Ukraine War Update: Full Frontline Update
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"Nine months, second greatest army in the world, and they've advanced a few kilometers to the west around Bakhmut and they haven't even taken Bakhmut yet so that is that is where the Russians are at"
Hello Team!
Jonathan provides an update on the Ukraine war frontlines for March 31, 2023. He apologizes for the video being a bit late today.
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📍 FRONT-LINE UPDATE -🗺️ MAP LEGEND
Russian Spring Conscription
- Putin signed a decree authorizing Russia's semi-annual spring conscription of 147,000 Russians between April 1st and July 15th
- Conscripts are not technically allowed to be sent to the front lines, but there were claims they were dying in the invasion last year
- Sending conscripts could spark social tensions in Russia, so Putin is unlikely to risk his regime's stability by deploying them to the front
- Conscripts could replace troops elsewhere, allowing those troops to move to the front
Russian Losses and Wagner Group
- Western officials reported Wagner Group and Russian forces have likely lost substantial manpower in Bakhmut area
- Estimates range from 26,000-36,000 Wagner personnel fighting in Bakhmut
- In December, it was reported Wagner had 50,000 personnel in Ukraine - 10,000 contractors and 40,000 convict recruits
- The difference may be due to casualties - Wagner suffered 30,000 casualties including 9,000 dead as of February 17
- Wagner may lose thousands more convicts as their six-month contracts finish
- Much of the 30,000 Russian military and Wagner personnel casualties since July 2022 were in the Bakhmut area
Northeast Frontline - Kupyansk to Svatove to Kreminna
- Not much to report in terms of territorial changes
- Repulsed attacks and artillery fire in usual places like Stelmakhivka, Nevske, Kuzmyne
- Geolocated footage indicated a marginal Russian advance near Kuzmivka, but Jonathan's map already shows this area under Russian control
- Russian forces operating more cautiously using doctrinal tactics in this direction compared to Bakhmut
Bakhmut
- Defmon notes how little the Russians have advanced in Bakhmut over the last 9 months
- No territorial changes reported by most mappers
- New York Times article discusses Ukrainian command center in Bakhmut seeing the battle going their way
- Russian assaults have slowed and threat of encirclement thwarted according to Ukrainian commander
- Russians concentrating efforts on advancing through city center using heavy artillery and aerial bombardment
- Some Ukrainian units taking heavy losses and being rotated out
- ReBar (pro-Russian) claims fighting ongoing in industrial zone and Azom plant in the north, and south of Shirokaya and Mariupolska streets
- ISW notes Russians will face delays and losses if forced to fight through urban terrain of central Bakhmut
Avdiivka
- Not much movement reported on maps
- Rebar claims ongoing positional offensive north of Avdiivka with goal to destroy Ukrainian strongholds south of Novobakhmutivka
- Purported footage of Ukrainian Javelin strikes on Russian column near Vodyane, but Jonathan skeptical if it's all from the last 24 hours as he's seen some clips before
- Some unspecified Russian gains claimed around Novobakhmutivka, Krasnohorivka, Kamianka, and Pervomaiske but geolocated footage suggests Ukrainians still control southern outskirts of Pervomaiske
Marinka
- Not much information from either side
- Footage of a Russian T-72 tank ambushed and destroyed in Marinka
- Presumed fighting continues as normal
- Unclear situation in northern Marinka - Syriac Maps claim Russians pushed up to Druzhby Avenue but unconfirmed elsewhere
Vuhledar and Zaporizhzhia
- Very quiet, not much activity reported
- DPR leader Pushilin claims Russians repelled Ukrainian reconnaissance attempts in the area
Kherson and Crimea
- Russians reduced shelling from Kinburn Spit in Mykolaiv region due to bad weather and being under Ukrainian fire control
- Kherson region attacked 64 times by Russians
- Russians continue building fences and trenches along occupied Black Sea beaches
- Satellite imagery shows explosions at Russian airbase in Dzhankoi, Crimea where aircraft were based
- Russian blogger claimed authorities disposing of old ammunition in Sevastopol, but Dzhankoi is 47 km away
Wrap up
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