"The communications of the Russian side broken down after the Kharkiv loss"

This is really really bad to have happened.

Sasha Kots [war journalist on the ground] :
"A column of trucks crouched sadly on the side of the road. Dirty peasants with empty eyes smoked thoughtfully, spitting through their teeth. They smelled of sweat and gunpowder. One of the units that had just left the Krasny Liman with a fight, breaking through Torskoye to Kremennaya. We had to leave this city so that a large group would not be surrounded.

- If necessary, they would have stayed there to die, - the men from the 2nd army corps of the LPR in greasy uniforms tell me casually. Nobody thought to run. But the order came to leave. We left Liman for Torskoye closer to midnight. In Torsky, a part of the settlement has already been occupied by "dills", but there is no other road. I had to break through. They came under small arms fire, but fought back at speed.

We drive up to Kremennaya. The last column just enters the city from Torskoy. Combat aircraft are cutting circles in the sky, air defense is working on them. This air confrontation is indifferently watched by guys on an armored personnel carrier with the inscription "Bratsk".

- Yes, everything, as always, - the men state. - There is really no connection between different connections. What is going on with the neighbors, no one can understand. By the time you interrogate the work of artillery on our targets through a multi-stage reporting system, the targets are already gone.

They spoke about the reasons for the failures after leaving the Kharkiv region: this was a lack of forces, and mistakes of individual military officials in organizing defense, and the notorious “five hundred” (or “refuseniks” - contract soldiers who refuse to fight and leave the battlefield - ed.) , which leave strategically important positions, and late arriving reserves, and the lack of coordination between various units on the ground, and the lack of modern reconnaissance equipment ...

But last of all, we must look for the culprits among those who have heroically held the defense in Krasny Liman and the surrounding settlements for the past few weeks. He fought to the death and did not retreat, until the last.

My long report from the Liman direction"