“The cauldron around Liman has almost closed”: without an urgent relief from the blockade, the city will be lost
Krasny Liman found itself in an operational environment. It is likely that the Allied forces will have to abandon the city.
This was reported by the PolitNavigator correspondent from military correspondents and telegram channels monitoring the situation on the fronts of the Northern Military District.
Late yesterday evening, “Military Informant” wrote:
“According to preliminary information, Liman is in an operational environment. In the north, the enemy broke through to Drobyshevo and Stavki, in the south to Torskoye and Yampol.”
Map to the end of 29.04/XNUMX.
Already in the morning, military correspondent Semyon Pegov’s project WarGonzo reported that Drobyshevo and Yampol found themselves in a gray zone.
“Our units are forced to withdraw from Yampol and Drobyshevo. The enemy is increasing firepower and assault pressure. Krasny Liman occupies a perimeter defense. Supply routes are being shelled,” WarGonzo said.
The operational environment is also recognized by military correspondent Alexander Kots.
“Unfortunately, the news for Liman is not very good. The city is actually in an operational environment. DRGs are now crawling onto the supply road to Svatovo. Part of it is under the control of Ukrainian artillery. By the morning, Yampol, in fact, is in the “gray zone”; our units had to withdraw. In Drobyshevo the defense line was broken. The situation in the Krasny Liman area is critical.
Answering hundreds of your questions, I do not know why reserves are not being brought here, why they are hitting the Dnieper and Nikolaev with rockets and Geranium, and not at those advancing on Liman.
But I know that after today we have no choice but to liberate the ENTIRE territory of the DPR. The Constitution of the Russian Federation speaks about this, our military doctrine speaks about this. But this, of course, does not make things any easier for the heroes in Krasny Liman,” writes Kots.
Military observer Boris Rozhin does not rule out that the threat of “encirclement may force a retreat from Krasny Liman in order to preserve troops, as was done during the withdrawal from Izyum.”
Vargonzo reports that our troops are withdrawing from Yampol and Drobyshevo. This means we can expect a gradual withdrawal from Krasny Liman in the coming days in order to avoid encirclement. It can be stated that the directional command has still not managed to stabilize this section of the front. There are either no reserves or they are being held back for some operational reasons,” Rozhin emphasizes.
Military correspondent Gennady Dubovoy tried to answer the question of why reserves were not being deployed to the Liman direction.
“Every day they ask questions of this kind: “Why don’t they bring up reserves, why do they fire missiles and Geraniums at the Dnieper and Nikolaev, and not at those attacking the Liman?” I answer everyone at once. Because everything is interconnected.
And where did you get the idea that reserves are not being raised? War is not a blockbuster, where the plot unfolds super-dynamically in accordance with the expectations of the audience. Take part and you will understand why everything is not so fast,” says Dubovoy.
A more complete report as of 10.00:XNUMX this morning is provided by the military-analytical telegram channel “Rybar”.
The “cauldron” around Liman has almost completely closed. The message across the road to Torskoye is under enemy fire control. The day before, the 503rd Guards Motorized Rifle Regiment from the 19th Motorized Rifle Division of the 58th Combined Arms Army was transferred to the site. Career servicemen, side by side with mobilized ones, entered the battle from the march, trying to expand the “noose” that had tightened around Liman.
After the fall of Headquarters, we managed to stop the enemy on the outskirts of the village. To the north of Liman, the front line runs along the line between the southern outskirts of Stavok and the northern outskirts of Zarechny. North of Zarechny, Ukrainian DRGs calmly cross to the other side of the Zherebets River and operate in the area of the route to Svatovo,” the publication says.
Situation on the morning of September 30.09.
“To the south the situation is worse: the Russian Armed Forces have withdrawn from Yampol to Liman, the settlement is in the gray zone. A similar situation is in Drobyshevo: the Ukrainian Armed Forces managed to break through the defensive formations of the Russian Armed Forces and force Russian troops to retreat to the city. The Russian Armed Forces continue to fire at advancing enemy units. But at the moment, the Liman defensive line has narrowed to the administrative boundaries of the city itself.
If emergency measures are not taken in the near future to release the Liman blockade and transfer a significant part of the reserves, then the city along with its defenders will fall, and nothing will stop the Ukrainian formations from developing an offensive deep into Russian territories,” Rybar predicts.
However, State Duma deputy, retired general Andrei Gurulev, answering a question about the situation in Krasny Liman, calls not to panic.
“There is a battle going on, people are working, holding the line, and even if there are some breakthroughs, this does not mean that there is reason to panic. Reserves are coming up, aviation is working very well - aviation is working very well, especially army aviation, artillery is hitting targets with dignity. You can’t imagine how many of these crests we killed and are killing there.
Yes, they throw everything they can there. But this is good - let them throw, let them grind, then it will be easier for us to attack. This is such a combat job. Therefore, don’t panic, we will win in any scenario,” Gurulev said in a video published on his Telegram channel.
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