Loudly announced in Europe and across the ocean, the large Ukrainian spring-summer offensive, or at least its first, month-long stage, ended in a fiasco for Kiev.
The detailed preparations, the transportation of massive amounts of weapons and ammunition from NATO countries led by the US, the labor-intensive training of Ukrainian soldiers according to NATO standards, including in the alliance countries, the assistance of US officers in planning operations and the ongoing support of NATO's strategical reconnaissance measures have done nothing or almost nothing. Ukrainian command along with NATO staff prepared a manual assault on Zaporozh and under Bachmut, with 2 distraction operations. Diversified under Kharkov in Białorodszczyzce and in Khersonszczyz – landing via Dniepr close the Antonowski Bridge.
Zaporizhia
One of the 2 main raids utilizing the best equipment, specified as Finland's Leopard 2R mine-mining vehicles, like German Leopard-2A6 tanks and U.S. M2 Bradley infantry wagons, under the anti-aircraft umbrella of modern anti-aircraft systems from Germany, large Britain and the US were carried out in Zaporozh. The full was supported by an ant of various ointments of reconnaissance drones, impact drones and circular ammunition. All of this, however, rapidly “stuck” in the belt of the covert Russian “East” group. After a period of fighting, Ukrainian troops did not even scope the I line of Russian defence.
Compromise of NATO-wish armored equipment, so you can call a key episode of this offensive phase in Zaporozh, which was the conflict of small Tokmakka. Elite 47 The Mechanized Independent Brigade equipped entirely with the state-of-the-art equipment donated by NATO, alternatively of making a breach in Russian defence lines, was beaten by units of the 42nd defender firearm Division. In total, the units of this Russian, the fact of the elite, division and subdivisions of the 22nd Specnaz Brigade, the 45th Air-Desant Forces peculiar Forces Brigade and the 1430 Reserve Mechanized Regiment, mobilized in Moscow, repelling under Oriechowo for a month, the furious attacks of Ukrainian units, caused them dense losses in people and equipment. On the Ukrainian side, they attacked in particular: 47 Mechanized Independent Brigade, 65 Mechanized Independent Brigade, 33 Mechanized Brigade, 3 National defender Brigade supported by 2 companies of Unmanned Flying Ships, 106 Territorial Defence Brigade, and the “Mahno” Battalion.
According to independent experts, the above-mentioned group of Ukrainian Armed Forces lost (vehicles destroyed and damaged): 78 tanks (including 14 Leopard-2) and about 120 armored vehicles, including 17 BWP Bradley.
On the right flank from Oriechow, the attacks of the Ukrainian 128th Mountain Assault Brigade stopped units of the 19th Mechanized Division and respective smaller units of the 58th National Military Army that stopped Ukrainians here and under Oriechowo.
The Russians acted in textbooks, the position of the covert was monitored by drones and drawn out scouts. They were to detect preparations for the Ukrainian attack and in time call for radio support in the form of assault helicopters.
It is worth noting that the function of Ukrainian troops in the detention, although badly commanded and acting according to the incorrect plan, by Russian units The 58th Army played assault helicopters headed by the 39th Guarded chopper Regiment, whose pilots flying to Ka-52 "Aligator" with the usage of anti-tank missiles guided by the "Wichr" destroyed many armored vehicles and tanks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The 22nd Specnaz Brigade scouts had artillery observers in their ranks, who effectively directed the fire of Russian artillery. This strong and precise fire from Russian guns and rocket launchers was the key means by which the Russians stopped the Ukrainian attack. Their “harvest” gathered extended and ingeniously located minefields by Russian bombarders and scuttling operations utilizing modern rocket systems “Ziemliedielje”.
The only comparative successes in Zaporozh were the Ukrainians after a period of fighting, "cutting" the alleged "Wriemiewski performance". The positions of the Russian units: 71th Regiment of the 42nd Division of Mechanized Rifles, 60th Mechanized Brigade, 394th Regiment of Mechanized Rifles from 127th Division of Mechanized Rifles, “Kaskad” Battalion and 37th Squadron of Mechanized Rifles fell the impact of Ukrainian forces in the composition: 36th Independent Marine Infantry Brigade, 23rd Independent Mechanized Brigade, 110th Territorial Defence Brigade, 31th Mechanized Brigade, 35th Independent Marine Infantry Brigade, 68th Marine Rifles Brigade, 4th Armoured Brigade and 37th Marine Squadron.
