Russian special military operation in Ukraine #46

ALAMO wrote:Edit : holly cow, seems that the mighty Ukro offensive finally reached the first line of Russian defence ...



Sort off, but at least dragon teeths are there, lined ... With all force!

But you shall see the outcome, as it is not easy to describe ...

https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/74870

Na looks like they're still dicking around in Rabotino.

A dragon teeth is a dragon teeth, you know ... Winter is coming.

Godric wrote:Swedish government is now saying Russia is to blame for the Quran burning in Sweden, you couldn't make those anti Russian clowns up if you tried ... the so called neutral country during WW2 and Cold War ... when i say so called i mean so called ie allowing transiting of Nazi forces through Sweden to help  the occupation of Northern Sweden and assisting NATzO/America during colod war like incidents of escorting US spy plane to NATzO aerospace to avoid being force to land by Soviet or Warsaw pact airforce

You who are Scottish European, tell me one thing. There is a country culturally more decadent than Sweden, where all the traits of globalism are present (individualism, hedonism, destruction of the family...). Switzerland maybe?
Sweden is Russia's nemesis in cultural terms. I can't believe that such different countries are so close. They should be eradicated with atomic weapons.

Holly fuk





Those poor hochols are just being steadily decimated for the second month in a row.

26k guests to meet Bandera in person seems just a positive wish by now ...

ALAMO wrote:

flamming_python wrote:

But that's the character of propaganda in every country. Yet in some places people can see right through it and in some others they can't. It's about what you are ready to allow yourself to believe, as much as it is about what you are told.

Propaganda does not excuse the people of a country themselves from having at least, a few independent brain cells to share between themselves

I was not restricting propaganda to Russia and Russians. It is universal and works for any country and nation. Sometimes it is only a matter of a different narrative.
There is a vlog of some Russian living in Poland. I won't name it not to push this type of content, but the guy represents a perfect example of liberda. In his mid 30s, left Russia after 240222, and is working hard to please Polish masters.
In his last entry, he was comparing Kaliningrad with Gdansk, and how miserable the Russian city looks.
First of all, he was constantly using the Polish Królewiec name, which sounded idiotic as he couldn't vocal the name properly.
What is hilarious is the fact, that Gdansk is a much bigger city itself, but not only that.
It is a part of the entire metropolitan area called "Threecity".
A whole area is much over 1 mln people, which is almost 2.5 the size of Kaliningrad.
While Gdansk has been rebuilt with its historical shape, Festung Koenigsberg remains fell a victim of the Soviet realies.
First and most important, it was physically destroyed in 90%, and rebuilding it with German/Teutonic heritage was of questionable value. Gdansk on the other hand, is sometimes cited to be destroyed in "95%", but every single new and serious study questions that. It was the historic old town part that suffered most of the damage, still it was not 95%. From some perspectives, a lot of heritage buildings retained its historical value by keeping the fasades etc. And some parts of the city has not been destroyed at all - the city itself supplied gas and electricity to its population till March 1945, and ceased only when the Soviets finally stormed it.
Second, a whole area was militarized and de facto closed, so most of the reconstruction carried had practical meaning.
Gdansk was the biggest Polish seaport, a window for the whole world, and developed accordingly. In communist times, seaport cities looked much better than the rest, and that applies to all of them. Seamens brought goods and hard currency that was revitalizing the space.
When I visited it almost 30 years ago, it was a miserable place. Sad, dirty and lacking any hope.
Now, it is a vibrant city that develops same direction as the entire Russia.
Still I am pretty sure that there are tons of Russkie who feel a deep sorrow to live in such an awful place ...



And by the way, it was the Brits who bombed the Teutonic knight castle in the city center making it a pile of rubbles.

Dantzig is a German city. The difference with Russia is that it admits that it conquered Kalingrad. It's like Rome occupying former territories of Carthage.
The Poles should be thankful that Russia defeated the Germans. The Poles are lucky that the Germans have lost their imperial vocation and today they are a people of castrated men soon to be replaced.

@Alamo, i got a video to go with that

the great kiev counter offensive continues.

RF Forces destroys Ukrainian mechanized unit at Orekhov, Zaporozhye region


RF soldier takes out Swedish CV-90 on Svatovo-Kremennaya front line.


