{"id":1605,"date":"2025-08-11T23:32:58","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T23:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/?p=1605"},"modified":"2025-08-15T13:59:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T13:59:47","slug":"kievs-forces-face-catastrophe-in-donbass-ex-ukrainian-commander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/11\/kievs-forces-face-catastrophe-in-donbass-ex-ukrainian-commander\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiev\u2019s forces face catastrophe in Donbass \u2013 ex-Ukrainian commander"},"content":{"rendered":"

The frontline has fractured, and AFU units are facing major encirclements, Bogdan Krotevich claims<\/strong><\/p>\n

The situation in southwestern Donbass is rapidly deteriorating for Ukrainian troops now facing two major encirclements, former chief of staff of the Azov Brigade, Lieutenant Colonel Bogdan Krotevich, has claimed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The frontline between Pokrovsk (Krasnoarmeysk), the largest city under Ukrainian control in the southwest of Russia\u2019s Donetsk People\u2019s Republic, and Konstantinovka, a major stronghold some 45km to the northeast of the city, has effectively ceased to exist, Krotevich claimed.<\/p>\n

\u201cI honestly don\u2019t know what exactly you are being told, but I can tell you: the Pokrovsk-Konstantinovka line is, without exaggeration, a complete f**k up. And this f**k up has been growing for a long time, getting messier every day,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0he wrote<\/a>\u00a0in an open letter to Vladimir Zelensky which he posted on X late on Monday.<\/p>\n

The city of Pokrovsk has been de-facto surrounded by Russian troops, while Konstantinovka is facing semi-encirclement, he claimed.<\/p>\n

The former Azov commander shared a map purporting to show the situation in the area, which corroborates media reports of a major Russian breakthrough to the north of Pokrovsk that emerged earlier in the day.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe systemic problem began with the thinning out of reserves, widespread fragmentation of units along the entire front line, reports about a \u2018taken village\u2019 touted as a victory despite failures in entire operational directions,\u201d<\/em> Krotevich wrote, accusing \u201cparts\u201d<\/em> of the military leadership of a \u201ccomplete lack of a strategic and even operational vision of the theater of operations.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

A similar alarmist message was produced by Taras Chmut, the head of the pro-military charity Come Back Alive. The crisis in Donbass has been brewing for about a year and a half, he wrote<\/a> on X earlier in the day, predicting the Ukrainian military was about to begin losing land \u201cby tens, hundreds of square kilometers\u201d<\/em> daily.<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst, we failed at the platoon level. Then the company. Then it\u2019s the turn of the battalion level. When it comes to brigades, the enemy will put into action its armored groups, which have been actively accumulating for a year, and will go to the rear, to the operational space,\u201d<\/em> he claimed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The frontline has fractured, and AFU units are facing major encirclements, Bogdan Krotevich claims The situation in southwestern Donbass is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1605"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1609,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605\/revisions\/1609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}