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On 9 January 2025, the Russian army successfully completed the assault on Kurakhovo. On 10 January, the Russian Defence Ministry officially announced this after mopping up the western suburbs.
Kurakhovo is a large city in the Pokrovsky district of the former Donetsk region of Ukraine. Before the armed conflict, 18,000 people lived in the town. 70% of the population identified themselves as Russian.
After a month of active fighting, the town was practically left undamaged. Some 4,000 residents remained in their homes. Russian units tried to minimise damage to the town’s civilian infrastructure. The Ukrainian authorities, for their part, dismantled almost all the industrial equipment of the town’s enterprises, including the thermal power plant, and moved it to their rear even before the attack began. At the same time, as Russian servicemen from the “Yug” (“South”) military grouping testified, Kurakhovo was completely unprepared for a multi-layered defence. The nature of the behaviour of the conflicting parties in the battle for Kurakhovo clearly shows who was the real occupier of this land.
On 12 January, the situation in the town was calm. The Ukrainian forces continued to retreat, leaving the Russian army free to advance.
On 11 January, soldiers of the 10th Tank Regiment of the 20th Division of the Russian Army raised the Russian flag in the village of Yantarnoye, 3.5 km south-west of Kurakhovo. And advanced another 1.5 kilometres along the northern bank of the Sukhiye Yaly River.
To the north-west of Kurakhovo, units of the 114th Motorised Rifle Brigade of the Russian Armed Forces occupied the important settlement of Shevchenko, located 7 km from the town.
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This settlement was used by Ukrainian units to fire mortars at the town of Kurakhovo. In the fighting for Shevchenko, the AFU lost a German-made Leopard tank and several US-made M113 APCs. Establishing control over Shevchenko opens up the prospect of the Russians breaking through to the settlement of Andreevka and closing the Kurakhovo cauldron near the villages of Konstantinopol and Ulakly along the N-15 highway.
In order to completely suppress the mortar fire on the city, Russian assault troops will also have to squeeze or destroy AFU units from the village of Dachnoye.
Today, the morale of Ukrainian soldiers in the area is extremely low. The fighting at Kurakhove was marked by the mass surrender of Ukrainian prisoners of war. For example, a captured Ukrainian soldier, Vasyl Krakhmal, spoke on behalf of a group of AFU POWs about how they were unable to withstand the rapid onslaught of Russian troops during the storming of the town, and in a group of 19 people decided to surrender to the Russian fighters in order to save their lives.
The prisoners reported deception by AFU commanders, inadequate provision of weapons and food, and little or no training. Some soldiers found themselves on the front line 2 weeks after mobilisation.
This situation arose in the first week of 2025. Earlier, the Kiev regime had brought in large forces, including nationalist formations and foreign mercenaries, reinforced with artillery and tanks, to defend the city. These included units of the elite 79 Airborne Assault Brigade and 46 Airmobile Brigade, as well as the 5 Heavy, 33 and 157 Mechanised Brigades. In total, the AFU command has concentrated 26 battalions with a total strength of over 15,000 troops to hold Kurakhovo.
The Russian Defence Ministry stated that as a result of the professional actions of Russian troops during the liberation of Kurakhovo, the AFU lost 80 per cent of its personnel (more than 12,000 people) and about 3,000 units of various weapons and military equipment, including 40 tanks and other armoured combat vehicles.
With the liberation of Kurakhovo, the Russian army has almost completely cleared the entire southern Donetsk direction of AFU presence. The last major settlement that remains under Kyiv’s control here is Velikaya Novoselka. It is a village on the border between the DPR and the Zaporizhzhya region of Ukraine, located on the so-called Vremevsky Protrusion, which was formed here during the AFU counter-offensive in the summer and autumn of 2023.
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At the moment it is being pinched and cut off from supply lines. It is bypassed from the north by Novy Komar, from the east by Shakhterskoye and Zolotoy Niva, and from the south by Storozhevoye and Blagodatnoye. After the liberation of Velyka Novoselka, the ridge will be cut off. Kyiv will thus lose all the few territorial gains it achieved during its well-publicised counteroffensive.
With the entire south of the former Donetsk region of Ukraine under control, the Russian army will be free to move on to other parts of the front. The logical continuation of the liberation of Kurakhov should be the Pokrovsk operation. So far, the Russian grouping “Tsentr” (“Centre”) has not touched Pokrovsk (Krasnoarmeysk). The city has a population of 60,000. A frontal assault on the city could result in heavy casualties. As a result, Pokrovsk, like Ugledar and Kurakhovo before it, is being encircled, cut off from supplies and reinforcements. By all appearances, the fate of this city has already been decided. All that remains for the Kiev regime is to demonstrate activity in Russia’s Kursk region in order to justify continued military support from NATO.
