GNN newspaper · record 173

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; TRUTH PEOPLES
IN TURBULENT TIMES NATIONS

A STRONGER A MORE STABLE
TOMORROW WORLD

GREVARA NEWS NETWORK

VOL. XLVII, NO. 467 INTERNATIONAL EDITION 21 December 1214

SORN ROAD CHANGES HANDS AGAIN

Garabech yields the western junction but holds the bridge defenses.

By GNN CORRESPONDENTS THE SITUATION
SORN — Medevar troops AT A GLANCE

have captured the westem
toad junction after an attack 1 Medevar troops have
captured the western

supported by armor and
road junction after an

repeated artillery
concentrations. Garabech ef cearrote
armor and repeated

forces withdrew toward
artillery concentations,

the bridge defenses, which | §

remain in their hands.

I Garabech forces
withdrew toward the
bridge defenses, which’
remain in their hands.

The loss reverses part of
Garabech’s earlier gain
without deciding the battle
for the crossing. Motorized
reserves have reinforced
the bridge approaches, and
recovery crews are pulling
damaged tanks out of the
exposed road

Traffic is being diverted
through smaller tracks,
The junction’s repeated
changes of ownership I Traffic is being
have left its buildings 3 gj | diverted through
gutted and its surface cory AN ii ih i nt smaller tracks, and the
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cratered, reducing the value ee Re
of a road both armies are gutted and its

continue to fight for. ance ceiee
reducing the value of

road both armies
continue to fight for.

j | ME Motorized reserves
have reinforced the
bridge approaches,
and recovery crews
are pulling damaged
tanks out of the
exposed road

Garabech engineers reinforce the bridge defenses with Medevar tanks move into the captured western junction
sandbags and ational obstacles. GAN PHOTO/L.VAREK. | under artillery support. GNN PHOTO /P. DARN

GNN ANALYSIS
A Contested Crossing Strain on Both Armies A Ruined Junction

The capture of the western road junction Motorized reserves and recovery crews The physical state of the junction
marks another shift in control along the are already engeged, underscoring the reflects the intensity of the fighting.
Som road, reversing part of Garabech’s costs of the renewed fighting. Damaged Buildings have been gutted and the
earlier gain but not deciding the battle for tanks are being pulled from the exposed road surface cratered, reducing the
the crossing. The fighting shows the road while units are redeployed to value of the route even as both armies
continued importance both armies place reinforce the bridge approaches. The continue to fight for it. With traffic
on the route, with neither side able to junction’s repeated changes of ownership diverted through smaller tracks, the
turn the engagement into a decisive suggest both sides are committing obstacles created by the battle are
breakthrough. significant resources to hold or retake likely to continue affecting movement

the position. in the area.
COURAGE INFORMS. SACRIFICE BUILDS TOMORROW. ‘ALL THE WORLD. ALL PERSPECTIVES.

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