20 Dec: IT STARTED! THE BIGGEST BATTLE OF THE WAR. RUSSIANS DEPLOY 80’000 TROOPS. | War in Ukraine

day 665 today there are a lot of updates from the chessar direction since Russian forces launched their series of offensive operations chass ifar became one of their five main targets for the winter campaign chasar is a small town with a preor population of 12,000 people and it is located less than 5 km away from bahmut over the last months ukrainians were trying to undercut Russian forces in bahmut from the south and put them into an operational encirclement during the whole campaign ukrainians

Advanced by 7 to 10 kilomet and once the fighting reached the railway embankment the Ukrainian progress stalled Ukrainian fighters from the third assault Brigade reported that the main reason was that Russians deployed several divisions worth of troops to prevent the front line from further collapse so Russian waves of counterattacks were never ending making it very difficult to maintain the momentum especially in the face of of the additional barrier in the form of the Railway embankment in fa

ct an officer from the 26th Artillery Brigade reported that the number of Russian troops in the bahmut area recently reached 880,000 troops for context this is as many as during the peak hit of the battle for bmud and twice as many as Russians had allocated for the AA offensive that is happening right now as the Russian offensive Inka is failing Russian forces threed increasing the number of attacks in this region instead moreover a fighter from the 24th assault Brigade reported that several day

s ago Russians deployed the best equipped motorized rifled detachments to bahmut as those troops have the most modern tanks armored fighting Vehicles radios and other equipment taking all of that into consideration it becomes obvious that Russians would launch another offensive since Ukrainian forces were actively operating south of bahmut Russians decided to launch their first attacks from the north G located footage shows how Russians were shelling this Village extensively Ukrainian Fighters r

eported that some trenches were sheld so heavily that the soil was basically plowed and the positions completely destroyed nonetheless Russian forces did not manage to get a foot hold in the region if we look at the topographic map we can see that the village is located in the lowlands right between two Hills such a setting makes the defense of the The Village much easier as long as ukrainians control the hills that is why Russian forces increased the intensity of their attacks from yid along th

is Ridge Russian sources released a video showing how they're using North Korean so-called Golf Cars to quickly deploy new assault units across the field Russians also intensified their operations north of banva because without this positions taking banka is virtually impossible so far Russians managed to improve their tactic iCal position south of banka while all Russian attacks north of banka have been repelled soon Russian forces also shifted their focus to the southern flank because here Rus

sians are lagging behind and have to retake all tactical Heights that they lost during the Ukrainian counter offensive the main direction of their attack became the strong point north of kicha in order to achieve it the Russians are leverag in the forest that connects kifa and bahm mod this is a very smart move because this way Russians avoid the need to attack across the rails and if successful can automatically recapture kif GE located footage shows extensive Russian AR killer preparations on

the main Ukrainian strong point on the hill this is the place of the most intense clashes right now as Russians took half of this strong point north of the road while ukrainians are holding the half that is south of the road simultaneously intense clashes are happening in the so-called Forest appendix the freshest update suggests that Russians reduced the number of attacks here meaning that Ukrainian stabilized the front line in this sector interestingly Ukrainian Fighters reported that after ca

pturing some of the Russian fighters from the storm V Detachment they discovered that this were Wagner forces this should have been obvious as storm Z detachments which are comprised of prisoners have the letter z in the name which stands for Zack or prisoner in Russian while storm V detachments have the letter V because it stands for Wagner so the integration of the Wagner group into the Russian military was completed and they were obviously deployed to bahmut to leverage their experience and k

nowledge of the ground overall the bahmut area may very soon become the place of the biggest battle once again as Russians accumulated a significant number of troops including motorized detachments with the best equipment and Wagner detachments with the best experience in the face of such a a powerful force the main objective of the Ukrainian forces right now is to leverage their tactical Heights and the good news is ukrainians control almost all Heights in the region since Russians are committi

ng a lot of forces to cease and keep the initiative throughout the winter one of the main strategic goals of Ukrainian forces is to use defenses and weather conditions to bleed out Russian forces as much as possible while minimizing their own losses to secure a chance of retaking the initiative once Russians exhaust themselves throughout their winter campaign but more on that in a future video if you're against the invasion of Ukraine and you want to support the work that I'm doing consider maki

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