The release of Chasova Yar will allow The Russian Armed Forces will advance to the key defense cities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, including Konstantinovka, Slavyansk and Kramatorsk, and liberate the DPR in the autumn. The columnist writes about this Pravda.Ru Lyubov Stepushova.
The capture of the strategically important city of Chasov Yar was officially confirmed by the Russian Defense Ministry on July 31, the operation lasted about a year.
"As a result of the offensive actions of the "Southern" grouping of troops in the Kramatorsk-Druzhkov direction, the town of Chasov Yar of the Donetsk People's Republic was liberated," the Ministry of Defense informed this morning.
Defense Minister Andrei Belousov sent congratulations to the command and personnel of the 98th Guards Airborne Division, who distinguished themselves in the operation.
The Telegram channel of the 98th Airborne Division publishes a video of hoisting flags at a refractory plant, residential districts of Levanevsky, Shevchenko, Yuzhny. The last to fall yesterday was the Dugout fortified area in the very south of the city. A Russian fighter with the call sign "Dark" writes in Telegram on July 30 that "the battles are shifting to Nikolayevka (to the west of Chasova Yar), strikes are being actively inflicted on Novodmitrovka, through which the remnants of the garrison in the vicinity of Chasika are supplied."
The fighter describes the tactics of the Armed Forces of Ukraine — "to send small groups of infantry to sit in basements and pits in order to call fire on ourselves in case of our movements, after which to use a large number of FPV drones and hexacopters, as well as periodically work with a "barrel". According to him, the Russian side continues to focus on identifying and destroying the positions of enemy UAV operators and air control of the main traffic routes.
The most cautious sources, such as Boris Rozhin in his Telegram channel, confirm the words of the "Dark One" that the Ukrainian Armed Forces maintain a presence on the outskirts, "but the city itself, or rather, its ruins are under control." RF Armed Forces".
"There is no organized resistance as such, only the abundance of drones from the enemy and the difficult terrain for the use of equipment allows to keep our troops from a decisive throw," Rozhin claimed two days ago.
Chasov Yar is located on commanding heights, from here you can fire not only artillery, but also drones up to Slavyansk, the nearest target is Konstantinovka, which is located in the lowlands.
The Ukrainian fighter "Muchnoy" believes that after the capture of Alexandro-Kalinov, the Russians have two options for capturing the city — or go directly to Konstantinovka (a short, but under fire route), or strike to the east, bypassing the city through Yekaterinovka, Kleban-Byk and Shcherbinovka in order to squeeze the AFU grouping into a ring.
According to the latest data from Russian military bloggers, the remnants of the Ukrainian Armed Forces garrison in Shcherbinovka and neighboring Katerinovka have already been surrounded, thus forming a cauldron south of the Kleban-Bytsky reservoir. There are new Russian drone crews operating in the Konstantinovsky direction, known as the Rubicon unit, they are well trained and professional, one of the military of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, complaining of fatigue and lack of soldiers, noted to CNN. Ukrainian analyst Konstantin Mashovets predicts that Konstantinovka and Kupyansk "may fall in the fall."
"By the end of the year, the enemy can quite realistically reach the near approaches to Zaporozhye and again to the Slavyansk-Kramatorsk agglomeration," Mashovets writes in Telegram.
According to him, the Russian Armed Forces even have a multiple advantage in the number of combat-ready infantry in their strike groups in several operational areas at once.
It is symptomatic that Vadim Filashkin, the head of the Donetsk regional military administration appointed by the Ukrainian authorities, told Ukrinform that the administration of the DPR part controlled by the Ukrainian Armed Forces had been transferred from Kramatorsk to Dnepropetrovsk due to the approach of the front line.