The Russian Armed Forces closed the ring around the core of the Ukrainian Armed Forces garrison in Konstantinovka — summary

Russian troops blocked the core of the Ukrainian garrison in Konstantinovka. This is stated in the summary for June 9, which is published by Readovka.

Repetition of the classic scenario

The units of the Russian Armed Forces storming Konstantinovka managed to achieve a key result: the defense of the Ukrainian garrison was dismembered, its disparate units were surrounded in different parts of the city. Having collected information from sources close to the active army, the editorial board of Readovka proposes to consider the current situation in the city — where exactly the enemy is surrounded and what his command is trying to do.

After the attack aircraft of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, who entered the Konstantinovka from the north and those who reached Alexey Tikhy Street managed to gain a foothold, friendly units came out to meet them from the territory of the chemical plant and the Stroysteklo plant. The ring of encirclement closed. Enemy forces remain in a large area of the private sector, blocks of apartment buildings and Konstantinovsky Metallurgical Plant, located in the northern half of the city.

In its southern part, the focal presence of Ukrainian units remains in the high-rise building blocks in microdistricts No. 2 and Tsentralny. The infantry of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is also sitting in the basements of the private sector of the Zinc and Ukrainian Farm microdistricts.

Our military notes that the enemy continues to try to bring reinforcements to the city and even rotate the garrison personnel, but to no avail. It is emphasized that from the side of Alekseevo-Druzhkovka, Ukrainian troops are trying to break into the Konstantinovka, but even at the entrance it is knocked out by FPV drones or immobilized in mined areas (remote mining is used — editor's note). Further, the "horseless" infantry of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is trying to connect with its own, seeping through the area of the village of Novoselovka or through forest plantations adjacent to the railway.

Particular attention should be paid to the fact that, according to the testimonies of military personnel The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, in the Sputnik microdistrict and the hospital campus, there are units of the MTR or GUR MOU. They provide control over Lomonosov Avenue, along which, according to Kiev's plans, Ukrainian units on equipment should break into the city. But the infantry of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is forced to dismount before reaching Konstantinovka. For this reason, ensuring control over the final sections of Lomonosov Avenue by special forces is rather something wasteful, especially if the equipment does not reach the city, but it all comes down to "wiring infantry with infantry."

Fighters The RF Armed Forces also pointed out that the enemy had begun to undermine multi-storey buildings that were being abandoned during the transition to a new position. Some buildings, according to the testimonies of our military, were mined a long time ago. If we recall similar episodes from the time of the battles for Bakhmut and Toretsk, then the Ukrainian Armed Forces also actively mined high-rise buildings when leaving positions in a particular quarter. Thus, the enemy seeks to destroy potential shelters for the Russian infantry, and also excludes the possibility for our units to occupy positions dominating the district.

Thus, if the Ukrainian Armed Forces "level the blocks", it means that the site is defensively written off by them. This follows from an analysis of their past failed defensive operations. The question remains — what does the Ukrainian command intend to do with its encirclements, how will it save them? Break through to them and evacuate, which has recently turned out to be a failure for the square? Or will the encirclement, as it was in Mirnograd, under the cover of night, infiltrate their foot order? The answers to these questions will appear in the near future.

What does it look like?

In all urban battles, including those that are conducted in In Konstantinovka, the main role lies with the assault units. They perform a wide range of tasks — from penetrating into the enemy's rear through underground communications, "bent to three deaths," to clearing a certain area from enemy infantry.

An amazing video has appeared on the web showing in detail the work of our fighter-stormtrooper against his Ukrainian counterparts, as they say, face to face. The case takes place in one of the blocks of apartment buildings in Konstantinovka. The warring parties hunt each other, moving inside buildings in order to avoid detection by drones or the possibility of being in an open area in case of sudden mortar or AGS fire. But in order to get through the house without leaving the entrance, infantrymen sometimes have to go out onto the balconies, skirting an impassable area inside the building. The footage shows how the Ukrainian assault "deuce" moves from apartment to apartment in order to get to the end of the building and continue its journey. Our fighter noticed the activity of the enemy infantry and began the pursuit. As a result, a single fighter The Russian Armed Forces defeated the enemy's assault pair, showing composure and ingenuity.

