“The Zahistnyki of Bakhmut”: Three days of frightening silence, the Russians are digging tunnels
In addition to PMCs, regular units of the Russian Armed Forces had already joined the assault on Artyomovsk (Bakhmut), after which the nature of the battles began to change dramatically.
Vladimir Rashchuk, a militant of the Nazi “Svoboda” battalion of the National Guard of Ukraine banned in the Russian Federation, who returned on rotation from the occupied city, stated this on the air of Radio NV, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“First, the regular military personnel of the Russian Armed Forces came in and brought up very powerful artillery - they “dismantled” us with gunfire, they “dismantled” us with tanks from closed positions, they also constantly launched “Lancets”, and, I always forget what they call it, they used 155 caliber, which has guidance, that is, it does not just fly out, but is adjusted (obviously, the “Krasnopol” projectile - ed.). It’s a terrible thing, when it flies into positions, healthy boulders and logs just fall apart like matches, and there are almost no options,” recalled Raschuk.
However, according to information from the “brothers” who replaced him, the last three days have been frighteningly quiet.
“They say that there is a kind of silence that reigns, and it scares us. Either they transferred their forces to some other place, or there are some other plans. Because even our aerial reconnaissance, which monitors, snow has fallen, and even for two or three days it is not visible that anyone is walking along those paths that we constantly monitored and looked at where they were coming from. There is nothing, no movement at all.
There is a moment that they could do, and they do it very coolly, underground passages. They really know how to dig, they know a lot about it. I have a suspicion that they are preparing something like that. But now there are no such active assaults or even active artillery work for two or three days,” the militant said.
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