Frontline is not falling apart - military expert

He spoke about this on Espreso TV.

"Regarding the situation on the front, for several days people have been asking me if the front has collapsed. The front has not collapsed! When a front collapses, it means there is a breach in defense, the enemy breaks through to operational space, and advances in areas that are undefended. Evidence of a front collapse is a sharp decrease in the advancing side’s losses and a significant increase in the defender’s losses. We do not observe this now. Ukrainian defenders are holding the line. The enemy has achieved tactical successes, which were anticipated. Unfortunately, our command and the Ukrainian Defense Forces have not been able to hold the enemy at certain lines with the forces we have. Primarily, this concerns the Vuhledar direction," the military expert noted.

According to him, the Russians managed to "smooth out" the Vuhledar ledge. In addition, to the south and north of the Kurakhove Reservoir to the Pokrovsk Ledge, the Russians are acting quite effectively. However, this is not a breakthrough of the front.

“The invaders are active in two other areas. They are trying to move north of the Pokrovsk ledge, let's call it the Toretsko-Chasiv Yar direction, where they are trying to break through Ukrainian defenses in the direction of Kostiantynivka. The situation is equally dangerous on the eastern bank of the Oskil River, between Kupyansk and Lyman, where the Russian forces managed to cut through Ukrainian defenses to the Oskil River. Obviously, the Russians will try to take advantage of their tactical successes there. If the Russians succeed in the Chasiv Yar direction, they will try to strike south through the Serebryanske forestry to cut off our Siverskyi salient. So the situation is very complicated, much depends on the resources on both sides,” summarized Pavlo Lakiichuk.

• Over the past day, November 1, 145 combat clashes were recorded on the Russian-Ukrainian front.
• Ukrainian Armed Forces Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi had a telephone conversation with the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the US Armed Forces General Charles Brown regarding the frontline and the needs of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.