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According to preliminary reports from the front, the Russian army took control of Selidovo, the last large stronghold of the Armed Forces of Ukraine east of Pokrovsk. Russian soldiers filmed the Russian flag being raised on the building of the city administration in the center of Selidovo, claiming that the town was liberated.
The footage was filmed by Russian fighters from the 30th separate reconnaissance battalion of the 90th division from the city of Chebarkul. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation is likely to officially declare the full control of Selidovo in the nearest future after the mop up operation on the northwestern outskirts are completed and Russian control of the area around the town is secured.
The main stage of the Russian assault on the streets of Selidovo began on October 20th, when Russian forces launched attacks from the eastern and northern directions in the town and gained a foothold in the residential areas.
Ukrainian forces were in control of apartment buildings where they deployed their firing points and slowed down Russian advance on the streets, but not for a long time. The town was fastly surrounded on the southern and northern flanks. The Ukrainian garrison lost control of important roads west of Selidovo and any military supplies were heavily complicated by Russian fire.
On October 27th, Russian flag was also raised in the village of Vishnevoe located west of Selidovo, where the resisting Ukrainian forces were trying to stop Russian advance around the town but failed.
It is worth noting that the battle for Selidovo was similar to the recent battle for the fortress of Ugledar. After large Ukrainian forces were contained with Russian attacks on the eastern outskirts, flank attacks were launched around the town. The both towns were almost surrounded but Russian forces did not close the cauldrons and there were ways out from the grinder. The last road from Selidovo located northwest of the town was remained under Ukrainian control. There the Ukrainian garrison was fleeing from the town under close Russian fire control.
The battle for Selidovo lasted a week. Other Ukrainian fortresses like Ugledar and Gornyak fell soon after Russian forces entered their streets. This is a clear sign that Ukrainian defense in the Donbass is almost ruined and the Ukrainian military can no longer withstand battles even in the urban areas. Only in the past days, Ukrainian forces lost control of at least 8 settlements, including Bogoyvlenka, Katerinovka, Izmailovka, Alexandropol, Gornyak, Selidovo, Shakhterskoye and Vishnevoye. In some of them Russian mop up operations continue. Clashes are already ongoing in Kurakhovka, Novoselidovka. Ukrainians are fleeing from their positions in all directions, most rapidly in the Pokrovsk, Kurakhovo, Ugledar directions.
The loss of Selidovo is another strategic defeat for the Ukrainian military. There are no more large settlements on the way of the Russian army to Pokrovsk.
of course there was a road left open to retreat, it is unnessecary to let the enemy make a last stand and have extra casualties yourself✌️🫶💪
interesting strategy. in other words, russians want to fight the same ukraine soldiers again and again and again instead of taking them prisoners. i have different explanation. russian commanders count on low morale of the retreating troops and want to demoralize the rest. or they are too lazy to bother with prisoners. or they want the war to take as long a s possible. who knows.
“who knows” , i think you know it lol
the alternative explanation: to save time and save own troops , if possible , the strategy contrary to the nato /ukrainian.
lo sabes…….lo sabemos.
no clue, no clue, no clue, no clue, none, nadda, not even half a clue, not even a quarter of a clue, when he shoots, he misses, misses again, always missing, so far off the mark, he does a 360 and try try again…still a swing and a miss…swoosh…the sound of snowden batting 000%….
easier ti pick them off on the street than flush them out of fortified buildings duh
but it works only on demoralized and weak enemy unwilling to fight. i don’t expect this is the situation in kursk where all attempts to attack the flanks and cut off supply routes failed miserably. so i would be careful not too make too optimistic conclusions prematurely.
already 50% of kursk fell and northern part is almost undefencible. kursk assault hurt ukraine more than it benefited. id expect by end of november ukraine holds less, than 20% of original area.
tengo comprados 12 cohetes pirotecnicos que lanzare al cielo el dia que sean muertos o prisioneros los invasores de kurk.
typical snowden, thread is about selidovo libetation… and snowden still climb up a tree, frothing at the mouth yelling “kursk, kursk, kursk” like a dog barking at its own farts.
