AFU continuing to lose Bakhmut
On the fronts of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict in the period from April 11 to 12, 2023, there were several significant changes.
In Bakhmut and adjacent areas the following situation is developing. Over 80% of the territory of the city is under the control of the Wagner PMCs. This includes all the administrative centers, plants, factories, as well as the city administration building. Russian fighters control more than half of the territory of the railway station. Continuous artillery fire is taking place to the west of the station, making it difficult for the AFU to transfer reinforcements.
Tank explosion in Bakhmut
In the northern quarters of Bakhmut, Wagner PMC assault units continue their offensive in the Internat area. At the same time, battles for control of the building of School No. 24 are underway. Despite the desperate resistance, the AFU continue to lose positions in the city. In the south of Bakhmut, the Wagnerians storm the Ukrainian positions on Chaikovskogo Street, trying to cut the road to Krasnoe. In the center, Russian forces, having taken control of a group of houses north of the police station, shifted the front line to the railway line.
Defeating a Ukrainian tank using a UAV near Bakhmut
The Wagner PMC reports that the flanks of the attack on Bakhmut have been handed over to units of the Russian Armed Forces. According to the head of the PMC Yevgeny Prigozhin, the military has everything necessary to organize the defense and conduct attacks if necessary. Zaliznyanskoye, Sacco and Vancetti, Nikolaevka and other settlements, which in previous months were stormed by detachments of “Wagnerites”, are in the area of responsibility of the Defense Ministry.
During the day, strikes were carried out against AFU positions in the areas of Nikiforovka, Vasyukovka, Minkovka, Orekhovo-Vasilevka, Khromovo, Chasov Yar and Krasnoye. The Wagner offensive on Bogdanivka continued.
During the day Ukrainian formations opened fire on Donetsk, as well as Horlivka, Panteleimonovka and Makeyevka settlements. A bus in Donetsk came under fire, injuring two civilians. In addition, a utility building was destroyed in the capital of the DPR, the village of Maysky was de-energized in Horlivka, and the supply to the Lenin mine village was partially disrupted.
Denis Pushilin said that the Russian units are facing the task of taking Avdeevka by encirclement. Now there is an advance towards the settlement from the south. According to some reports, the line of contact is less than a kilometer from the village of Severnoye, where a major logistics hub of the AFU is located. He also spoke about the position fighting in the Ugledar direction. Pushilin’s adviser Igor Kimakovsky said that a large number of enemy soldiers were surrendering near Avdeevka.
On the Liman section of the front, Russian forces are fighting positional battles and artillery duels near Makiivka and Zhuravka Balka. Ukrainian formations continue to prepare for a counterattack and pull additional reserves into the area of combat operations.
In the LPR, a fighter of “Aidar”, convicted of participating in a terrorist association, was sentenced to eight years in a colony. According to the investigation, the convict served in the battalion as a gunner in the machine-gun section.
Destruction of an artillery installation in the Svatovsk direction
The Russian Defense Ministry reported that within 24 hours, a position near Mirolyubovka, Zaporozhye Region, was uncovered and the targeting radar of the AFU S-300 anti-aircraft missile system was destroyed.
The Russian Defense Ministry said in a briefing that during the day, AFU units in the Liman, Donetsk, South Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions were hit. Ukrainian troops lost about 570 servicemen and a large amount of military equipment, as well as three US-made AN/TPQ-50 counter-battery radar stations and a warehouse of artillery ammunition.
According to the Russian Defense Ministry, up to 10 AFU servicemen, as well as two vehicles, a Grad multiple rocket launcher, a D-30 howitzer and two Gvozdika self-propelled artillery systems were destroyed in the Kherson region. The Ukrainian armed forces shelled the town of Aleshki. As a result of the attack 2 civilians were killed.
In Belgorod, a Ukrainian drone equipped with an explosive device collided with the fence of the international airport. The detonation damaged the fence structure and the alarm cable.
The Russian Defense Ministry reported on the defeat of AFU positions in the districts of Sinkovka and Kislovka, Kharkiv region, overnight. Ukrainian troop losses amounted to about 30 servicemen. In addition, three tanks, two vehicles and a Polish-made Krab self-propelled artillery unit were destroyed.
Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Oleksiy Danilov said that the leak of secret Pentagon documents would not affect Kiev’s military strategy and its plans of a counterattack. He also stated that the Ukrainian command would decide on an offensive “at the last moment.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said that he had a telephone conversation with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken amid the documentation leak. As a result of the conversation, he said that Washington remains a reliable partner of Kiev.
The Kiev city administration urged religious communities to limit mass worship on Easter. The authorities of the Ukrainian capital have asked for online broadcasting of these events via the Internet as much as possible.
In the near future, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are likely to finally lose control of Bakhmut. And now the most important question in this situation is how many more Ukrainian soldiers will be defeated in this direction. In addition, whether Kiev’s decisions regarding the city mean that it wants to get rid of the soldiers deployed there. Specific answers to these questions could really clarify Kiev’s goals for the conflict.
This makes mentally ill NATO shills seethe. They can’t stand the fact that the people of the Donbas are getting what they’ve been asking for, for 9 years. Liberation from the empire of terrorism and lies.
I love how southfront only produces articles that fit the russian narrative. When a ukrainian soldier was executed for saying slava ukraini, no comment. Now again, russians execute ukrainian soldier isis style and no comment again. These ‘people’ are worse than animals. History will write about the atrocities of ruzzia…
They did in fact produce a piece on a clearly fake video of a “ukrainian soldier killed be evil Russians” Cope and seethe
Shills will justify the use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine(depleted uranium) and at the same time shift attention to non existent events. Nato propaganda is getting more desperate than Ghost of Kiev at this point. COPE AND SEETHE
Did you ask this when western media rationalized that al quaida cutting heads of syrian civilians was ok cause these where supporters of assad or family members of police and military officers?
No of course not.
No matter what anyone tells you all soldiers are trained to lose their natural inhibitions to kill. And when you let them loose this is what happenes.
Who ever cheers on this is a moron no matter who does it or who it is done to.
I remember a video of a bbc’s war correspondent presented as a citizen journalist reporting on Assad’s atrocities proving he was a Daesh supporter. He filmed himself with terrorists beheading a teenage boy behind a pickup. Fucking bastard….
So, how many articles does the Western media produce that do not fit the Ukrainian narrative? Of course SF only produces the Russian narrative. That is why I come here, to hear at least something that gives me the other side, instead of the onesided MSM narrative. Absurd, that I have to do that, but the Western MSM has given up on objectivity long ago.
War is hell, if you don’t want war, live up to your promises. Screw NATO, Stop taking money from the west, stop killing Russian speaking people. You had multiple chances to stop and talk. Your handlers told you not to. Your people are listening to the wrong people. Live with your decisions. or die with them, your choice.
The recent leaked papers indicate a 7 to 1 loss rats of Ukraine nazis versus Russian forces. Thats us governments own documents. Go get another booster so the wef and their satanic army nafo can help depopulate you, moron.
Kiev should surrender. They have no chance to win this war. They are NATO canon fodder used to arm Russia. Ukr and Rus are almost the same people. Ukrainian have been brainwashed. It’s just very very sad.
Name of this city is Artemovsk. Time has come to spell it correctly all over again, like Kharkov (not Kharkiv) Ougledar (not Vuhledar) or Popasnaya (not Popasna). The polonized russian patois that they call “ukrainian language” is finished.
It is Kharkiv in Russian too.