The Right Sector militants are being withdrawn from the airport, following the losses that they suffered. The questions of fighting for the new terminal and the tower will be solved by the AFU units, like before. Over the last 2 days the intensity of the junta artillery work on the airport reduced, the impact of the pressure on Avdeyevka shows. The current activation of the military action in the area of the village of Peski and Avdeyevka suggests that the crucial nerve of the battle for the Donetsk airport is moved to the neighboring settlements from which the airport and the neighboring residential blocks of Donetsk are subjected to fire activity.
2. The junta activated counter-insurgency measures in the area of Artyomovsk, Kramatorsk, and Druzhkovka. Active work is carried out in these cities on revealing the potential supporters of the DPR. The enemy tries to suppress the local underground, which contacts the NAF SRG that conduct guerrilla activity in the rear strip. Drones are actively used to control the locality, a network of informants is deployed in the cities, social networks are actively monitored with the goal of discovering the traces of individuals with links to the underground. The activity in Artyomovsk has to do with the fact that one of the main supply lines of the junta military group near Donetsk passes through Artyomovsk. Effectively all vehicles that could be repaired were already moved from the tank depot in Artyomovsk to the Kharkov Malyshev tank factory. By the way, the shipments of spare parts to Kharkov from the Yaroslavl factory owned by Deripaska didn't save his Zaporozhye aluminum complex, which was taken away from him. So to speak, as a revenge for the property of Kolomoisky and Tarhuta, which was confiscated in Crimea.
3. The tanks from the cancelled contract of Ukraine and Congo are supposed to reinforce the mechanized detachments of the junta on the LPR territory, which includes those units that suffered loss of armor during the fighting for the numbered checkpoints. These machines will be designated to plug the holes in the acting detachments of the AFU. Also, it cannot be ruled out that they will be sent to arm the Naziguard units and punitive battalions, which are supposed to be merged into mechanized brigades. Because the rates of restoring the damaged and reserve materiel are still insufficient, the junta is forced to rake out the tanks from foreign contracts to the front without paying attention to their dubious combat readiness. The goals are quite understandable: to increase the level of armored vehicles supply in the first line units to 80-90 percent. Meanwhile, it is quite clear that from the point of view of quality, after the major losses of the most modern tanks in the fighting of July-September, they are forced to replace them with tanks of clearly much lower quality. Also, on the topic of contracts: attempts to use the shipment of Mi-24 attack helicopters from the contract with Mongolia currently run into the lack of spare parts, which were purchased in Russia before the war. Apparently, the junta failed to obtain the necessary spare parts and the process got stuck.
4. In the area of Debalcevo the junta mostly completed building a system of defense that consists of a peculiar network of company strongpoints that rely on the actions of mobile artillery groups and on the mobile reserve in the depth of the formation. The most robust defense is built in the area of Svetlodarsk, which is located in the bottleneck of the Debalcevo protrusion and without capturing which it is not possible to speak about any Debalcevo encirclement. The positions of the junta in the area of Uglegorsk are much weaker and, given a sufficient push, the city might well be captured. The ongoing fighting in the villages to the east of Debalcevo comprise a struggle for the forward zone of defense and don't promise any significant results. A strictly positional war is going on here. Overall, this is convenient for the junta, which is of course more concerned with the concentration of the NAF forces in the Gorlovka protrusion and in the zone of Mozgovoy's responsibility. Thus, the mechanized reserve of the junta currently stands not near Debalcevo (from where it could carry out dissecting strikes into the depth of the DPR, repeating the attempts to split the two republics as they tried to do it under Shakhtyorsk and Krasnyi Luch), but near Svetlodarsk, acting as an insurance of sorts in the case of a decisive NAF offensive.
5. The NAF offensive in the area of Schastye is developing quite slowly, again. Despite the triumphant communiques, Schastye wasn't fully encircled, the roadway Schastye-Novoaidar wasn't completely hijacked. In Schastye the enemy dug in quite seriously and clearly plans to hold the defense here at least until the Spring. Heavy BTGs still stand in the depth of the enemy formation as a reserve for the case of the breakthrough by the NAF or Voentorg. It must be noted that the enemy military in the LPR are supplied residually (the main flows are directed to Mariupol and near Donetsk). Because the junta gave up on the idea of the offensive on Lugansk, the forces on the front from Starobelsk to Stanitsa Luganskaya are simply required to hold a positional front line.
6. Regarding the killing of the "White Widow", who was supposedly located in the disposition of the punitive battalion "Aidar" under Debalcevo, by an unknown – but very accurate – sniper: there is no 100% confirmation of this yet, but if her death will be authentically confirmed, then I believe that it is unlikely that we can say that her death was accidental and an unknown sniper of the LPR killed such a high-value target as Samantha Lewthwaite. It is more likely that there was a special force operation that detected her presence in the Donbass territory and led a special sniper group within the striking distance, which liquidated the terrorist. It cannot be ruled out that several countries were interested in this. However, absent a reliable confirmation of Lewthwaite's death, all of this is just guess-work.
http://voicesevas.ru/news/yugo-vost...-vostoke-onlayn-13112014-hronika-sobytiy.html (in Russian) – the online-broadcast of the military action in Donbass for 11/13 on the "Voice of Sevastopol"
http://voicesevas.ru/news/analytics/7054-svodka-voennyh-sobytiy-v-novorossii-za-12112014.html (in Russian) – the summary of the military events in Novorossia for 11/12
http://voicesevas.ru/news/yugo-vost...sk-novostey-novorossii-za-11-12-noyabrya.html (in Russian) – the video-summary from "Cassad-TV" for November 11-12
http://warday.su/dnevniki/betmen/19...isterstva-oborony-lnr-aleksandra-bednova.html (in Russian) – the video-summary for 11/12 from "Batman"
http://warday.su/dnevniki/givi/197-opolchenec-givi-poluchil-zvanie-podpolkovnika.html (in Russian) – "Givi", the commander of "Somalia" battalion became a lieutenant colonel.
Original article:
Colonel Cassad - Коротко о важном
