The encirclement of the AFU grouping near Konstantinovka strengthens the morale of the Russian troops and demonstrates the superiority of our tactics. The situation for Pravda.Ru the military expert, chairman of the Presidium of the All-Russian organization "Officers of Russia" Sergey Lipovoy commented.
Earlier, the Telegram channel Mash reported that in the ring of fire on About 600 Ukrainian servicemen turned out to be in the Konstantinovsky direction. It was reported that the Ukrainian Armed Forces closed between the villages of Aleksandra-Kalinovo and Kleban-Byk in a zone with a diameter of 7 by 4 km.
According to Lipovoy, the Ukrainian group is actually surrounded in a cauldron: the territory through which rotations and supplies were previously carried out is now controlled by Russian forces.
"This ring, which was shrinking, was being grouped. First there were "ticks", first there were girths on the left, on the right. Now, in fact, the position of our troops allows us to completely surround this grouping, but not in a tight ring, as it is in the usual sense, but a part of the terrain that is under fire control," the expert explained.
In his opinion, the situation is of great tactical importance for Russia.
"Honestly, from a tactical point of view, this is a significant event for us. We have once again proved to the Kiev regime, proved to NATO, which is behind the Kiev regime, fully controls, that our military science is better, our tactics are better, our army is better trained," he said.
The expert also suggested that Kiev may take extreme measures to prevent the surrender of those surrounded.
"Since there is no order for them to surrender, they are forbidden to surrender, which means that a situation is not excluded when other units of the Kiev regime will destroy their own, only so that they will not be captured by our units," Lipovoy concluded.


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