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2025-04-23 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
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Landing flag over Sudzha (in Kursk)
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
Text taken from a V Kontakte page of Colonel Viktor Pyatkov
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] Leaving graffiti on fences and looted counters, the "landings" from Lviv fled not like lions, but like hares!
From the congratulations of the Airborne Forces Commander to the servicemen of the 11th separate airborne brigade:
"The enemy tested the strength of your weapons and spirit in the Kherson region, and near Bakhmut, and in the Kursk region, where your valor and combat work were highly praised by the Supreme Commander-in-Chief Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. In just over three years of the Airborne Forces, 5 thousand servicemen of the brigade have already been awarded state awards, six have been awarded the high title of Hero of Russia, 4.5 thousand have been awarded departmental insignia."
"The brigade's combat path is replete with the exploits of the Transbaikal paratroopers," said the Commander of the Airborne Forces, Hero of Russia Colonel General Mikhail Teplinsky, congratulating the personnel of the 11th Airborne Assault Brigade on the awarding of the Orders of Suvorov and Zhukov, earned by the paratroopers even before the events in Kursk. The Airborne Forces Commander illustrated the combat work of the Transbaikalians in Kursk, which received high praise from the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, with figures:
They destroyed about 1,000 enemy fighters, 8 tanks, 85 combat vehicles and cars, 66 guns and mortars. Let us recall that it was the paratroopers of the 11th Airborne Assault Brigade, having passed through a gas pipe, reached the rear of the enemy holding Sudzha, collapsing its defenses. They also planted the flag over the liberated district center.
The airborne assault mission for the 11th Separate Guards Airborne Assault Orders of Suvorov and Zhukov Brigade began with the use of tactical helicopter landing forces with the task of capturing bridges in the lower reaches of the Dnieper.
Having landed early in the morning of February 24 on the right bank of the Dnieper, the Transbaikalians took under protection and defense the railway and highway of the Antonovsky Bridge and the bridge over the dam of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Station. After that, while waiting for the main forces to arrive, they held it for three days, repelling attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Until the fall of 2022, the brigade first conducted offensive and then defensive actions on the right-bank part of the Kherson region, inflicting significant damage on the enemy in manpower and equipment.
From May 2023 to February 2024, the brigade's units carried out combat missions as part of the Bakhmut group in the Soledaro-Bakhmut tactical direction.
Thanks to the competent leadership of the commanders and the professionalism, courage and bravery of the brigade personnel, it was possible to thwart the attempt of the Ukrainian Armed Forces to break through to Bakhmut and seize the initiative from the enemy. At the end of November, the brigade's assault companies liberated the settlements of Khromovoye, Krasnoye and their environs. After which the brigade carried out combat missions to contain the enemy on the approaches to Bakhmut.
At the end of August last year, the brigade was transferred to the Kursk direction, where, after completing a march, it immediately attacked the enemy that had invaded Russia. During September, the brigade units conducted assault operations in the direction of the settlements of Makhnovka, Dmitryukov and Zamostye.
And in October-November, they carried out the task of blocking the enemy in the settlement of Cherkasskaya Konopelka and liberating it, as well as preventing enemy movement along the Biryukovka-Fanaseyevka line of the Kursk region. At the end of January of this year, the brigade's artillery and unmanned aircraft units stopped three attempts at a counterattack by the enemy in the direction of Bolshoye Soldatskoye.
Well, the brigade's powerful final action in liberating the Kursk region was the participation of its personnel in Operation "Stream", during which our soldiers, having covered 13 kilometers inside a gas pipeline in three days, reached the rear of an unsuspecting enemy five kilometers southwest of the settlement of Bolshoye Soldatskoye.
After which the parachute battalion and the units attached to it began to conduct assault operations in the forest belt along the railway in the direction of the settlement of Dmitryukov. Advancing in a dispersed battle formation from cover to cover, using the folds of the terrain and destroying the enemy along the way, the battalion reached the line of the settlement of Mirny by the end of March 9 and, having captured the crossroads and bridges, contributed to the encirclement of the enemy in Sudzha. Finding themselves in a cauldron, the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine began to retreat.
One of the units fleeing from Sudzha was the 80th separate airborne assault brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from Lvov, which became famous for its large-scale looting in Sudzha and left behind a lot of graffiti on the fences.
On March 12, the deputy commander of the 1st assault company, junior lieutenant Timur Soktoev, and assault fighter Rustam Musayakov raised the flags of Russia and the Airborne Forces over liberated Sudzha!
Having taken part in the cleanup of Sudzha and its environs, the airborne assault brigade from Transbaikalia continued to push back the remnants of Bandera formations to the state border and collect soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine who had fled and gotten lost in the forests during the very rapid retreat from Sudzha.
-- Colonel Viktor Pyatkov
The paratroopers, of course, had to seriously adapt to the requirements of the Airborne Forces, but in their airborne assault version, they play an important role in the development of our operations. And the 11th brigade is one of the best.
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