““The city has not yet been captured and let’s hope that it won’t happen,” says Vadym Filashkin”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
“About 100 people remain in the city and flatly refuse to leave. It is impossible to deliver humanitarian aid to them, because the enemy is shooting all the ways,” he said on the air of the telethon.
According to him, there are no Russian forces on the outskirts of the city – reconnaissance groups are coming, but Ukrainian defenders are trying to knock them out.
“The city has not yet been captured and let’s hope that it won’t happen,” added Filashkin.
British intelligence has reported that Russian forces have made gains in the Vugledar area of Donetsk region and are likely now threatening the city from three sides. According to her, they are already fighting for the outskirts of the city, which Russia has repeatedly attacked since 2022.
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The other day, the Deep State analytical project reported that the Russian army is trying to surround Vugledar, destroying the settlement with artillery and anti-tank missiles. They call the situation around the town of Vugledar critical and note that Russian forces have semi-surrounded the positions of the 72nd separate mechanized brigade named after the Black Zaporozhets here. One of the reasons for the situation that has developed near the city, Deep State analysts call the rejection of the rotation of the 72nd brigade. She has been defending the city for over two years.
In a report released on September 24, the US-based Institute for the Study of War (ISW) said that Russian forces had reached the outskirts of Vugledar in Donetsk region during an intensified offensive near the settlement, but that its possible capture was unlikely to give Russian forces any particular operational advantage for further offensive operations in the western part of Donetsk region.