Russia advances around Bakhmut - Ukraine resists

Created: 2022-12-15, 2:01 p.m

By: Christian Stör

Bachmut moves into the center of the action.

The Ukraine war is raging around the city.

All developments in the news ticker.

• Trench warfare for Bakhmut:

  Russia achieves marginal successes on a new front in the Ukraine war

• Russian positions under fire:

  Ukrainian forces strike back

• Editor's note:

  In this news ticker we collect all the news about the current situation around Bachmut.

  Information from the Ukraine conflict partly comes from the warring parties themselves. It can therefore not be verified unequivocally or independently.

+++ 1:47 p.m .:

According to satellite images published on Twitter, Russian troops managed to capture a factory site on the outskirts of Bakhmut.

During the Ukraine war, the Kremlin's forces were already preparing to advance into the adjacent residential areas.

This is reported by the news portal

based in Bulgaria .

So far, there has been no official confirmation from either Russia or Ukraine.

However, official bodies confirmed that Russia has significantly intensified its attacks around Bakhmut.

+++ 12.15 p.m .:

The Russian troops are still concentrating their offensive actions on the cities of Bakhmut and Avdiivka.

At the same time, Moscow's armed forces are trying to improve their tactical position in three other areas.

This was announced by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Facebook,

reports .

“The enemy is also trying to improve its tactical position in the Kupyansk, Lyman and Zaporizhia directions.

In other areas, the enemy is trying to hinder the actions of the Ukrainian defense forces," the statement said.

Units of the Ukrainian army near the frontline in the town of Bakhmut.

© Libkos/dpa

News about the Ukraine war: Heavy fighting continues for Bakhmut

Update from Thursday, December 15, 8:01 a.m .:

The heavy fighting for Bachmut continues.

According to the Reuters news agency, more and more of the once 80,000 residents are leaving the city in the Donbass, which is under constant artillery fire from Russia.

So far, however, the troops from Moscow have not been able to break through.

Fierce trench warfare erupted around the city, with neither party gaining any notable territory.

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Update from Wednesday, December 14, 7:30 p.m.:

The city of Bakhmut in the Donbass is heavily contested.

Ukraine says it has bombed Russian positions in the region, the Ukrainian military told Telegram.

The 71st Fighter Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, together with other units, "took enemy positions near Bakhmut," it said.

First, the Russian troops were attacked with artillery and mortars.

"Then the paratroopers broke into the enemy positions and completed the last resistance of the Russian invaders,"

quoted the Telegram message as saying.

About a dozen Russian soldiers were killed in the attack.

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Ukraine War News: Russia Makes Gains on New Front

First report:

Bakhmut - The heavy fighting for the town of Bakhmut in Donbass in eastern Ukraine continues.

But now Russia seems to have achieved a marginal success on the new front in the Ukraine war.

According to an assessment by the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), forces from the notorious Wagner Group broke through Ukrainian defenses in the eastern part of Bakhmut on Tuesday (December 14) and took control of that part of the city.

The US think tank cited Russian sources in its daily update.

For example, the pro-Russian Telegram channel Rybar reported on Tuesday that Russian assault groups are also advancing north-east of Bakhmut, claiming that the command of the Ukrainian Armed Forces is conducting an “emergency rotation of personnel to maintain combat capability.”

Russian military bloggers also claimed, according to ISW, that Russian troops are advancing on several roads in the southeastern and eastern sectors of Bakhmut.

Meanwhile, the Ukrainian General Staff announced that Ukrainian troops continued to repel Russian attacks northeast of Bakhmut at Verkhnokamyanske, Soledar, Yakovlivka and Bakhmutske and south of Bakhmut at Klitschschiyevka, Kurdiumovka and Mayorsk.

News on the Ukraine war: Putin wants to conquer Bakhmut at any price

The city of Bakhmut has been attacked by Russian President Vladimir Putin's troops for months, so far without much success.

At the forefront of the struggle in Bakhmut is the Wagner Group, founded by Putin's ally Yevgeny Prigozhin, also known as "Putin's cook".

Since withdrawing from the city of Kherson, Russia has been concentrating on the front around Bakhmut.

The capture of the region would give the Russian army a morale boost after a string of military defeats.

Apparently, Moscow keeps throwing new soldiers into battle.

"It seems that the enemy has infinite human resources," Volodymyr Nazarenko, a deputy commander of a unit of Ukraine's National Guard fighting in the region, told Ukrainian media.

“The front areas of Bakhmut were completely destroyed.

The rest of the city is under constant enemy fire, the enemy is destroying the city." (cs)