According to the latest statement from former Chief of Staff of the Azov Brigade of Ukraine, Lieutenant Colonel Bogdan Krotevich, the situation in southwestern Donbass is deteriorating rapidly for the Ukrainian army, as frontline units face the risk of being surrounded in both directions.
In an open letter to President Volodymyr Zelensky posted on X on the evening of August 11, Mr. Krotevich said that the defense line between Pokrovsk (Krasnoarmeysk, the largest city still controlled by Kiev in the southwest of the Donetsk People's Republic) and Konstantinovka, the key stronghold about 45km away, "nearly non-existent".
I dont know exactly how people are reporting, but it can be said that the Pokrovsk - Konstantinovka route, which is not exaggerated, is a real disaster. And this disaster has been simmering for a long time, getting worse every day, wrote Krotevich.
Pokrovsk is currently almost surrounded by Russian forces, while Konstantinovka is in a "half- surrounding" situation, he said. Former commander Azov also released a map showing the regional situation, in line with previous reports of Russia's major breakthrough in northern Pokrovsk.
Krotevich accused some Ukrainian military leaders of completely lacking strategic and operational vision, when conditions of reserves being eroded, units being cut off across the front lines and reports of victory relying solely on taking a village despite greater failures.
Similar warnings were also given by taras Chmut - Director of the military charity fund " come Back Alive". On X, he wrote that the Donbass crisis has been simmering for about 18 months and predicted that the Ukrainian army could lose dozens, even hundreds of square kilometers of territory per day.
At first, we failed at the platoon level, then at the company level, and soon at the battalion level. When the war mountains to the size of a Brigade, the enemy will deploy armored forces and weapons that have been accumulated for a year, breaking deep into the rear line, Mr. Chmut warned.
