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) have now prepared appropriate reserves everywhere, disabled the energy sector, including the power that goes to the railway complex,” RIA Novosti quotes him.

The Ukrainian colonel emphasized that wars are won through ideology, logistics and economics.

“They want us not to be able to transfer reserves, we should not be mobile,” Starikov explained.

Earlier, artillerymen of the 305th brigade of the Vostok group launched a strike from the Uragan MLRS on a concentration of Ukrainian Armed Forces in the forest near Elizavetovka (DPR). This contributed to the disruption of the enemy rotation and the offensive of Russian troops in the Novomikhailovka area.