Published October 2, 2024
Oct 1 (Reuters) – Russian troops have reached the centre of Vuhledar, a bastion on strategic high ground in eastern Ukraine that has resisted Russian assaults for more than two years, the regional governor of Ukraine’s Donetsk region said on Tuesday.
Here are some key points about the town and the battle.
WHAT IS VUHLEDAR?
Vuhledar – which means “gift of coal” – is a coal mining town in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region with a pre-war population of around 14,000 people, nearly all of whom have fled. It was built by the Soviet Union in the mid 1960s around a mine. There are two mines there now with significant coal reserves. Russians call the town, which sits on a flat plain and is comprised of high-rise apartment buildings and other structures, Ugledar.
WHY DOES RUSSIA WANT TO TAKE IT?
Moscow says the Donetsk region is one of four Ukrainian regions it has annexed since 2022, a claim Kyiv rejects as illegal. Moscow sees taking control of Vuhledar as an important stepping stone to incorporating the entire region into Russia.
Control of the town – which Russians long regarded as one of Ukraine’s toughest fortified positions to crack – is considered important by both sides because of its position on elevated ground and because it sits at the intersection of the eastern and southern battlefield fronts giving it added significance when it comes to supplying both sides’ forces.
While Ukrainian forces were in full control of Vuhledar, they were able to use the town as a platform to shell Russian military supply lines in the area.
The town sits close to a railway line from Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014, to Ukraine’s industrialised Donbas region which comprises Donetsk and the eastern region of Luhansk, most of which Moscow controls.
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SOURCE: www.reuters.com
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While there are still pockets of resistance, Russian flags have started to be unfurled all over the city.
Published October 1, 2024
October begins with Russian Federation forces on the cusp of a major military victory in Ukraine, as the ‘Fortress’ city of Ugledar (Vuhledar in Ukrainian) is under attack from three sides, and expected to be conquered at any moment.
Western press now reports that hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers are trapped in the besieged town as Russian forces complete the ‘boiler’ and close in.
Ukrainian soldiers describe how evacuation routes have been cut, and food, ammunition, and fuel are running low.
Telegraph reported:
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“’The situation in [Ugledar] is, to put it mildly, difficult’, the unnamed Ukrainian soldier told Stanislav Bunyatov, a Ukrainian soldier and blogger. ‘The attack is now coming from three sides’.
The soldier said that it was too dangerous for Ukrainian armored personnel carriers to drive towards friendly lines because of Russian artillery and drone attacks.”
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SOURCE: www.thegatewaypundit.com
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