The greatest successes of the Armed Forces in the full-scale war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine | Espresso
So, from the beginning of the full-scale invasion, the Ukrainian defenders of Russia not only support the rush of the Rashists, who are superior in the number of personnel and weapons, but also do it in such a way that they write new pages in the history of military affairs. With our experts at Defense Express, we have selected five impressive examples. During these nine months of war, the Armed Forces of Ukraine accomplished what they thought was impossible.
Cruiser “Moscow”
In the first place – destruction of the cruiser “Moscow” – the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation. It was April 13. For the first time in history, the anti-ship complex struck the largest ship – a cruiser. It was the first case of the destruction of the flagship of the fleet since the Second World War. This was done by the domestic anti-ship complex “Neptun” developed by the Kyiv State Bureau “Luch”. Rumor has it that a documentary about this story and this topic has already begun to be filmed for Netflix. But it will definitely not be cooler than the very fact of the destruction of “Moscow”.
Attack by naval drones
The second impressive example, when Ukraine made history in naval affairs this year, – kamikaze marine drones on enemy ships in a well-protected place – in the bases of the fleet itself. On October 29, Ukraine attacked ships of the Black Sea Fleet in occupied Sevastopol with exactly such weapons. Were these naval drones involved? Yes, there really were. Have there been experiments with conducting such operations in other countries before? They were the same. But it was the drones developed and manufactured in Ukraine that attacked the enemy in his base and inflicted real damage on the opponents. Now they are already producing a new batch of such naval shock systems. Lithuanian volunteers collected funds for three such drones with recognized peaceful and prophetic names for the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation, starting with the word peace and continuing with other versions.
Caesar on the pontoons
The third example of the improbability of the actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was provided by The New York Times the other day, which claims that MacGyver’s army supports them due to their ingenuity and ability to adapt among the armies of NATO countries. He is the hero of the American adventure television series, who uses everything he can get his hands on for a successful outcome. I do not like this comparison at all, because the ZSU is self-sufficient without any comparison. But let’s go back to the publication of The New York Times. They claim that when it was necessary to fire at the positions of the Russian Federation on Zmiino, and there were no accurate foreign howitzers to get there, the Ukrainians put the French Caesar on pontoons, drove them 10 km across the sea and hit the island of Zmiiny, which was 40 km away, which surprised the French, as the publication writes. To be honest, we have no confirmation of this fact given its high riskiness with low reasons. However, we definitely know that the enemy from Zmeyny was smoked out not only by Caesar, but also by the latest Ukrainian howitzer “Bohdan”, which was guided to the target with the help of drones in real-time mode, creating its own new reconnaissance and strike system, as the video shows of the strikes on To the snake, which at one time was made public by General Valery Zaluzhny, whose actions and decisions are more interesting than the hero of any foreign TV series.
Adaptation of American missiles to our fighters
The fourth example of the adaptability of our army is the use of American HARM missiles from our fighters. We did this quickly, powerfully enough. In fact, due to this, we destroy a significant number of Russian air defense systems. HARM continues to be supplied to us for future missions.
Mysterious destruction of planes in Saki in Crimea
And finally, the fifth example, still shrouded in the fog of war, – destruction On August 9, at least nine military aircraft at the Novofedorivka base near Sak in Crimea. The military leadership recognized that this is our work, and announced a series of successful missile strikes on the enemy’s Crimean air bases, but the distance to the front line is more than 200 km, and we do not have such missiles. The protest was confirmed in foreign specialized publications: “The strike was used by a weapon system manufactured during the USSR, but modified for use in a role different from the one for which it was designed.” We have some guesses as to what exactly hit the Russian planes at the airfield in Saki, but we will keep it a secret for now, because even without a specific type of weapon, all these five examples show that the Ukrainian army demonstrates adaptability, ingenuity and skill . in the use of weapons – our own, foreign, in symbiosis. And then, of course, there will be a continuation.
The situation at the front
Russia is also trying to produce weapons, using chips from washing machines for use in cruise missiles under the slogan “analogivnet” and trying to implement tactical know-how on the battlefield, both in the actions of units and in the construction of a defense system. One of the lines of defense where we are trying to push through is the situation from Torsky, then Svatov and Kreminna. Satellite images appear literally tonight, which show that the occupiers are building a defense line from Svatovo and beyond, using “dragon’s teeth”. In fact, they are talking about a 50 km section that they built to the south and north of Svatovo. There – a line of concrete barriers, then – ditches, positions for anti-tank weapons.
Construction of the line of defense of the Russian Federation in the East of Ukraine
Viktor Kevlyuk, an expert of the Center for Defense Strategies and a reserve colonel, said that when the enemy passes off a line of engineering barriers as a line of defense, it means that he has only partially come to the conclusions of the raisin lesson. The enemy realizes that as time progresses in the cold season, this territory will be frozen, it will reasonably be harder, accordingly, for the highly mobile units of the Armed Forces (the 92nd and 93rd brigades have shown that it is faster to advance to a great depth without entering into serious combat clashes) . ) the opponent is trying to oppose something. Even during the Second World War, groups of fence-breakers fought with such barriers. Assault groups were formed from the number of sapper-engineering units, which in the original method made passages there, therefore, I think, those who studied in the schools of engineering troops, did not forget the tactics at hand and gave this work very quickly.
