Ispan wrote:Today's briefing, wich covers yesterday, not much in the military side, but lots of stories
https://guerraenucrania.wordpress.com/2022/04/07/noticias-de-la-guerra-07-04-2022/
Thank you. Here is your post Yandexed
April 6th
General situation:
Sorry for the delay, I couldn't write part of war yesterday. Summary of Cassad from last night, expanded with my comments
Briefly about Ukraine. 04/06/2022
1.Mariupol.
Fight for the smelters of "Azovstal" and "Azovmash", advance to the Mariupol seaport. Fighting is also continuing in the northern part of the eastern region. In the port of Mariupol, the control ship "Donbass" of the Ukrainian Navy was damaged.
To date, according to the military, the National Guard battalions have practically no heavy weapons and artillery, only light weapons.
In many positions, there is no return fire from the militants, the Nazis were well pressed.
Comment: This is already a clean-up operation, there are 3,000 Ukrainian Nazis left, according to Basurin, some have tried to escape in small groups to the west but ran into the Russian blocking force
2. Kherson-Nikolaev.
The Russian army controls Snegirevka, as well as the Aleksandrovka area. The enemy cannot direct a serious attack on Kherson from the Nikolaev side. In Nikolaev itself, the Ukrainians have serious losses due to the attacks. From the Nikopol side, the enemy is trying to break into the Novovorontsovka area.
Comment: There was a small breakthrough here, in that the Russians conquered the second mentioned village. The Ukrainian forces from the southwest (Odessa) cannot go out to another front as long as Russia maintains the ground blockade of Nikolayev. To the east the Russians have not continued to advance to the Dnieper or north to Krivoy Rog. The Ukrainian garrison of Nikopol, which has been overwhelmed, tries to counterattack against the Russian flank.
Ukrainian sources reported
- Heavy fighting continues in the city area.
- The city fears a possible offensive by the Russian army
- The city's railway station was destroyed.
– The city has problems with fuel, lubricants and supplies.
3. Odessa.
Almost daily attacks on fuel storage facilities continue. Fortification work continues in the city. The potential for provocation with chemical weapons is also high. In the Ochakov area, according to a number of unconfirmed reports, foreign mercenaries and NATO officers were killed.
4. Zaporozhe.
On the line Kamenskoye-Orekhov-Gulyaipole unchanged. There is very little information about the situation east of Gulai-Pole. It is difficult to determine the areas of control of the parties and the occupied settlements.
5. Ugledar- Velikaya Novoselka.
No significant progress has been made in this direction. The hard struggle continues.
Comment: 4 )This is the western part of the steppe front running from Zaporozhye to Donetsk. The Russians have made slow but steady progress from the south. It is clear that the Ukros are sending reinforcements and trying to counterattack to shore up the southern front of the Donbass salient. 5) it is the central sector of the front that is itself another salient, the Ukros resist in Ugledar but they have lost villages to the east and west.
Today the Russian command confirms the seizure of Sladkoye
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It seems to me that this village had already been taken or attacked days ago and the Ukros counterattacked and it is finally in the hands of the Novorussians.
It confirms what I already suspected and I have written in my comment that I just wrote. Instead of being an advance on a continuous aligned front, a salient has developed.
The Ukros resist in Ugledar which is the tip of a triangle whose base will be in the next line of villages and lakes the central one of which is Konstantinovka (there are several, which induces confusion). Instead of storming fortified villages, the Russians and Novorussians look for weak points and thus flank the places where the enemy resists to beat them with crossfire and that they have to retreat because the position is untenable.
Of course, it would be best to concentrate forces for a rupture and exploitation, but there are no forces for it yet.
The breakthrough is also significant because all the points of the defensive line are intertwined. Now from here they can beat Marinka in enfilade.
The southwestern Donetsk front is increasingly under threat. It only takes one powerful push and it comes crashing down.
https://t.me/swodki/63427
6. Marinka.
Positional battles continue in the fortified area of the Ukrainians. The troops cannot advance beyond the Escorial, the hill of dirt and rubble.
