17-02-2023, 05:34 PM
(17-02-2023, 05:19 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: Two infantry formations based in Russia’s far eastern provinces, 40th and 155th Naval Infantry Brigades, kicked off assaults against the Donbas industrial town on Feb. 4, using armored personnel carriers loaded with infantry, and supported by late-model T-80 and T-90 tanks from Russia’s high-profile 90th Tank Regiment.
The Vuhledar sector has, perhaps because of that open terrain, seen by far the biggest concentration of professional Russian ground units and armored vehicles committed to combat by the Kremlin in 2023
According to those reports, Russian area commander Lieutenant General Rustam Muradov ordered attack units led by the Marine Infantry brigades to advance as rapidly as possible towards Ukrainian defenses, with the short-term objective of establishing forward infantry fighting positions to act as a base for future attacks.
Ukrainian artillery and fire direction networks had been long-established in the sector, and day after day, Russian armored columns were halted and then crushed by accurate shell strikes adjusted by Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) drones, or Ukrainian artillery observers perched atop the highest terrain in the vicinity:
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/12165
Sure die one lah!
