The Ukrainian Armed Forces plan to take control of the strategic route in the LPR
Recently, a UN mission visited the territory of the LPR in the village of Smeloe to help Ukraine regain control of the strategically important highway.
IA reports this, citing its sources. "Analytical Service of Donbass".
The mission was interested in the village of Smeloe, since it is closest to the Bakhmut highway, along which heavy clashes had previously taken place at numbered checkpoints.
“In the context of recent events and proposals for joint patrolling of territories, as well as incoming reports about the desire of the Ukrainian side to adopt the Croatian scenario, we can conclude that it will be proposed to patrol the territory of the LPR along the Bakhmut highway, explaining the simplicity of logistics, etc.,” – noted in the publication.
The author of the material warns that as a result, the LPR will receive a “cut off” ledge and loss of control over such settlements as Slavyanoserbsk, Smeloe, Sokolniki.”
“There is no doubt that this will become a new “gray zone” for the “ukropatriots”. On the plus side, Ukrainian militants will have direct access to the Bakhmut highway, which makes the positions of the LPR NM extremely vulnerable. It is worth adding to this that in this direction the forces of the Donbass defenders are already at a disadvantage in relation to the enemy, since the AFU occupy the high northern bank of the Seversky Donets, and the strongholds of the LPR NM are located in the lowlands, visible to the enemy visually and using surveillance equipment and are shot through,” writes ASD.
In addition, it is mentioned that the report of the same mission in 2015, where the LPR formations were called “criminal”, said the following: “The demarcation line in the Lugansk region can only be determined in practice - by the presence there of the National Guard forces, the Armed Forces of Ukraine or the armed formations of the self-proclaimed “LPR”. The demarcation line is very arbitrary and can change at any moment.”
“In other words, given the exclusively defensive nature of the actions of formations, units and units of the LPR NM, any advance - creeping or rapid - of the Kiev formations will be assessed by the UN mission as a given and recorded as a new “demarcation line”, which is “very conditional,” the publication summarizes .
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