👔Volodymyr Zelensky :

I held a meeting of the Staff of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief. The situation on the main directions of the front was discussed. Particular attention was paid to the battles in Bakhmut and Soledar. I emphasize that the units defending these cities will be provided with ammunition and everything necessary promptly and uninterruptedly. 🤣🤣🤣

Finally, we have discussed the reinforcement of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with equipment and weapons coming from partners.

This was published in Zelensky's official channel 🤣

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@Rybar wrote about the failed AFU counterattack in Soledar ✍️

At @rt_russian, they write that combined units of the 46th and 77th AFU Airmobile Brigades from Paraskovievka tried unsuccessfully to counterattack the Russian positions and break the encirclement ring in the vicinity of Soledar.

Enemy detachments on French VAB armoured personnel carriers and British Wolfhound armoured personnel carriers tried to strike at the advancing orders of Russian troops. However, they were detected and destroyed by Russian Aerospace Forces aircraft during target designation from the ground.

The Ukrainian formations suffered about 200 casualties during the sortie, with the survivors fleeing their positions. The airmobile forces acted without fire support due to the withdrawal of most of the enemy's artillery systems near Soledar.

Why is the AFU conducting premeditated sorties that are doomed to fail? 

Soleda ,for the Armed forces of Ukraine , is an important node in the still existing Chasov Yar-Bakhmut-Soledar-Seversk defence line. Its fall puts a significant contingent around Seversk at risk, as the defence is complicated by its location: the settlement is in the lowlands.

In the event of the final loss of Soledar and nearby villages (Blagodatnoye, Razdolovka, Vyemka, and Veseloye), Ukrainian formations will have to abandon Seversk and other strongholds due to the threat of possible encirclement.

Together with the liberation of the Bakhmut agglomeration, the potential loss of Seversk will cause tangible damage to the image of the Ukrainian army, whose image has been built over the past six months.

The attempt to counterattack without regard to losses reflects a desire to rectify the disastrous position of the AFU in this area. And it is not at all impossible that such actions will be repeated until the final mop-up of Soledar by Russian troops.

A forward control post for the consolidated grouping of AFU troops has now been set up in Minkovka. The 500 members of the territorial defence forces from the Sumy region are expected to arrive in the area of combat operations and are planned to be used to storm the Russian positions.

However, the effectiveness of such actions is highly questionable, given the RF Armed Forces' fire control over the main routes in the area and the Ukrainian formations' lack of tactical commanders: a significant number have been killed or taken prisoner, while the rest have fled to Seversk.

And the encirclement of Bahkmut from the north, south, and east leaves the AFU with less and less chance and time to rectify the situation.
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