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Frontline report: Russian forces seize control of coal mine, yet lose half of troops
Russian forces captured coal mines near Krasnohorivka, but at a heavy cost: after withdrawing, Ukrainians sent out heavy artillery fire, destroying half of the Russian manpower and reportedly half of tanks and armored vehicles.

BY
REPORTING FROM UKRAINE
19/07/2023

Today, there is a lot of news from the east. Here, Russian forces have opened a completely new axis of advance and decided to attack territories they had failed to advance into for over 8 years. Krasnohorivka, a powerful stronghold located between Avdiivka and Marinka, has been prepared to withstand destructive frontal assaults like its sister strongholds. This is why the Russians had not attempted to attack it until today.

However, before they could attack the stronghold itself, the Russians needed to secure their flanks and eliminate all Ukrainian positions in the fields. Their first target of choice was a coal mine located 1 km south of Krasnohorivka. The coal mine, situated in the field, consists of 5 separate facilities with numerous trench networks strategically positioned to defend against potential attacks.

In order to breach this defense, the Russian forces relied heavily on the element of surprise. They refrained from conducting intense reconnaissance-in-force operations to prevent the Ukrainians from reinforcing this region. The initial wave of attack involved at least seven tanks and armored fighting vehicles. Judging from the water in the background, it appears that Russian forces advanced along the Lozova River, splitting into two groups and attacking the strong point from 2 sides.

The first group’s objective was to attack the Ukrainian flanks and divert attention away from the second group, which aimed to establish control over the largest facility. By gaining control over this well-fortified facility surrounded by trenches, the Russians hoped to render the Ukrainians unable to defend their position.

However, the Russian assault units faced intense artillery fire, and the coal mine facilities suffered severe damage, offering little cover for the advancing Russian forces. To compensate for their losses and fill the trenches, Russian forces had to reinforce the ground units with infantry, preventing the Ukrainians from exploiting the empty trenches.
As the Russians approached, the Ukrainians reduced the intensity of their artillery fire to avoid hitting their own troops. Observing the decrease in artillery support and facing another wave of Russian attacks, the Ukrainians withdrew to minimize losses. Capitalizing on this opportunity, Ukrainian artillery crews unleashed devastating fire.

Subsequently, Ukrainian drone operators were deployed with the main objective of targeting the exposed Russian forces in the trenches. Geolocated footage confirms that few Russians managed to escape the grenades raining down on them. Once the trenches were more or less cleared and the Russians sought shelter, Ukrainian drone operators could execute more sophisticated maneuvers, such as dropping grenades into the buildings’ openings.

Ultimately, Russian forces gained control over the coal mine facilities, but at a significant cost. Reportedly, they lost half of their tanks and armored fighting vehicles, which they had to withdraw mid-fight due to heavy shelling, opting to send in more infantry instead. Based on the pre-fight and post-fight footage, it can be estimated that the Russians employed around 120 troops and lost more than half of them as well.

iammo:




I pity Peter Obi after this


It's common sense Obi might be too dull to understand

Southwest won't let it's mandate stolen

In Ibadan during EID, many wore Tinubu's logo

The imam prayed for Tinubu and people were very happy....

CJN Ariwoola from Oyo State also knows the kind of anarchy that would happen with wrong judgement
.

and who cares
The anarchy will only end in Yoruba land

Russia has gathered more than 100,000 soldiers of its occupation forces on the Lyman-Kupiansk axis.

Source: Serhii Cherevatyi, spokesman for the Eastern Group of Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, on the national 24/7 newscast

Quote: "The enemy has gathered a very powerful group of forces – more than 100,000 personnel, over 900 tanks, over 555 artillery systems, and 370 multiple-launch rocket systems – on the Lyman-Kupiansk axis.

For context, Russia deployed 120,000 personnel in Afghanistan at the height of its campaign there.


[Russia] has consolidated its air assault units, its best motorised infantry units, private military companies [on the Lyman-Kupiansk axis], and has deployed territorial forces as reserves there."

