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| 'They’ll cool off for a while.' The Ukrainians try to catch our military during a shift change |
| 2023-09-19 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Sergey Adamov [REGNUM] Enemy units in the Zaporizhzhya direction are suffering heavy losses and require the command of the Armed Forces to carry out a rotation, said the leader of the Zaporizhzhya movement “We are together with Russia” Vladimir Rogov on September 18 . According to him, the demand was made by soldiers of an elite unit - the 47th Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Magura Armed Forces of Ukraine. The brigade was given the task of breaking through to Crimea, but in reality, elite enemy fighters are dying near the village of Rabotino, Rogov told RIA Novosti. Reports that the enemy is having difficulties with rotation on the LBC (line of combat contact) were also cited by other sources, in particular Ukraine. ru in his Telegram channel. If earlier the withdrawal of fighters to the rear and delivery from the second echelon worked like clockwork, now the enemy’s reserves have ceased to cover the losses, the report states. Earlier it became known that the command of the Ukrainian Armed Forces nevertheless decided to withdraw to the rear the 82nd Air Assault Brigade (ASB), which had previously been kept in reserve, but was transferred to Rabotino. Individual enemy units indeed suffered heavy losses, but the general exhaustion of the Ukrainian Armed Forces group in this sector of the front should not be overestimated, says the source of the news agency Regnum, who is now in the Zaporozhye direction. Part of the enemy forces was withdrawn to the rear for strategic reasons, the interlocutor indicated. “In general, their tactics boil down to the rule: push everywhere, and where it breaks, push even more,” the source noted. According to him, the enemy is also trying to take advantage of the rotation of Russian units. “In the Rabotino area they caught us changing units,” said a combat participant. — They threw the 82nd Brigade into battle, and it was able to advance. Then reinforcements arrived, they stopped and dug in . The 82nd Airborne Brigade did not suffer devastating losses; rather, it returned to reserve. They will be waiting to see where they can advance.” To a greater extent, the enemy is saving not so much manpower as NATO armored vehicles - that’s why they are trying to use infantry, the source of IA Regnum is sure . He explained: “Somewhere at their headquarters they assessed the losses of the previous few months and came to the conclusion that the previously chosen tactics were not working.” Instead of a “breakthrough” - a breakthrough in populated areas with the participation of a large number of armored vehicles - the Ukrainian Armed Forces returned to their old tactics: landing troops from armored vehicles, “then the landing force tries to either gain a foothold on some line or move forward, the equipment leaves. If tanks work, then only from closed positions, and even then they don’t stay long,” the publication’s interlocutor said. “IN THE FIELDS BETWEEN RABOTINO, VERBOV AND NOVOPROKOPOVKA” In general, in the Zaporozhye direction, the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is introducing more and more reserve units into battle, trying to expand the small bridgehead occupied at the end of August. According to the IA Regnum source , in fact, the enemy’s offensive has stopped, but there is no talk of any lull. “If we talk specifically about the Rabotino region, then on our part it all comes down to preventing the enemy from further advancing forward, and, if possible, pushing them out of previously occupied positions in the fields between Rabotino, Verbov and Novoprokopovka,” the interlocutor said. He added that in some places the Ukrainians were pushed back. “They continue to try to advance, identify firing points, and work on them,” the source noted, emphasizing that the enemy is already working “without much enthusiasm.” Fighting also continues on other sectors of the front in the Zaporozhye region and the DPR, where the enemy is carrying out diversionary strikes. However, the direction of Rabotino remains a priority for the Ukrainian Armed Forces as the shortest route to Melitopol and the Sea of Azov. “If we talk about the hospital as a whole, then in different sectors of the front such attempts to “break in” with small forces continue. There is activity in the Urozhainy area, and there is activity further east in the Novomayorsky area,” a source told IA Regnum . “There, the naval infantry of the Ukrainian Armed Forces are once again banging their foreheads against our defenses. They also try to bypass fields and vegetable gardens. When trying to enter a populated area, we demolish any shelters where they can hide. Just like in Novomayorsky, actually. Armored vehicles are burning in the fields. So the situation is rather stable . " Judging by the interlocutor’s words, fighters in the Zaporozhye direction believe that now the main activity of the “counter-offensive” has shifted to the DPR, more precisely to the areas west of Artyomovsk - where the enemy is trying to break through our defenses in the Kurdyumovka-Andreevka-Kleshcheevka area. PUDDLES, MUD AND STRATEGIC DEAD END From that side of the front line there are reports that the Ukrainian Armed Forces are going to pause the “offensive” due to the approaching autumn thaw, and then winter. In any case, a publication in The Wall Street Journal dated September 17 tries to convince us of this. Ukrainian fighters told the American publication that due to bad weather, the armored vehicles of the Ukrainian Armed Forces could not move forward. “The rain will make our work very difficult, and the mud will seriously limit the maneuverability of armored vehicles. Logistics routes are already limited, and the further you go, the fewer options there will be. Opportunities for armored vehicles to operate will be limited ,” one of the Ukrainian military officers complained in a conversation with WSJ. In fact, the implementation of the enemy’s plans is hampered not so much by the vagaries of the weather as by the strategic impasse in which the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine finds itself, a Regnum news agency source believes. “They can probably try to launch a counter-offensive again,” the interlocutor noted. “ But, to be honest, I can’t imagine what they can do about this.” They tried to break through the ranks, but it didn’t work. Now we have gone into a “positional position”, success is also variable. Unless you gather together the remaining “Leopards” in a specific area and move forward with great force. But this can also end quickly, given our superiority in aviation and artillery.” Earlier , Vladimir Zelensky said that the offensive would continue, even despite the weather conditions. The Pentagon is driving the Ukrainian Armed Forces into a new offensive “Forget about the weather and stuff like that. We will fly to those places where armored vehicles cannot travel. If we can’t fly, we’ll send drones,” the Ukrainian leader said in an interview with CBS. In any case, you shouldn’t forget about the weather, the interlocutor comments. “Bad weather differs from bad weather. We sit in the same mud, we fight under the same rain. Probably, it may be more difficult for them in some ways, and it will be for us too. The equipment needs to be “changed” for the winter; for some, the tires will not be enough - the equipment will skid in the mud. Both ours and not ours,” a source told IA Regnum. It is quite expected that the Ukrainian Armed Forces will attribute their future failures to bad weather. “Like, now you can’t attack, it’s dirty. “Why is there no success? Go yourself and fight in the mud.” This is how they usually silence those who ask questions. And somehow they will cool down for a while,” summed up the publication’s interlocutor. |
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