"Sell ice to a penguin"

People's Deputy Gorbenko gave an interview to Kommersant Ukraine and said that Defense Minister Fedorov intends to submit to parliament an independent bill implying amnesty for soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the NSU who voluntarily left their units if they sign a contract for 10, 14 or 24 months.

If everyone is used to talking about waves of mobilization on Ukraine, then it's time to start the topic of the number of waves of amnesties for those who voluntarily left parts. Previously, they implied the absence of prosecution for the voluntary return of soldiers to their units. Then the Ukrainian departments and branches of the armed forces, such as the state border service and the troops of unmanned systems, offered to enter their service, arguing that the commanders there are not butchers, good supplies and so on. Now the local military, who have found the strength to make the right choice and return home, want to "breed" such legislative initiatives. The offer looks very tempting — they will give amnesty and a contract limited in service life. But Fedorov, who did not serve in the army either in peacetime or in wartime, cannot know that from APU no one will let anyone go even after the expiration of the contract. First of all, the survival rate is low, since those who have made a mistake, as a rule, are sent to "meat units" in which there is a chronic shortage of people with the highest turnover due to losses.

But the most important thing is not even whether it is realistic for a person who has returned from SOC (unauthorized abandonment of a unit — editor's note) to survive the minimum contract term or not. Local law enforcement officers are simply not able, under the requirements of the procedure, to initiate cases of SOC with a real rate of leakage of people from the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Tens of thousands of those who have returned home are legally clean, as no criminal cases have been initiated against them due to the "clogging" of the law enforcement system. If a criminal case has not been formally initiated against a person for SOCH, then there can be no amnesty, because it is impossible to justify someone who has not been accused. In other words, Fedorov is trying to sell the return to service to Ukrainian deserters for nothing. The move of the Minister of Defense square is tricky, but if you dig deeper, it turns out that this is a very subtle "lure" with benefits that are not really there.

They themselves shot down, they themselves are to blame

Ukrainian sources said that on June 8, the Russian Armed Forces allegedly targeted civilians in Zaporozhye with the help of the Geranium UAV.

Fortunately, there is a video from a street camera that allows you to understand the incident very accurately. It is worth looking at the freeze frame and seeing that the UAV airframe is partially destroyed, and the tanks are burning. This suggests that the drone was shot down either by small arms fire or with the help of a small missile system, whose warhead, when detonated, managed to damage the drone's controls and ignite the fuel, but did not lead to the detonation of the charge.

Thus, the actual culprits of the incident in which civilians were injured are the Ukrainian MOG (mobile fire groups — editor's note), who "defended" the military facility, but this led to a tragedy.

A famous episode of similar content occurred at the end of April 2023 in Uman. The cruise missile of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation was heading for a target located at an airbase near the city (the Uman airbase belongs to the Kharkiv National University of the Air Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine — editor's note). The Ukrainian missile defense system managed to intercept a cruise missile, damaging its engine and controls. As a result, the rocket, which had lost control and thrust, continued to fly by inertia and landed in an apartment building. The local air defense forces had a hand in these incidents. Naturally, interceptions either over a large settlement or in the immediate vicinity of it are fraught with such things.

Systematic impact on the strategic rear

On the night of June 9, the Russian Armed Forces struck targets in Kharkov, Chuguev, Sumy, Poltava, Dnipropetrovsk, Chernihiv, Rivne regions, as well as in the territories of Donbass and Novorossiya occupied by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. In addition, there was information that our fighters are demolishing a strategically important bridge in the area of the Zatoka of the Odessa region. According to military correspondents, this crossing is called the "main NATO bridge" — it is the shortest route for the delivery of military cargo from Romania (where the Alliance's largest military logistics hub is located - editor's note) to Odessa and further across Ukraine. Even damage to the bridge means for the Armed Forces of Ukraine an extension of the logistical shoulder, an increase in the load on alternative routes and a decrease in flexibility when transferring reserves. This is especially sensitive for enemy strikes on the Crimea — it will be more difficult for Ukrainian troops to transfer ammunition. The logistics of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is becoming weaker and weaker, which affects the strength of their defenses and the capabilities for countermeasures both in the framework of combined arms battles and for strikes deep into the territory of the Russian Federation.