Comments: this position is the bulwark that secures around the front of Donetsk, is of a vital importance and the ukrainians use a lot of troops and material in his defence, the ruins change hands, there is progress and setbacks, but after weeks novorusos have consolidated the conquest of nearly half of the fortified area and the key position of the hill, is secondary to the ukros cling still to the trenches to the west of the village, whoever controls the cone of earth can beat with his artillery and heavy weapons the road that leaves Donetsk to the west and goes to Zaporozhe
7. Avdeyevka. Donetsk – Yasinovataya – Gorlovka Sector
Avdiivka itself has not changed. To the north, after the capture of Novobakhmutovka, the troops are fixed there and are preparing to advance near the Avdeevka-Konstantinovka highway. The advance to New York has not yet yielded great results.
Comment: Avdeyevka is impossible to take, but like Marinka, holding on to this position costs the Ukros dearly. The Novorussians have made advances, tenaciously disputed and are trying to outflank Avdeveka
8. Lugansk.
Advance on Popasnaya, where heavy street fighting continues. In addition, fighting continues on the southern outskirts of Rubizhne, to which the enemy is still clinging. There is also fighting on the outskirts of Severodonetsk.
Comment: More of the same, it seems that the enemy is clinging to its fortified line in a rigid linear defense because in the face of Russian air supremacy it cannot opt for a defense in depth or a fighting retreat. There are thousands of troops engaged in defending this line, and on the flanks of the salient there are hardly any companies and battalions. Considering the wear and tear suffered and the constant hammering of artillery and aviation, this fanatical defense is more a symptom of weakness than strength. There are many such examples in the two world wars, as soon as the front is broken at some point there will be no reserves to plug the gap, no ability to escape from the bag.
9. Izyum.
The fighting is going south and southeast of Kamenka in the direction of Barvenkovo and Slavyansk. The enemy is putting up serious resistance. Izyum itself is under fire from Ukrainian artillery and rocket launchers. The Armed Forces of Ukraine are trying to prevent the accumulation of forces on the expanding bridgehead on the southern bank of the Seversky Donets River. The enemy intensified the evacuation of the local population in the western regions of the DPR and in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
Comment: Here is the most promising point because unlike the southwestern Donetsk front, here the Russians do have forces for a break. What slows them down, more than the enemy, is the Izyum bottleneck. They are consolidating and expanding the bridgehead, but a symptom that things are going badly for the Ukrainians is that they are already preparing rearguard positions in Dnipropetrovsk to maintain a line of retreat to the forces of the Donbass salient. For Zaporozhye, even if they keep the front still far from the city they can no longer retreat because the road to Zaporozhye is already beaten by artillery fire at two points.
10. Kharkov-Sumy.
No significant changes. The enemy hopes in the near future to intensify operations in the Kharkov region. The evacuation of some districts of the Kharkiv region is underway.
Comment:
The Russian forces withdrawn from Kiev and Chernigov are clearly going to reinforce Izyum for the break and tighten the encirclement of Kharkov, accelerating the attrition of the garrison, which is trying to replenish losses by forcibly recruiting en masse battalions of territorial militias. On average, a fenced square can withstand two months and they have already been fenced for five weeks.
The reinforcements that have passed through the Crimea will have the objective of taking Nikolayev, or at least a bridgehead on the other side of the Southern Bug and then block Odessa by land.
As soon as the resistance in Mariupol is over, several thousand soldiers and hundreds of tanks, armored vehicles and cannons will be free for the rupture of the southern flank of the Donbass salient.
No reaction is expected from the enemy, all reserves are bent on holding the front in the active foci of struggle, and the Ukrainian forces cannot leave the shelter of the cities or move either by road or by rail under constant harassment day and night from Russian aviation and helicopters
Marina Kharkova reports (06 April)
06.04.22. Message from military observer Marina Kharkova:
A few days ago, when the DPR army has already taken Verkhnetoretsky, the enemy tried a counterattack with 6 tanks plus infantry, was repulsed, part retreated, another part went to hell with Bandera.
- Novobakhmutovka fortified area. Keep up the fight. A couple of streets still remain in the hands of the enemy. During the assault on the Novobakhmutovka railway station, our soldiers, surrounded, took defensive positions in the building and radioed for artillery fire on their position. Our heroes survived and completed their combat mission. Artillery fire scattered the Ukrainian troops, and reinforcements arrived to our infantry. So the station itself was taken over.
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