"These guys won't back down"
Fighters of the Donetsk Republic not only repel enemy attacks, but also achieve success at the front
In the northern and southern sectors of the front in the area of the SVO in the past weeks, not everything went well. Using flying squad tactics, superior numbers, intelligence data, and modern Western battle management systems, Ukrainian troops were able to launch a counteroffensive. At the same time, in the Donetsk People's Republic, Russian units are not only holding their positions, but also moving forward, liberating one locality after another. About the specifics of the battles in this direction-in the report of Izvestia.
"They don't even take away bodies"
In areas of the front where the Russian army did not have a solid defense, the armed formations of Ukraine (VFU) actively use light infantry, whose actions were previously underestimated. The enemy, using mobile detachments on wheeled armored vehicles, actively maneuvers, gropes for weak points in the defense and tries to make quick breakthroughs. The enemy tries to suppress strong strongholds with the help of heavy armored vehicles moving in the second line. This allows the Ukrainian troops to maintain the pace of their advance and keep the defending forces on constant alert, so that they spend resources on fighting the mobile groups that have broken through. This tactic is not only based on NATO's best practices of modern blitzkrieg-it would not have been possible without the widespread use of online command and control systems, starting from the lowest levels. At the moment, this is a fundamentally new level of VFU operations, which was not previously observed during the war.
But in the DPR, the allied forces not only managed to hold the front line, but are also making progress by conducting offensive operations. This is partly due to the peculiarities of the terrain and the current line of contact. In this area, most of it passes through the places of long-term battles or near them, as well as through populated areas. Fierce battles are going on for every trench and every house, so the VFU cannot implement the strengths of its current tactics — there is simply no space for this.
Almost all soldiers and commanders at the front in the Donetsk region give another reason. Here, the VFU uses a large number of poorly trained units, throwing them into battle and ignoring losses, using them as barriers to personnel units.
— This is the umpteenth time we are destroying personnel in this Ukrainian position, they don't even take their bodies, they just send new ones every time, "Said, a commander of one of the DPR army battalions, describes the enemy's actions.
"They either don't understand where they're going at all, or they're just suicidal," another officer comments on a similar situation with the approach of Ukrainian personnel to the stronghold.
The third reason for the success of the Allied forces in this area lies in the fact that a significant part of the soldiers near Donetsk are local, many of them have been fighting for many years.
"These guys won't back down, they won't run. They are not like that, they have a house right behind them, " says the commander of the company "Wolf".
Some of his positions are located on the old line of defense, where his unit has serious underground shelters, video surveillance and message passages. The other part is the Ukrainian positions captured in the spring, which his soldiers deployed to the West in the opposite direction. Avdiivka is clearly visible in front of them, and Yasinovataya can also be seen behind them with the naked eye.
At each position — traditionally for Donetsk units — live trench dogs, which are used to shooting and life on the front line. They feel vibrations well and can react to fire. But the main thing is that at night they slightly compensate for the lack of night vision devices and can warn about the approach of the enemy in the dark.
To date, a number of operations have allowed Donetsk fighters to advance near Avdiivka: fighting is already underway in the development of the village of Pervomaisky, some enemy fortified areas near the Donetsk airport have been taken. On the Artemovsky direction, the village of Zaitsevo has finally been completely liberated. For seven years, it was divided by the front line into two parts, becoming one of the symbols of the heroic resistance of the Gorlovka militia.
In addition, Donetsk soldiers expect that the winter campaign will be met already as part of the Russian army, with new armored vehicles, weapons and equipment. And of course, the replenishment of personnel after seven months of heavy fighting.
— Come, guys, there is someone here to teach you everything. It is not difficult to fight, but we learned this, even though we were miners, "the battalion commander "Said" jokes in an appeal to the Russian conscripts.
According to a number of military personnel in the DPR, the offensive actions of the Ukrainians will lose activity and run out by the beginning of the autumn mudslide, since Western wheeled armored vehicles have become the basis of modern armored vehicles of the Ukrainian army. However, as long as the weather permits, we should expect at least one more major attempt at a counteroffensive, they say.
At the same time, the worse the weather conditions become, the stronger will be the advantage of the Russian army, which traditionally relies on "tracks". In addition, the training of the mobilized is also actively underway — the introduction of reserves into battle will significantly change the balance of forces on the entire front line.
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