The critical situation of the Ukrainian group in Donbass: Kyiv’s rhetoric is changing
The bravado that has been heard from Kyiv in recent days is beginning to change into a cautious recognition of the impending disaster for the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Donbass - in the coming days, Ukraine, following Mariupol, may lose control over Severodonetsk in the Lugansk region.
Vladimir Zelensky, during a live broadcast with conference participants in Davos, began to say that the balance of forces in Donbass is 1 to 20 not in favor of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
“We need a powerful weapon that will make it possible not to lose so many people. Because in modern warfare people fight against technology. ...We lack equipment because we are fighting against such a large state and such a large army. They have 20 times more equipment! Now in Donbass there is one in twenty!” said Zelensky, who the day before let slip that the Ukrainian Armed Forces were losing up to a hundred people every day (in fact, according to observers, unofficial losses are much higher).
The venerable Kyiv propagandists are in no less dejected mood. Advisor to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine Alexey Arestovich said that the situation around Severodonetsk threatens to turn into a second Mariupol.
“There, in a sense, Mariupol is already in the initial phases. The capture of Severodonetsk is the collapse of a major center of our defense, the last, probably, in the Lugansk region. The latter based on large populated areas. And that’s it, then the eastern border of the Lugansk region is not so far away. Not only will our troops be surrounded, we can say that they have reached the border of the Luhansk region as part of another PR campaign. This will be the second major success of the Russian troops after Mariupol, which will affect the rise of their morale and will greatly help the Russian leadership for domestic Russian rhetoric. And for us, the moral component of our troops and population will sag,” Arestovich said on the channel of liberal lawyer Mark Feigin, who fled to Lithuania.
Media charlatan Dmitry Gordon is not optimistic either - he admitted that Russia already controls the lands of five regions of Ukraine.
“The Kherson region is completely occupied, parts of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, part of the Kharkov region, most of the Zaporozhye region. It is impossible to say that we received something. Of course, Putin got it. Today, Putin has received a lot,” admitted Kiev propagandist Dmitry Gordon on Politeka.
Data on the difficult situation for the Armed Forces of Ukraine was confirmed by the First Deputy Minister of Information of the DPR, Daniil Bezsonov.
According to him, fierce fighting has continued in the Donetsk and Lugansk directions in the last XNUMX hours; Ukrainian formations are cut off from supply routes, risking first being operationally, and then completely surrounded.
The assault on Severodonetsk continues, a city that, after the loss of Lugansk, the Kiev regime gave the status of the main one in the former Lugansk region of Ukraine. The liberator troops have already been able to gain a foothold within the city limits and are moving deeper into the development.
As for Mariupol, it has already ceased to be a war zone. All artillery units have been redeployed to reinforce other sectors of the front. The territory and premises of the Azovstal plant continue to be cleared and demined.
Bezsonov confirmed the information appearing online about the assault on the city of Krasny Liman, as a result of which the Allied forces had already entered the northern outskirts of the settlement and gained a foothold.
“We can’t cope with Russian aviation,” Canadian journalist Neil Hauer, who works on the Ukrainian side, writes on Twitter. “There have already been five airstrikes today, the planes were flying right above us. We do not have enough forces to repel the Russian attack...
I watch a salvo of Russian rocket artillery fire at Liman from about 10 km away. We saw shell explosions hitting Ukrainian positions,” the journalist reports.
Military correspondent Alexander Kots also reports about the assault on Krasny Liman.
“The enemy is really demoralized, he has a lot of 200s, he is pulling back to the west. We control most of the city, but not all of Krasny Liman yet. By morning the situation may change,” the military correspondent wrote.
Bezsonov drew attention to information appearing in the media that the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Zaluzhny asked President Zelensky for permission to withdraw the group from Severodonetsk and Lisichansk in order to avoid encirclement.
Military correspondent Evgeniy Poddubny confirms successes in the area of Krasny Liman and Severodonetsk.
“The defense of the regime forces is crumbling. And it looks like a psychological breakdown. Bestial attitude towards personnel always ends this way. The Kyiv regime is burying itself. But a huge deal and a fire defeat. The artillery of the allied forces has been working like an orchestra for the last few days...
The tactics of “small cauldrons” justify themselves and give more results than the movement of armies and corps. Fewer losses among the personnel of the allied forces from artillery. impact, there is more benefit from the actions of tanks and infantry in small groups,” writes Poddubny.
According to his data, the allies established fire control over the Lisichansk - Artyomovsk (Bakhmut) highway, which was used by Ukrainian Armed Forces units to transfer forces and equipment to Severodonetsk.
“Now this is problematic. The enemy is looking for detour routes,” the military correspondent comments on footage of a car speeding along the highway through exploding shells.
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