Most of the commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin and from the War Tears project.
[ColonelCassad] According to War Tears, the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost 55,000 killed near Artemovsk
According to the War Tears project, during the battle for Artemovsk, participation in the hostilities of 221 enemy units and subunits was recorded. A complete list of marked units and the methodology for collecting information can be found here.
In the area of ​​Artemovsk since February 22, 2022, there are 55,000 killed. About the calculation here.
This is about 1/5 of all losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine since February 22. According to War Tears, as of May 18, the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost 264,432 killed.
ABOUT THE CURRENT SITUATION.
Regarding the front and who "covers" whom.
1. At the moment, on the evening of May 21, 2023, the Artemovskaya grouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, knocked out of Artemovsk, occupies a kind of ledge, on the flanks of which there are Russian troops in the Kleshcheevka-Kurdyumovka area and in the Berkhovka-Yagodny area, etc.
2. Attempts by the Armed Forces of Ukraine to advance from May 10 in the north-west and south-west of Artemovsk were supposed to not only cut off the penetration of Russian troops, but also lead to stabilization and leveling of the front near Artemovsk. The enemy was able to push our troops back from Bogdanovka and Krasnoe, taking several landings and positions, and also tried to advance at Sacco and Vanzetti, but had no serious success there.
3. Upon the fact of the offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, from May 10 to May 21, at the cost of heavy losses, the Armed Forces of Ukraine advanced on the flanks, but could not fundamentally change the situation with the continued coverage of the main forces west of Artemovsk, and also could not capture a single settlement, even seedy Sacco and Vanzetti.
4. In order to seriously talk about the capture of Artemovsk, the enemy must take Kleshcheevka, Andreevka, Zelenopolye, Kurdyumovka from the south, in order to then advance to Otradovka - this is what is called the capture of Artemovsk from the south.
To capture Artemovsk from the north, the enemy must at least take Sacco and Vanzetti, Dubovo-Vasilyevka, Berkhovka, Yagodnoye, Krasnaya Gora - this can be called the capture of Artemovsk from the north. At the moment, the enemy was not able to implement this.
5. Therefore, on May 21, the enemy not only lost Artemovsk, but against the background of stories about the capture of Artemovsk, he himself sits in a semi-coverage to the west of the city.
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GENERAL SITUATION.
1. By May 21, the territory of the city of Artemovsk is completely liberated. The legal renaming of the city in accordance with Pushilin's decree on the rollback of all Ukrainian renaming to the state of May 2014 came into force. Since May 20, we have the Russian city of Artemovsk - de jure and de facto.
In the city itself, the cleansing of the western outskirts continues.
A serious demining process is ahead, which will be activated after the APU is driven away from the western outskirts of the city, because. now the enemy continues to shell our positions in the city with artillery and mortars.
There is a lot of dirty work associated with cleaning up corpses, incl. from under the ruins of high-rise buildings. There will be many of them.
2. The fighting in the Artemovsk direction does not stop. The units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine that retreated from Artemovsk are trying to stay in the area of ​​the settlement. Chrome and Red.
Khromovo is not yet directly stormed, but covered with artillery. The position of the enemy there is difficult, and as our troops consolidate on the western outskirts of the city, the situation for the remnants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Khromovo will worsen even more. With Krasny it is more difficult - the enemy has a fairly serious fortified area there, which is reinforced by those forces that were able to retreat from Artemovsk.
The withdrawal at Kleshcheevka removed the semi-coverage from Krasnoy, which would somewhat complicate the subsequent operations of the RF Armed Forces to liberate Krasnoy.
3. The roads to Artemovsk through Chasov Yar and Khromovo lost their former significance. Almost all bridges on them are destroyed. Today, the RF Armed Forces destroyed the bridge near Krasnoe. On the roads and fields to the west of Artemovsk, there are still dozens of skeletons of destroyed wheeled and tracked vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The accumulation of enemy forces in Konstantinovka, Chasov Yar and Kramatorsk continue to be subjected to rocket and bomb attacks. It can be expected that soon the artillery impact in the direction of Chasov Yar and Konstantinovka will increase.
4. Information about the withdrawal of the enemy from Bogdanovka, Stupok, Orekhovo-Vasilyevka, etc. to the line Rai-Aleksandrovka - Chasov Yar is not true. At best, we could talk about the passage through these settlements of the remnants of the enemy forces from Artemovsk, which were assigned for rest and replenishment. The enemy intends to defend these settlements. In the meantime, he did not give up hope of achieving something more in his counterattacks to the northwest and southwest of Artemovsk.
Perhaps, attempts will still be made to capture Sacco and Vanzetti, Kurdyumovka, Kleshcheevka, in order to somehow justify the high costs of the "counteroffensive" near Artemovsk, which has not even led to the capture of one seedy village against the backdrop of the loss of one of the key cities of Donbass.
5. The enemy has not yet completely used up the operational reserves, but the strategic reserves, which were intended for offensives in the Svatovsky and Zaporozhye directions, were not brought into action here, and we will see them again in the coming months. However, the Artyomovskaya grouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (initially up to 80,000 bayonets) suffered huge losses and could not hold the city, which should not have been taken.
6. At the end of the month, a rotation will take place in Artemovsk - the RF Armed Forces will replace the Wagner PMC, which goes to the rear for rest and replenishment after a successful operation to liberate Artemovsk.
I am sure that if the hardware conflicts between Prigozhin and the leadership of the Ministry of Defense do not interfere, we will again see the Wagner in one of the key sectors of the NWO, where his experience and skill will be required.
PS. Prigozhin announced by night that from the end of May to the end of June, Wagner PMCs would not appear on vacation and at the front. They will rest and accept replenishment after 14 months of continuous fighting.
The commanders of PMC "Wagner" who took Artemovsk. All Heroes of Russia and holders of various state and PMC awards.