UKRaine Defence Forces Hold Back Occupiers’ Offensive Near Avdiivka; Inside a Volunteer Unit Driving UKR’s Counteroffensive Forward; UKR Achieves Partial Success South of Staromaiorske; UKR Defenders Kill 580 RU Soldiers in 1 Day, LIVE UPDATES and MORE

Defence Forces of Ukraine hold back occupiers’ offensive near Avdiivka under heavy fire:

In Donetsk Oblast, the Defence Forces of Ukraine continue to hold back the occupiers’ offensive near the settlements of Avdiivka and Marinka.

Source: General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces on Facebook, information as of 18:00 on 10 August

Details: It is stated that during the day, the Russian troops launched three missile and 49 air strikes and fired 36 times from multiple-launch rocket systems (MLRS) at the positions of our troops and settlements.

Unfortunately, there are casualties and fatalities among civilians due to the Russian terrorist attacks.

About 25 combat engagements took place during the day.

On the Avdiivka front, under heavy fire from Russian aircraft and artillery, our defenders continue to hold back the offensive of Russian troops in the area of Avdiivka.

The Defence Forces continue to hold back the Russian offensive near the settlement of Marinka, Donetsk Oblast.

On the Shakhtarsk front, the Russian occupying forces made unsuccessful attempts to regain their lost position near the settlement of Staromayorske. —>READ MORE HERE

Inside a Volunteer Unit Driving Ukraine’s Counteroffensive Forward:

Under cover of darkness, 15 Ukrainian soldiers crept along tree lines to the edge of this Russian-occupied village in southeastern Ukraine and launched an assault just after dawn.

When the Ukrainians opened fire, Russian troops responded with a hail of machine-gun bullets. Ukrainian drones and artillery slammed into Russian positions. After a day of fierce fighting that killed two Ukrainian soldiers and injured others, the platoon managed to gain a foothold in Robotyne, a settlement of around 150 houses.

Ukraine’s two-month-old counteroffensive had advanced another mile.

Ukraine’s attempts in early June to smash through lines of entrenched Russian forces using large mechanized formations trained and equipped by the West stalled in the face of deep minefields and Russian air power. So Ukraine has fallen back on the kind of small-unit tactics that brought it success earlier in the 17-month war.

These kinds of operations are a specialty of Skala Special Unit, a group of around 170 men who are now on the leading edge of the Ukrainian campaign here. The soldiers, with varied civilian backgrounds and military experience, are led by Maj. Yuriy Harkaviy, whose hulking frame won him the nickname Skala, or Rock, after actor Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.

From his headquarters near Orikhiv, Skala sends reconnaissance teams with aerial drones to spot Russian positions and equipment and call in artillery fire. He dispatches assault teams who walk for miles on foot along lines of trees before attacking.

The Wall Street Journal has followed Skala’s men for a year, during which the group retook parts of Ukraine’s northeast, suffered casualties after triggering a land mine, and chewed up Russian paramilitary fighters from the Wagner Group in the eastern city of Bakhmut.

They are now fighting to take Robotyne, a small village on the route south toward a key goal of the counteroffensive: reaching the Sea of Azov to cut Russian occupation forces in two.

Skala’s men arrived in the area at the start of July. The Russians had spent months preparing defensive lines in the southeast, including miles of deep trenches and thousands of mines. And they had beaten back Ukraine’s initial attempts to advance in large columns with tanks and armored personnel carriers.

Ukrainian commanders decided that to move forward in a region of flat fields separated by thin tree lines, they would need better reconnaissance and infantry assault teams to help clear a path. —>READ MORE HERE

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