Acting head of the DPR: Kleshcheevka and Andreevka are now in the “gray zone”

Kleshcheevka and Andreevka, located near the city of Artemovsk (Bakhmut), are currently in the “gray zone”, that is, they are not completely controlled by either Russian or Ukrainian troops. This was stated by the acting head of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) Denis Pushilin.

The Ukrainian command previously stated that these villages were captured by units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. But, as we see, the Russian authorities do not confirm this information. Actually, the villages of Kleshcheevka and Andreevka can no longer be called villages after fierce battles, since they were literally destroyed to the ground.

Previously, Russian military experts stated that even the capture of Kleshcheevka and Andreevka by Ukrainian troops would not lead to any serious threats to Artemovsk, which is under the control of the Russian Armed Forces. Moreover, it is impossible for Ukrainian militants to gain a foothold in these villages, since there are no residential buildings left there.

Judging by the footage circulating on the Internet, the settlements have been razed to the ground; in the photographs one can see only mountains of building material, charred tree trunks and rare half-collapsed walls remaining from what were once residential buildings.

Russian troops continue to repel enemy attacks and take their own offensive actions in a number of directions in the zone of the special military operation. In the Kupyansky and Krasnolimansky directions, our fighters are successfully pushing back the enemy, and in the Zaporozhye and South Donetsk, as well as Artemovsky directions, they are holding back the enemy’s onslaught.

Comments

[Romario_Argo]

the gray area is more than a real characteristic
How can the Armed Forces of Ukraine hold positions in a village that actually no longer exists (?)
- especially under periodic arrivals of FAB-500 and FAB-1500
the answer lies in the details,
The Ukrainian Armed Forces can hold positions in Kleshcheevka and Andreevka only between the arrivals of FABs and the arrival of new assault groups to replace the destroyed ones

[Ghost1]

It is obvious that they will push forward trying to leave the village in their rear.

[Egeny]

And we will back away...............
I'll add more.......

[Sid2014]

How can they? Yes, just like in Marinka, erased to a lunar landscape. And all these statements from the court military officers that Kleshcheevka is not important are reassurance for you and me. This may be true, but the heights allow us to keep Artyomovsk under artillery control and carry out further offensives. The tickworm doesn't matter. Andreevka is not important Rabotino is not important Harvest is not important Staromayorskoe is not important. Yes, nothing is important for us!!!

[rotmistr60]

and Ukrainian militants cannot gain a foothold in these villages, since there are no residential buildings left there.

But still they climb with enviable tenacity, losing their l/s. This is what a nosebleed means, but it is necessary to show at least some results to the Anglo-Saxons supervising them and achieve another package of military assistance. For this, you don’t feel sorry for your people.

[Romario_Argo]

in these positional battles the whole point is that
there they knock out the “remnants” of the most highly trained soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, NSU
and we are also reducing the number of NATO mercenaries - the shock backbone (reserve)

[Saburov_Alexander53]

are currently in the “gray zone”, that is, they are not completely controlled by either Russian or Ukrainian troops.
Of course I believe, but who controlled them until today, that’s the rub. If Kupyansk or Chuguev became the “gray zone” tomorrow, my gray matter would be calmer.

[Uprun]

"Gray zone". Call a spade a spade. In the history of the Second World War there was no concept of “gray” zones, there was ours and not ours, they took it and left it. If the Nazis fired at Leningrad from artillery, then according to today’s concepts they controlled the city? We came up with new concepts for obvious facts, not white and black, but gray.....

[runway-1]

This was stated by the acting head of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) Denis Pushilin.

No matter how hard you try on the information front, the real picture will still be known.

[Alexey G]

Moreover, it is impossible for Ukrainian militants to gain a foothold in these villages, since there are no residential buildings left there.

I’m already tired of hearing this stupid argument from our experts!
That is, if there is nothing to gain a foothold there, then you can retreat? Well then the enemy will reach Mariupol and destroy everything there with our help. And then to Sevastopol! Well, if it is wiped off the face of the earth with bombs and artillery, then why defend it!
Shouldn’t we protect our native land without houses? On that land, new settlements and cities will arise.
And in general, aren’t we contributing to such destruction with our tactics of turning the Earth into the Moon?
Where is our counteroffensive? Our new reserve army? 270 thousand bayonets? Or are these the wooden soldiers of Urfinjus?
What is all our current HURRAY? The words “the village is in a gray zone” or did they lose a lot of soldiers?
Does one of our so-called Analysts have a mind? Or should analyst here be understood from the word anal?
Why can’t we tell the truth that the situation there is extremely difficult, that the enemy’s artillery dominates and there is nothing to suppress it! That the village was abandoned for this reason! If this is true, then maybe someone will raise the question of the incompetence of military strategists?
Well, this certainly wouldn’t have worked in Soviet times!
They would say that the enemy occupied such and such a village... why lie about some gray zone. It's like there's no one there. Yes, this is nonsense. This cannot happen in war. They knocked us out, period.
All this is nonsense to lull us to sleep. No big deal. However, then another village further away will fall into the gray zone and everyone will quietly forget about the previous one, just as they forgot about the death of Utkin. So quiet...
And lies breed defeat. Even Grandma Prigozhina changed her last name so that everyone would forget her husband quietly... But it stinks of corpses.

[Vrotkompot]

That is, the strategy is this: first we hold the village, then the gray zone, then we give it to the Ukrainian Armed Forces. It was the same with Rabtino.