❗️ 🇷🇺🇺🇦 Battle for Bakhmut - What is happening in the city?
situation as of 16.00 April 7, 2023

🔻In Bakhmut , the assault detachments of PMC "Wagner" took control of the stadium "Metallurg" , and also significantly advanced in the direction of the police station , moving from the southeast and east - the battles are going right on the outskirts of the building.

▪️On the northern outskirts, the "Wagnerites" liberated several buildings on Zelenaya Street near the Alley of Roses . To the south, the assault detachments were able to gain a foothold north of Kovalskaya Street along the railway.

▪️Russian units successfully broke through the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the very center, wedged into the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near the railway station and bus station. In the event of a consolidation in this sector and the liberation of the quarter, the areas of concentration of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to the south near the Avangard stadium and in the north will be under the threat of a blow to the flank.

🔻Now Ukrainian formations are trying to counterattack in various areas, holding back PMC units. On the western outskirts of Bakhmut , the 14th separate assault "Krasnokalinskaya" brigade of the National Guard and the regiment of the patrol police service "Kiev" of the special forces of Ukraine were deployed.

▪️In addition, from the vicinity of Stupochek , the 24th separate battalion "Aidar" of the 53rd brigade was sent to the southern and southwestern outskirts to hold the T0504 highway to Konstantinovka along the streets of Chaikovsky and Korsunsky .

❗️At the moment, about 50 thousand people from various formations are concentrated in the Soledar direction :
➖24 oshb 53 ombre
➖3 shbr "Azov"
➖5 oshbr
➖4 and 17 selection
➖10 ogshbr
➖28, 30, 67 and 93 ombre
➖56 (without one battalion) and 57 ompbr
➖46 and 77 oambr, 80 odshbr
➖26, 40, 43 and 45 obr, 107 rib
➖113, 119, 241 arr. TRO
➖"Krasnokalinskaya", "Buryevskaya", "Rubezhskaya", "Spartanskaya" brigades, 5th Regiment of Public Order Protection of the National State University of Ukraine
➖1 Commandant's Office of the Rapid Response State Border Guard Service
➖regiments "Peacemaker" and "Kyiv" from the national police
➖separate special battalions "Dudaev", "Donbass", "Ichkeria", "Lviv" and the detachment "Georgian partisans".

🔻Reserves are placed along the line Slovyansk - Kramatorsk - Druzhkovka - Konstantinovka - Chasov Yar , however, at the moment, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are focused on curbing the pace of advancement of the "Wagnerites", and not conducting a counteroffensive.

At the same time, a transition to a counterattack is likely, provided that a full-scale offensive campaign is launched along the entire length of the front to pin down Russian troops and search for the least protected areas of defense.