Russian special military operation in Ukraine #23

Reserve formations of the Russian armed forces enter the Kharkiv region, fighting continues along the entire line of contact.

A group of Russian troops begins an operation to defend the city of Kupyansk, this is a strategic settlement, in the event of a breakthrough in defense, the city of Izyum will be surrounded.

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Ofc it's strategic, anyone with a brain knows it, all Izyum depends on that settlement

So the LNR guys who held it were overwhelmed and forced to retreat.

I hope they got the civvies out. If not, we'll soon hear about another "Bucha" as the Ukrainians mop up remaining civilian  so-called "collaborators", only to blame the massacre on "Russia" later. Which everyone will accept as a fact in no time.

ALAMO wrote:

Hole wrote:

Belisarius wrote:If they capture it, this will be a huge blow to Ukraine amid their “counteroffensive”
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In Kherson/Nikolaev and Kharkov area the command, rear services and reserves of the attacking forces have already been decimated or even completely destroyed. They can still move a little bit but they got no chance of keeping the area. In the coming days they will be finished off. End result: another division worth of manpower (the word again ) destroyed for the temporary gain of a few square kilometres.

To be honest, I'm extremely surprised with this pic.
12 systems are 4-6 batteries.
It is almost a whole brigade.
How a weakened brigade managed to survive so long into this war is unbelievable to me.
Batteries radars are missing here, so maybe this is some kind of storage the Russkie hit?

I'm asking myself exactly that. Maybe they've implemented it recently, but either way it's a perfect target since it's in an open field.

Hole wrote:https://www.imetatronink.com/2022/09/counter-offensive-you-keep-using-that.html
Calm down and read. 

The best quote of the article

Nothing will end this war faster than continuing Ukrainian "counter-offensives" of the type we have seen over the last few days.

The Hohols are doing this for purely propaganda purposes. And the battlefield autists get completely sucked into the trap.

how to NOT execute an Trench attack...

Allied forces repel Ukrainian counter-attack in Pervomaisky region


PMC Wagner ambushes Ukrainian troops near Bakhmut

Vладислав Угольный on Telegram reports that advance Ukrainian units have reached the Oskil reservoir, bypassing several major settlements, and that Izyum and Kupyansk are severed on the west bank of the Oskil: https://t.me/zola_of_renovation/2821

Something like this, I guess. 50km advance in 3 days.

After yesterday's Ukrainian offensive, which ended at least in part with the occupation of Balakleya and the approach of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to the suburbs of Kupyansk, a serious threat to Izyum has arisen. Especially if the enemy went to the n / a Kunya, but at least at the moment the Ukrainians failed to do this.

At night and this afternoon, the Izyumsky garrison delivered and continues to deliver the heaviest artillery strikes on enemy concentrations south of Izyum, where the crests deployed yesterday in attack formations (they did not abandon their intentions). The enemy fired harassing fire at Izyum itself, in the forests on the border of the DPR and the Kharkov region, our soldiers fought, but did not let the enemy through. Khokhols tried to attack the forest, got a good pendel and retreated back.

Army aviation delivered strikes on clusters of APU equipment in the area of ​​the Staroverovka settlement, and indeed there are a lot of aircraft in the sky today. But it must be taken into account that crests go through forest plantations or in small mobile groups, to some extent leveling the consequences of the FAB-500 arrivals.

Kupyansk is preparing for defense and I hope they took into account the bitter experience of previous days. Izyum himself is also preparing for defense, crests, in turn, are trying to cut roads and isolate our garrisons. The Vushniks have not yet committed all the reserves into battle, and I think that at night and in the next few days they will try to hammer at us with high-precision shells of cannon and rocket artillery, since Excalibur has already been delivered to them.

If anyone thinks that the Izyum warriors are in a panic, then they are seriously mistaken. Yes, the first part of the battle, to put it mildly, was not ours, but this happens in war, and military luck is an extremely windy young lady. The main thing now is a competent analysis of what happened and correctly drawn conclusions from it. In any case, the enemy will be defeated, and the resulting slap in the face is simply obliged to bring to life those who have lost touch with reality.

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#YURI DAILY Alea Jacta Est. The Ukrainians threw it all to the line, and commenced the main battle of the autumn. The situation in Kharkov region is serious and menacing, and may, if not remedied quickly, result in the worst defeat of the Allied forces since the start of the hostilities. However, despite it being the most serious operational crisis since the start of the war, the situation is far from certain, and the battle is not over - the Ukrainian gamble is extremely dangerous, and their current success can easily turn into an utter defeat. Yuri explain the Ukrainian strategy, the dangers posed to the Allied groups near Izyum. The Russians, on the other hand, do not seem rushing the forces from elsewhere in Ukraine, and continue, quite successfully, to advance near Solidar and Bakhmut. State of the fronts as of 19:00 CEST Sep. 8

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So Ukrainians have taken a lot of Balakleya

Currently artillery and rocket forces are pounding them, but we will see they're already so deep into the settlement that chances of removing them are slim without sending manpower inside

Vladislav Ugolny (@Zola_of_Renovation, obviously a Trusted Source) reports with a Balalkeya-Kupyansk-Izyum SitRep:

The Military-Civilian Administration of Kupyansk has announced the start of defence of the city. There's a war correspondent Poddubny @epoddubny and my fellow OPSB veteran @notes_veterans on the ground there. So, what we know so far:

1) Ukrainian forces control at least the western and southwestern parts of Balakleya. There is video confirmation. There is no confirmation of control of the north-eastern part, including known depots. So we can definitely talk about the loss of part of Balakleya. But it is possible that our resistance remains there. We will only know for sure if there is photographic confirmation of control of the arsenal.

