Talk:Battle of Bilohorivka

Second Phase?

The second phase is mostly irrelevant. The second phase should be from the 4th of September to the 19th of September, with the 20th of September to present fighting being part of a {Russian Luhansk counterattacks} article. 96.242.227.52 (talk) 20:45, 2 February 2023 (UTC)

There was no fighting in Bilohorivka from September 4 to 19, because the Ukrainians literally rushed from the direction of Svyatogorsk and Siversk from September 10 to 19, and the Russians left Bilohorivka without a fight on September 19 in the morning and dug in at a few kilometers to the east from where they tried counterattacks from the next day trying to draw the Ukrainians into the cauldron, but they underestimated the number of Ukrainians who took Bilohorivka. Then the slaughter began. The Russians were desperately rushing to recapture Bilohorivka to prevent the then certain fall of Lyman, and the Ukrainians wanted to rush eastward deeper into Lugansk Oblast to liberate Lysichansk, Sieverodonyechk, Rubizhne, and Kreminna. Both were aware only on September 20 of the strategic importance of Bilohorivka, and especially the Russians became aware of what would happen to their military achievements in the period April 18 - July 3 if they retreated further, and for that reason they immediately On September 20, they began to attack Bilohorivka, bringing reinforcements from Lisichansk, while the Ukrainians brought reinforcements from Sloviansk and Siversk. The situation worsened for the Russians with the fall of Lyman and then they began to dig in on the eastern edge of Bilohorivka. The Ukrainians had better positions until the beginning of November when the Russians broke through and occupied most of that small place, however the Russians squandered that chance and the Ukrainians brought in additional reinforcements from Kharkiv and Izhyum which drove the Russian forces to the periphery with terrible destruction and mutual shelling in mid-November. Escalations in the third decade of September and mid-November were followed by two months of daily Russian artillery shelling until the fall of Soledar in mid-January. At the same time as the fall of Soledar, there are fierce attacks by Russian infantry and armored vehicles on Bilohorivka, especially from the south, which seem to have resulted in yesterday's or today's strategic retreat of Ukrainian forces towards Siversk, which this time is threatened from the south from the direction of Soledar, unlike this summer when the Russians attacked from from the north in the direction of Svyatogorsk and from the east in the direction of Bilohorivka. For months Bilohorivka guarded the back of Siversk from the east, but the huge losses of the Ukrainians at Soledar and Bakhmut seem to be too costly for the now strengthened Russians to surround them at a small Bilohorivka because Siversk defends Sloviansk from the east. - Baba Mica (talk) 20:06, 3 February 2023 (UTC)

Fork?

Isn’t this just another WP:REDUNDANTFORK of Battle of the Svatove-Kreminna line? Seems like the village is literally along that line, and has the exact same background (starting after the kharkiv counterattack) and military significance (threatening severodonetsk-lysychansk). Isn’t this just a sector of that larger battle? HappyWith (talk) 14:14, 31 July 2023 (UTC)

I would disagree on it being a redundant fork. The Svatove-Kreminna line ends at the Siverskyi Donets river, and Bilohorivka is across the river from Kreminna. However, much of this article is embellishing back-and-forth attacks between Russia and Ukraine in and around Bilohorivka, and it does this by bringing in extraneous, unnecessary sourcing about Bakhmut, Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk, and places like Yampil, Torske, and Dibrova (all north of the river, on the SK line). This could be a good and notable article about the battles in Bilohorivka, but much of the current article is unrelated to the topic. Jebiguess (talk) 18:58, 31 July 2023 (UTC)

The SK line article has since been moved to Luhansk Oblast campaign, so the problem of Bilohorivka not being on the Svatove-Kreminna line is no longer a problem. I'll probably propose a merge later after checking one more time to confirm there really isn’t enough here - I don’t see why the sector around one tiny village is worth an article when every other settlement in Luhansk doesn’t have its own article. HappyWith (talk) 02:36, 13 October 2023 (UTC)

Connections with the Brain does not have campaigns across the Donets River because they are geographically and administratively separated. Bilohirivka is a much more important point on the right side of the Donets River than the military operations near Kupyansk, which is 200 kilometers to the north. Bullshit. Bilohirivka is exclusively connected to the Russian East Ukraine campaign and is connected by an umbilical cord to the defense of Lysychynsk from the OSU and Siversk from the RF. And of course, everything is related to the still current Bahmut battle. The Luhansk campaign should be separated from the strategic cities in Donetsk Oblast. This article needs to be expanded as there is a lot of material in the last few months. — Baba Mica (talk) 11:57, 3 December 2023 (UTC)

Well, Baba Mica, if all you do is restore the previous content (for which there was consensus to merge), without explaining why or adding new content, you can expect to be reverted, first by HappyWith and then by me. Drmies (talk) 21:43, 19 December 2023 (UTC)