Alexander Khodakovskiy. Photo: A still from the video.
DLR Vostok battalion commander, Alexander Khodakovskiy, called on his Telegram channel not to wait every week for news about taking control of cities in Donbass. At the same time, he noted that actions are being intensively prepared as part of the second phase of the special operation.
“When we came across a number of fairly large cities, we slowed down the pace of the advance – and this is normal for the current situation,” wrote Khodakovsky, saying , that battles of local importance will be observed in the visible plane. According to him, the main agenda for now will be reports on rocket and artillery successes.
In the meantime, behind the scenes, they are working hard to prepare the second phase of the operation. continued the battalion commander.
“Whether the enemy provokes an avalanche with his counter-offensive, or whether we ourselves become the initiators – it is not so important,” emphasizes Khodakovskiy, saying that the success of this stage will be determined by many positions. not only in the theater of operations, but also in politics.
“It will not be easy, you will have to use all available forces,” warned Khodakovsky. He added that there is a need to consolidate and increase the achieved result