RF forces destroy Ukrainian unit near Robotino, zaporozhye region


Ukrainian POV, Clearing Russian minefields the Banzai way in the donetsk region


RF lancet strikes Ukrainian tank recovery attempt


And then there is this doing the rounds in Germany....

german commercial about Ukraine

ArgentinaGuard wrote:You who are Scottish European, tell me one thing. There is a country culturally more decadent than Sweden, where all the traits of globalism are present (individualism, hedonism, destruction of the family...). Switzerland maybe?
Sweden is Russia's nemesis in cultural terms. I can't believe that such different countries are so close. They should be eradicated with atomic weapons.

Sweden's nemesis in cultural terms would be the Taliban

Russia is just kind of in between the two extremes. Which is the healthy band that you want to stay in.

But I don't care what social order or whatever Swedes put up with in their own country any more than I care about what regime and norms the Afghan people choose to live under. Live and let live. Sweden's real issue is that it's an especially keen US satellite with a historic axe to grind against Russia.. but no way to actually take that frustration out rather than through encouraging the Ukraine to commit suicide more briskly or accusing Russia of being behind the Koran burnings. Sweden is it's own worst enemy really and you don't need to look any further than to its immigration policy and the results it has achieved for itself through that. They were insulted by the fact that the Muslim Turks tried to keep their membership in the rich white man's association NATO hostage to their own security interests; when in fact Sweden wine'ing and dining people considered to be terrorists by a country they're about to enter a mutual defence pact into with is surely Sweden's business alone. Hence why they organized these Koran burning stunts. To demonstrate that Western cultural values have no equal and that the brown people better know their place, while at the same time announcing to the whole world about how they're the most tolerant, humane country in the world. Dunno what behavioral complex this is that the Swedish elite is suffering from but perhaps it has a name.

flamming_python wrote:

ArgentinaGuard wrote:Tú, que eres europeo escocés, dime una cosa. Hay un país culturalmente más decadente que Suecia, donde todos los rasgos del globalismo están presentes (individualismo, hedonismo, destrucción de la familia...). ¿Suiza tal vez? Suecia es la némesis de Rusia en términos culturales. No puedo creer que países tan diferentes estén tan cerca. Deberían ser erradicados con armas atómicas.

 El némesis de Suecia en términos culturales serían los talibanes  Rusia está entre los dos extremos. ¿Cuál es la banda saludable en la que quieres quedarte?  Pero no me importa el orden social o lo que sea que los suecos soren en su propio país, más de lo que me importa el régimen y las normas bajo el que el pueblo afgano elija vivir. Vive y deja vivir. El verdadero problema de Suecia es que es un satélite estadounidense especialmente entusiasta con un hacha histórica para moler contra Rusia... pero no hay manera de eliminar realmente esa frustración en lugar de alentar a Ucrania a suicidarse más enérgicamente o acusar a Rusia o estar detrás de las quemaduras del Corán. Suecia es realmente su peor enemigo y no es necesario buscar más allá de su política de inmigración y los resultados que ha logrado para sí misma a través de eso. Fueron insultados por el hecho de que los turcos musulmanes trataran de mantener su membresía en la asociación de hombres blancos ricos, la OTAN, como rehenes de sus propios intereses de seguridad; cuando, de hecho, la gente de vino y restaurantes de Suecia es considerada terrorista por un país con el que están a punto de entrar en un pacto de defensa mutua es sin duda solo asunto de Suecia Por eso organizaron estas acrobacias ardientes del Corán. Para demostrar que los valores culturales occidentales no tienen igual y que las personas morenas conocen mejor su lugar, mientras que al mismo tiempo anuncian a todo el mundo que son el país más tolerante y humano del mundo. No sé qué complejo de comportamiento es este que está sufriendo la élite sueca, pero tal vez tenga un nombre.

Sweden insults the Koran for its hostility to traditional religion. The Swedes are not innocent, they are promoters of globalism of their own accord. They bring in immigrants (ergo, cheap labor) and think everyone is going to accept their "independent" women and effeminate men. That is not going to happen with the Orientals.

