"Significant Step": The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have overcome "Achilles' heel" and can capture a strategic city - WSJ
"This is Achilles' Fifth of Russian Tactics," said the captain and serviceman of 21 separate infantry battalion "Sarmat" Rostislav Kasyanenko, pointing to the gray zone of the burned land between the Armed Forces and the strategic city of Yar. For half a year of defense forces, there did not allow the enemy to move to get to the city through which he leads the way to the rest of the Donetsk region.
However, this week, the Russian invaders broke through, starting a storm through two points on the channel east of the time ravine. "Their progress can mean a significant step in the city," the publication said. Defenders should now stop the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation so that they do not become entrenched in the buffer and do not go to the full storm of the time ravine. This city is considered the second key to hostile efforts in the Donetsk region except the Pokrovsk Logistics Center.
It is noted that the enemy tries to capture the time of the ravine before the leaves fall and rain begins. The city is attacked with UAVs, artillery and managed aircraft. "One mistake is enough, and the ravine can fall in a few days," Kasyanenko emphasized. The ravine is located at an altitude, and the canal near this week was an obstacle to the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. Now the Ukrainian units have been dug and are fighting to prevent the occupiers from seizing the city.
"It costs a lot of costs. In defense of the city of Kasyanenko's mouth, it has lost 30 people, or about a quarter of present numbers, and about 70 soldiers of other parts were killed in battles. Not sufficiently armed, ”the media reported. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation aimed at shock drones at the entrance points at the time of the ravine, which complicates the reinforcement or export of the wounded for the defense forces.
On the roads to the city there are "carcasses" of Ukrainian military equipment. Kasyanenko said that the Russian fighters hit the cables, stretch through the channel, and then rushed in small groups into the gray zone. In one assault, 10 invaders crossed the channel and regrouped to move to the buffer. They were attacked from artillery and drones, and those who survived "sought" infantry.
According to the Lieutenant "Hulk", as a result of the storm of the Russian Federation lost eight fighters of the dead and two - seriously wounded. He reported that the occupiers managed to approach the Armed Forces of 33 meters. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have already been rejected from the west side of the canal. As Kasyanenko explained, the risk is that the enemy will create a bridgehead in the gray zone and be able to strengthen it later.
Currently, defenders are forced to change the buffer for five to seven days. "We are just sitting among the debris," Hulk said. Only a few buildings remain whole. The windows are knocked out, and roads that lead to a time ravine are littered with large clips. The Ukrainian military shared that they were especially afraid of modified aviation. "If a managed bomb is hit by a goodbye, and your soul goes to God," Kasyanenko emphasized.
According to him, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation attacks up to five times a day, often losing 20 soldiers a day. Many hostile assaults are former prisoners, recruited with a promise for final release. About 24 kilometers from the time ravine detained the Russian ordinary. He said that a few years ago he was convicted of theft. Arriving in July, he gave documents and phone. "Then I realized that this trip was a ticket one way," the Russian recalled.
In September, he escaped from a unit in which there was a low moral spirit due to attacks of Ukrainian UAVs. The cooperators shot him and kissed him. Kasyanenko's unit uses several enemy cars, including BMPs. The military complains about the lack of effective electronic controls against drones. The junior sergeant Stanislav Makova remembered how he was trapped with a small amount of provision. He kept under the bombing of tanks and UAV for 11 days.
Every evening, the defender was fascinated by the night vision glasses, as an owl and cat ignored explosions and hunted the mice in a nearby field. "The hardest thing is to remain a person," he added. We will remind, the analysts of DeepState at night for October 19 reported that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation advanced in Donetsk region. The General Staff of the Armed Forces reported 196 combatants per day.