Acting Head of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) Denis Pushilin said on February 4 that Russian forces were approaching Vuhledar from the south, southwest and west. However, the process is not going fast due to the transfer of reinforcements of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) to the city.
“Around Ugledar from the south, from the southwest and even the western side of the dacha is now under our control, our units continue to develop the liberation of Ugledar itself. <...> Everything is quite complicated, because the enemy has transferred a brigade of marines, it has reinforced the units remaining there, these reserves have already been transferred in fact. We will definitely cope, but it took a little time, ”he said in a video message on his Telegram channel.
Earlier that day, the commander of the Vostok battalion, Alexander Khodakovsky, said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine were gathering significant forces in the Ugledar region. Also, the last two nights, the enemy is probing the defense. The number of deployed forces, according to intelligence, may have an impact on the fighting in this area of the front.
On the eve it became known that the Russian military took the city of Ugledar in the DPR into a semicircle. In addition, to date, several other main roads have been cut in the Ugledar region, along which the Armed Forces of Ukraine were supplied with equipment and manpower.
At the same time, Izvestia correspondent Kirill Olkov spoke about the work of the Msta self-propelled artillery mount (ACS) in the fortified area of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Ugoldar direction. Howitzers also destroy enemy strongholds and tanks. Artillery and mortar batteries are pinpointed out of action. The task is to cut off the supply nodes and block the supply channels of weapons to the Uludar grouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Prior to that, on January 31, the official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov, said that units of the Vostok group of troops of the Russian Armed Forces inflicted fire damage on units of the 72nd mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Ugledar region.
The special operation to protect the Donbass, the beginning of which Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on February 24, continues. The decision was made against the background of the aggravation of the situation in the region due to shelling by the Ukrainian military.
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