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THE UKRAINE WAR
Update August 12th 2023
lezzetnesli: 12 Aug: First-Class Execution. Ukrainians GOT BEHIND RUSSIAN DEFENSE SUDDENLY! | Ukraine War Update
Update August 12th 2023
lezzetnesli: 12 Aug: First-Class Execution. Ukrainians GOT BEHIND RUSSIAN DEFENSE SUDDENLY! | Ukraine War Update
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Peter Burgess COMMENTARY
Peter Burgess
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Aug 12, 2023 Day 534: 12 Aug
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First-class execution. Ukrainians GOT BEHIND RUSSIAN DEFENSE SUDDENLY | Ukraine War Update
Besides its successful advance in Kherson, Melitopol, Berdyansk and Mariupol, the Ukrainian Armed Forces seems to have taken control of the city of Bakhmut on the Donetsk front these days.
After the last withdrawal of Wagner forces from this city, the Ukrainian forces had a great opportunity for offensive operations.
Kiev had planned its offensive according to the Russian withdrawal of Wagner reinforcements from Bakhmut.
At the last point reached today in the Bakhmut clashes that have been going on for about 7 months, Ukrainian troops can now make military breakthroughs on the wings of the city whenever they want.
After Wagner forces dispersed from Bakhmut city and its surroundings, Chechen troops supported the Russian defense there.
But the Ukrainian troops manage to defeat the Chechen soldiers fighting for Russia on the wings of Bakhmut and this city.
The key factor for the Ukrainians to achieve this is the tunnel lines and other connection roads they have created around Bakhmut.
Ukrainian troops had previously used the tunnel lines extensively in clashes near the Salt Mines of the city of Soledar.
But now the Ukrainian troops have started to use tunnel lines with a complex structure, almost like the British subway, in the city of Bakhmut and the settlements on the wings of this city.
In particular, the soldiers of the Azov Regiment use the tunnels in this region extensively to break through the Russian defense lines on the Bakhmut flanks.
Because the soldiers of the Azov regiment became highly specialized in tunnel lines.
The soldiers of the Azov regiment of the Ukrainian army launched a heavy attack on the Akhmat battalion of the Russian army near Klischiivka with this striking combat tactic of using the tunnel lines.
In this attack, the soldiers of the Azov Regiment entered the tunnel lines in the most critical areas of the city and managed to rear the troops of the Akhmat Battalion.
As a result of the surprise attack, the soldiers of the Akhmat Battalion came under heavy fire as the Azov regiment backed them up from the tunnel.
As a result, the Akhmat Battalion faced serious military losses. More than one detachment of Chechen soldiers was out of the war.
After this critical defeat, Apti Alaudinov, the commander of the Chechen special unit Akhmat, reported that the Ukrainian Armed Forces will soon break through the entire Russian defense in the direction of Bakhmut.
Apti Alaudinov rather pointed to the critical situation on the southern lines of Bakhmut.
Because the Ukrainian forces continued their critical offensive operations after overthrowing the Akhmat Battalion in the south of the city.
Between the Klischhivka and Andriivka front lines, the Ukrainian troops again took the offensive position.
The Ukrainian army's HIMARS artillery also provided support to these offensive efforts.
After heavy artillery fire, more than 20 Russian soldiers were eliminated in the southern sector of Bakhmut and nearly 70 were seriously injured.
In addition, as a result of these heavy attacks, a Russian army battle tank, a self-propelled artillery system Gvozdika, a Msta-B artillery piece, a field ammunition depot and five military trucks were destroyed in the same area.
The Kraken soldiers of the Azov Regiment's special Forces unit launched a heavy counter-attack against the most concentrated Russian military group in the Kupyansk direction.
In total, more than fifty clashes took place in this counterattack, supported by HIMARS artillery.
Russian troops were also responding to the Ukrainian HIMARS attacks at the same rate.
But the Kraken took advantage of the wooded trench lines in the direction of Kupyansk and got closer to the Russian trenches.
The Kraken soldiers were quite close to the tunnel they had dug a long time ago.
He managed to get behind the Russians by passing through the tunnel that the Kraken Regiment had dug in Kupyansk.
On the one hand, the fate of clashes changed when the Russian troops dealing with HIMARS missiles suddenly saw the soldiers of the Kraken Regiment behind them. In the shadow of HIMARS missile fire, the soldiers of the Kraken Regiment attacked the Russian troops stationed in Kupyansk so fiercely that in a short time many Russian units were out of the fight, including the soldiers in the rearmost trench lines.
After these heavy defeats of the Russian troops around Bakhmut and in the direction of Kupiansk, he had to resort to a change of tactics.
Russian troops in the direction of Bakhmut play a largely defensive role rather than a full-fledged offensive army.
Maksym Zhorin, the former Azov commander of the Ukrainian army, stated that the Russians are currently in a very difficult situation on both the southern and northern flanks of Bakhmut.