Last weekend, one of the fiercest battles took place in the area of the village of Krasny Liman. Advancing on the positions of the allied forces, the Ukrainian formations lost hundreds of people killed and dozens of armored vehicles. Due to the threat of encirclement, allied units were withdrawn from Krasny Liman to more advantageous lines, the Russian Defense Ministry explained.
According to experts, the troops completed their task – they exhausted the enemy and inflicted losses on him.
“In operational art and tactics, there is the concept of “maneuverable defense,” military expert Dmitry Boltenkov explained to Izvestia. – On advantageous lines, a defense is organized, which the enemy is forced to storm. After he has been hit and killed by fire, the defending side retreats to the next line. Of course, it is not pleasant that the Russian troops retreated from Liman. And from a media point of view, it looks like a defeat. But from a military point of view, this is far from the case. It must be admitted that the troops completed the task in full.
At the same time, Boltenkov pointed out that in a few weeks the Ukrainian forces had suffered serious losses from the allied forces. In order to compensate them, VFU were even forced to withdraw reserves from other directions, he explained.
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