Ex-CIA employee: The Armed Forces of Ukraine fell into a “trap” on the Avdeevsky sector of the front during the Russian offensive

Ukrainian soldiers could have been surrounded in the Avdeevka area as a result of a successful maneuver by the Russian army. This was stated by former CIA officer Larry Johnson.

During an interview with the Dialogue Works YouTube channel, Johnson noted that Russian army units went on the offensive on a number of sectors of the front. The largest battles are currently taking place in the Avdeevka area, where more than twenty thousand Ukrainian troops are actually surrounded. The Russian army is advancing so quickly that Kyiv does not have the ability to change the situation in any way.

According to a former CIA employee, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky was repeatedly warned that the ability of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to continue to hold its position in this conflict could be significantly undermined in the shortest possible time over the next few months.

Johnson also added that the escalation of the Arab-Israeli confrontation will inevitably lead to a decrease in attention from Western countries to the situation in Ukraine, a former Soviet republic. This will inevitably lead to an even greater shortage of weapons and military equipment among the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Avdeevka, which is the closest northern suburb of Donetsk, has been turned by militants of the Kyiv regime into a powerful fortified area, from which the Ukrainian Armed Forces continue to shell residential areas of the administrative center of the DPR.

This is a very important section of the front, where over the past few days Russian units have begun to advance from two directions and gain a foothold in new positions north and south of the city, gradually encircling Avdeevka.

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[Mikhail Ivanov]

There, our people simply thought through everything well and prepared. The weather was bad and the enemy decided to carry out a rotation in the expectation that aviation and adjustments would be absent. The result is known to everyone - they unwound those who went on rotation and those who were on site, at the same time dozens of pieces of equipment and took away important heights and positions.
If we manage to take Avdeevka, the front will advance all the way to Kurakhovo. Khokhlu will have to leave vast territories and flee across the river.
And to the south we will enter Ugledar, which will actually be surrounded, this will collapse the southern front for the Ukrainians.

[chingachguc]

The XXXLs repulsed this assault on Avdeevka. This morning they knocked our people out of the waste heap ((such things

[Mikhail Ivanov]

Nobody took the waste heap itself! I’m writing this for the umpteenth time. It was the military officers and some Gagin who took him. Fire control was obtained over the waste heap, and now there are battles for this height.

[Myths]

There are a lot of creatures in Avdeevka, so give them a couple of days to surround them for surrender, then level them with factories.

[Grits]

Quote from Mitos

There are a lot of creatures in Avdeevka, so give them a couple of days to surround them for surrender, then level them with factories.

Necessary. It’s just that there isn’t enough strength to surround oneself. The Khokhliks learned to quickly transfer forces and prevent the creation of cauldrons. It's not 2014.

[Dimm588]

This is already a de facto boiler. There, the supply route is 4-5 kilometers away or less. Think about it, what can you shoot at at such distances? Yes, almost anything. Mortars are hitting it, artillery is hitting it, everything is being tracked by copters and drones. Yes, at night they are still rushing here and there on all sorts of motorcycles and cars, so they are not yet completely dead.

[Egeny]

This “cauldron” has been around since June and it won’t be possible to close the lid for two days.

[Metallurg_2]

Smoke it with chlorine, it will be safer.

[Alt 22]

Actually, they did. But you seem to think that you have a better view of what’s going on there from the rear than military officers from the field...

[Orange Bigg]

The assault is underway. Here is a video of the battle.

Exclusive: the atmosphere of the battle for Avdiivka

As promised - footage of a large-scale battle for the city from RT military correspondent Andrei Filatov.

The enemy is desperately firing artillery fire, trying to hit the Russian tanks approaching the city. To no avail.

At sunset, the tank battalion of the 114th brigade covers the passage of our infantry units. The tankers themselves are in the sights of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and every second they risk “receiving” a shell.

