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Russian Armed Forces units have already entered the outskirts of the town of Kurakhovo in the Donetsk People’s Republic, anchored themselves there and continue the offensive from three directions at once. Russian reconnaissance officers from the front line are reporting that Ukrainian military is using prohibited chemical weapons against them.
Despite the deteriorating spell of cold weather, the Russian Armed Forces (RAF) continue to build on their success, pushing the enemy back to the western border of the Donetsk People’s Republic. Kurakhovo has become the next logical target for the Russian offensive. The liberation of this town will give the RAF an opportunity to first increase pressure on the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) grouping and then to encircle it. The Ukrainians have few strongholds left near the town of Kurakhovo, which may soon cut off the AFU’s last avenues of retreat completely.
Ukrainian social media reported that during a day of intensive artillery barrage, the outskirts of Kurakhovo were shelled at least 13 times and that numerous buildings and a couple of dozen private houses in the town center were damaged.
Russian troops are covering the Kurakhovo from the north and south. Earlier, they took control of Antonovka and Maksimovka in the DPR. Troops of the Vostok (West) group were involved in the operation.
On November 1, the RFA took control of the settlement of Leonidovka, and on October 31 – the settlement of Yasnaya Polyana. Today it also became known that the 114th Brigade of the Russian military group Center, moving towards Kurakhovo, seized control of the village of Volchenka.
On the eastern side of Kurakhovo, there is a slowdown in the assault of the RAF, which is due to the large number of engineering fortifications: many trenches with access to different sides have been dug. It is possible to storm them with relative safety only after serious artillery preparation and air strikes using high-explosive aerial bombs (FABs). Nevertheless, to the east of Kurakhovo, Russian units managed to overcome an anti-tank ditch dug back in 2015.
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In general, the Russian forces’ intention seemed to simply provoke the AFU to deploy additional reserves to the area, which the Ukrainians do not have that many of. The aim was to facilitate the advance of Russian troops on the flanks. The AFU have obviously figured out the enemy’s intention, so they are trying to transfer only small combat groups to Kurakhovo in order to delay the advance of the Russian troops and buy time for the main Ukrainian units to withdraw.
On the northern flank, the AFU formations have been knocked out of Ilyinka (1.5 km from Kurakhovo) and are leaving the village of Novoselidovka (6 km from Kurakhovo) through the fields. After the liberation of Novoalekseevka (14 km north of Kurakhovo and 4 km west of Selidovo), less than 20 km remain to the border of Dnipropetrovsk region. The RAF are consolidating in the area west of Selidovo, with the aim of obtaining the Pokrovsk city. To the north of the town, Russian troops are fighting on the outskirts of Sontsovka, the liberation of which will open the road to Starye Terny and, consequently, access to the western outskirts of the Karlovka reservoir.
On the southern flank of the “Kurakhovo Pocket”, the RAF are having tactical successes, developing their offensive. Russian units advanced from Shakhterskoye, Novoukrainka and Bogoyavlenka to the “Yasnaya Polyana–Maksimovka–Trudovoye” line. After the liberation of the village of Trudovoye (8 kilometers south of Kurakhovo) and the village of Maksimovka, the troops of military group South were given an operational opportunity to reach Razdolnoye and Constantinople, where they have yet to destroy the AFU fortifications. Russian troops are also approaching the village of Razliv from the southern flank, which is of strategic importance for further offensive operations.
According to the head of the Donetsk people’s republic, Ihor Kimakovskyy, the Ukrainian side has started withdrawing its troops from Kurakhove in advance. Against this background, the Ukrainian administration is still carrying out an evacuation free of charge by rail along the route “Pokrovsk – Dnipro – Lviv”. This information is updated in real time and made available to the population, including through local Telegram channels. At the same time, the AFU is transferring two additional brigades to Pokrovsk (Krasnoarmeysk). The city is being intensively prepared for defense.
Recall that Kurakhovo is located in the western part of Donbas, on the left bank of the Kurakhovo reservoir on the Volchya River in the Dnieper basin. The town is connected to the right bank by an automobile and railroad bridge.
The national highway N15 (Donetsk – Zaporozhye) passes through the town. Currently, the Russian Armed Forces are on the offensive on the sections of this road. If this transport artery, which supplies ammunition and reinforcements to the city, is cut, the Ukrainian forces will not be able to hold the town.
Meanwhile, in the West, with every town and village liberated in Donbas, the understanding of the irreversibility of Russia’s special military operation and the futility of arms supplies to the doomed Kiev regime grows.
