Counterattack all over the Donetsk region: the Armed Forces have succeeded under Avdiivka - ISW (map)

According to American analysts, Ukrainian defenders conducted a series of counter -offensive actions in several sections of the front until the invaders are trying unsuccessfully to take control of the "road of life" to Bakhmut. The Ukrainian forces have achieved additional slight success during the recent counterattack to the southwest of Avdiivka of Donetsk region. This is stated in the report of the American Institute for War Study (ISW) of May 9.

Analysts studied geolocation in May 8 and concluded that the defense forces reached a further insignificant advance to the north of Water (7 km southwest of Avdiivka) in the area where, according to ISW, the Ukrainian forces held a limited counterattack on April 30. "According to ISW, reports of Ukrainian counterattacks throughout the Donetsk region are part of a continuous scheme of localized and limited counterattacks," the analysts said.

It is also reported that the Armed Forces of Ukraine carried out a successful limited counterattack in the west of Donetsk region. Geolocation, published on May 9, show that the Ukrainian forces held a counterattack in the Novodonetsk area, which was 50 km southwest of Donetsk, and reached a minor progress in the area. As of May 9, the Russian forces continued to achieve minor success in Bakhmut.

Geolocation footage, published on May 8, show that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation advanced further in the western Bakhmut. The owner of Wagner PEC Yevgeny Prigogin stated on May 8 that his mercenaries had advanced 130 m in Bakhmut and that the Ukrainian forces are currently controling 2. 36 square meters. km of the city.

On the same day, Prigogine and Russian sources claimed May 9 that the Ukrainian forces had a blow from Himars at a prison institution under the control of Wagner near Bakhmut. It is noteworthy that ISW did not find a visual confirmation of this statement. Russian troops claim that Wagner fighters tried to break into the chrome, located west of Bakhmut, and that the Russian forces are strongly intercepting the latest Ukrainian land lines (NLS) left in Bakhmut.

Colonel Sergey Cherevaty, a pressecretic of the eastern group of troops of Ukraine, reported eight clashes in Bakhmut, possibly assuming that recent statements about the activation of Wagner operations in and around him are not a reflection of constant efforts to increase the tempo of operations.

According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces, Russian troops conducted unsuccessful offensive operations in Bakhmut and in the area of ​​settlements of Ivanivske (6 km west of Bakhmut), the times of Yar (12 km west of Bakhmut) and a knock (13 km southwest of Bakhmut). On May 9, Russian troops continued limited offensive operations along the front line of Avdiivka-Donetsk.

The Ukrainian General Staff reported that the Russian forces had carried out unsuccessful offensive operations in the Avdiivka area, May Day (11 km southwest of Avdiivka) and Marinka (27 km southwest of Avdiivka). Russian troops claim that as of May 8, positional battles in the area of ​​the H-20 route (Konstantinovka-Donetsk) and Novobakhmutivka (13 km northeast of Avdiivka) continued.

According to ISW, on May 9, the Russian forces conducted limited ground attacks northeast of Kupyansk and along the Svatovo-Classin line. The General Staff of the Armed Forces reported that the Russian forces conducted unsuccessful offensive operations in the Masyutivka area (12 km northeast of Kupyansk), Stelmakhivka (15 km northwest of Svatov) and Bigorivka (10 km south of Kreminna).

On May 8 and 9, the geolocation footage of hostilities shows units of the 30th Separate Rifle Brigade (2nd Army Army, Central Military District) operating in the Makeevka area (22 km northwest of Kreminna). The personnel published on May 9, probably shown units of the 88th Brigade (2nd Corps of the so-called "L/DNR"), which strike in Ukrainian positions in the Kreminna.

The personnel published on May 8, approximately shows the units of the 110th brigade (1st corps of the so-called "L/DNR"), which operate in the Donetsk direction. On May 9, Russian troops struck Ukrainian positions west of Gulyaypol and in the Kherson region.

On May 9, the geolocation of the fighting shows how the soldiers of the 126 Guards Brigade of the Coast Defense (22nd Army Corps, the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation) are fired by Ukrainian positions on the island of the Great Potemkin. According to the Russian military, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation allegedly reflected the landing of a small group of Ukrainian troops in the unknown island in Kherson region.

Another militarycore states that the Ukrainian forces do not have a established presence on the Left Bank and that the Russian forces control approaches to the islands in the Dnipro Delta Delta. Natalia Humeniuk's Operational Command Operations Command said that Russian troops are constantly firing at Kherson and Beryslav districts and use managed airbombs for Kizomis strokes (20 km southwest of Kherson), fearing Ukrainian counter -offensive and landing.

We will remind, on May 4 it became known that from Avdiivka of the Armed Forces plan to evacuate the entire local population due to continuous shelling. However, according to the head of the Avdiiv City Military-Civil Administration Vitaliy Barabash, it is impossible, since the remaining people simply do not want to leave the settlement despite the possibility of leaving for free.