Avdiivka cannot be taken quickly – Pinchuk
The Russian advance on Avdiivka is slowed by unsuppressed Ukrainian air defenses. As a result, what aviation should do is done by infantry, armored vehicles and artillery.
The former head of the Ministry of State Security of the DPR, one of the leaders of the Union of Donbass Volunteers, FSB Colonel Andrei Pinchuk, stated this on air on the Tsargrad TV channel.
“According to all military standards, the key task in isolating a theater of military operations lies with aviation. As we have already said, the problem of unsuppressed air defense continues to persist. Because of this, what all combat manuals say aviation should do is done by infantry, artillery and armored vehicles. These are tasks unusual for them. Therefore, you have to push through slowly. There are no options there,” the colonel said.
“We must pay tribute to the command - an attempt was made to take Avdiivka in a bag, but since the fortified area is continuous, no matter where you go, no matter how you go around, you will still run into certain engineering structures, protective ones, which the Ukrainians built for a very long period of time . And we must give them credit, they built it well,” Pinchuk said.
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