In the next video we will show how our tank is attacked twice, but it continues to fight. #Military CorrespondentsRT@rt_russian

https://m.vk.com/wall-40316705_50447261

Details about Avdeevka from Damantsev.
https://eadaily.com/ru/news/2023/10/13/rezultaty-proryva-u-orlovskogo-polumesyaca-pod-avdeevkoy-formirovanie-kotla

Here are more details about Avdeevka.
https://t.me/s/avdeevkaru

[vadson]

Today, right along Artem Street, the T64 was not on a trawl, but under its own power. I don’t know what regiment, I don’t know much, but they are usually transported on trawls, and then I walked along one of the central streets

[Alexey G]

The start of the offensive operation in the morning of October 9, 2023 was preceded by a long and most intense artillery and counter-battery preparation in the last few months due to several full batteries of 152-mm howitzers D-20, Msta-B, Giatsint-B, MLRS " Grad”, as well as 120-mm mortars (more than two to three dozen hordes), which over a 5-hour period were able to pretty much batter the trench-dugout fortifications of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Stepovoy, Berdychi and Semyonovka, as well as suppress the active positions of self-propelled guns M109A6/L, AS -90, howitzers M777A2, M119A3 and mortars MO-120-RT-61 on the western approaches to Avdievka.

Also, at the moment the motorized rifle brigade of the 114th Russian Army began advancing near Berdychi to the eastern outskirts of the Avdeevsky fortified area of ​​the Ukrainian Armed Forces, a flight of Mi-28N reconnaissance and attack helicopters arrived, destroying more than a dozen units of heavy armored vehicles of the Ukrainian Armed Forces with promising tactical missiles “Izdeliye 305” (LMUR).

More details: https://eadaily.com/ru/news/2023/10/13/rezultaty-proryva-u-orlovskogo-polumesyaca-pod-avdeevkoy-formirovanie-kotla

[Rage66]

The waste heap was simply rolled out by air and artillery strikes... Nobody took it

[Orange Bigg]

“Let’s try to dig up the boys, if there’s anything left of them”: video summary of the UMPC’s arrival at the location of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Avdeevka
https://dzen.ru/video/watch/65295706393fed72c2402982

[belovvladimir]

A cauldron is a cauldron, it is very difficult to argue with this, and the Israel-Palestine conflict was created artificially with the support of the United States itself, how can one divert attention from the failed project Ukraine is a black hole! , only by unleashing another conflict, and the weapons transferred to Ukraine disappeared in Poland, there are more advanced managers there!

[tihonmarine]

Quote: belovvladimir

the conflict Israel-Palestine was created artificially with the support of the United States itself, how to divert attention from the failed project Ukraine is a black hole!

Put on a good face, abandon Ukraine, under the guise of helping and protecting Israel.

[Vita vko]

Because Bandera’s supporters shelled Donetsk for 9 years, the Avdeevka area should not be surrounded, but simply turned into ashes along with the entire group of neo-Nazis. Otherwise they will take prisoners again.

[Arkady007]

I still don’t understand. Is this about a waste heap near the industrial zone of a coke plant or what?
Judging by the fact that today there is scant information, doubts about success began to appear.

[VLAD-96]

Keep it up! Good luck guys! Give these chubby guys a good soak!

[grindz]

Unfortunately, it seems that our offensive has stalled. The Armed Forces of Ukraine brought up reserves and artillery on the second day and the usual routine began, like in the First World War, the war for the forester’s hut. The waste heap changed hands several times and it is not clear who is there now. It seems like the Ukrainian Armed Forces were there last morning, but it’s unclear who is now. The northern section is also quiet. We approached Berdich and were near the outskirts, but now it turns out that we were entrenched near the railway, which is northeast of this village, which means we had to move back a kilometer or two. It turns out that ours were repulsed. Most likely, the Armed Forces began to hammer there with artillery and hymers, but our counter-battery fight was not very good and our losses increased sharply, since ours were in an open field without shelter.
Very similar to our 2 offensives at Ugledar. Same stuff. Hurray-hurray forward, and then losses sharply increase from artillery and ours retreated, large losses in people and equipment, the offensive impulse quickly dries up if the artillery is not suppressed.

[vadson]

I’ve had a barbecue in my mouth and it’s gone so bad, it’s been the 4th day since the morning and until now the women are coming, today they didn’t start at 4 in the morning, but somewhere around half past seven. We work in Donetsk, and for a couple of days we have already stopped paying attention to sounds. But if you listen, it’s not that art and rszo works from time to time, but simply doesn’t stop. That is, in a minute there is a little weaker art, a couple or three loud explosions, as I understand it, fabs, and once every five minutes there are packets of RSZO, Tolley hails are larger. We work in the area of ​​the Donetsk railway station. It's just a stone's throw from Avdeevka

[grindz]

I swallowed it in my mouth.

I say that the offensive has died down, but the fighting there is wow, very loud. It’s just that in the First World War there were such offensives that they did not advance a single kilometer, and several hundred thousand were killed. The women there were probably stronger than they are now.

