The current situation is not very good for the Ukrainian army, and Syrsky has already ordered the withdrawal of Ukrainian units from Avdiivka.
The Kyiv Independent newspaper issued a report at 2:30 a.m. Kyiv time (7:30 a.m. Beijing time) on February 17: The commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian army, Oleksandr Syrsky, issued a statement announcing his decision to withdraw Ukrainian troops from the battered city.
In the statement, he wrote: "Based on the situation of operations around Avdiivka, in order to avoid encirclement and protect the lives and health of servicemen, I decided to withdraw our troops from the city and defend them on a more favorable defensive line."
Our soldiers (before) fulfilled their military duties with dignity, doing everything possible to destroy the best military units of Russia and inflicting heavy losses on the enemy in terms of manpower and equipment. ”
"We are taking measures to stabilize the situation and maintain the positions we are currently holding," he added. The lives of military personnel are the highest value. In any case, we will return to Avdiivka. ”
As the newly appointed commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian army, he very much wants to fight the first battle urgently.
The announcement of the withdrawal of troops from Avdiivka shows what a helpless move this was.
But at the same time, it also shows that the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian army, Syrsky, is sober, and he is also very wise in doing so.
After all, there is a good saying, it is called to stay in the green mountains, not afraid of no firewood to take revenge, it is not too late for a gentleman to take revenge for ten years, if this time he was dumpled by the other party, lost his soldiers, and lost his vitality, what do you expect to recover Avdiivka in the future?
This reminds me of World War II, when General MacArthur evacuated the Philippines, at the beginning of the Japanese army's crazy attack, the American army could not hold the Philippines, and then was forced to retreat, and when retreating, General MacArthur said that he would definitely fight back.
And so it turned out.
Many netizens are very puzzled by the interaction between the Philippines and the United States, in fact, the United States helped the Philippines during World War II, so they have a simple good impression of the US military.
However, in this battle, although the Ukrainian army retreated from Avdiivka, it also caused powerful casualties to the Russian army.
The commander of the Tavria Group of the Ukrainian Army, who is responsible for the Avdiivka operation, General Tarnavs, revealed: As of February 15, the Russian army has lost 20,018 people, 199 tanks and 481 armored vehicles in the Avdiivka direction.
This also shows that even if the Russian army wins, it will be a pyrrhic victory.
Not only that, but the Ukrainian army also played a momentum, that is, it tore a hole in the encirclement of the Russian army and rescued nearly 2,000 Ukrainian soldiers who were besieged.
The 3rd Assault Brigade was particularly prominent.
Some bloggers commented:
At the critical juncture, the 3rd Assault Brigade rushed into the encirclement knowing that it could not do anything, basically disabled two brigades of the Russian army, and successively took over the troops of the 110th Brigade and the 55th Brigade, and at the same time yesterday, that is, on the 16th, rescued the 1,000 to 2,000 Ukrainian troops besieged in the southern air base, and then today, safely withdrew from the battlefield and re-entered the defensive position west of Avdiivka.
Netizens who are more familiar with Avdiivka may have such questions:
Since 2014, Avdiivka, a small town close to the capital of Donetsk Oblast and the city of Donetsk, has been the focus of contention between Russia and Ukraine
The Russian army does not want to pull out this nail all the time, but it is helpless.
In the eight-year war in Donbass, the Russian army did not capture Avdiivka, and in the past two years of the Russian-Ukrainian war, the Russian army did not capture it.
So why did it take it this time?
In fact, there are two main reasons for this.
The first reason is that Russia has seized on the factor of bad weather.
In Audivka, the Ukrainian army attacked the Russian army, relying more on drones to monitor the empty plains, so that the Russian army did not have a chance to get close to the town, but because of the bad weather later, there were more clouds and fog, and the Russian army made full use of the bad weather to attack the town.
The second reason has to do with the overall international situation, the United States has cut its support, and Ukraine does not have enough artillery shells to fight the Russian offensive.
So far, the Russian-Ukrainian battlefield has been a relatively large war.
They are: the Battle of Mariupol;
second: the defense of Severodonetsk;
Third: The Battle of Mutt;
Fourth: the Battle of Avdiivka;
In these four defensive battles, although the Ukrainian army was defeated, it was still glorious despite the defeat, and it dealt an extremely heavy blow to the Russian army.
Some netizens also said, don't add powder to Ukraine anymore, defeat is defeat.
I want to say that I really didn't mean to tout Ukraine.
I remember that when Chu and Han fought against each other in history, Liu Bang fought with the overlord Xiang Yu, and they were defeated almost every time, but in the last battle, Liu Bang won, and then decided the situation in one fell swoop, will there be a similar situation in Ukraine?
Weak Ukraine has been fighting with Russia, the second most powerful country in the world, for nearly two years, and has not yet been defeated, which already shows that Ukraine is fully capable of confronting Russia.
This kind of struggle in Ukraine is definitely meaningful, although this war is lost, but in the defeat there is the germ of victory.
Ukraine's insistence offers the possibility of winning more aid.
At present, LSDB small-diameter bombs, launched from land-based, have already carried out their first strikes on the eastern theater;
Ukraine in Europe, has made a major diplomatic breakthrough:
In addition to the original tank alliance, the new F16 fighter alliance has been established, as well as the UAV alliance, the artillery alliance, and the air defense alliance, all of which have been formed.
In addition, F16 will also enter the field this spring;
All this breeds the possibility of successful victory.
At the same time that Ukraine announced the withdrawal of its troops from Avdiivka, a bombshell news suddenly came from the battlefield.
Three more fighters.
Yesterday at noon, on the Eastern Battlefield,
Ukrainian Air Force,
Shot down in one fell swoop, two Su-34 fighter-bombers + one Su-35 fighter.
What a gratifying congratulations!