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13-12-2024, 07:38 AM
One of Russia’s top objectives in Ukraine right now is to eliminate the nine-mile-deep Ukrainian-held salient between Andriivka in the west and Dalnje in the east. Anchored in the north by Kurakhove and in the south by a string of villages including Kostyantynopolske, the salient is the main impediment to an uncomplicated Russian assault on Pokrovsk, a Ukrainian fortress city 25 miles to the north. As long as the Ukrainians control the Karakhove pocket, they can threaten the flanks of the Russian 90th Guards Tank Division as it marches on Pokrovsk.
The pocket itself is in danger of being cut off across its flanks. If the Russians can attack from Kostyantynopolske or some other southern village to Dachne or some other village in the north, they could encircle elements of several Ukrainian brigades. “Russian military command assesses that Russian forces will be able to close the Ukrainian pocket,” the Institute for the Study of War in Washington, D.C. noted. But the Ukrainian marine corps is determined to prove the Russian commanders wrong. In a fierce battle on or just b4 Tuesday, a Russian assault group made a move on Kostyantynopolske. The Ukrainian 37th Marine Brigade met the attackers.
Russian riding in at least 5 armored vehicles, was under drone surveillance the entire time as rolled along a country road toward Kostyantynopolske vehicles managed to drop off their infantry b4 the Ukrainian bombardment began. Drones swooped down. Artillery burst among the vehicles. were destroyed,” Estonian WarTranslated reported. The destruction of vehicles effectively stranded the disembarked Russian infantry Kostyantynopolske. The 37th Marine Brigade sent its 505th Battalion to mop up. At least one ex-British Mastiff armored truck cornered the Russians in a clutch of homes in Kostyantynopolske. Mastiff’s gunner opened fire with a .50-caliber machine gun, shredding the Russians’ shelter, Kostyantynopolske skirmish is just latest in a series of effective small-scale, combined-arms actions by Ukrainian troops defended against Russian assaults in Donetsk as well as in Kursk Oblast in western Russia.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/20...sh-it-off/
The pocket itself is in danger of being cut off across its flanks. If the Russians can attack from Kostyantynopolske or some other southern village to Dachne or some other village in the north, they could encircle elements of several Ukrainian brigades. “Russian military command assesses that Russian forces will be able to close the Ukrainian pocket,” the Institute for the Study of War in Washington, D.C. noted. But the Ukrainian marine corps is determined to prove the Russian commanders wrong. In a fierce battle on or just b4 Tuesday, a Russian assault group made a move on Kostyantynopolske. The Ukrainian 37th Marine Brigade met the attackers.
Russian riding in at least 5 armored vehicles, was under drone surveillance the entire time as rolled along a country road toward Kostyantynopolske vehicles managed to drop off their infantry b4 the Ukrainian bombardment began. Drones swooped down. Artillery burst among the vehicles. were destroyed,” Estonian WarTranslated reported. The destruction of vehicles effectively stranded the disembarked Russian infantry Kostyantynopolske. The 37th Marine Brigade sent its 505th Battalion to mop up. At least one ex-British Mastiff armored truck cornered the Russians in a clutch of homes in Kostyantynopolske. Mastiff’s gunner opened fire with a .50-caliber machine gun, shredding the Russians’ shelter, Kostyantynopolske skirmish is just latest in a series of effective small-scale, combined-arms actions by Ukrainian troops defended against Russian assaults in Donetsk as well as in Kursk Oblast in western Russia.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/20...sh-it-off/
