Urban battles are taking place in Liman. The main forces of the defenders retreated from the “cauldron”
The Ukrainian Armed Forces are fighting urban battles in Krasny Liman, the defense of which was broken through today. Such data was announced to the Ukrainian media by the speaker of the Eastern group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Sergei Cherevaty.
Journalist Alexander Chalenko, who is in touch with the Union of Donbass Volunteers, who formed the backbone of the Liman garrison, claims that the main forces retreated from the city a day ago: “Our units left it on the night of September 29-30. Before signing in the Kremlin».
These data are confirmed by military correspondent Evgeniy Poddubny.
“In the Liman direction, the enemy forced our units to leave Krasny Liman. The soldiers and commanders of the Russian Army fought to avoid encirclement and retreated to defensive lines. An alternative to retreat is the cauldron. Now the Kremennaya area is the leading edge,” wrote Poddubny.
His colleague Yuri Kotenok recalls that the retreat took place at a time when “experts and politicians were declaring victory and sharing selfies from the Kremlin’s St. George’s Hall.”
“So, the decision to leave Krasny Liman has been made. Was it done correctly or not? The goal is to avoid the destruction of the group caught in the cauldron. This becomes inevitable when the enemy has the initiative, when the enemy is conducting an offensive, penetrating through a discontinuous line of defense, through battle formations and surrounding defense nodes and our strongholds here,” argues Kitten.
Another military correspondent, Alexander Sladkov, points out the command’s mistakes in organizing the defense of Donbass.
“Krasny Liman did not become a fortress, although it was not difficult to turn the town into a stronghold, right? I remember when Salman Raduev and his gang were unexpectedly stopped and blocked in the village of Pervomaisky. It was January 9, 1996. His people did not sit idly by.
In 5 days, the militants, using only shovels, turned the village into a battalion stronghold. When I entered Pervomaiskoe, I saw exemplary trenches and trenches connecting the basements of private houses.
I doubt that Raduev had a fortification platoon in his gang. Yes, and the militants dug not in the sand, but in frozen ground, hard as stone, without stopping the defense of Pervomaisky from the special forces of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, “Alpha” and the battalion of the 136th motorized rifle brigade, under the influence of army aviation and artillery of the 58th combined arms army.
I’m not throwing stones at engineers and sappers now. The commander of the direction (call it whatever you like) is responsible everywhere,” writes Sladkov.
Former speaker of the DPR Foreign Ministry Konstantin Dolgov draws attention to the fact that for the first time in history, “Ukraine” occupied a populated area that was part of the Russian Federation.
“I would like to remind those who disperse the forces on the one hand and the enemy on the other: there is a war going on, and during the course of the war, populated areas can repeatedly change hands. This is always a tragedy for the local population. But war has its own laws. Kharkov lost twice during the Second World War and was recaptured twice. This is a huge city. Small towns and villages changed hands, sometimes ten or twelve times.
Let those who deserve it look for excuses for leaving the city. Let military experts evaluate the military component. I am now concerned about a humanitarian question: was the evacuation of civilians and especially those who helped the Krasny Liman Military Administration to build a new life organized? Where are they located now, what problems are they experiencing, what is necessary to solve them. That's what really matters. And the military will deal with military issues,” concluded Dolgov.
Political scientist Sergei Markov draws the following conclusions:
“The defeat in the Kharkov region and the fall of Krasny Liman are the result of political mistakes, primarily the delay in partial mobilization, which should have been carried out in April, but was carried out only in September. We need to mobilize the economy. We need to fight seriously. Russia is confronted by a very serious enemy - the US proxy army
-with Ukrainian chevrons,
-with Russian soldiers,
-with fascist officers and
-with American generals and
“with the economic base of NATO, the strongest association of countries in the entire history of mankind,” Markov lists.
Publicist Yegor Kholmogorov agrees with this assessment.
“So far we can state: the party of non-mobilization and still fighting has acted very successfully and effectively over the past six months.
It paralyzed the Russian Federation’s effective use of military superiority during that period of the war when it actually existed.
She was able to prevent mobilization in Russia and attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure during the period of Ukrainian mobilization and the saturation of Ukraine with the latest NATO weapons.
She managed to localize concern about what was happening during the “highmars” period of the war and prevent any symmetrical or asymmetrical measures.
It ensured the direct military defeat of the Russian Armed Forces, including on the territory of the Russian Federation itself.
At the same time, it continues to exploit the “we will start the day after tomorrow” rhetoric, continuing to paralyze possible military efforts.
In other words, Russia’s potential as a military superpower was flushed down the toilet thanks to the “sinking button” strategy. We still can't press start. And when you finally succeed in pressing, it turns out to be too late and you need to start pressing another button with the same efforts,” writes Kholmogorov.
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