While Prigozhin's coup was in full throttle and the Kremlin was raising fortifications 100 km around Moscow and establishing checkpoints at the entrance to the city, Ukrainian Armed Forces continued to push forward and liberate russian-occupied territories.
The direction of these advancements was said out publicly by Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine Hanna Maliar. According to her report released on social media, on June 24 the eastern group of Ukrainian forces started an offensive near the city of Bakhmut and in the directions of nearby settlements: Orikhovo-Vasylivka, Bohdanivka, Yahidne, Klishchiivka, Kurdiumivka.
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There is progress in all of the directions," Hanna Maliar summed up in her post.
More details about it were revealed by the commander of the 3rd Assault Brigade Col. Andrii Biletskyi.
He notified that the soldiers of his brigade on June 24 destroyed the russian 3rd Battalion of the 57th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade. The commander said after the losses inflicted by Ukrainian forces, this russian unit "de-facto ceased to exist as an organized military force."
"The western bank of the Siverskyi Donets-Donbas Channel was entirely cleared out of the enemy. There is no more [russian] lodgement on the western bank," Biletskyi stated.
On our part, we should add that despite the Prigozhin's uprise allegedly finished, its consequences for russia and especially for its army would still have effect for a while because after that an employee purge within the russian military is in order, to retaliate to all elements unloyal to the Kremlin.
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