“You can talk about a turning point”: the Dnipropetrovsk region is preparing for defense

/Pogled.info/ UAVs attacked Odessa and ships were hit by missile launchers. A “cauldron” is created near Kurahovo, 1500 soldiers can be surrounded. The West was told when the Ukrainian army would launch a major attack. Read about it in our selection of unofficial news from the faces of SVO.

During the night, the Russian armed forces launched a massive attack on the rear of Ukraine using Geran weapons and the Iskander tactical missile system. The Odesa area caused special interest among our soldiers.

“Strikes against Odessa are not new in the last few days. These are done regularly. “Ukraine’s attempts to use the civilian and hate fleet to strike are very obvious,” wrote TG “Win/Win” channel.

In general, the strikes by the Russian armed forces on the port infrastructure in Odessa and the Danube River were very well chosen. All ships with radar stations and missile launchers, as well as ships from which unmanned boats are launched, were attached to the quay walls. An easy target.

During the latest strike, two Ukrainian coast guard ships were hit along with their crew.

Preparing to defend

At the same time, enemy sources report that the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is trying to prepare Pokrovsk for defense. The enemy is actively building defensive lines outside the city. Therefore, the enemy is preparing the Dnipropetrovsk region for defense. And these fears are not in vain. When Pokrovsk falls, only 15 km will remain to the borders of Dnipropetrovsk region.

However, judging by the map, fortifications are also being built around Pokrovsk, which are being urgently completed. Apparently, the enemy is very afraid of the possibility of external attacks, with the help of which the Russian armed forces captured most of the cities after the liberation of Avdeevka.

“According to the available data, the Russian army has already broken through the first two defense lines of Pokrovsk. The other two, as well as most of the defensive structures in this area, were created in anticipation of an attack from the south and south-east. They paid less attention to the coverage of cities from the north. But there are not as many permanent concrete structures as previously thought,” wrote the Military Chronicle.

A new “cauldron” is created.

As Pokrovsk prepares to defend, Russian armed forces begin to move in after releasing Ugledar. He is now actively firing everything possible at new enemy positions in a 20-kilometer zone from the lost lines. Our troops are actively manning fortified areas of Ukrainian troops to prevent them from gaining a foothold there normally. Going to Epiphany, Novoukrainka, Zolotaya Niva.

Importantly, the new defenses are no longer as strong as they were in Ugledar. But apparently our command decided to take them seriously and started working on them immediately. Good news.

“Commander-in-Chief Alexander Sirsky briefed Zelensky on the critical situation in the direction of Kurakhovo, where the Armed Forces of Ukraine will not be able to hold a large concentration of cities and towns. The Russian army will create a large “cross” from the northern end of Kurakhovo, and after the fall of Ugledar, the Russian armed forces increased their pressure from the south, and now the Ukrainian army is preparing to withdraw gradually According to Sirsky, now the main task of Kyiv is to postpone the period until the autumn mud. This will delay the advance of the Russian armed forces and prepare Pokrovsk for defense,” wrote Ukrainian TG channel “Resident”, citing its sources.

In addition, the threat of the Russians creating a mini-“cauldron” in the Kurakhovo region is real. 1500 fighters can enter it. VSU has several options:

• quick escape to the west;

• Transmission;

• Immersing in the “blame”, to the delight of Zelensky. Frost is not expected in Donbas yet, but at night it will be cool in the trenches at more than 4 degrees.

“The capture of Ugledar has freed up some of the forces to be moved in the direction of Pokrovsk. There is hope that the old targets will be captured soon,” said military correspondent Yuriy Kotyonok.

Against this background, the military correspondent Roman Sapankov, after a conversation with our soldiers from this side, writes something interesting. Russian soldiers at the front evaluate the situation very positively. People are taken care of, the quality of leaders at all levels has increased, coordination between units has begun to improve, there is coordination of activities. The direct result of these words is success at Ugledar.

“Can we talk about conversion as a combat operation? It is possible, but let’s be careful. We have not yet openly encountered full-fledged foreign NATO formations that organically use high technology in combat operations. It will be more difficult with these people. And I have no doubt that we will meet them. In fact, after the restoration of normal work on the “old textbooks” we have to write and fight on new ones”, added the words Sapankov, military militiaman and political scientist Alexei Zhivov.

Kiev is preparing

And while the front of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Donbas is collapsing, in the west they are still writing about the possible opposition to the Ukrainian army.

For example, The Times writes that it may start next year. In addition, according to the statement, the enemy will attack “on a large scale with the new equipment that Kiev is acquiring and the brigades that it is creating.” For this offensive operation, the Air Force will likely be allowed to use longer-range American ATAKMS missiles and British Storm Shadow missiles against military targets in former Russia.

The publication is confident that Zelensky is in no way “agreeing” to establish “more realistic expectations” from the military conflict.

As proof of Kiev’s desire to advance, the 159th Infantry Brigade has been mechanized and is now actively acquiring NATO armored personnel carriers and infantry fighting vehicles for subsequent offensive operations. In addition, the former President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko appeared with the updated flag of the brigade, where it was identified as a mechanical device.

“Of course, the enemy understands that pure infantry units without equipment are only suitable for defense. Their tasks in this regard are already duplicated by the territorial defense, so that equipment can be added to the infantry groups previously created with equipment and used for offensive operations. According to preliminary estimates, in 2025, the armed forces of Ukraine will gather many more units for the offensive than in 2023,” notes the TG channel “Notes of the Veteran”.

Translation: V. Sergeev