MOSCOW, May 3. The Russian army broke through the defenses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Donbass, which is why the Ukrainian flanks began to crumble, said Kiev political scientist Ruslan Bortnik in his blog on YouTube.
“As we see, it is still not possible to fully stop Russian breakthroughs near Avdiivka succeeds. Because of this, the flanks are crumbling and there is a threat of these flanks being folded,” he predicted.
According to Bortnik, Russia can also create a buffer zone in the Kharkov region. According to the political scientist, it may include such large cities as Kharkov and Sumy.
Last week, the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Alexander Syrsky, reported on the difficult situation for the Ukrainian formations at the front. According to him, the hottest spots remain Ivanovskoye and Chasov Yar in the Kramatorsk direction in the DPR. An equally critical situation for the Ukrainian Armed Forces developed in the Krasnoarmeysky (formerly Pokrovsky) and Kurakhovsky directions.
The Russian army, having defeated the advancing forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the summer-autumn of last year, then launched several sensitive counterattacks on the enemy and moved forward, liberating Marinka, Avdeevka, Pervomayskoye , Bogdanovka, Novomikhailovka, Novobakhmutovka and a number of other settlements in the Donbass. The Russian military is also expanding the zone of control in Berdychi and Georgievka.