what were the urkrainian strategic aims for their kursk operation, and have these been achieved?
shrub says, it was something about nukular power plants or stored bombs or maybe both.
he’s gotten a tad wiser in his old age. still a bad speller though.
gee, just think. if they’d just implemented minsk ii, there’d have been no need for all of this.
it was international law, after all – enshrined in unsc res 2202. too bad, so sad.
do you prefer to kill your own cousin or neighbors, or let them escape? while focusing on the foriengn nato zionists that rounded them up and forced them into a fraudulent fratricide? yeah, me too, i’d rather kill the zionist backed frauds serving as blocker troops and hired thug muscle pushing conscripts to do their dirty kike deeds. russian commanders are showing excellent discretion, much respect.
just set the buildings on fire and burn them out, like the ukrainian junta did to civilians in odessa.
apparently, that’s copasetic with the western rules-based order.
yes but….it”s not like orkrainians withdraw from a town and russians wave them goodbye. orks retreat under heavy russian fire. and that’s precisely what russian want. if they close the pocket with hundreds/thousands of enemies inside they will fight to the end, causing quite a few (and unnecessary) russian casualties.
if the pocket is open instead, orks will run away, and russians will shoot at them from distance. maybe they will not neutralize them all, surely 50% of orks escape unscathed…but the russian losses are 0 in cases like this. and the subsequent morale of beaten orks is well below 0.
uh, sorry, wanted to reply to snowden :)
just tickle your throat and barf into a paper bag labeled snow den. same thing.
fight to the end…of what? no food, no ammo, no water… no supplies is no supplies, is no supplies. encircle and force a surrender, or they can eat eachother if they want to be stubborn naxi fucktards.
le au tras o europenilor!
kurakhove. sa facem pariurile : pica sau pica incercuit? tot pica!
congrats from czech rep.! lets smash ukrops in pokrovsk
good thing you’re not in canada or they’d seize your bank accounts for that comment and fund a banderite tiki torch parade in ottawa with them.
then, give a standing ovation for bibi, hunka, and the jim carry guy wearing the biden mask….
hay que seguir avanzando. cuidando al maximo nuestros soldados, porque sin la garantia de los exitos de nuestra querida rusia. desde venezuela los sigue y los ama un octogenario que reza poñr su bienestar.
but but but, surely russia is making no progress, how could they have taken yet another town almost without a fight? this is a riddle, where is tom sawyer to make humorous sense of all of this, and comfort me in the belief that nato/ukr is winning.
i say, put all those border guards collecting bribes from escaping ukrainians in charge of the frontline and at least let them officially sell all those towns and villages to the russians and help with ukraine’s budget. why waste such talent?
thanks to all the sacrifices of the russian heroes that fight without caring for their own personal lives. they go until the end till victory and victory is almost near…
pokrosvk is near…
pokrovsk will stand. it’s at least the 10th nato-fortified major town in russia’s sights and like they say, the tenth attempt to stay under ukraine’s control is always the charm.
slava rossiya! banderites and their degenerate nafo supporters can eat shit and die
congrats from canada. long live russia!
breaking news: russia zombie orchs retards manage steal underwear in baboschkas drawer in selidolo. now zombie orchs are happy to try transgender life in baboschka dresses and lipstick
all babushkas in ukraine are armed with drone-killing pickle jars.
john kerry has made sure they’re the heinz variety. always a buck in there somewhere for the yanks.
steal babushkas clothes, that sounds more like idf tactics… they love to play dress up befor al quassam puts an rpg into their play house…
napoleon served well early on too in overthrowing the “west” they just used him too.
the kursk pocket is caput.
russian liberations are increasing in pace and success. good and good.
ukraine would have been wise to steer clear of those western drug pushers.
turns out mixing hopium with copium is a deadlier combo than mixing fentanyl with xylazine to make tranq.
at the same time moscow is full of huge mountain of human shit. sewerage system collapsed.
that might be true of moscow missouri, or moscow montana, but not russia, that city is so neat and tidy you’d feel like you were on another planet compared to the shit stained streets of the usa….