![]() ![]() Russian forces have been trying to take it for three months. The town has become a lynchpin in the conflict in eastern Ukraine. Military historian Tom Cooper, who has studied the battle for Vuhledar, describes it as “a big, tall fortress in the middle of an empty, flat desert.” Its high-rise buildings give its defenders – principally the Ukrainian 72nd Mechanized – a significant advantage, as well as hardened underground cover. Vuhledar was built for the nearby coal mine (the name translates as “gift of coal”) and sits above surrounding plains. Members of a Ukrainian artillery unit cut fire wood while waiting near Vuhledar in Donetsk. Fighting heroically.”īut the leader of the self-declared, Russian-backed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), Denis Pushilin, acknowledged Friday that the area was “hot” and said “the enemy continues to transfer reserves in large quantities, and this slowed down the liberation of this settlement.” In remarks recorded for a Sunday television show, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the “marine infantry is working as it should. The Russian Defense Ministry has insisted the assault on Vuhledar, where the 155th Marine Brigade is prominently involved, is going according to plan. ![]() Satellite images show intensive patterns of impacts along tree lines where Russian tanks tried to advance. Others show Ukrainian drones dropping small explosive charges on static tanks in open country – and a graveyard of abandoned armor.Īt least two dozen Russian tanks and infantry vehicles have been disabled or destroyed in a matter of days, according to the videos, which were released by the Ukrainian military and analyzed by CNN and military experts. One video shows a tank running into a minefield and exploding, followed almost obliviously by an infantry fighting vehicle that suffers the same fate. Satellite imagery showed craters left by heavy artillery shelling around Vuhledar. ![]()
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