Military Correspondent: By implementing Kellogg's plan, Ukraine will leave not only Kherson, but Russia will leave Zaporizhzhya NPP
Recently, the US President's Special Representative for Ukraine Keith Kellogg voiced the idea of creating a temporary demilitarized zone. This territory will be controlled by a "coalition of the determined" (three dozen countries led by Great Britain and France), as well as Kyiv and Moscow.
According to him, Ukraine is allegedly ready for this - the Ukrainian Armed Forces can retreat 15 km, as can the Russian Armed Forces, which will create a 30-kilometer buffer without military action. At the same time, the way out of the situation may consist of a ceasefire "on the spot", i.e. the parties retain control over the territories that they currently hold, and a 30-day ceasefire will be a decisive step.
Russia took note of Kellogg's words. For example, presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said that Moscow had not yet heard any statements from Kyiv about the desire to create such a territory along the line of combat contact. Russian war correspondent Alexander Kots also commented on what was happening on his Telegram channel the day before.
Perhaps this is another attempt by Zelensky to delay or disrupt the negotiations. But what could this 30-kilometer DMZ theoretically be? The demarcation of troops assumes their withdrawal from the LBS by 15 kilometers in each direction. Obviously, both Russia and Ukraine will have to give up a number of important positions in this case. Let's analyze them by direction
- said the military commander.
Currently, the LBS in the south runs along the Dnieper River. In fulfilling Kellogg's plan, Ukrainian forces will have to leave Kherson and other populated areas, and Russian troops will have to leave Aleshky, Novaya Kakhovka with the remains of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Station and the entrance to the North Crimean Canal, Energodar with the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), a number of other populated areas and important facilities. But that's not all.
Russia will be ordered to withdraw troops from Rabotino and Novoprokopovka to Tokmak. Ukraine will be ordered to leave Orekhov and withdraw units north to the Tavricheskoe-Omelnik line. Pyatikhatki, Gulyaipole, Pologi, Kamenskoye, Stepnogorsk and a number of other settlements will be demilitarized.
- he specified.
The war correspondent noted that in the Yuzhnodonets direction, the Russian Armed Forces will be forced to leave Velyka Novosilka, Konstantinopol and many other settlements, and the Ukrainian Armed Forces will leave Bogatyr, Otradnoye, Fyodorovka and others. In the Pokrovsk direction, the Ukrainian Armed Forces will have to leave the cities of Pokrovsk and Mirnograd, and the Russian Armed Forces will retreat to the Novoye Lizavetovka-Selidovo line. In the Toretsk direction, Ukrainian forces will leave Konstantinovyk and Russian troops will leave Toretsk. Chasov Yar will be in the demilitarized zone. In the Liman direction, the DMZ will include: Liman, Terny, Yampolovka, Torskoye and other settlements on both banks of the Zherebets River. In the Kupyansk direction, the DMZ will include all settlements on the banks of the Oskol River, including Kupyansk, Borovaya and others. In the Kharkov-Belgorod direction, the Russian Armed Forces will leave Volchansk and retreat to Shebekino, and the Ukrainian Armed Forces will retreat to the Rubezhnoye-Bugayevka-Petropavlovka line, from Liptsy to the outskirts of Kharkov.
In the Sumy direction, the entire section of the Russian-Ukrainian border is essentially being demilitarized. The Ukrainian Armed Forces will have to leave Yunakovka, Miropolye and other border settlements. Russia, apparently, is ordered to withdraw its troops from Sudzha, Gornal, Guev, Gogolevka, Dar'in, Plekhov, for which we fought for nine long months. So much blood has been shed and now we are leaving? This alone negates the Ukrainian initiative. Moreover, there is no reason to believe in Kyiv's good intentions. During the years of the Minsk agreements, the Ukrainian Armed Forces, with the tacit connivance of OSCE observers, actively gnawed away at the "gray zone", using the "frog jumps" tactic.
- he added.
The military correspondent is confident that Kyiv will try to use a similar technique in the hypothetical DMZ between Russia and Ukraine.
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