The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence with this thought Russian leader Vladimir Putin invasion of Ukraine slowed down considerably . When we left the first week of January behind on the battlefield the pressure of the Ukrainian army at the moment is much more pronounced .
Russia withdrawal from most of its trenches in Ukraine is increasing the advance of the key troops even more . Let dive right now into the areas of hot breaking points occurring on the front lines of the battlefield. Our first stop is the Donetsk region where critical clashes and dramatic operations took place.
You may remember that a few day ago on the connecting road between Donetsk and Makivka the military preparation of the Ukrainian armed forces attracted the attention of the Russian troops. The special forces and artillery units of the Kyiv army near the huge Russian military base in Makivka launched the first attack on the base with high mars missiles .
The severity of the attack increased with the explosion of the ammunition on the ground of the Russian base in Makiefka Which was heavily damaged in a short time. According to the latest report of the Ukrainian generals staff 400 Russian soldiers were eliminated by this attack many soldiers were injuried .
This heavy blow wiped out the invading Russian army influence in Donetsk almost in one foul swoop. Another frontline after Makivka is Lyman . In this region there are mainly counter attacks by Ukrainian forces . Lyman a frontlines where the Russian army was ineffective now appears to be under the control of the Kyiv army .
Fierce fighting still continues in the region between both sides of the war when we go the south east side of Lyman we come across the city of Soledar which is currently used as an escape ramp by the Russian troops . Russian soldiers are currently using this area as a shelter to escape to Donetsk conflict .
The presence of Russia troops in this region trying to protect themselves in the city of Soledar from the clashes on the served Donetsk and Kreminna frontlines does not seem to be long Soledar is located the south of these two front lines and is to the north of Donetsk for this reason the invaders in the city were stuck in the middle of the clashes .
Now we move to Bakhmut perhaps the most important and fiercest fighting frontline at the moment many of the worst conflicts since Russia begin its invasion around 10 months ago have taken place near Bakhmut which both sides have described as hell despite the fact that Russia seized insufficient territory in months of futile waves of attacks on Bakhmut .
The Ukrainian sites states that these efforts by the Moscow army are unnecessary and cause serious losses for the Russians . Russia still continues to attack backward as it thinks it is key to its goal capturing the rest of the Donetsk province one of four partially occupied territories . The claims to have annexed satellite images from the besieged city of Bakhmut in Ukraine show the extent of damage to land homes and infrastructure in area since the conflict escalated .
While most residents are evacuated from the eastern city those who remain survive almost constant bombardment without heating or electricity aerial footage released from Bachman this week shows how the city was changed since August due to the fighting . Satellite images fully reveal the traces of battles there as parts of Bakhmut are covered with barren land and sections of residential apartments blocks flattened into concrete piles .
The only aim of the Ukrainian army in this city at the moment is to completely drive out the Russians who stubbornly do not stop attacking back mode . Zelensky and his army showed their determination to this end war with their striking preparations in Bukhmut yesterday the mobility of Kyiv forces in the eastern part of the is city attracted a lot of attention .
A huge Ukrainian military convoy of 16 YPR 765 armored personnel carriers managed to cross the Bakhmut river and enter the eastern city part of the city . Currently Ukrainian armored vehicles are located in the Zabak Mutak area and apparently began to to be used to bombard the eastern outskirts of the city where at the Wagner PMC positions are located .
Ukraine seems to have wasted no time a rolling stone gathers no moss adopting this proverb this miniature conway of the Kyiv forces is still advancing on the route it followed from the east of the city also video footage shot on the southeastern outskirts of Bakhmut shows the movement of Ukrainian armored personnel carriers firing at unknown targets along the way .
The fact that the Ukrainian armed forces began to transport these armored vehicles to Bakhmut and counter attack that there made the work of the warder mercenary group which is densely located in this region very difficult . YPR 675 are highly effective armored infantry vehicle on flat terrain considering the fact that the Wagner group has not received military ir financial support from Russia for a long time at least not reflected in the news.
This additional military vehicle move by Ukraine is quite logical because Kyiv is tired of seeing even a single Russian soldiers in Bakhmut . Military support to the Ukrainian army from the west and the US determines the fate of the conflict on important frontlines like Bakhmut and general course of the war without western material and intelligence support Ukraine victories wouldn’t have been of such a large scale .
As the conflict moves its 11th month and the Ukrainian military has the strategic advantages there are voices in the United States calling for a halt or a reduction in military aid to Ukraine while the United States this week approved the largest all time military aid to Ukraine and has began shipments .
Some arguments suggest that the money devoted to the Ukrainian cause will find better use in the US military while others argue it will only help escalate the war but the circumstances show that the United States is making a huge humanitarian gain by helping Ukraine . Since the war begin the United States has sent more than 21 billion dollars in security aid to Ukraine .
In addition the total amount of financial military and humanitarian aid that Washington has committed sent the Kyiv government is close to 50 billion dollars . In nearly 30 military aid packages the US military has sent or committed to sending more than 54,000 anti-tank missiles in ammunitions various weapons system including 45T some the military resources allocated by the US to the Ukrainian army are as follows .
72 B tanks , 20 MI 17 Helicopter, 38 M 142 high motion artillery rocket systems 178, 155 millimeters and 155 millimeters and 105 millimeter howitzers with close 1.2 million rounds. More than 2,200 tactical vehicle and other weapons systems as well as armored personnel carriers. Almost every country in the world sends a second-tier weapon system to the Ukrainian army unused or going to the international arms market .
But even these were enough for the Ukrainian army to stop the larger and technologically more superior Russian force . Of course the material factor alone did not stop the Russian army the fierce determination moral courage and valor of Ukrainian soldiers and civilians played a key role in the country success against the superior and great military power .
The United States has been Ukraine sole and most important supporter in this fight against the Russian invaders of course other countries noticeably Poland ,Estonina the Czech republic and the United Kingdom provide great assistance but without Washington support Kyiv would not have been able to turn tide of the war and liberate so many territories .
US military support to Ukraine support makes financial sense the Washington administration sent weapons systems to Ukraine that destroyed about 50 percent of the pre-war Russian army in exchange for about five percent of its annual defense budget in addition . According to independent war monitors and data sources,
Ukrainian captured more than 8,500 weapons systems from the Russian army including 1600 tanks 750 armored combat vehicles 1800 infantry fighting vehicles and 600 artillery pieces among other weapons systems. On the other hand the UKrainian general staff reports that it destroyed at least two times in number we mentioned about Russian casualties just before Christmas President Joe Biden enacted the fiscal 2023 national defense authorization act which allocated 816.7 billion dollars to the Pentagon .
As a result by supporting Ukraine the United States was able to indirectly halve the combat capability of Russian forces by just a quarter indeed it would be great mistake to stop military aid to Ukraine when Kyiv now has the strategic advantages . The US on the other hand is aware of this situation and as one of Ukraine guarantor countries . It has done more than its pod and continues to do so.
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