Russian troops report the capture of Ukraine’s most fortified city, Kostantinovka:
Kostantinovka was Ukraine’s “most fortified” stronghold, guarded by some 15,500 troops, most of whom have been eliminated during the Russian operation to capture the city, Colonel General Sergey Rudskoy has said.
During a briefing on Saturday, Rudskoy, who is the head of operations at the Russian General Staff, said that throughout several weeks of intense fighting for the strategic city, the Ukrainian military lost around 13,500 troops, 14 tanks, 283 armored fighting vehicles, 1,400 cars, 200 field artillery guns and eight multiple rocket launch systems.
Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov briefed President Vladimir Putin about the liberation of Konstantinovka in Russia’s Donetsk People’s Republic when the commander-in-chief visited an auxiliary command post on Friday.
The general described Konstantinovka as “a major industrial and logistics hub, which is the key to the last remaining stronghold of the Kiev regime in Donbass – the Kramatorsk-Slavyansk agglomeration.”
It will be interesting to see how things proceed once the Donbass is fully liberated from Clown World. The fact that NATO is acquiring permission from countries like Lithuania and Finland to position nuclear missiles there tends to indicate that the hostilities are unlikely to cease with the fall of the Kiev regime, because the fall of one puppet state means nothing to the powers behind it.
The question is when the Russians will stop permitting the UK, the EU, and the Americans to continue to wage war against Russia without striking back.