⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦⚔️ #Chronicle of the Special Military Operation for 22-23 Apr 2023⚡️

🔹#Russia's Border Areas:

▪️ In the #Kursk region, the enemy terrorists once again shelled the Rylsk district, damaging power grids and de-energizing the villages of #Obesta, #Lokot and #Novoivanovka. There were no civilian casualties.

▪️ The #Belgorod region, Ukrainian terrorist formations struck the villages of Novaya Tavolzhanka, #Murom and #Spodaryushino: at least 14 residential buildings and power lines were damaged. There were no civilian casualties.

🔹#Starobelsk (#Svatovo) Direction:

▪️ Along the line #Kupyansk - #Svatovo - #Kremennaya and near #Seversk, positional fighting and mutual reconnaissance continue, no serious changes in these sections of the front.

▪️ The AFU terrorists fired four HIMARS rockets at #Alchevsk. A boiler house, a gas pipeline and seven residential buildings have been hit. There were no civilian casualties.

🔹#Soledar (#Bakhmut) Direction (MAP):

▪️ Ukrainian commanders are moving additional forces to #Bogdanovka and #Grigorovka, expecting an offensive by Russian forces in this area.

▪️ Fighting continues near the highway from #Khromovo to Chasov Yar. The "Wagnerians" have established a foothold on the road section and cut off the supply of the AFU grouping in #Bakhmut.

▪️ Wagner PMC assault squads are pushing through the defences of the Ukrainian formations in the north and centre of #Bakhmut. The enemy attempts to counterattack.

🔹#Donetsk Direction (MAP):

▪️ North of #Avdeyevka there is fighting between #Novokalinovo and #Novobakhmutka. Ukrainian forces attempted to counterattack and regain lost positions near the H20, but failed and withdrew with significant losses.
➖ At the same time, the RF Armed Forces are conducting a positional offensive in the direction of #Novokalinovo.

▪️ Southwest of #Avdeyevka, fighting continues northwest of #Vodyanoye, where Russian servicemen stormed two strongholds of the AFU's 53rd Mechanized Brigade.

▪️ The enemy command is reinforcing the grouping in the #Avdyeyevka fortified area, two assault groups of the 137th Battalion of the 35th Brigade of the Ukrainian Navy have arrived in #Keramik.
➖ At ​​the same time, Ukrainian formations transferred an electronic warfare station and ATGM crews to the area of #Tonenkoye.

▪️ The AFU terrorists once again shelled the #Donetsk agglomeration with barrel and rocket artillery. Three civilians were killed and six more were wounded.

🔹#Zaporozhye Direction (MAP):

▪️ The enemy command is preparing for an offensive and is moving additional forces, including to the #Gulyaypole section.

▪️ Saturday morning there was a terrorist attack in #Melitopol. Ukrainian saboteurs detonated an IED at the locomotive depot.

🔹#Kherson Direction on #SouthFront:

▪️ Artillery duels continue along the line of contact, with Russian forces striking enemy equipment and manpower concentrations in #Kherson, #Antonovka and #Berislav.
➖ In turn, the Ukrainian terrorist formations shelled settlements on the left bank of the #Dnieper River. Residential buildings and infrastructure of Novaya Kakhovka, Golaya Pristan and #Alyoshki were damaged.

🔹#Crimea (MAP):

▪️ On Saturday morning, Ukrainian formations attacked #Crimea with a Grom-2 surface-to-air missile. The missile was intercepted by an air defense system over the sea near #Kerch.

▪️ The day before, late in the evening, the enemy shelled #Armyansk in the north of the peninsula with MLRS " Alder", the shells were shot down by air defence systems.

🔸Political and other Events:

▪️ Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has signed a law banning the naming of geographical sites associated with Russia and the USSR.

▪️ Ukrainian authorities have set up a commission to check the use of sites in the Pochayev Lavra of the canonical UOC in the #Ternopil region.

▪️ The Czech Republic has sent 12 T-72M1 tanks as military aid to #Ukraine, bringing the total number of heavy equipment transferred to 62.

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