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Day 805.
Today quite a few information came out from the direction of Avdijiwa
At this point, the Russians paid a advanced price for trying to cross the fields in front of Umanská.
After breaking Ukrainian defence in the north and taking control of the Ochetyne settlement, the Russians slow redirect their offensive actions towards their targets in the north.
This change of direction confused many analysts, as the Russians initially focused on Ukrainian defence in the west.
The eventual Russian goal in the west is to take control of Pokrowski, which serves as the main Ukrainian command in this direction.
However, if we look at the improvement of the situation in the fields before Umansk, we can better realize how the Russians were forced to depriorize their ambitious goal of the Pokrovsk occupation.
As you may recall, the Russians carried out a large wave of attacks on the fields between Uman and Tonenko
Eventually, these attacks failed for many reasons.
Firstly, if we look at the geography of the region, we will see that Russian attacks through these fields are connected by rivers in the north and south.
Additionally, the river branch extending through the fields thickens this funnel even more.
This forces all Russian attack to follow a predictable path, making them much easier to master for Ukrainian defenders, due to the fact that they can open fire on them from many directions.
Secondly, this direction was defended by the Ukrainian 25th airborne brigade and the 53rd mechanized brigade.
Both are made up of experienced and well-equipped soldiers who are able to defy Russian attacks.
Ukrainian military blogger stated that Ukrainian defenders established well-prepared positions, utilizing the terrain to drag Russian assault groups into killing zones and then finish them with anti-tank mines, PPK, artillery and
FPV drones.
The Ukrainian blogger besides stated that Russian assault groups lacked tactics in their attempts to break through, being unprepared to dynamically face Ukrainian defence.
After these failed storm waves, Ukrainian military bloggers made satellite images available showing massive Russian losses in the fields before Tonenko.
Military bloggers say the fields before Tonenko turned into a cemetery of Russian armored vehicles.
The photographs show off-use and destroyed wrecks of 77 Russian armored vehicles, up to just 5 Ukrainian vehicles.
Military bloggers besides stated that satellite images show only the most intense and concentrated clashes between Russian and Ukrainian units.
Russian forces besides carried out many attacks with smaller assault groups consisting of 1 or 2 armored vehicles at a time.
Adding these Russian losses together, it can be concluded that the Russians lost a full of 100 tanks and armored vehicles.
After these unsuccessful first attacks, a Russian officer stated that Russian forces would be able to overload Ukrainian defence if they sent further waves of armored attacks.
As it turned out, Russian commanders followed his advice and immediately began an ongoing period of field crossing operation.
A Ukrainian soldier operating in this area stated that during this operation the Russians conducted continuous artillery preparations for Ukrainian positions utilizing artillery, multiple rocket launcher systems and raids with “fab” and “kab” guided ammunition.
In response, Ukrainian drone operators weakened Russia's ability to support close fire by targeting Russian mortar positions with FPV drones.
Russian forces were trying to hide these positions in the Tonenko settlement.
Nevertheless, they were constantly noticed due to the fact that the strength of the fighting in this place caused the settlement to fall into ruins, leaving a tiny cover for Russian mortars or infantry.
Over the next 2 weeks, the Russians continued their mechanized field attacks.
Ukrainian forces have published many movie materials showing how they countered or destroyed Russian attacks with guided anti-tank missiles and FPV kamikaze drones.
As the monthly conflict continued and the expanding losses of Russian armored forces, Russian forces began to reduce armored support for the infantry fighting in the fields.
Ukrainian soldiers in the area stated that the Russians began utilizing tanks more and more efficiently as an intermediate fire platform
Source: Reports from Ukraine
