Kramatorsk missile shells. How will the events develop in Donbass

But still about 60,000 people remain in Kramatorsk. The last week on Kramatorsk Russians beat rockets. Most often, occupiers use C-300 anti-aircraft missiles. Their specificity is that they create a layer of elements that can affect, fragments, that is, it is a non -decoration shelling. As a result, civilians often suffer. In the last few days in Kramatorsk several people have died, two dozen houses have been destroyed.

Only on the night of August 12, more than ten rockets flew around the city - they were involuntarily counted by local residents. "It is loudly at night. But this night it was very loud and very scary. The explosion after the explosion. They started about 2. 10," says Focus Galina from Kramatorsk. Her neighbor Zinaida clarifies: "I counted ten. It seemed to fall near. Breaks. A strong roar. The walls were walking. I know that I had to go to the corridor, say two walls protect, but I was numb.

They go and beat . . . I have windows open, the curtains rose . . . When they were beaten at night, they got into the industrial zone, and now - in residential quarters . . . Then I read: people managed to hide in the base ". In the evening of the same day, Kramatorsk flew again. And again in the private sector. "Previously, they shot more often at night, and now in the afternoon. It was very loud again, the alarm worked everywhere," says local resident Olga. She also notes that shellings have increased.

"At first there was a arrival to school # 23, it was completely destroyed. After that there was a small lull. After it was hit by Saky (there, on the occupied peninsula, located airfield. - Ed. ), The Russians began to shoot even more often. not in the military, but to the private sector, to hospitals, schools. People in the cellars are hidden. When the arrival, they come to the room - they know - they can suffer from debris, " - says Olga.

" Activation in the Donetsk direction is related to First of all, with the visit of high -ranking Russian officials to the occupied territories of East of Ukraine, - says Focus military expert Dmitry Snegirev. - Official Moscow is dissatisfied with the pace of promotion of their own troops.

I will remind, the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Sergey Shoiga announced the second stage of "special operations with the entry into the administrative borders of Lugansk and Donetsk regions, but since then they managed to only move conditionally to the administrative border Different grades at different sections of the front were 3. 5-7. kilometers. That is, the offensive is at a rather slow pace, despite numerous statements.

" At the same time, Russian sources sometimes declare the "capture" of the settlements of the Sand, Soledar or the exit to the borders of Bakhmut. But over them, like other cities, Ukrainian flags are fluttering, they are under the control of the Ukrainian army, for them fighting. "Moreover, the promotion of the Izium group in the direction of Barvinkova - Slavyansk, which could testify to the tactical environment of the Armed Forces," - explains the expert.

He notes that in recent months, the number of directions for the offensive has increased: there were three to four before, now-about ten. "The Russians try to move on all the areas of the front without exception - Avdiivka, Marinka, Kramatorsk, Bakhmut, Code. The reason is not only that the Russians want to capture Kramatorsk: first they want to demoralize the local population.

"Realizing that there is no opportunity to pass Kramatorsk himself, they cause fire defeat on civic infrastructure, provoking panic in Ukraine -controlled territories," the military expert adds. The General Staff says that for the Russian army, the Donetsk direction will be the main, despite many applications for Kherson and Zaporizhzhya. The Russians remember the promises to "release the Donbas", they need to present the internal consumer "military victories".

They do not pay attention to the losses among the civilian population and the number of losses among the personnel of the occupation troops. "It is in the Donetsk direction that the greatest forces of the Russian group - the barrel artillery, the volley fire and personnel systems are concentrated. personnel. They concentrate on the Mariupol direction, "-says Dmitry Snegirev. North of Donetsk region is a large agglomeration with a center in Kramatorsk.

Slavyansk-Kramatorsk-Druzhkivka are in 10-15 minutes. Every individual city will have to be stormed, and all agglomeration is completely. Most likely, the aggressor will get stuck there for a long their intensity will grow. The Russians will try to demolish the housing infrastructure so as not to give the Armed Forces the opportunity to consolidate. And this should be explained by the local population that refuses to evacuate. to the charity fund.

"When we are giving out the box, people have to fill in the questionnaire and one of the questions - whether we left home, Have returned, reside. For the most part, people did not leave, they live in Kramatorsk constantly, "she says. I do not know what she read there, ”Zinaida recalls. - I woke up on April 7, thought - I will call the executive committee on a hotline. I say: I want to go, and I answer: I need to get to myself. I will be here for evacuation.

If I tried to leave, I could be there, perish. I still think that there are no safe places in Ukraine today. That is why I remain. "Olga says that many are offered to leave in Kramatorsk, some take out:" But not massive. There were no people on the streets. From the beginning of active hostilities, people have been traveling and then returning. Because it is not difficult: there is no work, but for an apartment in another place. "You need to pay. Some entrepreneurs have restored work.

Pensioners, disabled people, and go nowhere, are people with children. We have handed help today, adults came with children. Ten children, even very small, are said to have been quieter recently. Although not everywhere. I want to believe in the Armed Forces. " Olga decided to stay - to help those who are even harder. "We are already traumatized here, it won't be worse," Zinaida continues. "When they hit, I squeeze into the lump. Scary.

Somehow I went to the clinic, and there the door was closed from the draft. I still get rushing. " According to the local administration, about two thousand people have been taken out of the Donetsk region in the last days. But the pace of previously compulsory evacuation is dissatisfied there. "Do not think that they will not get to their home. It will get," says Dmitry Snegirev. He himself came from Luhansk region and watched closely at the events in the region.