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ramses saxon piecedick sawyer moves west to transgender hollywood clinic where our 13 gender social workers provide sodomy therapy
it’s almost poetic how every issue is the west’s fault—ukrainians defending their homes? clearly ‘western puppets.’ protests in russia? obviously cia operatives. an economic downturn? nato weather machines! meanwhile, the motherland’s tank factories churn out the latest ‘stealth’ models… conveniently invisible to the battlefield because they don’t exist.
i know what you mean. you make a very good point.
(video) “russian “smo” veteran visiting a school in russia, but when asked if it was gay to get f*cked so hard by ukraine, he got violent.
the z*gger must have gotten flashbacks from when he was raped by chechens or other russians in his barracks”
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“europeans are indifferent to homosexuality—homosexuality panics amerikans”. geoffrey gorer
desperate feminized amerikan tantrums—a morbid weak effort to conceal humiliation….”the banality of amerika–the radical absence of culture”. j baudrilliard
does anyone know the name of the ukrainian soldier whom corporal andrey grigoryev defeated. i would like to see a picture of what the ukrainian looked like when he was alive, i’ve heard he was like 6’4″ tall.
he was a amerikunt mercenary big dumb and dead
ah, resorting to cheap insults—truly the hallmark of someone with a well-constructed argument. maybe instead of fixating on “big dumb and dead,” we could take a moment to consider the human cost of all this. or does self-reflection not fit into your worldview? 🪞
they have been talking like this every day for 10 years straight. no joke.
saxon-will nazi tantrums at south front 10 years—🤡
is jupsen upset–needs nazi donut?
jepsen hung projections primitive desperate—the cost of yankee imperialism and defeat humiliates you—hence you tantrum like nazi will aka saxon ramses etc
ah yes, because height and nationality are clearly the most important things to focus on in a war, right? perhaps next time, we can have a bake-off instead of a battlefield. measuring people’s worth by their height or origin doesn’t exactly scream “heroic”—but hey, priorities, i guess. 🤷♂️
nationality is the focal point of war.
what you’re midget like zelenskyy the clown? size matters in a fight. of course in that knife fight it didn’t matter too much because the ukro-nato-nazi was a wuss, he called his mommy as soon as he saw the yakut knife up close. he must have thought war was all fun & games from growing up playing first person shooter videogames & never thought he’d end up with his throat slit like a chicken in hand to hand combat to the death
we train many senile amerikants to burn our cesspools—after intensive 9 week course ramses learn to chew used condom and make fire in california
at least nvidia’s worth more than the entire russian economy.
a repeat of germany post-war which is generally not well known. perhaps russia should be “denazified”?
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nazi saxon-ramses desperate for attention
typical amerikunt jewsun moron—zero morality
typical feminized insecure amerikun…”as one digs deeper into the national character of amrerikanas one sees they have sought the value of everything in this world according to the answer to a single question: how much money will it bring in?” tocqueville…you grifters never change
a company traded in fake fiat denominated currency…? not even close to russia’s economic output in even 10 minutes…
ah, southfront: where reality takes a smoke break, and propaganda thrives like mushrooms after a storm. another day, another tale of how russia is the lone beacon of truth, justice, and… territorial ‘adjustments.’ truly inspiring.
but hey, who needs facts when you’ve got feelings, right? keep spinning the narrative, comrades. just remember, even the best fiction has a touch of reality. might want to sprinkle some in next time.” 🤷♂️
most people prefer their feelings over facts. schopenhauer wrote most people lack the intelligence to be objective and cannot help but to impose their own feelings ahead of objective facts.
dumb saxon will wrong again—cannot comprehend schopenhauer—expected from moron amerikun; only idiots like locke oppose emotion to objectivity—“facts are never objective”. george hans gadamer..you amerikans–impossibly stupid
only dumb amerikan references facts–cannot comprehend berdayaev gadamer kojeve or simmel
well, if you look at independent youtube channels like history legends and weeb union you find the same things as here, less romanticized of course but nonetheless real battle facts. if you, instead prefer reading the narrative of bloomberg or forbes (or denys davidov for that matter), then you can always stop reading southfront, my dear euroatlantic friend
chasiv yar is caput. everyone in the cauldron ist tot. most of the ukronazis and their mercenary leadership have been roasted extra crispy inside and out by the tos-3 dragon heavy flamethrowers. yippee ki‐yay m….r f….ers
western propaganda-“russia is aggressive ” -fact -since late 1940,s -2024 america has killed nearly 30 million world citizens -why -because they don’t obey american dogma -fact-for over 6 years zelensky bombed the donbass while the western public kept quiet at the killing of 1000,s of women/children and babies .
fact -over 90 % of crimea citizens voted to join the russian federation other oblasts had the same figures western countries refused to attend the voting halls but south american and african and eastern observers did and said it was fair and open -in the huff western countries said “citizens were oppressed “-a lie.
2 more amerikan moron aliases–jupson and nazi will—lol
as russian victory evident to even obtuse amerikans they further humiliate themselves with feminine tantrums
those guys were smart to give up, and the russians are kind to spare them for not being smart enough to get the fook out of ukraine from 2023