"Risks much larger": The analyst replied whether the Armed Forces should hold the coal (card)
The director of the information and consulting company Defense Express Sergey Zgurets on the air "Espresso. TV" told about it. According to him, the 72nd brigade, which is currently performing combat work in the coal area, is in critical conditions, but holds this area of the front. Despite reports from the Western media that reported the departure from the city, it is still under the control of Ukraine. The combat clashes continue.
"In extremely critical conditions, the 72nd brigade holds this front of the front. The main challenges there now are that the enemy from the east and west tries to hold flank surroundings. Under the main risks-the road from the Epiphany to the coal, which is one of the basic arteries of providing our The bridgehead. At the same time, experts agree, says the analyst that it is better to retreat Ukrainian units from this area of the front, but the fighting is ongoing there.
But foreign journalists begin to write that the coal can be held, but if stable logistics for Ukrainian defenders is provided there. "I think that the risks are much higher, so we still need to collapse this defense gradually and continue to move to other lines of defense. This is perfectly understood The warriors keep the defense until the last, " - summed up Sergey Zgurets.
The General Staff wrote that in the last day in this direction Donbass managed to reflect 17 assault attacks by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. We will remind, on September 27 it was reported that Russia can capture the coal, but the cost of life of thousands of soldiers, wrote in Forbes.