ArgentinaGuard wrote:

Godric wrote:Swedish government is now saying Russia is to blame for the Quran burning in Sweden, you couldn't make those anti Russian clowns up if you tried ... the so called neutral country during WW2 and Cold War ... when i say so called i mean so called ie allowing transiting of Nazi forces through Sweden to help  the occupation of Northern Sweden and assisting NATzO/America during colod war like incidents of escorting US spy plane to NATzO aerospace to avoid being force to land by Soviet or Warsaw pact airforce

You who are Scottish European, tell me one thing. There is a country culturally more decadent than Sweden, where all the traits of globalism are present (individualism, hedonism, destruction of the family...). Switzerland maybe?
Sweden is Russia's nemesis in cultural terms. I can't believe that such different countries are so close. They should be eradicated with atomic weapons.

our ancestors the Picts/Caledonii who stopped the romans from conquering our lands in Scotland who ended up erecting 2 walls to keep our ancestors out of modern day England, those Picts ancestors came from the Russian Steppes as most Scots have the Russian Steppe gene (Scythians) and like the Scythians they wrote there language in hieroglyphs, throughout our history our historians said we were the descendants of the Scythians, this was proven when comprehensive DNA tests were done throughout the British Isles and they found out most Scots have the Russian Steppe gene associated with the Scythians, the rest of the British Isles mainly originate from the Iberian Peninsular

 https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/genetics-show-many-scots-are-descended-from-russian-nomads-1463717

Ukrainian POV, Clearing Russian minefields the Banzai way in the donetsk region

I doubt that the west can deliver enough vehicles to continue this method of mine clearance. 

RF Forces destroys Ukrainian mechanized unit at Orekhov, Zaporozhye region

Looks like this old PC game in which you could shoot some birds. 

Summary of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation (as of July 27, 2023)

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have carried out concentrated strikes with high-precision long-range air and sea-based weapons at airfields, control points and locations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, assembly shops and storage sites for unmanned boats, as well as missiles, weapons and military equipment received from Europe and the United States.

The goal of the strikes has been achieved. All assigned objects are hit.

During the day, the armed forces of Ukraine continued unsuccessful attempts of offensive actions in the Donetsk, Krasnolimansk and South Donetsk directions.

In the Donetsk direction, the coordinated actions of the defending units in close cooperation with the aviation and artillery of the "Southern" group of troops successfully repelled nine enemy attacks in the areas of the settlements of Avdiivka, Maryinka and north of Kirovo of the Donetsk People's Republic.

Also, units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Veseloye, Bogdanovka, Predtechino, Dyleyevka and Novgorodskoye of the Donetsk People's Republic.

In the area of the settlement of Konstantinovka of the Donetsk People's Republic, the ammunition depot of the 79th Airborne Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed.

The enemy's losses during the day amounted to over 210 Ukrainian servicemen, one tank, seven infantry fighting vehicles, three armored combat vehicles, two pickups, howitzers: D-20 and Msta-B, as well as a US-made AN/TPQ-50 counter-battery radar.

In addition, over the past two days in this direction, units of Russian troops have thwarted four APU attacks in the area of the settlement of Kleshcheyevka of the Donetsk People's Republic.

During the fighting, more than 120 Ukrainian servicemen, two tanks, four infantry fighting vehicles, two armored personnel carriers and an armored vehicle "Kozak" were destroyed by the skillful use of anti-tank weapons with the support of army aviation.

In the Krasnolimansky direction, units of the Center group of troops, relying on a skillfully organized fire system in combination with engineering barriers, repelled an enemy attack in the direction of the settlement of Chervonaya Dibrova of the Luhansk People's Republic.

During the battle, more than 15 Ukrainian servicemen, an infantry fighting vehicle, as well as one car were destroyed.

Air strikes and artillery fire defeated the manpower and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Nevskoye of the Luhansk People's Republic, Torskoye and Serebryanka of the Donetsk People's Republic.

The enemy's losses in this direction amounted to up to 185 Ukrainian servicemen, three armored combat vehicles, three pickups, two D-30 howitzers, as well as a self-propelled artillery installation "Gvozdika".

An ammunition depot of the 100th Territorial Defense Brigade was destroyed near the settlement of Yampol in the Donetsk People's Republic.

In total, since July 23, the advance of the assault detachments of the Center group of troops in the area of the settlement of Sergeyevka of the Luhansk People's Republic amounted to 12 kilometers along the front and three kilometers into the depth of the enemy's defense.

