“Voloshyn named the cities in Donetsk region where fighting continues in urban areas. In Kurakhovo, Toretsk and Chasovoy Yar, fighting continues in urban areas. The occupiers have changed their tactics and are trying to block the logistics of the Ukrainian defenders instead of frontal assaults.”, — write on: unn.ua
Fighting continues in urban areas in the cities of Kurakhove, Toretsk and Chasiv Yar. As for the tactics of assaults, just in these settlements, the enemy is trying to break through to them, in some of them he is already waging urban battles. It is fighting due to the fact that this is an urban development, and in order to avoid frontal assaults, the occupiers have abandoned such tactics as storming directly into populated areas
According to him, the Russians are trying to block transport arteries, cut off logistics from Ukrainian defenders.
Addition
The General Staff reported today, in the morning of December 23, that 234 clashes took place on the front of the previous day, most of them – in the Vremivsk direction, in Kurakhovo, fighting continues in urban areas.
On December 16, the spokeswoman for the operational-tactical group “Luhansk” Anastasiya Bobovnikova reported that complex urban battles are taking place in Toretsk, Donetsk region, and the situation there is difficult.