Bakhmut fights are repeated: Russian troops are actively storming Toretsk, what prospects in cities
At first, the invaders were captured by the surrounding settlements of Iron, North, Zhalane, Sergiyivka and Ivanivka, also reported on the event of the Russians to the Southern Private Sector and the beginning of fighting for the Toretsky Cemetery. The units of the Russian Center group began the storm of the city on August 18, 2024 in three directions. Attempts to capture the city continue, until October 8, the situation is not in favor of the Armed Forces.
City battles "literally for every entrance" are ongoing in Toretsk. The Ukrainian defense forces try to stop the enemy, says the spokesman of the operative-tactical group "Lugansk" Anastasia Bobovnikova. The Toretsky direction, according to it, turned into the hottest on the Eastern Front. The Russians entered the eastern outskirts of the city and advanced in the direction of the "Central" mine.
The events are constantly changing: the Armed Forces reflect the enemy fire points, but somewhere the invaders capture Ukrainian positions, the spokeswoman said. The Russians do not change the traditional tactics of war: they equalize the city with the land of artillery and then storm it in small groups of three to five people.
Russian troops write that the units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have cut off part of the Ukrainian group in Toretsk and allegedly took it in an operational environment. Evacuation is possible only a few corridors, and one of them leads to the controlled Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. "This fact has led to the fact that some of the Ukrainian soldiers, trying to get out of Toretsk, burst into heavy fire," the militants reported.
Analysts of the American Institute for War Study (ISW) did not see the visual confirmation of these statements. Toretsk is a part of Gorlov-Yenakiyev's agglomeration, the city is located about 15 kilometers west of Gorlovka, which was occupied by Russian troops. Toretsk allows to protect the agglomeration "Konstantinovka-Kramatorsk" and serves as a bridgehead for the future offensive of the Armed Forces on Gorlovka.
After the start of a full -scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, Toretsk became an important logistics center of Ukrainian forces. According to the Deep State resource, the invaders are already in the center of Toretsk and seized a third of the city. The General Staff of the Armed Forces in the morning combat, did not confirm the promotion of the enemy army in Toretsk. According to the military command, with the support of aviation, the enemy made 12 attacks near Toretsk, Diliyivka and Neplipivka.
The advantage of Russians in the amount of infantry, artillery and aviation allows them to adhere to classical tactics of fighting. It is not necessary to talk about the depletion of resources: every month the enemy compensates for its own losses. However, with the approach to the border of the industrial zone, the general situation of promotion in Toretsk is complicated, according to the military-political observer of the group "Information resistance" Alexander Kovalenko.
"The occupiers have to fight for every home, but this variant of fighting creates difficulties for the forces of Ukraine's defense forces. Keeping defense under the shelling of Russian artillery is extremely difficult," he emphasizes in a conversation with focus. Fighting for Toretsk differ from the offensive on the coal: Russian units have deeply wedged into the city in a straight line and have not yet moved along the flanks.
Entry into the city deprives the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the military expert of the Ukrainian Institute of the Future Ivan Stupak notes. "There is a high probability that the Russians will get into Toretsk as a machine in the swamp. A sharp change in the situation is possible after punching the flanks from the country and Diliyivka in the south, as well as iron in the north," he comments on focus.
The tactics of the occupiers in Toretsk are similar to the battle of Bakhmut, one of the most bloody battles of the Russian-Ukrainian war. Then the enemy moved at the cost of heavy losses during street battles. The partially slow promotion of the invaders in Toretsk is explained by the fatigue of Ukrainian defenders and the simultaneous readiness of the Russian Federation to suffer losses and not spare resources to achieve goals. "Of course, keep Toretsk in such a dynamics will be problematic.
In the near future, the Armed Forces run the risk of losing control of Selidov and Toretsk. Perhaps the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation will stop, because no less active fighting occurs in the Limano-Kupjansk direction," the colonel says , Expiker of the General Staff of the Armed Forces Vladislav Seleznev in a conversation with focus.
The analyst is convinced that the 25th Ramstein meeting, scheduled for October 12, will not change the restrained position of Ukrainian partners and the miracle on the front will not happen. We will remind, the troops of the Russian Federation only in August and September 2024 occupied more than 684 square meters. kilometers of the territory of Donetsk region. By the beginning of October, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation managed to capture approximately 62% of the region.