Commentary taken from the Telegram channel of veterany_60omsb
[ColonelCassad] Everyone has written about Promka. I'll tell you how it was, because I saw everything with my own eyes. Just jumped out of there.
The "Veterans" brigade https://t.me/veterany_60omsb did it!
I'll make a reservation. Of course, this was a joint operation and several units were involved in it. But the main work of storming the buildings fell on the shoulders of the “Veterans”. It was they who took almost all the buildings (the reservation can almost be ignored). They were the ones who led the assault groups.
I never tire of being amazed at their feat. I still can’t wrap my head around the full scale of the operation they managed to carry out. Promka could not be taken for several years. And now she has fallen!
The current assault began on November 9. There were a few tough spots. The enemy fortified them well. These buildings had good visibility, some were even equipped with turrets with heavy machine guns.
I will not mention the code names of key points, since the area is still being cleared.
The penultimate one could not be taken for several days. The enemy poured fire on the approaching assault groups. The point was shelled from tanks, but it did not give up.
At some point, our tank managed to suppress enemy fire contact and the Veteran attack aircraft made their way into the building in one burst. They immediately extinguished the fires, then carried out the cleanup. After this, neighboring buildings began to be taken away.
November 24
This was a key day. "Promka" left the operational headquarters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The high command gave the order to the Ukrainian army soldiers to leave the territory of the Avdievka industrial zone. The assault groups of the "Veterans" brigade came almost close to him.
Ukrainian officers, if they can be called such, abandoned ordinary soldiers to the defense of Promka, which was already meaningless and unnecessary even for the Ukrainian Geishtab. Having set fire to the headquarters, they walked on foot to the checkpoint and their sad line, wandering up the mountain through the slush towards Avdievka, became a symbol of the fallen "Promka".
At this time, the “Veterans” were already shelling the empty headquarters of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on Promka.
After the flight of the Ukrainian headquarters, messages appeared in telegram channels that Promka had fallen.
The "veterans" took buildings one by one and cleared them. Ordinary soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, forgotten by their own command, remained in them. They tried to shoot back, but their resistance was quickly extinguished.
On November 26.
Promka almost completely came under the control of the Russian group. During the day, in one of the buildings, in the basement, a group of sushushniks was hiding, who fell into a trap. I don’t know what happened to them; they left before the clearing of this building was completed. But I think the building is protected now.
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Military correspondents report the liberation of the Avdeevka industrial zone
The Russian military liberated an industrial zone near the city of Avdeevka in the DPR, which had been under the control of the Ukrainian Armed Forces since 2014. This was reported on November 26 by Military Review with reference to military correspondents.
The industrial zone in the area of the Yasinovataya 2 railway station was completely liberated on the evening of November 25 as a result of battles with superior enemy forces, the report says.
It is emphasized that neither industrial buildings and basements, nor long-term fortifications, nor a large supply of cluster munitions, nor numerical superiority helped the Ukrainian Armed Forces to hold out in this fortified area.
The Russian military showed the highest level of assault operations, during which infantry, tanks, reconnaissance and artillery acted harmoniously.
The liberation of the Avdeevsk industrial zone is a serious tactical success for the Russian Armed Forces. Here was one of the key positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Donetsk direction, emphasized military expert Boris Rozhin.
“Despite stubborn resistance, the enemy was driven out of the prepared positions, which had been strengthened for more than eight years,” military correspondent Yuri Kotenok quotes Rozhin as saying on the Telegram channel.
The information that Russian troops are in the industrial zone of Avdievka was confirmed on Soloviev LIVE by Anatoly Matviychuk, editor-in-chief of Anna News.
Military observer Yuri Podolyaka also spoke about the completion of the cleanup of the southern industrial zone of Avdievka.
Earlier, a source told Regnum news agency that the main task of the Russian military in Avdievka is to push the enemy out of the city, creating a threat of encirclement, or “to encircle and put pressure inside.” The most important center of resistance to the Ukrainian Armed Forces is the Avdievka Coke and Chemical Plant (AKHZ), a city-forming enterprise in the north-west of the city.
Russian encirclement is a chimera. In WWII Russians needed an inner ring and an outer ring to encircle an objective. This time I doubt they even have the troops for half a single ring.
The territory of Koksokhim has been turned into a continuous fortified area, as was the case in Mariupol at Azovstal. Instead of attempting a frontal assault on AKHZ, which is fraught with serious losses, the Russian Armed Forces are seeking to cut off the Ukrainian Armed Forces units holding Koksokhim and operating in the rest of the city from supplies from the north.