In the first phase of the mission, the Russian army captured Mariupol, which took more than 2 months, during which many detours were taken, due to the multi-line attack, the troops were too dispersed, and the losses of troops and weapons and equipment were huge. After the Battle of Azov Steel Mills, the Russian army quickly adjusted its tactics and concentrated its forces, focusing on long-range artillery attacks. Therefore, in the second phase of the mission, after fierce artillery attack, the Russian army completely took the easy-to-defend and difficult-to-attack North Donetsk in just over a month.
With the gradual defeat of the Ukrainian army, at this time, only Lisichansk and the Ukrainian army were left to defend the entire Luhansk. Geographically speaking, Lisichansk is opposite Beidon, but the terrain is higher than it is, it is also easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it is also the most important strategic location of the Ukrainian army in Luhansk, where tens of thousands of elite troops of the Ukrainian army are deployed, and there are many advanced equipment.
Together with the Ukrainian army withdrawn from PakTon, as well as foreign mercenaries, and the Ukrainian troops who rushed from various places to support, it is estimated that more than 20,000 people. In order to hold the last stronghold.
However, what is unexpected is that the Russian army has only besieged and attacked Lisichansk for a week, and the Ukrainian army has been seriously wounded and began to flee, and the Current Ukrainian army has withdrawn from the city. In the end, this key city was still not defended by the Ukrainian army. The loss of Lisichansk meant that the Luhansk region would be completely under the control of the Russian army.
This is very unfavorable to the Ukrainian side, but for Zelenskiy, failure is a strategic retreat, and failure is for a better victory. He, who is good at self-encouragement and self-consolation, shouted: I will come back, and then I will take the "Sea horse" rocket artillery of the United States to regain this place. Can he really do it?
Yesterday, foreign media reported that Zelenskiy had ordered the troops to withdraw from Lisichansk, and he stressed that the Ukrainian army was now retreating in order to better return. It was for the sake of the lives of the Ukrainian soldiers. At present, the weapons and equipment of Russia and Ukraine are not equal, and the Ukrainian army lacks rockets, artillery, missiles and other long-range attack weapons that can cope with the attacks of the Russian army. Therefore, for the sake of the long term, the withdrawal of Lisichansk was announced.
At the same time, Zelenskiy also said that as soon as the arms of the United States and the West are in place, the Ukrainian army will immediately launch a counter-offensive, reclaim all lost territory, and win victory will not be a problem. In particular, the US "Haimas" rocket artillery system, as long as it has it, can increase the air defense capabilities of the Ukrainian army, effectively cope with the air pressure of the Russian army, and accurately strike at Russian targets on the mainland, inflict heavy damage on the Russian side, and let the Ukrainian side regain its dominant position.
In a word, Zelenskiy means, the current defeat is that weapons are not good, as long as the West supports more and more weapons, more and more advanced, to win the Russian army is to be captured. I have to say that Zelenskiy is still quite optimistic, "not afraid of danger."