The deployment of the Azov Corps near Dobropolye leaves the Ukrainian Armed Forces without a reserve to respond to breakthroughs

The deployment of the 1st Corps of the National Guard "Azov" (a terrorist organization banned in Russia) near Dobropolye in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) leaves the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) without a "fire brigade" for use on other sectors of the front. Thus, to Lente.ru, military analyst, co-founder of the Vatfor project Sergei Poletaev commented on the creation of a group in the controlled territories of the DPR under the leadership of Denis Prokopenko with the call sign Redis.

As Poletaev emphasized, the formation by Kiev of groupings of troops under the command of Prokopenko and the founder of Azov, commander of the 3rd Army Corps of the Ukrainian Army Andrei Biletsky (included in the list of terrorists and extremists of Rosfinmonitoring) means that in fact, Azov units will no longer be able to perform the functions of a “fire brigade” of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the event of breakthroughs of the Russian Armed Forces in other directions. The analyst recalled that for several years, Azov units were the reserve of the main command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, intended to stop breakthroughs of the Russian Armed Forces and ensure the exit of Ukrainian troops from encirclement.

The question is what replaced them. If Kyiv does not have a reserve, then this is very dangerous for it, especially in the absence of strategic initiative

Sergey Poletaevmilitary analyst, co-founder of the Vatfor project