LONDON - Russian paratroopers have reached the eastern edge of the Ukrainian town of Chasiv Yar, which Kyiv's top commander says Moscow wants taken by May 9, the date when Russia marks the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany.
Moscow's forces, according to embedded Russian war correspondents and analysts, are likely to attempt to squeeze Ukrainian forces from the east, south and north in order to force them to flee westwards. Dissected by a canal, its pre-war economy centred on a factory that produced reinforced concrete products and mining fire clay, which is resistant to high temperatures, and making products out of it such as bricks.
Only a few hundred mostly elderly residents remain, some of whom are evacuating. Those that are still there shelter in basements and rely on volunteers for food and water. "The offensive effort to seize Chasiv Yar offers Russian forces the most immediate prospects for operationally significant advances," ISW said in a briefing note.
"The 'fighting for Chasov Yar' period has begun. It will be long. The fighting will be about the same as for Bakhmut," Markov wrote on his official blog.
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