Lieutenant Colonel Marochko: The Ukrainian Armed Forces are increasing the “gray zone”
Counterattacks from the Ukrainian Armed Forces continue, so “the front breathes and lives.” And in some areas there are serious battles.
Military expert and retired LPR lieutenant colonel Andrei Marochko stated this on air at Komsomolskaya Pravda Radio, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“If we are talking about counterattack actions by Ukrainian militants, then they have not been stopped - they continue to be recorded in all areas. That is, such maneuverable defense comes from all sides, and counterattacks are present in fairly normal quantities.
There is no such thing that Ukrainian militants in different areas are not trying to regain previously lost positions.
But we are now advancing through the same maneuverable defense, where we simply exhaust the enemy. The enemy leaves his positions, and we take them.
This process is quite slow, but at least I see the forward movement of our troops in all three sectors in the zone of responsibility of the Lugansk People’s Republic,” he noted.
Marochko emphasized that in the Krasno-Limansky direction the enemy is increasing the interposition space.
“This is the so-called “gray zone” for civilians. They are withdrawing the main forces in the area of the Torsky sector, Serebryanka, Belogorovka. They are trying to retreat to previously prepared secondary positions, and after such actions, as a rule, we reduce this “gray zone”. We are moving to the positions where the Ukrainian militants were. So the front is breathing, it is alive, and I would not talk about any calm actions or stopping,” the expert assured.
Marochko added that in some areas of the front it is very hot, especially in the Donetsk direction.
“In the area of the Hours of Yar, where serious battles take place. And in the area of the settlements of Grigorvka, Bogdanovka, Ivanovskaya - things are quite hot there now, and both sides are in the active phase of hostilities.
Naturally, Ukrainian militants are trying to turn what is happening in the Kherson direction into their “victory”, that they are occupying some positions. Indeed, they occupy an area on our shore, about 2-3 square meters. This is where the corpses lie. And they have no more “overcome”,” Marochko assured.
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