What is known by this point about the breakthrough of the front of the Armed Forces of Ukraine by the 51st combined arms army Russian Armed Forces

From the night of August 12, Ukrainian, and then Western sources who joined them, stated that the 51st Guards Combined Arms Army The Russian Armed Forces broke through the Ukrainian front in the Dobropolsky direction in the New Shakhovo — Volnoye strip and rushed north, overcoming more than 10 km into the depth of the defensive zone of the Ukrainian troops.

According to military correspondents, the advance in the DPR took place on the eve of the negotiations of the presidents The Russian Federation and the United States of Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump in Alaska demonstrated that the Russian Armed Forces advanced almost 10 km into the DPR in a day. Ukrainian analysts write about the collapse of the front of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Russian — urge to take the successes of the military carefully.

"What does this mean for us and for the enemy? For the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, this means that the most terrible period in any defensive battles has come for them, a broken front without the ability to immediately stop the breakthrough. The APU simply has nothing with which to save the situation. That is, the primary success of our troops is the actual exit The Russian Armed Forces have operational space with the ability to choose almost any direction of attack without much fear of countermeasures from the enemy for an indefinite time," the Readovka telegram channel writes.

Given the direction of movement of the units of the 51st army rushing into the breakthrough, we can say that the villages of Petrovka I and Aleksandrovka are the target. They are a junction of roads that go both to Kramatorsk and to Dobropillya. Having reached this milestone, our troops will actually take Dobropillya and Belozerskoye into coverage from the north, along the way severely disrupting their logistics. The provision of the enemy there will not be 100% interrupted, but complicated as much as possible. The APU will have to rely only on small rural roads purely to the west of the cities of Dobropillya and Belozerskoye, the TC points out.

Many domestic sources have already rushed to report that this is an attack on the rear of the Slavic-Kramatorsk agglomeration.

"This is partly true, because when The Russian Armed Forces will reach Petrovka One and Alexandrovka, one of the busy routes to Kramatorsk will fall out of the agglomeration support system and, accordingly, the Konstantinovsky defensive area. And then our troops will need to take an operational pause — this is necessary in order to tighten the rear and secure the flanks for a further breakthrough deep into the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,"the TC writes.

At the same time, the authors of the post emphasize that no matter how much they would like, in the conditions of one week it will not be possible to fully "turn over" all the Ukrainian rear areas beyond Slavyansk and Kramatorsk."

"But with the "concreting" of success, our UAV units can catch up, which will be close to the remaining routes at the disposal of the enemy with their drones. This will disrupt the enemy's logistics without actually breaking through to all the routes," concludes Readovka.

Military correspondents also urge restraint towards the statements of the Ukrainian side. According to Mikhail Zvinchuk (author of the Rybar telegram channel), the AFU was affected by the shortage of personnel. The Russian Armed Forces are developing an offensive near Pokrovsky, while it is still difficult to talk about what forces the army will use in the current military operation. military correspondent Yuri Kotenok assesses the situation in a similar way — although the actions of the Russian military could be called an exit to operational space, much depends on how events will develop in the near future.

As reported by EADaily, earlier, the ex-chief of staff of the Azov brigade, Bogdan Krotevich, in a public appeal to the head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, on the social network X, said that there was no longer a stable line of combat contact on the Pokrovsk — Konstantinovka section. He noted that Pokrovsk (Krasnoarmeysk) and Mirnograd are almost surrounded, Konstantinovka is in a semi—circle, the Russian army is advancing towards Kramatorsk and Druzhkovka.

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