According to the Russian Chief of Staff, more than 10,000 Ukrainian troops are currently under siege, including 31 battalions of Ukrainian troops in Red Army City. Zelensky also admitted that the Ukrainian army is currently in the direction of Red Army City. The battle is difficult. Will this battle in Red Army City, which has lasted for several months, finally come to an end?

Thousands of Ukrainians are surrounded by Russian troops.

When Russian President Vladimir Putin inspected the Ukrainian Special Military Operations Command, Russian Chief of Staff Gerasimov reported to him on the situation on the front line in Ukraine. 5000 Ukrainian troops in the Kupyansk region of Kharkiv Oblast were surrounded, and 31 battalions of 55000 Ukrainian troops in the Red Army City region of Donetsk Oblast were surrounded.

This war report was recognized by Ukraine President Zelensky. Zelensky admitted that the current situation of the Ukrainian army in the direction of Red Army City is very bad. The fighting inside and outside the city is quite fierce. Under the harassment of Russian sabotage and reconnaissance teams, the Ukrainian army's logistics support system was seriously damaged, and it was difficult for soldiers to obtain timely supplies.

In the past week, the Ukrainian army has been hit by at least 1200 Russian drones, 1360 guided bombs, and more than 50 missiles. With a large number of Russian troops concentrated in the Red Army City and already entered the city, the situation in the Red Army City and even the Donbas region is extremely unfavorable for Ukraine.

The Red Army City serves as the defense hub and logistics hub of the Ukrainian army in Donetsk. Almost all Ukrainian army supplies in the entire area are transported to various places through this place. Therefore, as long as the Russian army can capture the area, it means that Russia is not far away from complete control of the Donetsk area.

When the Ukrainian army launched the Kursk counteroffensive last year, the Russian army did not withdraw its large troops to the mainland for defense. On the contrary, it increased its attack in the direction of Donetsk and advanced rapidly in the direction of the Red Army City. In December last year, the Russian army even invaded the villages around the Red Army City, but since then, Russia and Ukraine have launched a tug-of-war here.

When the Ukrainian army retreated to Kursk this year and the entire battlefield situation deflected towards the Russian army, the Russian army's attack in the direction of the Red Army City was not strong and speed. It seemed that it intended to launch a war of attrition with the Ukrainian army here. Due to the importance of the place, even if Ukraine knew that the Russian army wanted to consume a large amount of Ukrainian manpower here, the Ukrainian army had no choice but to send a large amount of cannon fodder to fill the line in the Red Army City.

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The real turn of things came after the Trump and Putin call, the two sides discussed around Ukraine peace negotiations, but the Russian side is not willing to abandon the Donbass region, wants to have all Ukrainian troops withdraw from the area to a ceasefire, and Trump from the beginning is not willing to accept, to have Ukraine recover all the land, to the willingness to freeze the front in the areas currently controlled by the two Donbass, is to see the Ukrainian troops in the direction of the Red Army City dynamic change.

However, at this time, Russia no longer placed its hopes on peace negotiations. In order to achieve the goal of completely taking over the Donbas area, after an offensive and defensive campaign in August, the Russian army started to advance again in September. Not only did it occupy the strongholds around the Red Army City, but also Street fighting broke out in the city and the Ukrainian army, and 60% of the area has been controlled.

Although the Ukrainian army still controls a large area in the Red Army city, this part of the area is in a state of comprehensive siege on the map. Therefore, it is only a matter of time before the area will be completely conquered and become the next Mariupol under the siege of the Russian army.

The current losses of the Ukrainian army under the Russian siege were very heavy, calculated according to the preparation of 500 people in a regular camp, and the Russian army's 31 camps in the Red Army city were only 5,500 people, obviously much less than the normal camp-level preparation, which meant that the Ukrainian losses in the last period of time were not late to be supplemented, resulting in an average of 180 people, even half.

Now Trump has canceled Putin's meeting, which means that the Russian army will further increase its offensive in the Red Army city and strive to completely capture the city before the leaders of the two sides meet. After the tens of thousands of besieged Ukrainian troops have been lost, the Ukrainian army's front on the battlefield will further shrink. It has become an illusion that the Ukrainian army, with fewer and fewer personnel, wants to retake the four places of Eastern Ukraine.

Source of information in the article: The Russian Chief of General Staff said that 31 battalions of the Ukrainian army were surrounded in the direction of the Red Army City Observer Network