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| Russian troops threw all their forces into the capture of the Luhansk region - Gaidai -- UPDATED |
| 2022-06-24 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Vesti] Fighting continues on all fronts. Russia has thrown all its forces to occupy the entire Lugansk region in the near future. This was stated by the head of the Lugansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai. "Many protective structures have already been destroyed in the Severodonetsk industrial zone, we do not exclude the possibility of leaving for new, more fortified positions," the head of the region noted. He added that now Lisichansk is under heavy shelling. “We continue to support the life of the city, humanitarian cargo is delivered daily, the “quiet” evacuation continues - about 40 people left today,” Gaidai said. If Severodonetsk is occupied, the people hiding in Azot's shelters will become hostages of the Russians. The exit will be only to the occupied part of the Lugansk region. According to the head of the OVA, the Russians have already begun the so-called "filtering" in the recently occupied territories. "The hunt for activists and people involved in military affairs, relatives of such categories of people are also in sight. Men are forced to go to war against Ukraine, that is, they are used as" cannon fodder," - added the head of the Luhansk region. Russian troops capture two more villages in Luhansk region - Gaidai ANASTASIA WHEAT [Vesti] Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to restrain Russians in Severodonetsk and Sirotin. The Russian military captured two more settlements in the Lugansk region. Loskutovka and Rai-Aleksandrovka have been under the control of the Russian army since yesterday. This was announced by the head of the Lugansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai in Telegram. According to him, the Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to restrain the Russians in Severodonetsk and Sirotin, repel attacks from Zolote and Volcheyarovka. "The invaders are destroying industry in Severodonetsk. This time, the territories of a brick factory, Stekloplastika, as well as a factory of chemical non-standardized equipment were hit by fire. The building of the second entrance was damaged," writes Gaidai. Also, Lisichansk was shelled several times during June 22. Destruction was recorded in one of the city's schools. The head of the region said that over the past day three people were injured, they were hospitalized in hospitals in Kramatorsk and Pavlograd. “Late the day before yesterday, the body of a man was found with no signs of life, with injuries received during shelling. New destructions were counted in Novoivanovka (eight houses), Gorny (eight), Zolotoy (nine),” Gaidai notes. In addition, yesterday the Russian army carried out air strikes on Verkhnekamenka, Severodonetsk and Sirotin, air and missile strikes on Gorny. From Ukrainian military journalist Yuri Butusov [Facebook] We left Severodonetsk. Tonight Ukrainian units organized left part of the industrial zone of Siverodonetska. In the area of the front where I was, the departure came under fire, but no casualties. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #11 ^ "I Support the Current Thing" |
| Posted by: Oye Como Va 2022-06-24 15:17 |
| #10 ^ "I Support the Current Thing" |
| Posted by: Oye Como Va 2022-06-24 15:17 |
| #9 Nothing is as funny today as how totally distracted from Ukraine American leftists are right now. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-06-24 14:43 |
| #8 PUTIN? |
| Posted by: Elmoluting Jones2816 2022-06-24 14:31 |
| #7 Could it be... |
| Posted by: Elmoluting Jones2816 2022-06-24 14:30 |
| #6 The Russians are controlling the tempo and are taking their sweet time. As Col. Douglas MacGregor put it this week on Andrew Napolitano's programme, they are "calmly and methodically annihilating any Ukrainian force that shows up" in Luhansk. So long as Zelensky keeps ignoring his general Zaluzhny and throws Ukraine's remaining forces into kessel after kessel, the Russians will continue this slow, steady annihilation. Who is inducing Zelensky to be so foolish? |
| Posted by: Palmerston 2022-06-24 08:02 |
| #5 Severodonetsk has fallen. The Ukrainian governor Gaidai announced this am that Ukrainian troops have been ordered to abandon the city. Lysychansk will fall in the next couple of days. The "order to abandon Lysychansk could come at any moment," according to a Ukrainian officer holed up there. in the last two days the Russians have taken three major towns in the immediate area - Severodonetsk and the "Mountain cauldron" of Gorsky and Zolotoye - and have killed up to 1,000 Ukrainian troops. Some 100 or so western soldiers of fortune are also trapped along with 180 "Right Sector" neo-Nazi shock troops. Captured Ukrainians report almost total disarray on the Ukrainian side, including officers abandoning their men and fleeing, replacements in the form of civilians-in-uniform given a rifle and sent after 5 days of training from their homes in the west to the meat grinder in Luhansk. |
| Posted by: Palmerston 2022-06-24 07:54 |
| #4 This is starting to have the feeling of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th....12th Battle of the Isonzo. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2022-06-24 07:24 |
| #3 /\ Not an entirely new concept. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders after their heavy casualties as part of the Highland Brigade at the Battle of Magersfontein on 11th December 1899 in the Boer War. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2022-06-24 07:14 |
| #2 ^^They'll push their Luhansk and Donetsk conscripts in first to deplete the Ukrainian bullets, Darth. That's what the Bear has done in all the major offensives against entrenched UA positions. Russian law prohibits the use of their own conscripts in combat (the law which they sometimes follow), but the 'separatists' are not considered of the same cloth. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2022-06-24 07:09 |
| #1 The fact the Russians haven't captured Severodonetsk despite having thrown the bulk of their army at it speaks volumes to their abilities. Now they could very well cut it off with their attack from the south and turn it into a Ukrainian Stalingrad, but the fact that thrust has so far been blunted again speaks well of their abilities. We'll see if the Russians have more men than Ukrainian bullets to accomplish this. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2022-06-24 01:45 |