❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Soledar direction
situation by the end of February 5, 2023

Russian troops are confidently advancing in Bakhmut and the surrounding area. The Ukrainian command assesses the situation as critical. Formations are preparing the second line of defense Kramatorsk - Slavyansk - Konstantinovka - Toretsk .

🔻In the Soledar sector, the assault detachments of the Wagner PMC are advancing on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine south of Razdolovka. Today, the forces of the 10th Guards Brigade were driven out from two platoon strongholds.

▪️West of Soledar , the “Wagnerites” advanced from Blagodatnoe and the railway station Sol to the strongholds of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the hills and Vasyukovka in order to cover Ukrainian positions on the commanding heights.

🔻Fighting continues in the north of Bakhmut in the vicinity of Paraskovievka and Krasnaya Gora . After a partial withdrawal of the formations of the 46th detachment of military units and the territorial defense from the villages to Slavyansk , the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine crumbled. Russian units are pushing through the Ukrainian fortified area from the north and from the Stupka area.

▪️On the northern outskirts of Bakhmut, Russian units advanced in the area of the meat processing plant, and also established control over a building materials plant south of Krasnaya Gora.

▪️In the southern districts of Bakhmut, there is an active assault on a residential area in the Sobachevsky district , and the control zone near the city cemetery has also been expanded.

▪️The command of the 93rd mechanized brigade operating in Bakhmut plans to conduct a counteroffensive with the forces of two battalions in several sectors to delay time.

🔻To the west of Bakhmut, the Wagnerites came close to the road from Clock Yar - now it is under fire control. In addition, the fighters of the PMC "Wagner" broke through the defense lines of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the southwestern outskirts of Krasnoe , and are also confidently moving north from Klescheevka , in fact, starting battles for the southwestern suburb of Bakhmut.