⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦Russian Armed Forces' offensive in Donetsk direction Chronicle of Battles on October 1-4, 2022

🔻While AFU is pushing through Russian defences in other directions, the opposite situation is developing near Donetsk.

▪️After the liberation of Pisky, the immediate objective of the Russian forces is the liberation of Pervomais'ke and Vodyane. The liberation of the settlements will allow two important tasks to be resolved.

▪️If the Russian forces advance north, blockade and eliminate the pockets of resistance in Opytne, the route to Orlivka will be opened for them.

Orlivka is located to the west of Avdiivka fortified area, which under the current frontal situation would be equal to suicide to take it head-on.

Encirclement and first flanking and then penetrating to the rear of the defending grouping will create a prerequisite for the elimination of AFU stronghold in this area.

▪️After liberation of Pervomais'ke, it will be possible to solve another operational task: to blockade Nevel's'ke to the south.

There are advanced enemy artillery positions in the settlement, from which, as in case of Avdiivka, Donetsk agglomeration settlements are shelled on a daily basis.

🔻Ensuring the security of Donetsk agglomeration is impossible without mopping up and liberating the entire Donetsk region and subsequently creating a buffer zone in the border regions.

Only in this case, at least some security of the territory of the Russian Federation will be ensured.