The board is set, the pieces are moving for the battle for the last fortified bastions of Ukrainian control in Donetsk Oblast.
We have been reporting here on TGP on the impending major battle that will decide the fate of the Donbas, the cradle of the Ukraine war.
While the Luhansk region has already been fully conquered by Russia, there are still a cluster of fortified towns in northern Donetsk that have been holding since 2014.
But now, the advancing Russian forces are just a few miles from the Slavyansk-Kramatorsk ‘agglomeration’, and the fight for the ‘fortress belt’ is about to begin.
RT reported on Telegram:
“Four kilometers [2,4 miles] are left to the eastern outskirts of Slavyansk — [Russian] Chief of General Staff [Valery] Gerasimov.
Russian advance groups of assault units are fighting on the territory three kilometers from the outskirts of Kramatorsk.
Hellbound and Down 