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Syrian government forces are advancing on Jaish al-Fatah militants inside the eastern part of Aleppo city.
Recently the Syrian army and its allies have seized the Zuhur Hill and now are advancing deeper in the direction of Jabal Badro.
The strategic goal of this operation is to split militant controlled areas into two parts: southern and northern.
SOHR are reporting much greater gains. SOHR.
You are putting this into the plural. SOHR is known as just one bloke in a flat somewhere making a lot of money out of passing stories to the media. We have to ask “What does he know?”
Special requirement for Aleppo would be communication offensive as the social media would be lit by hospitals/schools destruction by SAA as usual.
Why not to block the GSM communication in the area (its probably provided by Turkish sims) and the internet may also be supplied thru rogue SAT connections). Thats where Russian electronic interruption task force should play some part).
attacking the center and dividing the encircled enemy forces into two more encircled pockets is also something Russia did at Stalingrad. Somebody has been trained well