We will have to walk and face losses. What the encirclement of Velika Novosilka truly signifies - Yuri Butusov.

The operational-strategic command "Khortytsia" has reported the risk of an operational encirclement of Velyka Novosilka.

There is indeed an operational encirclement present, as can be seen on any map, and the OSHV is simply responding appropriately to the existing situation. Within this operational encirclement are units from the 110th mechanized brigade and fighters from attached units.

What does operational encirclement mean?

1. It means that there are no longer any free routes for movement; no combat vehicles can enter or leave, and one must proceed on foot, slowly, within the range of drones.

2. This means that evacuating the wounded is impossible, which will lead to missing in action losses.

3. It means that those currently fighting there and those who manage to escape will suffer unjustified losses. Some of those who get out will head to the SOCH.

4. This means that at the next convenient defensive line, we will have fewer resilient fighters because we will lose them in the unfavorable conditions of the operational encirclement.

I hope that following the OSHV, the command of the tactical group "Velyka Novosilka" and the operational-tactical command "Donetsk" will determine their position as soon as possible.

I also hope that public attention will finally lead to a clear stance from the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, O. Syrskyi, and the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, V. Zelensky.

I am writing this message in case of yet another criminal case, for the attention of the DBR and the SBU counterintelligence. Everyone has already submitted urgent combat reports to ensure that responsibility is not unfairly placed on individual commanders later on.