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Something else to look for at the front soon:
 

Something else to look for at the front soon:
 

The method by which it was planned to achieve this also seemed quite logical.
First, by attacks in the direction of Ploschanka - Makeevka and Krasnopopovka - Nevskoye, push back the Armed Forces of Ukraine to the line BEHIND the Zherebets River in the Makeevka - Nevskoye section.
Then by attacks in the direction of Yampolevka and Terny, create conditions for operations along the river to the south (towards Torskoye and Zarechna).
And at the final stage - to strike from Dibrova in a southwestern direction and take Belogorovka.
The further task, obviously, was to "return to Liman." Which, in combination with simultaneous attacks on the section between Serebryanka and Soledar, should ultimately “somehow compensate” for the autumn failures with Izyum and Liman.
 
But these beautifully drawn plans collapsed during the first week of the offensive. It was not possible to take Makiivka, and in the Chervonopopovka area there was a general embarrassment, the Armed Forces of Ukraine not only held their positions, but also threw back enemy units almost to the very road P-66 Svatovo - Kremennaya, which generally put the situation in the Kremennaya area for the Russians in the position of "almost without pants".
The enemy also failed to break through, neither to Zarechnoye, nor to Belogorovka, and even to the Serebryanskoye forestry. The desired "line of defense along the river. Zherebe" also turned out to be a super-difficult task.
The offensive was carried out by forces of units of the 41st CAA specially deployed to this direction (74th and 55th Motorized Rifle Brigade - up to 4-5 BTGrs in total). Two tactical groups of these brigades were able to please their superiors only by the fact that, as a result of numerous attacks, they finally managed to completely push back the Armed Forces of Ukraine from all over Chervonopopovka (on the southwestern outskirts of which the foreard units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine had reached a little earlier).
 
In turn, units of the 144th Motor Rifle Division from the 20th CAA, which were supposed to break through to Zarechnoye and Torskoye, and also go from the north to Serebryanka and thus contribute to the fall of Belogorovka, not only did not complete their tasks, but were forced to the south Dibrova retreat to Kremennaya (respectively, Belogorovka also survived).
The enemy command was not even helped by the "intensification of efforts" by bringing into battle separate companies of the 76th and 7th air assault divisions (neither near Dibrova, nor near Ploschanka). Moreover, gradually the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the south crept up to Dibrova itself and created quite real conditions for “cutting off the tongue”.
The situation began to escalate just a couple of days before the New Year. Even the scandal that its commander, Lieutenant General Sergei Ryzhkov, made to his subordinates in Rubizhnoye at the command post of one of the brigades of the 41st CAA, did not help. Throwing office supplies at subordinate colonels and numerous idiomatic sayings about them rather had the opposite effect.
 
Yesterday, as far as I understand, the Russian command in the direction of Kremennaya again decided to "try again." Time will tell what will come of this, but it seems to me that now the Russians have even less chances for a “breakthrough into the Liman” than in early December. But let them try...

Kamikaze drones with RPG warheads:
 

Looks like it is one upgraded with thermal sight and flat screen display for gunner.

Vice News report from Bakhmut:
 

Vice News report from Bakhmut:
 

Vice News report from Bakhmut:
 

Vice News report from Bakhmut:
 

Vice News report from Bakhmut:
 

Incoming fire is heard at 2:10, right before the cameraman ducks and says “faster” (I think).

Kamikaze drones with RPG warheads:
 

Kamikaze drones with RPG warheads:
 

Kamikaze drones with RPG warheads:
 

Given some of his other recent activities and new Twitter “friends,” it’s not entirely clear that he is mocking or dismissive of the rant in general, and that itself is dangerous.  Musk has mocked Medvedev in the past, but here he is just amplifying him.
EDIT: oh, I see someone pointed out to him how irresponsible that was:
 
 

Kamikaze drones with RPG warheads:
 

Ukrainians cleaning leftovers out of the refrigerator:
 

Interesting assessment of drone bombing:
 
 

Ukrainians cleaning leftovers out of the refrigerator:
 

Ukrainians cleaning leftovers out of the refrigerator:
 

Ukrainians cleaning leftovers out of the refrigerator:
 

Ukrainians cleaning leftovers out of the refrigerator:
 

Speculation here that the cluster munition seen in video posted earlier might be 120mm M971:
Would be interesting as it would be the first confirmed use of foreign-supplied conventional cluster munitions (that bring with them UXO issues).

Fighting to retake areas on outskirts NE of Bakhmut from last month:
 

Fighting to retake areas on outskirts NE of Bakhmut from last month: