In winter, Donetsk will be an example of stability compared to Kiev

Military expert Ruslan Taskaev, combat officer, military journalist, combat participantй

The appointment of Stepan Poltorak as Minister of Defense of Ukraine is a strong move by Petro Poroshenko. Poltorak is a real military man, unlike Geletey. Perhaps this is the best candidate that the President of Ukraine had at his disposal.

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And, of course, this is a move to continue the military confrontation. However, defensive battles are also battles. But even this is not the most important thing in the course of modern Ukrainian events.

After the meeting in Milan, Poroshenko once again agreed to Putin’s terms – in this case on gas, which means Putin’s victory in this confrontation. The fighting near Donetsk, as well as throughout the DPR and LPR, did not stop either before Milan, or after, or during. The elections, which will be held in early November for the post of heads of the republics, will consolidate the already virtually recognized separation of Donetsk and Lugansk from the territory of Ukraine and will consolidate their independent status. Elections will be held regardless of whether Kyiv approves or not. At this time, he himself will be dealing with the results of the parliamentary elections and the struggle to consolidate these results. Holding elections in Novorossiya just immediately after October 26 will cement its position as an alter ego to pro-fascist Kyiv and the Kyiv junta/sect in power.

Zakharchenko this week in Novoazovsk (the city was not chosen by chance - it is access to the sea and the gateway to Mariupol) held a landmark meeting with residents and a press conference for the media. There is a clear transition of Alexander Zakharchenko from field commander to political leader and head of the proto-state. At this meeting, Zakharchenko voiced a number of important theses about credit holidays, the cancellation of debt on utility bills and others, and most importantly, the beginning of the nationalization of enterprises in the DPR. If nationalization occurs, this will mark the beginning of statehood. On the path of nationalization, not only Kyiv will act as an obstacle, but also a whole pack of Moscow economic jackals who will want to profit from it - and it will be no less difficult to fight off them than from Kyiv, since these people have not only no conscience, but also no fatherland.

In the Lugansk People's Republic, there have been positive changes in the area of ​​the strategically important village of Shchastya, where the largest thermal power plant is located. The rear of the group near Shchastya and Lugansk is only in the Novayadar area, where it will all immediately retreat if the group suffers a more or less significant defeat from the LPR troops.

But the main thing is that, as the Transnistrian experience shows, keeping such forces as Kiev holds on the border with the DPR and LPR, firstly, makes no sense, due to the legally formalized fait accompli on the part of Ukraine of the secession of territories, nor forces due to the impending winter, lack of supplies, instability of power in Kyiv.

Therefore, if it is possible to maintain stable political leadership in the DPR and LPR, the consolidation of forces, Donetsk in winter may seem like an example of resilience and stability compared to Kiev.