TMPress INFObase SPECIAL Report - Ukraine Civil War Update ... via TMPress International Newswire ... by Slavyangrad.org ... Overview of the Situation in the Donbass Region ... (New York) ... The Fighting in the Coastal Area ... Even recently, it might have seemed laughable, but today the fighting has begun in the area of Novoazovsk, where a powerful anti-aircraft defense node and a hodgepodge of different units of questionable combat capability have been stationed since April to cover the border with Russia. After the Southern Encirclement 2.0 was created, the DPR/LPR Militiamen began to probe the other checkpoints to the south-west of Marinovka, and were surprised to find out that there are almost no defenses. All the forces were drawn up to the main front line, creating a gap to the south of Amvrosievka, which was only partially covered with the covering forces. At first, the DPR/LPR Militia’s saboteur-reconnaisance groups (“SRG”) began to infiltrate to the south-west, which has led to the capture of the “Uspenka” border checkpoint. After that, the DPR/LPR Militia broke-out to the coast, as there were no serious forces of the Kiev Junta. As a result, several SRGs moved almost to Novoazovsk and the towns of Holodnoe and Sedovo, firing and attacking some checkpoints. The DPR/LPR Militia obviously doesn’t have enough forces there to seize and hold the towns (let alone capturing Novoazovsk or Mariupol); but judging by the reports that a bomb shelter has been opened in Mariupol, the command of the Kiev Junta in this area lost their nerve. It is not only that the gap along the border continues to expand, there is also a threat (even if remote for now) to Novoazovsk and Mariupol; as there are few Kiev Junta’s forces there, and nobody knows what can appear from across the border. Moreover, the gap in the front, to the south of Amvrosievka, also does not seem optimistic. In general, what is happening now is not yet an offensive with definite goals, but just a distracting raid in the rear of the forces of the Kiev Junta; to be honest, very few people expected the fighting on the coast of the Sea of Azov to start so soon - the trend is allowing DPR/LPR militia to advance ... Ilovaysk ... Today near Ilovaysk the Kiev Junta has continued its attempts “to break through the wall with its head”, sending almost all of the combat-ready forces to attack Ilovajsk. The attack bogged down even before the Kiev Junta talking heads could declare that Ilovajsk has been taken once again. This is a very weird stubbornness, given that a more effective plan would involve encircling and taking Mospino, and the gaps in the front to the south of Amvrosievka. The strategic point of the attack is long gone; it is an attempt to reverse the situation with insufficient forces – because even if by some miracle the Junta takes the ruins of Ilovaysk and pushes out the Militia, it will not go beyond one tactical success against the backdrop of the bleak strategic situation ... Saur-Mogila, Schachtersk and Torez ... Fighting continued, with both sides largely staying on their positions. The Kiev Junta’s mechanized units tried to move towards Miner and Torez, but didn’t make it far. Theoretically, as these battles progress the Kiev Junta spends reserves there quite aimlessly. That has made the punitive battalions (volunteer units made up of activists/neo-nazis/released criminals) suspect that the Kiev Junta command deliberately drives the southern battlegroup into a meat grinder. (That is one version – that they are agents of the Kremlin – another, because that is how Poroshenko gets rid of radical elements). All in all, another week or so of such operations, and the Kiev Junta may find itself trapped into another cauldron ... Southern Encirclement 2.0 has held out so far, with Kiev Junta losses and the DPR/LPR Militia advances could be considerable – the DPR/LPR Militia is currently attacking on Dyakovo and offering the surrounded forces the same conditions as before – retreat to Russia, leaving the vehicles to the DPR/LPR Militia. (Contd) slavyangrad.org/2014/08/26/overview-of-the-situation-in-the-donbass-august-24/
Posted on: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 22:51:16 +0000