Ukraine officers: RF assaults in Severodonetsk sector halted for now, large artillery strikes proceed
Ukrainian army officers claimed Russian Federation (RF) spherical assaults within the Severodonetsk sector didn’t make vital progress, however fierce Kremlin artillery bombardments had not stopped, a number of information studies and authorities statements stated on Monday, June 13.
Common Valeriy Zaluzhny, commander of Ukraine’s army, stated in feedback made public by Ukraine’s Ministry of Protection (MoD) that Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF) models in and across the metropolis had fought off RF assaults, however that Ukrainians had been going through an enemy “with a decisive benefit in artillery.”
Zaluzhny in a Sunday, June 12 phone dialog instructed his US counterpart Common Mark Milley that RF artillery holds a tenfold firepower benefit over Ukrainian artillery, and that Russia is working as much as seven battalion tactical teams (every numbering about 600-800 males at full energy) within the Severodonetsk sector, the MoD assertion stated.
The UAF is unfold thinly throughout a entrance of two,450 kilometers, of which 1,105 kilometers are websites of lively combating, Zaluzhny stated.
Serhiy Haidai, head of the Luhansk regional protection command, in a June 12 YouTube assertion stated UAF infantry inside Severodonetsk was usually holding the road and “profitable avenue battles”, however RF had been utilizing artillery “to blast block by metropolis block”, to achieve floor throughout the metropolis.
The final 24 hours noticed concerted RF assaults to the south of the town close to the villages of Vrubivka and Kamyshevakha, and the city of Zolote, Haidai stated.
In line with the pro-Russia information platform Readovka, on Sunday, June 12 RF artillery destroyed the second of three bridges in Severodonetsk crossing the Siviersky Donets River. Reportedly, solely a single highway bridge now connects UAF defenses within the metropolis to the adjoining locality of Lysychansk, and provide routes main west.
The bridge’s destruction leaves UAF fighters and Ukrainian civilians within the Azot chemical plant, in Severodonetsk’s industrial sector, remoted and with out technique of escape throughout the river, the Kremlin-supported website claimed.
Haidai stated provide traces had been nonetheless open, however didn’t state instantly whether or not the bridge was destroyed or not.
A Monday morning state of affairs estimate made public by Ukraine’s Army Common Employees (AGS) described the state of affairs round Severodonetsk and Lysychansk as “extraordinarily difficult”.
The RF goal within the areas is to seize each cities, full the conquest of Ukraine’s Luhansk Area, and ideally, to encompass and destroy defending UAF models within the neighborhood.
In line with military intelligence findings cited by the AGS, RF models have suffered critical casualties within the weeks of battle for Severodonetsk, resulting in a discount within the scale and tempo of floor assaults within the final week. Moscow has moved no less than 80 fight autos and artillery items to the cities of Kremenna and Starobilsk, to the east of Severodonetsk to beef up additional assaults.
As of the morning of Monday, June 13, RF models had been making no floor assaults however Severodonetsk, Lysychensk and the close by city of Toshkovka had been beneath heavy shelling, the AGS assertion stated.
Army analyst Oleh Zhdanov in June 13 feedback to the UNIAN information company stated the RF army management is consciously using scorched earth ways in its assaults towards Ukrainian positions, and utilizing its large firepower benefit to degree any city or village within the path of their forces.
Zaluzhny, in his dialog with Milley, repeated previous appeals by most members of Ukraine’s nationwide management, headed by President Volodymyr Zelensky, that if Ukraine is to cease the RF artillery onslaught, it critically wants extra heavy artillery of its personal, significantly howitzers and ammunition within the NATO-standard 155mm caliber.
In line with information studies, the U.S. together with some NATO states need to date delivered or promised roughly 150 NATO-standard 155mm weapons methods.
The NATO weapons started arriving within the discipline in Might. Although individually efficient, the NATO-standard cannon operated by the UAF stay closely outnumbered by no less than 1,000 RF howitzers and rocket artillery methods considered in Ukraine.
