Russia suffers constant and catastrophic losses/”Azov”
I would like to note that the situation in Mariupol itself is very difficult. There are fights around “Azovstal” – this is, in fact, the base of the “Azov” regiment. Further – in an exclusive blog for the 24 channel website.
At present, Azovstal remains the only organized area of resistance for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The territory around the metallurgical complex, unfortunately, has been captured by Russian invaders. Most of the seaport of Mariupol is also controlled by the invaders.
The city is holding out
I also note that, despite the statements about the impossibility of deblocking Mariupol, there is an assessment of military experts. The latter insisted that the Armed Forces of Ukraine could strike in advance near Gorlovka and Donetsk in order to divert significant forces of the occupying forces and, accordingly, the 1st Army Corps of the so-called DPR.
Nevertheless, Mariupol holds out and defends itself heroically. Servicemen of the 36th Separate Marine Brigade, together with other units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the National Guard, successfully carried out a joint special operation to evacuate border guards and policemen to the Azovstal plant.
Currently, the enemy continues to block our units in the area of the Azovstal plant “and deliver air strikes on the city, including using long-range aircraft. An engineering unit arrived in the occupied city to clear the port infrastructure of Mariupol.
Why does Russia need to capture Mariupol so badly?
Firstly, it is a deep-water port. Unlike Russia's Taganrog, it can accommodate ships with a much larger draft. Secondly, Mariupol makes it possible to create a so-called land corridor from ORDLO to the annexed Crimea. fighting in the JFO zone.
Therefore, Russia is trying at all costs to take control of this strategic Ukrainian city.
Mariupol has not been forgotten
Ukraine is preparing to deblock Mariupol in the Donetsk region by military means, but this requires help from international partners in the form of weapons. This was stated at a briefing by President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday, April 21.
Civilians remain in Mariupol, but Russia continues to block attempts to evacuate them, and also refused to exchange the wounded for the wounded.
At the same time, I would like to draw your attention to the differences in assessments of the course of the military campaign in the East of Ukraine.
We are talking about the statements of Oleksiy Arestovich, adviser to the President's Office. On the second day since the start of the full-scale battle for the Donbass, Arestovich said that not everything is as scary as it seems. “In Maryinka, they advanced in the gray zone and proudly announced the capture of Maryinka. They were hung up, and they moved back,” Arestovich said.At the same time, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine declares that the Armed Forces of Ukraine, during a successful counter-offensive, managed to regain control over Maryinka, as a result of which the Russian Armed Forces suffered losses and were forced to retreat from the settlement. “In the Donetsk direction, in the area of the city of Marinka, as a result of the counteroffensive of our troops, the enemy suffered losses and retreated. The units of the Defense Forces resumed control over this settlement,” the evening report said.
Nevertheless, I would like to assure the Ukrainians that the Armed Forces of Ukraine give a worthy rebuff to the Russian invaders. Over the past 24 hours, eight enemy attacks were repulsed, nine tanks, eighteen armored vehicles and thirteen vehicles, a tanker, three artillery systems were destroyed.
Hello to the Wagnerites
The other day, According to the estimates of the head of the Lugansk Regional State Administration, Serhiy Gaidai, about 130 wounded militants were taken from the battle area near Popasna to the rear areas of the occupied Lugansk region.
What is it connected with? On the eve of the GI “Pravoe Delo” handed over to the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the intelligence community of Ukraine the bases of the members of the so-called PMC “Wagner” and the Russian military. Artillery strikes were carried out on these points. And, accordingly, we have numerous losses among the invaders.
Russian war criminals in the Luhansk region/RosSMI
In addition, information has recently appeared that Evgeny Prigozhin, “Putin's chef”, personally arrived in the Donbass. It was reported that he was allegedly located on the territory of the so-called DPR. This information was made public by Russian State Duma deputy Milonov.
Right Cause managed to establish his real place of residence – the city of Pervomaisk in the occupied Luhansk region. Moreover, a location for photographing Milonov and Prigogine has been established – May Day School No. 2. Opposite it is the former vocational school No. 39 – now it is the base of the PMC “Wagner”. These coordinates were handed over to the Armed Forces of Ukraine in a timely manner, and a fire strike was inflicted on it. The losses of the “Wagnerites” amounted to 50 people killed.
Prigozhin's visit is connected precisely with this incident. And not with chatter that he allegedly came to inspect and give instructions on the capture of Ukrainian cities. This fact once again indicates that the Ukrainian resistance movement is working fruitfully and effectively, despite the rather difficult situation in the occupied territories.