The fact that the Russians are immediately preparing certain defensive lines in the direction of Svatove – Kreminna, they do not have the representatives to carry out an offensive there by force. Continuing the past week, VAT units arrived from the Kherson direction. Formations of the 76th Airborne Assault and 98th Airborne Divisions are seen here. InformNapalm reports that two strike tactical groups are forming, the enemy is trying to stabilize time, to stop the Armed Forces’ proposal to conduct two counterattacks. When it will be and whether the Russian Federation will be able to do it is an open question, but we can see that partially realizing that passive defense will not be able to stop the Armed Forces, the enemy is trying to combine elements of passive defense and is preparing for active measures, conducting counterattacks.
Russian PMKs at war against Ukraine
Wagner PMC has 26,500 mercenaries, 10,500 of whom are in Ukraine. 2,000 people actively participate in the hostilities, 6,000 combined units operate in the Bakhmut region and one in Kupyansk. Another 8,500, according to intelligence estimates, are in training camps in Ukraine.
The largest camp is in Luhansk – about 5 thousand, 1.5 thousand – in Pivnichodonetsk, about 1 thousand – in Starobilsk and at the “Styrol” plant in Horlivka – about 900 thousand people. Their entire staff is divided into three categories. The first is ex-servicemen with a high level of training, experience of participating in combat operations. They are the most valuable resource for PMC Wagner. The second category – conscripts, who are recruited throughout the Russian Federation, in particular among guest workers, stateless persons – all those who agree to participate in hostilities. The third category is convicts. the resource, judging by the fact that there are 2,000 people in the prisons of this Russia, will not run out soon. The tactics of these units are quite primitive. They act in groups of 12-15 people. The group has a certain distribution of specialties: an assault group, three groups of infantry, a reconnaissance group and a reserve. The worst prepared and those recovering from wounds or with minor injuries are admitted to the reserve. Last week, we saw reports that in a week, the enemy carried out up to 500 attacks in the Donetsk direction. These little ones, which no one counts, create the illusion of a huge offensive group. In fact, there is no evacuation and medic unit in the unit of Wagner’s assault group, which is not going to save anyone. It is easier to get than to evacuate, treat and invest in this money. These groups also include the Wagner Security Service, which has the right to extrajudicial killings. Anyone who was not liked, was not active enough on the battlefield, whose actions were questionable, could be executed right there. Therefore, we see that when these assault groups, formed mainly from another category, are active, they are led by experienced fighters of Wagner’s PMK. All this for the number is supplemented by citizens who entered into contracts while being in the places of execution of the will.
Today, the three PMCs are the most powerful: Wagner, the League (to which the best Wagnerians were assigned), which performs the most difficult tasks and has the most trained human resources. As an example, in June in the village of Moikyne of the Krasnodar region – at the training ground of the 10th special purpose brigade of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the PMC of the League selected candidates with the reinforcements that arrived there. Out of more than 300 candidates, not a single one got into the League. And there is PVC Redut – it is mostly ex-VAT VAT. It is less popular, but it is fighting in Ukraine. It is extremely difficult to understand where the VAT ends and the Redoubt begins. However, we have recently seen that Prigozhin, a businessman and private individual, despite his closeness to the first officials of the Russian Federation, the owner of PVK Wagner, allows himself a lot of excesses, in particular the attack on Colonel-General Lapin. There is a certain military solidarity and the containment of Prigozhin was initiated and, just in case, the formation of a paramilitary structure, the name of which is still unknown. The organization is handled by a person from the entourage of the ex-president of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych, a businessman. All this happens mainly in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.
The situation in the Southern direction
All questions are answered by the railway from Volnovakha to Dzhankoy – the land corridor for which the South of Ukraine was occupied. The closest distance from our positions to the railway is from Vugledar to Volnovakha. Long-range artillery without special techniques gets this something, a long-restored railway junction, so the enemy conducts activities in the area Coal worker, in order to move Ukrainian forces with artillery as far as possible from the Volnovakha station. The further the railway is laid to the west from the front edge, the calmer this section of the front is. The Komysh-Zorya station is very powerful, which is why the Russian Federation creates “safety trains” within a radius of 50 km. Certain problem areas arose after the evacuation from the right bank of the Russian Federation from the Kherson-Beryslav bridgehead. Silence on the Zaporizhzhia direction will be preserved as long as the railway is able to supply groups to Crimea and from Crimea to Melitopol, Mariupol. Very active Ukrainian partisans, who destroyed a huge number of bridges and other structures. The enemy is trying to neutralize these actions by strengthening the police-administrative regime. This activity is in defense of the Russian Federation in order to keep the railway, on the Ukrainian side – to destroy this communication.
Participation of Belarus in the war against Ukraine
The creation of a regional Russian-Belarusian grouping of troops is a demonstrative action, when the enemy demonstrates readiness to attack from the Northern direction. They are spreading information according to which 30,000 to 35,000 Belarusian soldiers have expressed their readiness to fight against Ukraine. But the alarm is sudden death of the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus after returning from Yerevan, CSTO meeting. We have a fork in the road, from where events can go both in the direction of non-intervention of Belarus in the war, and more active intervention.