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"Now the task is Mariupol, then to Odessa"
In neighboring Donetsk regions of Ukraine, they are preparing for the worst scenario
On August 23, on the Day of the Flag of Ukraine, the DPR militias went on the attack south of Donetsk and threw the Ukrainian security forces from the outskirts of the city. It was a turning point. Since then, the Ukrainian army has only retreating.
“We retreated for a long time without any losses, regrouped, and accumulated strength. The spring was soared for a very long time, and then shot. In fact, the performance was played out, the battles in the north of Donetsk - to take the eyes, ”says one of the field commanders of the DPR on the conditions of anonymity. And he continues: “This is a big policy, and they don’t tell us much. But, it feels like the leadership of the DPR maintains a connection with the Ukrainian authorities and constantly agrees on who and when this or that city takes. It happened that we were given a team to retreat with numerical and tactical superiority. But it happened and vice versa, when we thought that everything was a field - the Ukrainians suddenly unfolded and surrendered their positions. ”
With machine guns against tanks
On the evening of August 27, the DPR militias took Novoazovsk and went to the sea. Until recently, the Novoazovsk border checkpoint was repeatedly subjected to shelling from heavy guns. Yes, and intelligence on the concentration of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in this direction have repeatedly replicated in the media. However, the ATO command did not consider it necessary to radically strengthen the cordon. In fact, the border guards were forced to resist tanks only with machine guns in their hands.
On the morning of August 27, the Ukrainian fighters of the Dnepr battalion were in Novoazovsk, however, their requests for the provision of heavy weapons remained unheard. As a result, columns of heavy armored vehicles entered Novoazovsk from Russia, and the Ukrainian security forces had to retreat. By the evening of August 27, the DPR militants and soldiers without identification signs occupied a number of settlements of Novoazovsky, Starobyshevsky, Ambrosievsky districts of the Donetsk region. The worried residents of Novoazovsk began to ask unknown military about the purpose of their arrival. According to residents, the militants calmly answered: "Our task is Mariupol, and then to Odessa." 
According to the DPR militants themselves, soon a breakthrough from Crimea to the Kherson, Nikolaev and Odessa regions is possible. Otherwise - with Lugansk. “In fact, nobody needs Lugansk, he only delays a significant part of the Ukrainian army,” says the same field commander of the militants. - However, in Kyiv the generals are so “smart” that instead of creating one powerful front using numerous mobile groups, they decided to take cities with a siege. In my opinion, the tactics are more than stupid. If this were not so, we would have long been pushed to the eastern border. ”
The generals are whispering about the “brilliant” tactics in the Ukrainian army. Confirmation of this was the actions of the fighters of the 5th territorial battalion "Carpathian", who stated that the leadership of the ATO was playing along with the terrorists. Watching out the orders, the battalion fighters left their positions and went to the Ivano-Frankivsk region for rotation and re-equipment. "
"Having the anti -tank guns of the USSR in service, the Mariupol defense is unlikely to stand against heavy equipment and artillery"
"The commander of the Ukrainian battalion" Donbass "also claims that, in addition to promises, there is no assistance from the leadership of the ATO." I want measures to organize the interaction of various military branches: aviation, tanks, artillery, infantry, Armed Forces and battalions of the police. Now this interaction is below all criticism. You can not - go to the colonists, "the commander of the battalion turned to the generals of the battalion “Donbass” Semen Semenchenko in his interview with one of the Ukrainian channels also demanded that the battalions are involved in the ATO.
In turn, the DPR military asset states that Ukrainian generals have already missed a decisive moment. The Ukrainian side simply does not have the necessary weapons to deter the fighters of the DPR, and in the near future it is unlikely to appear. This information, however, is confirmed by the Ukrainian military. “Having the anti -tank guns of the time of the USSR in service, the Mariupol defense is unlikely to stand against heavy equipment and artillery,” said the soldier of the volunteer battalion with the call sign “Vityaz”. “Light armored vehicles, which is now guarding our checkpoints, will be blown up at the first hit, and the carriers at the borders of Mariupol do not know how to fight at all.”
Plan "B"
On August 28, in Dnepropetrovsk, the region’s leadership convened the defense council of the region, and local officials spoke about Plan B. Apparently, the leadership of the neighboring Donetsk region is preparing for the worst scenario and is trying to prevent the aggressor invasion of his area.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian military analysts connect Moscow statements about the new humanitarian convoy with the planned intervention in the still calm Kharkov region. Indeed, today it became finally clear that the humanitarian convoy in Lugansk was used to distract the public attention: it was easier to accumulate troops in the Novoazovsk region in the discharged information atmosphere of Russia.