Chasiv Yar is a strategic town in Donetsk Oblast, located on a relative high ground.
It is divided in the east by the Siverskyi Donets-Donbas canal, creating a barrier between the Kanal neighborhood and the rest of the town.
The Ukrainian forces managed to keep Russian troops out of the town since they intensified assaults on Chasiv Yar in the spring. But on July 4, the Ukrainian military confirmed they had withdrawn from the Kanal neighbourhood as their positions had been destroyed.
The fighting has been brutal – Russia kept up intensive shelling of Chasiv Yar, including with TOS-1 Solntsepyok multiple rocket launchers, according to Nazar Voloshyn, spokesman of the Khortytsia group of forces.
“This is a terrible weapon that hits with thermobaric warheads,” Ukraine’s 24th Separate Mechanized Brigade reported, whose units were redeployed to bolster the defense of Chasiv Yar.
Video: 24th_brigade; bsp_donbas/Instagram
The battle for Chasiv Yar continues.
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