bakhmut remains the epicenter of the Russian offensive in Ukraine, which ensures that more than 200 Wagner soldiers have died in the last hours with another 300 hospitalized. In the video that accompanies these lines you can see the destruction of the city, with its most iconic monument, the MiG-17totally destroyed.

Wagner’s troops fight for control of AZOM, the metallurgy of the city. “In the city of Artiomovsk (Russian name for Bakhmut) assault groups they occupied favorable positions in the industrial area of ​​the AZOM metal processing plant, he told the Russian agency TASS. According to Márochko, these positions allow Russian troops to “control the movements of the enemy, in addition to creating a good beachhead for the future advance of our forces.”

The assault on AZOM, as Russian military bloggers and the ISW have warned, could lead to heavy losses in the ranks of the Wagners, since it is a huge territory with a high density of facilities and a network of underground passageways of tens of floors. underground.

“With the statements of some media, ‘leaders of public opposition’ and experts, they only alert our enemy to the character of our movements. That is why I ask our media not to put the cart before the oxen. happiness loves silence“, sentenced Wagner’s boss, Yevgeny Prigozhin.

Meanwhile, Russia is increasing its pressure on the Kupiansk front, in the annexed Ukrainian region of Lugansk, to retake control and continue the advance to Kharkiv, one of the cities hardest hit in the war, without lowering the intensity of the fighting in Bakhmut, in the north of Donetsk. “The enemy maintained a significant military presence in Kupiansk and Liman in order to prevent our units from moving in other directions,” the Ukrainian military command reported in its war report.

The situation in other areas

The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces added that the Russian troops punished with their artillery 13 settlements on the front line in this region, recaptured by Ukraine during its counter-offensive in September last year, which dealt Russia a severe moral blow.

Further south, there is a activation of the fighting around Avdiivkaa major Ukrainian stronghold located just over 20 kilometers north of the regional capital of Donetsk, also in eastern Ukraine.

The former spokesman for the pro-Russian militias, Eduard Basurín, reported that Russian troops are about to control the town of Krasnohirivka, in an attempt to tighten the siege of Avdiivka. Krasnohirivka lies to the north of Avdiivka, which means that Russian forces are beginning to gradually encircle this important Ukrainian square.

“The town is practically liberatedon the outskirts the cleaning” of the Ukrainian units is carried out, the retired colonel told TASS. According to Basurin, “the total liberation of Krasnohirivka It will allow the Russian troops to tighten the pincers around Avdiivka more firmly.”

The pro-Russians denounce that the Ukrainian troops bombard the city of Donetsk and other nearby cities from Avdíivka, a fortified city to the north of the regional capital that the Russian forces have tried to take practically since the beginning of the campaign.