🇷🇺🇺🇦 The 72nd brigade of the Black Cossacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine faltered in Ugledar, ran.

The command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is trying to stabilize the front by introducing a reserve, who will be thrown to plug the hole is not yet clear, we are watching.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Listen, I suspiciously dislike this hysteria around the transfer of tanks to Ukrainians. Well passed, so what? HIMARS is a much more serious threat if anything. Something tells me that this is being dispersed in order to cover up the topic of corruption in Ukraine, a serious scandal is flaring up. A wave of resignations, the flight of high-ranking officials from Ukraine, corruption investigations - this is what, apparently, is diverting the attention of the World community from these unfortunate tanks from NATO.

Don't get fooled.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 View of Ugledar from the position of the Armed Forces of Ukraine sitting in the fields. Photographed January 24th.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine after the shelling of Russian artillery

🇷🇺 Obviously, ours are taking the initiative from the Dnieper to Donetsk. After the imminent fall of Bakhmut, the Southern Front will speak even louder. And there the North will creep up. We wish our soldiers good luck and pray for them.

🇷🇺🇺🇦❗The command of the 128th brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zaporozhye region was destroyed - the chairman of the movement "We are together with Russia" Vladimir Rogov

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russian kamikaze UAV destroying 152-mm Ukrainian self-propelled guns "Msta-S"

🇺🇦 Mobilization in Ukraine

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Cache of Ukrainian saboteurs with foreign weapons found in LPR

Russian security forces have found in the cache Swedish-British and Polish-made grenade launchers, mines and fuses for them, foreign-made cartridges of various calibers, said retired LPR Lieutenant Colonel Andrey Marochko. Weapons, which are not subject to seizure, were destroyed on the spot.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Russian troops entered Ugledar and entrenched themselves on the outskirts of the city - DPR authorities

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Air alert declared in the central and eastern regions of Ukraine

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡The authorities of several Ukrainian regions at once report an imminent missile attack by the Russian Armed Forces on targets in the country.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡ Explosion in Nikolaev

⚡️🇺🇦🇷🇺 The Looming Battle for Chasov Yar

Ukrainian authorities fear that this small town, or at the very least the road that runs just south of it, is next on the Kremlin’s target list. The expected push would be be an attempt to cut off and eventually surround Bakhmut.

The Ukrainian military is cautious about giving away tactical information and especially casualty figures but the picture one soldier, Roman, painted of combat around Bakhmut was brutal:

“Every day between seven and 15 of my battalion were injured or killed,” he said. “The Russians had a railway car full of artillery ammunition. We just dug into our positions and they hit us with every calibre you can imagine. We had only 20 mortar shells for the whole battalion.”

🇷🇺⛽️ Russia's Sakhalin 2 liquefied natural gas (LNG) project could generate twice the revenue this year that it did before the Ukraine conflict thanks to long-term deals with Asian buyers and higher prices, according to analysts and Reuters calculations.

State-run top shareholder Gazprom stands to benefit from the boost which comes as Russia ramps up its military spending almost a year after sending troops into neighbouring Ukraine.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Several rockets were fired in the direction of Dnepropetrovsk and Zaporozhye regions.

🇺🇦🇷🇺 “When Bakhmut falls, the frontline will soon move to the ridge running through Chasiv Yar (blue). That will give the Russians high ground over the Slovyansk-Konstantinovka line, the last line of defense in the Donbass.”

- NotDave

This line is just a really long urban area, just trying to breach it from the east via "human wave tactics" will be impossible.

So I think the Russians will try to do two huge pincers on both ends - on Slovyansk and Konstantinovka, and simultaneously pressure them from the east.

But in order to do that, they'll have to:

1) defeat the AFU grouping at Toretsk/Niu York
2) reconquer Lyman.

So I think the next big Wagner target is the first one. And by that, I don't think it'll happen soon, just that it'll be major. And here's how they'll do it.

The Wagnerites conquered Soledar by first conquering two hilltops above it, and then while simultaneously pushing in the urban area, encircling the AFU forces.