The Russian Defence Ministry claimed on Thursday to have “liberated” the town in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine which lies close to the largely obliterated Russian-held city Bakhmut.
However, Ukraine has denied the claim, calling it “propaganda”. Its military said the battle was ongoing and that its units were “holding defence”.
One expert said Russia could be making a concerted push to seize the territory as it comes under pressure from US President Donald Trump to agree a ceasefire.
Around 20 further Russian troops arrived in the city in two armored personnel carriers on Wednesday, the insider said, though this has not been confirmed.
DeepState, a Ukrainian open-source mapping site, showed Ukrainian forces still in control of the western and southern part of the town on Thursday morning.
An elderly woman stands in her backyard after shelling in Chasiv Yar in February 2022 (Photo: Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP)“We’ve been able to geolocate Russians to many parts of the city, to the edges of the city,” he told the Kyiv Independent.
Chasiv Yar provides key strategic foothold in east
Nick Reynolds, a land warfare researcher at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) think-tank in London, said that Chasiv Yar was a “significant piece of high ground”.
“The terrain is pretty flat in the grand scheme of things, it’s a very gentle gradient, but nevertheless, elevation does matter. It gives excellent visibility of the surrounding terrain, if the weather is clear, which it usually is.
An apartment building destroyed by artillery fire in the town of Chasiv Yar, Donetsk region, on 24 July 2024 (Photo: Anatolii Stepanov/ AFP via Getty)
Reynolds said that the elevated position also gave an improved line of sight to human observers, so drones could be diverted to areas where they were specifically needed, rather than used for routine surveillance.
“It’s a microcosm of that much greater question; they’re expending a huge amount of human lives and resources for very small gains,” he said.
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Read MoreBarbieri suggested some of the offensive push on the town was motivated by Trump’s efforts to broker a ceasefire.
Earlier this week, Trump said that the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, had been given a deadline of ending the war in 10 or 12 days.
Trump previously pledged to bring about a ceasefire on “day one” of his second term in the White House.
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