During the counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the occupiers increasingly begin to fall into semi-encirclement (as, for example, in Liman in Donetsk region), but some of the enemy columns still manage to escape.

Military expert Oleg Zhdanov explained whether it is possible to take under fire control the exit routes of Russian troops from the encirclement.

The expert assured that the Armed Forces keep all exit routes from these semi-encirclements under fire control.

"Don't even doubt that all exit routes from these semi-encirclements at the front are under fire control. The issue is not that. The issue is that as soon as the semi-encirclement begins, the General Staff of the Russian Federation withdraws the main regular units of the Russian army and withdraws them even before when we close the "fire bag", - says Zhdanov.

According to him, those occupiers who remain do not retreat in columns, but simply run away.

"There is no one to shoot at. Those columns that we manage to catch, we break up. There are many videos of such broken columns that the pro-Russian media try to present as ours. But what retreats simply runs. When there is no solid front, we are not we can control the entire territory. For example, there are dense forests near Liman. The occupiers abandoned their vehicles and fled through the forest," the expert explained.

Earlier, the fighters who freed Lyman told how the enemy was running away from the encirclement.

Read also:

• Occupiers retreat, abandoning equipment: exclusive details of the fighting near Lyman

• The liberation of Lyman makes it possible to exercise fire control over important areas and roads - the spokesman of the National Guard

• Gaidai told where the occupiers fled during the liberation of the Lyman Armed Forces

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