Whereas Moscow and Kiev commerce long-distance blows with missile and drone assaults, the Russian summer season offensive continues unabated, gaining terrain on the quickest tempo after the primary push initially of the struggle.
In 2024 the Russian troops liberated round 200 settlements in Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporozhie, Kherson, in addition to north within the Kharkov area.
Probably the most advances had been achieved in Donetsk Oblast, the place since early November, Russian Federation forces have been besieging and storming the Key metropolis of Kurakhovo.
Now, Russians have conquered just about all the residential components of Kurakhovo, with solely the commercial western space with the thermal energy plant and the adjoining industrial zone remaining.
The advance in pincers is closing in from each the north and the south, and the town is being surrounded.
As Moscow forces method the thermal energy plant, some teams of the Ukrainian Armed Forces nonetheless stay within the residential sector, however the Russians are bypassing them, steadily advancing the flanks to succeed in the station.
Watch: ‘Donetsk rugby’ – underneath the duvet of pleasant fireplace, two Russian assault troopers throw anti-tank mines into every of the entrances, and in a couple of seconds the 5-story constructing collapses with the Ukrainian forces nonetheless inside it.
Two Russian Stormtroopers from the Borz battalion of the a hundred and tenth brigade assault a constructing wherein quite a few Ukrainian troops are holed up.
They destroy all the 5 story constructing, and its occupants by throwing mines in and working away
With actually seconds to spare pic.twitter.com/8Euc7ao4iz
— Chay Bowes (@BowesChay) December 20, 2024
The professional-Ukraine German analyst from BILD, Julian Röpcke, laments that the Russian Military occupies city of Kurakhovo ‘which is usually intact’.
For all sensible results, either side agree, Kurakhovo has fallen.
#NewsMap
As soon as once more, the Ukrainian military needed to go away a city as a result of lack of manpower. Now Russians occupy #Kurakhove, which’s infrastructure is usually intact, and Ukraine has to bomb hundreds of potential hideouts from the gap … pic.twitter.com/8kZlXmFuQV— Julian Röpcke (@JulianRoepcke) December 19, 2024
Russians are storming Dachnoye from the north, making an attempt to chop the escape routes of the retreating Ukrainian troops from Kurakhovo.
Watch: An assault on {an electrical} substation within the west of Kurakhovo, Dachnoye settlement.
An assault on {an electrical} substation within the west of Kurakhovo, Dachnoye settlement. pic.twitter.com/255lXIdw0V
— Intel Slava (@Intel_Slava) December 21, 2024
By retreating to the Energy Plant and making a stand there, Ukrainian defenders are recreating a miniature Azovstal (in Mariupol) by fortifying itself within the website.
Sputnik reported:
“Kurakhovo is because the lynchpin of Ukrainian defenses within the area, with its fall opening the way in which for the Russian troops to Pokrovsk, a key logistical hub for Kiev.
[…] Kurakhovo is vital for Kiev from the financial standpoint as effectively, for the reason that native coal mining space is at present the one place underneath Ukrainian management the place coking coal is produced.”
Shedding the coal plant could kneecap Ukraine’s metal manufacturing, and subsequently its navy industries.
Watch: 5 Russian troopers seize crucial Ukrainian defensive place within the metropolis middle, with anti-tank programs, sniper positions and machine weapons.
Russian assault on #Kurakhovo
5 #Russian troopers captured crucial Ukrainian defensive place within the metropolis middle.
The elevator is the tallest constructing within the metropolis, which had anti-tank complexes, sniper positions and machine weapons
The whole collapse of Nazi #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/H2gemr1Kl0— Alexander Ivanov (@innova_center) December 11, 2024
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