“A roundabout strike is being prepared. For now, Donetsk can only endure” – military correspondent
The barbaric shelling of Donetsk by the Ukrainian Armed Forces is carried out in order to stop or weaken the attack on Ukrainian positions from the rear.
Russian war correspondent Dmitry Steishin spoke about this on air at Komsomolskaya Pravda radio, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“Where I was, of course, no one in their right mind would step on those concrete bunkers. Moreover, as they told me: “You only see the first line of defense, and further on, on the hill, everything is also concreted, there they have machine gun points. We are in the lowlands." They will be bypassed. Now my battalion is starting an attack on Ugledar. They are conducting additional exploration there.
They are putting pressure from the LPR. Ours too. It turns out, yes, a big cauldron. And thank God. They realized that there really was no need to break into these fortified areas that they had been preparing for eight years. This is no nonsense and no jokes,” Steshin said.
He explained that the heavy fire on Donetsk from the Ukrainian Armed Forces is due to the fact that the Ukrainian side is trying to divert forces advancing in other areas.
“Why is the enemy hammering at Donetsk? He wants to force us to remove air defense and counter-battery weapons from the front and transfer them to the city, ease the pressure on them, because they are howling there, they cannot raise their heads. Ours immediately suppress any artillery activity. It is important for them to dilute our strength.
We, the home front workers, can only endure. Today, a girl died in Donetsk . They've been pounding the city since morning. I'm sitting here, hearing everything. On Sunday, I was writing a note and just crawled under the table. An air defense system went off right over my house, shooting down something flying.
You must understand that when air defense hits something flying, it does not disintegrate it into molecules, it simply knocks it down. When I found myself in Donetsk in the spring, and “Tochka U” was shot down over Universitetskaya, it had a cluster warhead, and some of the clusters worked.
There are all adjacent streets within a hundred meters. You could walk a hundred meters along shop windows riddled with balls and damaging elements. Objectively, it was shot down, the engine compartment with the steering wheels was lying near the Shevchenko monument.
I hid under the table, but it was glass, there wasn’t much point in that,” said the military correspondent.
"A flanking attack is being prepared . Donetsk can only endure for now" – war correspondent