Ukrainian soldiers from Azov battalion walking through Maryinka
Donbas commander says how long it will take to release Donetsk
He told in an interview to the Focus magazine.
Answering a question about whether it is possible to liberate the city for the Independence Day, the battalion commander said: “As far as I know the situation, this task is unreal... For the stage-by-stage mopping up operation of the [city] quarters about 1-1.5 months are necessary.”
The fighters of Defense Force “Donbas”
For complete liberation of Donbas from terrorists, according to Semenchenko, no less than two months are needed, but several conditions must be fulfilled for this.
“First, to clean up the traitors, who fused information. Second, to replace those who poorly provide logistics, while shouting "Hurrah!" on the television. If the situation remains the same, we need two or three months to release Donbas," he said.
But then, the combat added, there is another problem - the terrorist attacks: "Today, many people believe that somewhere out there an antiterrorist operation is held and that's all. Serious attacks, for example, in Kyiv, can greatly change the overall situation."
"We need to take concrete steps: we lack equipment to search for explosives, dogs, experts, etc. We need urgently to address these threats," he said.
The commander of the Donbas volunteer battalion, Semen Semenchenko, believes that the Ukrainian army has almost unchanged.
He told this to the Focus magazine in an interview.
"I'll tell you a nasty thing: our army has almost unchanged. The soldiers just psychologically are already ready to fight - it is a big step forward, but as for the rest nothing has changed: structure, organization, logistics at the same low level as before. We should immediately move from the Soviet model to the model of NATO," he said.
Semenchenko believes that "amid blockade from Western countries on the transfer of military technology and weapons, we have to use the diaspora, even at the expense of smuggling, bribing someone, etc.
ATO forces had 26 battles over past 24 hours
The Armed Forces of Ukraine hold offensive operations on the territory, temporary occupied by Russian mercenaries. The enforcers held 26 battles over a day.
Spokesman of the NSDC Information-Analytical Center Andriy Lysenko told a briefing.
“Over a day, the ATO forces 26 times came into a fire contact with terrorists in the area of settlements of Amvrosiyivka, Mayorske, Sabivka, Berezovy, Olenivka, Maryinka, Diakove, Shumy, Rozkishne, Kamianka, Makarove, Volnukhine, Olkhuvatka, Shakhtarsk, Dmytrivka, Savur-Mohyla and the Luhansk aerodrome,” he specified.
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