“Ukraine is a rusty knife that will be thrown after use”
Ukraine first used the Turkish offensive drone Bayraktar TB2 in Donbas and ironed the artillery positions of the DPR Militia people in the Granitny area in the Donetsk region . Is Donbas expecting a total offensive by Ukrainian troops in the near future, and why is Russia reacting so laxly to what is happening – after all, citizens with Russian passports have been living in this territory lately? Igor Strelkov, former Minister of Defense of the Donetsk People's Republic, outlined his version of events.
Photo: vk.com/igoristrelkov .
– As we like to say, it was 146% expected. Otherwise, why did Ukraine buy these drones? Who was she going to fight, except Donbas? I have nothing to add.
– Because our elite military corps in Syria is being held hostage by Erdogan. If the Turks block the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles, we will be left without everything. We will not be able to fight on the Syrian scene of military operations with Turkey.
We are not able to support our groupings around the world, while Turkey has Syria on its side. Even if the Suez Canal and Gibraltar are closed to our ships. The Turks will therefore have to be treated very carefully. Recent reports have revealed that Russian troops have left the city of Tel Rifat in northern Syria, when Erdogan announced that he was planning a military operation against the Kurds. Now only the Persians remained. It is unlikely that it will be possible to withdraw our church from Syria as a result of the agreements with Assad.
– Yes, tangerines are important.
– I firmly believe that Nord Stream 2 will not be able to start properly. This is a sweet carrot that the West has long hung from Russia's nose. Permanent concessions are specially knocked out for us and we are forfeited because of so many years and so much money that has been invested in this project. A huge number of careers, both personal and corporate, are tied to him. And if Nord Stream 2 relatively collapses, not only heads will fly, a number of serious bankruptcies are possible …
Therefore, on the basis of today's soaring gas prices, we will postpone any decisions against both Turkey and Ukraine. In addition, I am sure that Ukraine has not decided on its own new deterioration on its own. This Zelenský behavior was possible only after consultation with Biden. America wants to put pressure on Russia on all fronts. It is possible that Washington believed that Moscow was not fulfilling the agreements reached at the last meeting between Putin and Biden.
– Ukraine is in the position of a rusty knife, which will be thrown away immediately after use. This is a broken piece from Russia that can either be anti-Russian or no one needs it. It is foolish to envy cannon fodder.
– The drone hit a battery of light howitzers D-30 caliber 122 mm. He shot him without the slightest resistance to air defense, because the Donetsk Republic does not have its own air defense.
By the way, Ukraine is constantly conducting small tactical ground operations there. Now they had occupied Staromarjevka, but before that their sabotage groups had come regularly. It was a “gray zone” formally related to DPR. Now they have built a pontoon crossing, they have conquered the village, which means that there is a concrete advance of Ukrainian troops.
Simultaneous shelling, using drones, ironed the entire LPR and DLR defensive lines with the heaviest calibers from Luhanska Bakhmutka, where the former Ghost Brigade was, to Telman in the south of the Donetsk region. According to my information, the evening before yesterday, Ukraine began withdrawing significant forces of its barrel and missile artillery from the places of permanent deployment from Artyomovsk and Slavyansk. All are heading to the area south of Donetsk. All this indicates that they plan to launch another tactical strike, although they do not seem to be planning a large-scale offensive yet.
Since the same Dokuchaevsk is besieged by them from three sides, they have a great chance to cut it off and take it. And the southern section of the front from Donetsk to the Azov coast are continuous steppes, militias have nowhere to hide equipment and control panels, so the most successful can be used Armed Forces of Ukraine and artillery and aviation, including attack drones
– If ordered from Washington, no one doubts that. But it seems to me that Ukraine will not attack Crimea until it completes the operation in Donbas to destroy the republics. Well, where will they move next … The border between Ukraine and Russia is big.