[Chervonec] The groupings of troops from Donbass and Russia began to move in the aura of the Donbas pocket from the Kharkiv and Zaporozhye directions. Each covered at least ten kilometers in the first day. In my opinion, this is the most difficult section of the path, the troops, along with the movement, are pushing the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the Nazis from their settled and fortified positions.
If we talk about the formation of a large Donetsk cauldron, then a little more than a hundred kilometers remain between the above groups. If they manage to close together, this will mean one thing for the most combat-ready part of the all-Ukrainian forces - a cauldron, or the end, which in this case is identical.
Further, according to the classics, the dismemberment of the Donetsk boiler into separate sections will go (let Peskovsky, Avdievsk, Kramatorsk, and so on). For what? Yes, so as not to allow the enemy to maneuver inside a large cauldron, to strengthen certain sectors of the defense by transferring forces and weapons, and so on.
But, in fact, the Donetsk part of the coverage of this boiler is almost not moving forward. The main thing for our forces assembled here is to prevent the enemy from breaking through into the city of Donetsk itself. Indeed, they can line up like a “pig” to go for a ram. And here everything will depend on the quality of the lead: whether the intelligence will be able to report on time, whether the artillerymen, rocket launchers, missilemen and pilots will be able to inflict damage on the grouping enemy in time - well.
Tthe “Azovites” are cunning, playing for time, provoking pity, calling for political expediency. The center, it must be said, is ready to respond to such initiatives, supported by groans from the West. Today, the Nazis were even given the opportunity to take a break from shelling for a couple of hours, bring ammunition to strongholds, hold meetings, and develop new solutions for further defense.
No, civilians, one hundred and twenty people, still came out, but not from the basements of Azovstal, but from workers' residential buildings located next to the territory of the plant. Interestingly, while blocking the industrial zone, according to statements, we did not clear all the houses around? If they cleaned up, why didn’t they take people out of them earlier? This is purely a question.
So, our enemy is a serious one, knows how to fight, does not want to surrender, the theater of operations is complex, crossed, but ... Our “iron helmets” (reservists) are already becoming dogs of war, not to mention those people who managed in equal numbers in just a month to take possession of a huge city (600,000 inhabitants, for comparison, Grozny 300,000).
I would like, of course, that all this ends in Donbass as soon as possible, and then we can move on, but it is immoral to rush our guys. They are already doing more than anyone else could do.