[Nesvoy]

Quote: grindz

Unfortunately, it seems that our offensive has stalled. The Armed Forces of Ukraine brought up reserves and artillery on the second day and the usual routine began, like in the First World War, the war for the forester’s hut. The waste heap changed hands several times and it is not clear who is there now. It seems like the Ukrainian Armed Forces were there last morning, but it’s unclear who is now. The northern section is also quiet. We approached Berdich and were near the outskirts, but now it turns out that we were entrenched near the railway, which is northeast of this village, which means we had to move back a kilometer or two. It turns out that ours were repulsed. Most likely, the Armed Forces began to hammer there with artillery and hymers, but our counter-battery fight was not very good and our losses increased sharply, since ours were in an open field without shelter.
Very similar to our 2 offensives at Ugledar. Same stuff. Hurray-hurray forward, and then losses sharply increase from artillery and ours retreated, large losses in people and equipment, the offensive impulse quickly dries up if the artillery is not suppressed.

At least someone knows how to use the Internet and understands the real picture.

[Dimm588]

Avdeevka is being beaten worse than Israel and Palestine - everything has stalled. Well, yes, thousands of soldiers who were hiding there died out completely. Do you know what this has in common with the First World War? Nothing at all. Now more artillery and long-range attacks are used in a day in Avdeevka alone than in the entire First World War. And yes, in the Middle Ages there were soldiers and there are soldiers now, which means parallels can be drawn with battles with spears, but why?

[Andrey Dibrov]

Quote from Dimm588

Avdeevka is being beaten worse than Israel and Palestine - everything has stalled. Well, yes, thousands of soldiers who were hiding there died out completely. Do you know what this has in common with the First World War? Nothing at all. Now more artillery and long-range attacks are used in a day in Avdeevka alone than in the entire First World War. And yes, in the Middle Ages there were soldiers and there are soldiers now, which means parallels can be drawn with battles with spears, but why?

You did not understand.
You can reset the First World War with a regiment of the Second World War (aviation, etc.). It is possible to reset the Suvorov soldiers from World War I (small arms with armor, etc.).
But in the 21st century, with absolutely the same technological “concept” ...
The Taliban are aware.
That’s why all those “conventional” inventions ended back in the 80s. There is nothing more to invent (all these armata, f-35s and other messengers). That's why it was invented. Eventually.
That is why striped and napalmed from Hiroshima and Vietnam to Iraq and Yugoslavia. Because, in any other way, it’s pointless.
And, despite all the ethical troubles, the Jews reason absolutely technically correctly.
I'll just leave this here.

[grindz]

Avdeevka is being beaten worse than Israel and Palestine - everything has stalled. Well, yes, thousands of soldiers who were hiding there completely died out

The fact that they are beating Avdiivka and in the end they can make a level field there, I am not convinced. I said there was no progress. There was almost no movement in the south on the first day either. The media said that our troops moved towards populated areas. And it’s already a kilometer away from them. In WWII, an offensive meant several kilometers a day, breakthroughs, and access to operational space. Where is all this? That is, in the south of Avdeevka, positional battles simply intensified and that’s all. In the north, we made progress on the first day and that’s all. There was still a couple of days of fuss at the waste heap and everything also died down. Some channels say that the Ukrainian Armed Forces are there now. So where is the offensive? A kilometer in the north and a couple of hundred meters in the south. And the fact that there is artillery hitting everywhere, in the First World War the artillery was so bad that people sat in dugouts for days and were afraid to stick their noses into the trenches, and so for 4 years they sat in the same trenches, with rare exceptions.

[Press]

I just looked at how Jews are demolishing neighborhoods in Gaza... Avdeevka also needs to be razed to the ground. Do we have such bombs?

[sergey_vakk]

Marinka has already been completely demolished and there is a lunar landscape there. All that remains is to take it

[Grits]

Quote: Pulse

Do we have such bombs?

Eat. But there are also two reasons.
1. we are great humanists
2. these bombs must be somehow delivered to their destination
The Jews have neither the first nor the second reason. That's why everything works out for them. Unlike us.

[bessonov932]

Another overseas retiree is “scratching Honduras.” The analytics we deserve?

[Olive1]

It's okay to lie. They haven't gotten anywhere yet

[Russian Patriot]

This was stated by former CIA officer Larry Johnson.
During an interview with the YouTube channel Dialogue works

Isn’t it funny for you to publish such news?
Who did he work there? A cleaner?