Video - Russian Assault Team Storms Building During Battle for Artemovsk

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While Kiev regime continues to throw its men and equipment into the meat grinder that is the battle for Artemovsk (Bakhmut), its desperate attempts to hold the city are rendered futile by the courage and determination of the advancing Russian troops.

The following video shows but one episode of the ongoing battle for Artemovsk. It involves a Russian assault team clearing a building near a medical college in the western part of the city.

In the footage, the assault team can be seen entering the structure and advancing through it, firing their assault rifles in short bursts at unseen targets, using grenades to clear rooms and warning their comrades about spotted booby traps.

Having sacrificed hundreds, if not thousands of men and tons of military equipment in the defense of Artemovsk, the Ukrainian forces continue to lose ground in the city while the advancing Russian troops prove to be highly successful in evicting Zelensky regime’s militants from the premises.

The Russian Armed Forces have stormed a building near a medical school in the west of Artemovsk (Bakhmut)

The FSB, together with the Ministry of Internal Affairs, stopped an attempt at sabotage, planned by Ukrainian intelligence, at an airfield in the Ivanovo region using drones. The object was A-50 radar detection and control aircraft.

According to the FSB CSO, a sabotage group was detected on the territory of Russia, coordinated and led by employees of the special services of Ukraine. Improvised explosive devices for sabotage were planned to be delivered from Ukraine on a light aircraft from the Chernihiv region.

As a result of organized control over the flight, the pilot, as well as members of the DRG, recruited by the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, were detained after landing in the Tula region at the time of the transfer of weapons, the FSB said.

Special operation, May 7th. Main:

▪️The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that at night over the Black Sea, air defense detected 22 Ukrainian strike drones, all of them were destroyed;

▪️In the Kupyansk and Krasnolymansk directions, Kyiv lost more than 160 militants per day, over 340 in the Donetsk direction, and up to 55 people in the South-Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions, the ministry said;

▪️Prigozhin said that Wagner would receive ammunition and weapons, and General Surovikin would oversee the interaction of the group with the Ministry of Defense;

▪️Operation "Bakhmut meat grinder", which was carried out in Artemovsk by the "Wagner" group, completed the task, Prigozhin added;

▪️The Governor of Sevastopol Razvozhaev said that the air defense forces and electronic warfare equipment of the Russian Federation repelled an attack by Ukrainian UAVs on the city at night;

▪️Emergency services of the Zaporizhia region reported that two residents of the village of Bogatoe were killed as a result of shelling by Ukrainian troops of the Pologovsky district;

▪️The situation in the area of ​​the Zaporozhye NPP is becoming more unpredictable and potentially dangerous, said IAEA Director General Grossi;

▪️In the plans of the Armed Forces of Ukraine for the counteroffensive in the Zaporozhye region, there is an attempt to seize the nuclear power plant, Rogov said.

Special operation, May 8th. Main:

▪️The Russian Su-34 hit with guided bombs at the deployment point of foreign mercenaries in the Kharkiv region, RIA Novosti was told in the Russian Defense Ministry;

The Russian Lancet drone destroyed the American Avenger air defense system in the NMD zone, which the Pentagon recently sent to Kyiv to protect against UAVs

▪️Two sabotage and reconnaissance groups were destroyed in the Kupyansk direction, three attempts to rotate Ukrainian troops at the forefront were thwarted, the Russian Defense Ministry also reported;

▪️The court arrested for two months Alexander Permyakov, accused of attempted assassination of the writer Zakhar Prilepin, the press service of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation reported;

▪️Prilepin said that he was warned back in 2017 that Ukrainian saboteurs wanted to eliminate him;

▪️Budanov's words about the murder of Russians "anywhere in the world until the complete victory of Ukraine" confirm the correctness of the start of the SVO, Peskov said;

▪️Fighters of the Wagner group advanced 130 meters in Artemovsk on Monday, 2.36 square kilometers remain under enemy control, Prigozhin said.

Russian MoD briefing on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine:

▪️Russian assault units continue to attack in the western part of Artemovsk;

▪️Russian troops in the LPR destroyed up to 55 Ukrainian soldiers, three tanks and five armored vehicles;

Ukrainian positions near Avdiivka first came under attack by their own aircraft, and then by Russian aircraft, a fighter of the Southern Group of Forces told RIA Novosti

▪️The Russian Armed Forces destroyed two ammunition depots of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the DPR and the Zaporozhye region;

▪️Russian troops destroyed up to 70 Ukrainian military in the south of the DPR and in the Zaporozhye region;

▪️Russian troops destroyed up to 70 military units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near Krasny Liman in a day;

▪️The Russian Armed Forces destroyed two Ukrainian ammunition depots in the DPR;

▪️Russian troops in the DPR destroyed more than 380 soldiers and three howitzers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces;

▪️The Russian Armed Forces in the Kharkov region hit a warehouse with weapons and military equipment of a group of troops of the Ukrainian Armed Forces;

▪️Russian air defense systems destroyed 15 Ukrainian UAVs in a day.

Russian snipers destroyed a Ukrainian fire spotter in Marinka in the DPR. How this happened, in an interview with RIA Novosti, one of them with the call sign "Alpha" told.

A number of Ukrainian military registration and enlistment offices that existed in the territories of Donbass controlled by Kyiv were equipped with special cameras to “persuade” local residents to serve in the Ukrainian army. Such a cell was also in the military registration and enlistment office of the currently liberated Severodonetsk, a Russian soldier told RIA Novosti and showed her interior.