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Yksi artikkeli 2.3. kertoo tällaista:
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The Armed Forces of Ukraine near Kharkiv smashed one of the most elite combat units of the Russian army – the 200th motorized rifle brigade of the RF Armed Forces.
Journalist
Yuri Butusov told the details of the victorious battle.
“Today I visited the site of the defeat of the 200th motorized rifle brigade of the RF Armed Forces near Kharkiv. At this site, the crew of the Ukrainian Javelin ATGM destroyed the Russian self-propelled gun 2S3 Akatsiya, the vehicle shattered into atoms along with the crew. In these fields, I personally counted more than 30 units of destroyed and captured Russian equipment “, – said the journalist.
The 1st battalion-tactical group of one of the most elite brigades of the Russian army in the war of conquest against Ukraine was personally led by the brigade commander of the 200th brigade, Colonel Denis Kurilo. The invaders were equipped with the most modern weapons that Russia generally has.
“One of our incomplete mechanized battalion defeated the brigade in a head-on battle. Now this military equipment has replenished the composition of one of the brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. And the battalion has already been replenished to the state with motivated reservists, who are transported to positions exclusively on captured Russian KAMAZ vehicles, to cultivate combat traditions of superiority over Russian invaders “, Butusov said.
According to the journalist, the Russian commander also showed himself in all its glory in this battle: Colonel Kurilo simply abandoned his soldiers and fled.
Over the past 24 hours, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have destroyed a staggering amount of enemy equipment. Whole columns burned the occupiers at the entrance to Kherson, in the Chernihiv region, near Trostyanets, in Bucha, and near Makarov in the Kyiv region.
By the beginning of the 6th day of the war, the enemy’s losses amounted to 5710 people and almost 200 tanks.
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Toinen 29.3. päivätty artikkeli kertoo tällaista:
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Following the death of
Russian Lieutenant-General Yakov Rezantsev, being killed in Chornobaivka Airfield near Kherson, the Ukrainian forces killed another high-ranking commander. Russian Colonel Denys Kurilo, brigade commander of the 200th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade, had been killed along with 1,500 of his troops near Kharkiv.
The
General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine broke the news through a Facebook update stating that fighting still rages on in Kharkiv and Barvinkove as Russian forces were trying to capture the city of Izyum. Continued fighting was also seen in the settlements of Kamyanka, Sukha Kamyanka, and Tykhotske. The
AFU StratCom also reported the news.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces implied that units from the 1st Tank Army had backed up the 200th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade. However, it was in vain as the Ukrainian forces obliterated the brigade.
“The 200th Separate Motorized Infantry Brigade of the Russian enemy lost two battalion-tactical groups and personally the brigade commander, Colonel Denis Kurilo [Russian Colonel Denys Kurilo] in the battles near Kharkiv. The losses only of one [200th] brigade amounted to more than 1,500 servicemen,” said the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in a translated version of the post.
The 200th Brigade was one of the more “elite” combat units of the Russian army and was said to be equipped with the most modern weapons that Russia had in its inventory. However, despite being equipped with Moscow’s best munitions and vehicles, the brigade had suffered losses early into its invasion of Ukraine, as reported by journalist Yuri Butusov last March 2.
According to him, he visited the site of the defeated 200th Motorized Rifle Brigade near Kharkiv in early March (which is the same location the Ukrainian Armed Forces reported above). He claims that a crew wielding a bunch of Ukrainian Javelin ATGMs destroyed Russian self-propelled gun 2S3 Akatsiya and other armored vehicles, which he described to be “shattered into atoms along with the crew.” Butusov said he personally counted around 30 units of destroyed and captured Russian equipment.
During that battle early in March, the 200th brigade was supposedly defeated by an incomplete Ukrainian mechanized battalion in a head-to-head battle. It was also Butusov who reported that Kurilo had allegedly
abandoned his soldiers and fled when they had been fighting.
It appears that two enemy battalion and tactical groups from the 200th Brigade (or what remains of it) had been wiped out completely off the map. Journalist Alexander Khrebet reported that only 3 of the 648 Russian soldiers survived the onslaught, with 2 of the 3 men being wounded.
As of writing, only Ukrainian sources could be found reporting on the death of the commander and the destroyed Russian brigade, which does question the legitimacy of the reports. However, circumstantial evidence does exist as open-source data collectors have placed both Kurilo and 200th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade near Kharkiv as of early March. This would also indicate that they had barely moved after being ambushed by the Ukrainians, leaving one of the “elite” Russian brigades not-so elite after all.
