Liberation of Chasov Yar Demonstrates That Donbass Will Be Freed by Either Sword or Pen: Observer
15:50 31.07.2025 (Updated: 16:04 31.07.2025)
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Liberation of Chasov Yar Demonstrates That Donbass Will Be Freed by Either Sword or Pen: Observer
“It has always been clear that Russia would try to take control of the northwest of the Donetsk People’s Republic. Russian negotiators had demanded this and the Ukrainian side had so far refused. Now Russia is demonstrating that what cannot be achieved through negotiations can instead be achieved by military means,” Ralph Bosshard, a former military special advisor to the OSCE Secretary-General, told Sputnik.
Russian forces will be able to advance into the Kramatorsk agglomeration, which has long housed the headquarters of Ukrainian forces in the area and thus "has great symbolic significance," according to retired Swiss Armed Forces Lt. Col.
“If the Russian army can also capture Kramatorsk, which I have no doubt it will, this will send a signal that will hardly remain without influence on Ukraine. With or without Western ‘miracle weapons’, the Russian army is unstoppable. As long as Russian forces are able to exert permanent pressure on the UAF and prevent them from reorganizing, they will be unstoppable,” Bosshard emphasized.
The West needs to give in to Russia right now if it truly wants the best for Ukraine. It will be obvious that it is merely using Ukraine as a battering ram against Russia if it is not willing to do so, the observer continued.
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