Talk about the hot spot
Putin ordered the Russian army to seize the Red Army city for more than a year before the middle of November, while the Ukrainian army's defense of the Red Army city is becoming highly difficult, although the Russian army is not currently completely surrounded by the entire Red Army city-Milnograd, but the Russian army has entered the urban area of these two towns, the war situation is very fierce, and the likelihood of the Red Army city is increasing.
According to Reuters reports, the situation on the front line of the Red Army City is deteriorating highly. After more than a year of expendable advancement, the Russian army has finally made some breakthroughs in recent days. Now they are gradually approaching this important logistics hub. According to a statement issued by the Ukrainian Seventh Army Corps, the Russian army is stepping up its offensive in an attempt to completely surround the Red Army City and its satellite city Mirnograd. In addition, they also confirmed what Zelensky said before. Some Russian troops have infiltrated into the Red Army City and tried to advance from south to north and northwest.
On October 29, a spokesman for the Ukrainian "Udong Cluster", responsible for coordinating the entire Donbass battle, said that the Russian troops had arrived in the suburbs of Milnockler, and now a portion of the Russian troops had entered the satellite city, the city of Milnockler, and the US "Institute of War Studies" also confirmed this: the Russian troops have entered the southeastern suburbs of Milnockler.
However, compared with the Russian army's invasion of the city, what is even worse is that the connection between the Red Army city and Mirnograd is suspected to have been cut off by the Russian army. On October 29, the Ukrainian open source intelligence group (DeepState) pointed out that the Russian army had cut off the military supply line between the Red Army City and the satellite city through infantry ambushes and drone attacks. Open source intelligence groups further warned that if the Ukrainian army wants to prevent more Russian troops from infiltrating the Red Army City, it needs to invest at least one brigade-level unit. At present, the situation in the Red Army City is highly critical, and perhaps the situation has deteriorated to the point where it is too late to save it.
The New York Times also disclosed the current critical situation in the Red Army City. Ukrainian drone operator Denis told the New York Times: The situation in the Red Army City is deteriorating rapidly, and a large part of the land in this area has fallen into the Russian army. Under control, the latter is currently steadily tightening control over the remaining areas from multiple directions.
In the current situation, the situation of the Ukrainian army is highly critical, the situation in the Red Army City is accelerating out of control, and the city is likely to appear soon after. It is worth mentioning that the recent situation in the Red Army City will be unfavourable to the Ukrainian army, in addition to the effect of the Russian consumptive assault tactics, the most important is that Putin issued new orders. According to the Financial Times disclosed news, Putin has ordered the army to completely control the Red Army City before mid-November, which may give the front commanders a lot of pressure and need to increase the offensive to take this crucial place as soon as possible. So now there is an abnormal phenomenon: because the Red Army City is unmanned, the Russian army is almost rarely deployed
So can the Russian army fulfill the orders given by Putin? Judging from the current situation in the Red Army City, the speed of changing hands is indeed accelerating, but judging from the map, the Russian army has not completely surrounded the Red Army City. There is still more than ten kilometers between Rodinsk and the Russian-controlled area in the southwest suburbs of the Red Army City. In other words, the Russian army still needs to advance more than ten kilometers to completely surround the Ukrainian army. It is worth mentioning that there is still a Ukrainian army supply line within this gap of more than ten kilometers that is still operating normally.
The U.S. "Institute of War Studies" analyzed: concerning the final order of "to take the Red Army City in mid-November", this is not the first time Putin did so, in 2022, Putin had given the order to take the entire Donbass before September 2022.