Details: Cherevatyi stressed that Ukrainian soldiers are holding the line and preventing Russian forces from taking the initiative in the area.

obedience4:
Wow, seems you are Putin right hand man,
Wow, just wow look at the stupid cospirancy theories you just wrote.
Dude the Russian Air Force is overrated period,
Do you know how many Russians men would be alive if Russia were to rule the skies over Ukraine,

that why they don't bother to do so, now Russia is planning to suspend grain deal
Will NATO send warship to escort Ukrainian ships carrying grains? See what former NATO supreme allied commander have to say, watch out for my next post

obedience4:
The last paragraph of your article is all that matters
The conclusion of the whole matter is that with all the hype of Russian Air Force it still can't achieve air superiority over Ukraine

Man thiiiinkkkk!! Did you know why Russia don't want to gain air superiority in Ukraine?
It's because USA and the west have planned to enter the war after they noticed Russia have exhausted her weapons, ok, I know America and Britain very well they must find reason or draw one useless red line that Russia will find very difficult not to cross, but thank God Putin knows this that's why 90% of Russian aircraft are still intact 😁😁😁😁 they will use it to drop nukes in Los Angeles, New York, Washington DC, Paris,London and Berlin 😁😁
Russia is still holding 20% of Ukraine territory
Can you go ahead and masturbate with your opinion because it doesn't count, Russia is fighting with over 31 countries

A Ukrainian pilot described his struggle against much more powerful Russian aviation.
The pilot told The Sunday Times about the limited impact that Ukraine's outdated gear can have.
Russia has changed its aviation tactics, which is proving difficult for Ukraine in its offensive.
A Ukrainian pilot told The Sunday Times that his country's air force is so outclassed by Russia that it can "do nothing to them in the air."

The pilot, identified only by his rank of major and his first name Maksym, told the publication on Saturday that his team has been struggling in its missions around Bakhmut against a far better-armed Russia.

He and his fellow airmen fly a Soviet-designed Mil Mi-8 helicopter, a model which entered service in the late 1960s and is far less effective than Russia's modern helicopter fleet.

On top of outmoded gear, they also have limited ammo. Maksym said his crew flies only one mission a day because they don't have enough rockets for more attacks. The problem, he said, extends from helicopters to fighter jets, where Ukraine has nothing to counter Russia's newest models.

"The Russian jets are much better quality than ours," Maksym told The Times. "It's like comparing a Mercedes to a Lada." A Lada is a Soviet-era car from Russia, which had a reputation for being cheap, bulky, and unreliable.

The Russians are flying a large number of advanced combat aircraft, including the Kamov Ka-52 helicopter, he added.

The Ka-52 is mainly designed for fierce battle, while the Mil Mi-8 Maksym has is designed for troop transportation rather than fighting.

"The Russians understand we can do nothing to them in the air," said Maksym. He said that half of his unit had been killed.


Maksim's comments came after reports that Russia has changed the way it uses its aviation assets as Ukraine launches its counter-offensive.

Senior Ukrainian military officials said recently they were concerned about Russia's "aviation and artillery superiority."

Russia has used helicopters to blunt Ukraine's attempts to advance using armored troop vehicles on land, which, The Financial Times reported.

A top British air force general, Chief Marshal of British Air Staff Rich Knighton, told a conference in London last week that Russia's air force "remains largely intact."

Citing British intelligence, Knighton said that Russia's air force had retained 96% of its 2,021 fixed-wing aircraft and 90% of its 899 helicopters, with losses of 86 planes and 90 helicopters.

Knighton said neither Russia nor Ukraine had been able to gain air superiority, but that Ukraine was facing "a massive challenge without air superiority and without being able to strike the adversary in the deep."

bassdow:
it's obvious you've got no idea how clusterMuniitions work else your COMMENT would havve been different. Now it's so easy SEEing through your writeUP

please explain more go straight to the point

Kingsnairaland:
Pipe dream plus fake news you can advance since the remaining cluster weapons will even blow up your equipment and legs.

