The Russian army's sudden retreat from the Trump-Mann also sparked debates at the same time. A large number of Russians represented by Chechnya President Kadyrov expressed strong dissatisfaction with the Russian commander-in-chief. Ukrainian and Western media regard the victory of Liman as another important turning point on the battlefield, and some Ukrainian politicians even assuring Western media that they will fight back to Krim Peninsula when winter comes. Why did Russia retreat from Ijium to winleyman?
Russian insiders revealed that the most fundamental reason is the lack of troops in Kharkov direction. The Russian coalition forces retreated from Ijium to Chongliman and the troops successively reinforced, the total number was about 6,000. The Ukrainian army surrounded and attacked Hongliman on three sides, with about 50,000 troops, and the strength of Russia and Ukraine was 1:8. Hongliman's Russian defenders were absolutely weak, which was not counting the Ukrainian side's additional 2,000 foreign mercenary troops. With such a huge gap in force, it is not easy for the Russian army and the DPR joint forces to stay in Chongliman for more than 20 days.
On October 3, Russian military personnel who had withdrawn from Chongliman released a video saying that they could not continue to stick to the fact that they could not form an effective defensive front with the lack of troops and the inability to form an effective defensive front with several times their Ukrainian offensive forces, and ammunition consumption was also close to the limit. A Russian soldier told the reporter at the scene that after he shot the last magazine in his hand, there was no ammunition to replenish it. He said that our current difficulty is that we do not have sufficient logistics supplies, and the bigger shortcoming is that reinforcements are not delayed. Russian military experts said that holding on to HKD Man for more than 20 days has bought valuable time for military mobilization and personnel training in the rear. Now is not the time to review mistakes, but how to formulate and efficiently implement new battlefield rules that are beneficial to us.
Russian experts said that after retreating from Trumpman, the Russian army will organize a new line of defense in the suburbs of Kreminaya City in Lugansk. Ukraine has made great publicity for the military victory of the Trump-Mann. The picture of the Ukrainian army planting the national flag in the Trump-Mann has a great blow to the confidence of the Russian coalition's withdrawal troops.
Russian Ministry of Defense 's explanation of the decision to retreat to Mr. Liman is "Although the losses are heavy, the Ukrainian armed forces have significant advantages in terms of force and means, and they have drawn forces from multiple parties to introduce reserves and continue to attack towards Mr. Liman. Due to the threat of siege, the Russian Allied forces retreated from Mr. Liman's settlement to a more profitable border and re-established the defensive front in the city of Kreminaya." The Russian military also hopes that the outside world understands that they retreated from the HKLM, and the tens of kilometers of retreat from the HKLM to the city of Kreminaya is completely controlled by the Russian army.
However, the situation on the front line is not so optimistic. Russian reporters reported that in order to prevent the Russian army from retreating to Kreminaya, Ukraine used long-range cannons to bomb Russian military personnel and equipment on the highway route. The Ukrainian army used rocket launcher to lay mines, causing heavy losses to the Russian coalition forces in personnel and equipment. A foreign mercenary who was fighting with the Ukrainian army tweeted that during the pursuit, they saw bodies left by Russian troops everywhere on the roadside.
This mercenary from the western United States said that a Russian soldier with his legs broken and blood flowed from him asked him for help, but he could not help because the battlefield first aid kits distributed to them by Ukraine were also extremely limited in effect. In his opinion, the Russian army carried out an unprepared evacuation operation, which made the battlefield retreat route a "death road" woven by enemy artillery fire. Because friendly forces chose to pick them up in the suburbs of Creminaya in order to reduce risks.
Judging from the losses of personnel and equipment, the Russian army's retreat from Chongliman was another strategic retreat at all costs. Some military observers speculate that the current tactic of "orderly resistance and orderly retreat" adopted by the Russian coalition is to prepare for the military offensive in winter. 300,000 Russian reserve force , which has been mobilized by partially military, will soon complete the resumption of training. The situation in eastern Kharkov will take another major turning point in the next two to three weeks. Before this, if necessary, Russia is likely to abandon Kreminaya and continue to retreat after limited resistance.
In fact, after the Russian army retreated to the city of Kreminaya, they were surrounded again as soon as they gained a foothold. Russian war correspondent Dmitry Zimenkin showed the situation in the city of Kreminaya in Lugansk, where Russian troops retreated from Kreminaya have been redeployed in the city, where they expect the Ukrainian armed forces to launch a new strike. The latest battle report shows that the Ukrainian army should start an attack outside Kreminaya.
It is obvious that the Ukrainian pursuit troops do not want to give the Russian army any defense preparation time and a chance to breathe. The Russian logistics are being criticized, so it is hard to say that the city of Kreminaya has the ammunition and supplies that the Russian retreating troops urgently need to support them in re-establishing the defense line in Kreminaya. The commander of the DPR unit complained that our heavy fire strike level is now significantly lower than that of the Ukrainian army, causing serious difficulties to the defense mission.
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