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Originally Posted by opendoor
I don't know, I would take that with a pretty big grain of salt. I don't think you set a trap by allowing the enemy to surround a region on 3 sides and let them be able to fire on your only real route in or out.
I'm sure there's some truth to it (i.e. they probably withdrew to a safer spot within the city to allow them to counterattack incoming forces), but the situation for Ukrainian forces in that region is pretty tenuous based on basically all the evidence coming out. You'd have to think the chance of them starting a large counteroffensive from such a poorly supplied position is pretty remote.
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whilst I agree it may be propaganda I think the idea isnt that they start the counteroffensive from inside the salient/city, the idea is the Russian pincers become very vunurable from the Ukrainian side, basically in order to cut off the city they had to expose their flanks to the Ukranians, its basically Kursk in reverse, offer the enemy a juicy salient to cut off and them storm into their flanks once they have fully engaged