In the South Donetsk direction, the active actions of units, air strikes and artillery fire of the Vostok group of troops repelled an attack by an assault detachment of the 35th Marine Brigade in the area of the village of Urozhnoye of the Donetsk People's Republic. Up to 16 Ukrainian servicemen were destroyed, as well as two armored combat vehicles.

In addition, the enemy's manpower and equipment were hit in the areas of the settlements of Ugledar and Makarovka of the Donetsk People's Republic.

In the area of the settlement of Staromayorskoye of the Donetsk People's Republic, the activities of the Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group were suppressed.

In the Zaporozhye direction, after the failure of the APU offensive north of the settlement of Workino in the Zaporozhye region, in which up to three battalion tactical groups from the strategic reserve brigades were involved, the enemy, having suffered heavy losses, restored combat capability during the night and did not take active action.

The strikes of operational-tactical, army aviation and artillery fire defeated Ukrainian units in the areas of the settlements of Belogorye, Omelnik, Novodanilovka, Orekhov and Pyatikhatki of the Zaporozhye region.

Also, in the area of the settlement of Stepanovka, Zaporozhye region, the activities of the Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group were suppressed.

The enemy's losses during the day in these areas amounted to more than 280 Ukrainian servicemen, 25 tanks, ten infantry fighting vehicles, three armored combat vehicles, two vehicles, a Czech-made RM-70 "Vampire" multiple rocket launcher combat vehicle, as well as two FH-70 howitzers manufactured in Great Britain.

In the Kupyansk direction, the assault detachments of the 7th Motorized Rifle Regiment of the "Western" grouping of troops, continuing offensive operations west of the settlement of Kuzemovka of the Luhansk People's Republic, took more advantageous positions.

Operational-tactical, army aviation strikes and artillery fire defeated the AFU units in the areas of the settlements of Sinkovka, Timkovka, Kharkiv region, Stelmakhovka and Novoselovskoye of the Luhansk People's Republic.

The enemy's losses amounted to more than 35 Ukrainian servicemen, three armored combat vehicles, four cars, a D-20 howitzer, as well as a self-propelled artillery installation "Carnation".

Up to 25 servicemen, three cars, as well as two D-30 howitzers were destroyed in the Kherson direction as a result of fire damage during the day.

Operational-tactical and army aviation, missile troops and artillery groups of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation defeated 109 artillery units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in firing positions, manpower and military equipment in 123 districts during the day.

In addition, aviation fuel depots were destroyed near the settlement of Starokonstantinov in the Khmelnytsky region.

Two radar stations for detecting P-18 aerial targets were destroyed in the areas of the settlements of Chuguevo and Novopavlovka, Dnipropetrovsk region.

In the area of the settlement of Malaya Tokmachka, Zaporozhye region, the fuel depot of the 47th mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was hit.

Air defense means intercepted five rockets of the HIMARS multiple launch rocket system during the day.

In addition, 20 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed in the areas of the settlements of Belogorovka, Kremennaya of the Luhansk People's Republic, Gorlovka of the Donetsk People's Republic, Vershina Dvaya, Tokmak and Malye Shcherbaki of the Zaporozhye region.

In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 457 aircraft, 244 helicopters, 5291 unmanned aerial vehicles, 426 anti-aircraft missile systems, 10966 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1140 multiple rocket launchers, 5636 field artillery and mortars, as well as 11920 units of special military vehicles have been destroyed.

Russian Ministry of Defense

ArgentinaGuard wrote:Sweden insults the Koran for its hostility to traditional religion. The Swedes are not innocent, they are promoters of globalism of their own accord. They bring in immigrants (ergo, cheap labor) and think everyone is going to accept their "independent" women and effeminate men. That is not going to happen with the Orientals.

You're right about what the Swedes are promoting but then I'm tired of the Islamists either using or threatening violence to shut everyone up or attempting to assert their own dominance. I have no horse to bet on here and instead wish both contestants, the very best of luck.

Hole wrote:

Ukrainian POV, Clearing Russian minefields the Banzai way in the donetsk region

I doubt that the west can deliver enough vehicles to continue this method of mine clearance. 

If i was given a crystal ball back at the start of 2022 and shown what is happening now with the Ukrainians just continue to run into absolute slaughter. I would have said nobody, not even the largest amateur would not continue an strategy that results in the complete destruction of your own forces with nothing gained.

