Ukraine announced the defeat of the Russian armored column while crossing the river. What is known
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The Ukrainian invaders destroyed the pontoon bridge and part of the Russian armored column while assessing the crossing of the river in the Donbass. This is evidenced by footage published by the Ukrainian military on Friday. It is not yet possible to estimate the probability of losses on the Russian side.
Nah, published by the command of the air assault troops of Ukraine, several burnt frames of military vehicles and partially flooded parts of the pontoon bridge are visible. The pictures also show many wounded or abandoned vehicles, including tanks, in the forest and on the road leading to the river, writes Reuters agency.
Russian troops undertook three unsuccessful outcomes of the construction of bridges across the Northern Donets River in the production of Ukraine, the head of the military administration of the Luhansk region Sergei Gaidai.
He claims that the Russian police tried to disguise the operation. “We destroyed Russian boats and helicopters that they used to hide their capabilities. [навести мосты]”, Gaidai told the BBC.
According to Gaidai, Russian troops discovered the cities of Lysichansk and Severodonetsk in order to cut off Ukrainian forces. The governor described the situation in the Lugansk region as “very difficult.”
Here’s the UK Department of Defense’s daily intelligence round-up. announcedthat Ukrainian troops successfully prevented Russian troops in the Donbass.
Referring to the photographs, the ministry says that during the crossing of the Northern Donets to the west of Severodonetsk Russia, a powerful force was lost – at the location of one battalion tactical group, and the pontoon bridge equipment was withdrawn from the structure when crossing the river.
Crossing the river while investigating an extremely risky maneuver, and this is due to the expansion being given to the Russian command with progress in the development of the Ukrainian economy, assesses the situation of the British Ministry of Defense.
A check rater who cannot quickly check reports of an urgent transfer and the time and place of the collision. The day before, the adviser to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, Viktor Andrusiv, stated that this happened near Belogorodka in the Luhansk region (a small town). Andrusiv claimed that the Ukrainian sick “defeated an entire battalion-tactical group.”
On the occasion of Andrusiv, the battalion tactical group could be part of the Russian 74th separate guards motorized rifle brigade and lost more than 50 pieces of equipment out of 70.
The BBC is also unable to quickly verify this claim. The Russian Defense Ministry did not comment on this topic.
Joe Inwood, BBC, Lviv
It is a scene of absolute devastation – an attempt to outflank the Ukrainian defenses has failed disastrously.
Burnt Russian tanks and armored vehicles near the eastern banks of the Seversky Donets River, west of Severodonetsk in the Luhansk region. Half-mounted pontoon bridges protrude into the water.
it is believed that almost a whole amount of equipment was lost – it is not known how many people died.
At a morning briefing by the British Ministry of Defense, it was announced that there had been an increase in pressure on the Russian command.
But elsewhere, they seem to have advanced – according to the reports, they took the nearby city of Rubizhnoye. This is a dangerously important environment of the city of Severodonetsk from three sides.
They control a number of his crossings across the river, which now cost them so dearly.
Ukraine has been sending Russian troops to the Kharkiv region in recent days, it follows from the statements of Kyiv. The main tension of the Russian military in the Kharkiv direction is aimed at preventing the expansion of Ukrainian forces in the area of the settlement, a statement in the morning summary of the Ukrainian General Staff.
Three bridges across the Seversky Donets River, necessary for the counter-offensive of the Ukrainian army in the Kharkiv region, have been blown up, Hromadske reports, citing images published by CNN.
At the same time, Russia is going to start in the Donetsk and Luhansk versions, follows from the summary. The Russian Defense Ministry has not commented on the situation on the ground in recent days and only reports on possible air strikes. The British Ministry of Defense, in its review on Friday morning, writes that Russia is experiencing strong tension south of Kharkov, close to Izyum and Severodonetsk in assessing a breakthrough in the annex of Slavyansk and Kramatorsk.
Reuters reporters have confirmed that Ukraine is currently approaching the banks of the Northern Donets River, about 40 kilometers southeast of Kharkiv.
Governor Gaidai said earlier on Friday that residential buildings in the Luhansk region had been shelled 31 times over the past day. According to him, after the capture of Popasna, Russian troops are conducting assault operations in accordance with Orekhovo and in the Kamyshevakhi region.
In addition to the battles in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions, monitoring of the siege of Azovstal in Mariupol continues. Information about the evacuation of wounded Ukrainian military factories has not yet been met, Piotr Andryushchenko, an adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, said on Friday. He claims that Russian military personnel, under the cover of shelling, bypass the earthly way of breaking through to large enterprises.
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