Ukraine will not use frontal attack tactics when liberating temporarily occupied Bakhmut. This was stated by the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Kirill Budanov, in an interview with Warzone.
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The next step is to cut off all supply routes that go to Bakhmut. In practice, this operation that we are conducting is very similar to the operation of the Russians when they took Bakhmut. The only difference is that they still carried out frontal attacks on the city, which led to very large losses in manpower. We won’t do this. We will try to cordon off the city, and only after it is surrounded will we enter it,” Budanov said.
The head of the Main Intelligence Directorate emphasized that the operation of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Bakhmut is aimed at containing the Russian occupation army and preventing it from strengthening the Berdyansk and Melitopol directions.
This brought the result we wanted. For example, the Russians recently redeployed their only reserve, the 25th Army, which was recently created and has not yet completed its training. Now he has been relocated approximately north of Bakhmut, and it is there that they plan to bury him. This is about 15 thousand people,” Budanov added.
In his opinion, the threat to the Russians of losing Bakhmut forces them to constantly redeploy additional forces to this area, which, of course, depletes resources in other directions, including the south.
Source: Racurs
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