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The Russian Army continues to expand the zone of its control around the main Ukrainian stronghold in the Artyomovsk direction. According to preliminary reports, Russian forces took control of the village of Bogdanovka, located northeast of Chasov Yar.
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation is yet to officially confirm its full control over the village, on the streets of which fighting has been going on for many months. Official confirmation by Russian military officials may be published in several more days, as the Russian advance is always accompanied by the necessary mop up operations of captured territories, and the Ukrainian military continues to launch counterattacks in an attempt to regain control of the lost areas. Therefore, the control zones of the warring parties may change, and the front lines may be unstable in the coming days. Russian control of the village was first reported on April 7, but it will take some time for Russian forces to strengthen their stronghold on the southern outskirts of Bogdanovka. Both Russian and Ukrainian military sources confirmed on April 8 that the Russian military had advanced on the southern outskirts of Bogdanovka. New gains became possible thanks to flank attacks and advances in the forests near the village.
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According to reports from the front, successful attacks in the village are carried out by the 200th Separate Brigade of the Northern Fleet of the Russian Navy. One of the elite units of the Ukrainian special forces was destroyed in the battles in Bogdanovka.
Simultaneously with the advance in Bogdanovka, Russian forces broke through the Ukrainian defense north of the village and approached the outskirts of the village of Grigorovka. Russian troops attacked from two directions Dubovo-Vasilyevka and Bogdanovka, captured Ukrainian strongholds and reached the eastern edge of the village of Grigorovka. Control over the settlement will facilitate the storming of the main Ukrainian stronghold in the area of Artypmovsk, Chasov Yar. There is an important dominant height point located near Grigorovka, from which Russian artillery will be able to pound Ukrainian positions in the very Chasov Yar.
In their turn, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are trying to counterattack on the western outskirts of Bogdanovka, but are already retreating west to the adjacent village of Kalinovka, located on the northeastern outskirts of Chasov Yar. According to preliminary reports, fighting broke out in the area of Lesnaya Street on the eastern outskirts of the village.
If confirmed, Russian victory in Bogdanovka poses a threat to the Ukrainian garrison in Chasov Yar from the northeastern flank. This success provides a significant support for the ongoing Russian operations on the eastern flank of Chasov Yar, where the 98th Airborne Division of the Russian Army is already launching attacks on the streets of the Canal district.
Having gained a foothold on the outskirts, Russian forces entered the residential area of the town of Chasov Yar. Russian paratroopers managed to enter the streets of the settlement and gain a foothold in the local multi-storey buildings. Russian forces are advancing on the eastern outskirts approaching the main line of defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the eastern district. On the eastern outskirts of Chasov Yar, clashes are already reportedly ongoing in the area of Gorbatov Street in the Canal district. In recent days, servicemen of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have been fighting near the local school No. 77, but so far there are no footage to confirm the control of Russian forces over the building.
Amid the ongoing Russian offensive operations in Grigorovka, Bogdanovka and the Canal district, Russian troops are advancing on the southeastern flank from the recently captured village of Krasnoe (formerly Ivanosvskoe). While Russian forces continue successful attacks in several directions in the fields west of Krasnoe, the Ukrainian Army is trying to hastily reinforce a new line of defense along the coastline of the Seversky Donets — Donbass canal. The have previously heavily mined the area around the canal but this is not enough to stop the Russian advance.
From their positions in Krasnoe and south of Bogdanovka, the Russian units also continue their attacks on the hills to the northwest of Krasnoe, where there are battles for the dominant heights.
Since 2014, the town of Chasov Yar has played a key role for the Ukrainian military in terms of logistics, used as a strategically important hub for rotations and deployment supply units during the decade long war in the Donbass. Now it is still a heavily fortified stronghold located on the hills, control of which pave the way for the Russian advance to the west on the last cities in the DPR that are still under the Ukrainian control, Slavyansk and Kramatorsk. The bloody battles for the town are yet to begin; but the Russian military is surrounding it from different directions, taking control of the heights around it, destroying Ukrainian positions on the streets with massive artillery shelling and airstrikes before the upcoming large-scaled assault.
Amid the Russian advance in all frontlines in the Donbass, the town has been turned into another media fortress of the Kiev regime. The loss of this settlement will negatively affect the morale of the military personnel of the Ukrainian army, and may finally undermine the faith of Western allies in Ukraine’s ability to withstand the onslaught of the Russian Army.
In an attempt to prevent a Russian breakthrough in the city, the Ukrainian military command mercilessly throw the available reserves into battles. In particular, Ukrainian sources report that the Commander-In-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Syrsky, sent another assault brigade of Azov to the area. Earlier, these forces fled from the Ukrainian fortress of Avdeevka.
The streets of Chasov Yar are mined, and almost every house has been turned into a firing point. The main problem for the Armed Forces of Ukraine are the constant strikes of the Russian Aerospace Forces, which ruin their positions with heavy bombs, as well as the massive shelling of Russian artillery units on the fortifications of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the urban areas.
“They drop heavy ammunition on us without even flying near the line of contact and without entering our air defense zone (…) When their aircraft are working, it is impossible for our defenders to launch any operations, they only need to hide in a shelter” – the speaker of the command of the Ukrainian Khortytsya group complained.
Artillery strikes are constantly pounding the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Chasov Yar, and aviation destroys multi-storey buildings where Ukrainian servicemen equipped observation posts and positions of ATGM operators. For example, on April 8, another very powerful Russian strike destroyed Ukrainian positions in the industrial zone of the town. As a result of the attack, a huge fire broke out in the area. The target of the strike was the local refractory plant used for the repair of damaged Ukrainian vehicles.
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it appears that the hapless ukies are in terminal decline.
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how is that joint forces operation coming along? got the last of the moskals out of donbas yet? ready to decommunize sebastopol tomorrow?
