Druzhkivka

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Druzhkivka, near, uh, um, Kramatorsk.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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And at this pace, they'd have millions of more losses.

Concerning Russia still has not reached the hardest targets, Sloviansk, Kramatorsk, Druzhkivka.

They're still far from Russian control, which means the major fights, well, they're ahead in the fortress belt.

But the other story, the one that's got the Kremlin probably even more concerned, is what's transpiring right now inside of Russia, where the plague, it broke out, and now there's a lot of mystery as the government is clearly trying to control what the public sees, and that is creating a whole different crisis.

This is Kostiantynivka.

You can see that according to Creamy Caprice, that entire area plus some is fully under Russian control, and they've also been pushing up pretty significantly towards Druzhivka to the west.

If we go over to Deep State Map and look in this same area, again, a Ukrainian, this is a Ukrainian source, Creamy Caprice a Russian source, but look at the difference here, where there is still, and there's evidence of Ukrainian elements still fighting in Kostiantynivka.

Russia has this all listed under their territorial control, and there's not even a showing.

In fact, Azov a couple weeks ago showed that they cleared out some Russian infiltrators trying to make a move here west of Druzhivka.

So yes, technically Russia says they gained 177 square kilometers.

I would argue that they are probably ignoring some of the major, uh, changes that have happened on the battlefield.

This is essentially what the Russian northern salient was.

We'll go to the other maps later, but south of here is Sloviansk, Kramtorsk, Druzhkivka, and Konstantinivka, the fortress cities.

This salient up here was supposed to be Russia's northern part of the Nutcracker.

You can see the various shades of contact here.

Of course, just pushing the wrong button isn't going to do it.

Okay, this is a view of the upper end of the fortress cities.

Below Kremtorsk, below this map, you've got Druzhkivka and then Konstantinivka.

Okay, here is Liman.

Kostiantynivka has gone.

Um, the two Druzhkivkas, which are to the north of Kostiantynivka, uh, Oleksiiivka, Druzhkivka.

Druzhkivka, they're also apparently now being fought over.

But Dobropillia is to the southwest of all of this, these places.

Most of them, I'm afraid, will probably be casualties in this terrible war.

Dobropilie, Aleksejevo, Druzhkivka and Druzhkivka, the southern part of the Slavyansk Kramatorsk conurbation.

All of those places are soon going to fall one after the other.

Again, troops, lots of Ukrainian troops trapped in these places.

This is a glacial pace, and it comes at a massive cost to Moscow, said CNN.

However, Russia is chipping away at the so-called fortress belt made up of four industrial cities, Slovyansk, Kramatorsk, Druzhkivka, and Kostiantynivka, that form the backbone of Ukraine's eastern defenses.

Russian forces have been menacing Kostiantynivka for almost a year with troops also active around Slovyansk and Kramatorsk.

Were one of these cities to fall, it could force Kiev to sue for some sort of peace before Russia's forces fully broke through.

Further north, in Donbass, there is a cluster of cities south of Kramatorsk.

Druzhkivka, Alekseyevo Druzhkivka and Dobropilya.

The Russians apparently are in the process of storming all three.

The most important of the three is Dobropilya.

Look, I, I think it's really important to explain that, that you're right.

Kramatorsk, uh, and all those so-called fortress cities of Konstantinovka, Druzhkivka, Sloviansk, which have, um, which, which form a, a critical belt on this wider Donetsk area are being absolutely hammered right now.

There's no, there's no doubt about that.

But I think it's important to understand that this, the, the, the front, if you will, such that it is, is over twelve hundred kilometers long, and we've got teams working up in Sumy, which is up in the northeast, and, and we've had real issues up there, and also teams down in Kherson, which is in the southeast, and this is where we lost our first ambulance, in fact.