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2022-12-26 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
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'Every house, every street is gnawed out' - Why is it difficult to get through to the front line, and cities are not taken in a hurry
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Aleksandr Kots
[KP] KP military correspondent Alexander Kots answered the questions of the readers of our newspaper in the Youtube stream of Komsomolskaya Pravda - why the United States won’t just give up the conflict in Ukraine and how to deliver a package to a native fighter in the special operation zone
What Voencor "KP" does in HRC
- First of all, we congratulate you on your inclusion in the Human Rights Council under the President of Russia. What is your activity in this Council?
- This is actually an advisory body that develops proposals for the president on the development of civil society and the protection of human rights. This organization does not work with citizens' appeals. There is an office of the Commissioner for Human Rights Moskalkova, that's where they deal with citizens' appeals.
But there are many representatives of human rights organizations (and not only) in the HRC who work with these appeals. For example, Tatyana Georgievna Merzlyakova, the Ombudsman of the Sverdlovsk Region, who traveled several times to the special operation zone, actually communicated with the fighters at the front. I enter the Council as a representative of the military corps. But there is no organization behind me, so I deal with citizens' appeals personally, as far as I have enough time and energy.
- Can something be solved?
- We didn't have a field post office. Now she has appeared, but there are complaints about her work, some parcels are being returned, they do not reach the addressee. Not always some things happen through the fault of the Ministry of Defense. I dealt with the case of one woman, whose two parcels did not reach. There are still shortcomings in the work of the Russian Post. Because it was the first time they encountered it. Now a lot of things are automated at the post office - I put a tick in the wrong place - and that's it, the parcel is being returned.
These problems are currently being worked on. The connection of relatives with the fighters is very important. The family of a regular military man is well aware that if a husband, father or son does not get in touch for a month, this is normal, this is what happens with a serviceman. And when people are civilians, a month ago their son worked at a factory, and now he is a soldier, and he hasn’t been in contact for two weeks, people are already worried.
There are places in the special operation zone where the connection does not catch or where it is forbidden to go on the air, because the enemy will hit the cellular signal right there. Therefore, I would urge relatives not to try to make your son or husband constantly call you. Sometimes a call from the front line is a danger.
How to deliver thermal imager
- We have the following question: “Who can I ask for help with thermal imagers? The husband is mobilized, he wrote to our governor, he said that big expenses ... "
- It is necessary to look for volunteers in their regions. Or turn to those who have already proven themselves. There is no single center that you would call and they immediately sent you what you needed. And, unfortunately, there is such a saying: "To whom is war, to whom is mother dear." There are cases when humanitarian aid, which is sent at the request of a fighter, is suddenly sold somewhere on the black market.
Therefore, if I, for example, work with someone, then only at the request of the commanders of a particular regiment or brigade. Here comes the artilleryman to the chief of artillery of the regiment: "I need three copters, two thermal imagers." He calls me. These are the ones I work with all the time, I can't supply everyone. There are divisions with which we have established good relations, I help them.
This is also a job - to find a supply channel. There is no such thing as here it is, the free market, choose a volunteer who will work for you. But proactive commanders are building it all up themselves. And where the commander does not want to do this, there is a little worse with the supply.
Mobilized fellows and there is promotion
- There was a popular forecast that the fighting would slow down with the advent of winter. Winter has come, but our Artemovsk is successfully pushed through. There are battles for Soledar, Avdievka...
- The Great Patriotic War was not interrupted for the winter. Yes, and the capture of the Donetsk airport in 2015 or the battles for Debaltseve also went in the winter. It is clear that now the activity of heavy equipment has decreased. Because the thaw has turned the fields into an impenetrable mule, and driving tanks on the asphalt is ruining the roads. At the same time, we see that the enemy attacks on the Swatovka line literally every day. But the attacks are repulsed there. By the way, already our mobilized.
We see a “meat grinder” around Artemovsk, a step-by-step offensive is underway in the Ugledar area, a movement towards Avdiivka, heavy, stubborn, because every house and street is being gnawed out. The enemy is very strong. That is, there are positional battles, but with little advancement. The volume of work of Russian artillery has increased by an order of magnitude. Moreover, the accuracy has increased.
