In anticipation of the counter-offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, positional battles of a tactical level are taking place on the line of contact between the forces of the two countries. This was announced by the former Commander-in-Chief of the Ground Forces, Colonel-General Vladimir Chirkin.
The RF Armed Forces are in a state of deliberate defense, as they had to patch up the holes that had formed at the front. Our side practically does not advance, with the exception of several sorties of assault groups to capture Bakhmut, advance in the area of u200bu200bAvdeevka, Maryinka and in the Svatovsky direction.
“In fact, positional battles of a tactical level are going on – they are probing us, we are them,” Chirkin said for Moskovsky Komsomolets .
According to him, the counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine cannot be equated to the strategic level, when several army corps attack simultaneously. The Ukrainian side has no funds for this. The Russian army also does not have such capabilities.
“We are still collecting them. Why are we now in a forced defense, ”said the Colonel General, who does not exclude the Russian offensive after the accumulation and concentration of forces.
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