RThe decimation after a period of fighting withdrew from 6 tiny villages in the veil belt. To stabilize the front, Russian commanders have introduced the full force of the 127th Mechanized firearm Division and elements of the 336th Marine Brigade and 136th Guarded Armed firearm Brigade.
After a period of fighting, the Ukrainian Armed Forces changed tactics. Forces attacks mechanized the armored replaced attacks led by tiny infantry groups, nevertheless dense casualties, with the support of strong barrel and rocket artillery fire.
Instead of the announced breach of the front, the bold maneuvers and exits to the rear, and the winging of the Russians, we have the laborious pushing of infantry under the cover of the artillery's “storm of fire”. All of this is like the Western War I front. Ukrainians follow the “virtuosories” of the British commander of planet War II marshal Bernarda Law Montgomery under El Alamain or in the fields of Normandy, with the fundamental difference that he had, unlike Ukrainians, crushing support of his own aviation.
Interestingly, in early July, the Russian command concentrated units of the Radio Radio Combat and, among another things, with the aid of the "Krasucha-4" or the powerful "Murmansk-BN" and de facto, triggering broadband interference, virtually prevented the operation of unmanned flying ships in Zaporozh, depriving Ukrainians of key means of reconnaissance and aerial assault.
Retractive operations
The first specified operation was the landing operation and the capture by the Ukrainian soldiers of the bridgehead at Antonowski Bridge. It was a classical hold surgery. Ukrainian troops with fast boats blew up a limited infantry landing which, utilizing the support of artillery from the advanced bank occupied by Ukrainians, maintained positions on the island and on the alleged cottages for about 2 weeks. Russian troops counterattacked the only way after the cliff from Aleški, which was mined and under fire control of Ukrainian artillery.
Due to the Ukrainians' approach to the long-range anti-aircraft system, the S-300 Russian aviation was afraid to carry out bomb operations. Attacks utilizing gliders missed the mark as the Ukrainian side effectively disrupted the Russian satellite navigation by WRE's means. Artillery was incapable to overpower Ukrainian forces hiding under the cover of the large bays of the Antonov Bridge.
The breakthrough only brought the Russians shelling the bays of the Antonov Bridge under which Ukrainian troops hid utilizing the Iskander-M ballistic rocket and the usage of rocket flame throwers "Solncepierz". Paratroopers from 108 Squadrons and specialists from 127 Reconnaissance Brigade of the GRU based in Sevastopol pushed Ukrainian forces, whose fewer soldiers under the cover of strong artillery persist in alleged cottages. The intent of this operation is to bind the forces of General Oleg Makarewicz in command of the Dniepr group.
The second binding operations were a series of trips to the territory of the Biełgorod region carried out by Russian renegades equipped and supported by Ukrainians, whose operations were supervised by the Ukrainian intelligence of General Budanov. On the Russian side, these operations forced any forces from Donbas to be searched to defend their own borders from the Cherk direction.
Battle of Bachmut
The second main direction of the attack of the large spring-summer Ukrainian offensive, however, was the operation aimed at flanking and in the final bill the reflection of the city of Bachmut, which Russian forces threatened by the lap are to leave. A very strong group of armed forces of Ukraine is commanded by the General Syrian Alexander. Ukrainian troops approach north and south of Bachmut, on the comparatively weak east part of the Russian “South” general group Sergei Kuzovleva.
Ukrainian soldiers are heading north where they defend the 106th defender Air-Desant Division commanded by the General Walery Sieliwiorstov, BARS regiments and Gazprom mercenaries and a fewer units subordinate to the 2nd Army Corps (former army of the LRL) .
The main burden of fighting against the invading Ukrainian soldiers, however, on the Russian side lies on the 200 Guarded Self-Soldiers Brigade (Arctic, North Fleet unit) and the 79 Guarded Armed firearm Regiment (Gusino garrison Kaliningrad District, a unit from the 18th Guarded firearm Division of the Mechanized 11th Army Corps) and the 1428th Territorial Defence Regiment (a unit of mobilized soldiers). On the another hand, Ukrainians in the axis to the village of Bierhivka 57 The Independent Mechanized Brigade, and around: 9 Mechanized Brigade, 77 Aeromobile Brigade, 127 Territorial Defence Brigade, 30 Mechanized Brigade, 10 Mountain Brigade and 54 Mechanized Brigade.
