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Chasov Yar has been a target for the Russians since the demise of Wagner Group owner Yevginey Prigozhin, Summer 2023
[ColonelCassad] Battle for Chasov Yar: Situation as of 12:20 11/17/2024
Units of the Russian Armed Forces continue to break through the road to the fireproof plant, located in the central part of the city. After several months of heavy positional battles, assault groups broke the enemy's defense in the Druzhba forest, which is located south of the western part of the settlement of Kalinovka.
Kalinovka itself has already been turned into ruins and resembles the western neighborhoods of Mosul in the spring-summer of 2017. Advancement in Druzhba was complicated by well-organized enemy strongholds, but soldiers of an assault detachment of one of the units of the Russian Armed Forces were able to open up the enemy's defense, breaking through to the area of ​​the waste heap to the west of Kalinovka.
Today, the enemy is organizing the defense of the waste heap in order to prevent units of the Russian Armed Forces from encircling the Novoseverny district of Chasov Yar from the north, and thereby "squeezing" the territory of the fireproof plant.
From the south, the Akhmat units under Shustry's command continue to expand the control zone south of the forest area adjacent to the Oktyabrsky district of Chasov Yar. The forest area itself is well fortified and, in my opinion, its clearing should be carried out only after intensive work by aviation, since there is a widely ramified system of enemy fortifications inside.
In general, the initiative in Chasov Yar remains with the units of the RF Armed Forces. Of course, the advance is not as fast as we would like, but it is important to understand that the city is a fairly powerful fortified area, the opening of which takes time.
We continue to work in this direction.