Avdiivka devours the third tank regiment of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation: the Kremlin is preparing more - Forbes

Military analyst David ex names the offensive under Avdiivka a trap for the Russian army and the opportunity to partially deplete the offensive grouping of the enemy. Considering the production of new tanks, removing old storage and the need to compensate for large losses of armored vehicles in 2022, the Kremlin can afford to write off about 50 tanks every month. Without depleting the overall arsenal - 3000 units of tanks that are on the front line.

Only near Avdiivka did Russian troops lose up to 60 tanks a month. Statistics can grow even more when the 239th tank regiment is released. He is waiting for all the same mine fields, areas of lesions of artillery and FPV. In October, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation suffered significant losses in the case of armored vehicles - and now they are put into operation. The infantry is destroyed.

Those who manage to survive in the minefields, under the stroke of artillery and drones, face the 47th mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces and its combat vehicles of the infantry M2 Bradley-a gun 25 mm, like a oblique, cut off vulnerable Russian infantry. Perhaps now, Russian troops plan to transfer tanks to the Avdeevsky direction.

"To the southwest of Avdiivka, the 239th Tank Regiment of the 90th Tank Division continues to concentrate," the Ukrainian "Center for Defense Strategies" said on the eve, on the eve, on the eve. 239th-already the third Russian tank regiment in the Avdiivsky direction after the 80th and 10th. It is reported that in the 239th Division more than a hundred tanks in several battalions with a total number of several thousand people. In 2022 it was completed T-72.

But after the failed battle for Kiev in February and March 2022 and the Kharkiv counter-offensive, the 239th Division was at least partially armed with the newer T-90. "But today the number of tank regiment is close to the battalion.

In early November, Washington" Institute of War Study "reported that the number of the 239th Division" Insufficient ",-said the author of the publication, adding that it should not be expected that a" weakened regiment with several new Tanks will make a significant difference under Avdiivka. "" The situation in Avdiivka remains relatively stable, "-said Ukrainian analysts from Fronetelligence Insight on Wednesday, December 3. Of the three people of Avdiivka's hungry mouth, "the analyst suggested.

For Ukrainians, it is a stop. Contrary to all, the Kiev forces stood. They no longer move as last summer, though slow. But at the same time they do not depart. They retain their forces and force Russians in every attack to suffer horrible losses, "he summarizes. Recall that on December 4, the head of the city military administration Vitaliy Barabash stated that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation reduced the number of storms and accumulate reserves for attacks in the near future.