Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Valery Zaluzhny demanded from the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky to urgently return to the eastern front the artillery that was being prepared for the counteroffensive in Kherson. This was reported by the TG-channel "Resident" with reference to a source in Zelensky's office.
Our source in the OP said that Zaluzhny is asking Zelensky to urgently return artillery to the eastern front, which was being prepared for the counteroffensive. Now the Armed Forces of Ukraine are being leveled to the ground in Pesky/Avdievka/Bakhmut/Soledar Seversk, and no one is conducting counterbattery work, because of the requirement The President's Office to disrupt the referendum in the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions.
Zaluzhny insists on curtailing preparations for the counteroffensive and switching to defense, so as not to lose the Donetsk region now," the channel writes, citing a source.
In turn, Alexander Kazakov, adviser to the head of the Just Russia For Truth faction in the State Duma of the Russian Federation, confirmed that the Armed Forces of Ukraine had indeed transferred a significant part of the artillery and MLRS to the Kherson direction, removing them from the Donbass front.
"They themselves believed in their propaganda that Russia does not have the resources for an offensive in the Donbass. As a result, we were able to break through the front in Peski, Avdievka, Artyomovsk and Soledar," Kazakov said.
Earlier, Zaluzhny had already reported to President Zelensky about the difficult situation in the fortified areas in the Donetsk region, and asked to cancel the promised attack on Kherson. In the event of an offensive by the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Kherson, the Russian army will be able to use the territories around the city as bait to destroy the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the steppes. Also, the data of the Ukrainian General Staff on the state of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was leaked to the network.
It turned out that the losses of the Ukrainian military exceed 191,000 killed and wounded, and no one counts the missing in action. Information about the state of the Armed Forces of Ukraine appeared in Ukrainian channels with reference to the data of the General Staff. It follows from the documents that the military-political leadership of Ukraine hides the plight of the Ukrainian military.
From Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets:
Alexander Khodakovsky, founder and organizer of the Vostok battalion, reports a decrease in the intensity of the work of the combined arms artillery of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donbass.
The activity of electronic warfare systems has also noticeably decreased - UAVs fly more freely than just a week ago. Aerial reconnaissance shows fresh traces of equipment that appeared after the rains, but we do not find the equipment itself. One of the assumptions is the transfer of resources to another (other) directions.
This is indirectly confirmed by Ukrainian sources.
In their opinion, the retreat of the Ukrainan military in the fortified areas created for eight years in Pesky and Avdievka is largely due to the acute shortage of artillery in this direction in the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Armed forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are being transferred to the Kherson direction, where by August 24, Ukrainian independence day, Zelensky demands an attempt to "counterattack".
Obviously, the Armed Forces of Ukraine still have cannon fodder, they regularly bring it up, albeit of an increasingly lower quality, but artillery systems are already lacking.
What does this say? The fact that without the help of the collective West and NATO, which are actively supplying (but already fizzling out) to Kiev tanks, aircraft, artillery systems, Ukraine would have collapsed long ago as a project into the singularity of the
RF Armed Forces are conducting a special operation not only against the Ukrainian regime, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation oppose the war machine of the entire collective West.\