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Day 811.
A lot of updates have been made present towards Liman.
Here large forest fires completely changed the balance of forces in the Serebryansky forest
This direction is the theatre of 2 major cities, Limanu in the west, which is under Ukrainian control, and Kreminna in the east, which is under Russian control.
Ukrainians and Russians usage their cities as office and main operating bases, where they organize, strengthen and shift their units to the front line.
The main goal of Russian forces in this direction is to decision through both fields and forests to take control of the Ukrainian city of Liman.
Ukrainians effort primarily to offset Russian offensive efforts and cut them from the forest side, thus preparing the ground for a future counteroffensive towards the Creminna.
In fresh months, the Russians have been moving through the fields towards the Ukrainian settlements of Terna and Jampolivka, located across the river Żrebiec, which divides the region into 2 parts
As we remember from erstwhile reports, the Russians attacked Ukrainian defence in these settlements, but were repeatedly repulsed by Ukrainian defenders.
The situation is very different south of these fields, in the Serebryansky forest area
Terrain prevents Russians from supporting attacks by large groups of armored vehicles, which fundamentally have zero mobility in dense forest.
With small or no access to armory support, the Russians resorted to infantry attacks alone, but were incapable to supply themselves with any crucial territorial gains.
This caused the front line to be much more static, characterized by large Russian artillery dams.
The Ukrainians in turn focused on undermining Russian attempts to gather adequate infantry to storm, raiding Russian trenches and dropping grenades from drones.
For many months the Ukrainians led intense counter-battery artillery firing Russian positions to combat extended Russian artillery support.
Recently published geolocated recordings from the 45th artillery brigade show the demolition of the Russian MSTA-S self-propelled gun.
Subsequent published recordings from the 3rd assault brigade besides show the demolition of the Russian dense artillery cannon MSTA-B.
The Institute of War Studies reported that in an interview a Ukrainian officer stated that the Russians have an artillery advantage over Ukrainians in the Serebryansky forest area against 5 to one
However, the Ukrainian officer described the situation as “more or little stable”.
He stated that for comparison in another front areas The Russians hold a ten-to-one advantage.
The 3rd assault brigade besides published footage showing their training with the late delivered British self-propelled division AS-90
Ukraine received more than 50 specified weapons systems, which seriously reinforced Ukrainian artillery capabilities.
The brigade stated that although so far they have fired on the range, shortly these guns will besides be deployed on the front line.
Recently, Ukrainians published geo-localized drone footage showing the degree of the harm in the forest.
Heavy artillery shelling, grenades, kamikaze drones and individual armored vehicles on specified a static part of the front line completely destroyed the forest, leaving craters everywhere and destroyed trees.
At the same time, the Russians completely exhausted their fighting capabilities in the north and were slow repulsed by Ukrainian counterattacks.
Apparently the Ukrainians realized it was time for them to strike
Since Ukrainians have no numerical or artillery advantage, they had to find another way to break Russian defensive lines while maintaining their forces.
The demolition of the forest left a immense amount of dead shrubs, trees and another flammable objects scattered throughout the forest, and most importantly, around positions occupied by the Russians.
In addition, the Russians formed many ammunition depots in the forest of different sizes to support their infantry.
Ukrainians aimed at these improvised warehouses utilizing artillery and grenades dropped from drones, and as these ammunition depots began to burn, fires began to spread throughout the forest.
Soon thereafter, the published movie shows immense clouds of smoke filling the sky
Russian military bloggers rapidly stated that forest fires were only raging in the Ukrainian part of the forest.
Source: Reports from Ukraine
