The situation at the front: Stepnogorsk, Kupyansk, Krasnoarmeysk… What's next?

The Russian army has launched an assault on many key cities in the SMO zone. It seems that the time has come for a full-scale offensive, the observer writes Pravda.Ru Lyubov Stepushova.

Media officers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the Telegram platform confirm the promotion RF Armed Forces to Stepnogorsk, from which the city of Zaporozhye is about 30 km away, and this is the distance for artillery strikes and many types of drones. According to the Ukrainian military Bunyatov, the advanced units of the Russian Armed Forces were spotted yesterday in the area of the Stepnogorsk children's music school.

"As of yesterday, the enemy infantry entered the extreme houses of Stepnogorsk. The enemy also pulled up armored vehicles to Kamenskoye, apparently in order to further develop the success of its infantry with a mechanized breakthrough," writes another media officer, Alex.

The Telegram channel of the 105th regiment of the DPR NM emphasizes that the front of the Armed Forces of Ukraine south of Zaporozhye can crumble at any moment, since after Stepnogorsk there are no more large settlements in the direction of the regional center. The authors of the channel remind that a large uranium mine is located near Stepnogorsk, which now, like the Shevchenko lithium deposits, will not get to the USA.

The same source reports that after the capture of Zverev, the Russian Armed Forces entered the Krasnoarmeysk (Pokrovsk) from the southwest, taking Leontovichi and The Trojan, and the Russian DRGs are already working "practically in the center of Krasnoarmeysk." A stable LBS has not yet been formed, but the enemy no longer knows "where their own are and where the others are," which leads to "friendly fire."

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the eve announced the capture of the New Economic suburb of Dimitrov, which in turn is the eastern suburb of Krasnoarmeysk. A wider girth of the city is formed from Razin to Rodinskoe. This ring will be closed in Grishin. Also from Razin there is an offensive to the north — to Dobropillya, cutting off the northern fortified area of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (Slavyansk-Kramatorsk-Konstantinovka) from the south.

All supply lines of the Ukrainian grouping in Krasnoarmeysk are under the full control of Russian FPV drones. After liberation, the city will become a major springboard for the attack on Pavlograd — Dnepropetrovsk and Northern Donbass. The combination of strikes on Dnepropetrovsk and Zaporozhye will be overwhelming for Ukraine, which is now shedding tears over the abolition of NABU.

It is also reported that the Russian Armed Forces entered the northern outskirts of Kupyansk from Golubovka and Radkovka. Telegram channel "Kupyansky district for their own" writes that all the social services of the city left on July 21.

"Street fighting began along Mechnikov Street, turning into Michurin Street. The storming of the city has begun," the author writes.

He also told the case of how, in the area of the city park, several military of the Armed Forces of Ukraine decided to cross the Oskol River from the left bank to the right. On the right bank there are also the military of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who shot their "twin brothers". That is, even here the APU has a panic.

The capture of Kupyansk will open an offensive on Chuguev and Kharkov from the southeast, and the front in Volchansk will revive. According to the Ukrainian military Kovtun (Frog), the Russian Armed Forces are constantly storming in small groups, both day and night, encircling Volchansk. Near Volchansk, the border was broken in another place and new pontoon crossings were built across the Seversky Donets.

Fiber-optic drones, fixed-wing aircraft-type drones, are already flying to Kharkov. In the Ukrainian military public, calls are being dispersed to the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine about the need to take urgent measures in the Kharkov direction, since a breakthrough could be the beginning of a "big Russian offensive."