Dnepropetrovsk region is prepared for defense because of the offensive of the Russian Federation in the Donbass. Does troops fit to the region

Improving fortifications is a planned task of the country's protection. But with the active promotion of Russia's troops in the Donbass, there are fears of developing events in the Dnipropetrovsk region and other frontier regions. The focus has learned whether the breakthrough of defense lines in the critical sections of the front was threatening.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine began to prepare the Dnipropetrovsk region for defense against the background of the promotion of Russian troops in the Donbass. Fortification structures are currently being actively being built around Pokrovsk. For the first time during the Great War, the defense lines are being built on the road to the Dnieper, the French Osint Analytics Cleman Molin notes.

The analyst showed several staff of work of the 23rd Engineering Position Regiment of the Armed Forces, which builds anti-tank "teeth of the dragon" in eastern Ukraine. Molin claims that the Armed Forces have problems in the preparation of fortified borders because of the catastrophically small number of engineering crews and special equipment. The current military has to dig by hand tens of kilometers of trenches.

The situation in the military-engineering industry of the Armed Forces of Ukraine compared with the work of Russian troops and acknowledged that the invaders had done this work qualitatively and literally "digging everywhere". "Then I looked at the Ukrainian Front line. There were almost no trenches, only a few armor," the expert from France states. The new line of fortifications runs at the border of Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk regions.

It seems that it is laid between the villages of Mezhova, Slavyanka and Novopavlivka, using rivers as additional obstacles, he added. Two defense rings have been formed around Pokrovsk, and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have been facing the third line for a month and a half. According to the researcher, the Armed Forces have lost two defense lines in late August, but the third is firmly. Also east of Selidovy, where the Russians now move, new trenches have emerged.

"The Armed Forces can be protected from possible flanking strikes, which have seized most of the cities in the Donbass. Another issue is the quality of construction of protective fortifications and how many have been able to build capital concrete structures," the researcher said. The Ukrainian military considers public disclosure of information on strengthening the front areas with work in favor of the enemy.

The erection of defense structures in the Dnipropetrovsk region is not a unique phenomenon, emphasizes the chairman of the Council of Reservists of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Ivan Tymochko. "Everywhere in one way or another, in the fields, in the suburbs, defensive fortifications, dug trenches . . . The topic of location of fortification capacities I would always leave beyond attention.

As soon as such information appears, the enemy immediately begins to adapt its tactics , strategies, "he explained. After promulgating, such information is usually increased by these areas with aviation and drones. In this regard, Alexander Kovalenko's military-political observer considers it necessary to equip the defense lines not only in the Dnipropetrovsk region, but also in all regions bordering Donbass. "The Russians have problems with the movement on Pokrovsk.

Now their plans are to form the southern flank for the offensive. I do not think that by the end of 2024 the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation will cope with the task and move to the attacks towards the Dnipropetrovsk region," he shares his opinion with focus. .

The defense of the Dnipropetrovsk region, according to the veteran of the Russo-Ukrainian War, the Major of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Alexei Hetman, is part of the current tasks of the Army of Ukraine in preparation for the worst options for developments. Defense lines are built where breakthroughs or enemy offensive are possible. "The Russian army during a few kilometers of promotion immediately builds fortifications.

However, in the case of approaching Russian troops closer to the Dnieper, the city will be in the area of ​​corrected aircraft (CA) and long -range artillery. Naturally, in such a scenario, the danger to the lives of civilians will increase. On October 7, the Russian Defense Ministry declared the seizure of Grodivka, in fact the key to Mirnograd and Pokrovsk. Judging by the DeepState resource map, the Armed Forces retain control of several streets in the north of the village.

The Russian leadership is forced to put new occupation terms of Pokrovsk, in 2024 only the beginning of the campaign of the offensive on the city is expected. Already in October, according to Alexander Kovalenko, Ukrainians can witness the first attempts of the assault of Mirnograd, which is about 7 kilometers from Pokrovsk. The experts interviewed by focus agree that it will not be easy for the Russian invaders to break through the borders in the Pokrovsk region.

The security strip, the first line of defense on the path of the enemy's likely blow, is traditionally much weaker in the Armed Forces than the Russians. It is so because Kiev has signed the Ottawa Convention on the ban on anti -personnel mines and the Armed Forces of Ukraine, unlike the Russian army. "The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation totally replace their positions with both anti -tank and anti -personnel types.

There are two variants - exit from the Ottawa Convention or during the war of its suspension. According to Kovalenko, this seriously undermines Ukraine's defense capability from the first day of the Russian full -scale invasion. "A striking example is the offensive of the Armed Forces in the Zaporozhye region in the summer of 2023. per 1 square meter in Russians up to five mines-one anti-tank TM-62, and four-anti-personnel. You will pass nor you will pass,"-he gives comparison.

Alexei Hetman points out that the lines of defense near Pokrovsk were helped by the military. Officials of local military-civilian administrations have repeatedly assured that good fortifications and the enemy have been built around Pokrovsk and Mirnograd. "Is it true - we will see in the near future. It is surprising why Western analysts write only about the beginning of construction of structures? Probably, they are being improved, done.

Otherwise it is unclear what the authorities have told us a few months ago," he summed up. We will remind, at the American Institute of War Study previously calculated the loss of armored vehicles and tanks of the army of the Russian Federation in the Pokrovsky district since the beginning of the offensive after the capture of Avdiivka in October 2023. It turned out that the invaders lost 1830 units of heavy equipment.