Donbas defense line.
Compared with Russia, the newly independent Ukraine was clearly a very weak country. Ukraine's flat, open terrain further increased the difficulty of dealing with a Russian invasion.
Of course, from Russia's perspective, Ukraine had originally been part of Russia, so this should have been called recovering lost territory. But because of the special nature of the Russian Labor Party, actions in occupied areas such as Ukraine had to be carried out under the banner of "liberation."
Russia's ambitions did not end there. Liberating Ukraine and other former Tsarist Russian territories was merely the first step. The second step was liberating all of Eastern Europe, the fourth step was all of Europe, and finally, it would extend to the entire world.
Therefore, to prevent itself from being "liberated," the Ukrainian government naturally built the Donbas defense line, seeking to use it to resist Russia.
West of the Donbas defense line.
Ukrainian Marshal Doroshenko stared worriedly at the military map, considering how to deal with the Russian Red Army.
A group of Ukraine's senior generals stood around him. Faced with the colossal beast that was Russia, Ukraine clearly lacked confidence in certain victory.
"Ukraine's terrain is as flat as a horse could gallop across, which is utterly unfavorable for defense. When Ukraine first became independent, if the Allied forces had struck while the iron was hot and taken all of eastern Ukraine, we would not be in such a passive position now," Ukrainian General Volosivka said.
The so-called Allied forces naturally referred to the Central Powers army during World War I. In the later stages of the war, the Central Powers and the Russian Labor Party had reached an agreement and redrawn Ukraine's boundaries based on the areas each side actually controlled, so Ukraine was not whole.
Doroshenko said,