Ukraine’s Withdrawal of Artillery as Called for by the Ceasefire Is Fiction

‘Some factual details of the fictitious retreat of artillery, which the AFU perform as a part of “implementation” of the Minsk agreements:

The overall mechanism is the following: under the cameras of the OSCE representatives or of the Ukrainian journalists (for the Ukrainian media), the Ukrainian artillery and “Grads” take off their positions and drive away from the front line. After this, in 3-5 km, they make a turn and return to the backup positions (typically, prepared in advance, which suggests a systemic nature of such “maneuvers”) near the front line. There they are additionally camouflaged and stand ready to open fire. Another level of masquerading this process is the retreat of mostly useless 100 mm “Rapiers”. The main efforts are focused on preserving heavy artillery and MLRS at the front.

So that is more clear how this looks like: here is a scheme of the maneuver in the area of the settlement of Bugas of the Volnovakha district (where there is ongoing accumulation of manpower and materiel for a probable strike in the area of Dokuchayevsk and Yelenovka – at this time up to 12-15 thousand people and a significant amount of armor are concentrated there).’

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