Colonel Cassads uppdateringar är ganska fria från propaganda och överdrifter. Jag rekommenderar läsning för de (få) i tråden som är intresserade av annat än detta evinnerliga tjattrande om "Putler" "ryska vapen", "rysk invasion" o.dyl. (Kan inte moderatorer lyfta ut såna inlägg till en egen tråd, som kan handla till 100% om rysk inblandning i Ukraina, antingen i konspirationsforumet eller i PU?) Det här är morgonens rapport:
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On the perimeter of the protrusion:
a) The bottleneck near Svetlodarsk is firmly held by the junta. Our forces partially control Krasnyi Pakhar, in the area of which there's fighting, but they cannot capture Mironovka and narrow down the bottleneck. The capture of Troitskoye overall mitigated the junta problems on this location, which was helped by the fact that it has been much easier to deploy mechanized reserves approaching from Artyomovsk here than pushing them through to Debalcevo and Uglegorsk.
b) The front has stabilized in the area of Sanzharovka and of the numerically labeled high points, approaching the road from this side is not successful yet, so the threat for Nizhnyaya Lozovaya and Logvinovo from this side is minimal. The front is also stuck in the area of Lozovaya.
c) Our attacks on the segment Novogrigorovka – Chernukhino with the goal of making progress weren't very successful: the enemy firmly holds its positions in Debalcevo suburbs and has repelled our attacks on Chernukhino. Our side lacks forces to overcome the enemy defense in which our attacks clearly get suck, which leads to the necessity of protracted gnawing of the defense by systematic work of artillery against the explored enemy positions.
d) On the segment Nikishino – Novoorlovka – Maloorlovka our forces continue to gradually put more pressure after the capture of Nikishino, but it is obvious that the main forces were thrown on other locations, so here they mostly try to push the enemy back and bind a portion of its forces. It is very unlikely that some powerful offensive on Olkhovatka will follow from here.
e) In the area of Uglegorsk our forces repelled the enemy attacks, which hooked onto the outskirts of the town. They continue to probe the enemy defense to the north of Uglegorsk by trying to get a bit closer to the desired road than simply the distance of artillery fire via the movement to Kalinovka and on the Uglegorsk-Debalcevo road. The activity of the sides here is bound by artillery, plus counter fights regularly emerge with the use of infantry and armor. The enemy, understanding the threat posed by our group under Uglegorsk, tried to bind it with tactical fighting in the town suburbs and north of the Uglegorsk-Debalcevo Road. Both sides continue to deploy reserves towards the critical point: tanks and infantry trucks roll towards Uglegorsk through Yenakiyevo, up to a battalion of infantry and 20-25 armored vehicles were redeployed from the side of Debalcevo to help the junta military. Overall, fierce fighting can be expected to the east of Uglegorsk, the victory in which may open a direct pathway to Debalcevo for the NAF.
Overall, we can see a continuation of the scenario from previous days, when our forces slowly advance forward, squeezing the Debalcevo protrusion, not encircling but rather squeezing the enemy out of it. The situation for the junta became much more difficult after it missed the strike on Uglegorsk, due to which our forces suddenly had beneficial possibilities for encircling the Debalcevo group in the area of Logvinovo after being unsuccessful in the offensive on Svetlodarsk.
http://cassad-eng.livejournal.com/113647.html
