⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦⚔️ Situation in the #Soledar Direction until 12:00 on 2 Jan 2023⚡️

🩸Heavy fighting continues in the vicinity of #Bakhmut (#Artyomovsk) and #Soledar. The AFU are trying to stop the advance of the RF Armed Forces and intends to conduct combat reconnaissance in the industrial zone to determine the frontline of the Russian military's defences.

♦️#Bakhmut Area:

▪️ The AFU forces of the 57th Separate Motorized Infantry Brigade attempted to retake positions on the southeastern outskirts of #Bakhmut. The attack was repulsed and the Ukrainian militants withdrew with losses.

The 57th Brigade spreads information about large losses in the compound's 17th Battalion - only 100 men left. On 16 January, the 17th Separate Pontoon Bridge Battalion, which had previously withdrawn to #Konstantinovka, will be disbanded and its personnel will be transferred to other units.

In addition, the formations previously operating in the #Kherson direction have arrived in Chasov Yar. The transferred units will become part of the 57th Separate Motorized Infantry Brigade of the AFU after a short harmonisation phase.

▪️ Northeast of #Bakhmut, the Wagnerians have taken control of two platoon strongholds near #Podgorodnoye as well as seven fire positions northwest of the #Bakhmut - #Soledar line.

▪️ In the southwest, the assault on the AFU fortified area at #Kleshchiyevka, held by combined units of the 24th and 63rd Mechanized Brigades as well as the 57th Separate Motorized Infantry Brigade, continues. During the fighting, Russian forces have taken another stronghold under theit control.

▪️ Engineer units of the 28th Mrchanized Brigade are equipping the second line of defence in the #Ivanopol region in case the line in #Kleshchiyevka is breached.

♦️#Soldar Section:

Wagner PMC assault troops are advance on #Soledar from the direction of #Bakhmutskoye and #Yakovlevka. Active fighting led to the takeover of two company strongholds and five observation posts of the 128th Mountain Assault Brigade and 61st Mechanized Brigade of the AFU.

▪️ At the same time, the advance towards #Razdolovka and #Veseloye continues. To deter the offensive, the AFU engineering units have set up minefields in the centre of #Veseloye, while artillery crews are shelling the southern outskirts of the village and #Yakovlevka.

🩸 In total, over the AFU have irretrievably lost more than 200 people to fighting and artillery strikes in the last two days. In addition, a depot near #Yablonovka, where AFU members were also staying, was hit by artillery.

Units of the Ukrainian National Guard from the #Sumy Region are expected to be moved to #Bakhmut to compensate for the losses. The distribution of diesel generators donated by the USA as part of military assistance has begun in #Konstantinovka.

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⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦💥 #Chronicle of Strikes and Mutual Shelling in the #SMO Zone on the Night from 2 to 3 Jan 2023

▪️ Russian air defence assets overnight shot down enemy drones near #Sevastopol and #Simferopol.

▪️ The RF Armed Forces hit AFU staging areas in #Lipovka and #Yelino, Chernigov region, and #Volfino, #Pavlovka and #Pokrovka, #Sumy region.

▪️ In Kharkov region, Russian troops hit enemy positions in #Ogurtsovo, #Kamenka, #Strelecheya and #Staritsa.

▪️ In the #Starobelsk direction, the RF Armed Forces targeted accumulations of manpower and armoured vehicles of the Ukrainian formations in #Dvurechnaya, #Kupyansk, #Berestovoye and #Ternoye.

The enemy shelled #Ploshchanka, #Dibrova and #Chervonopovka.

▪️ During the night, the RF Armed Forces hit an AFU deployment point at the ice arena and an ammunition depot in #Druzhkovka.

▪️ In the #Bakhmut (#Artyomovsk) direction, Russian missile forces and artillery struck the AFU staging areas in #Bakhmut, #Soledar, #Kleshchiyevka and #Dyleyevka.

▪️ In the #Donetsk direction, the RF Armed Forces targeted enemy positions in #Avdyeyevka, #Veseloye, #Georgievka and #Vodyanoye.

In turn, Ukrainian terrorists shelled residential buildings and civilian facilities in #Donetsk and #Gorlovka using barrel artillery.

▪️ In the #Southdonetsk direction, Russian artillery hit concentrations of enemy forces in #Novomikhailovka, #Ugledar and Zolotaya Niva.

▪️ In #Zaporozhye region, Russian forces hit AFU positions in #Olgovskoye, #Gulyaypole, #Dorozhnyanka and Malyaya Shcherbaki.

▪️ In #Dnepropetrovsk region, the RF Armed Forces hit firing points of Ukrainian formations in #Nikopol and #Pokrovskoye.

▪️ In the southern sector of the front, Russian troops targeted enemy positions in #Kherson, #Zelenovka, #Inzhenernoye and #Berislav.

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