings, but they must be realistic. They don't want it. The victories and actions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces somewhat relaxed some politicians, who forgot about war and started playing politics. This is very bad. Valerii Zaluzhnyi has already answered that there is no need for mobilization. There is a need for military equipment, weapons, and supplies. Foreign partners are slowly moving and helping. Ukroboronprom is also trying to work and help. The volunteer wing and people also help with equipment and saturate it. This war will be long, and difficult, but with the total victory of Ukraine.

The situation around Soledar and Bakhmut

Andriy Teteruk, a military officer of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, said that Russian Federation is concentrating all power of strike groups to capture Bakhmut and Soledar, establish full administrative control over Donetsk and Luhansk regions and report they are moving in accordance with Kremlin's plans. The second goal is to constrain and restrain the capabilities of the Ukrainian Armed Forces to concentrate forces and means for launching offensive operations and liberating Ukrainian territories from Russian occupying forces. The third goal is the mercantile desire of Prigozhin and other businessmen from the Russian government to have control over Ukraine in order to prove loyalty to Putin, to show they are the most effective executors of his will, and in the long run - to have the right to plunder these territories with their subordinates. We see absolutely insane avalanche of Wagner mercenaries who are sent to be executed because the number of killed and wounded in Prigozhin's army is much higher than in any other unit. Here they really do not value the lives of the Russians they hire. The main thing for them is to achieve the result at any cost, in particular by the endless waste of human resources, so we will see more and more fierce battles until opportunities arise. 

First: they will be able to push back Ukrainian troops, and then both they and he will need reformation. Or Ukrainians will be able to reverse the situation and level all this accumulated potential of the Russian Federation and throw it away from occupied positions and move to the development of success. We will see in the near future what scenario the situation on the front line can take.

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