To take Slavyansk, Kramatorsk, Druzhkovka and Konstantinovka is much more complicated than soledar, because they are much larger and much stronger, the ex-leader of the Donbass separatists Igor Strelkov-Girkin said.
“If the population was a little more than ten thousand people in Soledar before the start of the special operation, then Kramotorsk was a 150,000th city until 2014. No” Wagner “in order to take the agglomeration by storm – it will simply not be required for this. strength, ”said Girkin.
He urged not to share the ura-patriotic moods of the Russian media about the “capture of Soledar”: “After all, this victory means practically nothing compared to, just for example, leaving Kherson. And even compared to the abandonment of a much larger city of Izum that happened during the so -called regrouping, and actually the retreat of our troops in the Kharkov region, ”Girkin said.