A new video published by Ukrainian forces on social media shows Russian troops in the village of Klishchiivka retreating under heavy fire from Kyiv in the Donetsk region near the town of Bakhmut.

Ukrainian artillerymenPhoto: AA / Abaca Press / Profimedia Images

As noted by one of the anonymous observers of the war in Ukraine, “Tendar”, the recording recorded the chaotic withdrawal of Russian troops from this village, which before the start of the war had about 500 inhabitants, the Moscow soldiers fleeing to the street. main road, in broad daylight, and no armored vehicles to assist them in their evacuation.

The footage is partially reminiscent of the ones captured by the Ukrainians from a drone during the retreat of the Russians from the village of Urozhayne, where they were fired upon with cluster munitions during a hasty evacuation.

But Urozhane, a city that Ukraine completely liberated in mid-August, is on the southern front, on the axis leading to the port city of Mariupol.

Instead, Klishchiivka is located in the Donetsk region, in the south of the city of Bakhmut, around which fighting has been going on since the beginning of the offensive of Ukrainian troops in June.

What do we know about the situation on this part of the front in Donetsk

Maps released by the Institute for the Study of War in its latest assessment of the situation in Ukraine show that Ukrainian forces are now in almost complete control of the village, and it is not yet clear whether the Russian troops seen fleeing in the new video were the last to leave the village or if a part of the Russian garrison still remained here.

The liberation of this settlement would allow Ukrainian forces to take control of strategic heights just two kilometers south of Bakhmut, but at the moment the objectives of the Ukrainian army on this part of the front are unknown, as it has concentrated most of its efforts on the southern front.

Ukrainian troops arrived in the center of Klishchiivka a few days ago:

It is likely that one of the goals of the attacks here is to put pressure on the Russian front to prevent the transfer of forces to the south of Ukraine, where the Ukrainian army is advancing in two directions: one towards the port city of Mariupol and one leading to Melitopol, the main objective of Kyiv’s summer offensive.

On August 21, the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine released a video showing how artillery fire destroyed a column of Russian armored vehicles that tried to counterattack in the direction of Klishchiivka, while the surviving Russian soldiers hurriedly fled:

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