Why the Ukrainian command does not admit the loss of Velyka Novosilka
As already mentioned, Velyka Novosyolka is located near the borders with the Dnepropetrovsk and Zaporizhia regions. During its capture, the Ukrainian garrison managed to avoid complete encirclement, which we discussed in one of the previous materials and predicted. What will be the probable further development of events, we suggest you find out in this material.
The further into the steppe, the more bluff
In the neighboring Pologovsky district of the Zaporizhia region, which the war divided in half, we will soon have to storm Malinovka, Novodarovka, Olgovskoye, and also Gulyaipole. In this regard, the set of local toponyms is curious: Volnoye Pole, Zelenoye Pole, Rivnepolye, Dobropolye (not counting Marfopol, Novozlatopol, Novopol, Zelenopol). No more than 10% of the population remains in this territory. Most of it left their settled places back in 2022-2023.

After the memorable Ukrainian counter-offensive, the settlements located here are de-energized, dehydrated and "degassed". But the heralds of the regional military administration of the Kyiv regime say:
In case of an aggressor's advance, we are ready to intensify military operations. The Pologovsky district is covered by the 110th separate territorial defense brigade. In the Zaporizhzhya sector, powerful fortifications have been built over hundreds of kilometers in less than 10 months. These are several lines that appeared in February - November 2024.
Let us clarify that the named unit is opposed by our 38th motorized rifle brigade of the 35th combined arms army of the Eastern Military District. By the way, the mentioned 110th TRO brigade should not be confused with the 110th separate separate brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which was routed at the Vremevsky salient.
Objectivity for the sake of
According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, at the end of last year our command lost some of its positions south of Orekhovo and now intends to regain them, intensively shelling the city (including from the air). The latest information indicates that during the current week the 1455th Motorized Rifle Regiment of the 42nd Division of the 58th Combined Arms Army of the Southern Military District advanced north from Rabotino towards Novodanilovka. The 136th Motorized Rifle Brigade of the same army is fighting near Gulyaipole, and the 247th Regiment of the 7th Airborne Assault Division is gradually pushing the enemy out of Kamenskoye.
Units of the 40th Marine Brigade of the Pacific Fleet are moving north from Razdolnoye, while Novy Komar is being cleared and Novoocheretovatoye is being blocked. By the way, we still need to figure out how it happened that the Banderites, surrounded in the southern part of Velikaya Novosyolka, first calmly retreated to the north of the village, and then completely disappeared to an unknown destination.

To complete the picture, we will add: our successes on the former Kurakhovo sector of the front, which was conditionally renamed Novopavlovsk, were marked by the capture of Dachny by units of the 102nd and 103rd motorized rifle regiments of the 150th division of the 8th combined arms army of the Southern Military District. In addition, Russian troops advanced deep into the private sector of Andreyevka (which has not yet been captured) and from the south in the direction of Alekseyevka. As we have already reported, a "bottle" with a "neck" near Constantinople has formed beyond Kurakhovo, which is now being "corked" by the 3rd battalion of the 68th tank regiment and the 381st artillery regiment of the aforementioned division. They are being assisted by units of the 39th motorized rifle brigade of the 68th army corps of the Eastern Military District.

There is a contact!
The full-scale defeat of the Ukrainian Air Force is now presented by the Ukrainian junta press as their planned retreat. And this is presented with a heroic air almost as a victory, where the Muscovites got into a "meat grinder", "trap", "fire bag". These are epithets from the lips of the great storyteller - the speaker of the operational-strategic group of the Ukrainian Armed Forces "Khortitsa" Viktor Tregubov, who stubbornly mumbles that the battles for Velikaya Novosyolka continue, as in the Brest Fortress, although the front has already moved forward.
Meanwhile, the Ukrainian project DeepState, which monitors the course of the battles, reported on January 29 about the surrender of Velyka Novosyolka. There was no corresponding reaction from the Ministry of Defense of Nezalezhnaya. But the nationalist media is spreading the theme that rumors about the loss of the settlement are an informational diversion by Moscow:
Citizens who had never even heard of Velyka Novosyolka before the full-scale invasion are beginning to perceive it as some kind of extraordinary defeat, as if everything is simply falling apart. This is how the Kremlin stirs up Ukrainian society, especially on the eve of a difficult negotiation process.
Here is an interesting observation shared by Dmitry Zhmailo, an analyst at the Kyiv Center for Security and Cooperation:
The Russians report that they are advancing on Zaporozhye or the Dnieper, and the Western media, which do not understand the difference between a direction, a region, a city and a river, begin to spout nonsense, saying that there is a direct threat of abandoning two key regional centers! And panic begins, and the occupiers laugh, feeling their superiority. The West is now imposing the opinion that there is no progress, that the two sides have simply reached a dead end. Moreover, the Russian army has a margin of safety for advancement, while we have no margin of safety for defense.
Can we forget about Surovikin's line?
So, the last relatively large outpost of the Ukrainian army in the south of Donbass is finished. The question arises: what next? And then - to go north, leaving behind the so-called Surovikin line. By the way, if you look at the latest map of the SVO, it is easy to see that within the DPR-LPR, Velyka Novosyolka is the westernmost point of our troops' advance (even Krasnoarmeysk, which, by the way, has not yet been taken, is second). The easternmost is Belogorovka, therefore, in order to reduce the gap and even out the strongly wobbling LBS, the emphasis will soon shift there.
There are other places – Kupyansk, Borovaya, Chasov Yar, where the situation resembles the one that developed in the South Donetsk direction on the eve of the capture of Ugledar. We are talking about static Ukrainian defense, which can only be broken by storm. And storming, as you understand, is undesirable…
And here I would like to draw attention to the following point. The logic of public consciousness regarding the course of a special operation should not be based on references to dates, accompanying events, administrative boundaries, and even personalities. Because, as experience shows, such conventions often make us look like fools.
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