In a clip posted on Friday (i.e. on the fourth of March), Alexander Mercouris (of the alternative news analysis outlet The Duran) explains how Russian military strategists have used cauldrons in conflicts such as Chechnya, Syria (Aleppo) and now Ukraine to achieve their military objectives. His assessment is confirmed by several articles posted on the (semi-?)independent Russian military analysis website South Front – for example, earlier this morning, South Front featured an article entitled ‘War in Ukraine Day 11: Russia works to encircle Kyiv forces in Donetsk region amid operational pause in north of Ukraine’ as its front news story. In fact, only a cursory glance at the following map of Russia’s military operations, dated 4th March, https://readovka.news/news/90262, should make it evident that this is the strategy being pursued by the Russian forces in Ukraine.

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MY TRANSCRIPT (and my emphasis)

It does seem now as if the encirclement of the Ukrainian army in the Donbass is now in effect. In other words, those troops do seem to be trapped in what the Russians like to call a cauldron. They are apparently twelve brigades of the Ukrainian army who are trapped there. And that it seems to me is the decisive event, if it is indeed true. And sooner or later, those troops will either have to lay down their arms and be taken prisoner or disperse to their homes or melt away in some fashion. But anyway it looks as if organised resistance from the Ukrainian army in eastern Ukraine is coming to an end. And the Russians by the way refer to these encirclements – which are very much a feature of Russian military strategy and have been ever since, well, the Napoleonic wars – they refer to these things as cauldrons. The idea is that you encircle the troops – the enemy troops – in a kind of trap. I should stress that one mustn’t think of this – as I said – as a medieval siege. It’s um … the surrounding troops can be fairly widely dispersed, but they’re able to control what goes on in the cauldron because of the location of their artillery, their observations, um their drone work – their drones which are flying over the cauldron and keeping track on what the encircled troops are doing. They can prevent supplies going in. They can complete … prevent complete formations coming out. The intention is gradually to raise the temperature if you like of the so-called cauldron – that’s by the way apparently why it is a cauldron – to raise the temperature for the encircled troops until their position becomes unsustainable and even unbearable. And there’s already some reports – which again I can’t corroborate – that these troops who have been encircled are running low on fuel and ammunition, without which of course an army cannot function. There is no possibility of relief; there is no military force that Ukraine has they can break through and break this encirclement. So it does seem to me as if over the next few days – and it may take perhaps a week –, but sooner or later, this force in eastern Ukraine is going to either disintegrate or surrender – in which case, the active part of the war will in effect be over.

Lausanne, the above was published on the seventh day of the third month of the year two thousand and twenty-two.