Russian military bloggers on telegram are reporting it

According to Russian Telegram channels, Russian 35th Marine Infantry Brigade that managed to break through the front and invade the northern part of Starojamorski could not hold the area as the cluster munitions fell from the surrounding hills, injuring troops. Ukrainian formations have been intensively using artillery cluster ammunition to gain territorial advantage in Stariajamorski.
Meanwhile There is total chaos over there as Russian troops are scampering for safety,many soldiers have been wounded, Russia telegram channels are complaining about the weapon

Adjovi:
Russia has got a lot of stock piles of it. Giving it to Ukraine to use will only make the war more difficult for Ukraine because Russia too will start using it without any caution.

don't mind them

obedience4:
Good, all Russian invaders must be dealt with.
More American made weapons to kill more Russians
Love it 😘

carefully read this picture and see how many bombs and rocket inside each cluster bombs possessed by Russia if detonated 😊😊 and has it more than 5million
If USA gave Ukraine 200k pieces of this and Russia used 1.2milion they still have over four million left against NATO terrorist 😁😁

USA is just sending Ukraine to slaughter

If the United States supplies cluster munitions to Kiev, Russia's military will be forced to use similar means against the Ukrainian military in response. This was stated by the Russian Defense Minister, Sergei Shoigu. The minister stressed that "Russia has cluster munitions available". “At the same time, they are much more effective than the Americans, their nomenclature is wider and more diverse,” the defense minister stressed. However, understanding the threat this weapon poses to the civilian population, Moscow has always refrained from using them during the special operation, Shoigu said
The Ukrainian army did not reach the goal of the counteroffensive in any direction. “In general, the enemy has not achieved its goals in either direction,” Shoigu said, commenting on the situation at the front during a press conference. According to Shoigu, Kiev continues to unsuccessfully try to break through the defense of the Russian army in different directions, launching several waves of attacks. Finally, Shoigu noted that the high-precision strikes that the Russian military launches against Ukrainian army reserves, including Western equipment, "significantly reduce the enemy's offensive potential."

VeeVeeMyLuv:
Don't mind him! Very wicked soul!

He has forgotten that the min wage was once ₦1000

So how did it go from ₦1,000 to ₦20,000 now? Is it not through series of successive increments?

Left for that Wicked soul minimum wage might probably still be ₦1000 in the face of flying sky-high inflation and relentless devaluation of naira.

bro I'm tired of these people, I don't know why some people chose to be extremely I mean very extremely wicked, I've seen some people that their Boss is paying 15k per month and they will work from 6am till 8:30pm and also on holidays at this critical and trying time, people are very wicked

abysirius:
The GOM has no sense. 100k minimum wage!!

what's wrong with it? Will the world end

helinues:
This man should stop opening his mouth gbau.

N100k minimum wage with what debt ceiling. Face your sheepishs and KS from politics matter

why are you sooo pained
God why do people choose to be very wicked like this? 😪😪 Did you know that some people are still receiving 15k as salary at this critical and trying time?

Quote from Cherevatyi: "A rather powerful group of forces has been deployed [on the Lyman-Kupiansk front]: over 120 enemy units.

This includes air assault and mechanised units, units of the Bars combat army reserve, territorial forces, and new Storm Z assault companies that recruited people with criminal records. [...]

More than 180,000 [Russian troops have been deployed] across the area of responsibility [of the Skhid (East) Group of Forces]... The Lyman-Kupiansk front is longer, which is why the enemy is concentrating their forces there. Meanwhile, there are around 50,000 [Russian] troops on the Bakhmut front."

Details: Meanwhile, Maliar reported on Monday, 3 July, that a "fight for seizing the initiative" was underway on the Bakhmut front.

Russian troops are advancing in four areas of the front line in eastern Ukraine amid "fierce fighting", Ukraine's Deputy Defence Minister said on Sunday.

"Fierce fighting is going on everywhere," Ganna Maliar wrote on social media, adding: "The situation is quite complicated".

"The enemy is advancing in Avdiivka, Mariinka, Lyman sectors. The enemy is also moving forward in the Svatove sector," she said.

Maliar said Ukrainian troops were advancing with "partial success" on the southern flank of Bakhmut, as well as near Berdyansk and Melitopol in southern Ukraine.

