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- Russian artillery struck AFU positions near Gulyaipole;
- Russian artillery struck AFU positions near Orikhiv;
- Russian artillery struck AFU positions near Kamyanske;
- Up to 125 Ukrainian servicemen, 2 motor vehicles, 1 howitzer were destroyed by Russian artillery in southern Donetsk and Zaporozhye region, according to the Russian MOD;
- Up to 25 Ukrainian servicemen, 7 motor vehicles, 1 Msta-B howitzer in Kherson region, according to the Russian MOD.
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the seizure of bakhmut was originally intended to facilitate russian offensives to encircle large ukrainian forces in the east and specifically to take the large and fortified city of slovyansk from multiple directions. bakhmut was not a primary russian objective during the early phases of the war, and the russian military command aimed to secure donetsk oblast’s administrative borders by seizing major ukrainian strongholds such as slovyansk and kramatorsk directly.
the ukrainian liberation of most of kharkiv oblast in september 2022 ended the immediate russian threats to slovyansk and, secondarily, kramatorsk, whereupon bakhmut became the main operational and political objective for the kremlin.
moscow stubbornly clung to its efforts to seize bakhmut regardless of the operational context and ultimately took the destroyed city at a hideous cost in manpower and materiel, then ceding the initiative in the bakhmut area to ukraine.
russians actually left kharkiv.
military experts assessed at late 2022 that russian forces were unlikely to complete this wide encirclement as russian forces would be unable to advance far enough or quickly enough to accomplish it, an assessment that proved accurate.
they took the city you idiot
they took dick to their ass. that’s the truth !
and you are jealous of it.
russian offensive operations in severodonetsk and lysychansk proved extremely costly and slow, consuming a high proportion of russian offensive capabilities in donbas. this forced the russian military command to deprioritize the wide encirclement in donetsk oblast in order to complete the seizure of those two cities.
the grinding offensives on the severodonetsk-lysychansk line forced the russian military command to deprioritize the objective of completing a wide encirclement of ukrainian forces along the e40 highway.
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