An arc broke the night sky in Donbas, the rail system suddenly paralyzed and the gunfire on the Ukrainian front subsequently weakened – a conflict that lasted 1315 days and was taking a new turning point.
Recently, the Russian military suddenly again launched the "most lasting" airstrike on Ukraine, about 600 drones continued to strike for 12 hours, several mercenary training bases, stationed, and the biggest harvest was the destruction of Ukrainian part of the tractor transformation power plant.
It is said that several tractor transformers in the Donbass area stood in a sea of fire overnight, the electrified railway instantly stopped, and military trains loaded with cannons, drones and ammunition were forced to stop in the dark.
This meant that the 200,000 Ukrainian troops who guarded fortresses such as the Red Army City and Kupyansk were suddenly cut off from the most important "transfusion vessels."
On the railway tracks of Donetsk, the traction transformers built during the Soviet era were the "heart" of the Ukrainian army's fighting, which converted high-voltage electricity into the power supply needed for trains, and once destroyed, the entire electrified rail system would be completely paralyzed.
Moreover, unlike ordinary railways, the repair of electrified railways is extremely complex.
The Ukrainian railway department has proudly claimed that "the exploded railway can be repaired in 2 hours", but the core equipment of the transformation plant - the main transformator is huge, technologically intensive, costly, can not be replaced in the short term, and it takes a professional team and months to replace.
In other words, destroying a power station is equivalent to paralyzing the entire railway line for a long time.The Russian military trick could be said to hit the Ukrainian logistics system directly.
The Ukrainian army on the Donbass front is almost entirely dependent on rail transport.
The electrified railway can send hundreds of tons of ammunition to the front line overnight, which is tens of times more powerful than road transportation.
More importantly, the railway can quickly pass through dangerous areas under the cover of air defense fire, and can flexibly switch routes in case of air strikes.
Now the power plant has been destroyed, and the Ukrainian army has been forced to switch to inefficient road transport.
But Russian drones monitored the road network for 24 hours, and the truck fleet became a live target.A Ukrainian artillery officer at the front of Red Army City privately revealed: “The artillery quota has been cut by two-thirds, and the Russian artillery fire is becoming more and more dense.”
The tactical change of the Russian army is no accident.
Experts pointed out that Russian military commanders seem to have finally realized that in the vast land of Ukraine, fixed substations are obviously more ideal targets than chasing moving military columns.
At the same time as the Donbass railway is paralyzed, the Ukrainian army in the Zaporizhia direction is facing a greater crisis.
Because the main forces were confined to the Donetsk front, only the remaining troops, such as the 65th Infantry Brigade, remained in the Zaporozhye Defense Zone, most of which consisted of under-trained new troops, and were defeated by the 35th Group Army and 58th Group Army in the Eastern Military District.
The Russian army has chosen to deploy its forces in Zaporozhye with great deliberation – the main area in the south-northern center of the front, which, once lost, can overwhelm the Donetsk Ukrainian side wing to the north, and consolidate the Helmsonian defensive line to the south.
This multi-point pressure tactic is putting the already stretched Ukrainian army into a dilemma: reinforcing Zaporizhzhia, Donbas may collapse; Sticking to Donbass, the entire southern front will open the door wide.
In the face of the trouble, the Kiev authorities launched a symbolic river crossing operation in the direction of Helsinki: a small division attempted to cross the Dnipro to build a bridgehead, which resulted in landing on the left bank was completely destroyed.
The Ukrainian military is aware of the very low success rate of such operations, but continues to try.
Analysts believe that this is both a show to the US West that it can still be a war, the performance of demanding military aid, and the brutal price paid to contain the Russian military force.
Just at the time of the war in Ukraine, the emergency seemed to unleash a bigger darkness.
Global weapons procurement databases were hacked, with data showing that a large number of key components used by the Russian military came from the United States, especially from instrument suppliers in Texas.
This finding makes Western sanctions on Russia ironic.
The United States, on the one hand, accuses other countries of "military aid to Russia", while its own companies are in the shelter.
Some analysts pointed out that the U.S. military-industrial complex is profiting from the ongoing conflict-providing weapons to Ukraine to boost performance, and secretly exporting to Russia to also create profits. This war has obviously become a "win-win game" for some forces.
The war entered its 1315th day, but the dawn of the ceasefire was still far away.
European donors began to reduce their aid commitments to Ukraine due to financial pressure, and the domestic political polarization in the United States also made its policy toward Ukraine full of variables. The most critical thing is the change in the battlefield situation-when the railway system is paralyzed, will the Ukrainian army have to rely on inefficient road transportation? When ammunition reserves are depleted day by day, how long can the defense line last?
In the coming months, Donbass’s fate may depend on when the damaged power station will be repaired successfully, whether Ukraine will be able to establish an alternative supply line, and whether Western aid will break through heavy obstacles to timely delivery.
If the Ukrainian army fails to restore the logistical line, the Donbass defense line may collapse before the winter; if the West provides advanced weapons such as the F-16, the battle scene could become stagnant again.
The logic of war has never changed: the party who runs out of ammunition first is often the first to lose bargaining chips. But in any case, peace talks are still the final destination-but all parties are waiting for the most favorable opportunity to negotiate.