In the south, she said Ukrainian forces faced "intense enemy resistance, remote mining, deploying of reserves" and were only advancing "gradually".

"They are persistently and unceasingly creating conditions for as fast an advance as possible," she said. (AFP)

Damian911:
I know bro but I just want the anti radiation invented so no one will threaten the other with a nuclear war. I mean either the West or Russia should at least get it

it is impossible bro, bible has already prophesied that a great war that will wipe out one third of mankind is coming and that's nuclear war, the Euphrate river have dried up as prophesied in revelation

The Iranian-made drones deployed by Russia to attack Ukraine are continuing to cause problems for Ukraine’s Air Force.

Source: Yurii Ihnat, spokesman for Ukraine’s Air Force, in an interview with Ukrainska Pravda

Quote from Ihnat: "Iranian-made drones are a real headache. It’s still very difficult to down them.

When lots of them have been launched, they all fly along different routes, staying close to the ground, so that it’s difficult to shoot them from a plane. The drone’s speed is 150 km/h, while a fighter jet flies at a minimum of 400 km/h. [...]

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And we can’t get those drones during the night using ground forces’ air defence equipment or mobile firing groups, either."

Details: Ihat said that Russia deliberately deploys these drones at night to wear down Ukrainian air defence – in particular, so that Ukraine’s defence forces expend anti-aircraft missiles to down those drones.

This allows Russian forces to determine where Ukrainian air defence systems are located, and take that into account during air-to-surface or naval-based missile strikes.

Wagwanbrethren:
And how that one take relate to my statement? 🤮2

how can Russia disappear from world map since a single state in Russia is bigger than Nigeria X6, the larger your country the higher your chances of surviving nuclear attack, so if you don't Gerrit then you forget about it, no amount of nuke can make USA, Russia and Canada to disappear from world map, they can only go back to stone age, but Britain can vanish from world map if hit by several thermonuclear charge

Wagwanbrethren:
🤣🤣🤣
Putin Neva get that Kain mind. You wan make Russia disappear from world map? 😁

One state in Russia is bigger than Nigeria X6

By Samantha Schmidt
Updated June 8, 2023 at 10:56 a.m. EDT|Published June 8, 2023 at 7:45 a.m
KYIV, Ukraine — The Ukrainian military has launched a long-anticipated counteroffensive against occupying Russian forces, opening a crucial phase in the war aimed at restoring Ukraine’s territorial sovereignty and preserving Western support in its fight against domination by Moscow.


Ukrainian troops, including specialized attack units armed with Western weapons and trained in NATO tactics, intensified their strikes on front-line positions in the country’s southeast on Wednesday night, according to four people in the country’s armed forces, beginning a significant push into Russian-occupied territory.

The four military personnel, including officers, spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the battlefield developments.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Ukrainian forces tried to break through the lines of the Russian army in the Zaporizhzhia region, using up to 1,500 troops and 150 armored vehicles. Shoigu’s claim could not be immediately verified.

The Zaporizhzhia region has long been seen as the most strategic and likely location of the new Ukrainian campaign.

By cutting south through the region’s flat fields, Kyiv’s forces could aim to sever the “land bridge” between mainland Russia and occupied Crimea, cutting off crucial Russian supply lines. They could also attempt to liberate the city of Melitopol, which Russia has established as the region’s occupied capital, and Enerhodar, where the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is located.

Temioolajide:
Alright thanks

you want fight somebody wey them do surgery

the Telegram channel RT A video of a soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was published, who, being in a state of panic, said that Artemivsk had fallen.


In the video, the military man is not at all shy about his thoughts, recognizing the defeat of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the battle for the city. He claims that the battle for Artemovsk (Bakhmut) can be considered lost.

“What I want to say… Bakhmut fell,” the Ukrainian said in the video.

Also from the video you can understand that its author is very scared, especially if you pay attention to his eyes.


After that, he asked everyone who knows him not to commemorate dashingly.

