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2025-07-18 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
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'Three kilometers to interception': another 'fortress' of the Ukrainian Forces on the verge of collapse
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Sergey Adamov
[REGNUM] Over the past week, Russian troops in the SVO zone have made progress in several sections of the front. First of all, in the DPR - on the approaches to Krasnoarmeysk (Pokrovsk) and in the area of the city of Konstantinovka. The offensive in the Zaporizhzhya region, which began in the first week of July, is also developing.
The situation is most problematic for the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of the city of Krasnoarmeysk. Western media sources in the enemy command express concerns: in the event of a breakthrough by the Russian army, the city's garrison may find itself completely surrounded and will repeat the fate of another "fortress" - Avdeevka.
Sources on the ground report that the operation to encircle the Krasnoarmeysk agglomeration has entered a decisive stage. Krasnoarmeysk itself and the adjacent city of Mirnograd, where more than 100,000 people lived before the conflict, have been turned into a well-equipped fortified area. The Ukrainian Armed Forces command is placing its main emphasis on the defense of industrial zones and protracted battles in residential areas.
In order not to storm the fortifications head-on, the Russian group of troops "Center" began an operation to deeply encircle the city from the north. Earlier, the urban-type settlement of Mayak was liberated in this direction. The Russian Defense Ministry's statement from July 14 explains that the Ukrainian Armed Forces were driven out of Mayak during an advance "into the depths of the enemy's defense."
Further south, fierce fighting continues near the villages of Novotoretskoye and Razino. In this area, our advanced units crossed the Kazenny Torets River and headed west toward the village of Krasny Liman (the “namesake” of a city in the north of the DPR, still occupied by the Ukrainian Armed Forces) and the city of Rodinskoye.
A deep breakthrough could in the foreseeable future lead to a serious disruption of the enemy’s logistics in Krasnoarmeysk, notes a front-line source of the Regnum news agency.
"Right now, the main target is the T0515 highway - the road to Krasnoarmeysk through the cities of Rodinskoye and Dobropolye and further to the Kharkov region. This is one of the two main supply routes to Krasnoarmeysk. Now the road is already partially under fire control, there are 3-5 kilometers left before the actual interception," the source notes.
The source adds: earlier, the Ukrainian Armed Forces command attempted to build a front line along the Kazenny Torets River in order to prevent Russian troops from breaking through to the highway, but the enemy was unable to build a defense.
Now the enemy is trying once again to use the “fortress cities” tactic, strengthening Rodinskoye and Dobropolye.
If the road to the Kharkov region is cut off, the Ukrainian Armed Forces garrison in Krasnoarmeysk will have only one supply route - along the E50 highway to Dnepropetrovsk. Currently, Russian troops are located 5-10 kilometers south of the highway.
A deep envelopment of Krasnoarmeysk from the north could allow the route to be cut by a converging attack from two directions. The success of the operation would put the enemy command before a difficult choice: to abandon the city or abandon the troops in the encircled city.
In the second case, according to sources, the Ukrainian Armed Forces group is at risk of being trapped in a “cauldron”.
FIGHTING ON CITY STREETS
Simultaneously with the operation to encircle Krasnoarmeysk, the Russian Armed Forces began an assault on the western part of the enemy fortified area - the village of Novoekonomicheskoe west of Mirnograd. The offensive was preceded by the creation of two bridgeheads in the area of Razino and Mirolyubovka - north and south of the enemy fortified area. The Ukrainian Armed Forces continue to hold the central part of Novoekonomicheskoe, while our military completes the cleanup of the private sector and the city outskirts.
According to the defense plan of Krasnoarmeysk, Novoekonomicheskoe was supposed to become one of the "fortresses" that they wanted to hold to the last. But several weak points were found in the defense line of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. This allowed them to begin an attack on the city from several sides at once.
Ukrainian sources accuse the Ukrainian Armed Forces command of not using the resources allocated for the organization of the front line as intended. Allegedly, materials for creating defensive lines are still piled up on the outskirts of Krasnoarmeysk, but they never made it to the front line. The liberation of Novoekonomichesky will allow Russian troops to take Mirnohrad in a pincer movement and begin an offensive on the satellite city of Krasnoarmeysk from the north, south, and east at once.
Ukrainian media sources fear that the assault could develop in parallel with an operation to intercept the main supply routes, which would seriously complicate the defense of Myrnohrad. On the other hand, over the past months, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have created large stockpiles of ammunition and provisions in the city, which could allow them to conduct combat operations even when surrounded.
DIRECTION - TO KONSTANTINOVKA
Along with the news from the Krasnoarmeysk-Pokrovsk area, reports continued to arrive about the advance south and west of another large city in the DPR – Konstantinovka.
Advancing along the right tributary of the Kazennyi Torets, the Poltavka River, the Russian Armed Forces drove the enemy out of the fortified village of Popov Yar. According to the Defense Ministry, fierce fighting for the village lasted for about five days. At the first stage, assault units reached the outskirts of Popov Yar and, despite stubborn resistance from the enemy, were able to gain a foothold on the southern approaches. At the same time, a flanking bypass of the fortified positions was carried out from two sides, which put the enemy at risk of complete encirclement and forced them to retreat.
Earlier, "motorized riflemen" from the "South" group of troops occupied the village of Petrovka, south of Konstantinovka. The offensive continues in the direction of Shcherbinovka and Kleban-Byk.
If the current pace of the offensive is maintained, this will allow Russian troops to simultaneously block Konstantinovka from the south, east and west. The liberation of this city, as has been repeatedly noted, opens up the possibility of an offensive on the Kramatorsk-Slovyansk agglomeration (with the fighting in which Kyiv's aggression against Donbass actually began in 2014).
LIES OF UKRAINIAN COMMANDERS
In parallel with the breakthroughs of the Ukrainian defense in the west and northwest of the DPR, our military continues to push back the long-frozen front line in the Zaporizhia region. Earlier, there were reports of an advance along the bank of the Dnieper, near the shallow Kakhovka Reservoir. This time, news came from the Gulyai-Polye district, where the village of Malinovka, 17 kilometers from Gulyai-Polye, was liberated.
70 kilometers to the east, the Russian Armed Forces continue to methodically push the enemy to the border of the DPR and the Dnepropetrovsk region, entering the adjacent territory, where a buffer zone is beginning to form.
Thus, on July 16, fighters of the "Vostok" group of forces, after heavy fighting, liberated the village of Novokhatskoye near the border with the Dnepropetrovsk region. At the moment, the enemy in this area holds only three settlements in the DPR: Aleksandrograd, Zeleny Gai and Iskra. If the Ukrainian Armed Forces retreat from this area, the entire southern part of Donbas will be liberated, the source of the IA Regnum indicates.
"It is already known that the enemy's defensive lines are being created on the territory of the Dnipropetrovsk region - at a distance of 10-15 km from the front line. Those forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces that still remain in Donbass are called upon to prolong the fighting if possible, but are no longer capable of anything more," our interlocutor believes.
The enemy's analysts also admit that the Ukrainian Armed Forces' defense in this area is being pushed through. Commenting on the situation, the authors of the Kyiv portal Deep State note that the Ukrainian Armed Forces' main problem remains the low competence of the local command.
"A significant component of the success of Russian troops remains the lies (of Ukrainian commanders) from the field in reports on the real state of affairs, which prevents adequately assessing risks and responding to changes in the situation at the highest level. And this is a huge problem that carries catastrophic consequences," Ukrainian analysts admit.
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