- Ukraine claimed to have virtually destroyed Russia’s thirty fifth Mixed Arms Army in Izyum.
- A Russian navy blogger claimed that the sixty fourth and thirty eighth Separate Guard Motor Rifle Brigades suffered heavy losses.
- The sixty fourth Motorized Rifle Brigade has been accused of killing civilians in Ukraine by the nation’s prosecutor basic.
Ukraine claimed to have virtually solely obliterated Russia’s thirty fifth Mixed Arms Army in Izyum, a Ukrainian metropolis within the Kharkiv Oblast.
Ukrainian presidential adviser Andriy Yermak made the declare in a publish on his official Telegram channel on Friday.
In a latest report assessing the Russian invasion, the United States-based suppose tank The Institute for the Examine of Struggle cited a Russian navy blogger who appeared to corroborate the claims.
The blogger, who writes underneath the pseudonym Boytsovyi Kot Murz, claimed Russian commanders didn’t account for fight challenges within the Izyum woods, which led to vital losses throughout a number of brigades.
He claimed that the sixty fourth and thirty eighth Separate Guard Motor Rifle Brigades, that are a part of the thirty fifth Mixed Arms Army, suffered main losses, and now have lower than 100 servicemen in complete.
Insider has not been capable of independently confirm the claims.
The blogger additional claimed that Russian commanders didn’t present the models with the gear wanted to combat within the woods and didn’t restore artillery shortly sufficient.
The navy blogger additionally claimed that the models suffered from an absence of encrypted communication units, which has been a well-documented issue dealing with Russian navy forces all through the conflict.
This lack of communication with command facilities meant that Ukrainian forces had been capable of strike Russian positions with drones, the blogger claimed.
Izyum has been occupied by Russian forces since April, in accordance with stories.
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Ukraine’s prosecutor basic, Iryna Venediktova, beforehand alleged that Vasyl Lytvynenko, the 30-year-old commander of sixty fourth Motorized Rifle Brigade, had ordered his troopers to kill civilians within the Bucha district close to Kyiv.
In a Fb publish, Venediktova shared {a photograph} of Lytvynenko and mentioned he was “liable for violations of the legal guidelines and customs of conflict, in addition to homicide.”
It’s not clear if Lytvynenko was on the bottom in the course of the alleged assaults on the sixty fourth Motorized Rifle Brigade in Izyum.
