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The 3rd Separate Assault BrigadeRecruits of the 3rd Separate Assault Brigade taking part in military training. The 3rd Brigade has since become famous for its battle-hardened, fearless approach to combat. While many brigades use social media platforms to advertise and celebrate battlefield wins, the 3rd Brigade is especially skilled at PR. Four Ukrainian soldiers of the 3rd Separate Assault Brigade preparing mortar rounds for intensive firing at a position near Andriivka on September 25, 2023, in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. "The Third Assault Brigade falls into the second category."
Persons: , Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Julia Kazdobina, ANATOLII STEPANOV, Ukraine isn't, Andriy Biletsky, Kazdobina, Elina Beketova, Yurii, Beketova Organizations: Service, Business, Ukrainian Prism's Security, Ukrainian Information, Separate Assault Brigade, Separate Assault, Azov Brigade, 3rd Brigade, Washington DC, Center for, Getty, Radio ROKS, Brigade, Ukraine's Defense, Third Assault Brigade Locations: Ukrainian, Ukraine, Bakhmut, Mariupol, Andriivka, Donetsk Oblast, Kyiv, Dnipro, Lviv, Soviet
Read previewUkraine's 3rd Separate Assault Brigade has been deployed to support the withdrawal from the city of Avdiivka in the Donetsk Oblast, announced on Saturday. "Despite the fact that the occupiers are suffering disproportionate losses, the situation in Avdiivka remains extremely difficult," said the 3rd Separate Assault Brigade's Telegram account. Footage from the 3rd Separate Assault Brigade. In 2023, Biletsky said there was "no split" between the Azov Brigade and the 3rd Assault Brigade," Ukrainska Pravda reported. I am grateful to everyone for their resilience," said the commander of the 3rd Separate Assault Brigade, on Telegram.
Persons: , , Naz, tim e, sid, s of, liv Organizations: Service, Brigade, Institute for, Business, Separate Assault Brigade, kr, Unt Locations: Avdiivka, Donetsk Oblast, Russian, Ukrainian
Ukrainian military soldiers fire from the MT-12 or 2A29 gun "Rapira" is a Soviet smoothbore 100-mm anti-tank gun on December 7, 2023 in Avdiivka, Ukraine. Ukrainian troops are withdrawing from some areas of the eastern town of Avdiivka to seek better positions after months of intense combat. Moscow has devoted substantial battlefield resources to encircling and capturing the city, and Ukraine's dwindling supply lines have left its forces vulnerable. In a post on the Telegram messaging app on Thursday, the Third Assault Brigade confirmed it was "urgently redeployed to strengthen Ukrainian troops in the Avdiivka area," and describe the situation there as "hell," according to a Google translation. "The enemy continues the active rotation of its troops, and throws new forces and means into the city," it added.
Persons: Dmytro Lykhoviy, Andriy Biletskyi, — Elliot Smith Organizations: Military, Third Assault Brigade, Reuters Locations: Soviet, Avdiivka, Ukraine, Donetsk, Luhansk, Moscow
Andriy Biletsky, of the 3rd Separate Assault Brigade, said Russian soldiers were not "stupid." Zelenskyy's office later made it clear that he had not meant that the city had fallen to Russian troops, the BBC reported. Ukraine's 3rd Separate Assault Brigade in actionHelmet camera footage of Ukrainian fighters on the frontlines. @11Knuk123 Twitter screenshotMeanwhile, Ukraine said it had made advances on the flanks around Bakhmut, where Biletsky's 3rd Separate Assault Brigade has seen action. The British Ministry of Defence announced additional Russian troops had likely been deployed to Bakhmut to fight against Kyiv's advances.
How Ukraine Reversed the Momentum in Bakhmut
  + stars: | 2023-05-20 | by ( Marc Santora | Tyler Hicks | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Ukrainian soldiers were waiting for just the right moment to attack. Then they received critical intelligence: Russian mercenaries on the other side of the front line outside Bakhmut were about to rotate out and be replaced by other soldiers. Ukrainian soldiers were told to get their kits ready, making sure they had plenty of grenades and full clips of ammunition. It was the morning of May 6, the beginning of three days of fighting on the outskirts of Bakhmut that has shifted momentum in the fiercest battle of the war. Soldiers from Ukraine’s 3rd Separate Assault Brigade battled with the Russians across forest belts where the trees rose like scorched matchsticks.
A Ukraine colonel told The New York Times that reports of Russian shortages are "TikTok propaganda." Col. Biletsky detailed Ukraine's counteroffensive in Bakhmut, where Ukraine has regained ground. But it has more recently lost some of those gains to a Ukraine counteroffensive. He said Ukrainian soldiers advanced on Russian forces as they were rotating units, allowing them to gain an upper hand. 1 task was to push back the enemy on the flanks of Bakhmut," Biletsky told the Times.
Ukraine unit says Russian brigade flees Bakhmut outskirts
  + stars: | 2023-05-10 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
Moscow has not commented on the reports from either side that its 72nd Separate Motor-rifle Brigade had abandoned its positions on the southwestern outskirts of Bakhmut. A Russian brigade is typically formed of several thousand troops. The 72nd Brigade pissed away three square km this morning, where I had lost around 500 men," Prigozhin said. Early on Wednesday the unit, formed from Ukraine's nationalist Azov Battalion, reposted a video of one of Azov's founders, Andriy Biletsky, who said his forces had "defeated" the Russian brigade. "In fact, the 6th and 7th squadrons of this brigade were almost entirely destroyed, brigade intelligence was destroyed, large number of fighting vehicles were destroyed, a considerable number of prisoners were taken," he said.
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