The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation lost the initiative under the collet because of the rapid transfer of the Armed Forces reserves - ISW
"The report of tactical failures of the Russian troops around the coal of Donetsk region, probably, even more weakened the faith of the Russian ultranationalist community in the fact that Russian troops are able to start a decisive offensive operation.
The famous Kremlin military blogger stated that the Armed Forces failed to advance in the first The offensive to capture the coal, and that Russian troops lost the initiative by the end of January because of the rapid transfer of reserves to the area by the Ukrainian forces, " - said in the analysis of analysts of the institute.
According to the said military blogger, the surgery to capture the coal of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation suffered a failure when the Armed Forces destroyed a column of Russian mechanized forces in the area of coal.
Because of this, criticism for the repetition of the same mistakes made by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in Ukraine since the beginning of the war, which demonstrates the inability of the Russian army to lead along the entire Donetsk front, has fallen on the Russian command.