The Russian invaders have suffered significant losses near Avdiivka, Marinka, and Vuhledar in Donetsk Oblast, so a Russian offensive on Vuhledar is currently out of question.
Source: Oleksii Dmytrashkivskyi, spokesman for the joint press office of the …
Russian forces are preparing to resume offensive operations around Vuhledar, although persistent personnel and ammunition issues will likely continue to constrain Russian forces from advancing, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) believes.
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The Russian occupiers continue their attempts to capture Bakhmut, break through the defence on the Kupiansk and Lyman fronts, and conduct unsuccessful offensives towards the Avdiivka and Shakhtarsk fronts as of the evening of 9 March.
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UK Defence Intelligence has stated that the release of footage of the Russian Defence Minister’s visit to Ukraine was a response to the visit to the front line by Yevgeny Prigozhin, Head of Wagner Group PMC.
Source: European Pravda; UK Defence In…
Western intelligence estimates Russia’s losses in recent months in the battles for the city of Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast, at 20,000-30,000 mercenaries from the Wagner Private Military Company (PMC); about a third of them may be dead.
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Russian propagandist Vladimir Solovyov has said that he came under fire while visiting a position of the 155th Separate Marine Brigade of the Russian Armed Forces near Vuhledar, Donetsk Oblast.
Source: Solovyov, on the air of his program on Russia-1 TV…
The General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces states that a conflict is possible among the Russian military top leadership over their significant losses and lack of success in the combat zone.
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Analysts of the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), having analysed the situation, came to the conclusion that Russian troops will not be able to encircle Bakhmut in the near future.
Source: ISW
Details: Russian forces appear to have secured a suffic…
Russia has lost a large-scale tank battle for Vuhledar in Donetsk Oblast, getting ambushed by the Armed Forces of Ukraine — just as it did during the attack when using tank convoys at the beginning of the full-scale invasion.
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The Russian command has sent a unit of the 136th Brigade, which had been created for the war against Chechen Republic of Ichkeria [in the 1990s], to the Vuhledar front in Ukraine.
Source: Oleksii Dmytrashkivskyi, spokesman for the joint press office of…