Shawarma from the Armed Forces of Ukraine: finely chopped and baked!

The tactics of a thousand cuts of the Russian army turn the front into noodles (text version) by Marat Khairullin

Forgive me for such culinary associations, but at the end of last summer I wrote about the tactics of a thousand cuts that our army had switched to, but I couldn’t even imagine the end result - today the Ukrainian Armed Forces are bleeding everywhere. And the biggest problem is that this happens constantly; small cuts do not have time to heal before new ones form. As a result, the front disintegrates into local areas that are not connected with each other.

Let me remind you that the essence of the Ukrop strategy is the idea of ​​deep defense, which was based on the fact that at any moment they could transfer reserves. At the same time, it was assumed that ours would act in the style of Bakhmut or a counterattack - breaking in one single direction with all their might. This would allow the command of the Ukrainian Armed Forces to keep the most combat-ready units in the breakthrough directions. The AFU never expected that a breakthrough would happen everywhere - how do they distrubute reserves in such a situation? For the time being, they still tried to move them back and forth, but it is already obvious that each time it becomes harder and harder.

If in Volchansk the Armed Forces of Ukraine somehow adjusted their reserves to stop the situation at the end of the second week, in New York they were able to do this only in the fourth. And this week we see several key breakthroughs at once - ours reached the Konstantinovka-Ugledar highway, large territories came under our control in Krasnogorovka, primarily the park and stadium. In fact, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are now clinging to their last position in the city in the area of ​​the northern exit, that is, they are holding on to the only escape route.

Add to this an unexpected breakthrough of our treasured Slavyanka (1st Slavic Brigade) in Progress. Next, add a breakthrough into the center of New York, crossing the Seversky Donets - Donbass canal in the west of Chasov Yar, and finally, a serious advance near Seversk, where several important villages came under our control at once, followed by advance in the Kupyansk direction. And so on.

Just a couple of weeks ago, such breakthroughs in any one direction would have been a reason for sudden movements by the AFU. Ukrop politicians, especially Fuhrer Zelensky, would hold a meeting of their headquarters and promise to kill their generals if they did not eliminate the breakthrough. Syrsky would have abandoned a bunch of people, drowned the breakthrough in blood, and then reported that it had been stopped.
This was the algorithm of public actions for the Ukrainian leadership, in addition to the actual transfer of reserves to the attack directions.

And now there is silence. Please note that ours famously took Urozhainoe - actually a very sensitive point for Ukrop propaganda, but the Ukrainian Armed Forces are silent. Previously, this (silence) was unacceptable for the Ukrainians.

Why? Because they signaled to the West - “master, look, it’s okay, now we’ll win everything back, we’re holding, we’re holding the Russians, the main thing is you, master, don’t abandon us, keep paying.” That's how it all worked out. And suddenly there was silence. But most importantly, this week clearly showed that the Ukrainian Armed Forces no longer have the strength to eliminate all the breakthroughs. That is, apparently, we are witnessing a turning point in real time.

The front is turning into a set of such local, autonomous sections, each of which will now be on its own, and in the event of a breakthrough, they have nowhere to wait for support. For now, of course, manpower and ammunition will continue to be supplied centrally, but there will be unable to effectively provide support through the transfer of combat units withdrawn from other directions.

That is, our tactics of small cuts really turned the AFU into shawarma, which now only needs to be finely chopped and baked.

The baking stage will consist of destroying the most combat-ready parts of the dill (the AFU), abandoned without support.

Let me remind you that July is breaking all records for this indicator - strictly on average, 2000 AFU per day are put out of action (can be tracked by the available statistics).

Then the stage of rapid degradation of the centralized supply of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will begin. But let's talk about this separately sometime.

In the meantime, it’s worth paying attention to one more fact - this week marked the peak of the heat in the region. Ours slightly reduced the overall pace of advance, but literally the next day, as the heat subsided, they immediately rushed forward in several directions at once. That is, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are not given a minute to rest.