Why Donnetsk matters so much to protect Ukraine against Russia

One of the major Tech Away from the summit in Alaska is that Russian President Vladimir Putin allegedly wants to freeze the war in Ukraine with his current front line in exchange for surrender to the rest of the Donnetsk region.

Russia holds about 70% of the region (Oblast), including the regional capital of the same name, after more than a decade, in which the bleeding of Donnetsk and neighboring Luhansk struggle is heartbroken.

To avoid its internationally non -recognized claim to obtain all the benefits of Donnetsk for Russia, to avoid heavy military losses further.

With the possibility of a new migration of refugees to withdraw from Western Donnetsk for Ukraine, not only the ground will be severe damage, but the collapse of a bullock against any future Russian advances.

Here we see why the area matters so much.

According to an estimate by the Reuters News Agency, Ukraine is still in an area of about 6,600 sq km (2,548 sq mi) in Donnetsk.

Local officials recently said that about one lakh people live there.

Major urban centers include kramatorsk, slovyansk, kostyantynivka and druzhkivka.

It is part of Ukraine’s main industrial area, Donbas (Donnets Basin), although its economy has been destroyed by war.

“The reality is that this resource is likely to reach at least a decade for at least a decade. [land] Mines … “Dr. Marni Halt, Russian at Oxford University, told the departmental lecturer in Eastern European politics, Reuters.

“This land is completely destroyed, these cities are completely flattened.”

recently Report by US-based institute for war study (ISW) describes a “fort belt” running 50 km (31 mi) through Western Donnetsk.

“Ukraine has spent an attempt to strengthen time, money, and fort belts in the last 11 years and attempts to establish significant defense industrial and defensive infrastructure,” it is written.

The area reports talk about trenches, bunkers, mines, anti-tank obstacles and prickly wire.

The Russian force that attacks Pokrovsk “is trying to seize it, which will probably take many years to complete”, ISW is the argument of ISW.

The fortifications are certainly part of Ukrainian defense, but is topography.

“The area is largely defensive, especially the Chasiva Yar height that is underlining the Ukrainian line,” the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) reported the BBC News.

However, he says: “If you look at the topography of Donbas, in general, the eastern Ukraine, the overall area, is not actually in favor of Ukrainian.”

“The city of Donnetsk is high land. It is all downhill as you go to the west, which is not great for Ukrainian in terms of defensive operation.

“It is not just about drawing for close fighting or up and down difficulties, it is also a lot about observation and thus the ability to coordinate other forms of artillery fire and fire support without inserting the drone.

“Similarly high ground bits are better for radio waves to spread, better for coordination of drones.”

Chasiv Yaar, which Russians recently claimed to capture, “is one of the last bits of the Ukrainian control”, they say.

Intelligence through satellite imagery, whether provided by International partners of Ukraine or commercial, is very important, rarenolds notes, “but it is not like being able to coordinate one’s own strategic missions”.

Western Donnetsk is a small part of a front line extending up to 1,100 km, but has seen some terrible dandruff in this summer.

But Moscow was to channel their ground forces in any different direction, it is suspected if they would make any better progress.

“In the south, the front line in Zaporizhjia is now similar in Donbas, so it must be fighting only through comprehensive defensive positions.”

“Russians face the same problem trying to pass through the north, so they definitely do not push on an open door.”

In theory, in the event of a peace deal, Ukrainians can take their line back to the west.

Of course, adverse area will be an issue, and it will take time to build deep security, even with the help of civil contractors, it will not have to work under the fire.

But theory is one thing and Rasi’s Land Warfare Research Fellow cannot see the Ukrainian Army leaving Western Donetsk without any fight.

Nick Reynolds says, “Even though the Trump administration tries to use the ongoing American support or security guarantee,” Nick Reynolds says, “Based on the previous Russian behavior, clearly based on the approach of the lane -deen, what the US administration has taken, it is difficult to see how the Ukrainian government would like to leave the region.”

Ukrainian President Volodimier Zelanski has said that his country would reject any Russian proposal to leave the Donbas region in exchange for a ceasefire, arguing that the eastern region could be used as a springboard for future attacks.