"Heavy fighting, the enemy retains the advantage." Interview with Butusov - about the defense of the East, the Wagner and Girkina, which troys the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation

Could you tell us more about Donetsk and Lugansk directions? Video Day - Intense fighting continues in the east, in all areas of the front. The war has already become positional. There are no big breakthroughs, blows. The struggle goes for the control of specific positions on the narrow front.

But, thanks to the advantage of the enemy in combat equipment, artillery, ammunition, aviation, the enemy continues in some narrow directions offensive actions, to push our defense, that is, individual support points, positions; And so far has an initiative, it imposes it on a large number of areas of the front. There are fierce battles.

Their scale is limited by the fact that now, in the conditions of a positional war, both sides try to mask, display and use decentralized management, use troops in small groups and give impressions of the fire. However, this reduction in the scope of hostilities does not mean de -escalation, reducing tension.

The Russian army has suspended large -scale offensive operations solely because of the large losses that they can no longer restore - losses in team composition, combat equipment, calculations and crews. And, of course, the blows of Russian logistics were signs. Therefore, the fighting is ongoing. They are intense enough, but the nature of the war is gradually changing and Russia tries to reform its forces.

Of course, they do not leave plans to defeat, to capture large areas in the Donbass, in the south. - Pessimists say that although slowly, though with great victims, they move, they bite parts of our territory. As an example, the village of Sands is given. What do you know about him? What should we match the pessimists? - It is not necessary in the assessment of objective processes in the economy, in politics and in the war to apply a purely emotional dimension.