....but here we are....And it just goes on, nothing changes.
Just sending more meat to the slaughter.

These drone footages are just daytime right?.

you know as the night falls, Ukrainians just try to hold their positions.
With zero support whatsoever.

they use a radio, cellphone, starlink or whatever. and Russian EW knows right away where they are.
They most likely do not know their friendly positions either.

Kamov's and MI's are up and about all night scouring the battleline's for ukro armor.
And armor engines take a long time to cool this time of year, it is a christmas tree for the sensors of the RF airforce at night.

And reinforcements?, they will not be able to help you.
they will be shred apart themselves as soon they near the battleline.

And the minefields are everywhere. and not the old shit, but the newer generation of smart minefields.

There is little any Ukrainian unit can do in this environment, It is impossible.
There is no means, or possibility to wage an "counter-offensive" in the situation they are now.

All they do is blindly race over an pre-established path until they get engaged by RF defending forces.
They do not even know where the RF troops are. they just fire blindly around themselves most of the time.

And kiev authorizing an extraction or retreat?. oh no no no.....
The NATO masters are watching!, Slava Ukraini!.

They lose troops by the thousands, whole units disappear in a matter of minutes.
And they still try to convince themselves they are winning by posting ticktock/twitter video's with an Ukrainian flag in some small village that means nothing.

If they continue like this, i am confident Ukraine implodes within a year because there will be nobody left to fight.

Finally a Ukrainian General is admitting the truth (half of it at least) through a western media bias rag. Things have go to be bad if BBC are running this story.

Ukraine war: Western armour struggles against Russian defences

The general in charge of Ukraine's stuttering counter-offensive in the south has said Russian defences are making it difficult for military equipment, including Western tanks and armoured vehicles, to move forward.

Gen Oleksandr Tarnavskyi says his forces are struggling to overcome multi-layered minefields and fortified defensive lines.

"That is why most of the tasks have to be performed by troops."

He says Russia's military has displayed "professional qualities" by preventing Ukrainian forces from "advancing quickly".

"I don't underestimate the enemy," he adds.

But so far there's little evidence that Western supplied tanks and armoured vehicles have been able to tip the balance decisively in Ukraine's favour.

The 47th Brigade is now using some of its older, Soviet-era tanks to clear minefields. But they too can't escape the explosives hidden in the ground, even when fitted with specialist mine-clearing equipment.

Nearer the front line, tank commander Maksym showed us his recently-damaged T-64 tank. It's been fitted with two rollers on the front to deliberately set off the mines. He lost one of the rollers the night before as he was trying to clear a path for troops.

"Normally our rollers can withstand up to four explosions," he says. But the Russians, he adds, have been laying mines on top of each other to destroy their mine clearing equipment.

"It's very hard because there are too many mines," Maksym says, adding that there were often more than four rows of minefields in front of the Russian defensive lines.

For the first time in the war, he says, soldiers are being injured by mines more than artillery

Russian forces are now using remotely controlled mines. "When our soldiers get to the trenches they push a button and it blows up, killing our friends." He says he's seen the tactic being used over the past two weeks and calls it "a new weapon.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66306150.amp

Skill issue. Rollers are just used to determine the edge of the minefield. You're not supposed to clear an entire lane with them at all, that's the job of the plow tanks.

For some reason, there are very few night hunting videos available. I have not seen a single video this month of Russian helicopters taking out Ukrops during the night. I would be delighted to watch some COD style night hunting videos.

ArgentinaGuard wrote:
Dantzig is a German city. The difference with Russia is that it admits that it conquered Kalingrad. It's like Rome occupying former territories of Carthage.
The Poles should be thankful that Russia defeated the Germans. The Poles are lucky that the Germans have lost their imperial vocation and today they are a people of castrated men soon to be replaced.

I believe that you are much better in Argentinian history. It would be best if you considered sticking with it.

WTF and approx location






Can these guys have any idea what the future holds for them?

I suspect we all know the evil history of Aidar from 2014 onwards.

naʻomi🪷נָעֳמִי
@ducaena
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The Ukrainian soldiers being tried by Russia for crimes against Donbass were from Aidar Battalion. Good to know.

