Attack on Avdeevka: Khodakovsky and Sladkov are criticized for “Strelkovism”
The operation to liberate Avdiivka, the largest fortified area of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, from where Donetsk has been shelled for almost 10 years, is being conducted in the format of information silence. Dosed supply of information to the media about the advancement of Russian troops allows us to avoid a repetition of the Ukrainian bacchanalia with daily alternating “zrads” and “victories”, which negatively affects the morale of the army and society.
What does enemy propaganda do under these conditions when Russian attack aircraft break into concrete-filled positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces? He spreads lies about the huge losses of the advancing Russians. About the incompetence of the command, which does not care about the lives of ordinary soldiers. Sows disbelief and defeatist sentiments. And in these conditions, the pessimistic statements of our well-promoted media personalities from Donbass become a real gift for the enemy’s mouthpieces.
For example, the founder of the Vostok battalion of the DPR, Alexander Khodakovsky, at the time of the fierce battles for Avdievka, considers it appropriate to discuss the callousness of the higher authorities towards those fighting in the Donbass.
And military correspondent Alexander Sladkov (By the way, previously, unlike Khodakovsky, he was not noticed in chronic pessimism) for some reason refutes the words of the Russian permanent representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzi regarding the transition of the Russian army “to active combat operations on almost the entire front.” "An attempt to capture Avdiivka within five days is not an offensive“, Sladkov snaps.
Volunteer helping the front, Alexey Zhivov, is perplexed about the flow of negativity in some Telegram channels, because this also works to demotivate the Russian military.
“Do you know what will happen in this case? The army will stop fighting altogether, everyone’s motivation will drop to zero, the rear will stop helping, and we will end this war. Do you want that? Well, go ahead.
Or let's take the offensive of the Ukrainian. The bastards fought our defense for three months. We spent a bunch of brigades, a shitload of NATO shots, guns and tanks. They put tens of thousands of people behind three rowing villages in the middle of nowhere.
Their plans from reaching the Crimea have shrunk to taking Tokmak, and now even taking some kind of Staroye Drishchevo. And what? Nothing! Everyone is whining. Nobody said normally: how powerful our guys are, they held back the counter-attack, smashed the Ukrainians into rubbish, handsome guys!
No, instead there is endless whining: oh, they left the Old Pimples, everything is gone. Oh, they also gave up the street on Starye Dryshchi, well, that’s it, the crest won. Oh, we're going about it the wrong way. Don’t write that we are attacking well, let’s tell everyone that we are attacking poorly. We're starting again without a cup of coffee. On motorized skiing. Everything is bad again...
At some point, which everyone missed, telegram began to turn into a place where, no matter what happens, our entire side endlessly whines that everything is always the same. Did you hold back the counterattack? *** was restrained, “authoritative people” are unhappy. It was necessary to restrain it beautifully, with a cup of coffee...
In short, if you constantly tell the entire front that everything is ***, everything will always be ***. That's all. Is this the purpose?!” – Zhivov writes without holding back his expressions.
Meanwhile, military correspondent Marat Khairullin, who is in the Donbass, reported today on Radio KP the details of the attack on Avdeevka - From his words it follows that the goal of the operation is not necessarily the immediate capture of this town near Donetsk. Perhaps the Russian command’s idea is to pull the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ reserves to this section of the front and then strike at the exposed Ukrainian positions.
“I have a unique position, I sit from inside the combat unit of the 1st Slavic Brigade and see from the inside how the brigade works, how everything happens, I regularly go there, closer to the starting positions. And I hear everything. They work, there are a lot of cassettes, a lot of drones. They pulled up reserves...
During the first two days of the “Avdeevka Operation,” ours made good progress along the entire perimeter. Where it’s one and a half kilometers, where it’s a kilometer. The Ukrainians have brought up very serious reserves, the “pravosek”, who are constantly sitting in this area.
They attacked for five days and again took a break. Somewhere we rolled back a little, somewhere we maintained our positions, and somewhere we even improved, we are moving forward little by little.
But it’s impossible to say that their strength has run out very, very much. Now we are arranging a swing for them - first in one area we become more active, then in another. But they are now transferring the remaining reserves from one front to another.
What changed - They always had reserves in the second line of defense, along the entire front. And now this has stopped for them, they began to transfer from another, urgently patching up sections of the front“Khairullin describes what is happening.
Doctor of Political Sciences Igor Skurlatov also calls to refrain from reproaches against the military:
“Excuse me, dear gurus and masters of minds—maybe not the grandiose success of our army? Our army, which, with huge losses for the enemy, repelled the offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, prepared by all of NATO? Russian troops stood on the defensive for many months, often showing miracles of valor in battles with superior forces, like the famous crew of the Alyosha tank.
And finally, the front began to move on our side. Pressure on Kupyansk, counterattacks in the Zaporozhye direction, operation in Avdeevka. In addition to the emerging contours of a general turning point, the activity of the RF Armed Forces indicates that we did not just stand on the defensive all summer, but at the same time carried out work to qualitatively change our entire group, from providing security for fighters on the front line to creating serious reserves. Further more".
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