Leopard and Bradley not a panacea, there is an infantry ahead: the media told about the losses
Their forecasts are different from what generals and military-political leadership say after the breakthrough of the first line of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in the area of the Robician Zaporizhzhya region. The Times writes about it. "In order to fight effectively, it is necessary, in general, to run for death, not to allow death to run behind you," said a 23-year-old Ukrainian serviceman from the Scala Battalion, which was called simply as a "fighter.
" According to him, he is ready for death just because he should. Journalists write that the life expectancy of assault brigades on the front line is the lowest. The personnel of the division of the mentioned "fighter" since July, when he joined the operations of the release of the robot, decreased to 25%. "90% of guys will die here too," he added. "We know it. Of course, we went through the first line of the Russians. But, bb*not hell at what price.
" The settlement of the robot is the first of the three lines of defense of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. But brigade General Alexander Tarnavsky, Head of operations of the Armed Forces in the South, in his recent interview with Western media stated that the Russians spent 60% of resources on the defense first line, move to the next stage of the counter -offensive - towards the coast of the Azov Sea.
Earlier, they had hope that Western armored vehicles (Leopard and Bradley) would be crucial in the battlefield. However, the first defensive borders have to overcome the infantry, which at night sneaks through mine fields, and then the turn of Western armored vehicles. "Bradley and Leopard are beautiful until they are blown up on a mini and cannot move. They are further attacked by Russian artillery," the serviceman said.
According to him, the main lesson that the Armed Forces studied during the summer is that initially the attack conducts infantry at night on its feet. And armored vehicles appear later. The success of these highly motivated assault brigades can be key in further breakthroughs of Russian defense constructions.
Journalists point out that there are high hopes, who initially laid on units with Western armored vehicles, such as the 47th mechanized brigade, crashed, faced with the realities of the battlefield. The 47th brigade, which was prepared in Germany on BMP Bradley and Leopard tanks, praised both Western and Ukrainian media even before the counter-offensive. Even in the absence of air support, the key element in NATO military doctrine.
However, without air support and with limited possibilities, in June, the 47th brigade suffered severe losses on the Southern Front in June. Journalists refer to the statements of the doctors of the division, who say that the number of losses (killed and wounded) is calculated by four -digit figures. The fights were so fierce that in some cases, the number of teams of doctors of the 47th Brigade decreased by half due to the losses they suffered, evacuating the wounded from the front to the work.
Despite the fact that the evacuation uses armored M-113 of American production. One of the teams of doctors said that two of their M-113 were destroyed during the task near the robot. The number of wounded they had to export at a time exceeded the possibility of all available armored vehicles. "Technically, there are four wounded in the M-113," said Taras, a doctor of one medical and evacuation team of the 47th brigade. "Once in July we loaded 24 wounded in one car.
Those July days were the most horrifying days. We just counted the losses. " Taras spoke about the Russian bombing of the robot, which lasted a few days after his release. The intensity of shelling of the destroyed village was so high that the Ukrainian military could move on it only on armored vehicles in the dark. "Six nights ago, we got the task of pulling the killed and wounded from Bradley, in which I got some new Russian projectile," said Medic.
"I came as close as possible and pulled out the Bradley commander. It burned it, so there was no severe bleeding. " According to him, it was not possible to pull the gunner because his body was stuck in the destroyed tower. "The driver tore off his head. We thought we could pick up his body, but then the shelling began and had to leave it there," the doctor explained. "Nevertheless, the Bradley engine continued to work. Similar scenes are so frequent in our lives, such scenes, such scenes.
What seems to have lost the ability to fear. " Horror on the Southern Front becomes everyday and dull fear, while the servicemen still have enough emotions to deny those in Ukraine and abroad, who believed that the rapid transfer of Western military equipment would lead to rapid results in the war, which sees a little. people.
"When I hear people sitting on sofas at home or abroad and say," Oh, the Ukrainian army now has Bradley and Leopard, now they will show the Russians what to what " Fighter of the Armed Forces. I would like them to come here and see the reality of our struggle. " Anna Malyar, the Armed Forces broke through the first bors of the defense of Russian troops in most directions.