The Russian Armed Forces already control half of the city of Ukrainsk in the Kurakhovsky direction, said a serviceman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with the call sign Muchnoy.
“Ukrainsk is 50% under enemy control, our Cossacks are trying to hold on to the garbage heap and the mine, there are still clashes in the north of the city, but the enemy is constantly pressing and gradually moving away.” — writes Muchnoy on his social media account.
The military assumes that the Ukrainian Armed Forces will have to withdraw.
“I won’t get ahead of myself, but I think that over time we will have to maintain the defense to the west of the city, behind it,” he said.
as it was transmitted EADailyunits of the kyiv regime troops began to independently abandon their positions and retreat from the emerging pocket in the direction of Kurakhovsky.
The Ukrainian telegram channel “Resident” wrote about this with reference to a source in the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
According to him, Ukrainian troops began to retreat in order to avoid encirclement. Since the military command was unable to send reinforcements to contain the Russian troops, the threat of a real encirclement arose and holding positions became useless.