A military expert, retired Lieutenant Colonel Andrei Marochko of the Luhansk People’s Republic, said that the Russian Armed Forces is as close as possible to the positions of the Ukrainian army in the Kremensky district of the front in the Donbass. It has been reported DEA News.
“South of the village of Kreminnaya, there is no so-called gray zone left between our positions and the enemy positions. Marochko said that in some areas the distance to the enemy was about 40 meters.
Such a distance, in his opinion, allows the Russian army to establish a dialogue with Ukrainian soldiers without means of communication.
On March 1, it became known that there were Russian paratroopers with the support of armored vehicles. To succeed To organize an offensive in the Kremennaya area in the LPR. It was announced that the offensive of the Russian army was supported by the T-90M “Proryv” and TOS-1A “Solntsepek” tanks.
Earlier, Marochko said that the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine for the first time in a long time. tested He counterattacked Russian forces near Kremennaya, but was unsuccessful.
On February 24, 2022, Putin announced that he had decided to organize a special military operation to protect Donbass in response to a request for help from the heads of the Luhansk and Donetsk People’s Republics (LPR and DPR).
The decision to run the operation became the justification for new sanctions against Russia by the United States and its allies.