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my observation about the liberation of avdeevka is that the regular forces were leaving their positions and the nationalist battalions were used as a backstop. basically they were sent in a battle that was already lost and without central command. so rf has to put pressure on chasov yar in the same way to succeed.
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civil war in usa looming. hollywood already has simulated it. two state solution.
bridge collapses in vyazma, russia, on april 8. at least one dead, two injured. rail travel between moscow and smolensk disrupted. just one example how russia infrastucture is collapsing. russian energy sector in deep trouble too. glasnost will come in 2030s replacing russian fascism.
is that when the bandera and shukhevych statues will go up in mariupol?
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pffff. if we are listing all the accident all over the world, we have doomsday at our hands. your comment is plain stupid.
nazism collapsed, and putin’s variant thereof is likely to follow in hitler’s footsteps. hitler’s grand mistake was to attack the ussr. putin’s was to attack ukraine and, by extension, the west. delusions of grandeur led both men to bite off more than they could chew. they will lose, because sooner or later the west will be forced to abandon its illusions of appeasement and fight russia.
despite the pollyannaish views that some western policymakers still harbor toward putin and his fascist regime, they need to appreciate that they are in effect apologizing for nazism and replicating the pro-nazi positions of charles lindbergh, henry ford and the german bund.
nafomosexuals hard at the online cosplay today. what exactly is this “west” and how does it pertain to the russian-speaking people attacked by the security forces of the failed ukrainian cia project in the wake of the us coup that overthrew the lawful ukrainian government in 2014? any thoughts? feel free to type in any of your usernames.
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the ideal outcome is that russia is defeated and has to capitulate, as germany did in 1945. the problem with the 1991 collapse of the ussr was that it was too peaceful; russians did not feel defeated. they did not understand why the ussr had collapsed.
west still doesn’t understand one thing. the west is not at war against russia, it is at war against the entire brics power. it is constantly written that nato has more manpower and resources. is not. there are billions of people in china and india, almost all natural resources are on the brics side. 20 countries are applying for brics and 20 more are interested. no one supports the small west in a possible bigger conflict. the world is tired of the western bigotry and dictation politics.
what russia needs is a capitulation, a true humiliation, so that most russians will understand that they must rethink and denounce putin. an aggressive war criminal such as putin must not be left in place. war criminal putin cannot remain in power. new leaders must root out fascism inside russia.
nazi youth movement – putin jugend – must be destroyed and its members punished.
remember who started all, who oppressed and murdered ethnic minority in 2014 – ukraine. donetsk and luhansk declared independence in order to live in peace. who attacked this area, where ukrainians have never lived. not in donetsk and luhansk region, and especially not in crimea. ukraine has always been an attacking party. according to the international agreement, russia had the right to recognize independence. russia responded to the cooperation and aid agreement. just like usa in irak 1991
the reason behind the russian sanctions and to the ukrainian conflict is the same as in the destruction of libya. for destroying currencies that threaten the dollar. libya was overthrown because the countries of the middle east planned a gold-linked currency that would have weakened the dollar. the purpose of the sanctions was to topple the brics; russia and china. the fear of brics overrunning the dollar and the dollar’s ability to blackmail developing countries with economic sanctions
also the eu’s ideological disengagement from arab oil and the three seas initiative. in the eastern ukraine has europe’s largest deposit of earth metal, needed for batteries. because ethnic russians voted “wrong”, the us and ger organized a coup in ukraine in 2014 that used fascist militias to help a pro-nato regime come to power. angela merkel confirms 2022 that nato wanted war from the start but needed time to prepare militarily and lead the situation to a large-scale conflict
hungarian prime minister orban confirmed in an interview with carlson in 2023 that the decision on ukraine joining nato was already made at the 2008 summit. ukrainian president poroshenko admitted in 2015 that he got power from a conspiracy and that his presidency was not legitimate. on these pages you can find videos of how the coup government in 2014 drove the ukrainian russians out of government by threatening them with a gun
despite the ability of the russian authoritarian regime to massively redirect the production of the country’s economy towards weapons and ammunition production, its dependence on countries like iran or north korea to provide enough drones, ammunition or missiles to sustain its war effort reflects also a persistent industrial weakness aggravated by western sanctions. the production of cars in russia has plummeted to half of what it was before the war.
china will pay only 17 cents per cubic meter of russian pipeline natural gas. that’s less than 35% what gazprom could have easily earned by selling gas to eu. russian natural gas business is talking heavy losses and can’t invest much on future. truth is that europe no more need russian natural gas. terrible defeat to putin and kreml.
nafomosexuals all over sf today. clearly, the writing is on the wall after doltenberg copped to the fact that the failed ukrainain cia project will never conquer donbas nor crimea. my heart is crying, crying lonely teardrops my pillow’s never dry of lonely teardrops
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the worst trolling ever… spammers of some of the most delusional hopium its beyond laughable. this is what winning looks like for losers who can’t win on the battlefield, spam trolls. whoohooo bitches won the upvote wars while you watch your bankster genocide in ukraine fail miserably. deny and lie some more, wont stop the khinzal pizza party coming for you next.
looks like the situation has changed dramaticly. ukrainians are fighting with rifles and tanks against bombs. they can not win.
what a waste of human life.
nato vs. brics is on. china and india have already both hands in the pie. happy burstday
your ass capitulates, not the russians and at least not their one and only wladimir putin
moron amerikans lose all wars—zero volya—humiliated again by superior russian…..”the amerikan derives his self respect from the belief other like him—amerikans are insatiable fro reassurance they fear rejection…the individual westerners is far more likely to be afflicted w free floating anxieties than is the individual russian. russians are far more able to tolerate hate and fear than we are”. geoffrey gorer