I seem to remember someone forecasting that it was highly likely that there would be a UA breakthrough somewhere but the RA proper lines of defence are still a way to go.


The enemy has taken Staromayorskoye, threatening to occupy Urozhaynoye and continue to break through the front.

Today A. Khodakovsky, deputy head of the Russian Guardia in the DPR, has already reported that the AFU, taking advantage of the advantage in range and artillery, have recently been methodically rolling up Staromayorskoye, knocking our fighters out of their shelters and turning those shelters into piles of broken bricks. Then the AFU launched an offensive, clung to the outskirts and gradually pushed us back, creating a flank threat to Urozhaynoye.

The enemy "ducked into the sack, swapping roles with us, but the loss of the settlement after a stubborn and no doubt heroic defence is a blow to our military ego. Not to sweeten the pill, but purely from rational considerations I will say: now the enemy in the ruins will be very unpleasant", - summarised Khodakovsky.

➨ At the same time, enemy resources report that fighting in the area of the village of Staromayorskoye continues - west and north-east of it. The situation in the area is dynamic, as the flank of the village of Urozhaynoye is opening for the AFU, so the Russian army is launching counterattacks in several directions.

➨ There are also reports of fighting north-east of the village of Urozhaynoye.

#source (https://t.me/RVvoenkor/50093?single)

OSINTdefender
@sentdefender
Multiple Ukrainian Officials reported earlier today that they have managed to Liberate the Settlement of Staromaiorske on the “Velyka Novosilka” Frontline in the Donetsk Region after Heavy Fighting has occurred to the North of the Town for the last few months; so far there is No Visual Evidence of these claims but Russian Sources have all but Confirmed that their Forces have indeed Withdraw from a Majority of the Settlement with some stating they still Hold the Southern Section.



( Slavyangrad )

Col Douglas MacGregor now claiming 300k to 350k dead hohols/Banderastanis/frogmarched cannon fodder.

If we go on a 10-1 deaths to hardware/vehicles destroyed, that would mean the Ru MOD stats suggest around 250k hohol deaths.

Mil Summary Channel estimates 33k vehicles and artillery pieces, with over 200k hohols dead.

Then we need to add on "irrecoverable losses" ie disabled hohol troops.
So all in, you have to wonder how much longer than NATO regime has. Its really starting to look like a genocide by Uncle Satan of Washington DC.

Airbornewolf wrote:@Alamo, i got a video to go with that

the great kiev counter offensive continues.

RF Forces destroys Ukrainian mechanized unit at Orekhov, Zaporozhye region

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Erik Zimerman
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I will be updating shortly on the ongoing Ukrainian offensive.

Recently it has involved courageous (if not terribly intelligent) assaults against Russian lines around Zaporizhzhia ending like this.

These BMPS carry squads (6-10 troops) to the combat line, what we see in this dramatic video is around a company of Infantry on BMPS reaching the Russian lines and being all but destroyed.

Artillery, drones, and anti-tank weapons including ATGMs hit them from above and the flanks.

No guarantee that these were full of infantry at this point, but if they weren't, and this was an actual armored attack by BMPs without any tank support it would make even less sense. We do see quite a few troops disembarking from some of the vehicles and most likely they were mostly if not all, loaded.

The attack at this point was already lacking in appropriate support or strategy (having driven itself in linear column into an envelopment within entrenched positions), but to make matters worse the infantry do not disembark fast enough; understandably due to the situation and great risk of small arms fire from the trenches as well as artillery from above.

The risk of not doing so however, was even greater, and their only chance was a fast assault. A determined company of infantry desperately assaulting one of the trenches would suffer casualties but likely succeed in at least holding a covered position if not taking the whole trench system. Ironically they would even make the armored vehicles safer because ATGM gunners must keep their heads down in the face of fire from dozens of small arm weapons from various angles. Then in turn the heavier weapons from the BMPs can support the infantry (in the video we see one able to fire effectively at least once into the Russian trenchwork).

But this is unnatural for even very good troops in such a situation, and under these conditions only some of the best and most experience soldiers in the world could have been expected to effectively even attempt it. In the this case, the company, and its armored ride were completely destroyed in terms of combat effectiveness. The unit now exists on paper only.

We can only hope that most of the soldiers somehow survived and perhaps were taken as prisoners.