{"id":7520,"date":"2026-07-05T02:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T02:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/?p=7520"},"modified":"2026-07-10T13:49:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T13:49:15","slug":"russia-on-track-to-take-over-all-of-donbass-ex-pentagon-analyst-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/05\/russia-on-track-to-take-over-all-of-donbass-ex-pentagon-analyst-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia on track to take over all of Donbass \u2013 ex-Pentagon analyst (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Russian army will become a steamroller after the liberation of Konstantinovka, Michael Maloof has told RT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>The recent liberation of Konstantinovka \u2013 a key Ukrainian stronghold in Donbass \u2013 could pave the way for Russian forces to take control of the entire region in short order, former Pentagon security policy analyst Michael Maloof has told RT.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian military announced on Friday that its troops had seized the heavily fortified Ukrainian stronghold, which is part of the Slavyansk-Kramatorsk-Konstantinovka agglomeration in the northwest of Russia\u2019s Donetsk People\u2019s Republic (DPR).<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to RT on Saturday, Maloof described the liberation of Konstantinovka as a <em>\u201cvery significant development\u201d<\/em> in that <em>\u201cit opens up the way, it breaks a logjam, if you will, for Russian troops now to basically take over all of the Donbass and to expand.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n        <span><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<figure>\n            <img src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"RT\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a4837c22030275c7f3937d1.png\"><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/russia\/642561-russia-liberates-donbass-city\/\">The key to Donbass: Russia liberates Konstantinovka<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Ukrainian leadership should engage in talks with Russia at last, <em>\u201cif they have anything left to negotiate,\u201d<\/em> the former Pentagon security policy analyst told RT.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThey\u2019re not going to have much to bargain with. I think that\u2019s basically what it\u2019s getting down to. Their armed forces are in retreat. They don\u2019t have the manpower. They can\u2019t recruit fast enough. They can\u2019t even train them. And now, basically, the Russian army is going to become a steamroller, and President Putin made clear that he was going to be accelerating this effort now,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n<p>President Putin inspected an auxiliary command post on Friday, where he was briefed by Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov and senior frontline commanders, and called Konstantinovka the <em>\u201ckey to liberating the entire territory of the Donetsk People\u2019s Republic.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch the full interview below:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian army will become a steamroller after the liberation of Konstantinovka, Michael Maloof has told RT The recent liberation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7522,"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\/7520"}],"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=7520"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7524,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7520\/revisions\/7524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}