2) Shevchenkovo and the crossroads near Veseloye-Kunya do not appear to have been occupied by the Ukrainian army. [GB: As noted earlier on this channel, Ukrainians bypassed Shevchenko, but did not take control of it.]

3) However, the Ukrainian forces made a breakthrough between these defensive points and were able to reach Kupyask and the Oskol Reservoir. These are forward units, and they do not have absolute control over this territory. The presence of the Ukrainian army near the village of Yasinovatoe and near Grushevakha has been confirmed.

4) Izyum is cut off from Kupyansk on the right bank of the Oskol River. Supply is possible through the left bank.

5) The AFU is intensively dropping saboteur-reconnaissance groups into the Krasno-Limansky district of the DNR. I am not personally aware of the possibility of their crossing there. @Rybar reports that there is such a possibility. If it is implemented, the grouping in Izyum will find itself in a cauldron.

6) The battle for Kupyansk will take place this night. We have faith in the Russian army.

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The UAF group that attacked Balakleya is getting decimated at their base in Chuguev by Russian Armed Forces Missile & Artillery strikes, cutting off their reinforcements — all pointing to a counteroffensive being imminent on Balakleya.

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I hope they sent the real guys in

Hopefully this is true, some good news.

From the point of view of the events currently taking place on the Izyum-Balakleysky sector of the front, the threat to Kupyansk poses the greatest danger. The fact is that this is a large and well-equipped railway junction, to which a powerful AC supply line from Valuyki is connected (see red line). He went to the Russian forces intact and is used intensively. Therefore, objectively, Kupyansk in terms of value is the No. 1 logistics hub in the entire northeastern section.

Previously, it was in the operational depth and there was no serious artillery impact on it, but if the Armed Forces of Ukraine come up and can gain a foothold at least 15-20 km from it, the normal supply of troops will be extremely difficult.

Regarding the purely military aspects of the battle, where it tends and what it will lead to - let the experts comment here, I am not very competent in this matter.

https://t.me/ukraina_ru/98674

Fairly obvious the UKR goal is to isolate RU forces west of the Oskil river, and this is part of a broader attempt to isolate and encircle Izyum.

Hopefully the Ukrainian advances can be reversed, quickly.

Todays meeting in Ramstein AB

The latest batch of security assistance to Ukraine includes:

Additional ammunition for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS)
1,000 155mm rounds of Remote Anti-Armor Mine Systems
Four 105mm Howitzers and 36,000 105mm artillery rounds
Additional High-Speed Anti-Radiation Missiles (HARMs)
100 Armored High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWV), better known as Humvees
1.5 million rounds of small arms ammunition
More than 5,000 anti-armor systems
Additional grenade launchers and small arms
50 armored medical treatment vehicles
Night vision devices and other field equipment.

During a press conference from Germany on Sept. 8, Austin, along with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army Gen. Mark Milley, said Ukraine is showing demonstrable battlefield success with donated weaponry.

“We are seeing real and measurable gains from Ukraine and the use of these systems,” Milley said.

The first batch of M777 155mm howitzers was delivered to Ukraine in April. Since then, the U.S. has delivered 126 M777s and nearly 500,0000 rounds of ammunition. Ukraine has struck more than 400 targets with HIMARS loaded with Guided Multiple-Launch Rocket System (GMLRS) rounds, Milley said.
U.S. Army HIMARS fire rockets at Fort Drum, New York, in August. U.S. Army Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Richard Frost

“It has had a devastating effect,” Milley said. “Russian lines of communication and supply channels are severely strained. It is having a direct impact on the Russian ability to project and sustain combat power. Russian command and control in the headquarters have been disrupted and they're having great difficulty resupplying their forces and replacing their combat losses.”

There is more people in this room than weapons send to ukraine. Bullshit jobs is the only thing ukrainians can expect from NATO. They destroyed their land and industry for being part of that clown show.

Russian army was routed from balakleya, it is the biggest defeat of the war

The scale of offensive is unreal of AFU

Izyum is under threat, and the entire grouping north of Slavyansk is at risk

Russian forces are retreating east of Oskol Reservoir

This is a rout of epic proportions, nearly 70km2 of territory regained in 3 days

Meanwhile during Kharkov disaster

The situation in the Izyum direction
by the end of September 8, 2022

By the evening of the third day of the Ukrainian offensive in the Kharkiv region, Russian units left Balakleya. Soldiers of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the National Guard of the organized left the city through a corridor on the eastern outskirts.

After the capture of Volkhov Yar, Ukrainian forces advanced towards Shevchenkove, where part of the AFU group blocked the settlement, while other units continued to move towards Kupyansk.

Later, the Ukrainian forces split up: part of the units went to the Kupyansk-Shevchenkove highway near the village of Grushevka, occupying the settlement and starting preparations for a further assault on Kupyansk.

Another part of the enemy grouping made a breakthrough to the east, starting battles near the village of Senkovo ​​on the banks of the Oskol River. There is a bridge in the village, the capture of which will cut off the supply of Izyum from Kupyansk.

In the south-east of Balakleya, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are trying to advance towards Veseloe and Kunye, however, enemy units were rebuffed near Zaliman. In Veseloe there is a key road junction that provides communication with Izyum.

To the north of Slovyansk, the Ukrainian command plans to launch an offensive against the forces of the Russian Armed Forces in Izyum in order to tie down their actions and prevent them from maneuvering. Russian artillery and aviation are intensively working in the surrounding forests.

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RU units are retreating, is this command issued from top or did ranks break??

Arkanghelsk wrote:Russian forces are retreating east of Oskol Reservoir

This is a rout of epic proportions, nearly 70km2 of territory regained in 3 days

What a shame !