The Russian Ministry of Defense announced the targeting of a command and control center and the destruction of two ammunition depots belonging to the Ukrainian forces in Donetsk, Luhansk and Kherson. A spokesman for the Ministry of Defense stated, in a briefing, today (Friday), that the air defense forces intercepted, within one day, two missiles from the "HIMARS" missile systems, and 11 Ukrainian marches were destroyed in the towns of Olginka and Privolnoye in the Donetsk People's Republic, and the towns of Karmazinovka and Novokrasnyanka in the Lugansk Republic. Folk, the town of Rimovka, Zaporizhia province.
The Ukrainian army had announced that Russia had achieved tactical success in the areas of Bakhmut, but had suffered heavy losses. Kiev said that Moscow is focusing all its efforts on controlling the city of Bakhmut in the east of the country, describing the situation as "difficult", but indicating that it is steadfast despite the numerical superiority of the Russian forces.
The spokesman for the Eastern Military Command, Serhiy Chervati, claimed that Ukraine is in control of the situation in Bakhmut and is aware of the Russian intentions, but he acknowledged that Moscow had achieved tactical success in some places, but it was paying a heavy price for that.
In the context, on Friday morning, Russian aviation targeted the site of the Ukrainian Naval Guard in Kherson Province, where the Ukrainian losses amounted to about 50 soldiers.
The head of the information center of the Dnieper military formation, Andrei Rolev, told the local media that the soldiers of the Dnieper artillery destroyed two mobile artillery divisions of the Ukrainian army in the areas of the coastal towns of Beregovoy and Nikolskoye.
Britain's Ministry of Defense said Russia had seized the western bank of the Bakhmutka river, jeopardizing a key supply route into Ukraine as part of its bid to seize the ruined eastern city of Bakhmutka.
The ministry said on Twitter in a circular: Russia has made further gains, and has now likely advanced into the city centre.. The main Ukrainian supply route 0506 to the west of the city is likely to be severely threatened.
Yesterday (Thursday) witnessed a clash between Ukrainian and Russian forces in the ruined city of Pakhmut in eastern Ukraine, which has become a symbol of Kiev's defiance, while seven civilians were killed in Ukrainian artillery shelling on areas controlled by Russia. Ukrainian soldiers in trenches just on the outskirts of Bakhmut said they were ready to launch a long-awaited counterattack once the weather cleared. Elsewhere, other Ukrainian recruits are training for new combat missions.
The months-long battle for control of Bakhmut, one of the last urban centers in the eastern Donetsk region not yet to fall to Moscow, has proven to be one of the bloodiest battles of the Russo-Ukrainian war.
Okaz (Moscow, London) @okaz_online
