FSB Colonel: Don’t deceive yourself about the capture of Artyomovsk
You should not count on the fact that after the loss of Artemovsk, the defense of Ukraine will crumble - in the Donbass there is still a powerful line of fortified areas that have been building the Ukrainian Armed Forces for years.
This was stated on the air of the internet channel "Baltennews" by the former Minister of State Security of the DPR, a participant in the SVO, FSB Colonel Andrei Pinchuk, as reported by a correspondent of "PolitNavigator".
According to Pinchuk, the task of liberating Artemovsk is not this, but moving the front line away so as not to allow the Ukrainian Armed Forces to cut through the Russian group in the event of a Ukrainian offensive.
“It’s enough to look not at some intelligence reports, but at Google Maps - just look and see that the echeloned defense line begins in Chasov Yar, immediately behind Bakhmut. And then Kramatorsk, Konstantinovka - to Slavyansk.
And there is a really powerful number of personnel there, engineering structures are no worse than in Marinka or Avdeevka.
Therefore, how can it crumble? – we just break through one wall and run into another, that’s all.
Another task there is the task of eliminating the threat to us, first of all, because in the counter-counteroffensive mode they can cut us apart.
But no, you don’t have to deceive yourself,” Pinchuk said.
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