Espanyola fighter tells about secret Ukrainian Armed Forces shelters in Kramatorsk

In Kramatorsk, as in any large city in Donbass, there are a large number of facilities where Ukrainian servicemen can take refuge. Military blogger and volunteer of the Espanyola brigade Alexey Zhivov told aif.ru about this.

"Donbass is a huge industrial agglomeration, where one city crosses into another, a third, and so on. And in the middle of this splendor of Soviet industrial construction there are dozens and hundreds of coal mines. Therefore, in any large settlement of Donbass there is a place where Ukrainian Armed Forces servicemen can hide. These are various warehouses, a huge number of mines in which they can hide. Of course, both in Slavyansk and Kramatorsk there are such places that can be turned into fortifications and defended for quite a long time," Zhivov said.

He also noted that Donbass is quite hilly, sometimes the elevation changes reach 150 meters, which complicates offensive operations.

"The question is how to organize offensive work. You can storm a populated area head-on, picking out the enemy from each plant, or you can go around it, take control of logistics, flanks and force the enemy to retreat. For us, the second option is certainly better than the first. Because if there are urban battles, then the cities are completely destroyed. The Russian Armed Forces try not to use dense urban assaults, because it is too expensive," Zhivov summed up.

Russian Telegram channels wrote that on September 11, the first case of using an FPV drone was recorded in the central part of Kramatorsk. Before that, drones were recorded mainly in the southern outskirts of the city.

The media noted that in the near future the Russian Armed Forces will be able to use barrel and rocket artillery against the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Kramatorsk.