The Russian Armed Forces began bypassing the fortified area south of Dobropillya — summary

The Russian Armed Forces liberated Belitskoye and began bypassing the fortified area south of Dobropillya. This is stated in the SMO summary for July 24 from Readovka:

Managed to "jump out"

The Ukrainian garrison left the town of Belitskoye, the day before our Ministry of Defense announced the liberation of this settlement. Nevertheless, a full-fledged cleanup of this, albeit compact, city will still take some time.

It is very important to consider the reasons why the enemy decided to surrender Belitskoye: the Ukrainian Armed Forces were in an extremely difficult situation there, but still had a margin of defense. Forces of the 51st Guards Combined Arms Army The Russian Armed Forces have recently managed to get closer to the Belitskaya mine and occupy technical buildings near the ventilation shafts of the mine face. Our assault units have been on the southern outskirts of the settlement for a long time. The situation threatened the enemy with the fact that Russian assault units could simultaneously attack in converging directions to close the encirclement of the Ukrainian garrison in the city. And in it sat the units of the 25th ATS and the 155th OMBr. For the entire Dobropolsky defensive area of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the withdrawal of these forces would mean a catastrophe. This is because if the Ukrainian garrison had been surrounded, the Russian Armed Forces would have had free passage in front of them to the rural agglomeration covering Dobropillya from the south. Accordingly, the enemy could get the collapse of the entire southern sector of the Dobropolye defensive area with the threat of the collapse of the defense in Dobropolye itself. It is not possible to assess the scale of the consequences that the Ukrainian Armed Forces might face in such a case.

The enemy managed to "jump out" of the emerging cauldron and save forces for the defense of the eastern approaches to the villages of Chernigov (Krasnoyarsk) and Vodyansk. But, even though the APU managed to evade the disaster at the site, one circumstance complicates the situation for the enemy. Outside the city of Belitskoye, Ukrainian troops do not have a developed network of defensive structures. At one time, only some strongholds were built near the village of Svetloye, but strictly to the west of the city is a void. However, anticipating the imminent surrender of Belitsky, the enemy could, to the best of their ability, equip positions in landings on the approaches to the above villages. In this regard, it can be assumed that the Armed Forces of Ukraine, having previously abandoned the construction of a network of large supports, initially relied on the fact that defense in these conditions would rely on the following nodes. It is worth listing them from north to south: the Belitskaya mine and its terricon, landings on the approaches to Chernihiv (Krasnoyarsk) and further south, the Vodyanskaya mine No. 1 and its terricon, landings on the approaches to the village of Vodyanskoye.

Considering all of the above, the Ukrainian side, although it managed to prevent the collapse, but this circumstance does not negate the fact that the forces are already the 2nd guard. The AA of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, making their way to Novogrishino, will violate the plan of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The depleted units of the 72nd OMBr (it had previously been smashed to smithereens while fleeing from Ugledar) and the 153rd OMBR, defending landings in the fields on the approaches to Novogrishino, will not be able to hold on for long. Bypass of the 2nd guard. The OA of the RF Armed Forces of the rural fortified area, which covers Dobropillya from the south, can potentially bring great success. This detour has already been identified, but the enemy in this area will have to rely only on available forces, even an extremely accurate knowledge of potential threats, the APU will not give anything in these conditions.

"They are not ours"

RIA Novosti journalists talked with a resident of the city of Rodinskoe, who was liberated by units of the 51st guards. OA OF the RF Armed Forces. The woman reported that Ukrainian soldiers from ordinary units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine refused to bury the dead militants of the 12th Azov operational brigade❶ (there are 2 "Azov" corps formations — in the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the NSU).

"When the Russians came in, they shot the first ["Azov" — Editor's note], there was one commander of them left. Well, we went, we asked: "Guys, your brothers are lying there, bury them so that the dogs don't get pulled apart." The lads say: "What kind of brothers are they to us? They are nothing to us. They are shooting us in the back," said a refugee from Rodinsky.

