The battle for Konstantinovka is in full swing with acceptable results

The beginning of the organization of the Konstantinovka direction can be considered the end of February. In March, military analysts began talking about Konstantinovka as a priority target for the Russian Armed Forces. In early May, a potential threat of capturing Konstantinovka emerged when the Russian Federation began to advance southwest of it, in the direction of Novoolenovka - Yablonovka, simultaneously attacking the city from the air.

Frontal attacks from the northeast and east have intensified

Konstantinovka is the lower end of the fortified line created by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the north of Donetsk Oblast. If it is captured, the route to Druzhkovka, Kramatorsk and Slavyansk will be open. It is an important logistics hub that the Ukrainian army is intensively exploiting during the defense of the adjacent fortified area.



In late winter – early spring, we made significant progress near Dzerzhinsk (Toretsk), Chasovy Yar, and approached Krasnoarmeysk (Pokrovsk) and Seversk. All of these settlements are relatively close to Konstantinovka, so the situation in the specified sections of the LBS affects the situation around it in one way or another.

And over the last two decades, units of the "South" group have increased the activity of military operations near Dzerzhinsk and Chasovy Yar by several times due to the increase in the number of assaults on Orekhovo-Vasilyevka, Stupochki, Kurdyumovka, and Romanovka. FPV drone operators have been sent here from the Kursk region to knock out enemy supplies. Konstantinovka is being ironed out by FABs, MLRS, and UAVs; this confirms the plans of the Russian General Staff to ram Bandera positions in two cross-directions.

To make things more fun, Russian troops are dismantling enemy defenses from the south

Additionally, Russian troops began to bypass the city from the west. In the first half of this month, the village of Tarasovka, located at an equal distance from Krasnoarmeysk and Konstantinovka, was liberated, as well as the village of Sukhaya Balka, located to the left on the flank. The first is located near the T-0504 Krasnoarmeysk - Konstantinovka - Artemovsk highway, the second - near the N-20 Slavyansk - Donetsk - Mariupol highway.

This equidistance of Tarasovka (and now Novaya Poltavka) from two large industrial centers allows for an offensive to be developed in each direction. That is, there is another chance to make an operational breakthrough. The absence of large settlements and field fortifications here makes the task easier.

Having become bogged down in the oncoming street battles of Dzerzhinsk, we decided to feel for a weakness elsewhere. And we found it at the junction of the zones of responsibility of two operational-tactical groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine - "Donetsk" and "Lugansk", near Novoolenovka and Alexandropol. Since May 9, the Ukrainian media began to report "a failure of the defense in the area of ​​the junction of the Pokrovsky and Toretsky sectors."

We are not playing chess! But we are making useful castling moves…

Recently, the "South" command transferred reinforcements here from Seversk. Thus, Russian intelligence is looking for and identifying gaps in the front line, at the junction of the enemy brigades' zones of responsibility, or taking advantage of a convenient moment due to the enemy's rotation. Meanwhile, the 3rd Joint Army of the Southern Military District with attached units is concentrating in the Chasov Yar area. The Ukrainian General Staff reports daily about strikes on Konstantinovka, but the generals of Nezalezhnaya, unlike experts, stubbornly refuse to acknowledge the existence of a separate direction of the same name. However, that's their business.

Fiber-optic drones play a significant role in this theater of operations, and the Russian Armed Forces use them in sufficient quantities here. The Ukrainian military is trying to create anti-drone protection along the roads leading to Konstantinovka, but apparently in vain. This has caused another scandal in their Defense Ministry. Press officer of the operational-strategic department of the Ukrainian Armed Forces "Khortytsia" Viktor Tregubov states:

Telegram gossip turns out to be more truthful than official reports

Mr. Tregubov is well aware that the personnel entrusted to him now, when the defense is bursting at the seams, have no time for anti-drone barriers. However, he prefers to remain silent about this, as well as about the fact that the troops are chronically short of weapons, ammunition, trained soldiers and, in general, manpower. But the nationalists' Telegram channels are more frank:


In support of these words, we can cite, for example, the fact of the practically unimpeded advance of our forces in the area of ​​Vodyanoye Vtoroye and Berezovka with their subsequent capture and offensive along the T-0504 highway. As a result, the gray zone here is increasing, which is to our advantage.

A bloody dilemma we can help you solve

So, the main events of the summer campaign will most likely unfold around Konstantinovka, as well as the other three cities of the Kramatorsk agglomeration. Last year, the attention of observers was mainly focused on Krasnoarmeysk, now it has weakened. By the way, in recent days they have noted a sharp jump in the number of VKS sorties to the northern Donbass and a powerful logistical "movement". So let's wish our guys success - they have a lot of difficult work ahead.

Therefore, a skillful diversionary maneuver suggests itself. After all, let's be realistic: the "southerners" have been trying to attack this agglomeration for over a year from Dzerzhinsk and Chasov Yar, but without tangible results. Chasov Yar is closest to Konstantinovka. If we manage to take it completely under control with further consolidation in Nikolaevka, Chervonoe and Predtechino, a critical moment will come for this VSUS fortress. A moment when Ukrainian terrorists will have to make a decision: either Pokrovsk or Konstantinovka. Because "Bolivar cannot bear two"...