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Military: Russian troops trying to advance near Chasiv Yar but haven’t entered town:
Russian troops are trying to advance near Chasiv Yar in Donetsk Oblast, but they have not entered the town, Kyrylo Sazonov, a blogger and a soldier of the 41st Separate Mechanized Brigade deployed in the area, told Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) on May 23.
According to the crowd-sourced DeepState monitoring service, which tracks changes on the front line, Russian forces advanced near Chasiv Yar and in Klishchiivka and Krasnohorivka in the region as of May 23.
Russian soldiers have tactical advances, which means that once they capture a position, they can be knocked out of it “at any minute,” Sazonov said.
“These advances of 50 meters forward, 50 meters back mean nothing. We also enter their territory, and they enter ours,” the serviceman said.
“It is really important for us that they (Russia) do not enter the town. They have already said several times that they are in Chasiv Yar, that it is surrounded. We are preventing them from entering the town. In the town, their numerical superiority will be much more noticeable than it is now.”
Russian forces shifted their focus toward Chasiv Yar, an elevated town that potentially opens the way to further advances into the oblast, after capturing Avdiivka in February.
Before Russia’s full-scale invasion, the town was home to around 12,000 people. As Russia stepped up attacks in the area, only around 670 residents stayed in the town, which local authorities describe as “almost destroyed.” —>READ MORE HERE
Ukraine war latest: Syrskyi says Russia is ‘completely bogged down’ in Vovchansk street fighting
Russian troops are “completely bogged down” in street battles for the town of Vovchansk in Kharkiv Oblast, having suffered “very heavy losses,” Commander-in-Chief of Ukraine’s Armed Forces Oleksandr Syrskyi said on May 23.
Russia launched a new offensive on May 10 in northern Kharkiv Oblast. Moscow’s forces had managed to advance as far as 10 kilometers (6 miles) into the region but had been halted by the first line of defense, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on May 16.
Russian troops are now deploying their reserves from different sectors, but fail to support active assault operations in the region, Syrskyi said.
Russia also switched to active defense near the village of Lyptsi, where its forces are mining the surrounding area and striking at Ukrainian soldiers’ positions, according to the general.
Fighting is reportedly ongoing also in a forest area north of the city of Kupiansk in Kharkiv Oblast.
“The situation is difficult in the area of Kyslivka, where the enemy is trying to break through our defense and reach the Oskil River,” Syrskyi said.
The general described the fighting in the Pokrovsk and Kurakhove sectors as “the most intense and fierce.”
Russian troops are reportedly trying to break through the defense of Ukrainian troops on a narrow section of the front between the settlements of Staromykhailivka and Berdychi.
Intense fighting is also taking place near the village of Ivanivske and the town of Chasiv Yar in Donetsk Oblast, Syrskyi said. Russian forces are trying to “cling to the town at any cost,” using modern equipment, he added.
Russia’s offensive in Kharkiv Oblast in mid-May could be the first of several waves, and Russian forces may target the regional capital, Kharkiv, President Volodymyr Zelensky said. —>READ MORE HERE
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