"Lacking brains and skills": "Redis" with "Azov" named the causes of problems with fortifications in the Armed Forces
The commander of the 12th Special Purpose Brigade "Azov", Colonel Denis Prokopenko (call sign "Redis") says that in comparison with the previous years now the forces of the Defense of Ukraine have enough resources and opportunities for the construction of the defense bonds. The problems of fortifications, he said, lie in the wrong decisions of the officers about "where and how to dig. " He expressed such thoughts on the Facebook page.
According to Prokopenko, statements about the lack of money, equipment, resources and people to build defense borders are not true. "There is not enough brains and skills," Kombrig said. He acknowledged that there are problematic areas on the collision line, however, in his opinion, the reason is not in resources. "Yes, of course, there are areas on the front where the horse was not lying.
Or where the soldiers simply make the defense in" cat's toilets ": where there is no chance to stay and a few hours without injury (about evacuation at all). It is reported that "there are no people", although the next landing is long and covered with the same stronghold, but there is no "people". The Kombrig spoke about three problematic cases he found when he took the defense strips. "In the first case, the salt of units from the cohort of" stillborn brigades "was changed.
Linear the regiments of the Airborne Air Force with powerful artillery support (at that time FPV-punks and discharges were not yet mainstream). I would simply advise not to form such crews here. In the truest sense of the word, I advised one of the comburgists to bury the pointless points, but he did not do so. Prokopenko said.
According to him, these situations have developed in 2023-2024, and today the forces of defense have enough equipment and resources, and now the question is the education of officers who make decisions on fortifications. "The officers stopped thinking: they did not teach or" thought "people who did not go to reconstruction (visual study - ed.
) Denis Prokopenko noted that only resources are not enough, because without knowing the principles of organization and the erection of defense and understanding "where and how to dig" fortifications will be vulnerable to hostile attacks. "Very soon, all these resources will turn the enemy into ashes, and they will not fulfill their function of protecting and maintaining the life of the personnel, the imaginary border of defense will turn into a passing yard," said Azov commander.
We will remind, on January 2, the head of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration Oleg Synigubov announced the preparation of circular defense of Balakliya and Izium. On December 12, 2024, Ukrainian journalist and military correspondent Yuri Butusov stated that the invaders had entered the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces near Pokrovsk, with almost without a fight, despite the quality fortifications due to untimely command decisions.