german media: why is the ukrainian army losing ground in donbass?
2024-09-01
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reference news reported on september 1 on august 30, the german news tv channel website published an article titled "ukraine faces more serious problems than insufficient military strength", written by vladimir zhihacho. the article is excerpted as follows:
in recent weeks, the ukrainian offensive in russia's kursk region has slowed down significantly, while russian troops have continued to advance rapidly on the front line near pokrovsk in the donbas region. this is not surprising. austrian colonel markus reissner said earlier this week that the effect of the surprise attack has worn off.
apparently, the russian army has successfully carried out several small-scale recapture operations, and it is unlikely that ukraine will be able to seize large territorial areas in the region in the near future.
one of the purposes of ukraine's offensive was to attract russian troops from the donbass front, but this plan does not seem to have worked. although kiev said that russia has sent 30,000 soldiers to the kursk region, these people do not seem to have been withdrawn from the donbass front. the russian army is still advancing in donbass and has already reached the strategically important city of pokrovsk. pokrovsk is an important logistics hub. if it is lost, it will seriously damage ukraine's supply lines, thus threatening ukraine's defense strategy.
zelensky admitted that the situation in pokrovsk was "very difficult." the fall of novohrodievka, a small town just over 10 kilometers away, also confirmed this. according to the ukrainian "deep state map" project and the american war research institute, the russian army controlled most of the small town with 15,000 residents in just a few days. ukrainian mp bezuglaya criticized that the city fell into the hands of the enemy almost without resistance.
yuri butusov, a well-known ukrainian military journalist, believes that the rapid fall of novohrodiivka "was not due to the huge superiority of the russian army, but due to the organizational and management problems of the ukrainian army." butusov believes that serski appointed a commander in this frontline area who "lacked leadership experience at this level", and the situation deteriorated sharply afterwards.
the deep state map project holds a similar view. roman pogoriere, an analyst for the project, said: "the command responsible for the region lacks situational awareness and cannot grasp the overall situation. from the conversations with the soldiers deployed there, it can be seen that the situation there is in chaos." (compiled by zhong sirui)
