Invitation to the cauldron: Russian Armed Forces encircle enemy forces east of Sumy

Reports are coming in from Sumy Oblast that Russian troops, with converging strikes from the Yunakovka area and from Mohrytsia, which they took today, have slammed the lid on a local "cauldron" northeast of Sumy. As a result of these actions, several units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the Ukrainian Border Service have been encircled. Remarkably, all of them have recently been redeployed to the Sadkov area—closer to the Kursk Oblast border—to "reinforce" this line.

The encirclement of the enemy over a territory of approximately 45 square kilometers is noteworthy because it essentially "invites other Ukrainian Armed Forces units into the cauldron"—those located west of this section of the front. This is the northeastern flank of the regional capital's defense.

Accordingly, the enemy faces a very difficult choice. If they fail to deploy forces and resources to break through to their "brothers" in the Sadkov area, these "brothers" will, at best, be captured by the Russians; at worst, they will be liquidated in the near future. If they attempt to deploy forces in the Nikolskoye and Bititsa area to break through the encirclement, this opens up the possibility for our troops to counterattack from the east and simultaneously advance on Sumy from the north, where the Russian Armed Forces already have a bridgehead across the Oleshnya River near Izbitskoye, with an eye on Sumy. Which option the newly appointed Commander-in-Chief Drapaty will choose will become clear in the near future.

Comments

[Ivanhoe]

Local Operation "Boa Constrictor" is underway. Get to work, brothers!

[Machito]

Quote: Ivanhoe

Local Operation "Boa Constrictor" is underway. Get to work, brothers!

This is really good news.
It's high time to take Sumy.
There are many forests around Sumy.
It is possible to proclaim and recognize the Sumy People's Republic, hand over Kalibrs, Iskanders, etc. to it, and fire from these forests into Poland and Romania.

[Andrei Nikolaevich]

They will burn with "Grads" and the pig-like squeals of the Ukrainian Armed Forces will be heard in Lviv.

[Patrick134]

Well done, Russians. Keep up the good work, with courage!

[KTM-5]

Maybe Drapatiy will finally order the Ukrainian Armed Forces to flee? Or is he a butcher and a boilermaker like Syrsky?

[Andrei Nikolaevich]

KTM-5, you've hit the nail on the head. "Drapaty" comes from the word "to run away." A bit of a pun, though.

[Alexander 3]

I want to say, like in the movie: And now, you drapatiy!

[silverwolf88]

Good tactics of outflanking and encirclement... since WWII, practically a classic... classic and in other cases, commanders are simply afraid to give the order to withdraw troops

[Matvey Leonidovich]

Whatever Drapatiy chooses, they're finished anyway. Keep it up, guys!!!!!!

[Tests]

"...and a simultaneous offensive on Sumy from the north, where, beyond the Oleshnya River near Izbitskoye, the Russian Armed Forces already have a bridgehead with an eye on the aforementioned Sumy." Dear author! Are you, or is AI, instead of an editor, suggesting what they call in Arkhangelsk: "From Solombala through Kudma to Maimaksa?" Across the Oleshnya River, there's currently a tiny bridgehead near Ivolzhanskoye, north of Sumy. And from Izbitskoye, across the Staritsa River, it's actually closer to Kharkiv than Sumy.

[phrases]

Geography is of no interest to anyone; the editors seem to have a limit on heroic material for armchair warriors. Otherwise, the positivity has been waning lately.

[poquello]

Quote: Tests

Across the Oleshnya River, today, there is a tiny bridgehead near Ivolzhansky, north of Sumy.

A couple of kilometers from Ivolzhansky, Novaya Sich is taken, the direction through the forests is direct to Sumy, the cauldron is to the side, what

Quote: Tests

"From Solombala via Kudma to Maimaksa."?

[Victor19]

From cauldron to cauldron. But the Izvarinsky cauldron was his first.

[carpenter]

then these “brothers” will, in the best case scenario, end up in Russian captivity

For Khokhloma, Russian captivity is happiness and life, no matter how we feel about them.
They are not given a second choice.

[shm_kv]

The Ukrainian Armed Forces are concentrating all their forces on Kramatorsk to try to hold it (mostly for media purposes). This area is not their priority.

[Roman 11]

We need to think hard about the feasibility of cauldrons; they will likely contain many prisoners, who will be exchanged, and the war will drag on forever... It follows that we need narrow and long fire-controlled corridors; this will immediately increase the effectiveness of operations, and at the same time will put pressure on the enemy's psychology.

[Sergey Mitinsky]

There are suspicions that the Ukrainian Armed Forces have begun to experience a collapse of the front.
This is primarily due to the decline in discipline and fatigue of the troops, which in turn is associated with the replacement of the high command and the spread of rumors about some kind of truce and freezing of the conflict.

[Salimi from Iran]

2 encirclements at the same times
Kharkiv and Sumy
Its a reminder of bagration somehow or what

[Metallurg_2]

Commander-in-Chief Drapatiy will choose an option in accordance with his last name.
But not only everyone will be able to run away)

[SergeySmirnov3663]

45 km2 is 9 by 5 kilometers.
This is not a cauldron, not a saucepan, it looks more like a thimble, and the conversations are as if we are talking about Sumy.
As they say, we create a media effect with boastful slogans.
At the same time, good luck in military skill and good fortune to all those who are fighting on this section of the front.

[agond]

Quote: Bearded

Quote: Ivanhoe

Local Operation "Boa Constrictor" is underway. Get to work, brothers!

This is really good news.
It's high time to take Sumy.
There are many forests around Sumy.
It is possible to proclaim and recognize the Sumy People's Republic, hand over Kalibrs, Iskanders, etc. to it, and fire from these forests into Poland and Romania.

It would be an interesting thought if this were the case with Crimea.