Comments by "Defense Politics Asia (DPA)" (@DefensePoliticsAsia) on "[ Donetsk Front ] Russian Forces captures 3 more villages/town to link up with the Crimean forces" video.

  1. They are basically across the entire eastern from north from the defense line i mentioned in the video. Like literally, the entire eastern front. The Ukrainian military never expected Russia to invade from Crimea and the border north of Kharkiv - and because of the major offensive from Donbass with mass mobilization of the locals in Donbass - the entire East Army is trapped fighting against Donbass forces.... so the entire border with Donbass forces IS the ukrainian forces.
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  2. I agree with your viewpoint. And I think Russia want to keep a route open for the civilians to evacuate in case the Ukraine leadership want to "suicide" and make the city a "Stalingrad"
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  3. Yeah, I suck at pronouncing Russian/Ukraine names... Most of the intel of capture villages/cities are from Russian sources - as the Ukrainians do not admit that they are losing the war. For example Volnovakha has fallen and officially declared "liberated" by the Russian Ministry of Defense. But on the Ukrainian side, they are still talking about "humanitarian corridor" from Volnovakha. Basically you can choose your own poison. But I prefer to pick the one that make more logical sense.
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  4. I suspect that cauldron have no more Ukrainian forces left, except those are Mariupol... most of them should be withdrawing northward~
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  5. Actually I had been wondering if Russia even wanted to storm the capital.... they might be accumulating a lot of troops on the east and west of it... but... they are very "relaxed" about it if you compare it to other fronts. Same thing happened in Kharkiv as well. Russians seemed not interesting in storming for the city. Maybe this is the plan - they only wanted the southern cities and want to leave the northern cities to the "new ukraine"~
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