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01-01-2025, 08:11 PM
At the end of the day, the assault failed, said Lieutenant-Colonel Dmytro Pavlenko-Kryzheshevskyi, 36, the chief of intelligence for the brigade, which provided the video battle, he said, was typical of assaults taking place across hundreds of km of the front, where Ukrainian forces are waging dozens of pitched battles for patches of land no bigger than a few city blocks.
Despite staggering Russian losses – with more than 1,500 killed & wounded everyday in recent weeks, western estimates – scope of attacks continues to grow, according to soldiers at the front as military analysts said.
As Russia is throwing greater numbers of soldiers into assaults than it did in some earlier stages of fighting, Lt-Col Pavlenko-Kryzheshevskyi said.
The troops have also been increasingly using electric scooters, motorcycles & ATVs to allow them to disperse quickly across front, he said.
“Hitting just one piece of equipment carrying 15 people, well, that’s possible, it can be done quite easily. But when those 15 people are riding electric scooters, that’s a very big problem. “For them, it’s quite normal to use 150 to 200 soldiers for offensive actions,” he said, speaking via video from a command post describing battle around Toretsk in December shown in the video footage.
The relentless Russian attacks have led to a buckling of the lines in parts of eastern Ukraine.
Russians have been slowly but steadily advancing on Pokrovsk, a vital military hub have advanced to within 3.2km of the main highway into battered city, according to the Centre for Defence Strategies, a Ukrainian research group. North, fierce urban battles are raging in Chasiv Yar and Toretsk, towns long stood as the barricades holding back direct Russian assaults on the agglomeration of the major cities at the heart of the Donetsk region.
https://www.straitstimes.com/world/europ...n-the-east
Despite staggering Russian losses – with more than 1,500 killed & wounded everyday in recent weeks, western estimates – scope of attacks continues to grow, according to soldiers at the front as military analysts said.
As Russia is throwing greater numbers of soldiers into assaults than it did in some earlier stages of fighting, Lt-Col Pavlenko-Kryzheshevskyi said.
The troops have also been increasingly using electric scooters, motorcycles & ATVs to allow them to disperse quickly across front, he said.
“Hitting just one piece of equipment carrying 15 people, well, that’s possible, it can be done quite easily. But when those 15 people are riding electric scooters, that’s a very big problem. “For them, it’s quite normal to use 150 to 200 soldiers for offensive actions,” he said, speaking via video from a command post describing battle around Toretsk in December shown in the video footage.
The relentless Russian attacks have led to a buckling of the lines in parts of eastern Ukraine.
Russians have been slowly but steadily advancing on Pokrovsk, a vital military hub have advanced to within 3.2km of the main highway into battered city, according to the Centre for Defence Strategies, a Ukrainian research group. North, fierce urban battles are raging in Chasiv Yar and Toretsk, towns long stood as the barricades holding back direct Russian assaults on the agglomeration of the major cities at the heart of the Donetsk region.
https://www.straitstimes.com/world/europ...n-the-east
