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Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
[ColonelCassad] In the light of the successes of recent days in the Bakhmut meat grinder, it can be noted that for the storming of the city, a non-straight-line tactic of storming the city in the forehead from the east was chosen (especially since our forces entered the industrial zone of Artemovsk back in the summer, where they fought in the area of Patrice Lumumba Street ), but pushing through the enemy defenses on the flanks, in order to cover the grouping defending the city.
This has already led to the fact that our troops occupied Otradovka south of the city, and then not only started fighting for the fortified areas in Opytny and Ivangrad (the latter had already been taken), but also began to develop an offensive on Kurdyumovka, which violates the integrity of the enemy front between Artemovsk and Dzerzhinsky. With the loss of Kurdyumovka, as well as Andreevka, Zelenopolye and Ozaryanovka, the situation for the enemy in this sector became much more complicated,
An important role in achieving the results of the offensive is played by suppressive artillery fire (including through competent work with drones and corrected fire) and the skillful use of assault group tactics, which determine the bypassing nature of the actions of the advancing troops, creating a threat to the enemy’s flanks, which allows minimizing their own losses and maximizing losses of the enemy, which is confirmed by both Western and Ukrainian sources.
Hence, in fact, the appearance of the term "Bakhmut meat grinder". In fact, on this sector of the front, the Artyomovsk grouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the attached forces of foreign mercenaries are being systematically grinded, making the battle very costly for the Armed Forces of Ukraine and forcing the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to transfer more and more reserves in the area of Artemovsk and Chasy Yar to replenish the units and subunits that burn out in battle.
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