According to the Telegram channel “Fisherman”, fierce fighting in Artemovsk (Bakhmut) continues. To date, the fighters of PMC “Wagner” have captured the fortified area “Domino” and now the battles are going for the area “Airplane”. It is a small segment of the private sector, so the “Wagnerites” have a great chance to completely liberate the city in the coming days.

Ilamina:
It still looks like the current government controls most of the country

if you combine territories controlled by secessionist and ISIL and alshabab it's bigger than government controlled territory ok

seunny4lif:
The President and the PM are the UN recognized Somali leaders.
For Example, Pres. Buhari is not in control of the whole Nigeria, since most Borno state is under massive terrorists

you don't know what is happening in somalia, imagine comparing Nigeria with somalia, look at the current situation in somalia below 👇👇

seunny4lif:
They have a government.
They President, PM and Ministries for every department.

President first pic
PM is the 2nd pics

Researching before creating nonsense post

they don't have working govnt
The government is not in control of the entire country just like Libya ok,

Hell on earth, "the city where there is no living place" or "the hottest place in the world", this is how Bakhmut is described, the city in eastern Ukraine where the fiercest battles are taking place between the Ukrainian troops, who are trying to defend their country, and the Russian troops, interested in seizing new territories.

The descriptions belong to some young Ukrainian soldiers who lived, for no less than three months, the terror of the confrontations in Bakhmut.

No matter if it was day or night, frost or mud, cold or hot, rain or snow, holiday or ordinary day, Monday or Sunday, they were continuously on the battlefield, within the range of the Russian artillery.

They saw death through their eyes, but even worse, they saw their comrades killed by the enemy. With low morale and depleted powers, they find their last resources to withstand the invasion from the East.


Such moments were experienced by Oleh Sapig, a young lieutenant in the Ukrainian army. He is 36 years old, and the last three months have been a never ending nightmare.

"Our mission was to defend the positions in Bakhmut, to pursue the enemy and not allow the enemy to occupy new positions. The city practically no longer exists, it is destroyed, the enemy constantly attacks neighbourhood after neighbourhood, destroys all the infrastructure, the local population practically no longer exists, those who remain are forced to seek shelter in basements and, when the Russians destroy the buildings in the basement of which they found shelter, they have to leave the city. The situation is very complicated. The saddest moments are related to death to my comrades. The wounded and the dead. This is the most difficult for me. Second is the difficulty of evacuating the wounded soldiers, because it is very hard to evacuate a wounded one. (...) It is difficult to convey in words what Bakhmut means. There is no living place there. Every position is completely destroyed, from the very foundations. There is nothing left, the whole earth is burning, because of the artillery fire, because of the occupying troops," Oleh, who left the first front line during Friday, told AGERPRES.

olugabbie:
This trend is created for us to know the events unfolding in Bakhmut. Is Russia still advancing? Has Ukraine stopped Russia from advancing? Is Ukraine withdrawing it troops gradually?

Anybody with useful information about the situation in Bakhmut should drop such information here. Please make sure you provide your source.

Update is expected daily.

According to UK ministry of defense Russia has made further gains and has now highly likely advanced into the town centre, and has seized the west bank of the Bakhmutka River. Ukraine's key 0506 supply route to the west of the town is likely severely threatened. Russian regular forces, likely including airborne troops, have probably reinforced the area, and Russia is again using artillery more effectively in the sector," the U.K. Defense Ministry’s Defense Intelligence update said.

Elisonken24:
When I saw can US fight china I just lol. If I may ask how many wars has china fought? And we'll continue from there. If war is beans and garri then let China touch small tawian lets know how strong they are before you talk of fighting war masters (America).

Chinese liberation army defeated USA,British and United Nations forces from yalu River to Seoul,
Go back to history

seunlayi:



Who carry my meat? You said no be you.

Ok now, I placed another meat on the table, I Siddons dey look who go touch the meat.

😁😁😁 during the Cuban missile crisis, the soviets downed American warplane and the pilot also died,
Nobody will win ww3, I can't wait to see Russians unmanned underwater nuclear topedo wrecking havocs on the British isles 😁😁😁