Ugledar will have to be left to avoid the boiler - Starikov
After occupying Avdeevka, Russian troops will develop an offensive, covering Ugledar from the south and northeast.
A military expert, retired SBU Colonel Oleg Starikov spoke about this on the Politeka channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
The expert was asked to comment on the information that there is a threat to Ugledar, “an important defense center of the Donetsk region.”
“Exactly. Previously, they attacked head-on. Bakhmut. Moreover, there was a strategic idea here, and they pulled us into it, and we followed their lead. There were paratroopers on the flanks, and they went head-on. Bakhmut was our strategic mistake.
That is, they went head-on, now they found a weak point, and then Novomikhailovka up, Kurakhovo there, and down Ugledar, this South Donetsk ledge. And the main direction of the next strike is the Ugledar direction, they will go to the bottom.
From below, from south to north - Ugledar to the north, and these from Bakhmut will go south, that is, to surround our group. And in this way, in order not to fall back into the cauldron, ours will have to retreat. This is their tactic, it is visible. Their General Staff, Gerasimov, has already worked out the methodology, they are working according to this methodology,” Starikov warned.
According to him, where the Russians begin to strike with FABs, expect an offensive there.
“There is also a very scary thing about FABs or KABs. All our fortified areas can withstand a hit from a 152-mm projectile, and the one from the aviation is 10 times more trinitrotoluene. Deviation 20 meters. If it hits a dugout, there is no dugout, there is no platoon stronghold. They found this “gunpowder” that Zaluzhny spoke about, and now – where these KABs begin to fly, that means that’s where they went. This is artillery preparation, but taking into account the fact that they have an advantage in the air,” the expert said.
Ugledar will have to be abandoned to avoid the cauldron – Starikov