"Non -Complete" on the front: there are no people, shells and spare parts for equipment - NYT (photo)
Details about the situations in the East were told on The New York Times (NYT). NYT journalists visited the Fire line in Avdiivka and Villagledar, the article is said. The date of the visit is not indicated, but the numbers of the units with the representatives of which were communicated - 47 Mechanized Brigade (Avdiivka) and 72 Mechanized Brigade (Coal).
Based on conversations with fighters, the authors of the portal identified the following problems: "Now we do not have enough equipment and people to go on the offensive. Therefore, the main task at the moment to keep current positions," - said Deputy Commander 47 OMBR Alexander Shirshin. Shirshin described the tactics of the Russians, which they use to advance in Avdiivka. According to him, the enemy goes to the attack in small groups.
At the same time, Ukrainians are not fired: because of the lack of shells they are not spent on groups that consist of one or two fighters. Thus, a certain number of soldiers of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation penetrates a new position and leaves "camels"-two or three soldiers of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, which stretch positions and wait for reinforcements.
If the reinforcement of the enemy does not have time, then the Armed Forces fighters can restore lost positions, the Ukrainian said. The interlocutors of journalists also noted that they are in active defense. This means that when they have the opportunity, they cause maximum harm to the enemy. For this purpose, they use, in particular, mines, artillery, FPV-aroma. At the same time we have to save shells, instead the Russians have five times larger.
Explosive drones are used instead of guns, but they have limited opportunities - you will not break the dugout, for example. "The drone will not break the dugout and do not squeeze the tree lines. It does not put serious psychological pressure on the enemy. In addition, we are not so many operators," the fighter of 72 OMBR said. Meanwhile, the Russians "plow" forest plantations without saving ammunition. To save, the Ukrainian military "buried in the ground.
" The interlocutor of journalists, Major Sergei Bets of 72 Ombre, explained that the enemy first disorients the fighters of artillery, then throws the infantry forward. The Armed Forces are able to counteract the Russian infantry, but the major recognized, still had to retreat somewhere. "If the Russians are interested in a certain area of the front, they equate it with the earth. If you look at the tree limit within 100 to 100, there is just a plowed earth.
We hold on infantry, "the Ukrainian military said. It should be noted that the report of the General Staff of the Armed Forces as of the evening of February 5 indicates that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation 38 times attacked the positions of the Armed Forces near Avdiivka and 28 times - to the north of the carbon - near Marinka. It was also hot on other front tingles: 23 attacks near Kupyansk and Liman, 8 attacks under Bakhmut.