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sf writes about pokrovsk direction a month. kursk is occupied for 4 months already. in 8 months, the u.s. took the whole iraq just to compare it. i’d not call it an offensive. it looks that russians are waiting till ukrainiens are bored so they leave on their own. this war looks more like a scam to destroy european middle class who pays all the bills. u.s. mic makes dirty money. this scam makes jeewish billionaires great (again). and russian conscripts are dirty cheap. in fact, they are free.
it’s funny how people in the west still compare everything to iraq. there is only one little mistake that all these wannabes make: the us never took iraq. they murdered a huge number of civilians, murdered the president, never controlled the country, and after two decades of costly adventures they are about to leave. i don’t argue that they didn’t achieve their goals, but, as i said, they never conquered nor controlled iraq.
i tell you what. russian “won” the ww2 just to become laughable 3rd world country. u.s. never won in vietnam but learned a lot. in fact, vietnam boosted u.s. so they won the entire cold war as gorbachev have to throw towel in, giving west the whole former easter bloc without a single shot. it is all about the utmost stupidity of the far east clan. the intelligence ends in vienna. moscow is the same shithole as kiev.
the united states is a 3rd world country now. 40 000 homeless live on the streets of los angeles alone, dipshit.
what you got right: it’s a war to destroy europe as a peer in the game of superpowers. in this sense it is again a strategic masterpiece of the us.
it would have been if russia had really been regime changed. destroying europe from the point of view of the us is dumb. it will result in allies that at best require to be helped all the time and at worst that will turn from the us. and don’t listen to snowden : he is an idiot that is just here to smear his feces on the whole thing.
kursk oblast is 30 000 sq km. the ukrainians are at large in less than 1000 sq km. so they don’t occupy kursk, do they? but of course, this is not the only region in which the russians are engaged with the ukrainians, is it? which leads one to conclude that only the most dishonest sort of shitpile would make your comparison with the us assault on iraq.
amerikunty defeated in iraq—u moron amerikunts always lose—20 years sodomy by taliban and u need diapers to think
really difficult sometimes but i was told not to feed the retards….
let us bear in mind: rf goal is reasonably restored safety and legitimate territory for russia. this means in practice de-nazification and de-militarization. the only land included is the four acceded regions and crimea. a reasonable observer will not object to this overall result.
bullshit, russian are fighting _ o n _ t h e i r _ o w n _ territory which that scumbag putin gave nuland and klitschko for free. oh, it was not for free. it cost the west cookies and metamphetamine. after years when russia subsidized ukraine with gas, technologies and money. ask putin why he was so busy “pleasing” western partners when we told him to intervene and support janukovych. it is all his fault. i smell stinky fat jeew behind putin’s decisions. it is all scam.
i don’t know how your message didn’t get through to the president of russia. it’s so simple: putin bad, mm’kay?
amerikunty snowed swallow too much mulatto semen—moron amerikunt easily scammed
russia poteva vincere in 3 giorni. attacco emp il 22 febbraio 2022 e ogni cosa in ucraina con un minimo di elettronica avrebbe smesso di funzionare. ma immaginate ucraina occupata: sarebbero rimasti vivi decine, centinaia di migliaia di nazisti che yankee avrebbero potuto armare, pagare e addestrare per anni, per guerriglia o attentati in russia. grazie al cielo, hanno fatto saltare accordi di instanbul e guerra è andata avanti
the liberation of kurakhovo will lower morale of afu in the upcoming battle for the last string of cities of donbass. but remember the new border has to include all russian speakers to prevent further genocide and ethnic cleansing. too many soldiers have given their life already to stop before the line kharkov – odessa✌️
combattere dove e come vogliono ucraini significa liberare solo rovine. ucraina è stata denazificata abbastanza, quindi ora basta: prima di liberare slaviansk e kramatorsk una vera superpotenza si fermerebbe, darebbe ultimatum di 2 giorni a kiev: andatevene o non resterà nulla di lvov, ivano frankivsk, ternopil
is putin a lgbt why is he praising another man as real man.what about him is he otherwise.
amerikunt japie expert on lgbt
russia wins weak amerikans tantrum as troops remove ukie mines and gradually shrink former ukraine daily
my # 1 hillbilly snow—talibanned- dent in brain confuses his frequent sodomy with his dirty diapers
this was never in question, it was only about a result, what’s here now
the vermin on the globalist side, soros and his bagage will die off in the next 4 years. they’re to weak to withstand all the losing, coming for them. it’s done…