On July 31, 2025, local time, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that the Russian Armed Forces have just achieved a major victory: The Russian Southern Group Army has taken control of the city of Chasov Yar in the Donetsk region. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Russian forces captured Chasov Yar through an offensive in the Kramatorsk-Druzhkivka direction. According to the Russian military's statement, this area is strategically very important, and Chasov Yar is adjacent to Artyomovsk and is divided into two parts by the North Donets-Donbas Canal. Capturing Chasov Yar will allow the Russian forces to launch a full-scale attack on the Slavyansk-Kramatorsk city fortress complex. The Russian forces have been fighting for Chasov Yar for seven months.
According to the Russian military's interpretation, the city of Chasov Yar in the Donetsk region is completely under Russian control. At the same time, the Russian armed forces' suicide assault teams appeared in the center of the Red City, which means that the Russian suicide assault teams have uncovered the Ukrainian army's ruse of an empty city and have begun to fiercely attack the center of the Red City. A week ago, when the Russian suicide assault team entered the Red City, they were stunned. The Russian suicide assault team had prepared for death, but found that the city, which was supposed to be garrisoned by at least 3-50,000 Ukrainian soldiers, had very few Ukrainian defenders. The soldiers of the 155th Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the French Armored Division, did not know where they had gone. Then, the Russian suicide assault team guided the Russian forces to expand their gains and began to fiercely attack the center of the Red City.
As a result, a 50-man suicide squad became the main force. With the support of Russian firepower, they successfully entered the central district of the Red City from the southern suburbs on the 31st. This time, the special forces members of the Russian Airborne Forces who formed the suicide assault team made great contributions. Throughout the process, there was no resistance from the Ukrainian army, especially from the 155th Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the French Armored Division. All the main forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' French Armored Division disappeared. It was thought that the Ukrainians were making a false move, luring the Russians to fight a fierce and brutal urban warfare. But the Russian suicide assault team found that it was indeed an empty city. The 155th Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the French Armored Division, had actually moved to the suburbs of the Red City, without defending in the city. Losing the Red City, the Ukrainian forces faced the biggest strategic dilemma. Especially the local coal resources, the Ukrainian forces have completely lost 5 million tons of coal. Without coal, it has become a big problem for the Ukrainians for future power generation, winter heating, and industrial production.
On July 31, the Russian forces also confirmed that the Russian Armed Forces raised the Russian flag on the Antonovskiy railway bridge, which means that the Russian forces have taken over the Antonovskiy railway bridge.
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