3/1/2024 0 Comments Tank battle in the big keep![]() ![]() "Everyone expected the counter-offensive to start from the south," explained Andryi Bloschinsky calmly. ![]() In fact, since the beginning of May, Ukrainian forces have been advancing and recovering chunks of territory on Bakhmut's northern and southern flanks. "We're getting ready for the big battle," said the soldier, certain that his country's army will succeed in recovering the town captured by the private Wagner militia on May 20, after 10 months of fierce fighting. It was a perilous task, given the intensity of the Russian bombardment, but one that ended in success, Gnezdilov said nonchalantly.įor the soldiers of this unit deployed in the Bakhmut sector since February, the aim of these outings is to "harass and tire out" enemy forces, explained Gnezdilov. The aim of the mission was to get within 2 kilometers of enemy lines in order to fire a few rockets at a position: a group of soldiers around a heavy machine gun. "Sometimes they send us out five times a day," said the 23-year-old from a motorized brigade, as he returned from his first outing of the day.Īn hour and a half earlier, at dawn on Sunday, July 23, he and other soldiers had set off in a pick-up nicknamed the "Mobile Nightmare," with an anti-tank gun mounted on its rear. ![]() Hardly a day goes by without the Ukrainian mobile artillery unit to which soldier Serhiy Gnezdilov belongs being called to fire rockets at Russian forces positioned north of the town of Bakhmut. Kyiv's forces are trying to regain ground, but they face 'highly motivated' opponents. 'We're getting ready for the big battle': Ukrainian soldiers' difficult Bakhmut counter-offensive By Thomas d’Istria (Kyiv, correspondent) Published on August 11, 2023, at 11:30 am (Paris), updated on August 11, 2023, at 11:33 amįeatureIn the city that was conquered by the Wagner Group before the summer, the regular Russian army has taken over. ![]()
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