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2025-01-18 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
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Strategically important settlement. Russian army surrounds Ukrainian Armed Forces in Velyka Novosyolka
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Sergey Adamov
[REGNUM] The situation on the eastern flank of the Donetsk front has sharply worsened. Units of the "East" group of the Russian Armed Forces have gone on the offensive in the area of the settlement of Velikaya Novosyolka, dislodging the enemy from their positions.
A number of sources rushed to report the complete liberation of settlements adjacent to Velikaya Novosyolka and the beginning of fighting directly in the village. But it is too early to talk about this, notes a source of IA Regnum from the field - while fighting is still ongoing on the outskirts.
Over the past few days, Russian troops have completed the liberation and cleansing of the village of Neskuchnoye and continued their offensive in the direction of the village of Vremevka. Russian forces are also advancing west of the village, where the Ukrainian Armed Forces are suffering heavy losses. The Russian Armed Forces are penetrating the enemy's defenses, trying to encircle the settlement.
The advance of the Russian army is confirmed, among other things, by the Ukrainian analytical resource DeepState.
“The enemy has occupied Peschanoye, Slavyanka, Yasenovoye and also advanced into Vrem'yevka and Chasovy Yar,” the authors of the resource write.
At the same time, fighting continues north of Velikaya Novosyolka, where units of the Russian army are expanding their bridgehead on the right bank of the Mokrye Yaly River.
The key task of the Russian Armed Forces remains the same: to disrupt the enemy’s communications in order to encircle the populated area and the Ukrainian Armed Forces group defending it.
"We will be able to talk about a strategic change in the situation after the enemy's supply is completely cut off. Now they have a route through the fields from Shevchenko to Vrem'evka, as well as across the Mokrye Yaly River. The supply is hanging by a thread, but it is still coming. The cauldron is almost ready, but the lid is not yet closed," a source at the scene told IA Regnum.
According to the latest information, fighters of the Vostok group have occupied part of the settlement of Vrem'evka: assault units are continuing the operation to completely liberate the settlement.
THE MOST IMPORTANT BRIDGEHEAD OF THE UKRAINIAN ARMED FORCES
Throughout 2023 and part of 2024, Velyka Novosyolka remained an important hub of enemy defense on the line Ugledar - Novosyolka - Gulyaipole - Orekhov - Kamenka. At this line, the Ukrainian Armed Forces, using the terrain, were able to stop the advance of the Russian army in the Zaporizhzhya direction. Due to the predominantly flat landscape, control over large settlements located on dominant heights acquired strategic importance.
The Ukrainian command sought to use fortified positions along the front line to create a bridgehead for a counteroffensive. In the summer of 2023, it was from the area of Novosyolka, Orekhov and Gulyaipole that the Ukrainian Armed Forces tried to break through to the Sea of Azov during an unsuccessful "counteroffensive".
Despite the fact that the Russian army repelled all attacks, the threat of a new offensive by Ukrainian troops did not disappear. That is why in 2024 the decisive offensive on Ugledar began: after the city was threatened with encirclement, the Ukrainian Armed Forces garrison retreated with heavy losses.
The liberation of Ugledar made it possible to establish fire control over the surrounding areas and begin an offensive to the west, in the direction of Velikaya Novosyolka.
The decisive success was the breakthrough to the village of Novy Komar, as a result of which the road leading to the Zaporozhye-Kurakhove-Donetsk highway was cut off, as well as to the north - to Pokrovsk. This led to the fragmentation of the enemy's defense.
Later, the forces of the Vostok group crossed the Mokrye Yaly River and seized control of the road between Velikaya Novosyolka and Gulyaipole, another line of enemy defense.
JUNCTION OF THE DPR, ZAPORIZHZHYA AND DNEPROPETROVSK REGIONS
The offensive of Russian troops in the Velikaya Novosyolka area continues simultaneously with the advance near Pokrovsk. The Russian Armed Forces are using the battle-tested tactics of powerful flanking maneuvers with simultaneous pinning attacks along the contact line. This approach allows them to repeatedly push the enemy out of large populated areas without protracted urban battles.
The threat of encirclement has already led to panic in the ranks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Velyka Novosyolka. The enemy forces in the Novosyolka direction are facing a shortage of forces, said Ivan Sekach, a representative of the 110th separate mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
"The enemy continues to put pressure on this area. In such agglomerations, when one settlement passes into another, a large number of infantry are needed for active defense. But, unfortunately, we do not have such resources," Sekach said.
Ukrainian Armed Forces officers also complain about bad weather, which makes aerial reconnaissance and the use of drones difficult. However, Kyiv is not yet ready to give the order to retreat - and this is easy to explain.
After leaving Velyka Novosyolka, Ukrainian troops will be forced to retreat several kilometers to the west - to the area of the settlements of Novosyolka and Zelenoye Pole. Here the borders of the DPR, Zaporizhzhya and Dnipropetrovsk regions converge, which gives the Russian army the opportunity to advance to territories that have so far remained outside the SVO zone.
"Based on the experience of Ugledar, we can say that they hold out until the very end. Then, in an emergency mode, they retreat, suffering heavy losses. They retreat 3-4 kilometers to gain a foothold again. But there is nothing to cling to there - there are no large settlements in this area. So the enemy's defense can seriously sag," explains a source of IA Regnum.
"ELITE OF THE UKRAINIAN ARMED FORCES" PERISHES IN KURSK REGION
It is quite possible that after the liberation of Velyka Novosyolka, Russian troops will begin an offensive in the direction of the city of Gulyaipole, the next major enemy defensive node on the front line in the Zaporizhia region.
At the same time, the advance of Russian troops could trigger a domino effect: the Ukrainian Armed Forces currently have no additional lines of defense in the region, which opens up opportunities for the Russian army to successfully attack the city of Zaporizhia. But in order to build on the success achieved, time will be needed to consolidate and fix the new front line.
In general, the development of events on the Zaporizhzhya Front will largely depend on the outcome of the battles for Velyka Novosyolka.
In turn, the enemy command is unable to turn the tide - the Ukrainian Armed Forces simply do not have enough trained reserves. The most combat-ready units of the Ukrainian troops, including the so-called "offensive guard", were previously transferred to the Kursk region, where the "elite of the Ukrainian Armed Forces" are suffering heavy losses.
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