Igor Strelkov
an hour ago 10/02/23
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Since the defeat at Vuhledar is already widely known (a lot of videos shot by drones of Kiev partners are posted on the network), I will have to comment separately (I didn’t want to do this before, as well as report losses).
It seems that all the events of the past year passed by our generals. However, since some of them are (at least from the moment they entered military schools) complete cretins, all the mistakes that were made earlier were exemplarily repeated. The advance of tank and motorized columns along narrow roads along rare forest plantations on ideally flat terrain (since there are minefields on the sides), not covered from the air and by EW forces, ended in defeat. Part of the equipment was destroyed by ATGM strikes (launched from the high-rise buildings of Ugledar), part was shot by enemy artillery, which fired extremely accurately. More than 30 units of armored vehicles were lost (I will not give a breakdown by type), there are many dozens of losses by "two hundredths" only among tankers. Marines, special forces and motorized riflemen died even more. And most importantly, all these losses turned out to be "one-sided" - the ukry shot the attackers "like in a shooting range", our fighters could not inflict counter losses on them. The enemy again without much difficulty held his positions in the fortified area, which had already been repeatedly attempted to take in the spring and summer of last year (also "head-on").
At the same time, our military leaders (so as not to "get up twice") habitually sent for slaughter in the familiar area in the Donetsk "industrial complex" (they went on the assault dozens of times) to Avdeevka "renamed the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation" battalions of the former NM of the DPR and volunteer units. Without supporting them with either normal artillery fire (which was extremely inaccurate), or armored vehicles (which were "protected from mines", and it was not possible to clear the area for technical reasons). They killed two more companies of assault infantry with the same result as before, that is, to no avail.
In general, this was the end of the "offensive of the Russian army on the entire Donetsk front" widely announced over the network by the "war commissars". Complemented by the rebellion (refusal to take the position) of the battalion of Tuvinian nomads and not only (in principle, I do not report anything about this kind of events until they are "leaked" by someone into the network and become publicly available).
