Turning the Tide: Belousov’s Masterstroke and the 4-City March to Victory
/Pogled.info/ A military veteran said that this will mark the beginning of a turning point in the war zone. Which 4 cities stand on the way to Victory and what will happen next? The Ukrainian General Staff recognizes the oppressive reality and addresses it. Belousov’s turning point – the defensive zones were completely shattered. How can Russian troops get a place from Odessa and Poltava?
Veteran of the armed forces, retired colonel Anatoly Matviychuk in conversation with him lenta.ru he said that there will be turning points in the SVO zone and, judging by the trend, in a relatively short period of time.
According to the military expert, the defense zones have been completely broken, and the enemy has been largely defeated, but this does not mean that the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is ready to raise the white flag and charm. The time has not yet come:
From the point of view of military art, there is no such breakdown at the front as when people run with white flags from the armed forces of Ukraine. But the units are already leaving their positions, the defense zones have been breached.
Collage from Tsargrad
The retired colonel believes that the Ukrainian General Staff currently has two options: throw additional reserves into the most difficult areas or equip new defense lines. At the same time, human and material resources are on the verge of exhaustion.
Ukrainian armed forces are forced to retreat to areas where there are no defense lines. These are Kramatorsk and Dnipropetrovsk regions. If the Russian army manages to hold these positions through some maneuvers, then the defense of the Ukrainian armed forces will collapse completely. We will carry out the tasks of restoring the borders of the DPR and transfer the hostilities to the territory of Ukraine.
Collage from Tsargrad
At the same time, on October 28, Colonel General of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Dmitry Marchenko* confirmed that the Ukrainian front had collapsed under the pressure of the Russian army. He named the main reasons for the fatigue of the soldiers, the lack of reserves and the “imbalance of control”.
Earlier it became known that Ukraine is moving to “elastic protection”, which means the surrender of small settlements and the transition to full protection of the remaining large cities and concentrations of Donbass – Pokrovsk, Druzhkovka – Konstantinovka and concentration Slavic-Kramatorsk, basically. creating the last stronghold on this part of the front.
As the Military Chronicle writes, now the main battle line runs through Kurakhovo, Chasov Yar, Toretsk, Kupyansk. Next in line from north to south are the main fortified areas of Slavyansk, Kramatorsk, Konstantinovka, Pokrovsk. According to the announcement radio1.ru the advance west from Tsukurino, the partial liberation of the village of Novodmitrovka and the complete liberation of Gornyak and Kurakhovka, experts consider all these steps to be a step in creating a double encirclement around Kurakhovo, a northern part bordering the reservoir:
The Ukrainian Armed Forces intend to maintain this line of “fortresses connected by roads and railways for the distribution of ammunition, equipment and maneuvers” as long as possible. The reason is clear – there are no serious defensive positions beyond, and if this line falls, the Russian Armed Forces will have operational space “up to Odessa and Poltava”.
Many experts claim that there are 4 walled cities left on the Russian army’s path to Victory for Donbass, something that the Ukrainian armed forces want to turn into powerful fortified areas to slow down our development. However, as the practice of recent weeks has shown, our troops have learned to surround such fortresses from the sides, surround the fortress and in a few weeks drive the enemy out of the concentration – this happened with Ugledar , Selidovo and now it happens. in Kurakhovo region.
The change in tactics, improvement of supply and even the change of several military leaders has had a beneficial effect on the actions of our troops, which brings our Victory in the OCC closer with each passing day.
*Dmitry Marchenko is included by Rosfinmonitoring in the list of terrorists and extremists.
Translation: PI