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) will have, because this flank, say, the southernmost one, will be destroyed.
The main thing is that significant forces of the People’s Militia of the Donetsk People’s Republic will be released to fight in the main direction against the group that is already located directly near the Donbass, numbering from 60-70 thousand to 90-100 thousand people, ”he said in a RT stream“ Beautiful Russia boo-boo-boo.
Sivkov added that "this is a very serious group", which "sits in the fortified areas."
“It will be even harder to take it than to smash the Paulus army near Stalingrad,” the expert believes.
According to him, in this case, the Russian army is making efforts to save the civilian population, which complicates the task.
As previously reported by the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Major General Igor Konashenkov, the remnants of Ukrainian troops and Azov militants in Mariupol are blocked and unable to escape from the encirclement.
According to the head of the DPR Denis Pushilin, the operation to liberate the territory of the republic will be intensified.