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In the evening of August 29, the first reports from the front claimed Russian control of the village of Karlovka in the Pokrovsk Direction in the Donetsk People’s Republic. The settlement turned into a large stronghold of the Armed Forces of Ukraine after the fall of Avdeevka.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation repelled the AFU from the village of Karlovka after only several days of battles. Fighters of the 114th Brigade were the first who crossed the dam west of the village, where the AFU built their main stronghold for defense. As a result, one of Ukrainian supply roads in Karlovka was cut. There was the only road to the south where the Ukrainian military tried to escape from the settlement under heavy Russian fire.
Russian flags are waving in Karlovka and in the settlement west of the Volchya River called Karlovka dachas.
Ukrainian forces accumulated large forces in Karlovka after their defense west of Avdeevka crashed. The village turned into the main stronghold on the southern flank in this direction. The Ukrainian military tried to take advantage of the Karlov water reservoir and the Volchya River nearby; but rapid advance of the Russian army allowed to rapidly cross the river in the north and attack Karlovka from the northern direction.
According to reports from the battlefield, Ukrainian forces began retreating from their military positions in the village the day before. They tried to hold defense in the village of Galitsinovka located nearby; but they fail to fight for long there too. Ukrainians flee in the Pokrovsk direction almost without fighting.
The Russian military is completing the mop up operation in Karlovka, Abandoned Ukrainian soldiers, who failed to escape from the village are hiding in the basements.
Russian forces expanded their zone of control southwest of the village and already entered Galitsinovka. According to preliminary reports, a large part of Galitsinovka also came under Russian control. Ukrainian forces retreat to the southern outskirts across the river in the village.
As a result of heavy battles, the Ukrainian grouping suffered heavy losses.
Russian military observers note that the Ukrainian military is probably suffering from shell hunger. While Russian artillery is pounding the retreating units.
Thus, the pocket of Ukrainian defense near the Karlov reservoir was completely destroyed within a few days. The entire Ukrainian front in the Pokrovsk direction is torn apart.
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation officially confirmed the full control of the village of Nikolaevka. The Ukrainian attempt to counterattack in the village of Memrik was repelled.
The liberation of Karlovka approached the Ukrainian retreat from the area of Nevelskoye. In the nearest future, Russian troops will use the important E-50 highway, which will allow them to improve supplies to the entire grouping advancing in the Selidovo area. In Selidovo, the battles reached the central part of the city. Russian forces managed to liberate the Rossiya mine (Kotlyarevskaya) along with the adjacent landfill, which are key heights on the outskirts of Selidovo and provide fire control of the city.
