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| 'The situation is bad for the enemy.' The Russian army is finishing off the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Donbass |
| 2024-08-16 |
| Direct Translation vi Google Translate. Edited. by Sergey Adamov [REGNUM] While Russian troops are stabilizing the situation in the Kursk region, the Ukrainian Armed Forces front in Donbass continues to rapidly crumble. As President Vladimir Putin stated earlier, the pace of the Russian army's advance after the events in the Kursk region has not only not slowed down, but has actually increased. “The pace of offensive operations by the Russian armed forces, volunteers, and veterans has not only not decreased, but on the contrary, has increased by 1.5 times,” the head of state noted on August 12 at an operational meeting with representatives of the security bloc on the situation in the Kursk region. In the Pokrovsk area, the Ukrainian Armed Forces were driven out of two settlements at once in one day: Zhelannoye and Pokrovka. Footage of Russian soldiers taken directly in both settlements appeared online. The fact of the promotion is also confirmed by sources from the Ukrainian analytical resource DeepState. Later, information appeared that the Russian Armed Forces entered the settlement of Grodovka and occupied the southeastern part of the settlement. According to other information, from half to 2/3 of the settlement came under the control of the Russian army. Formations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to hold the western part of the settlement. Information about the advance in the Pokrovsk direction was confirmed to Regnum by a source in the ranks of the 1st Army Corps. "I won't name specific locations and references, but in recent days the progress has been almost non-stop, we are taking up more and more new positions, consolidating, moving forward. There are already jokes that we will celebrate September 1 in Pokrovsk. Expectations are the most optimistic," says the agency's interlocutor. The location of the village of Grodovka does not allow for the organization of powerful defensive lines. The village is located in a lowland, while Russian troops occupy the surrounding heights. Supply routes and positions in the village itself become easy targets for artillery. Further north, Russian troops also drove the enemy out of the settlement of Ivanovskoye, the Russian Defense Ministry reported. “Units of the Center group of forces actively liberated the settlement of Ivanovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic,” the department noted. Some sources also confirm progress in the settlements of Orlovka and Zhuravka. Thus, Russian troops reached the line Grodovka - Novogrodovka, the last large settlements on the approaches to the agglomeration - Pokrovsk - Mirnograd. At the same time, Ukrainian and Western sources, commenting on the situation in the Pokrovsk direction, assess the situation as extremely difficult for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. "The Ukrainian front line in Donetsk continues to collapse: Russian troops have occupied the settlements of Orlovka and Zhelannoye and are now only 13 km east of Pokrovsk," reports German military observer Julian Röpke. And in Ukrainian Telegram channels they even ask the question: “Do we even have a front line in the Pokrovsk area?” It seems that there is no front as such. All lines of fortifications created in this direction in recent weeks are already in the rear of Russian troops, as evidenced by satellite images published on the Internet. And the local Ukrainian "authorities" are directly calling on the population to leave Pokrovsk as soon as possible. "We see that today the enemy has almost come very close to our community, to the city of Pokrovsk. Just over 10 kilometers from the outskirts of the city of Pokrovsk... I ask you not to delay and evacuate," said the head of the city's military administration, Sergei Dobryak, in his video address. No less panicky reports from the Ukrainian side are coming from another section of the front. Over the past 24 hours, Russian troops have made significant advances in the area of the Toretsk agglomeration north of Donetsk. The day before, Russian military personnel, including fighters from the 1st Slavyansk Brigade, published a photo taken in the village of Zheleznoye, south of the city of Toretsk. The fighters also recorded a video in which they announced the complete liberation of the village. The settlement is closely adjacent to Toretsk, where military action has already begun. "From Zheleznoye/Zaliznoye, we can advance directly to Toretsk, we can take it to the west, in the direction of the settlement of Nelepovka. This will allow us to encircle the Ukrainian Armed Forces that are still holding out in New York, primarily in the industrial zone. We will act as the command decides. But the situation for the enemy is bad in any case," explains the source of the IA Regnum. Ukrainian analysts admit that in the Toretsk direction, "military actions continue on the eastern outskirts of Toretsk and in the area of the village of New York, located to the south of the city." There are also reports of "an expansion of the zone of control" of Russian troops in New York itself. At the same time, a number of analysts claim that the Torets front is in desperate need of reserves, because, in fact, the city garrison has lost control of the situation and continues to hold individual pockets of defense and supply routes. However, the most combat-ready units that could be sent to the front are currently deployed in the Kursk region, which puts Ukrainian troops in the Donbas in a catastrophic situation. It is noteworthy that official Ukrainian sources practically ignore the situation in Donbass, concentrating entirely on covering the situation in the Kursk border area. It is unknown whether Kyiv has a plan B in case the Donetsk front finally collapses and the Kursk adventure does not bring results. For now, the Ukrainian Armed Forces command has 10 to 15 newly formed brigades and aviation supplied by NATO up its sleeve. At a critical moment, these forces could be deployed in Donbass or in a new direction, where Kyiv could once again try to launch a counteroffensive. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #1 "10 to 15 newly formed brigades" 6-10 month delays then shelling 10 and returned fire 50. Typical waste of resources. Ukrainian brigade I would guess would be a mixed bunch of 1000 men seeing as how they have low field numbers anyway. Then no supplies. Z method throw them in to be wasted. Last hurrah before New Us President hopefully Trump. |
| Posted by: Dale 2024-08-16 06:59 |