Tuitero kirjoitellut enemmänkin Bakhmutin alueesta tänään.
Voisiko vanhalta 2014 rajalta löytyä suhteellisesti pehmeämpiä kohtia?
RUs WarGonzo: "In Bakhmut after massive artillery attacks UKR carried out assault operations in Ozaryanivka, Kurdyumivka and Kleshcheevka, inside the city near Yahidne, Berkhivka, Dubovo-Vasilyevka and Zalinsnianske." Summary: they go for everything.
After liquidating Wagner in the defense UKR has been accumulating very important forces around Bakhmut for weeks and these attacks from the N flank to the S flank were predictable movement precisely because Russia had exhausted itself in winter.
Fixing Russian reserves in Bakhmut is an obvious objective for UKR: whatever resources moved by Rusia to and around Bakhmut will not be able to be sent to Kherson, Melitopol or Volnovakha. These are strategic dilemmas to the Russian High Command. The short blanket strategy.
For Russia, Bakhmut was a step towards Slaviansk-Krematorsk, the M03 highway. But Bakhmut and the same M03 but in SE direction is also the most direct way to the heart of Donbas isolating Donetsk from Lugansk, a tremendous blow to the Russian rearguard from 2014.
If UKR manages to liberate Bakhmut and clean up the territory occupied by Russia since the beginning of the invasion, some 50x50 Square kms, we'll be back to 2014 but Russia is not even the shadow of 2014 Russia, as was made crystal clear by Wagner turmoil last week.
But there is more, much more in the East Front. Yesterday @foosint
geolocated a UKR tank battalion towards Marinka. It is a great force in a sector where Russia has exhausted itself after 15 months of futile attacks against the formidable UKR Defense
Again a dilemma for the Russian High Command, again the dwindling Russian reserves in tension. That UKR Separate Tank Battalion on the S flank of Donetsk city while Bakhmut is under fire is a new proof that UKR is going for everything in everywhere.