The showdown is finally here! Lavrov declared that special military operations had entered the second phase!
The horn of the general attack has been sounded! This is a decisive battle that Putin cannot lose! Only by winning the decisive battle in Donbass can we get out of the quagmire of war and force Ukraine to return to the negotiating table! Achieve the goal of promoting talks with war!
Once Russia is deadlocked in Donbass, or suffers heavy losses! That would have incalculable consequences for Putin! If Putin does not make a quick decision, Putin's prestige at home and abroad will be seriously tested, and neutral countries such as India may rethink the question of taking sides. The Red Square parade on 9 May will not accept a failed outcome.
Zelenskiy said he would never give up an inch of territory! The Battle of Donbass will fundamentally affect the direction of the entire Russian-Ukrainian war, no matter how many troops the Russian army invests in Donbass, Ukraine will not retreat, and it will fight Russia to the end!
Zelenskiy knew that if he lost the decisive battle, it would mean that the east and west of Ukraine might be divided from now on, losing a large part of the country and losing the industrial center in the east! Then Zelenskiy will become a sinner of Ukraine, a sinner of history!
Western media predict: the Battle of Donbass may have the largest tank battle since World War II! The Battle of Donbass will be the largest ground battle of the 21st century!
Putin has put all his elites on the front line, even the ace tank division guarding Moscow. Under the continuous artillery fire, the decisive battle of Donbass finally began!
The Battle of Donbass may not be a blitzkrieg, nor may it be a protracted battle, or it may be more like a psychological war, compared to who can't withstand the pressure of the battlefield first.
If the Ukrainian army is completely surrounded and faces the risk of total annihilation at any time, the lone hero Zelenskiy may not be tough again, and it is likely that he will admit it at the negotiating table!
And if the Russian army is deeply mired in a quagmire and cannot break through the Donbass defense line at a painful price, Putin will have to make concessions at the negotiating table!
Although the Russian army occupies the initiative on the battlefield, the current Ukrainian army is no longer the Ukrainian army of 8 years ago! For 8 years, with the help of NATO, every village in the Ukrainian position was covered with trenches and defensive fortresses, as if a village was a position.
The position group of the Ukrainian army has also formed a rotatable and very perfect defense system, relying on the super mobility of the Ukrainian army, and if it is attacked, reinforcements will come one after another! Coupled with the intelligence support of the US military and a large number of ammunition support, the Russian army may suffer heavy losses!
More than 40,000 Ukrainian troops will bring unprecedented pressure to the Russian army! If only the existing troops are relied upon, it is difficult to effectively annihilate the main force of the Ukrainian army!
The advantage of the Russian army is that the terrain in eastern Ukraine is open, which is convenient for large-scale tank operations, and the advantages of the Russian military mechanization can be fully utilized, on the other hand, the Donbass region borders Russia, which can solve the dilemma of the previous supply difficulties.
Russia continued to bomb Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, in order to contain the defenders of Kiev, so as not to prevent the Ukrainian army from continuing to reinforce the Donbass! The eastern part of Kiev is also equipped with a large number of Russian legions, and once Kiev is empty or the time is ripe, Russia will not let go of any opportunity to raid Kiev!
The Russians accurately attacked Lviv, a major town in western Ukraine, destroying a large number of weapons and ammunition supported from the West. Destroy as many foreign mercenaries as possible on the Lviv training ground! Strike on the logistics base of Ukraine.
The fighting at the Azov Steel Plant in Mariupol became even more important, with more than three thousand Ukrainian troops and more than three thousand men swearing to die by relying on strong factory forts and intricate underground passages, and the infamous Azov battalion also wrapped 1,600 Ukrainian civilians, making the Russian army a rat thrower.
Mariupol can be said to be the key to breaking the game, if it is opened here, it will open up the road corridor between Donbass and Crimea, which can strengthen the control of Crimea, and the Sea of Azov will also become Russia's inland sea.
Once the Russian army has gnawed this hard bone, it can integrate at least 20,000 Russian troops, march north, participate in the decisive battle to annihilate Donbass, and take Mariupol to ensure that the Russian army's supply line is more smooth, and the balance of victory will completely tilt to the Russian army!
For Zelenskiy, Mariupol has always been a symbol of Ukrainian resistance! Lose Mariupol and the morale of Ukraine will be greatly affected!
Please do not forget that the Russian army also has a hardcore ally Belarus, as long as Lukashenko orders, 100,000 Belarusian troops will go to the battlefield and hit Ukraine by surprise!
And just at the time of the Russian-Ukrainian decisive battle, Turkey also moved! Their target is the PKK in the mountains of northern Iraq!
The Kurds have always had ties to the United States and can be said to be allies of the United States, but the Kurds have always worked for independence, but the Turks see them as terrorists. At this time, Turkey's attack can be said to be that the United States has no time to look east and take advantage of the fire to loot! Perhaps it is also to help Russia distract the United States!
Under the great changes that have not occurred in a hundred years, anything is possible!