In the Armed Forces of sufficient weapon but lacking people - nyt
According to the newspaper, Ukrainian troops are officially in defense at most of the front line. Only in the southern district of Kherson region do they continue the offensive. The capture of a robot in the southeast of Zaporizhzhya region is the only thing where Ukrainian troops managed to move in a summer counter -offensive. The breakthrough did not take place. Now Russian units are coming around the robot daily.
Ukrainian troops are trying to counter immediately if they lose their positions, commanders say. "With a moral condition, everything is fine. But we are physically exhausted," the battalion deputy commander on the call sign said. Soldiers say that from March 2023 they are constantly attacked by airbags that break underground bins. "They sent two, eight an hour.
It sounds as if you were flying a jet plane like a gate to hell,"-says the 27-year-old soldier of the 14th Brigade of the National Guard "Red Viburnum", with the call sign "Cat". Soldiers carefully move in the Zaporozhye region, mainly living in the basements and remaining under cover, out of sight. This is because the latest threat is the use of FPV-oules, which forced the Ukrainian soldiers to leave the equipment on the front line and move on foot.
"The cheap commercial drone FPV - became the latest weapon in the Ukrainian war. It can fly as quickly as a car, carries a deadly cargo of explosives, and sends it to a whole soldier sitting in a bunker a few miles from him. Both Russian and Ukrainian Army use them to hunt and attack goals because they reduce the delay in coordinate transfer and artillery shots, " - writes The New York Times.
The Ukrainian military says that drones are often used instead of artillery, because shells are increasingly lacking, and drones are cheap fast weapons for attacks on Russian equipment, and infantry nearby. The 23-year-old company Adolf commander said that there was a hard work on ammunition and food delivery to ensure troops and the removal of the wounded was one of the reasons why Ukraine could not withstand its counter-offensive.
Emergency and supply machines were fired from UAVs so often that its unit stopped using them, resorting to a four-wheeled Bagi, which the volunteer engineers were attached to transportation. Bagi was hidden under the trees near his command post a few miles from the front line. "My impression is that Russia is interested in drones at the state level. I think," he said, "that the government should do more," Kit said.
The fighters say that the Russians also began to use cunning, reproducing the shoots of shooting on drones to make Ukrainian soldiers think that they were attacked, leave bunkers and reveal their positions. Some members of his platoon said that the Russians used drones to lose smoke checkers into their trenches. One military man used by the call sign said it was like tear gas. "It causes very severe pain in the eyes and fire, like a piece of coal, in the throat, and you can't breathe," he said.
Several soldiers were wearing gas masks to help the victims, but when two men in the platoon crawled out of the bunker to avoid gas, they were killed by grenades dropped from Russian drones that were widening above, the soldiers say. According to the soldiers, in recent months, almost everyone has been injured or survived, barely saved. They say they have weapons and equipment, but there is a lack of personnel.
"We are missing people," said after the actor the intelligence commander of the 117th brigade, who wears the call sign "Banderas". "We have weapons but not enough people. " It should be reminded that in the Melitopol direction from the standpoint escaped a whole platoon of the invaders. They were detained on another area of the front. Earlier it was reported that on December 29, the Armed Forces Kombrig told about the probability of deaf defense in 2024.