The Russians with the top difficulty halt attacks by Ukrainian soldiers, who, however, bear dense losses in people and equipment. South of Bachmut, the second arm of the Syrian “sticks” are the 104th Territorial Defence Brigade, the 28th Mechanized Brigade, the 3rd Armoured Brigade, the Belarusian mercenary regiment “Kalinwoski”, the 112th Territorial Defence Brigade, the 119th Territorial Defence Brigade, and the “shocking Fate” – fanatical nationalists from the 3rd Assault Brigade “Azov”.
On the Russian side, they effort to halt Ukrainian forces rather weak Russian troops in force: 4 Mechanized firearm Brigades (Old Separatist Unit of the ŁRL), 72 Mechanized firearm Brigade formed in the Orenburg Oblast based on volunteers and coming from Chabarowska 57 Self-Separatized firearm Brigade. The Russians have 2 regiments of tanks in the retreat: the 68th Tank Regiment from the 150th Mechanized firearm Division and the 80th Tank Regiment from the 90th Guarded Armoured Division and the 83rd Guarded Air-Sturm Brigade.
Ukrainian troops headed by the 3rd “Azov” assault brigade pushed Russian 72 and 4 Mechanized firearm Brigades, which desperately defend themselves on the hill line close the village of Klischejwka. There is clearly a crisis in this place for the Russian troops, and the Ukrainian army opens the anticipation of operational success, flanking Bachmut and intersecting crucial communication roads of the Russian army.
It remains an open question present whether the Russians will retreat to another line of defense, or introduce the evidence, and whether they will be able to stabilize the front line and halt the attacking troops of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
It is besides worth noting, the very large activity of Ukrainian artillery, including modern far-reaching departments donated by NATO countries in the number of about 500 pcs. rocket attacks are besides underway with the usage of American "Himars" missiles and British aircraft maneuvering missiles Storm Shadow to Russian supply points, weapons and ammunition warehouses, and fuel warehouses. Combat isolation missions are besides carried out through rocket attacks on strategically crucial bridges. All this to paralyze Russian logistics.
On the another hand, the Russian command utilizing "Kalibr" naval-based rockets, Ch-555 and Ch-101 aircraft-based aircraft-based aircraft-based aircraft-based aircraft-based aircraft-based aircraft-based aircraft-based aircraft-based aircraft-based aircraft-based aircraft-based aircraft-based aircraft-based aircraft-based aircraft-based aircraft-based aircraft-based aircraft-based aircraft-based aircraft-based aircraft-based aircraft-based aircraft-based aircraft-based aircraft-based aircraft-based aircraft-based aircraft-based aircraft-based aircraft-based aircraft-based aircraft-based aircraft-based aircraft-based aircraft-based aircraft-based aircraft-based aircraft-based aircraft-based aircraft-based aircraft-based aircraft-based aircraft-based aircraft-based aircraft-based aircraft-based aircraft-based aircraft-based aircraft-based aircraft-based aircraft-based aircraft-based aircraft-based aircraft-based aircraft-based aircraft-based aircraft-based aircrafts performs strikes at Ukrainian command points, ammunition warehouses and temporary-based weapons retention facilities and temporary-based Ukrainian units-based units-based units based in the drainage. In the part of the front lane, at a depth of up to 50 km, Ukrainian troops carry out bombing raids. Su-34 aircraft and Su-35 fighters bomb the Ukrainians with FAB-500 UMPK glide bombs, which protects them against Ukrainian OPL fire.
In the region up to 30 km from the front line are operated by Russian Lancet-3M-type "Kamikaze" drones, which in June have electrocuted 52 targets, of which as many as 11 attacks occurred on American ultralighted M777 (M777 Ultralightweight Field Howitzer) – 3 of which were destroyed, 5 damaged, 2 Lancets' results are unknown. On the front line, very burdensome for Ukrainian armored and mechanized formations are the attacks of Russian assault helicopters Ka-52 "Aligator" and the aid of guided assault missiles "Wichr" with a scope of 10 km. They besides operate Russian Su-25 assault aircraft all the time, which carry out attacks with unguided rockets.
To sum up, the large Ukrainian spring offensive unless it ended in failure is clearly a "seated" in Russian defence lines. The only place where Ukrainians have progressed and a crisis situation is for Russians is the area around the city of Bachmut and a tick-like bilateral attack flanking the city of Syrian general forces. For six months of preparation, immense deliveries of weapons and ammunition from almost all over the world, this effect after a period of fighting is at least poor.
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Think Poland, No. 29-30 (16-23.07.2023)
