Avdeevka will fall after Maryinka, - Arestovich
The liberation of Marinka, which Minister Sergei Shoigu officially reported yesterday to President Vladimir Putin, allows the Russian army to develop the offensive and turn it from local to larger-scale.
Former adviser to the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, Oleksiy Arestovich, stated this on the air of the Alpha video blog, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
According to Arestovich, after Maryinka, the garrisons of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Avdeevka and other settlements may fall.
“Our president said that they could not take anything this whole year, which is not true. They took Bakhmut in May, and now they have taken Marinka, and the year is not over yet. Formally, they took two settlements, not to mention all the others.
Fighting in Bogdanovka - depending on the locality. Marinka – 10 thousand inhabitants, it is believed. There they created a bridgehead in order to move south to Novomikhailovka, where the biggest problems are at hand, and this fits into the general picture of what happens when the Russian army actively advances along the entire front line.
A lot of our representatives of the Armed Forces and experts who are following these say that let’s be careful, because the enemy is pressing, the enemy has private successes that threaten to develop into something more than private successes.
This refers to a shift in the front line and the creation of threats to cities such as Chasov Yar and Kupyansk. Moreover, mind you, these are the same places where we had successes as a result of the counteroffensive.
For example, it is south and north of Bakhmut. Avdiivka is under threat, today unnamed Ukrainian military officials told the Western representative press that the threat of the fall of Avdiivka is very close,” Arestovich said.
Following Maryinka, Avdiivka will fall, - Arestovich