And here is somebody who simply got dug-in next to a road.

Overall, the meaning of this is something like the following.

1. Due to the Russian initiative there were negotiations with the junta about providing the corridors for exiting the encirclement. For this the junta was supposed to give up its materiel (the conditions were analogous to the cauldron under Izvarino and the South Cauldron 1.0) and to release the Russian paratroopers.

2. For some reason they couldn't agree, although I think that the stumbling block was the materiel. While negotiations continued, the encircled troops assembled a strike group from joint units of the encircled punitive battalions and went for a breakthrough. Herewith, according to the announcements from the punitive troops, the militia knew about this initiative and so they yell again about betrayal at the top directed at elimination of Kolomoisky's punitive battalions.

3. Judging from the photos, some managed to slip through the encirclement ring using the lack of coordination between the militia fighters, hence the photos of the junta military who pass through the militia positions and Avakov's announcements that somebody managed to get out. Also, apparently, some were able to take advantage of the conditions of the "corridor", surrendered their materiel and returned to their own.

4. Later there was a reaction with shelling of retreating columns, which led to massive casualties (there are hundreds KIAs even according to the junta) and the loss of materiel. Along the way, a considerable number of POWs were taken, including those from the punitive battalions (which didn't happen before in such quantities). Apparently, the column was scattered by fire and the survivors fled in all directions, some got lucky, others not so much. All heavy weapons, artillery, and MLRS apparently remained in the cauldron.

5. In general, the enemy couldn't use the "humanitarian corridor" to save the encircled troops - the attempts to arrange the negotiations to organize a breakthrough from the encirclement inflicted high costs on the junta military - something certainly broke through to their own, but the significant masses of people and materiel remained on the roads south-west of Ilovaysk. In this respect such a result of Ilovaysk cauldron is clearly better for us, if they would accept all conditions now, surrendered their materiel, they would return to their own while remaining organized and alive. Instead vast quantities of punitive troops were planted, which is of course nice. And we must remember that the most combat-capable punitive battalions suffered huge losses. When Ilovaysk will be fully cleared, the militia will redeploy the freed-up forces to finish off the remaining cauldrons and to develop the offensive to the south of Donetsk towards the Dnieper river.