The main thing is not to lose pace
The Russian military department has confirmed the fact of serious progress by our troops in the Severodonetsk-Lysichansk region. This means that the tactics of hard suppression of fire by the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) in this area are beginning to bear fruit. Before that, the front line in this area remained virtually unchanged for several weeks, enemy positions were processed by artillery.
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According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, ten towns and villages in the northwest of the LPR were liberated in five days, including key ones such as Mirnaya Dolina, Vrubovka, Nikolaevka, Ustinovka and Rai-Aleksandrovka. These settlements are located near the roads, which were supplied by a large group of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which was first located in Severodonetsk and then was forced to go to Lisichansk due to our offensive. It is now impossible to supply these units with weapons, ammunition, fuel and manpower.
At the same time, our units deal with a small boiler in Gorski and Zolotoje south of Lisičansko. Our intelligence believes that the remnants of the 3rd Battalion of the 24th Mechanized Brigade are blocked there; 15th Battalion 128th Mountain Assault Brigade; 42nd Battalion, 57th Motorized Infantry Brigade; 70th Battalion, 101st Territorial Defense Brigade; brigade artillery group 57th Motorized Infantry Brigade; Nazis of the “Right Sector” (banned and recognized as terrorists in the Russian Federation) and foreign mercenaries.
The total number of about 2000 people. About as many as have been hiding in Mariupol for more than a month at the Azovstal plant. But there is a difference: neither in Zolote nor in Gorski are the dungeons as powerful as the prisoners in Azovstal. Experts therefore believe that the process of liquidating this boiler will go much faster. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced that 41 soldiers surrendered during the day.
According to the testimony of the prisoners, the supply of besieged units is lacking, morale is extremely low, commanders prefer to “evacuate”. To this we must add constant heavy fire from our artillery and missile divisions.
What's next? According to experts, the catastrophe of the Ukrainian armed forces in the area of Lysichansk and Severodonetsk can, under certain conditions, significantly accelerate the course of a special military operation. Other destinations are Slavyansk, Kramatorsk, Seversk, Artemovsk (Bachmut). These are the last major LPR cities under the control of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
In recent weeks, lines of fortified positions have formed around them, but they are not as strong as those that originated in Avdějevka or Novomichajlovka, where entire underground concrete cities were built in 8 years. In addition, the mood in the Ukrainian armed forces is changing: there are many deserters, there are facts about disobedience to commanders.
So Ramzan Kadyrov wrote in his telegram channel about the situation around Zolote and Gorsky: “The cleansing is taking place in stages, the circle of forces of the National Guard, Ministry of Defense, Russian Interior Ministry and LPR militia is gradually narrowing, Nazis are identified in buildings and methodically demilitarized.”
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According to him, “our forces are using a new tactic of warfare and bringing tangible success.” “In recent days, the liberation of the territory from the Ukrainian occupiers has been much faster and more efficient. There is obvious panic among the Nazis, “Kadyrov said.
Military blogger Yuri Podoljak noted that up to 800 people had already been captured in Gorsky-Zolotoi. This “process” continues. The “catch” seems to be rich here, “he predicted.
According to his calculations, there may be 7 to 9 thousand soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Lisichan pocket. Ukraine's armed forces alone have killed more than 1,000 people here in the last few days.
At the same time, many observers believe that the Ukrainian armed forces could withdraw part of their troops from the threat of siege in Lisichansk, Zolot and Gorny. The South Wind Telegram therefore notes that part of the forces of the 24th Independent Mechanized Brigade, the 10th Independent Mountain Assault Brigade and the 57th Independent Motorized Infantry Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine could have time to regroup and introduce stricter control over the Lisichansk-Seversk Road.
“It is now important for the Russian Federation's armed forces to maintain the previous pace of the offensive in order to encircle as large a group as possible in Lisichansk,” the information source notes. – Otherwise, the meeting with them is to be at a new defensive line, which the Armed Forces of Ukraine equipped from Seversk to Artemovsk. As the width of the front decreases significantly, we will expect even more massive and furious artillery battles.