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| Kremlin Propagandists: Ukraine Artillery is Winning, Russia Guns Getting Taken Out – a Lot |
| 2023-09-08 |
| [Kyiv Post] If the Kremlin’s most outspoken military advocates are to believed, the Ukrainian artillery is pounding its Russian counterpart to bits. Inexorably. One described the situation as "awful." Ukrainian gunners operating technically-superior cannon have gained a powerful battlefield advantage and are inexorably reducing the Russian army’s mortars, howitzers, and rocket artillery systems to scrap with something approaching impunity, Russian military bloggers are saying. Russian "war correspondent" Vladimir Rogov, a Moscow-supported journalist in lockstep with the Kremlin since its Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine, in a Sept. 6 essay explaining the Russian army’s recent loss of the tactically-important southern front village of Robotyne explained to readers that Moscow’s troops fought hard, but the unpleasant truth is the Russian army — at least at the moment — has no counter to a Ukrainian military armed with superior artillery. "The main problem is the counter-battery fight. Here, the enemy has a better position, his equipment is more modern and long-range, which directly affects the intensity of shelling (both sides are capable of) in a battle...The situation is difficult." Military commentator Aleksandr Khodakovsky, an outspoken supporter of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, in Sept. 7 comments on recent successful Ukrainian counterattacks in another southern sector near the town Velyka Novosilka, said Kyiv’s troops were preceding assaults with devastating bombardments fired from outside the range of Russian artillery which is left unable to answer. |
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