“They act according to the agreed plan.” The Russian Federation will not stop at the borders of Donetsk region: what is the enemy’s plan and priority goals — Seleznyov

As for the situation in the Kurakhovo area, there can be no illusions. We have no control even over the western suburbs of this settlement. Currently, the Ukrainian army is conducting a maneuverable defense there, conducting rearguard battles in order to preserve the forces and means located in the “pocket”, a little south of Kurakhovo, from the H15 highway connecting Zaporizhzhia with Donetsk.

We must understand that the situation there is extremely difficult, because the enemy is able to actively use, in particular, its aviation, which launches guided aerial bombs. We still haven’t come up with any effective countermeasures against them. Our field structures, steel buildings, in particular, which are located on the territory of the Kurakhiv pipe factory, Kurakhiv thermal power plant, did not help us precisely within the limits of opposition to the Russian KABs, because they destroy everything.

Therefore, in the near future, we will see a maneuverable defense, the departure of our forces and means to other frontiers.

Whether they are built properly, whether we will be able to continue to fight defensive battles for a long time, I think the answer to that question will depend on the resources. The enemy, as we can see from open sources, is beginning to transfer part of its forces and means from this section of the front to the Myrnograd direction, because it is also trying to form a northeastern vise around the Pokrovskoe-Myrnograd urban agglomeration, because this section of the front is a higher priority for the enemy . And the remnants of Russian forces and means will continue to put pressure on our defenders, who are already west of Kurakhovo.

There can be no illusions. The enemy acts as rationally as possible, acts within the agreed plan.

I think that in the future this year, it will form at least three strike bridgeheads, which will be aimed at the Slavonic-Kramatorsk urban agglomeration. The first bridgehead is the direction from Liman. I think that we should now very carefully observe the processes that are taking place not only on the Siversky ledge, but also on the Lyman direction, in the direction of Kupyansk. Because it is there that the enemy will now form convenient logistics.

It is not for nothing that he has now created a bridgehead in the Dvorichny area and continues to expand it already on the right bank of the Oskil River in order to further create a threat to our Kupyansk, primarily trying to take control of Kupyansk-Vuzlovy, as a key element of the railway connection in the east of Kharkiv Oblast.

The enemy will continue to advance through Chasiv Yar in the direction of the Slavic-Kramator agglomeration. And this is the most convenient bridgehead for active offensive actions.

We can see how difficult the situation is now in the Temporal Yar itself and south of it.

And, of course, the enemy will in the future form a bridgehead in the direction through Kostiantynivka and further to Slovyansk and Kramatorsk.

That is, there can be no illusions. [Російський диктатор Володимир] Putin started the so-called “special military operation” in February 2022 in order to fully occupy Luhansk and Donetsk regions. Accordingly, the Russian army will operate within this plan.

And, of course, it is not a fact that the Russian army will stop if it crosses, for example, the administrative border between Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk regions. The presence of Russian occupiers on the territory of the Mykolaiv region – on the Kinburn spit, as well as on the territory of the Kharkiv region – this is the north of the Vovchansk district, and, accordingly, the Kupyansk district, shows that Putin has no reservations about attacking Ukrainian forces and means. And the only argument capable of stopping it is the strength of Ukrainian weapons.