The fighting goes for every house: in the Armed Forces told why the Russians aimed at Toretsk
About the purpose of the capture of Toretsk and the situation on the battlefield, writes "RBC-Ukraine". The Institute of War Study, based on geolocation, reported that Russian troops managed to break into the city after long storms. The Ukrainian project DeepState reported the presence of invaders in the city. According to analysts, from the main street "Central", through which the enemy has the greatest advancement, it breaks on the surrounding streets.
The spokeswoman of OTU "Lugansk" Anastasia Bobovnikova reported that there were city battles: the enemy is trying to consolidate in the homes, but Ukrainian soldiers instead resist. The situation in Toretsk is unstable, the fighting is literally for every entrance. The video was demonstrated on the network by Ukrainian defenders. The brigade of the National Police "Fury" published footage of street battles in Toretsk.
On the video below you can see the work of the battalion of special operations "Aeneas". "To see Toretsk and die is the main credo of the enemy. The invaders are ashamed: constant shelling from aviation, artillery, mortars, FPV-auctions work, but our fighters do not give up,"-said in the video. "It is even such that in an apartment building on the ground floor we work, on the second-Russians, and we try to knock them out . . .
Now it can be some two or three apartment buildings that they can occupy, and in an hour they are not there, Because we knocked them out, "said Artem Jepko, the speaker of the OSHB, Radio Liberty. Instead, as Bobovnikov explains, it is now difficult to estimate what proportion of the city the enemy is controlled, since during the battles, the defense units counterattacak and return lost positions.
But at the same time, the Russians use the tactics of "burned land" in Toretsk, throwing air -labeled airbags on the city, destroying the city. The Chairman of the Reservists of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces Ivan Timochko stated that, in his opinion, the enemy wants to receive in the city a bridgehead, because it will give him additional forces to advance in the direction of Pokrovsk or Avdiivka, Kramatorsk, Slavyansk to reinforce the troops in the time ravine.
"In fact, if we said that the time of Yar and Pokrovsk are flanking directions for coverage of the Donetsk region for the enemy, then the direction of New York, or the same Toretsk is a frontal offensive for him," Timochko explains. The difficulty is that New York and Toretsk are miners with a sufficiently developed industry and infrastructure in due time, as coal production took place there.
"That is, there were good railway tracks, from where the enemy, among other things, hopes to use mines or mine infrastructure to hide armored vehicles and finish their bridgeheads for the offensive," Timochko says. The enemy tried to occupy Toretsk quickly, as well as the time of ravine and coal (the latter recently occupied the Russian Federation) and hoped to preserve the infrastructure. But the tactics of the invaders to storm "in the forehead" did not produce the expected results.
"But since they stuck their forehead, of course, the attack is quite serious. Well, the capture of Toretsk is important for them to move our armed forces from Gorlovka, from the Yasinovatska highway, which is important to them in terms of the use of logistics main tract" , - Timochko notes. He also noted that Toretsk is a direct access to Gorlovka, which in turn is a satellite of Donetsk. Therefore, the Russians plan to move away the Armed Forces away. "It is (carried out by the occupiers-ed.
) For the purpose, as in due time it was with Avdiivka to provide their troops on the outskirts , - Timochko added. According to local authorities, there were no surviving from Russian shelling of the building in Toretsk. According to the head of Donetsk Ova Vadim Filashkin, there are still more than 1,400 inhabitants in the city. Evacuation continues, however, people go very slowly. In particular, because of complicated logistics, because shelling does not stop.