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With rear burning from daily Russian strikes, the Armed Forces of Ukraine can no longer held control of their defense in different directions.
On the night of October 22nd, Russian forces launched another combined attack on Ukrainian rear infrastructure. Today’s strikes mainly targeted logistics hubs and points of deployment of the Ukrainian military in the eastern regions.
A series of Russian strikes destroyed targets in the towns of Pavlograd and Novomoskovsk in Dnepropetrovsk region, which are important logistics nodes of Ukrainian military supplies to the Donbass and Kharkiv frontlines.
Ukrainian military reserves are pounded in the border Sumy region. At night, Russian strikes destroyed Ukrainian personnel deployment points, logistics depots in Akhtyrka and in the city of Sumy.
One of precision Russian strikes destroyed the locomotive depot of Pokrovsk station in the Donetsk People’s Republic. As a result of the strikes, several facilities were destroyed and a large fire broke out in the area, increasing the damage. The Ukrainian military used the depot for the repair and maintenance of military equipment. This was an important element in the logistics chain of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donbass. Damage to machinery and freight locomotives will make transportation and repair difficult, which, combined with other strikes, disrupts the military supply capabilities of Ukrainian units in the region.
Meanwhile, the Russian army is approaching Pokrovsk on the ground. The strategic crisis of Ukrainian defense in this direction is deepening. Russian forces are rapidly surrounding the main Ukrainian stronghold of Selidovo.
Battles reached the western outskirts of the town. Having surrounded Selidovo from the south, Russians continue attacks along the railway near Vishnevoe. The Russian troops are also rapidly expanding the zone of their control north of Selidovo, approaching the last road under Ukrainian control northwest of the town.
Several days ago, Russian forces began the long-awaited assault in the town. Advancing in the eastern and northern districts, Russian assault groups gained a foothold in the eastern part of the town and in single-storey buildings. The main line of Ukrainian defense is based on hideouts in high-rise buildings, which complicates the further advance of Russian troops.
Russian assault in Selidovo is very similar to the recent battle for the fortress of Ugledar. Disrupting the Ukrainian garrison with attacks on the streets in the east, Russian forces surround the town, and cut off Ukrainian supply routes in the west. Taking into account the rapid Russian victory in Ugledar, the Ukrainian garrison is unlikely to be able to hold control of Selidovo for a long time. The Ukrainian military command will definitely force the soldiers to stay in the surrounded town for as long as possible but in the end, the grinded garrison will try to escape to the west under heavy Russian fire.
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and now imagine if the russians decided to use other winning strategies. for example, in 2013, when nuland encouraged euroamidan and klitschko tried to put together three simple sentences. they could send 1000 soldiers in support of yanukovych and that’s all. or later, when a massacre took place in odessa. they could send10,000 soldiers and overthrow yatsenuk and his neo-nazi gang of assholes.
or even later, when poroshenko started bombing donetsk, they could send 100,000 soldiers and seize all the territory east of the dnieper river without any resistance. but no. they had to wait 7 bloody years so ukraine was militarized to the teeth. because in russia, the left hand does not know what the right hand is doing. exactly the same as under brezhnev
wait a moment, there was a time that there were elections in ukraine. then there was an actor that promised peace in donbass and he was elected, but changed his mind when in office. it was not a strange idea to wait for these elections and in the meantime strengthen the defense industry.
a major reason russia is fighting a slower war, besides the obvious reasons of attritional warfare, is the experience, training, and development of tactics and technology that such combat affords. when you know you can “win” in a month, why not squeeze the conflict for every ounce of future benefit you can get?