Commentary by Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets
The situation at the Andreevsky and Berislavsky sections
by the end of October 15, 2022
Early in the morning of October 15, after a short artillery preparation, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, with the help of two battalion-tactical groups of the 60th Infantry and armored vehicles of the 17th Tank brigades, with the support of mobile groups of the 140th regiment of the Special Forces of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, made an unsuccessful attempt to attack from Novaya Kamenka to the Dudchany-Mylovoe-Novogrigorovka line.
▪️ From the side of Davydov Brod, the Ukrainian command did not take offensive actions.
▪️The largest losses in manpower were suffered by units of the 140th regiment of the MTR of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which conducted reconnaissance in combat of the positions of the RF Armed Forces and were the first to enter the battle.
▪️Motorized infantry and enemy tanks following in the second echelon came under concentrated fire from 152mm self propelled Giacint-B guns and Smerch MLRS.
▪️At the same time, the air defense positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of Zeleny Gay, Novogrednevo and Murakhovka were attacked by Geran-2 and Lancet drones.
▪️After the suppression of the air defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a series of air strikes were inflicted on enemy units that suffered losses from artillery fire.
▪️The surviving fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine fled across the fields in different directions from the places of fire destruction of columns of Ukrainian equipment. Mobile infantry groups of the RF Armed Forces are clearing forest belts near damaged and abandoned vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
▪️The Su-25 and Su-34 attack aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces continued to work on clusters of equipment and starting positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The attack cost the Armed Forces of Ukraine at least 120 people killed. At least 20 M-113 and BMP-2 armored vehicles were destroyed, as well as at least five T-64BV tanks.