The end of the Svetlodar arc: the Ukrainian Armed Forces abandoned another city
Svetlodarsk in the DPR, which had been under Ukrainian occupation for 8 years, came under the control of the Allied Forces, and a cleanup is underway in the city.
This was reported by the DPR Territorial Defense Headquarters, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
The information was also confirmed by the authorities of Debaltseve.
“Now a Russian flag has already appeared in Svetlodarsk, and I confirm to you that this is hung on the building of the Svetlodar administration,” said the mayor of Debaltsevo, Igor Zakharevich.
He added that he was going to go to the liberated city and personally hoist the DPR flag.
“Thus, today the Svetlodar arc, which existed for more than 7 years and which could not be cut off during the battle for Debaltsevo in 2015, is a thing of the past. Then there were plans for a large cauldron, which involved a large cauldron in the direction of Artemovsk.
As a result, only a small cauldron was obtained after the breakthrough through Uglegorsk and the closure of the ring at Logvinovo (and even then, part of the Ukrainian Armed Forces group was able to escape through the gardens). 7 years later, the Svetlodar fortified area somehow routinely came under the control of our troops without major battles,” writes military observer Boris Rozhin.
According to military correspondent Alexander Kots, units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces left the city for fear of being surrounded.
“The liberation of Svetlodarsk is a vivid example of how troops should act under the threat of encirclement. In fact, the Ukrainian Armed Forces abandoned the city, around which fortifications had been erected for seven years after the “Debaltsevo victory”, without a fight.
They completed the combat mission to the end and evacuated to save people's lives. Not as brilliantly as the Azov militants did in Mariupol, but also very courageously and timely,” Kots writes in his tg channel.
He also called on the Ukrainian garrisons of Severodonetsk and Lisichansk to take a closer look at this example.
Military correspondent German Kulikovsky believes that the loss of Svetlodarsk indicates that the entire defensive line of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Donbass is beginning to collapse. According to him, the enemy will retreat to the Slavic-Kramatorsk fortified area.
“Once again I would like to reproach those who demanded quick saber strikes and were indignant that the offensive was slow. As I wrote, the general situation turned out to be not the Verdun of 1916 (at least for the RF Armed Forces).
The tactic of grinding down enemy manpower turned out to be correct. Heavy losses and endless blows had a very significant impact on the morale of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and the bravura statements of the Kiev authorities about victories further broke the enemy soldiers, who with their own eyes (even if these eyes had already leaked onto the asphalt) saw what losses were in their motherfuckers .
Now the enemy will probably try to gain a foothold in the Slavyano-Kramatorsk fortified area in order to give time to the Kharkov-Sumy group of the Ukrainian Armed Forces to demonstrate at least some success in their widely announced offensive operation (so far this group of troops has had no successes),” notes Kulikovsky.
The official representative of the DPR People's Militia Department, Eduard Basurin, confirmed the information about the liberation of the city, but warned that the withdrawing Ukrainian troops could leave many “surprises.”
“Svetlodarsk was on our lips back in 2015. For various reasons, we did not take this settlement. And in order to avoid being completely encircled, the Ukrainian military were forced to leave it. But I wouldn’t be very happy about this, I’ll explain why.
The experience that they use of both cannon and rocket artillery in destroying residential areas in populated areas that we are liberating can lead to a great tragedy. So let's wait. They have already written that they tried to blow up the dam, there is a large reservoir there, water would have flowed in, and a large number of people would have suffered. On the one hand, this is pleasant, but we need to look at it with caution, what kind of nasty thing they could have left for us after they left,” Basurin said on the Rossiya 1 TV channel.
Let us recall that on April 29, 2014, a resolution was adopted in Svetlodarsk in support of the Referendum. The Ukrainian flag was removed from the city administration building and the DPR flag was hoisted. However, in the summer of 2014, units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces entered Svetlodarsk.
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