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Day 828
Today quite a few information came out from the direction of Kharkiv
Here the Russians sabotaged their own future operations, while the Ukrainians take the initiative
The Russians' first goal was to attack and establish a deep buffer region on the Ukrainian side of the border as shortly as possible.
This buffer region was to extend to 20 km to push Ukrainian barrel artillery beyond the scope of Russian military targets in the Bielgorod region.
However, the Russian offensive was immediately stopped at Vowczański, where the Russians encountered the first major obstacle.
As you can remember from the last report, The Russians were incapable to penetrate the Ukrainian defensive strip around the blocks and industrial districts north of the river.
Moreover, Ukrainian counterattacks severely weakened the Russian offensive as the Institute of War Studies reported that the Russians were slow being forced into defensive action.
Due to the slowdown of the Russian offensive, The Russians fled to the intense fire of Vowchansk utilizing thermobaric artillery TOS-1 and dense Tulip mortars, and besides dropped a large number of gliders on the city.
Geolocalized movie material shows that these attacks were aimed not only at Ukrainian defensive positions, but besides at bridges on the Vowcza River.
Russian military bloggers study that this was the last intact bridge connecting confederate Vowchansk to Ukrainian defence in the city center.
Based on the impact, the bridge is improbable to hold dense vehicles.
On the another hand, lighter vehicles, cars and especially infantry, should inactive be able to cross it, which means that Ukrainians in the north are not cut off from deliveries.
The Russians most likely destroyed these bridges to prevent Ukrainians from carrying out further counterattacks across the river, relieving any of the Russian forces fighting in the city.
If you want to access the first uncensored combat material from all the operations mentioned above, you can find it on our Telegram channel utilizing the QR code or link in the description.
The demolition of these bridges not only limits the Ukrainians' ability to carry out large counterattacks on Vowchansk, but besides makes it seriously hard for Russians to cross the river in the future.
The Institute of War Studies stated that Russians destruct bridges that they would gotta pass through if they wanted to penetrate deeper into Ukraine
They besides claim that this indicates that the Russians in Vowchansk focus primarily on maintaining their marginal prey alternatively than on further developing the offensive.
Recently published geolocation movie material north of Vowczańska besides shows the Ukrainian drone kamikaze FPV destroying the Russian military excavator.
This Russian digger was busy digging trench lines or bunkers, which further emphasizes Russian intention to decision to the defensive in Vowchansk.
However, before the Russians can consolidate their conquests in Vowchansk, they must first push the Ukrainians from their defensive line around the blocks and industrial district.
As Ukrainians slow retreated to their strongest defensive positions, the Russians expanded their control of the surrounding suburbs.
To defend their flanks from possible Ukrainian counterattack from the east, the Russians besides moved towards Tykhe settlement.
To prevent the Russians from having a future attack flanking the bridge here, The Ukrainians decided to blow up the bridge in advance.
A geo-localized recording made available by engineers shows how they placed modified dense anti-tank mines and another explosives on the bridge and then detonated them from a safe distance.
The original, uncensored footage from this operation can besides be found on our Telegram channel.
Given these developments, the situation can further make in 3 possible ways
The Russians will most likely not be able to cross the river in Vowchansk due to the fact that they have destroyed all the bridges they would request for specified an operation.
Additionally, the first real Ukrainian defensive line is located across the river, which further complicates any attempts to cross it, even utilizing pontoon bridges.
On the another hand, Ukrainians can proceed to cross light vehicles, on ft and carry ammunition, continuing to supply the Ukrainian defensive belt.
Source: Reports from Ukraine
