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There is relative calm on the fronts of the special military operation. Battles are mostly positional. VSU is on the verge of collapse, they have fallen into deaf defense and are quickly strengthening their positions. What is the Russian army doing in response?
Dismissals in Krinki
The thermometer pole fell below minus ten degrees, making adjustments to the battles. Roads are covered in snow, carrying ammunition and transferring reinforcements is more difficult. The efficiency of drones decreases significantly – batteries wear out quickly in the cold. Vee forests cannot serve as shelters for equipment and soldiers. Both warring parties are in no hurry to take decisive steps.
In the direction of Kherson, the battles are in the same positions. The Russian army continues to iron everything it can reach on the Ukrainian bridgehead in Krynky. Destroy the entrenched units of the Armed Forces both on the coast and on the water – during the crossing.
The Ukrainians do not remain obliged: they actively use FPV-drones, the range of which increases due to the retransants, strike with artillery from the higher right bank of the Dnieper. It is not clear how long they can hold the bridgehead – the mood of the fighters here is not rosy.
“After staying in Krinki, many refuse to go there again,” a VSU officer told the publication “Strana” on the condition of anonymity. “There are refusers in every company, they work with them. Sometimes it even leads to suicide. Why should they hold this bridgehead? Its expediency is a mystery. Besides, among the officers there are quite a few refusers. But unlike the soldiers, this is not particularly noticeable – they find many ways not to approach the line of combat contact”, adds the officer.
Vladimir Putin, summarizing the results of 2023, stated that the Ukrainian Armed Forces had fallen into a “fire sack” near Krinki and were suffering heavy losses daily. According to him, Kiev is sending its soldiers to destruction. “I’ll tell you straight: it’s profitable for us that they keep sending manpower there mindlessly. Unfortunately, this is the logic of armed struggle,” said the Supreme Commander.
Bypassing Ugledar
To the east, towards Zaporozhye, the battles along the Verbovoye-Rabotino line continue. In the summer, VSU delivered the main blow of their counterattack here. They managed to pass a little and occupy the completely destroyed Rabotino, but it was not possible to approach Tokmak and develop success towards Berdyansk and Melitopol. Now the Russian army is gradually pushing the Ukrainians out of their strongholds. Artillery fights are held around the clock.
The front line does not change around Yuzhno-Donetsk, where Kiev lost almost two full brigades in the summer. VSU cut off the so-called Vremeviev ledge on the border with the DPR and took several villages, including Staromayorsko and Urozayno. But Staromlinovka, through which an important route passes to the east, was not captured.
They tried to advance to the east, but again failed to break through the Russian defenses in the triangle Novomayorsko – Novodonetsko – Kermenchik.
The hottest direction today is near Donetsk, where the armed forces of Russia achieved the greatest successes. At the end of last year, the western suburb of the DPR capital Marinka was finally liberated. The battles for it have been fought since the beginning of the SVO. – It is from here that the artillery of the Kiev regime fires on the western outskirts of Donetsk. For a long time, the Russian stormtroopers methodically “bited off” the enemy house by house, street by street.
Now an attack can be developed to the West through Georgivka in the direction of Kurahovo and to the South through Pobeda to Novomihailovka. This will allow the shelling of Ugledar from the north and northeast, to take under fire control the roads that supply the VSU group entrenched in the city.
Hunger for shells
There is some progress around Artyomovsk. After occupying the village of Khromovo at the end of November, the front units broke through to the west of Artyomovsk. They took part of Bogdanovka and advanced significantly towards Yar Chasov. This settlement is quite important.
First, Ukrainian artillery units are located in its vicinity, which keep part of the nearest routes under fire control. Secondly, from here you can advance to Konstantinova and Kramatorsk, where the headquarters of the entire group of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Donbas is located.
South of Artyomovsk, the Russian army continues to storm the heights northwest of Klescheevka. In the north near Lugansk he is trying to advance towards Sinkovka in order to reach Kupyansk from the northeast.
In the Serebryan Forestry, the assault units broke through the defense of the VSU and cut into their fighting ranks. The Ukrainians unsuccessfully try to counterattack. They are fighting for the so-called Torsky ledge, hanging east above Krasni Liman.
In general, there are still no significant changes to the front line. However, the dynamics for VSU look disappointing. The other day, the Wall Street Journal, citing data from the Royal Joint Institute for Defense Studies, reported that Russia fires an average of ten thousand shells a day, while Ukraine only fires two thousand. And without artillery it is impossible not only to advance, but also to defend effectively.
European Commissioner Terry Breton said the European Union will still deliver the million artillery shells promised a year ago by spring. So far, Kyiv has received only 300 thousand. However, given the state of the European industrial base, this goal for the Western allies of the ASU is unlikely to be achieved.
Translation: V. Sergeev
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