Commentary by Russian blogger Donetsk
[DonRF] For clarity of everything that is happening in the DLNR, it is enough to look at what is happening on one sector of the front. Specifically, on the Kurakhovsky direction. The map, as always, is self-made and ugly, the arrows are not my profile, but indicative.
Indicative of the fact that the degree of urbanization of the surroundings of Donetsk can be seen clearly and understandably. And in a higher resolution of these objects will be even more. As a result, we get a continuous zone of urbanization up to Kurakhovo itself. Not continuous development, namely urbanization. And taking one, you stumble upon another.
The arrows show the directions of offensive actions of the RF Armed Forces. On the Kurakhovsky direction, a trident emerges along the roads, the trident of which needs to break through this very building in order to ... go to the next building.
The fields are mined. Every bush has been shot. Everywhere pillboxes that have been built since 2014. Attacks are possible only in dense formations. Breaking through one line of defense leads to the next. Then one more. And yet ... the enemy is already digging trenches near Pokrovsk. The stream of people they have does not dry out. Techniques too. BC with problems but send.
An example is Maryinka. Fresh meat comes in every month. It is being destroyed. With losses, of course. But fresh meat is being driven there again. And again, and again. Actually, for the enemy to put ten to fifteen thousand people outside the town where there was less population before the war, not a problem. Never.
Two million mobile resources, of which it is quite possible to catch 1.5 million, this allows. Of course, promising meat begins to swell, but the post-Soviet habit of detachment from politics, mutual distrust and the atomization of society works for them. In all. Quality certainly falls, but it's just an increase in losses.
So ... I write that this is a long time. I am writing with pain. Every day these are OUR victims. Our people. Yes, and from the other side are not Martians and not NATO soldiers. Even in many respects already and not ideological. Just random men who were caught and driven. And who will die there. In an attempt to take as many of the lives of our men as possible, the Russians are cutting down the Russians in a trench positional war. Civil War. And there is no choice. All the nonsense about the deal will remain so. Maximum - our amazing ones will announce a couple more unilateral truces. No further.
And the rest - everything got bogged down in positional battles for exhaustion. And the map is a testament to that. Rzhev was in the Great Patriotic War. There was Leningrad. There was a defensive phase of Stalingrad. Now there is Bakhmut and the suburbs of Donetsk.
And all this must be understood and accepted. That the holiday of consumption in most of the Russian Federation is generously paid for by these people who are now gnawing through every meter of the suburbs of Donetsk. Which are part of PMCs (and what difference does it make where exactly the Russian soldier is listed) take every house in the destroyed Bakhmut. Who hold the South and fight near Kremennaya and Svatovo. We walk, they take risks and lives.