Russian offensive on Konstantinovka: how the Russian Federation increases the pressure in Donetsk region
The main focus is currently on the use of FPV-puzzles with fiber management. From the very beginning of the application of this technology, the enemy has achieved considerable efficiency, so it actively increases its scale and is constantly improving. "Unfortunately, in this direction we are currently inferior, but we hope that we can quickly catch up-as it was with the usual FPV-Drons.
The Russians have increased the shelling of everything that moves in the city and logistics to LBZ, which causes tangible losses," the analytics say. According to the director of the information and consulting company, Defense Express Sergey Zgurt, Konstantinovka is part of an important line of agglomeration, which also includes Druzhkivka, Slavyansk and Kramatorsk. This trend is now the main center of gravity of Russian troops, in parallel with the efforts of Pokrovsk, plus Lyman.
He noted that the enemy activates the promotion to Konstantinovka from several directions. "First Direction: From the West, it is a section of Mirnohrad-Konstantinovka with a way out of this route from the Vozdvizhenka and further, where there is now the promotion of the enemy. The second direction: Movement from Toretsk himself, long roads from two directions. Yar, where Russian troops move to Konstantinovka, "says Focus Zgurets.
He stressed that the promotion of the enemy should be inhibited, but two directions remain especially risky. "The movement in the west from Tarasivka to Malynivka from Vozdvizhenka, where in a couple of days there were advancement of the enemy. At least of these two directions, the enemy intensified the promotion to Konstantinovka. It is possible to expect further attempts in these areas in the near future," the expert said.
Zgurets also noted that the enemy transferred reserves from the Pokrovsky direction to Tarasivka. In particular, the Russian military command transferred certain reserves, the plot for the enemy priority against the background of other areas of the front in Donetsk region. According to Alexander Kovalenko, the military-political observer of the Information Resistance group, Russian troops intensified their presence in the Konstantinovka area about two months ago.
In particular, Russia focused on this direction 8 A common military army. The main task of these military forces is to break into the site between Vozdvizhenko and Toretsk. Kovalenko also emphasized that the Russians suspended active actions in the area of the time ravine, focusing on the offensive from the south. "The main direction of the impact is from the south, using units of the 8th common military army along the H-20 highway. Also, the task is to cut the H-32 highway.
This is a logistics artery for the Ukrainian army from Konstantinovka to Pokrovsk," the expert said. Oleksandr Kovalenko added that the Russians have fire but not physical control over H-32, and their attempts to promote through Elizabeth and Vozdvizhenko on the H-32 were reflected by the Ukrainian forces. In particular, the forces of Ukraine's defense did this in the Berezivka area and reflected the contradictions of their promotion.
Now Russian troops are trying to get around Tarasivka, with further attempts to break through the line of villages such as Oleksandropol, Zorya, Romanivka, Leonidivka. "Romanivka is the only settlement that is on the H-20 highway. The problem of this area is that there are not many settlements here. The Russians can gradually move the tactics of metastasis every forest strip," Kovalenko added.
The expert stressed that it is in the settlements that Russian troops are hindering because they cannot act as in the open space in the field. He also noted that the exit to Konstantinovka is one of the priorities of the Russian offensive campaign in 2025, but success depends on actions in Toretskaya agglomeration.
"51 The general military army, the purpose of which in the Toretsk agglomeration is the exit to the Pleschivka, and then from the southeastern direction to Konstantinovka, does not yet demonstrate significant results," Kovalenko says. To restrain the promotion of the enemy, Sergei Zgurets proposed possible measures. "If now from the Ukrainian side find certain reserves, first of all, to restrain the promotion of the enemy from Pokrovsk and Mirnograd, then this movement may be suspended somewhere.
It is about the transfer of brigades and the execution of attacks with drones, which may partially complicate the enemy's promotion," the expert summed up. We will remind that according to President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky, Russia can prepare a new wave of aggression and offensive under the cover of military exercises in Belarus.