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Retreating from their military positions in the Kursk region, on southern and northern Donbass frontlines, the Armed Forces of Ukraine accumulated large forces and attempt counterattacks in the Pokrovsk direction.
The front south and east of Pokrovsk has remained relatively stable over the past few weeks. After a number of unsuccessful attacks aimed to take back control of Peschanoe and Kotlino in the middle of February, the Ukrainian military took a pause to regroup, reducing the intensity of attacks.
In recent days, Ukrainian attempts to counterattacks resumed in different directions along the front. According to the reports from the battlefield, on March 5th, Ukrainian forces attempted a series of large counterattacks near the village of Shevchenko. This settlement is of strategic importance for the Kiev regime, because there is one of the largest lithium deposits in Europe, which the Ukrainian leadership sold to its foreign patrons.
The Ukrainian military attempted assault on Shevchenko by forces of several hundred servicemen on armored vehicles supplied by NATO. Ukrainian military column was spotted leaving the village of Belgiyka located to the north, where it came under heavy Russian fire. Most of Ukrainian vehicles were stopped on the outskirts, but some managed to land the assault forces, which tried to gain a foothold on the northern outskirts of Shevchenko and wait for reinforcement to come.
According to the latest reports from the battlefield, Ukrainian forces failed to gain a foothold on the northern outskirts, and Ukrainian assault groups attempt counterattacks on the eastern outskirts. According to unconfirmed reports, battles are ongoing near the local Cultural Center in the center of the village.
Russian drone strikes:
The Armed Forces of Ukraine also attempt counterattacks in Peschanoe located to the west of Shevchenko. Ukrainian assault groups attempted attacks in the industrial zone, but it was destroyed by prolonged battles. Some clashes were reported on the streets.
The footage shows fighters of the Russian Center group of forces mopping up the buildings with Ukrainian soldiers, taking prisoners:
Taking into account the ongoing counterattacks, the Ukrainian military is aimed at cutting off Russian ledge south of Pokrovsk. Together with their attacks in Shevchenko and Peschanoe, Ukrainian forces attempt counterattacks near Uspenovka. According to unconfirmed reports, Russian forces were repelled from the village, but according to some Russian and Ukrainian military reporters, battles continue in Udachnoe and Uspenovka.
The goal of the Ukrainian military is likely to break through Russian defense and approach th etown of Novotroitskoe from the northern and western directions to cut off Russian forces that are fighting near Kotlino.
Russian soldier attacked Ukrainian position:
In their turn, Russian troops continue counterattacks in an attempt to advance to Novosergeyevka. Russian forces are launching persistent attacks in the fields between Novoaleksandrovka and Nadezhdinka. Russian control of Novosergeyevka and the bridge there would neutralize the threat of the Ukrainian breakthrough to Novotroitskoe from the west. At the same time, Russian assaults are pressing Ukrainian defense in order to advance to Kotlyarovka, where the Ukrainian military has a large group of UAV operators in the village.
Strikes of Russian upgraded FAB-500 heavy bombs on Ukrainian military positions:
At the cost of heavy losses, Ukrainian forces have achieved some limited results in several areas, which they have yet to consolidate under constant attacks from Russian artillery and FPV drones. However, reports from the frontlines indicated that the Ukrainian command has accumulated large forces to continue constant counterattacks south of Pokrovsk.
One of the main problems of the Russian grouping in this direction is reportedly the large number of Ukrainian drone strikes, which increased after the deployment of Ukrainian reserve units and which threaten military supplies and communication between the different units in the area.
From the military point of view, Ukrainian counteroffensive in the Pokrovsk direction is aimed at preventing the encirclement and destruction of the Ukrainian grouping in the Pokrovsk-Mirnograd agglomeration and further Russian breakthrough in the Dnepropetrovsk region. Ukrainian counterattacks are also of great political importance. In the case of success, despite heavy losses, they may allow Kiev to present at least some victories to its foreign patrons, amid the upcoming disaster of the Ukrainian adventure in the Kursk region.
more last grasps at holding collapsing lines by ukrainian war masters . such is the evil of war .
not even if obergruppenführer felix and armeegruppe steiner were to come back from the dead and fight alongside banderites will they will able to prevent russia from capturing pokrovsk or prevent zelenskyy’s downfall.
why, was steiner successful?
of course not i’m just pointing out at the lunacy in kiev
“accumulated large forces”?…. why does s-f continue the facade that these attack($) are somehow coming from ukraine when it is the u.$./nato zi0ni$t regime?… more importantly that russia’s military has prolonged there nation’s pain and suffering “for”???… and still russia’s zi0ni$t oligarchy continues to promote it’s commerce with the west????
because a few years from now the story will be that drumpf pulled the rug out from an otherwise successful independent ukrainian defence from the wicked, wicked russians who were trying to drive to the seine to prevent gender reassignments. are you aware of a socio-economic model or system that would operate outside of the auspices of the globalized, financialized speculator economy?
“are you aware of a socio-economic model or system that would operate outside of the auspices of the globalized, financialized speculator economy?”.. but for all of the wrong reasons of course … ‘this’ headline for the powerful economic engine that is the u.$./eu that no one (even pootie-poot) would ever dare dream of leaving- “unprecedented surge in swiss bullion imports sends us trade deficit to record high in january”… next.
it was a “yes” or “no” question. do you think that russia could be completely extricated from the global economy and not suffer devastating consequences? the banks went completely broke in 2008, and again in 2019. they have not in any way been reformed, and as is typical of the finance economy, a tiny elite is poised to make yet another score. but again, you bitch incessantly about putin. strange.
yes. i certainly do. nuclear war has been (delayed but not diverted) through more than 1 million deaths in the eastern donbas and russia since 2014 -with one arm tied behind the kremlin midgets back (through payoff)!…. he only emboldened his enemy over time!… and delayed the expedition of the briics with it’s leadership in moscow!
i wondered where you got this fictitious number of “1 million russians dead ” and found it comes straight out of the american led — international institute of strategic studies a well known military propaganda organisation set up to make “second guesses ” in western countries favour .now we know where zelensky gets his lies from.
ok russian cousins in luhansk and donetsk + crocus hall + kursk (since 2014)?…. if you have the definitive body count by all means for everyone -do tell!
and throw in the #s of russians and their cousins in the eastern donbas that didn’t make it home from syria for good measure…
definitely a few more hundred thousand kia in syria, right derpster?
crocus hall? that must push the numbers up by hundreds of thousands. derp on with your bad derp self.
unceasing derp-spew. you’re claiming that the indians and chinese were paid off with off-shoring of us jobs to keep quiet about 9/11, but the de-industrializiation of the us began in earnest in 1972. and still, you’re going on about how the russian government “delayed the expedition of the briics”, whatever that is supposed to mean, with briics an affilliation consisting mostly of those same indians and chinese you claim are bought by the us.
cause russia does not want to fight nato openly so they do not acknowledge the fact that these attackes are planned, command and ordered by the western nations.
saxon will launch homosexual offensive in hillbilly bar
russians forces are destroying nato arsenal of equipment and depleting the stocks of ammo! thats why trump is looking for peace agreement.