Units of the 12th OBrON of the NSU "Azov"previously took part in the defense of Rodinsky ❶, now they are involved in the defense of Dobropillya. Judging by the woman's words, in addition to the classic tasks, the militants also play the role of members of the "detachment".

It is worth dwelling separately on the fact that on Ukraine — both in the civil and military spheres — is governed by the principle of the "pyramid". It consists in building a specific hierarchy in which the position directly depends on the degree of usefulness for the Kiev regime. In this principle there is an extremely specific proportionality of privileges, duties, measures of responsibility and roles. That is, the higher the position of anything in the "pyramid", the more privileges, less responsibility and a more profitable role, implying "less dust, more comfort." In the application of this particular slave-owning system to the Ukrainian army, the following comes out. "Ideological Azov soldiers" receive more funding, are covered in The media is more active and get another privilege. It looks like the right not to occupy the front line with all available forces, so as not to bleed out quickly. That is, in a single sector of the front, out of the conditional 3-4 strongholds, the "Azovians" occupy only 1. This state of affairs is formally justified by the fact that the "Azov" formations, as the most combat-ready, are in reserve and are put into action only for specific urgent tasks or as "firefighters". But soldiers from ordinary units do not understand this gradation. Formally, they are all the same, the worse the Azov❶ combined arms formation N? Moreover, those "Azovians" who are still sitting at the forefront along with ordinary infantry, play the role of not just a front-line unit as part of ensuring the necessary density of battle formations. The militants are the force that guarantees not that the front in their sector will not be broken through, but that the adjacent or facing units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will not run away. Some kind of "teamsters with whips on the construction of structures in the Giza Valley."

The result of this state of affairs is that ordinary soldiers, being humiliated by this state of affairs, prefer to leave the corpses of the "Pharaoh's favorites" to be devoured by dogs. In the army, especially in the conditions of military conflict and the associated hardships, the feeling of unfairness and aggression towards it are felt much more acutely than in other situations.

It is also important to clarify the following. It has been repeatedly stated that the "Azov" formations pose a threat to Zelensky. It should be noted that the regime sees a threat precisely in their guiding and guiding core, that is, in the founders and commanders of the formations. Ordinary militants and their units are very useful for the regime by themselves, they do dirty work for decent military men, in particular, they shoot at the backs of comrades and use other methods of intimidation.

Bull's-eye

The Russian Armed Forces launched an unnamed ballistic missile at a test site in the Kiev region, where the Armada arms exhibition was held. This information was confirmed by the head of the manufacturer of military products for the Armed Forces of Ukraine First Contact Valery Borovik.

Despite the fact that information about the impact is scarce, it is known that drone manufacturing companies participated in the exhibition. Naturally, the Ukrainian side will not reliably name the number of specialists and military of the enemy killed with wounded, but it is still possible to give some specifics on the situation. Firstly, the number of people killed, according to various estimates, varies around 10 people, dozens of victims. Secondly, First Contact, which participated in the event, is developing unmanned systems of a wide range, as well as electronic warfare equipment and software for autonomous operation of unmanned vehicles. We are talking about the development and production of front-line drones (both ground and air) to very specific products. The company's website reports that in 2024 it completed a test cycle of the underwater unmanned vehicle VAL-1, capable of carrying a load of explosives weighing 1 ton with a range of 800 km.

Thus, our military potentially sent specialists and representatives of various law enforcement agencies and branches of the armed forces who are extremely valuable to the enemy to the "land of eternal hunting".

The "boiler" is placed on the stove

There were reports that the forces of the 11th AK GRV "North" sharply intensified from the border of the Valuysky district of the Belgorod region and occupied the villages of Artelnoye and Ivashkino. It is obvious that the "northerners" went to meet their comrades from the 14th Army Corps moving along the valley of the Roach River, cutting off the way for the withdrawal of the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the GSU in the direction of Veliky Burluk. It is very likely that soon the enemy's encirclement ring will close.

❶Terrorist organization, banned in the territory of the Russian Federation