00:00In early July, Russia announced the complete capture of Kostyantinivka, but according to sources
00:05Ukrainian military forces continue fighting for the city.
00:09The commander of the second battalion of the 157th Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Forces
00:15Ukrainian Navy officer, codenamed Historian, spoke with Boboda Radio about tactics
00:21of the Russian occupiers in the city and the situation in this area.
00:24The military officer explains that the Russians often resort to this tactic.
00:29A few soldiers manage to infiltrate and hide, raise their flag, and then the media
00:34They present this as a new battle line.
00:37Although the enemy's tactics aim to outflank our battle lines, our positions,
00:42avoiding direct combat, and waving their flags in the rear, then waiting for the enemy to arrive.
00:48"Time will tell if this becomes a reality, although it isn't yet," he explains.
00:52At the same time, he points out that the enemy seeks to entrench itself in urban areas, since it is
00:57It is easier to detect and destroy enemy personnel in open terrain, as moving from
01:02From shelter to shelter is quite an odyssey for them.
01:05And even if they manage to get there, it will be easier to immobilize them, the soldier explains.
01:10If we take Kostiantinivka as the center of the front, they are trying to consolidate their position in the
01:15urbanized area.
01:16It's easier for them there.
01:19They can order the launch of some powerful CAV bomb if, say, a five-story building
01:24The floors are not ready.
01:26We don't have the capacity to simply raze entire neighborhoods, so they take advantage.
01:32that advantage, he adds.
01:34The military officer emphasizes that the CAVs remain a very significant factor in the confrontation.
01:40with the enemy.
01:40They have such a quantity of this weaponry that, for example, if they fail to capture a shelter,
01:46They can even launch three CAVs onto a simple trench, and for them it represents nothing
01:51The problem is that they can't make their way any other way.
01:55He notes that the situation of the enemy personnel is not the best, and that the soldiers' resistance
02:01Ukrainians are demoralizing the adversary.
02:03We've even had cases where a position is attacked and we immediately send reinforcements there.
02:09a Mavic to observe what is happening.
02:11Three Russians storm the place.
02:13One shoots himself right there, near the shelter, and the other two surrender.
02:18In other words, as soon as our boys start to resist and are not allowed to enter the shelter,
02:24This already demoralizes them, explains the battalion commander.
02:29He added that Russian rear-echelon troops are often in poor health and poorly trained
02:34and low qualifications, and they simply throw themselves into combat without even knowing the procedures
02:40basics, dying en masse.
02:43The capture of Kostiantinivka has become one of the Kremlin's priorities within
02:48of his campaign to establish total control over the Donetsk region, although the advance
02:53The troop deployment has been accompanied by significant losses.
02:56According to Lieutenant Colonel Shamil Khrutkov, commander of the 93rd Separate Mechanized Brigade
03:03Holod-Nillar, Kostiantinivka could suffer the same fate as Pokrovsk, although for the moment
03:09There is no critical situation there.
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