- Due to what?
- We have come to the conclusion that we are forming the same reconnaissance-strike circuit, when the target from the scouts at the forefront is directly transferred to the gun, and it opens fire within 2 minutes, you can count it instantly. And in such a scheme, the mobilized are already successfully working. I ask their commanders: “But how do they shoot at all?” To which he is quite serious to me: “Jewelry!”
"I do not hide from problems. But this is my army!"
- We have people who do not fully understand what happened to Kherson. Andrei Gribanovsky asks: “Why do you constantly talk about the successes of the Russian army, and then this army leaves Kherson?”
- I cannot be responsible for everyone, I am only responsible for myself and for my reports. I am not writing that everything is fine with us, that there are no problems. I always talk about them. Maybe not as sharply as someone would like, because after all, this is my army. And the solution of problems in it depends on me, among other things. I am participating in this, unlike those who are on the sofas blaming our native Armed Forces. According to Kherson, there is no simple answer. There it was impossible to completely protect the supply lines. Therefore, unfortunately, we had to leave the city so that our grouping could take up defense along already prepared lines.
Yes, it was a heavy legacy that General Surovikin inherited from previous commanders. It is clear that when we started the special operation, we counted on something else. But it turned out that the Ukrainian army was being prepared for this conflict. It turned out that the population was brainwashed with Russophobia, and no one met us with cakes and flowers. For some it was a revelation. Unfortunately, many still lived with the 2014 notions of the Ukrainian army. But that doesn't mean we lost. Here you can delve into the reasons for a long time, but the people who are fighting do not have time for this, they are doing their job.
When Zelenskiy wants negotiations
- Zelensky said there would be no talks until Russia retreats to the 1991 borders. Where do all these statements come from?
- It is very difficult to suspect Zelensky of independence. If his curators want to force him to negotiate with Russia, he will be the first to run and say - let's talk. Well, this is such a person as a pregnant woman - he has a very unstable mood.
“But he doesn’t agree with our terms?”
- We call on Kyiv to withdraw troops from the Donbass - well, it is clear that they will not do this there. There is still strength to resist. And Zelensky is not even worried about losses.
- Why is the arms of Ukraine still quietly supplied from the West?
“Maybe because we don’t have enough intelligence?” There are logical questions - why haven't we destroyed all the railway bridges and tunnels yet? First, they are very difficult to break. They were built under the Soviet Union to withstand air strikes. The experience of the same Antonovsky bridge near Kherson shows this. To make it clear, on the last night, Russian light vehicles came out on it. Although there were 142 hits on this bridge by the American Hymars. They just put thick iron sheets on top of the funnels. And we drove. And what can we say about railway bridges! You need a lot of high-precision weapons to bring them down.
But let's see how further attacks on the enemy's critical infrastructure will be carried out, because this also has a great effect. Let it not be lightning fast, let it be cumulative.
- Here the question is raised that Ukrainian cities remain without electricity and water ...
- I have a dispute with the citizens of Ukraine in absentia about this. Listen, if you are left without electricity or water, then Donetsk has been without water for several months. Kyiv has been killing the infrastructure of Donbass for eight years, but everyone was silent and silent. I see it here, but I don't see it here. So it turns out? And the problems of electricity at social facilities are solved very simply - with diesel generators. You will ask your authorities why generators are not installed in your hospitals. Why is it more important for your authorities to spend money on shells with which they hit the peaceful quarters of Donetsk?! Ask about it.
Our defense is here who can break he conflict
- Obviously, the main beneficiaries of the conflict in Ukraine are not even the West as a whole, but the United States. What needs to happen for them to say - that's it, enough, stop.
- They won't stop at anything. I assure you, they have no goal for Ukraine to defeat Russia. They have one goal - to destroy Russia. To exhaust economically, to shake from the inside - this is the task of the Americans. Many may say that this is a stamp, propaganda. But no! This is reality.
And therefore, it seems to me that the main beneficiaries can be Russian industry, the defense industry, science, which now, as in the Great Patriotic War, should grow by leaps and bounds and supply to the front line what could break the conflict. We have no other choice right now. When the United States is so close to its cherished goal - to destroy Russia - they will not simply give up this goal.
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