"Not Liberation of Territories": The Armed Forces Combat named the main task of war (video)

Petro Gorbatenko stated that the release of Donbass should "show at least some victory. " However, in his opinion, the region is better not to storm, but to bypass. The war in Ukraine is now closer to the First World War, and the main task of defense forces is not to liberate territories. This was stated in an interview with Natalia Mosaychuk by the commander of the 1st assault battalion of 3 Oshbr of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Petro "Rollo" Gorbatenko.

He noted that Ukraine now has a political goal to release the Donetsk region to "show at least some victory. " At the same time, according to the military, the region should not be stormed, but taken in a ring. "Donbass region is a city agglomeration of buildings. In all previous conflicts, it was tried not so much to storm it as to bypass, and then to move to cleaning," he explained. Gorbatenko noted that the question is how rationally spending resources on this area of ​​the front.

In his opinion, it is possible to draw a maneuver from the city's environment-through the corridor between Mariupol and Donetsk, approximately in the Volnovakha area, but through Kharkiv-Lugansk. "I think it would be better to do so. But there is a problem with the use of technique, and this problem is called UAV of different nature of actions," the commander emphasized. According to him, the war in Ukraine is reminiscent of the First World War, when everything happened "on the leg".

That is, the assault groups are forced to walk five kilometers under fire to reach the line of collision and only then start the fight. The evacuation of the wounded also occurs. "The main task of the war is not so much the release of territories as the destruction of personnel, equipment and firearms of the enemy," Rollo said. He added that the Armed Forces can make an inadvertent enemy, and then the land will be purchased independently.