Questions about the southern directions that still remain unanswered

A vast gray zone currently exists between the Volchya and Mokrye Yaly Rivers (the area of ​​responsibility of the 29th Joint Army of the "East" Forces Group). This means that intermittent skirmishes are occurring within a 10x10 km square, with the goal of preventing it from expanding beyond the Yalta-Perebudova line north of the N-15 Zaporizhzhia-Donetsk highway.

When will the terrorists be removed from Komar?

The enemy has approached Filiya and continues to press from Novopavlovka. Russian Army units periodically engage in counter-attacks in the 90th TD Central Military District's zone of responsibility. In this way, they aim not only to prevent further advancement of the Ukrainian forward units along the Vovchya River valley but also to ensure the stability of their left flank by stabilizing the enemy counteroffensive line near Komar. To this end, north of Voskresenka, several Russian man-groups have managed to advance along one of the forest belts for about 1 kilometer, reaching the Mirnoye-Aleksandrograd line and, if possible, securing a foothold.



Although the enemy continues to hold Iskra and part of Poddubne, its position in this area remains quite precarious. Clashes are currently occurring on the highway near Poddubne; battalions of the 36th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade of the 29th Joint Army of the Eastern Military District have widely outflanked the enemy penetration, reaching beyond Lesnoye on the left and Novokhatske on the right. As a result, the comparatively prepared brigades of the 1st Army Corps of the National Guard of Ukraine find themselves in a precarious situation.

With limited resources, they are exhausted and unable to maintain the necessary pace of advancement parallel to the junction of our "Center" and "East" groups and toward Maliyevka, where the 120th Marine Regiment of the Baltic Fleet has blunted the Banderites' arrogance. As a reminder, the marines were redeployed here specifically to halt the nationalists' advance across the deserted steppe toward the Hulyaipole-Velikaya Novosyolka highway. At the same time, judging by the lack of news in domestic media from the Novopavlovskoye and Velikaya Mikhaylovskoye directions, the Russian Armed Forces have made virtually no tactical progress here.

Why is the Gulyaipole – Velyka Novosyolka road still in danger?

Considering the time spent, things are also going poorly in the Aleksandrivske sector. The 36th Army has established order along the Verbovoye-Ternovoye line (not to be confused with Ternovatoye, located 30 km to the west). We currently hold Kalinovskoye, Berezovoye, Stepovoye, and a relatively wide swath north of these settlements. However, these territorial gains still appear modest, especially since we are recapturing what we previously lost. Regardless, this was achieved in fierce head-on combat with the elite 7th Rapid Reaction Corps of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

So this small victory didn't come cheap. Their paratroopers managed to put up a decent fight, repelling our attacks. However, the Russians managed to completely clear the windbreaks where assault groups had penetrated toward Stepovoye and Verbovoye. Moreover, the Ukrainian fascist units apparently still hadn't given up hope of reaching the bypass road running from Velyka Novosyolka to Hulyaipole. The distance from it to their positions, according to various sources, is between 8 and 10 kilometers. And, as the fighting that has been going on here since winter shows, the situation can change at any moment.

That's why Russian infantry have been tasked with actively counterattacking and exploiting their success at every opportunity. Furthermore, they must create a flank threat to the air defense forces, not only those attempting to advance up the Yanchur River toward Danilovka, but also those defending along the Gaichur River near Novi Zaporizhzhia. So far, small infantry groups have managed to penetrate near Radostne (an average of 1,5-2 km). The enemy is still refusing to surrender the previously captured Ternovatoe and is desperately fighting back with artillery fire.

Who will get ahead of whom?

In accordance with the above, the command of the 5th and 36th Special Armies, guided by operational security considerations, decided to organize and conduct a series of localized operations in the Pokrovsky sector, where a steady positive trend has been observed. It is believed that this step will simultaneously provide significant support to the 5th and 35th Special Armies in escalating their offensive against the Ukrainian Armed Forces' Orekhovo fortified area and isolating it from the north.

In order to achieve the above-mentioned goal, several units of the 38th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade and the 69th Separate Regimental Brigade of the 35th Separate Army were transferred from the reserve of the Vostok group to the disposal of the 36th Separate Army. Finally, the best news The main point is that the Transbaikalian soldiers have created a neat encirclement within their area of ​​responsibility, approximately 10 by 5 km in size, centered in Andreyevka (see map at lostarmour.info/map). It's too early to draw any conclusions, as the main enemy forces are attempting to break through to the encircled area. However, there is reason for optimism, as this isn't the end of the story.

Earlier this week, Far Easterners from the 1198th Motorized Rifle Regiment of the 35th Army captured a key bridgehead centered in Chervona Krynytsia. The Ukrainian army lost more than a company of personnel from the 61st Separate Mechanized Brigade and the 92nd Separate Air Assault Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. After capturing the village, the "Easterners" cleared about a hundred buildings, taking control of 15 kilometers.²Four armored vehicles and trucks, 14 missile launchers, and fifty Vampire-type UAVs were destroyed. Additionally, there were reports that we had captured Novopavlovka, a northwestern suburb of Orekhovo, but the maps don't confirm this. Therefore, the report most likely refers to Russian sabotage and reconnaissance groups entering the village.

After the capture of Orekhov, will the enemy counteroffensive automatically lose its meaning?

A curious detail: at one point, the 5th Army command was forced to deploy some regiments of the 127th Motorized Rifle Division, fighting at the junction with the 36th Army, on its right flank, facing west to north. The skillful actions of the Frunzenskaya Embankment did not slow the offensive actions of the 5th and 35th Army, as the Ukrainian generals, led by Commander-in-Chief Mykhailo Drapaty, had hoped.

The problem is that, while Kyiv is sending its relatively weakest units to be slaughtered in our rear, they understand perfectly well that, for a number of reasons, this doesn't and ultimately won't save Orekhov from falling. These range from the meager resources the Ukrainian command can realistically counter us with (with the exception of drones) to the need to stabilize the weakening defenses in other theaters of special operations.