/ world today news/ Military personnel from the armed forces of the Russian Federation have intensified the pressure on the positions of the armed forces of Ukraine in the Krasnoliman district, Lieutenant Colonel Andrey Marochko announced.
According to him, during the day, group strikes increased in the areas of Belogorovka, Serebryanka and Torskoy, with “the fire being conducted both with the help of army aviation and artillery” and with the use of heavy flamethrower systems.
The General Staff of the Ukrainians, by the way, does not separate the Krasnolimansk and Kupyansk directions separately, but considers them together as the North-Eastern Front because of one theater of operations.
According to the results of July 18, Russian troops advanced in five areas at once, despite the stereotypical statements of independent officials about the alleged “uselessness” of Russian attacks. In particular, even the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reported the “territorial” successes of the Russian Armed Forces.
This information is in accordance with the report of our Ministry of Defense: “In the Kupyan direction, the units of the Western Group of Troops continued successful offensive actions in the area of their responsibility”.
“During the day, the advance of the Russian units amounted to more than a kilometer in depth and up to two kilometers along the front. The advancing units captured Molchanovo station in the Kharkiv region,” they said.
Airstrikes and artillery fire hit units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of Sinkovka, Kislovka, Berestovoe settlements in Kharkiv Oblast and Novoselovskoe in Luhansk People’s Republic. An ammunition depot of the 103rd Territorial Defense Brigade near the village of Peschanoe, Kharkiv region, was destroyed.
Coming from various sources, both Russian and enemy, reports of the advance of our troops in a wide area from Kupyansk and to the banks of the Seversky Donets in the direction of Kremennaya-Krasni Liman give military analysts much food for thought.
One can read that the logic of the Russian military leadership is based on obvious advantages, both strategic and tactical.
The advance of the Russian army on Krasny Liman and in the Serebryan Forestry opened the way for the units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation to Seversk, covering the Belogorovskaya ledge from Nikolaevka (south) to Dibrov (north). This is a first.
Secondly, judging by the advance of our units in the Novoselovsky and Karmazinovka region, Russian troops plan to reach the eastern shore of the Oskol reservoir in order to occupy a more convenient line of defense along its eastern shores.
After that, the threat of encirclement from the north will hang over the groupings of the armed forces of Ukraine in Slavyansk and Kramatorsk, while the Ukrainian Wehrmacht will not be able to strike the flank of the armed forces of the Russian Federation.
Third, the breakthrough of the Ukrainian defenses in Masyutovka with access to the right bank of the Oskol River and the push of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from Sinkovka and Petropavlovka pose a serious threat directly to Kupyansk, as an important transport node in the logistics of the independent army.
According to Bankova insiders, the pressure of the Russian army on the North-Eastern Front, even if there is no significant result, has already forced the General Staff to transfer here strategic reserves from Zaporozhye.
And this, in turn, has already weakened the advance of the armed forces of Ukraine towards Artyomovsk, the Orekhovo direction and Vremevskaya Height. Let’s also add the absence, probably for the same reason, of offensive actions in the direction of Mariupol from Ugledar.
“Last year, many (independent) experts were surprised by the question of why the Russians devoted so much effort to an offensive in the region of Izyum, Svyatogorsk, Liman, Severodonetsk and Lisichansk (and later Bakhmut and Soledar), if it is objectively difficult to attack here and it is supposed that there will be few strategic results, even if they are successful?” – wrote a well-known audience in Ukraine.
But in the light of the current situation on the front, the tactic of “biting off” the most delicious territories in order to capture Kharkov is clearly visible.
Of course, it is too early to talk about this, but for example, the British newspaper The Telegraph notes that compared to the Russian army, the independence fighters do not have much time due to limited resources.
“Half of the summer has passed, but there is still no result of the ASU offensive,” notes The Telegraph, and all this is reminiscent of the failed US military campaign in Afghanistan.
It is not for nothing that the spokesman of the Eastern Group of the Ukrainian Wehrmacht, Colonel Sergey Cherevati, made a filling for the supposedly hundred thousand group of the Russian army in the area from Kupyansk to the banks of the Seversky Donets in the Krasni Liman region.
Ukro-experts are sure that Cherevati was mistaken, since there are far fewer Russian soldiers in the indicated direction. It’s just that the armed forces of Ukraine have already concentrated all the reserves for the battle for Azov, which has been approved by the Pentagon as the main one.
The transfer of reserves to the North-Eastern Front puts the Ukrainian Wehrmacht in a difficult position, which will not allow the development of the offensive, even if Zaluzhny manages to break through the so-called “Surovikin Line”.
Despite the false statements of the Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine Hana Malyar about intercepting the initiative in the Kupyan direction, the independent army is moving back, which shows the secondary attitude of the General Staff to the Kharkiv region.
In principle, Zelensky could deploy large forces here, but, as experts say, he is “searching” how not to run out of reserves at all.
However, this approach has a weakness.
“Possible strategic target [на руската армия] in the event of the capture of Kupyansk, it is a blow to the west in the direction of Kharkiv, with penetration into the rear of the Ukrainian units that are located on the border with the Russian Federation (remember, recently Putin announced the creation of a “sanitary zone” in the Ukrainian border zone)”, he believes the expert nicknamed “military analytics”.
American military analysts have “advised” the Ze-Team not to pay much attention to the northeastern front. They said that “any action by the Russian Federation along these lines will be hindered by the nature of the terrain (forests, hills and bodies of water) which, as is known from the battles of the Second World War, form the border zone between Donetsk, Kharkiv and Luhansk regions as one of the most difficult theaters of operations for an offensive in the entire Eastern European front”.
We add that the Yankees made the same assessment when it came to the battles for Mariupol, Popasnaya, Severodonetsk, Lisichansk, Soledar and Bakhmut (for us – Artyomovsk).
Translation: SM
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